Live Venus/Pluto Horoscopes + Q&A!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

I'm really glad to be here. We're going to be looking at Venus and Pluto today, who are meeting in a square. I'm going to be doing some horoscopes for all 12 signs, and we're going to be taking a look at the house placements of Venus and Pluto in their square, and giving you some ways of thinking about the Venus and Pluto in the Venus Pluto encounter today that will hopefully be useful.

All right, so on that note, before I get rolling, and I'll also open up for some Q and A after horoscopes, I'll also be taking a moment to plug our first year program, because we have just a little over a week before our new class starts. So I'm going to do horoscopes talk about the first year program open up for Q and A, and that will be that will be our agenda for today. So before we get started, tell me where you're coming from. It's always nice to do a little roll call to begin. I love seeing the cities, countries, places that you're joining from.

To address this, yeah, this is the content for the day. This, you know, live streams will often take place of will take the place of the daily content. So this is, you know, rather than getting Venus Pluto horoscopes recorded, you're getting them live.

So let's see where you're all coming from.

JC says, can't wait ruin us. Yeah, that that's the idea from Baltimore, from Romania, Linda coming in from Boston, from Portland, Oregon, from sunny Florida. Deedee, Cheyenne, Wyoming, West Yorkshire, Dayton, Ohio, Vernon, Canada, Morristown, Tennessee, millers, port, Ohio, Copenhagen, Bracknell, Berkshire, the UK, Vancouver, Island, Planet Earth.

You know, I'm not from Planet Earth. That's why I'm going to be hopping on the Atlas. Comet soon, heading home Sedona. Spokane. Spokane, Tulsa. Hello from the UK. Hello San Diego, prospect, Connecticut lander, Wyoming, Miami, former Nightlight student from Massachusetts, Seattle, from Norwich, Norfolk from Morocco, from Dallas. Wow.

It's really amazing. Like I you guys have heard me say this at least 100 times and 100 live streams. But can you imagine, like, if someone would have told me, and I don't know, like, 2004 or five. I was first drinking Ayahuasca. I was in graduate school. I was using, like, an easy journal and Facebook had just come out. Eventually, you're going to be a YouTube astrologer, and people from north of Edmonton, or people from where Droga drocada, Ireland, will be tuning into a live stream that you're doing. And even know what a live stream is, yet, right? That have been wild.

Okay? Where else from the Pleiades? Good. We need at least a few the Pleiades, Ohio, right? That that works.

Okay? Newfoundland and Labrador. I love it. Thank you for tuning in. It's I'm really glad to be here. You can see it's a lazy Friday over here. I've got Hilda passed out on the floor.

I've been editing my book this morning. My book is going through a final round of creative content editing prior to going to through copy editing, and is going to be in ebook and paperback form, hopefully prior. Prior to March.

So we're just a few months away from me writing Second Book of my life, the first book that I've written in, I guess, 15 years. 15 years ago, I published my first book, and I just didn't know if I was ever going to write again. So I know that some of you have followed along with the Oracle speaks chapters as they've been released in first draft form, but most people haven't. And so I'm just super excited to be releasing a book to the world, and hopefully, you know, lots of people who watch my channel will be able to read what I think is a great book, at least for me. You know, my in my capacity, I'm really proud of it. I can't wait to share it with all of you.

So do you get extra grumpy and sarcastic the day after lifting weights? Because I do that's funny. Well, i i Right now my program is four days on and one day off, four days on, one day off, so most days are the day after I've lifted.

I don't I you, I just, I don't get grumpy. I don't think you're something else is going to make me grumpy, like lack of sleep or maybe not getting outside, but that's a good question. You know? Maybe it amps you up. Maybe you get your like your your supervillain comes out when you lift or something. Okay, I was just watching your collab with lunatic astrology on Jupiter Saturn. It was a recommended video. It was good. Oh, glad you liked it. Yeah. Laurie was a student at Nightlight a long time ago, and easily the most inquisitive like it. Like quickly advancing student of that cohort. I remember very well, she was always on the camera asking questions, and really wanted to be a professional astrologer. And I could see that potential, you know, like she she just had a an IT factor as a conveyor of astrological ideas and symbols. And so it's not been surprising to see her just take off like she's just super Tao. And obviously not all of that comes from me or my program. She's on her own path in life that has developed her in all a lot a lot of special ways, but it's always nice to collaborate, and I'm always just kind of humbled by the fact that she comes back and takes time to promote my work and my programs. It's just, it's really meaningful to me. I really, really feel honored by her.

Is that a tailor behind you? Yeah? Yeah. That's, that's a taoor acoustic, electric. I also have a Martin and I have a Gibson electric. It's a Les Paul, and it's only been in like, my adult life that I've had, I've had so many just knock around banger guitars. It's been nice to have a few that I've saved my dollars for that I really love, like, you know, and I'm not sure I even would have cared or known the difference when I was first playing, but now I really can tell the difference in having a nice guitar.

Got one too. Just got a Fender electric. Nice, nice. That's awesome. Well, anyway, I could just sit here and gab all day, but I know that you're all here to talk about Venus and Pluto. So first of all, I want to highly recommend that you check out the last two days of video content on the channel for more on Venus Pluto. First day I did, I think a pretty good talk on Venus and Scorpio, and that talk could be really useful for us, since Venus is going to be in Scorpio, sort of entered last night into today.

But Venus's stay in Scorpio will take us, you know, all the way till the beginning of December, so the RET the entire rest of the month Venus is in Scorpio, and that means that Venus's travel through that whole sign house of Scorpio in your birth chart is going to be present for the rest of the month. So if you want a good if you want good compliment to today's content, I would check out the video I did two days ago on Venus entering Scorpio. It was a really fun talk that I think, explored some of the dignity, the meanings of Venus's dignity, and why we get some of the complexities and difficulties that we do, but also what might be in those difficulties that is good for the soul and the soul's perspective. Yesterday, we talked about Venus and Pluto from the perspective of the soul. We talked about, uh. Of death and love, intimacy and witnessing. That was another good talk today. I really just want to focus on horoscopes and give you the most tangible, practical ways that you might see Venus and Scorpio and Pluto the square to Pluto and Aquarius coming through right now. So today will be kind of like the last two days were very archetypal, philosophical, psychological today is meant to be a practical takeaway. Here's where to look for these planets showing up in your life through your horoscopes. So to that end, I am. I have been actively working with the Puru shart does, which are the philosophical areas of life that encapsulate the meanings of the houses at the sort of underlying, broadest philosophical level. And so I'm going to work with those a little bit today, as well as the topics that everyone will be familiar with, and sort of blend them together to give you a creative way of thinking about Venus and Pluto right now,

first, let me get my chart set up here, and then we'll be off to the races. And then after I go through your horoscopes, I'm going to open up for Q and A. Well, first, I'll tell you about the year one program, which starts in another week from now. And then we'll hop into Q and A.

Okay, so let me get this aligned. Here we are, Friday, November 7.

And okay, okie dokie, we're good to go. You.

Why don't you use that screen behind you? Uh, it's just a TV. And I like, I think it's, it's nice to have. I like using it for, for the logo, but otherwise you like trying to connect it to the computer. Doesn't really work.

At some point, I might sort of recreate the setup of my studio here, but I just really like it. So

Okay, here we go. Well, actually, you know what I'm going to do. Let's talk a little bit about Venus Pluto in general. Let's just review some of the things we've said over the past few days.

Your textbook Venus Pluto experience is usually about the transformative power that suddenly appears and demands change that can be destructive, but is usually also at the same time, very creative within love, relationships, sexuality, friendships, interpersonal Venusian dynamics. So a Venus Pluto transit says there's something you're not seeing, there's something you're avoiding, there's something you're neglecting, there's something living in the shadows. There's something unconscious going on here in this relationship. And so this relationship needs excavating.

For example, let me give you a quick example.

Venus rules daughters. Venus rules sisters and women in general. When I say rules, I really mean just represents.

So this morning, as Venus and Pluto are squaring my my daughter was quite mean to a friend of hers because she was frustrated with her friend, and she had some good reasons for being frustrated, but being mean was not the answer, and so I was talking with her about controlling her emotions and responses when she's angry or frustrated a little bit better, so she doesn't hurt her friends feelings.

And she was like, she she basically just said, Well, yeah, but when you get really frustrated at me, you don't do that.

I was like, as soon as she said it, I was like, ah, like, I was like, Shit, I'm busted.

She got me so I said, You know what? You're right, you're You're right. I'll have to work on this too. And I in that moment, I was realizing in some ways, she was emulating some of my lack of patience and reactivity emotionally when she gets upset.

And ah, man, I just felt so bad. I felt like, ah. Anna, I'm messing my daughter up. And then I felt like, just, just this deep level of like, this is a shadow in my relationship with my daughter that I need to work on so that she has a better example of how to handle herself in situations so she doesn't end up, you know, hurting her friends or her friendships, that's a shadow in a father daughter relationship that was just very brightly illuminated for me this morning while Venus squared Pluto and after my wife dropped the kids off at school, and I knew she'd be in the car heading back i i, I called her, and I just said, like, man, you know, like, I just, I was blindsided by that, and I feel so bad, you know. And my wife was just listening to me and supporting me, because she could tell us, like, I, you know, like, I just felt really bad about myself.

And then she said something, she's, you know, I think she's just, we're she has good grounding wisdom when I need it, and I'm really thankful for that.

She was like, Well, the main thing is, like, think of how many parents, including our own, at times, and this is maybe the work of just becoming a little bit better than the previous generation. You know, how many times do parents get that feedback and not take a moment to validate it? And instead, they might gaslight their kids and tell them that, you know, or they may not, they may not recognize, yeah, I struggle with this too, or maybe you're getting it from me a little bit or so, even if you've even if you aren't model, there's some ways in which you're modeling something she's emulating, and it's problematic, the fact that she felt confident enough to talk with me about it, and the fact that I felt confident enough to admit it and say, you know you're right. All of those are markers of progress. All of those are the real markers of intimacy and love and closeness and care for one another. We don't have to be perfect. We have to be willing to work on things and grow and change.

It's such a simple teaching, I'm sure in my saying it, I'm not saying anything that everyone listening doesn't already know. Everybody knows this is true. You don't have to be perfect in a relationship, you just have to be willing to receive the feedback and do the work and keep growing and keep loving, keep making your love for other people a priority that's more important than being right.

