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Are you ready for an

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unforgettable, unbelievably chaotic, and dramatic

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week? Me either. Hi, this

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is the Astrology of the

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Week Ahead podcast. I'm your

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Astro Besty, Channing Nicholas, just

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reading the Stars with you,

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and also feeling overwhelmed, and

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also feeling interested in how

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it'll all turn out. I

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don't know, I'm just at

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the point now where I'm

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like, okay, this is the

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ride we're on, this is

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the ship we're in, we

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are here, and every week

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feels like it's going to

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be some new big adventure,

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if you will. This week,

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we have a big, huge,

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chaotic full moon in Leo.

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It's chaotic because it's sitting

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in and exact exact like

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within a degree square to

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Uranus. Uranus is the planet

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of upheaval and change and

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awakenings and truth-telling and it

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really like can spur us

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into action because things get

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jostled around it does feel

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like earthquake. shaking us awake

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type of energy. So there's

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definitely something here that's loud

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because it's a fulmin in

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Leo. And Leo knows how

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to what? get attention. It

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knows how to be cute,

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it knows how to be

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charming, it knows how to

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be alluring, it knows how

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to both project light and

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stand in the best light

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possible. I mean, it's very

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talented. It is a sign

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that will get attention. So

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a full moon in Leo

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is like, hey, let's pay

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attention to something. Now, it's

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a full moon in Leo

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in this exact square to

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Uranus. It feels like a

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moment of like extreme situations

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that are built to last.

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This is happening in fixed

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signs. Fixed signs are sturdy

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and they're confident and they're

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steady in a way. So

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they don't break from, they

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don't change, they don't leave

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the movie early even if

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it's horrendous, they stick it

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out. You know what I

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mean? So there's something that

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is lively and there's something

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that is yes about change,

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but change in a fixed

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type of way, it's gonna

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cause a lot of friction.

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And again, it's gonna be

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loud. Uranus is loud and

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fire signs are loud. So

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the moon, the full moon

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being in Leo, the fire

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sign. right, because it's ruled

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by the sun, which is

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just a big ball of

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fire, and square urinus, the

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planet that is like a

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jackhammer, like it's just really

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loud. And so if like

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the jackhammer earthquakey energy is

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fixed, then it's going to

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like drill down into a

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certain scenario or situation and

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like make a point. So

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Leo is definitely about leaders.

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And it's about our own

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leadership, right? It's about coming

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into our own sense of

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leadership. It's about waking up

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to our own leadership. And

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then on a collective level,

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I'm sure that like every

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day from now until God

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knows when, the leaders of

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the world, the leaders in

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the world will pull some

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pranks and maybe do an

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about face or maybe do

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something that is loud and

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disruptive and disruptive and chaotic.

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But it is also calling

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us all. to be the

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leaders that we need to

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be in our own life,

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because we can sit around

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and have a lot of

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opinion. and complaints about how

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people are leading a nation,

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a city, a company, a

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school, a whatever, then that's

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might be very, yes, like

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on point and great point

4:14

and we do something about

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that. And then it's how

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we lead in our own

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life and lead in our

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own selves and lead in

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each and every moment that

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matters. That's the only place

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we have control and it's

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the only place we have

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power. And that's what Leo

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teaches us, because Leo is

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about leadership. It's about being

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a leader, it's about being

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the one who's, you know,

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shining and pulling focus. So,

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beat by beat, this is

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how the astrology goes. On

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Sunday, just on the 9th

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of February, we had the

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Mercury Sun Kuzimi, which is

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a moment of insight. And

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that Kuzimi is square urinous.

