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Welcome to the Mainly

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Yasmin Boland, an award-winning

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as your guide. Hey

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there everyone and welcome

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to Yasmin's moonology podcast.

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It's me again. I'm back for

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another week Yasmin has once again

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asked me to Take the helm

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of the podcast this week, which

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I'm more than happy to do.

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If you haven't met me before,

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my name is Cassandra and my

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website is my name, which is

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Cassandra tindle.com. I've appeared on Yasmin's

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podcast quite a few times now

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as a guest, but this is

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my second rodeo at the helm

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here at Monology. So I am

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going to be taking you through

1:04

the week of February 23

1:06

and winding up on

1:08

March 1. Now for

1:11

my money, my astrological

1:13

money, 2025 kind of

1:15

starts this week. The

1:17

big news this week

1:19

is that the planet

1:21

Mars that has been

1:23

retrograde in the signs

1:25

of Leo and Cancer

1:28

since early December of

1:30

2024. has finally stationed

1:32

direct which happens this

1:34

week about the 24th which

1:36

is Monday. So while our computer

1:39

programs as astrologers can tell us

1:41

the exact sort of moment that

1:43

Mars stations it is a bit

1:46

of a process. Mars is the

1:48

planet out of all the planets

1:50

we use in astrology is the

1:53

one that retrogrades the least and

1:55

so it does take a little

1:57

while for that station to have.

2:00

So even before the week really

2:02

kicks off you might be starting

2:04

to feel some of that intensity.

2:07

You might be feeling a little

2:09

bit more emotional than usual. Maybe

2:11

there's a particular issue you've been

2:14

grappling with since early December that

2:16

you are that's sort of brought

2:19

to the head this week. Now

2:21

one of the analogies I've been

2:23

using to describe Mars Stationing Direct.

2:26

is what we say as astrologers

2:28

when it comes to planets that

2:30

are either stationing retrograde, which

2:33

is what Mars did back

2:35

in December, or stationing direct,

2:37

which is doing this week.

2:39

It's like when an aircraft

2:41

takes off, it uses all

2:43

its velocity, its power, it's

2:45

the full stress point of

2:47

the aircraft, and the same

2:49

when it lands. Now we could

2:51

see this station direct as the

2:54

landing point for Mars and the

2:56

journey the long arduous journey if

2:58

you've ever flown to Australia where

3:00

I'm from It's a long way

3:02

and we finally get to the

3:05

end. It's like the are we

3:07

there yet? The plane lands and

3:09

the journey sort of over but

3:11

because Mars is a bit of

3:13

a slow mover it takes two

3:16

years to cover the entire Zodiac

3:18

When Mars stations, as I was sort

3:20

of to circle back to what I

3:22

was originally saying, when Mars stations we

3:25

can kind of pinpoint the moment using

3:27

our computer software, but the journey is

3:29

a little bit... at like you descending

3:32

your landing the wheels that touch the

3:34

tarmac but it's not as though you

3:36

can just exit the aircraft straight away

3:38

sometimes there's a bit of a delay

3:41

whether that's taxing around the airport maybe

3:43

it's just takes a while to get

3:45

out because the plane is full and

3:48

people are dealing with their overhead luggage

3:50

and what have you. The reason I

3:52

describe it like this is because Mars

3:55

is stationing at 17 degrees of cancer

3:57

and it's been sitting there for a

3:59

of weeks now and it's not

4:02

going to get off this 17

4:04

degree mark until March 9. So

4:06

we've got a couple more weeks

4:09

of that to go and so

4:11

this is a long drawn-out process

4:14

that really started back around December.

4:16

Now I just wanted to give you

4:18

a few dates depending on your

4:21

astrological knowledge. You might know if

4:23

you have a planet or an

4:25

angle around say 15 to 18

4:28

degrees. of cancer and then you'll

4:30

know that Mars has been passing

4:32

over that or maybe you might

4:35

have a planet or point in

4:37

any of the other cardinal signs.

4:39

But if you've got a birthday

4:42

that falls on either the 7th,

4:44

8th or 9th of January then

4:46

Mars will be stationing opposite your

4:48

son. If you've got a birthday

4:51

6th, 7th, 8th of April then

4:53

Mars is squaring your son. If

4:55

you are in July... 8 9

4:57

or 10 then Mars is what

4:59

we call con joining your son

5:01

or passing over it and October

5:04

10 11 or 12 if your

5:06

birthday falls then then Mars is

5:08

also forming a square to your

5:10

son. So if you've got those

5:12

birthdays on those dates then this

5:14

is also going to be an

5:17

important journey for you. So

5:19

Mars has been retrograde for

5:21

a couple of months at

5:23

this point nearly three. And

5:25

a big part of this

5:28

journey is not in isolation.