Keep making your love for the people that you share your life with. More important than your your pride, your ego, and if you can just keep doing that, it's inevitable. You're going to have an ego. It's inevitable. Shadows will come up, unconscious material will present itself to be processed. It's just the willingness to not shy away from it when it comes up that makes a Venus Pluto experience a healing one, even if it's difficult. You know,

What's hard is that sometimes it takes two people to have that attitude for real growth to happen, and where I think it's really hard in a Venus Pluto dynamic, and I've seen this, you know, countless times in my counseling practice, where one person is like, Yeah, let's look at this stuff. Let's love each other. Let's grow and heal and open our hearts more to one another. And the other person won't do their part. Can't see it, can't admit it, you know, how much, in other words, how much easier is it going to be for my daughter to change and grow? Because in my relationship with her, I model that I'm willing to do the same for her. She doesn't just need to perform for me, as my daughter and I'm her dad, I need to perform for her too, you know? So that reciprocity, the lack of it, can be so painful. And a lot of Venus Pluto dynamics that show up in our life, in relationships, they start with, are you willing to do the work and make the love more important than being right?

But they also often boil down to, are both people willing to take up that attitude? Because if so, boy, you can just move mountains with love, with compassion, kindness, curiosity. You can just you can change the whole course of of things. Everything can move and adapt and shift and heal and grow and reach its potential. But when? But it takes two,

and sometimes Venus Pluto comes along. When you're like, you get this realization that you are so willing to do the work, but someone else isn't. Then it's really hard, because you have to get out of a relationship, or you have to end things. I think a lot of us have. Trouble ending things because we don't want to feel, we don't want to feel within ourselves like I'm judging someone, or I'm quitting on someone, or I'm giving up on them, or I'm judging them to be incapable, or I'm judging myself to be better. And a lot of us will actually stay in relationships because we feel like getting out of one would would make us judgmental or jerky, or, you know, we'd be, we'd be giving up.

And so a really painful part of the Venus Pluto experience can be this level of discernment that we have to develop that says, look, it's not that they're a bad person, it's not that I'm better than them, it's just that I'm going to need more of a reciprocal dynamic, for love to grow and work in my life, or for friendship to love and grow in my life, for it to be a positive thing, because all friendships, all relationships, are already filled with enough difficulty.

I need to make sure that I'm in relationships with people who are going to try to show up as much as I know I'm capable of, and that doesn't mean that you're casting someone, condemning them, casting them to hell. You know it can feel like that, but there's this gentle, loving way of releasing things.

I don't know how successful we could be going into a new relationship if the way we got out of it was self righteous.

Someone may not be capable of reciprocating. But if we walk out the door saying, You're a piece of crap, I'm the good one, you're the bad one, and I need good things and not bad people in my life, I don't know that kind of pride, that kind of self righteousness, probably sets us up to just go ahead and repeat the same dynamic in a new relationship.

I think the real sense of I've learned something, I can't be in this situation. I can't be in it for my own health, comes with a lot of softness and grace and confidence, but not blame, rage, resentment. I mean, we may have to process some of that, but we recognize that we may we have to do that internally. We don't need to project that onto the other person. A clean break, a kind goodbye, is good. That's what we need to do.

So there's all of these, all these little things that can come up when Venus says it's time for a relationship to die or end, or it's time to get wiser, it's time to heal, but it takes two people.

There's also a level of Venus Pluto that has to do with seeing things that we don't like to see or aren't comfortable seeing. But if we can expand our ability to appreciate what other people are and what depths they contain, what complexities, what contradictions, if we can develop an appreciating capacity like expand our ability to appreciate other people and all that they are and not insist that they only fall into the categories that we are comfortable with. Well, I'll appreciate you so long as you conform to the specific modes of appreciation that I have.

What if we learn that someone likes something very different than we do, or they have secret or private opinions we didn't know they have, and we come to find them out, or what have you?

To me, the Venus Pluto contacts are often about saying there's more here than meets the eye, and rather than judge that, can I either just allow for it to be just be like gracious and accepting of it, or even get curious or interested in it and develop some kind of appreciation for it?

When that happens, I think we grow in like kind of paradoxically, your ability to grow in your appreciation for other people expands the ability that you have to receive the appreciation from others.

So let me give you an example again. I'll reference my daughter, my older daughter, likes something right now called labuos. And they are stupid.

That's how I feel about them. I think they are le cray. Cray.

Look, if you don't know what they are, if you don't know what these lubuos are. They're like a viral toy phenomenon that all the kids have them on their backpacks. And they remind me kind of when I was a kid, there was these Collector Cards called Garbage Pail Kids. They're weird. They're kind of evil looking, but it. Anyway, they're in blind boxes, so when kids get them, they open them and they don't know which one they're getting, and it's, I don't know, I don't know. It feels like it feels like it's tapping it all the marketing around it feels to me like a bit of, uh, like, tapping into something.

There's something about, like, gambling, like, when I was a kid, the version of this was buying trading cards, uh, baseball cards, because you never knew what was in the pack. And so you'd buy more and more and more hoping that you would get that really rare card. And of course, there's been studies done that have shown that many young men who were really into trading cards often get into sports gambling later in life. There's something about like, Ooh, what will I get? What will it be that taps into, like, the same brain stuff of gambling? Anyway, so from a distance, I have a lot of judgments about the labuos. I don't know. I don't even know if they're judgments. I just am skeptical about it, plus they just look weird.

Well, my daughter, after I just sort of casually and flippantly expressed my skepticism about it. It clearly hurt her feelings.

Look at what a shitty dad I am. That's the message today, anyway. So I saw I was like, taking a moment to really listen to her, because she was trying to explain to me why they were meaningful to her. And so then I was like, Okay, I need to listen right now, because this, means something to her, and her feelings are hurt that I think it's it's silly. Okay, so, so I listened and I listened and I listened, and then I this was maybe a month ago. Now, we have something called the Switch Witch for Halloween, where the girls will trade in the majority of their candy for a toy and the switch, switch comes and pick better than having them eat a bunch of candy for days on end. So anyway, they get to pick. So for the toys, I got them each Blind Box labubo, but then I got my wife and I won too, so that we could participate in the excitement of opening a box and getting a lebubu.

And I did that specifically because I wanted to show my daughter that I could expand my appreciating capacity for something she liked, that she finds really interesting and attractive and beautiful and fascinating, or whatever, that I could step into that appreciation and participate in it with her, and I had fun with it. I surprised myself.

The point is that that meant the world to her, and my relationship deepened because I was able to see and accept more of who she is and what her unique likes and interests are, and just my skepticism, I can still have that. I can still have some of my skepticism. Two things can be true, and I can enter into LuBu blind box opening party.

And now she wants some kind of LuBu birthday party for she's a sad so her birthday is coming up. Anyway, they opened, they opened a new pop Mart store at the Mall of America, near where we live, and she wants to go there anyway. So the point with Venus Pluto is very similar. If you take time to taste what the people in your life like and what they love and what they're interested in and take pleasure in it. That relationship will deepen and expand and heal and grow, and paradoxically, you will start receiving more appreciation, respect and interest, and the things you like will get sweeter because you've expanded your capacity to like what other people like. That's a Venus Pluto dynamic, and it's usually at the outset of it. It comes with a moment of rejection, of saying that's not beautiful or attractive, I don't like that, and then that becoming a roadblock for love intimacy, or an opportunity for healing or greater depth in a relationship that's not beautiful. Oh, wait, maybe I can. Maybe I can go deeper and open myself to something that isn't in, like my repertoire, my taste.

Okay, so I feel like I always joke with my daughter. I'm like, at least I'm a dad that says he's sorry.

Because what I should, you know, because I'll mess up, and I'll say I'm sorry, and she'll be like, Yeah, Dad, that was, that was mean, you were just really ripping.

On the boo boos. And I'll be like, well, but at least I say I'm sorry.

So anyway, that those are Venus Pluto dynamics. Those are ways of thinking about Venus Pluto dynamics. So I just wanted to warm us up here with some some Venus Pluto conversation before we get into horoscopes.

All right, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the chart up on the screen, and let's get into it. I'm uh.

So we're going to start with Aries. We'll go through uh, Aries, through Pisces. Remember that the House topics and the combinations of the planets are like when we do a horoscope. It's basically like gathering a whole handful of darts and throwing them, you know, one at one by one at the bullseye. And what we're hoping to do is describe the patterns and interactions of symbols broadly enough and also in some moments, specifically enough so that something lands, so that you go, Oh, that one really makes sense to me. So you have to listen to it from that standpoint, not like everything is going to land, but like one of these descriptions should get close to what you're experiencing. I recommend listening to this for your rising sign Hellenistic astrologers like myself use whole sign houses. It's a part of the entire paradigm of ancient astrology.

It's a part of the entire philosophical language. Whole sign houses are so for that reason, I use it in my practice every day. Indian astrologers still use it today.

When you're thinking of whole sign houses, you're all horoscopes are written in whole sign house form. So the whole sign house version of your birth chart will be the rising sign version. You could listen to your sun sign, your moon sign, or any other sign, of course, but I recommend the rising sign, because it will locate the actual transits in the whole sign birth chart.

Okie dokie, on that note, let's get into it with the timeline. So you're going to notice today, Friday, November 7, that Venus is squaring Pluto, and we're going to speed this up to give it about three degrees of separation that occurs by Monday, November 10. So the three degree range of separation from Venus to Pluto that takes us from today the seventh of November through the 10th of November.

So you may notice, anything we talk about in our horoscopes today, from today through Monday, is the point.

All right, on that note, I'm going to back this up. And by the way, the exact, exact square, if you want that, it comes through my time. It's like 10pm tonight, that's central time, so that'd be 11pm Eastern, or maybe 7pm Pacific, or something like that.

All right, so we're gonna start with Aries. We've got Venus and we have Pluto squaring across the eighth and the 11th houses.

Now, what's so interesting about these two houses is that the eighth house was a Moksha house. The 11th a comma house, which means the eighth house has to do fundamentally, with the relinquishment of attachments, the process of moksha, or liberation spiritually, and the kinds of the kind of Moksha that the eighth house typically depicts are those liberations from bonds or attachments or entanglements with other people, with their money, with their energy, with their time, with their resources. There are something like soul contracts in the eighth house that can either facilitate our spiritual liberation or bog us down. And so the subject of the eighth matter the eighth house is the matter of relationships, and whether they are part of the process of liberation or if they are keeping us in ignorance or entangling us in the material energy, such that we lose track of who we are, of what's real.