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So on Monday, Mercury makes

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a square to urinous and

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gives us some kind of

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breakthrough or unsettling news or

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some kind of announcement that

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upsets the status quo or

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upsets our plans or changes

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everything. And again. On Tuesday,

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the sun makes that same

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square to Uranus because the

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sun and mercury together and

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they're making the square, but

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it's exact Monday and Tuesday,

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Monday with mercury, Tuesday with

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the sun. And then the

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12th, Wednesday is the full

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moon. So we're just from

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Sunday the ninth through to

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the 12th, we're just in

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this like really electric moment

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where it feels like everything

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is really alive, like there

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is a very... wild windstorm

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of communications, of announcements, of

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breakthroughs, of maybe some truths

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being revealed punctuated by the

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full moon, pulling focus. in

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a very dramatic way. Now,

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the last time we had

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something happen in Leo that

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was really important was Mars

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Stationing Retrograde. Mars Station Retrograde

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on December 6th. And not

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sure if you remember, 7,000

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years ago, which was December

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6th, that's how it feels

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at this point, but... That's

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when Luigi Mangioni entered the

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scene and all of the

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things that transpired with him

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happened. And it was a

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lot of things, obviously. I

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was really kind of like

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wowed by the astrology because

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it was Mars stationing a

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retrograde in Leo. a really

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flashy sign. And Mars is

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a planet that punctuates and

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that punctures and that is

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about violence and is about

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something harsh, right, or challenging,

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or life-threatening. So the situation

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that occurred was what it

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was and also the flurry

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of attention. that he got

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and the kind of like

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mythic nature that his story

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took on and the ways

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in which everyone was very

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enraptured by how beautiful he

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is and how magnetic and

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how dramatic the story was

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and all those things. So

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that was the last thing

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that was really big that

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happened in Leo. This is

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the next thing. Now it's

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not... as big because we

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have a full moon, like

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astrologically speaking, it's not as

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rare, I should say, because

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we have a full moon

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in Leo once a year.

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But that was a big

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thing and this is a

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loud thing, we should say,

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I could say. I'm going

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to say, this is a

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loud event happening in Leo.

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It's not a soft event

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happening in Leo. And of

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course, the moon goes through

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Leo since Mars Station retrograde

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there, but a full moon

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happening there in an exact

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square to Uranus is definitely

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making sure that we pay

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attention to what is happening.

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because it's going to be

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loud, right? It's like, look

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at me! That's the kind

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of vibe that this moment

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has. So I don't know

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if there'll be something that

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circles back to what was

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occurring in the beginning of

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December, either in our personal

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lives or in our collective

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situation stories, the unfolding events

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of the world, or if

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this will be like another

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moment that just feels really

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magnified for all of us.

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But it does look like

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the circus is back in.

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and the people that like

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to pull focus will be.

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And it's about how we

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want to pull focus and

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what we want to pull

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focus towards and how we

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want to shift attention. On

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Friday, the 14th of February,

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heart, heart, heart, heart, heart,

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very delusional sign of Pisces,

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no offense Pisces, but Mercury

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is said to be in

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not only its detriment here,

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but also its fall. So

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this is not good for

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facts and data, like Sunday

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and maybe even Monday and

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Tuesday are, we could say,

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like we go from like

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really clinical, scientific, intellectual communications

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into poetry. So we're into

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myths, we're into poetry, love

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it, we're into the dreamscape,

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we're into very like David

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Lynchian type of communications with

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Mercury in Pisces. Okay, I'm

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going to transition now. I'm

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going to transition to the

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part of the program that

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is about like Ask Me

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Anything. And I want to

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talk about a question that

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came in about this Mars

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retrograde. And I want to

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say this, for the next

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month, four weeks, Mars is

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basically hanging out at the

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same degree. And the degree

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is 17-ish degrees of cancer.

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Mars is going to slow

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all the way down. It's

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going to station direct next

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week on February 23rd. But

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it's basically just hanging out

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at this 17th degree of

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cancer for four weeks. Y'all,

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that's bananas. And this is

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what happens when Mars stations,

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when it changes signs. But

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if you have something, something.

