Aquarian Times

This episode is about another major Astrological event happening on April 20th: the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in Taurus. The last time this happened in the sign of Taurus was in 1941.

These planets will come together every 12-14 years. The last time they met up was in Pisces in 2010. The meeting of transpersonal planets is always a big deal (uh, remember 2020?) They always signify collective themes and experiences.

I hope this episode gets you prepared and thinking about how to handle these experiences so that you can have agency during any potentially overwhelming event.

April 8th brings the North Node Eclipse in Aries. This is a powerful one! Not only will it be fully visible in North America, it will also be exactly conjoining Chiron, the wounded healer planet at the exalted degree of the Sun (19 degrees) in Aries, where the Sun is already exalted (most powerful).

On this episode I talk about what this all means for us and our evolution. It's a very powerful month, seeding themes of Self and healing, as well as how we can review our communications as Mercury is retrograde April 1-25.

We are in eclipse season! This episode gives you some info about what to expect. Mercury will be retrograde as well (April 1-25), so it's going to be a bumpy ride!

All this to say, you are now prepared. Use the astrology as a rudder. Work with the transits and the changes. You can win when you know and can plan ahead.

Take good care of yourself as we go into this season!

Sometimes life gets hectic and we start to shut down. This is our body telling us we have too much going on and we need to rest and self protect. Often we can try to push through, thinking that we have to work harder, or "what will people think" if I can't keep up, etc.

Actually, your most important job is to take care of yourself!

When going into shut down do these three things:

1. Do not be hard on yourself.

2. Practice Self care and eliminate extra obligations

3. Adopt the world view that "things can wait" and remember to not attach so strongly to the world you have created. You can change your circumstances by changing our mind and your values.

Many people don't think it's an option not to settle. We are taught to compromise, be grateful for what you have, play it safe, etc. This causes a lot of people to settle for things they don't actually want, or things that don't make them happy.

What? Happiness? What a luxury! We are here to work and survive.

I say NO.

We are here to feel fulfilled, to thrive, to deeply enjoy our life and benefit others by living in joy. Deep cultural conditioning asks us to sacrifice. Please, do not settle for someone else defining your life.

This short episode is a reminder that you can have what you want, you just have to know what it is, and believe it, and know you are worth it.

I am talking about something that I have been struggling with: taking risks. The world has gotten a lot more divided, lonelier, and screen driven. It's easy to hide and avoid and not get out there. I never thought I'd have to say this, but I know I need to take more risks, and maybe so do you!

I talk about all the real reasons why taking risks might be hard to do. The context of these times, specifically making it difficult and not so safe sometimes to meet new people.

If you are needing to stretch and grow, taking risks is the only way. Our comfort zone can become a rut if we aren't careful.

I hope this episode helps you to consider going out there and having some new experiences!

It's over a month away, but eclipse season is fast approaching. We have a Lunar Eclipse in Libra March 25, and a Solar Eclipse in Aries April 8th.

Eclipses bring endings and beginnings often coupled with sudden and swift changes. The idea? To shake everything out of our lives that is not in alignment, to bump us back onto our highest path even if that means things crumbling to the ground.

Relationships, jobs, locations, that are not aligned with us will come into question. The Aries/Libra axis is about heading toward our self fulfillment (Aries at the North Node) and releasing partnerships and contracts that our not serving us (Libra South Node).

This means getting very clear and what's for you, and what is not meant for you.

I'm airing this now to help you get out ahead of the curve and start to ask the deeper questions about your life:

*Is this relationship in alignment?

*Is my job in alignment?

*Am I living in the right location?

Our soul needs us to be making choices that make our heart sing. It's time to get aligned so you can stay on track.

This month, Pluto takes center stage. With conjunctions to Mercury (Feb 5), Mars (Feb 13) and Venus (Feb 17), there's a lot of transformation going on!

When planets conjoin, their energies blend and merge. Pluto joining with any planet takes the energy of that planet down...down...down into an underworld journey. Pluto transforms, stokes up survival issues, and brings us into a deeper relationship with life and ourselves.

Mars and Venus will also conjoin on February 21. It's a conjoining kind of month! Be prepared for big transformations to be ignited in your life.

February 9th we enter the year of the Wood Dragon on the new moon in Aquarius. This will also kick us off into the mystical Dragon year.

Hi! Today I wanted to offer an expansion of your understanding of the applications of Astrology.

Many people think of Astrology like a personality test, and that is one micro use of the zodiac and planetary archetypes.

But, Astrology also has macro uses: like the study of timing, which is a universal experience.

Astrology is used to understand the timing of events, such as the global pandemic of 2020.

When we understand that Astrology has these universal uses, and that it governs the cosmos, not just our own psyche, we can feel and know the validity of this vast and comprehensive science, and have faith and trust in its movement and the accuracy of how it measures not only time, but space, place and circumstance.

Pluto will move into Aquarius with the sun on January 20th, 2024. This is a major shifting of the guards.