The 11th house as a comma house has to do with pleasure. All comma houses are fundamentally about satisfaction, joy, happiness and pleasure. The 11th has to do with those forms of pleasure that are socially conditioned, that connect us to groups of people, that connect us to colleagues, social networks and communities. And the 11th house was called The Joy of Jupiter, and a house associated with the blessings and. Benefits of positive or beneficial social connections. Those could be ideological, moral, religious, professional, but the bottom line is that that house had to do with a feeling of joy or happiness derived from the social, participatory level of our life. So

when you put Venus and Pluto in a square across these two houses, we're asking questions about soul contracts with other people, what they provide us with that contributes to a larger sense of social, cultural, public happiness, the public social level of our life, and whatever way we find happiness in that world, and what soul contracts with other people are dying or changing or need reform or revision because they are or are not, providing us with a larger sense of social Happiness.

Now that could go in so many different directions. Some people might be coming into your life right now that you're finding some interesting benefits, blessings and connections from that are facilitating greater social happiness, but and maybe those things are also positive for you spiritually. But the very people and things coming into your life right now that look beneficial and advantageous, that you feel will provide you with upward social mobility or greater success or happiness socially could also be coming at a cost. You're going to lose yourself. You're going to get entangled. So there might be a little beware, a little caution, that that should be considered right now.

So that's the level at which I would look at the Venus Pluto connection across the eighth and the 11th for Aries. All right, let's go to Taurus.

For Taurus, we're talking about another comma house. The seventh is comma. Happiness, bliss, pleasure. The 10th is arta, which means the means by which we achieve or accomplish something materially and the material world's greatest benefits or blessings are things like power, prestige, honor, acquisition, wealth, material stability, material pleasure or comfort because of what you own or have or possess or how much influence or power or notoriety you have in the world, usually connected in the 10th house to career or vocation, whereas in the seventh house, we're talking about pleasure, and we're talking about the connection of the pleasure body and intimate interpersonal relationships, marriage, but also sexuality in General, is found in the seventh house.

And so the encounter between these two planets in square in the house of comma and relationships and Arthur and work and career could mean that right now we're looking at the intersection. For example, when you grow in power, prestige, notoriety, mastery. You get better at something. You earn more money, you become more powerful. You take on more responsibility in the workplace. Sometimes you start feeling more attractive, and you start looking for a different kind of partner or partnership based on how you feel. Your worth or MERIT has changed in the world, but some of that may not be healthy. Some of what you start looking for may be reflective of an inflated ego, because you're doing well in your career. So that leads you to looking for more superficial things than other people.

On the other hand, sometimes there's questions here about like, do you feel happy? Do you feel loved? You feel seen? Do you feel connected? Do you feel intimate? Do you feel energized by your interpersonal connections with other people? And why or why not, in relation to your public social status, standing career, for example, I'm too busy to enjoy love. I'm too concerned with forward progress to experience intimacy and connection with others. Or could it be that there are illicit things happening with lovers in the workplace, for example?

So the the sphere of happiness, bliss, pleasure in our relationships that Venus in the seventh represents interacting with Pluto in the 10th, explorations of power, prestige, your career, your notoriety in the public world, what power, influence or role you play there are having a kind of dialog or exchange with one another right now,

this can also be about meaningful partnerships that are creative Venus in the seventh can be about business partnerships that are creative and collaborative, that contribute to growing or developing things professionally. Can be that simple.

I'm reminded of the fact that, for example, just yesterday.

As Venus entered Scorpio and started squaring Pluto, a former student of at Nightlight, Lori Lothian, who I was just talking about at the beginning of today's talk, who has a very successful YouTube channel.

She had me on to help promote my program, and there's no formal partnership between the two of us, but collaborating around the enrollment dates of my program is something that she's done for several years now as a way of honoring her connection with the school, and I really feel deeply thankful for that. So as Venus is squaring Pluto, we have a lot of enrollments coming in right now to the upcoming program that came from her very generously, promoting my work through her channel.

I found that fascinating, that that was a Venus Pluto connection taking place, you know, as I'm a Taoist rising so like, there it is. But also I feel like, I feel like, last night, my wife and I started coming up with some ideas for new projects, and I was like, oh, there's Venus Pluto seventh and 10th again. So sometimes it's just as simple as who you're working with and what you're creatively collaborating around between work and, you know, various working partnerships. So all of these good things to consider. For Tauruses, let's move on.

For Gemini, we have Venus in the sixth, Pluto in the ninth. So the sixth house is an art to house. The ninth house is a Dharma house.

So in the ninth house, when we talk about Dharma, we're talking about developing an understanding of truth and reality, sages, gurus, astrology, anything that helps us come to understand reality, divinity, God, the mind of the universe, any path, religious, spiritual, educational, that leads to a greater understanding of truth, a greater understanding of what is real. That's Dharma in the ninth. It's interesting because Arthur in the sixth has to do with the natural struggles, the natural element of sacrifice, work, duty, hardship and struggling that take place in the material world as we build anything or work to survive or thrive materially.

So if you want to, if you want to build something, it takes a lot of hard work. It takes a lot of sacrifice if you want to learn something. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of sacrifice and a lot of frustration and a lot of having to do something well before it rewards you for the results. You just got to keep chopping wood and carrying water.

But that element of willing sacrifice is leading to success eventually, in time in the sixth house, you got to put in the time, you got to put in the work. And it's also about the various misfortunes that arise in the material world that are part of the material energy, disease, sickness, obstacles, breakdowns. You know, I think it's, it's really, anyway, the sixth house, it's like your car breaking down. I just had a transit to the ruler of my sixth house, and my car broke down. It's in the shop right now. Thankfully, the fix is under warranty, so it's like a silver lining, but the sixth house is like cars break down. Shit happens. It's a part of life that we deal with adversity, and part of how we respond to and meet adversity and overcome it is a part of how we succeed, materially, how we survive, materially, how we build mastery, reputation, status, ability. You have to overcome hard things.

You also have to be a willing servant and have a willing sacrificial attitude.

So this is a very interesting combination between Venus and Pluto in these two houses, because, on the one hand, it could point to something like a period of time where things are going wrong and you're asking, Where does misfortune like, where is what is its role, or what is its place? In reality, when sixth and ninth house connections come up, I find that my clients, for example, are always asking the question, why do bad things happen to good people? Or why is this happening to me? Or why do I feel like I'm being punished? Or why is it so difficult? Or when will this end?

What is the meaning of this hardship I'm encountering so philosophical questions that overlap with periods of hard work.

Or sometimes like just little misfortunes that come up, or sickness that has to be overcome. That's pretty normal for a meeting in these two houses with Venus. That might mean you're reflecting on why certain people and certain relationship dynamics, especially tough ones or difficult ones where there's some strain or stress, like, why are they here? What role do they play in my life? You could be feeling quite philosophical right now with respect to the challenges arising around love, sex, relationships, sisters, women, friendships, and that wouldn't be uncommon. You could be experiencing any kind of hardship, delay, obstacle, adversity, and asking, why is it here, or what can I learn from it? But the same combination could also have you studying something or really putting in a lot of time and effort, maybe to something Venusian, something like an art form, something like a craft that you're learning or studying that's really requiring a lot of time, effort or energy right now, and this could actually be a very fruitful period for the development of that thing, if you're willing to put in the time and effort. I would also look at this as an opportunity to reflect on moral, philosophical or ideological differences in relationships, and how the seed of certain conflicts in relationships may exist because of different beliefs and having to really look closely at those things right now.

All right, so that's some takes for Geminis.

Let's move on to cancer and take a bite of dark chocolate. It, because I think that dark chocolate is about one of the best things to nibble on throughout your day. I don't know what it's just like pure medicine you need, just like a tiny little lift of your mood. It's just like a little fairy that lands in your mouth and goes, everything's wonderful, and then it just disappears again.

Okay, so let's go on the bittersweet medicine that's That's exactly it,

all right, cancer, so cancer's got Venus in the fifth, Pluto in the eighth now we're in another Dharma house, and we're back to that Moksha house. The interaction between Dharma and Moksha is so fascinating, and across these two houses, do you want to know the most common way that I see aspects showing up between five and eight? Doesn't really matter the planets. But I'll, I'll be more specific in a second, with Venus and Pluto.

People ask themselves whether or not certain agreements in relationships that they're in more but usually like consciously, it's like a conscious part of the give and take or the contract of a relationship, and they will ask whether or not that contract is contributing to their creative authenticity, or whether it's prohibiting their creative authenticity. By that, I just mean I don't feel like I can be myself. I don't feel like I'm doing all of the things or being all of the things that make me feel happiest and most creative and sort of satisfied and vibrant, the feeling that you're living from your heart, that you're doing things that represent exciting, creative originality. That's the fifth house. And when planets in the fifth get in dialog with planets in the eighth, it's like, I'm going to get into the relationship with this person, because they're going to provide me with resources, and the commitment will provide me with more time to do the things I love and be the person I am creatively. And I'm willing to sign up for that, even if I don't even really like this person so much. It's just that they bring some degree of creative freedom into my life. So I'll just do that deal with the devil.

Okay, that's one way the two planets work. And then, of course, a Venus Pluto transit comes along, and you go, I have to get out of this relationship, because I don't I need more of a connection, even if this person, for example, is wealthy, and therefore I can do more of the I have more freedom to be myself creatively. I can go the workshops that I want to go to or whatever. I really just don't like this person, and it's in so you feel like you're at a crossroads.

On the other hand, there could be situations where you're in a relationship with someone who, quite literally just won't give you the time or space, or makes you feel bad, or criticizes you for who you are, and it feels like you can't live from that place, that wellspring of life and vitality and creativity, you just can't get in touch with that because you're in this relationship and you're you're in some kind of dynamic with someone else that prevents you from from that. And so, oh, I gotta get out.

Um.