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16, 17, 18, 19 degrees of

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cancer. But really, like 17, 18,

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16, 17, 18, let's put it

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on those three degrees. You're gonna

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feel this. And, you know, a

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lot of you won't have it

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anything there. But if you do,

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please go check your chart on

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the Channey app or on channey.com

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and see if you have a

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planet. or a point or anything

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around this degree. Because Mars is

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just going to be sitting there.

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It's just going to be grinding

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its high heel into that planet

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or point. And it's really important

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for us to do some really

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good excavation work, to do some

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poking around work in... terms of

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whatever Mars is sitting on. Now,

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you don't have to have anything

11:43

at 17 degrees of cancer because

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17 degrees of cancer falls in

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everybody's chart somewhere. It might be

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an empty space, but it's still

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there. It's still in a certain

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part of your chart. So for

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Aries Rising, that's the fourth house

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of Home and Family, Tourist Rising,

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that's the third house of communications,

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daily rituals, siblings, and extended family,

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and good friends that feel like

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siblings. For Gemini Rising, it's the

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second house of money. assets, resources,

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how you make a living, what

12:16

you do with your stuff. Cancer

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rising, it's your first house of

12:21

body and self. Leo rising, it's

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your 12th house of behind-the-scenes stuff.

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Hidden enemies, I know that sounds

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weird, but it really is like

12:30

the hidden enemies either in yourself,

12:32

like in your own psyche, like

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your own self-savitures, or you know,

12:37

I don't love to talk about

12:40

this kind of stuff, but people

12:42

that... don't have like goodwill for

12:44

you. We need to understand when

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and where that's true. Sometimes when

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something happens significant in our 12th

12:51

house, we can be like, oh,

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I thought that was, we were,

12:56

but we were not. Okay, good

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to know. Then we get to

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Virgo Rising, that this is Mars

13:03

stationing, just sitting in your 11th

13:06

house of friends and groups and

13:08

associations, labor rising. This is your

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10th house of career. public roles,

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reputations, how the world sees you.

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Then we've got Scorpio Rising. This

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is your ninth house of long-term

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plans. What is meaningful to you?

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Publishing, teaching, learning, spirituality, your dream

13:25

life. Please pay attention to your

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dreams. Please, corporate rising, pay attention

13:30

to your dreams. Sage, rising, this

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is about eighth house of grants,

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funding, taxes, debts, loans, pay attention

13:37

to all that financial stuff, and

13:39

just know that if something is

13:41

sticky there, it will move, but

13:44

it might take a couple of

13:46

weeks. It's also your eighth house

13:49

of grief, and realizing what it

13:51

is we still have yet to

13:53

grief. have grace. It's the human

13:56

condition. Capricorn, seventh house of relationships,

13:58

commitments, committed partnerships, business, platonic, personal,

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romantic, doesn't matter, whoever you're committed

14:03

to. It's where Mars is just

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hanging out there. Aquarius rising, we've

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got your sixth house health, really

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want you to pay attention to

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your health, inflammation. anything that feels

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like too riled up in your

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system, we got to like bring

14:19

it down, but also work and

14:22

work life and stress and managing

14:24

and being of service, managing all

14:27

that. Then we've got Pisces rising,

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this is your fifth house of

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children, the children in your life,

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any children you might work with,

14:36

also reproductive health and well-being, really

14:38

caring for that part of your

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body, self. situations and also your

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creative projects. So whatever I just

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named there for you, I want

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you to think about these things.

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Mars is just going to be

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hanging out at this place. So

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you might have a planet there,

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you might not. It doesn't matter.

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It's happening somewhere in your chart.

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Over the next four weeks. We're

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going to have to like meditate

15:07

on something. Right? We're being held

15:09

in place somewhere in our life.

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Not everywhere. There's all these other

15:14

things going on. There's all, like

15:16

again, there's all this other activity

15:19

this week. It has nothing to

15:21

do with the Mars retrograde. But

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in the area of your chart

15:26

that contains cancer, we're being held

15:28

in place somewhere for good reason.

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It's not because the universe or

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our life wants us to suffer.

15:35

It's because we're supposed to dig

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deeply into something and understand it.