Pluto will retrograde back into Capricorn Sept 1-Nov 19, 2024, and then will resume in Aquarius for a twenty year stay.

This is major!

I talk about what Pluto represents, and how this will affect our nervous systems.

Listen in to learn more about how to prepare for this shift, and what it could mean for you.

As I am not feeling 100%, I am offering a short practice to wrap up 2023 and turn our gaze toward what we desire for 2024.

This week I go over some of Mercury's movements as it retrogrades from Capricorn back into Sagittarius.

Here is the play by play:

Duration:

December 12- January 1, 2024

Location: in Capricorn until December 22, when it goes backward into Sagittarius (it will re-enter Capricorn January 13)

Highlights:

Dec 18th Mercury trines Jupiter: Get your message out there!

Dec 21st Mercury sextiles Saturn: Apply yourself with discipline

Dec 22nd Mercury meets the Sun (cazimi!) and goes into Sagittarius: Speak your truth & Shine

Dec 26 Mercury squares Neptune: Apply caution and practice boundaries

Dec 27 Mercury conjoins Mars: Spice? Conflict? Practice Kindness and repair

Jan 1 Mercury goes direct!

(Don’t forget that Mercury is still in a “retroshade” for a few weeks after the retrograde period...)

Happy Sailing!

When following astrological transits, we can confirm that everything happens in Divine Timing. It is easy to have regrets, second guess and over think events. But what if we just let go of all that energy and trusted that things are happening exactly as they should.

This frees us up, and helps us know a greater hand is at play.

I hope this short message arrives in divine timing for you :)

In Astrology and Ayurveda we have tools to better understand our nature. Both of these systems work elementally. We can understand our constitution, our elemental make-up.

This helps us know ourselves as we aspire to grow and change, but also to accept the parts of us that do not change.

This episode is about exploring the difference between changing and accepting ourselves. Both are helpful.

I hope you find this information useful!

This episode blends two concepts together:

"letting go" and taking back agency over our life.

I am calling it "set yourself free", and yes, we all need to do this as we head into the new year!

Our ability to enjoy our life is equal to our ability to release the ideas and beliefs that may actually hold us hostage. What we think we know may not really be useful for us at all.

Learning to steer our own ship, think independently, and release outdated perceptions can really change our lives.

I hope this episode was helpful!

This week I recorded two versions of the podcast. This is the first, and longer version, that I decided was too long and a bit of a downer, so I re-recorded a more compact episode instead.

But today, I decided to release this episode too, in case you want to get in deeper in the dynamics of these aspects.

Listen to one or both, to help you unpack your holiday experiences this week!

Thanks again for listening and I do hope this was helpful!

This week includes some challenging astrology:

The sun will square Saturn on Thanksgiving, and Mars will follow suit on the 25th.

This indicates some challenges with authority in our lives. No surprise, as this time of year can be rife with family drama!

I offer three tools to get through the week without a hitch.

This episode explores the challenge many people face in just being themselves. Why is this so hard? I break down some reasons why we have difficulty being ourselves, and what to do about it.

Sometimes, unless you have given it much thought, all of this can be very elusive.

It's a very full moment in the year. Coming off eclipse season, witnessing Israel, and now celebrating the cross-quarter holidays of Halloween, Day of the Dead and All souls day. It's so full I don't want to add anything!

So, let's just check in.

How are you?

How is your body?

How is your spirit? Your mind?

What do you need?

How do you feel?

Are you on track with your goals and dreams?

It's a good time to sit, journal, take time in nature, and feed yourself well.

During eclipse season we are advised to press pause. The reason being, is that a lot of energy is shifting and we don't know how things will get shaken up. It's a good time to hunker down and let things unfold.

This weekend we have our second eclipse, a Lunar eclipse in Taurus on October 28th. This eclipse features the planets Jupiter, the Moon and Uranus opposing Mercury, Mars and the Sun.

Something needs to be said, in a firm and direct way. It needs to be exacting, sudden and will feel amplified given the energy of these planets.

Just know that this is by design, and trust that whatever is happening is for the best. If you find that you are needing to speak a truth, this may happen even beyond your plan or control. But this is something that needs to happen.

As you move forward, try to ease back on "figuring everything out". Press pause on that part of the action, rest, take care of yourself and see what comes to you.

This week I want to honor what is going on in the world, specifically in Israel. It is a tender time and many people are feeling greatly affected by the violence that is rippling into all of our lives. It is devastating and horrific, so I want to hold space for those feelings to arise.

My message this week is just about being enough. We are so driven to excel and succeed. We are rarely honored for exactly who and where we are. Today just take a moment to remember that being you is enough.

I get a little emotional on the episode today, and I hope this gives you permission to do the same.

This week I am offering a crash course on the nervous system. This information is vital to understand how to navigate our own systems when they become dysregulated, either by current situations, or something from the past.

In the episode I also correlate the five response states to the doshas in Ayurveda:

Vata: Air/Ether, & Pitta: Fire/Water correlate to the sympathetic response, and

Kapha: Earth/Water correlates to the freeze and dorsal responses.