5:30

For many people, this has

5:32

been an arduous and painful

5:34

process. Mars is a planet

5:37

that is classified as being

5:39

malefic. So it's a bit

5:41

more troublesome and difficult than

5:44

some of our other more

5:46

friendly planets. It's a planet

5:48

of action, of drive, of...

5:50

being assertive. It's also a planet

5:53

of violence. It's a planet of

5:55

defense. It's a planet of anger.

5:57

Now none of those things are...

6:00

bad in off themselves, but

6:02

when those things, those topics

6:04

in the sign of the

6:07

moon, cancer, it can be

6:09

a very emotionally triggering time

6:12

and emotionally activating time because

6:14

Mars is kind of tenderizing

6:16

some of our pain points

6:19

or some of those tender

6:21

emotions we may not prefer

6:24

to deal with. But there's

6:26

a method in this madness

6:29

and when we can take some

6:31

of these concepts of

6:33

Mars, cutting, burning, severing, separating

6:35

from, some of those painful emotions,

6:38

some of those painful memories, maybe

6:40

it's something from your past or

6:42

something that you're holding onto that

6:45

you know might have proved to

6:47

be a great defense mechanism at

6:50

one point in your life but

6:52

it might actually be the obstacle

6:54

now. So obviously this cycle is

6:57

kind of all but over but

6:59

as you reflect on the last

7:02

few months and some of these

7:04

ideas that I'm sharing I'm hoping that

7:06

a few pennies may be dropping for

7:09

you. If this is kind of

7:11

opening your eyes and you're thinking, oh

7:13

wow, I never thought of these

7:15

things, then, you know, it's still not

7:17

too late to take action on

7:19

some of these issues because Mars is

7:22

still going to be in cancer until

7:24

about April 17. So there's still

7:26

some time to work with

7:28

this. It might be opening

7:31

up, revealing something that you

7:33

keep really closed, really hidden

7:35

and really private. One of

7:37

the key factors with the

7:39

sign of cancer, I'm a

7:41

cancer, Yasmin's a cancer, we

7:43

actually share the same birthday,

7:45

is self- protection. We are

7:47

very self-preservation. And so sometimes

7:49

we do need to put

7:51

the walls up or harden

7:54

the exoskeleton. And then there's

7:56

other times where those

7:58

defense mechanisms provide the

8:00

fortress that stop us from

8:02

being able to move forward.

8:04

So there's something about this

8:06

process that we've just astrologically

8:09

been through that's going to

8:11

help us recognize some of

8:13

these blocks or barriers or

8:15

obstacles get rid of them

8:17

so we can prepare ourselves

8:20

for the many blessings of

8:22

Jupiter in cancer and that's

8:24

from June. If you have got

8:26

to this point in 2025

8:28

and just thinking it feels

8:30

like we're already been in 2025

8:33

for a year already, do take

8:35

some solace that there is a

8:37

method to this, that there is

8:40

this idea that we can't plant

8:42

beautiful rose gardens if the soil

8:44

is... lacking in nutrients if the

8:46

weeds are overgrown. And this is

8:49

what this Mars retrograde cycle has

8:51

done for us. It's helped us

8:53

recognize the weeds, the poor nutrients

8:55

in a particular area of life.

8:58

Tend to that, cut it away,

9:00

nurture it in the right ways,

9:02

defend and protect where need be.

9:04

So you can bring in these

9:07

big beautiful blessings come June. So

9:09

for some of us this might

9:11

be something to do with maybe

9:14

a career situation maybe you're tolerating

9:16

a career situation that's been very

9:18

difficult maybe it's a relationship maybe

9:21

it's a dynamic with a sibling

9:23

maybe it's your home environment it's

9:25

going to depend where cancer falls

9:28

in your birthshot and all of

9:30

us have cancer somewhere. So do

9:32

think about what has been the

9:35

most I'm not a fan of

9:37

this word but I'm going to

9:39

use it. The most triggering, what's

9:42

kind of brought up some of

9:44

your defense mechanisms, what's made you

9:46

feel really sensitive, or where have

9:48

you been pushed or probed or

9:51

prodded to let down your guard

9:53

in some way? Now that's the

9:55

area where some really big blessings

9:58

apply. Now it can feel... sometimes

10:00

like there is this concept

10:02

spiritually where in the process

10:05

of gain there has to

10:07

be loss. So there is

10:09

something here that we might

10:12

have to lose and that

10:14

might be not even literal

10:16

loss but the idea of

10:18

the attachment from the past

10:21

especially when it's cancer. It's

10:23

if you're holding onto a

10:25

painful memory. What is that

10:28

serving you? Let it go,

10:30

heal it, and then you

10:32

can create a beautiful new

10:34

container to put in more

10:36

blessings. come June. I could

10:39

talk about this whole spiritual

10:41

process for a really long

10:43

time, but I hope that's

10:45

helped you get a little

10:47

bit of a thumbnail look

10:49

at this really, really deep

10:51

cycle. Mars retrogrades in cancer

10:54

very, very rarely, and we

10:56

haven't had this since the

10:58

early 90s. So that's how

11:00

much of a potent cycle

11:03

this particular one has been.