So there's also some potential for really nice collaborations. For example, I'm trying to express myself creatively, but I can't do it unless I meet and work with the right soul, or I need a collaborating partnership of some kind. Venus Pluto dynamics across these two houses can be really nice in terms of saying, look, it's not going to be perfect. Nothing is perfect. But here's someone very powerful for you to collaborate with, to experience joy, pleasure, creative fulfillment with, and look, that might be romantic and sexual. It doesn't necessarily have to be about making an album or writing a book or creating some kind of product. It can be just, look, nobody's perfect, but you need someone to be able to connect with, to feel more creatively fulfilled and maybe compromise as a part of how that person comes into your life. Or maybe there's, on the other hand, maybe it's like I've been too compromising, and I need to be more specific and have better boundaries around who I let in and creatively collaborate with, because it it may make me sort of soul sick or spirit sick if I'm not sharing my creative essence with the right person.

Anyway, these are the kinds of conversations that frequently come up between a house of dharma, which is living with your creative truth is sort of the dharma of the fifth house and the eighth house, which has to do with the moksha, the liberation from entanglements that either other people help us with or prevent us from. For example, a good professor, a good teacher, a good guru, a good counselor or therapist, is someone we partner with, and through their guidance, we get liberated from unconscious, stuck material. Let's say that's a great kind of eighth house partnering. And a lot of people who who's maybe career house signifiers intersect with the eighth house. May be people who help other people disentangle. There's hospice care workers that live in the eighth house that help people leave their bodies, you know.

But then there's also questions about what entangles us. So thinking right now about creative entanglement and creative freedom or liberation,

all right, that's cancers.

I love. For example, my wife's a cancer rising. She just started taking a painting class, and she's learned she's her subject in painting right now are goddesses. So she's painting goddesses, and her teacher is really helping her develop her her abilities as a painter.

So I could see this as something like, like that. You know, I What frees us up and liberates us creatively.

Okay, so with Leos, we're looking at Venus in the fourth Pluto in the seventh comma and Moksha.

The Moksha of the fourth house is like the other Moksha houses, house 12 and house eight, all about liberation from suffering, from illusion, from ignorance. Ultimately, Moksha is about enlightenment spiritually, but most of it in this world has to do with letting go of illusions, attachments that keep us from really inhabiting our our spiritual nature, or we're divine beings who forget that we're divine beings. The Moksha houses are about letting go of all the stuff that keeps us from living in that presence.

It's interesting to me that the fourth house, the 12th and eighth house, Moksha experiences are often very difficult. They often involve healing crises, and you know, like the letting go is sometimes pretty painful in those houses, the fourth house is a much gentler space. For example, it's associated with going home in the evening from the public world, from your work and resting in the privacy of your own home. That is a little mini form of Moksha that every day reminds us that we'll have to do that with our bodies. Eventually, we'll have to go to sleep and leave this body and leave this ego and leave this lifetime, the home, the resting place, the private sphere of life should ideally be shared with people we love, people who release us from the burdens and obligations of things like reputation, notoriety, power, rank or prestige in the world. They should be people who see us and love us just because we are who we are, so home and family.

Family, ideally, is a form that of life, a relational sphere of life that supports moksha, rest and liberation from worldly entanglement. But quite frequently, it's not because there's trauma and judgment and shame and all sorts of hurts that exist around home and family. Parents are upbringing, and so a lot of us end up doing some work around the healing of ancestral, ancestral trauma, hurts and pain that come from family and then, quite frequently, our marriages, if we choose to get married, or if we maybe, if we've already, even if we're just dating, there will be an intersection between the work that we are doing around home and family, which in a sense, is just all about our ability to receive nourishment and a very basic level of emotional security, rest, ease, support.

The fourth house is like a well. We might have to clean or realign the well if there's some ancestral trauma. The point is that that work of the fourth house, when doesn't it have a connection to who we get into a relationship with. You get into a relationship with your alcoholic father. You get into a relationship with your neglectful mom, you know. So the work for Leos right now may exist between family patterns and relationship patterns, looking at the connection between your family of origin, all of the best qualities of your upbringing, all the things that were most supportive, most harmonious, most beautiful, most fortunate, and maybe those that were most painful, most lacking or harmful, and then asking the question, how do any of these patterns, how does my history, karmically around these subjects carry over into my intimate relationships, into how I seek pleasure and how I find fulfillment in my relationships.

So some real connections between those two areas, and it goes two ways. Our partners bring in things from their own families too. So the exploration of those dynamics on both sides of a relationship can be indicated by these placements. I i

Okay, we'll move on to Virgo.

And here we have Venus in the third and Pluto in the sixth. I find after in the past year, my understanding of the third house has grown so much after I spent a lot of time with the Indian astrological tradition of the houses.

It's a comma house, sixth house we were just talking about, of course, is an art to house. So the sixth house, we already said, has to do with the work of the world, the struggles of the world, the sacrifice and efforts, the things we have to overcome, the work that we have to put into things before they develop or gain traction.

So sixth house, service, sacrifice, hard work, etc.

The third house as a comma house has to do with pleasure again, and there are three different domains of pleasure through the comma houses 11, seven and three. We talked about 11 already as the house that pertains to social pleasure. For example, an 11th house experience for myself and maybe for some of you who are into astrology, if you're an astrologer, part of how you feel social 11th house, happiness will be defined by how well you feel received or liked, or what you feel your contribution Is to the field of astrology.

Not surprisingly, Neptune, for example, entered my 11th house as I made my way onto the scene as an astrologer. Its whole time in Pisces, pretty much has been spent while I've been a professional astrologer.

And so the 11th house is, is really like, how do you define happiness within a very big social, public context? Seventh is interpersonal, one on one. Now the third house version of pleasure has to do with the pleasure derived from our own mind and our own psychology and through anything that we come to be, what I want to call it, anything that we have to cultivate within ourselves that makes us feel happy about who we are, that requires a lot of effort, mentally, intellectually and. Emotionally. So, for example, the sixth house and the third house both have to do with skill development.

The sixth house is the work you put in to learn a skill like astrology. It's the effort it it's the part that kind of sucks, honestly, but in time, it'll build and develop into something the third house would be the joy and happiness that you derive from feeling like you're a good astrologer because you put the work in.

So the third house and the sixth house have this affinity in ancient Indian astrology with things that require practice and effort. The difference is that the sixth house is like the work and effort, materially speaking, whereas the third house is the work and effort, psychologically, emotionally, mentally and the realization of the happiness or satisfaction that comes when you build or develop something, a skill or an ability that makes you feel good about yourself, It's also the natural ability we have to take joy in communicating, thinking, feeling and our own psychology. This is why, for example, in ancient Hellenistic astrology, the third house is called the joy of the moon, which pertains to the mind, body, emotional connection. And in Indian astrology, the third house is related to the mind, the intellect and the emotional body.

Now all of that had to come first, because I find that these two houses in combination are pretty tricky when it comes to a horoscope. What I would say right now is that for Virgos, we're we're talking about, how do you want to feel about yourself?

What don't you like about yourself, and how do you wish you felt about yourself? How do you wish you were and what works sacrifice effort is required. For example, you may not like the sound of your singing voice, and you'd like a better one, so you might have to get a coach that teaches you how to sing, and then that process will reward you with feeling more confident and happy because you have a nice singing voice.

It could be that also in certain relationships that you have, you don't like how you show up, or you don't like how you experience yourself, or you lack self esteem or confidence mentally or in how you communicate. And this might be a moment where you're getting feedback that's not easy socially, but it also gives you the impetus to shift or change your behavior, your mind, your communication, something about your personality, the little work and effort you are now wanting to work on becoming more likable. That would be very common for these two placements. This could also be about certain kinds of conflict that come up, or hardships and relationships with sisters, with women, with siblings with friends, probably reflective of of your own psychology in some way, and giving you some feedback about that psychology, but then also think right now about anything you're trying to build or develop as an art, a skill, an ability, a quality within yourself and the work effort or sacrifice that is necessary for that process

I'm Um, let me give you this is fun. I was telling you the story earlier about my daughter and her friend at school. And you know our conversation this morning about being more patient when you're frustrated, she called me out. Well, she is a Virgo rising.

So she's, she went to school this morning and she told us, I'm going to tell my friend I'm sorry when I get to school today, I'm going to tell her that I'm sorry that I was, you know, kind of impatient and rude.

Well, there's Venus Pluto, right? She's working on herself. She's She there was a hardship that came up in a relationship that offered her an opportunity to reflect on her behavior, you know, and and she's gonna go and apologize. See, see, it's right there. It's the exact, exact little archetype I was explaining. All right, let's go to Libras.

So I'm Oh, the big arrows out.

Go down, okay? Venus square, Pluto from the second to the fifth. Here we have an art to house and a Dharma house.

Fascinating connection here the second house arta has to do the development of material, goods, resources, money, possessions, assets, acquisitions. It's a house of income and expenditures. It's a house that speaks to anything that we build or cultivate or develop materially, that provides us, first and foremost.

Most with a sense of basic survival and support, money, food, clothing, all of the basics. But then, most of us are just very human. We're not going to be satisfied with having a roof over our head, clothes on our back. We're going to want more like I will just give you a simple, stupid example. We were talking about my guitar earlier. Well, when I was 20 years old in college, and I just had a cheap banger guitar, I said, Someday, if I ever earn enough money, I'm going to save up and get a nicer guitar. Well, why? Well, because it plays nicer and it's easier on the fingers, and, you know, it's like it has a nicer sound. And so there's like hierarchies of things that we want in the world and things that we think will give us greater happiness, and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

So the second house contains the development of our resources, possessions, and how they contribute to, at first, nothing more than survival, and then, as things progress, an enhanced sense of well being or happiness, what you have, what you possess, what you develop, what you build, what you cultivate as material, assets and resources, is all here now that could also be about building a body, building a better diet, built like It's I've mentioned this somewhat recently, that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a loaded second house. He's a bodybuilder. If you want to build your body, it goes from, do I am I healthy and happy to I'm going to be an Iron Man, Olympian champion, you know? So the second house is about the evolution of our relationship with things that we build, cultivate, develop, have and possess.

That's the art of the second house.

The Dharma of the fifth house has to do with the question of whether I feel like the things I'm creating, the way that I'm living, the choices that I'm making, are coming from my authentic creative essence, and the marker of that is they make me when I'm I feel like I'm creative. I feel like I'm in a flow with life. I feel happy. I feel like I'm living from a sense of who I really am. And usually that connects us with joy and love and happiness to other people. It connects us to mundane things and big creative acts in our life with a just a simple sense of joy. I'm being me. So when these planets get together in these houses, we might be asking questions about synthesizing our creative values with the development of our material assets and resources. For example, the classic question is, am I building a career assets and success materially that have anything to do with my creative essence or not, and if not, that can feel pretty painful.