Understanding our system elementally helps ground us into all of this as a nature-based and natural response to life.

In the episode, I offer tools to help regulate in each state, including the tool of tapping (EFT).

This episode prepares us for the upcoming eclipse season in October.

We have a south node solar eclipse in Libra October 14th, and a north node lunar eclipse in Taurus October 28.

In this podcast I talk about the themes around these eclipses that will be affecting us for this nodal cycle of the next 18 months.

I hope this gives you some help in Navigating through this month ahead!

Even if you don't know them by name, we all participate in projections. A projection is simply a lens with which to view something.

All of our lenses have been colored by something: experiences, opinions, ancestral lines, wounds, triumphs. But sadly these projections are not always accurate and can get us and other people into trouble.

This episode names the process of projection, discusses ways to work with it once we become aware, and encourages us to use our power of awareness to create more positive experiences through presence + love.

This is a delicate subject, but one that needs to be called out and examined. Projections are truly the elephant in every room!

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Hi There!

Thanks for coming back to the podcast! I have a new intro for you this week. I hope you like it :)

This week I am talking about the importance of finding balance in our lives. It really is something we have agency over. It is something we can drastically impact with our choices and awareness if we choose, to find a more balanced, peaceful, functional, sane, healthy life. If you are after any of these things, seeking a state of balance is a great place to start!

I talk about the Ayurvedic doshas (Vata: air/ether, Pitta: fire/water, Kapha: earth/water), as well as gunas, or qualities that we can use to detect our state of balance.

Using: Hot/Cold, Wet/Dry, Fast/Slow you can self-diagnose your tendency for imbalance, and begin to remedy these areas of your life.

It is not rocket science, and tons of solutions are available for you!

In this episode I talk about how to protect your peace: Your inner peace, your sense of calm, stability and tranquility. In world rapidly changing, where new developments are creating challenges to finding a sense of peace, we still must persevere to find this inner calm.

It is certainly not always easy, but I talk about the importance of doing this, as well as steps you can take to make it easier.

I hope this episode provides some useful tips and information!

!! Big Announcement !!

This week I have an astro report, followed by an episode about working on yourself, not your life.

What does this mean?

Our life is an amorphous, transient, ever-changing thing. But OURSELF is our permanent residence in this life.

Instead of focusing on things we can't control and are always changing, let's turn the focus back to building a stronger, happier, more aware and resilient YOU.

How to work on yourself in six easy steps:

1) Practice somatic awareness: Notice how your body feels and what it needs

2) Become aware of Pattern Recognition: What recurring themes are you experiencing and why?

3) Learn to track your MOOD by understand the six basic emotions: anger, sadness, fear, joy, disgust & surprise

4) Track your mental activity: The pace, as well as the content

5) Check if you are able to RESPOND rather than REACT in situations and circumstances

6) What is your RECOVERY TIME when you have a set back? And what is your recovery process?

When we are more interested in building a stronger self, we get less thrown off by the details of our life, and indeed we can create a better life from a stronger self.

This episode is about what's happening in our lives when we "hit a wall".

Often times it has to do with our level of honesty with ourselves, as well as how authentically we present ourselves to the world.

We came here to be our unique blueprint, but throughout our lives we can dumb ourselves down, conform, contort, mask and hide.

This episode is my exploration of seeing where I had begun to do this in my life, how and why it happened, and my process of witnessing a layer of this dissolve.

Our whole journey is about reclaiming and coming home to who we are. It is only then that our lives will feel in sync with who we really are, and we can experience true fulfillment.

Our planet, our people, are in dire need of healing. I am feeling it really strong right now, the pressure on this heightened Solstice day.

We need to wake up and start to treat each other better. We need to communicate and work together.

I hope you use this message as a sign to take some action. We are all needed to show up more for ourselves, each other and this planet.

And we are needed now.

Acceptance is often the last stop on a long journey of struggling to change, improve, up-level, and heal ourselves. What if instead of insisting things be different, we tried to radically accept ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, even our planetary conditions. Acceptance does not mean giving up, being futile or being passive. Radical actions are welcome! But, the energy that we use to resist life can be used to restore our own systems to a better version of stasis.

Try it.

Our assignment for the month of June is to radically accept our lives. All of it. With ease. With grace. Without resistance.

This episode will apply to you if you are a:

• people pleaser

• codependent
• over-functioner/over-giver

• workaholic, or
• care too much what other people think

It is time for you to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself:

"What about you??!"

Early in life we may have developed a pattern of taking care of everyone around us either to get our own needs met, or in the absence of our unmet needs.

It became very normal to put everyone else before us, so normal in fact, we forgot we even had needs of our own.

This pattern will lead to burnout, resentment, poor health, lack of boundaries, and lack of attunement with our bodies and our own needs.

It is time to begin to put yourself first, so you can show up in the best way in your life. You deserve to be taken care of too!