11:05

Coming back to this week,

11:07

we do have a couple

11:09

of mercury aspects, or three

11:12

actually. Mercury will try Mars.

11:14

Mercury will conjoin Saturn and

11:16

then sextile Uranus. So just

11:18

as a background influence to

11:21

think about Mercury, Mercury is

11:23

our communication, our logistics, our

11:25

planning, our thinking, getting from

11:28

point A to point B

11:30

and things like that. It's

11:32

connecting to Mars, Saturn. and

11:34

Uranus. Now those are planets

11:37

that are not sunshine and roses

11:39

or you know here's all

11:41

the joy and benefits on

11:43

a silver platter. They are

11:45

planets that are a little

11:47

bit more fraught, a little

11:49

bit more difficult, and what I

11:51

often would describe as chewy. This

11:54

may mean that this week

11:56

some hard yet healing conversations

11:58

may be needed. to be hard.

12:01

So whatever you've been too afraid

12:03

to speak up, remember cancer where

12:05

Mars has been retrograde, cancer is

12:08

what we call a mute sign.

12:10

Have you ever tried to talk

12:12

underwater? No one can hear you,

12:15

right? No one can hear you.

12:17

They can't understand you. And water

12:19

is, it's like evocation, it's

12:22

emotion, it's feeling. And those

12:24

concepts can be not the

12:27

easiest things to articulate. So

12:29

hence mercury is coming along,

12:31

it's in Pisces, a sign

12:34

it doesn't articulate itself very

12:36

clearly with. So maybe there's

12:38

a conversation or a decision

12:41

you've been avoiding or being

12:43

mulling over. And that's what

12:46

water signs do. They pull

12:48

their energy inwards, they think

12:50

about how they feel before

12:52

they address something. maybe a

12:55

difficult conversation but could also

12:57

be very healing and beneficial

12:59

or maybe finally making a

13:02

hard choice or decision of

13:04

some type. Now the grand

13:06

finale of this week is blessed

13:09

with new beginnings and that's the

13:11

new moon in Pisces. This new

13:13

moon falls at nine degrees of

13:16

the sign of Pisces. So Pisces

13:18

again is a a water sign

13:20

as I mentioned and it's soft,

13:23

it's a little bit confusing, it's

13:25

about feeling our way into the

13:28

next four weeks. These lunations, these

13:30

new moons, set the tone for

13:32

the next four weeks and of

13:35

course we have that sort of

13:37

peak exclamation point with

13:40

the full moon. Now this particular

13:42

new moon is as I

13:44

said nine degrees of Pisces.

13:46

It also features satin in

13:49

Pisces, mercury in Pisces, the

13:51

North Node and Neptune in

13:53

Pisces. So this is a

13:55

massive Pisces puddle. So this

13:58

is going to be peak...

14:00

emotions, peak feeling, peak

14:02

compassion, and quite possibly

14:05

peak fatigue and tiredness

14:07

as well. So it's

14:09

not the most productive of

14:12

new moons. It's not

14:14

exactly writing our lists

14:16

out and getting things done.

14:18

It really is about feeling

14:21

and also remembering that

14:23

we are human beings.

14:25

not human doings. Now

14:27

from a technical perspective

14:29

the traditional ruling planet

14:31

of the new moon in

14:33

Pisces is Jupiter. Now Jupiter

14:36

is in Gemini at present

14:38

and it will be until

14:40

June but Jupiter falls at

14:43

12 degrees of Gemini which

14:45

is just three degrees. So it's a

14:47

very tight square to this new moon,

14:50

the angle that's taking place. So the

14:52

rule of the lunation can see the

14:54

lunation and it's a square. Squares

14:56

ask for adjustment. Squares ask for

14:59

that little spot that's, you know,

15:01

if you've been sitting in your

15:03

chair too long and you need

15:05

to kind of adjust your hips

15:07

or adjust your back or change

15:09

position. There's this idea of

15:11

compromise. There's this idea of having

15:13

to find a win-win solution. And

15:16

squares are generally considered not a

15:18

friendly aspect astrologically, but at least

15:20

when you can confront something or

15:23

someone, kind of head-on, when there

15:25

is a bit of conflict, if

15:27

there is a little bit of

15:29

tension, it can just provide just

15:32

that little bit of agitation to

15:34

get something moving or to get

15:36

something in... a new direction. So

15:39

what could we think about this

15:41

with this new moon in

15:43

Pisces ruled by Jupiter? Now

15:45

from my money Jupiter also

15:47

has not long come out

15:49

of a retrograde phase and

15:52

that happened in early February

15:54

and because Jupiter is one

15:56

of the bigger and slower

15:59

moving planets It's stationed direct

16:01

at 11 degrees of Gemini

16:03

and only just in the

16:06

last day or two it

16:08

finally moved to 12 degrees.