On the other hand, we might be asking ourselves the question of how to compromise. For example, I might feel like I can't be happy unless I'm a musician, but the world keeps telling me you're not going to make enough living of a living to survive being just a musician. Well, some creative compromise might be necessary. How do I live in touch with that musician? Part of me that is, I'm not going to be happy if I'm not in touch with but also, how do I pay the bills? Classic, second, fifth house kind of conversation.

So questions about creative authenticity, creative essence, creative expression, and questions about money, resources, finances, assets and acquisitions, any kind of dialog between those two areas of life would be appropriate for this right now.

Now, I wonder if conversations about these two areas of life are also coming up because of things like love, sex, marriage, relationships, Venus, or because of things like sisters or friends or girlfriends or women in our lives.

That would be another layer of this.

All right, let's move along. Oops.

Let's move along to Scorpio.

So for Scorpio, we've got Venus in the first Pluto in the fourth time for some dark chocolate. Clip, okay, dharma in the first Moksha in the fourth of very simple question that planets ask each other when they any planets when they aspect across the first and the fourth is, do you feel like you have enough of an interior life? Do you have a well that you go and draw from or.

Because the first house has so much to do with our body, our spirit, our soul, our psychology, the physical container that we're in, like the first house is you. You can think of the fourth house like a private sphere that you have to go into to reset, to rest, to restore, to draw from that well, to nourish yourself from the fourth house can pertain to things that closely resemble that, like, ideally, home, family, the living environment should be part of your well system.

Could it be right now that you're like, I don't feel so great because there's toxicity in my home. There's literal mold in my walls, or there's people that I don't feel safe around, or there's drama, or there's heartbreak, or there's, you know, destruction, destructive energies around home, a place that should Be revitalizing, restoring, nourishing, healing.

On the other hand, Venus squaring Pluto right here may be saying there's something about what you're focused on right now that is too superficial, and you're going to get sick inside. If you don't tend to the real thing that's below the below the surface, you have to go inward. You're not tending to your depths. Your interior life is being neglected. Superficially, you may be presenting like things are fine, or things may be even going very nicely. On a superficial level, what the world sees or what you're experiencing might feel like rewards, blessings or benefits, but inside, there's something festering that could be another Venus Pluto message across these houses.

Yet another connection between these might be, who am I and how do? How does my psychology reflect my upbringing, explorations of identity, moments of personal growth and evolution. I'm growing. I'm changing. I'm realizing who I am. I'm weeding things out that are no longer good for me, all of that kind of self focus of the first house, but that work may be catalyzed by explorations of home, family, roots, ancestry, your upbringing, etc.

So watch for the connections right there.

All right. Sagittarius Venus in the Oh, the big arrow.

Venus in the 12th. Pluto in the third, so a Moksha house. Back to that comma house.

This is super interesting, because the 12th house Moksha almost always involves blind spots that we have in our our conscious ego structure. It's like there's a you have a very clear conscious sense of who you are, and we all know that there's things working below the surface that we can't always see, which is why we do dream work, why we see an astrologer, why we see a therapist, why we have a psychedelic healing experience, what we see in meditation. Oh my gosh. Look at this. This was below the surface and I didn't see it.

There is a strong chance with Venus in the 12 that you're being directed to look at your blind spots with respect to love, sex, marriage, relationships, women, sister or friends, women, sisters or friends that you're being asked to look at what you define as pleasurable, attractive, beautiful, enjoyable, sensual, and that you're being called to look at those things because there's some kind of blind spot you're not seeing.

Now the third house comma tells us that this is about getting in touch with who you are psychologically and what is real or authentic about who you are psychologically. So whatever Venus is trying to draw your attention to is a kind of blind spot that needs to become more conscious. Let's say it's dialoguing with Pluto in the third house, a comma house that has to do with what are the aspects of your psychology, your mind, your emotional makeup, that are most conducive to happiness.

So this is a really great time to be looking at. You know, what is really going to make you happy? What is a part of your psychological makeup that contributes to unhappiness in your relationships, pretty good time to get called out for Sagittarians, if you're undermining yourself in relationships or choosing the wrong people, or involving people that are you know, maybe like sort of detrimental or undermining you in some way, and to just be able to see it and to understand something about your own.

Psychological makeup because of your ability to see it right now.

And also this might be about understanding parts of your own psychology that need inclusion or integration, that have been excluded somehow or kicked out or ostracized or left behind, like where are the abandoned parts that are going to provide you with greater happiness, pleasure, creative fulfillment, if you find a way to include them, because somehow they've been marginalized or excluded.

Oops, I keep doing that.

Okay. For Capricorns, we have Venus and Pluto meeting across the 11th and the second that is comma and arta. So we've talked at length now about the comma of the 11th house, social, socially defined, conditioned, public, social happiness.

So Venus in the 11th house right now is really placing an emphasis on your social relationships, those that have to do with people you work with or share things in common with, or exist in some community space with. These are networks of people and friends.

And the question is, with Venus in the 11th is always like, especially in score with Scorpio in particular, the question is like, who really makes me happy and who just provides me with too much drama and complication?

What are the positive, beneficial friendships and social connections and which are superficial or too filled with, you know, too much, just too much drama.

Now, the connection that Venus has to Pluto is interesting because Pluto, in the second house, is working on things like material assets, resources, acquisitions, building things on the material level, your business, your finances, whatever it is, it's like you're building material things there.

So a question for these two planets is, who are the advantageous people or social connections for building the things you're trying to build, materially, financially, but also, who are the people that you're getting involved with because you think it'll be expedient or useful, or it'll provide some kind of upward mobility, but may, in the end, create misfortune, or again, create maybe a real drama you have to deal with later.

Or which relationships right now are you forging or getting out of that have very specific advantages or disadvantages materially?

What collaborations are good right now? Which ones aren't? Those are some, I think, good ways of thinking about Venus and Pluto here.

And it's also about asking, Are there inconsistencies between the broader social harmony that you're seeking and the material development that you're seeking.

I like to stay pretty close to my own hypocrisy, because it keeps me humble. And when I'm humble, I'm kind. When I'm humble, I have a better sense of humor, you know. So I always like for for me, and this really came from my ayahuasca experiences.

It's important to not be like, I don't try to kid myself that, like, oh, for example, we do need based tuition at Nightlight, and we have for going on 16 years. And I'm very clear that this is it's not as simple as just like starry eyed altruism. You know, we want a serious in Te like from as a matter of integrity and principle, I believe that a sacred topic should be accessible to people, so I stand by that, but it's also been part of an innovative business model for how I earn a living, and I'm not someone who doesn't care about that just because I'm doing something spiritual. And I have to live with that what can feel at times like an inconsistency, and learn how to hold the tension of that. You know, I think all of us do, and that's what I mean when I say we should stay close to our hypocrisy, like, if I started acting like, you know, the altruistic part of Nightlight put me above being a materialist. I think I'd immediately be a hypocrite. So I don't I try to be very cautious about those things. And to me, questions between the 11th and the second always bring to mind hypocrisy, because most of us want to connect socially in ways that we feel are good and virtuous and harmonious, like you want to connect with people and feel happiness because you're connected to people who are creative and good and virtuous and believe all the good things that you believe you know, and that there's nothing wrong with that, but if it doesn't live alongside of the fact that.

We are also people who like to buy nice things and have nice things, or we're people who have some degree of interest in material acquisition or sustainment and survival, like we'll become hypocrites super fast. So especially right now for Capricorns, the Venus Pluto dynamic across the 11th and the seventh might be like. What level of hypocrisy are you living with right now? You know, because there's gradations of it. We all have inconsistencies, but being able to live with them and see them and hold them consciously is so much better than not having thought over them carefully and made the right kinds of compromises. So I would, I would look at that right now for Capricorns, especially because Capricorn and I don't mean any offense by this, I have a Capricorn moon. Capricorns can be sort of quicker to do deals with the devils, you know.

Oh, that's funny. Okay, so let's go to Aquarius rising Venus and Pluto across the 10th and the first this is Arthur and dharma. Just like five and two arta and dharma across the second and fifth houses had to do with material development, acquisition, resources and creative authenticity. And the tension between those things is a Dharma artha thing. Well, here we have the exact same thing, your work in the world, your role in the world, your vocation in the world, your power or influence or notoriety in the world, and the matter of who you are and what is authentic to who you are, and the evolution of your character along lines of virtue and spirituality, those that's a pretty rough conversation for lots of us, and it's so important there, out of any of the areas that we'd be aware of, the potential for hypocrisy, right? I was joking yesterday, when I was talking about Venus and Pluto. I was saying like, you know, my I have a I have a small collection. I'm a uniform dresser. I've heard myself. Someone describe me that way, where it's like, I'll find I have like, five or six different types of shirts that I really like, and then I just get them in like, three colors.

I'm so boring. My wife is so much more interesting in the way she I'm like, I've got, I like the zip up. I'll get three different colors, then I'm good. And I don't need to go shopping the rest of the winter.

So I'm wearing another zip up today.

The zip up is the evidence of my hypocrisy. I have to stay pretty close to, you know. So there it is again. Though we, a lot of us, have to be bohemian souls by night, cubicle workers by day, and it we feel just raped and pillaged by the whole thing.

But living with that tension, living with that awkwardness, if we take it as a blessing, as a gift from the universe, as a little wink, it's hard to get out over our skis, isn't it? It's hard to feel too big about who we are. Well, I have the right ideas because I had an Ayahuasca experience, or, you know, I have the right ideas because I'm an astrologer, yeah? But you know, you're just, you're really the same as everyone else you know.

You got your SIP up on, come on, let's be real. So I love these placements just really bring up that tension between, what does it mean to be you? What does it mean to evolve as a person, to deepen as a person, to grow wiser as a person, to grow in your facilities, you know, like you, you have gifts and skills that are really unique, that when you do, they're like, those are the things God gave you, you know. And then there's also this place where we work in the world, and for very few of us do the two perfectly synchronize.

So this is the conversation right now for Aquarians. Might be also driven by relationships, by things like love, sex, desire, beauty, sensuality.

All right, finally for Pisceans, Venus Pluto across the ninth and the 12th. So we have Dharma and moksha, these two houses for Pisceans, right right now, I think this is really special.