15:40

on an emotional level, understand the

15:43

security issues that come up because

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of it, understand what it is

15:47

we're supposed to be pivoting around,

15:50

what it is we're supposed to

15:52

be transforming, alcomizing, moving through, doing

15:54

something difficult in regards to, but

15:57

difficult. that is important to do.

15:59

Like, okay, it's difficult, fine. It

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will be really good once it's

16:04

done. It'll be really good to

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have done it. It will be

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really important to have been in

16:11

this process. Because it's cancer, again,

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it's sensitive. It brings us down

16:16

to our deepest core issues about

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fitting in, about being part of

16:21

a family, about belonging. Belonging is

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the word I really want to

16:25

use. Cancer is about belonging. Who

16:28

do we belong to? Who loves

16:30

us? Who's going to nurture us?

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Who's going to feed me? Who's

16:35

going to house me? How am

16:37

I going to get these needs

16:40

met? And so it's about how

16:42

we can reparent ourselves in this

16:44

area of our life or within

16:47

these relationships or within this context.

16:49

It's about how we can do

16:52

the hard and necessary thing that's

16:54

going to grow us into some

16:56

kind of next version of our

16:59

own. parenthood or own parenting. Like

17:01

imagine your life if you were

17:03

the absolute best parent of yourself.

17:06

What would you feel like? What

17:08

would life be like? Life is

17:11

harrowing. The world is harrowing. And

17:13

if you met all of that

17:15

stuff out there every day, knowing

17:18

that you have met your own

17:20

needs, what kind of parent and

17:22

boss and co-worker and neighbor and

17:25

citizen and family member and friend

17:27

and comrade and anything, any label

17:30

that you have, what kind of

17:32

person would you be in all

17:34

of those relationships? That's part of

17:37

this goal. And I will say

17:39

this again until I am blue

17:41

in the face or until June.

17:44

The hard things that we do

17:46

right now in the area of

17:49

our chart that contains cancer or

17:51

in regards to the area of

17:53

our life that connects with the

17:56

part of our chart that Mars

17:58

is retrograding through. We're

18:00

going to be so happy we

18:02

did that work come June,

18:05

because come June, the opposite

18:07

thing happens. As hard as

18:09

this is right now, come June,

18:12

we're going to get a lot

18:14

of blessings. And I

18:16

think it's tied to the tough

18:18

stuff that we do right now.

18:20

So I go into great depth

18:22

in this. in your year-head

18:25

reading, we'll talk about it

18:27

a lot next week, both

18:30

here and also in terms

18:32

of your individual readings. So

18:34

I hope that those are

18:36

helpful. And also for now,

18:39

the full moon in Leo dominates,

18:41

reminding us that where this full

18:43

moon happens also. is a part

18:45

of our chart that we are

18:47

meant to shine into, that we

18:49

are meant to illuminate. So when

18:52

you listen to your reading for

18:54

this week, think about the part

18:56

of your chart that this woman

18:58

is happening in and how you are

19:00

in your life over the span of

19:03

your life learning how to shine in

19:05

this area. And this woman is going

19:07

to give you and me a breakthrough

19:10

about it. So we're going to tune

19:12

in from Sunday all the way to

19:14

Thursday. because there's going to be something

19:16

that we're going to be like, whoa,

19:19

I didn't never thought of it that

19:21

way. And that's what we want. We

19:23

want to think about something in a

19:26

different way. We want to have a

19:28

paradigm shift or something that changes our

19:30

mind that helps us to

19:32

think about something in a

19:34

more radically free way. Because

19:36

if anything, Uranus wants us

19:38

to be free. able to think

19:41

outside the box, act outside the

19:43

box, be outside the box of

19:45

conformity. And that's, you know, good

19:47

for Leo, because it's quite shiny

19:50

out there. All right, y'all, I'm

19:52

sending you lots of love, many

19:54

blessings. I will see you back

19:56

here next time. Bye for now. So,