16:11

So this really, I see

16:13

this as Jupiter's moving on.

16:16

Jupiter has been backwards. It

16:18

went back to the drawing

16:21

board. It philosophies. It took

16:23

all the ideas, the concepts,

16:26

the conversation, the pieces of

16:28

the puzzle, Gemini, and found

16:31

a way to try and

16:33

make them cohesive and make

16:35

all those puzzle pieces fit.

16:37

Jupiter and now is moving

16:39

onwards. Now Jupiter is going

16:41

to start moving real fast,

16:43

basically for the rest of

16:45

this year. And so there is this,

16:47

I just get this feeling with

16:49

this new moon that we really

16:52

do get a beautiful kickstart now.

16:54

We will be in March by

16:56

Saturday as a part of this

16:59

reading. We will be in a

17:01

new month and a new moon.

17:03

with Jupiter onwards and upwards, the

17:06

ruler of this lunation. So I

17:08

do feel that this is a

17:10

really great time to, you know,

17:13

you might need to over stretch

17:15

a little bit or compromise on

17:17

what your feelings are. You

17:20

know, feelings are important,

17:22

they're valid, they're real,

17:24

but to what extent

17:26

does that... kind of define

17:28

your life. To what extent does

17:31

that define your entire philosophy, your

17:33

entire being? So there's this sort

17:35

of strange combination with Jupiter and

17:38

Gemini because there's the philosophy, there's

17:40

the spirituality, there's the wisdom, but

17:42

then there's also the data and

17:45

the facts and the hard truths

17:47

as well. So we're going to

17:49

have to find a little bit

17:52

of a balance here between facts.

17:54

feelings and also morality. Jupiter is

17:56

a big planet of what's

17:59

moral, what's what's ethical and

18:01

what's just. So we might see

18:03

some of those themes come to

18:05

the fore this week as well.

18:07

So sometimes on the personal, I

18:10

could sort of see this a

18:12

little bit as okay, maybe just

18:14

take a hit for the team,

18:16

like if it's a family situation

18:18

and there's some conflict. We could

18:21

sort of all struggle around our

18:23

feelings and battle around that with

18:25

the square and you sort of

18:28

butt heads and get nowhere or

18:30

we can compromise, adjust and look

18:32

to the bigger picture and what's

18:35

really important. Is it

18:37

how your husband stacks the dishwasher

18:39

or do you actually want the

18:41

intimacy and harmony at home? Like

18:44

that closeness and connection which is

18:46

what a new moon in Pisces

18:48

most certainly invites. So with that

18:51

said, I know here on

18:53

the Moonology podcast, we often

18:56

do a card reading for

18:58

these various astrological features. So

19:00

I have drawn one for

19:03

the new moon and it

19:05

is, let me see, it's

19:07

the five of pentacles. I

19:10

don't know if there's going

19:12

to be video for this.

19:14

podcast or if it's just

19:16

going to be an audio, but

19:19

I'm going to pop this on

19:21

the screen and you can always

19:23

Google the five of Pentacles if

19:25

you can't see it. But it's

19:27

a pretty sad looking card really.

19:30

We've got looks like it's snowing

19:32

and there's some kind of down

19:34

trodden, poor or homeless looking people

19:36

passing under a window that looks,

19:38

that represents wealth, that represents abundance

19:41

and represents... all of the things

19:43

that I'm sure these two people

19:45

out the front of this window

19:47

would like to have in their

19:49

lives. So I really do feel

19:51

that given the overarching vibe of

19:54

this week, it is a turnaround

19:56

point. If you have felt a

19:58

little hard done by this year.

20:00

If you've struggled, if you've

20:02

been trying to call in

20:05

that abundance, whether that is

20:07

cash, whether that is connection

20:09

with other people or opportunities

20:11

of various types, The sort

20:13

of laws of nature do tend

20:15

to sometimes say that oftentimes is

20:18

the breakdown is the breakthrough and

20:20

I feel that that's very much

20:22

the energy of this week but

20:24

with the new Moon Square Jupiter

20:26

we do have to sort of

20:29

faith until we make it we

20:31

do have to have faith despite

20:33

what our logical clarity might inform

20:35

us. So that's the gist of

20:38

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21:31

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21:36

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21:39

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21:41

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21:43

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21:46

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21:48

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21:50

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more people find us too which

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spreads the love and surely also

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brings you amazing karma for taking

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a moment to help us out

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and to help other people find the

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podcast. Have a great week and I

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hope to speak to you next week.

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Lots of love.