You know, Pisceans are getting the Grand Water Trine in all three of their dharma houses. I can't help but mention this right now, all of the water signs really are being asked to open. So there's so much more to you and what makes you unique, and the water signs especially are just really getting like a master class in what is real, what is true, what is you?

Well, as Venus is heading through the ninth house, questions about love, sex, happiness, sensuality and their role in reality itself. This is like all the Pisceans should take my webinar next Thursday night on the archive of Venus, and what principle of God, reality, divinity, does the goddess represent in ancient cosmology? Because she's in your ninth house right now. If you're a Pisces you, I think you'd really.

Like that class anyway, Venus in that ninth house asking us to contemplate the role of happiness, pleasure, bliss, sex, friendships, relationships in the larger scope of reality. It's a very philosophical, spiritual reflection on the goddess that's coming into contact with Pluto in the 12th which is asking you to be liberated from stuck places in your own psyche. So The Goddess is leading a pretty philosophical exploration that can be very healing and transformative for Pisceans right now, is the way that I'm looking at it, or any kind of relational drama that's coming up in religious or spiritual settings, or any conflicts coming up in relationships that have to do with ideology or philosophy or beliefs or religion, could be fueling a lot of spiritual growth and healing right now for Pisceans, liberating things that are stuck seeing your blind spot a little bit better, really quite illuminating and kind of enlightening transit.

So there we go. We did it.

Thank you all for listening. What we're going to do now is I am going to tell you about the year one program, which you have about one more week to sign up for. We start next Saturday, the 15th. Excuse me, the 15th. And I'm going to tell you about that. Then I'm going to open up for Q and A. For Q and A and if you have questions for me, I would be so glad to take them. So

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Okay, all right, I'm going to take you over to the Nightlight website, if you would like to check out our programs. We have four years worth of professional development curriculum and certification from within our Nightlight lineage takes place by testing through that curriculum. If you go to the Courses page, you'll go to the first year course, click on it. We start November 15. That's next Saturday. This class is called Ancient astrology for the modern mystic. It's our foundational class in ancient Hellenistic astrology, you are going to learn so much about the philosophical and technical roots of astrology. What that's going to do, let's say you're coming from a modern background. You already have some awareness of planet, signs, houses, aspects, but you've you've learned it from a modern perspective, that modern perspective is primarily psychological, which means it tells you about behavior, behavior patterns. It tells you about the psyche, which is great. That's the contribution of modern astrology has been primarily to make it more psychologically available and beneficial for people. Carl Jung was a big part of this, this close relationship to like the Myers Briggs test, all of that.

When you study ancient astrology, what you are learning is significantly more predictive. Ancient astrology, both in the east and the west, is more like karmic analytics. It's telling you specifically what types of events and themes are going to happen at what times, as a matter of fate or destiny. Your ability to grow as a predictive astrologer in this program is closely developed in the first two years alongside of the modern psychological counseling dynamic. So what we want you to do when you come through our programs is be able to sit down with people if you're going to practice professionally, be able to read their natal chart from a psychological perspective that gives them insight, who am I, you know, but also can outline specific dimensions of fate and karma and timelines that meaningful, meaningfully predict when that karma will appear, as well as some insight as to how to meet those experiences so that healing and transformation can occur, of course. But when you look at the material on our website, and there's an informational video here, you can learn more about you're going to see that the topics included in the class, you're going to go, Oh, I already know about all of that stuff. For example, in our curriculum, the 12 signs, 12 houses, aspects, etc, you're gonna go, Oh, I I know that if you have never studied Hellenistic astrology in depth, or to speak of the fact that our curriculum is also lineage based and very specific, but if you've never studied it, I guarantee you, you you will not have learned about houses, signs, plans.

And aspects in the way that you will in Hellenistic astrology, because it's very, very different. First and foremost, you're going to get at the philosophical roots of the whole language. Where does this come from? What is a house? Most people can tell you what a house topic is like, the first house is self, the seventh, relationships. But can you tell me what a house is metaphysically. In other words, where did the idea of a house ever come from in the first place? And what is the difference between a house and a sign philosophically, and where did they both come from in the first place? Why was whole sign houses the original house system, right? What is an aspect, where does it come from? Not just what is a Trine, but where did it ever come from? You're going to learn about that level of things in this course, and I promise you, even if that sounds a little tedious and sort of dense, philosophically, you will be 50 times better an astrologer if you take the time to learn the language at this level.

It's like someone telling you, if you're going to be an acupuncturist, oh, just stick needles here, here and here. Yeah, but why? Why am I sticking needles in these particular locations? Well, because of meridians. Well, what are meridians? Well, now we're getting down to the core of the entire system. No acupuncturist trains without that understanding. No astrologer should either. And yet, for some reason in modern astrology, we train that way. And the main reason that we train that way is because only in since, like the 1990s have we had available to us in the English language, the bulk of the earliest ancient texts. So the Hellenistic astrology movement in modern astrology is about taking us back, not to be traditionalists, stuck in the past, but to understand the roots of the whole language, which, as it turns out, once you do, you become much, much better at predictive astrology in particular. And then if you wed that, this is why our program is called Ancient astrology for the modern mystic, when you marry that ancient philosophical and sort of predictive element to modern psychological sensibilities, you have a full toolkit that nobody else has. I truly believe that people take the time to marry ancient astrology with modern astrology. We're one of a number of programs that do so. But if you take the time to do that, you You're, you're going to be so much better an astrologer than you could possibly imagine. Like many people go through our programs, and they feel like because I took the time and went into the roots, at first it was confusing, because I had to unlearn some things that I thought I knew but actually didn't, but by the time I came out of it, everything that I came in with was reconfigured and filled out in this amazing way. Now I will tell you that I think that there's room for a lot of different people to take this course. Some of the people who this course is are going to be best for will be people who want to practice professionally. But also many people take our courses just because this is a spiritual practice and a lifestyle for you. If you are someone who's been casually interested in astrology, and it plays a role in your life, week by week and month by month, imagine if you just took some time. If you like, casually liked Spanish, but you took some time to spend three months in like, a Spanish speaking city and really immerse yourself in it. Your love of the Spanish language for the rest of your life has been blessed by an experience that will deepen your connection to that language you love in a way that nothing else can. This program is designed to give you that kind of experience so that for the rest of your life, even if this is just your hobby or your spiritual practice, you're going to be at a completely different level of being able to utilize this language in your daily life. That's the intention behind the program. We have four years worth of programs that you can go through. We have yearly master classes you can go through, monthly webinars.

At my core, more than a content creator, and you all see me struggle with this live in content creation at times, especially fucking horoscopes.

I'm more of an astrological educator, really than I am a content creator. And so the people who like my content tend to be people who like learning about astrology, because most of the way that I talk about transits, week by week is the same way that I teach. So anyway, all of that is just to say you got a week left to register. And I want to tell you about one more thing that may make this more feasible for you, which is our need based tuition. So when you're over on the website, at Nightlight astrology.com, at the bottom of the page, you'll find the enrollment options are there. The early bird sale has ended, but if that has pushed you out of eligibility because you needed that sale, please don't hesitate to take advantage of the need based tuition at the end of the day. The reason that we're able to offer our programs with people, some people paying 30, $40 a month, $50 a month, all the way up to people paying full price at, you know, $1,300 for the program, or whatever, that we.

Have that range is because good people out there say, if I have the money to invest in their asking price, I give it. And then people who are like, I'm strained, I'm stressed financially. I need a little help, but I really care about astrology. Take advantage of the need based tuition and the trust we have placed in everyone to not take advantage of that has worked in our favor as a business and as a school for many years now, I believe in it very deeply. This is also why we run an annual Kickstarter to support the channel and to support the school and being able to do all of this, so that model is there for you. So if you're like, hey, I could. I'd love to do this, but I can only afford 40 bucks a month, or $30 a month. We have some people who are really hurting, who are at $20 a month. That's fine that take advantage of it, because this, the community around this school, for 16 years now, has supported us in a way that every year, makes it possible for that person who's hurting that can only spend $20 a month on one of the best, in my opinion, best programs in the world to do so. So again, it's there for you. Please take advantage of it. All right. Now, on that note, I'm thank you for letting me promote the course. I will say, you know, sometimes you know, I on YouTube, I'll see people grumbling about the advertising that we do on the channel.

And I'll say, first and foremost, when it comes to YouTube's advertising, which I don't control, that I get, and for that reason, myself, I buy the the premium subscription, so I don't have to watch YouTube's advertisements while I'm watching my podcast that I enjoy watching.

But when it comes to the people out there who seem to think that not only are you entitled to completely free content on the channel year round, five days a week, seven days a week, now, with bonus content we're doing, but that the content creator shouldn't also use their own platform that they've built through their own ability to say, here are the products I'm selling through my business that helped me sustain my livelihood. I think that's ludicrous for I think it's rude and ignorant, because at the end of the day, I'm a professional. This is my company. This is my business. This is how I earn a living. This is how I put my this is how I'm saving up money to put my girls through school, you know. So I just want to say thank you to everyone who every day you just if you don't feel like hearing my intro promo, you just fast forward through it. You know, I appreciate people every day who take a moment to listen and sign up for one of my webinars, or come out and take one of my classes, or at the end of the year, throw in a donation, pick up a reward and support the channel. Creators have every right to advertise things that they sell through their content. Right? If you're an astrologer, you have a right to create content, and you have a right to sell your products through your content. And people who say otherwise, in my mind, should go elsewhere, because you're, you're you're taking advantage of something. You're taking advantage of someone. Now, in in my mind, one of the best things I think about the Nightlight channel is that you don't have any paywalls. You don't have any subscription content like that. Are classes you can sign up for if you want to, but the basic content, seven days a week, is entirely free. And aside from having to deal with the YouTube subscriptions, you just have to sit through me telling you what I'm up to, how I'm trying to sustain myself. And if you're interested, participate, and if you're not just taking the content for free, it's a pretty good deal, if you ask me. And so I again, just thank you to everyone who supports Nightlight and who supports myself, my family, our staff, our Kickstarter begins on the 17th of November, coming up in just a few like, I guess, like 10 days from right now, when that Kickstarter begins, there will be a daily call to donate and support the channel at whatever level you can, and a ton of really nice reward gifts that we give in exchange. It essentially becomes like a sale for a lot of our content and products in exchange for support of the channel, which in turn helps me support, at this point now, a dozen staff members who are behind the school so that I can teach and have the time to create meaningful content every day I come in here, every day you can't see it right now, actually, I'll show you look at that. Look at that trashed room of books, that room of books I sit in on the floor, gathering my thoughts, gathering my insights, writing my notes, writing out a talk every day, and then producing it, and then a social media manager who may have to do some editing, who curates it, who puts it out through all of our networks. So we're able to do this.

Every day, because people like you guys say, hey, you know this, this is a content creator. I'm getting year round. I'm getting free content, and so I'm going to let them promote their things, and if I can, I'll support them. And I just want to say how much I appreciate because 99% of you are very gracious and generous in letting us just do our thing. So we really appreciate you guys. All right. Anyway. On that note, Let us now turn our attention to Q and A if you have questions for me about astrology, if you have questions for me as a person, as a human, you want to get to know better as a content creator, or anything about ancient astrology, or our courses, or the astrology in the sky right now, or Venus Pluto, whatever's on your mind. Let's take a little bit of time for Q and A before we close for the day.

Debbie says, I watch you every day. I'm so grateful. Thank you. Yeah, I'm so glad that I can be a part. It's crazy. When I go to conferences, people will be like, you're a part of my every day. And I'm like, that's crazy because I'm talking into a talking into a camera, and a lot of the times, I just sort of forget that there's all these people that you know this show plays a meaningful part of your life that that make that just means so much to me. Thank you.

Let's see here.

Could you share what your top YouTube channels are that you personally enjoy watching? Well, you know what the thing is, is that I'm, I'm, unfortunately, very shallow. I do, I do not watch any astrology content whatsoever. I my, my podcasts are purple daily, which is a Vikings, Minnesota Vikings football podcast, flagrant howls, which is a Minnesota Timberwolves podcast, the Dana more NBA podcast, which is about the Timberwolves. So like most of my most of my content is Minnesota sports, because that's a huge hobby for me, outside of work life.

I really like the Huberman lab. I really like the way of presenting kind of holistic health and medicine and research. I just really like the kinds of conversations that happen on the Huberman lab. They're very interesting to me. Once in a while, depending on the guest. I like the Joe Rogan podcast, for example, like if Graham, if Graham Hancock is on and we're talking about Ancient Aliens. But recently, I really enjoyed a Bernie Sanders interview that was done on Joe Rogan. So it depends on the guests with Joe Rogan, but sometimes I like his podcast, for sure. It depends, though, because some of them I find obnoxious. So anyway, my wife listens to a podcast called we can do hard things, and I like to listen in with her on that podcast sometimes, which I find, yeah, fun. Yeah. That's a fun that's that's a fun question. Thanks.

What do you think makes for good content creator style astrologer. I get serious imposter syndrome in viewing great astrologers, yet I also see so many different styles and personalities too.

Well, I don't know, because I'll be honest, I am not attracted to like 99% of astrological content creation out there. And I don't, I don't mean to say that from a place of judgment. It's not a judgment. It's not like I sit there being like, Oh, those people suck or something.

The teachers that I've had, Jeffrey Cornelius, being a major influence in my life, Robert Schmidt being a major influence in my life, I would say someone like Richard Tarnas Being a major influence, Liz green, James Hillman, these people have such gravitas, they're so deep, they're so smart, they're so thoughtful, and they have really, really deeply developed personal and spiritual practices, practices of reading, practices of listening.

And so for me, I just, I find that it's hard to match the people that I've found that have meant the most to me so far. So because of that, I am sometimes just kind of like impatient and uninterested in a lot of what I like, like a lot of what's out there. Excuse me, I don't think I'm better than any of it. It's not that. It's just like, I don't know it's, it's, it's hard, yeah, it's like, it's like, if you read, if you read like a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and you read a few more, it's hard to go back to like Pulp Fiction. Do you know what I mean? Like in there's value in Pulp Fiction, there's value in comic books, there's value in fucking Garfield. I don't care, you know, but I've just like, I don't know. I can't listen to, like, most astrology. I just find that it doesn't make me think about anything in an interesting way. And so I can't watch.

It.

But that's also unique to being an astrological content creator myself. I also I don't like other astrologers, voices being in my head. I'd prefer to talk to the I Ching, you know, I'd prefer to hear someone really interesting speaking in a language that's not astrology. To help me learn and grow as an astrologer at this point.

This doesn't sound too arrogant, I know it probably kind of does, but it's also just, it's just the truth for me,

I watch and listen every weekday before work, while I drink my coffee. I love that. So most mornings, while I'm prepping whatever I'm doing for the day, I'm drinking my coffee, so I'm we can, we can share that question or that practice. I mean,

thank you. This is a nice thank you that someone put in joining Nightlight has been best decision I've made in years. Adam talents and how he teaches and shares are the gifts that keep on giving. Thank you for that. I honestly, I just am trying to emulate some amazing teachers that I've had that just really, really inspired me.

Yes to Graham Hancock, yeah, right, and Glenn and Doyle. Yeah, totally. I.

I am not someone who will turn on. We can do hard things by myself, but when my wife's listening to it, I like to listen in. Do you still partake in plant medicine for spiritual growth and psychedelic experiences?

I maybe once a year, will go through like three to four weeks of microdosing, psilocybin.

When I'm at the Grateful Dead shows the dead and company shows with my wife, I'll typically have like, a very small amount of THC, like a, like a five milligram gummy before the show, I'm such a lightweight. After 100 ceremonies of ayahuasca, I'm telling you, like, if I have like, two and a half milligrams of THC, I'm flying through other dimensions.

I'm very sensitive, and that is due to many, many years of, like, very serious psychedelic work. So I have to be very careful, because I'm very sensitive and I really can't participate in anything psychedelic that's recreational.

The nice thing about a concert, like dead and company, or Grateful Dead, or like being at the sphere and taking a gummy before the show, is that the show becomes a kind of ritual container, and it's very meaningful, like spiritually inspired music. So I find that to be like the one manageable scenario that I've been able to deal with, but otherwise I'm very much on a path of sobriety and have not been regularly participating in Ayahuasca ceremonies since 2014

Troy says, What is the most challenging aspect in your own chart that keeps you humble?

Hmm, Saturn and Jupiter in the sixth, house square to my moon in the ninth.

Those Jupiter and Saturn are in Libra, exactly conjoined in my sixth squaring my moon in the ninth.

And so they keep me serious, but they also they keep me like serious and discipline those planets, with the with the work, you know, the spiritual work, the work of my career, the work of self care and growth, but any inflation or hubris, they treat pretty immediately, like I feel like I have really strong like instant karma in this lifetime around getting too big for my britches. I've had some, some pretty embarrassing like karmic checks, and I would attribute it to that square.

What about Tao? I think you'd love Nicholas Ashbaugh on YouTube, a similar energy as you does lots of live streams shares a lot of similar values as you definitely recommend it. Oh, that's cool. I yeah, I'll have to check it out. I, you know what I'm thinking of. There is a channel I just started watching that I think a lot of you would like, which is so I found this new translation of the I Ching by benefel Wen.

This is brilliant. This is I have read at least a dozen translations of the I Ching. I've been personally like I can name every single hexagram in the I Ching by heart, like the I Ching is a really good friend in my life. I.

And I've read a lot of translations, and there is something very special about this person.

She is luminous.

I so admire her. And she has a YouTube channel where she talks in a lot of different videos. Benefel Wen does about Taoism, Taoist philosophy, the I Ching in ways that tap into some of the shamanic origins of the I Ching too, and some of the matriarchal origins she's she is a great listen. I would highly if you like, if you like Taoism, the I Ching. If that speaks to you, then check out benefel Wen's YouTube. There's one for you.

I'm on the treadmill listening to her talks on Taoist philosophy regularly lately.

Thank you so much for your work.

If you still have time, can you talk about your beauty routine?

The glow up? Well, thank you. First of all, the there are like, four most important things, water or hydration, sleep, nutrition and working out.

Um, now I'm someone who is like, I get really obsessed and really, like, really, really deep into whatever I do. You know, I don't just meditate for 10 minutes. It has to be join a join a religious order, become a monk, and do it for two to three hours a day, like I'm just, I'm crazy. So, so that's me.

So I don't, I don't know that my routine is so practical from that standpoint, like I work out, you know, I I'm on year four of working out five days a week, and aside from a brief surgery I had, I haven't missed any days.

So there's some, some of the routine that I have is is, like, very, very regimented, and more more so than I think, like most people need.

So if I would give advice, I'd be like, work out like, I would say resistance training is one way of doing it, but cardio resistance training, yoga, like flexibility and pliability, like whatever elements of your routine, move your body, move your blood, move your muscles, you know, move your breath. Do it three or four times a week, if you can.

If you do that and you hydrate properly, you don't put too much caffeine, soda, crap into your system, you get, you have a sleep pattern, a sleep rhythm.

If you do those things and you eat like healthy, like healthy food, you know, like real food, not processed, just like good, like moderate portions of healthy whole food, like vegetables, proteins, carbs, fats, all healthy, you know, like, my lunch is a little avocado, a little brown rice, a little chicken, a little asparagus. Like, that's just a simple example, but it's just like a simple balanced meal that makes you feel like you're you could be eating the same things 2000 years ago.

That's the way that my nutritionist has explained it to me. Anyway, if you eat that way, if you live that way, if you drink food, drink water, that way, and if you move your body that way, you're going to look and feel much better than you feel probably,

I believe that very deeply, because I've seen it to be true in my own life. So that's, that's the only authority I have to speak on that.

There's some other things. Like, for example, I have a very small amount of filtering that I do on my YouTube videos. It's very small, like, I don't like it over the top, so, like, my skin, the way you guys see it is probably a little clearer than it like, normally is, but it's not like, I don't use, like, any extreme filters.

I do skin pens. So I don't know if you know what a Skin Pen is, but it's basically like a superficial removal of it's like, removes a superficial external layer of skin. Your face looks kind of red. Sometimes you guys might even notice it on camera. I look a little red. That's usually because every other month, I think it is, I have a Skin Pen treatment, and then I have regular Hydrafacials. Hydrafacials are really nice. They just like, it's like a water hose, clean, clean your face. So and then, you know, I have, like, a skincare regimen that I use at night, all of which my wife taught me. I didn't have any of those things, and I started getting self conscious about my aging.

My face, and so those were the the things that I brought in to help sometimes i There have been a few times over four years now where I've used a touch of something called daxify, sort of like Botox around the corners of my eyes and a little bit on my forehead, just a little, just like a very light treatment of daxify, which helps with, like, the wrinkles around the corners of eyes and for me on my forehead. So it's not enough for like, if I lift my if I had some a couple months ago, if I lift my forehead right now you're not seeing as many wrinkles, and then in like a month or two, you'll see more of them, and then they'll disappear again. That's a little bit of daxify. So if there's any estheticians out there who know what that is, but I very specifically only get that treatment around certain areas that I feel self conscious about and then I asked for a very, very light dose. So behind the scenes, I don't think, I don't have any shame about those things, so I'm very open to sharing them with people. I think that esthetics is an art, and it's very unique. Some people feel, I mean, I don't think you should ever do those kinds of things because you're you're trying to hide from who you are, or you're trying to, you know, it's like an unhealthy way of dealing with like shame or self loathing or something like that.

But as a Taoist, rising with Uranus, progressing through my first house, I've become much more open minded about the body as a piece of art that you can shape, and I've done that very actively through a lot of committed work and care and finding out what that means to me and what feels good to me. The other thing that I would say is one thing that I have gotten also into, thanks to the Huberman lab, are peptides. So another part of my self care regimen, well, most of you know because I've mentioned this before, that several years ago, I started therapeutic TRT, so I started taking therapeutic testosterone, like three and a half years ago, three years ago, something like that, that has helped tremendously. I had near the bottom of the testosterone levels, like it goes like three to 900 for example, mine was just over 300 so now my testosterone is closer to 900 like it's closer to, like, the top end of the healthy range. I feel it's night and day. How much better I feel energetically, physically, everything. So that made a huge difference in my life. Interestingly, the day that I started taking TRT, my client that day was transitioning and starting TRT themselves, and I thought it was like such it was such an interesting little synchronicity. Of course, I didn't say anything to my client that day, but I always thought that was fascinating.

But the peptides are fascinating too. There's two peptides that I would highly recommend people looking into with a doctor at a clinic, if it feels right to you, but one is called BPC 157 and that peptide I've used for to help with reflux.

Amazing. It is like, that is, like, an amazing peptide that has completely changed my gut health. I think that peptide is amazing. And I've taken it in a few I don't take it consistently. I used it for about three months initially, and it just like healed my gut in some pretty profound ways. And then I started taking BPC 157 occasionally, as sore joints would come up in training. And it's also really good for healing, like inflammation around joints, ligaments, tendons, for people who lift. So I huberman's talked about it on his podcast a number of times.

So that that, to me, was pretty revolutionary. And the other one is called TB 500 and it's often mixed with BPC 157 for inflammation and joint health. And for me, as someone who lifts all the time, anytime I get into a stretch where I'm like, Ooh, my shoulders not starting to feel good.

Maybe three or four times over the course of the last four years, I've done like, a month of TB 500 and BPC 157 and those peptides, I think that those things are very Uranus and Taoist to me over the past seven years, those are like, good examples of like all this cutting edge research into health and biological medicine and advancements and stuff like that, and anti aging technologies and and so forth. So anyway, I've always been someone, whether it's psychedelics or I'm just very open minded about Trine.

Ching things and not getting lost in technologies, like letting them have their use or learning from them, but then also, like knowing when to hang up the phone, you know. So, like, I know for a fact that there will come probably a time in life where I just go, like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, like, lift weights four days a week or five days a week, you know. Like, it'll just, it'll just be a time where that season's over. And so, yeah, okay. Anyway, that was a fun that was a fun question.

Yesterday I had an orgasm in my dreams. Taoist rising. Well, congrats. That sounds like a great accomplishment, and feels very Venus Pluto too, right?

Let's see.

I think somebody can be too old to take ayahuasca, yeah. I mean, there's, I met some people in their 80s. I don't know about 90s. I know for sure, 80s that I encountered participating in Ayahuasca ceremonies through the Santo Daime.

And to certainly, like people in the Amazon, take it. Can take it till they're pretty old, but I think you have to be I mean, there's certainly, like a threshold and some level of care concern in aging.

Thank you, Adam. I appreciate your content and honesty. Yeah, I just don't feel like I have anything to hide. I mean, it's not all of this stuff. Is stuff that I would naturally just tell people about, because who cares. But if people are asking me, I also don't feel like I have anything to hide.

Okay, here's a good one.

Do you put any weight to an outer planet that is the same degree as the ascendant, or shares a house sign? But isn't that close in degree?

Well, I would put a great amount of weight on a planet on the same degree as the ascendant, especially well, any planet, really, but an outer planet, of course, has a very big impact when it's on the ascendant. One way of reading a planet on the Ascendant is that this planet in this lifetime, is going to play a really strong role in this native psychology, their character, the evolution or development of their identity, will be related to this planet in one way or another. For example, Pluto on the ascendant will frequently show up in the lives of people who, at some point have to completely recreate their identity in a way that is very dramatic compared to like, you know, what a lot of people ever experience. So that kind of complete destruction and regeneration of your identity is, is a part of Pluto on the ascendant, sort of speaking to what will happen around character.

Yeah.

Are you a perfectionist?

Yeah, some a little bit of that in me. Like, there's, I like to complete things. My wife and I were just talking about this. Like, I like to if I set out to do something I don't like to not finish it. Like I'm the kind of person who will finish a book I'm reading even if I don't like it, just because I want to say I finished it, I don't know. So I'm not really I wouldn't say I'm a perfectionist, though I don't have that sense of everything needing to be just so I'm pretty flexible. I would say I'm more, like, determined, and I'm very mission driven. Like, I like to accomplish things, but I don't really care if they're perfect or not.

For example, this is a funny example, but like with the Kickstarter, every year, I care more about meeting the backer total than I care where exactly we land financially. Like I always there's a range that I want us to land in financially, but I actually end up getting more motivated by wanting to generate more backer success than the year before. And I feel like that's kind of the that's like the dog who won't let go of the stick or something. You know, it's just like, that's part of me. So, yeah, do you have a sweet tooth?

Nope. I hmm,

I signed up for the Oracle within retreat.

So looking forward to being there. Yeah, me too. We still have 20 spots left on the retreat. Sign up. Come, come, come study with us in Mexico. We're going to have so much fun. You won't believe it. I can tell you this. I'll give you one hint when you walk into that retreat. One of the first things that we are going to do is you are all going to Sarah, we're going to have a ceremonial, ritualistic you're going to have a paper copy of your birth chart that you burn when you walk in the door. And I'm not.

Going to tell you why you're going to burn your birth chart. That's one of the first things that we're going to do, and it's going to be a really amazing experience that challenges us to go beyond conventional thinking about astrology. It's about understanding astrology as an Oracle, an oracular, divinatory art form, not a science. We're going to start by burning our birth charts.

Ooh, that's provocative.

Okay, yeah, I am absolutely not giving anyone medical advice about what to take or not take, like with the BP set BPC 157 or the TB 500 you have to talk to your doc, like that. I had it prescribed so you know, like you have to talk to someone about it.

Violeta, Alexis Tao says, Hey, Adam, hey,

Mercury is on my ascendant in my first house, the Gemini and Jupiter. That's a great time to learn, to ask questions, to communicate something love that. Can you share a bit about your meditation practice and what did Uranus bring transiting through your 12th house?

Yeah, there were the 12th house Uranus transit for me, which was Aries, was marked by a lot of nothing, right? Like, more days than not. I couldn't have even told you that I had any awareness of Uranus in my 12th house. But then under certain transits, when Uranus would touch other things in the chart, these very powerful eruptions of deeply unconscious material, I would call a lot of that my own shadow material, would come forth in ways that were very sudden, kind of destructive at times, And like whoa. And then those moments would really catalyze some greater healing and awareness and change in me.

That's that was, that was the it was like, it might be like most of a year. I didn't even notice Uranus was in my 12th house, but then it hit something, and boom, crazy shit would happen, you know, and that stuff that happened was very Uranian in that, like, sudden, unexpected, dramatic and reflective of, well, I most of the time it was me, like, I caused this stuff to happen, and now I need to look at it, you know.

So not a perfectionist, just ambitious and growth oriented, yeah, and maybe to a fault, like I said, like, I think I might have a hard time slowing down. Retirement might be difficult for me. Like, I wouldn't be surprised. I talked to my therapist about that a lot, like, when I finally hang it up and don't produce things five days a week I'm not teaching. I could see that being, like, really hard for me. So I'm trying to think about that now, and slowly, you know, slowly evolve and change a little bit. But I also trust that, like that part of me is is here for the right some of the right reasons in this season of life, too. So it's like an interesting thing to balance. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. There are parts of all of you that, like, serve many wonderful purposes. And you also know you're gonna have to, you're gonna have to put those horses in the stable as life goes on at some point, you know,

I work on Saturdays, but I want to be live in class. Well, the recordings are there for you, but if for any reason you you know, you can get a day off here or there, come join us. And then, if you can't just watch the replays and use that discussion forum, you could immediately, whenever you watch the classes on your own time, write down your list of questions as you're watching the replay, just submit them into the discussion forum. Our staff will help you out with anything you're processing, you know, within a day.

So there's, there's ways to stay engaged.

How do I deal with the emotional intensity of someone's Mars Moon conjunct my ascendant? Besides avoiding them at all costs, feels like psychic attack. Well, if anytime, I mean, through the astrology, who cares, right? Just put that aside like I get it. That's, that's how you're mapping this person's intensity onto your psyche. And I get that that's fine, but don't think about the astrology. Just think very practically, like there's someone in my life who's really mean and makes me feel attacked. Well, why wouldn't you avoid them? Then, you know, sounds like you should avoid them, right? Like, just be super common sense about it, unless there's some reason you can't avoid them, in which case, then, you know, that's the kind of thing that I think even temporarily, temporarily getting the help of a coach or an energy healer or maybe a therapist that can give you some strategies, right? They can say, look, anytime this person's around, they're emotionally abusive. I have to be around them for these.

Reasons. Okay, well, we need some strategies, either that, or if it's like, well, they're abusive when I'm around them, I don't think there's anything wrong with avoiding them. Just Just my two cents,

coming from a background of Christianity, what if any does Jesus play in your life as a spiritual archetype now?

Well, I would put the Christ consciousness, or like the person or figure of Jesus, archetypally, right alongside of the Buddha the Bodhisattvas.