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Hey everyone, this is Adam Ellen Boss

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from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday everybody. Today

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we are going to revisit the entire

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journey of this Mars -Pluto opposition because

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although Mars and Pluto are opposing tomorrow,

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this is actually the third time that

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they have opposed one another. So

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we're going to look back over the

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last two oppositions leading up to this

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one, including the Mars retrograde. And I'm

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going to give you some tips for

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tracking that entire cycle in light of

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the opposition that's happening tomorrow, which is

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the final sort of installment in the

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Mars Pluto saga. I'm going to

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give you five topics to meditate on

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that can help you track the entirety of

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the cycle, which can help us as

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we connect with the events that are taking

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place with the Mars Pluto opposition over

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the weekend. So that is our

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let's turn our attention to

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the real -time clock Here I

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go so We

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are here on April

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25th. We're in tourist

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season now. We've had

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a very dynamic week thus

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far and tomorrow we

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will see Mars opposed Pluto. So

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I'm going to advance this

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by one day and you'll see

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that tomorrow, April 26th, the opposition

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is exact. This

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opposition will really be in effect if

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we give it a few more days. All

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the way let's give it three degrees

3:42

of separation all the way until about

3:44

next weekend So you get a full

3:46

week of Mars separating from Pluto. That's

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a fair range to say You know

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within within this period of time

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you may also notice the ongoing

3:54

effects of the transit Ancient astrologers

3:56

said that within three degrees applying

3:59

and separating was when the promised

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events or karma so to

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speak would blossom and appear Within

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that range, it's a little mysterious the way

4:08

that I always compare the thing I always

4:10

compare it to is a full moon You

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know on the morning of a full

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moon. You may really feel

4:16

and notice the energy the

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evening of the day after There's

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a kind of range within

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which astrological symbolism expresses itself in

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linear time And it's a

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little mysterious how that works,

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but ranges are typically used

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in all astrology for that reason

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so Although the exact

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opposition is tomorrow give it about

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a week I would say

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most likely you'll feel the most

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intense form of the opposition

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today tomorrow and Sunday I think

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that's most common in my

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experience But what

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I want to do now

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is I want to give you

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some more advanced tools for

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tracking This transit and the way

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to do that is to look

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at the entire cycle that

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Mars and Pluto have been through

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So what I'm going to

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do is I'm going to back

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this up to the beginning of

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this dynamic, which came all

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the way back in

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the last months

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of 2024. Notice

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how far back

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the two planets go when it

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comes to their configuration with

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one another. So I'm going to

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take you through all of this and

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then give you some tips for how to

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use this information to track what's happening

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tomorrow, because this is not the first time

5:37

that the two planets have opposed one

5:39

another. They've been through quite the process. In

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ancient astrology, aspects work by

5:44

whole sign as well as

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by degrees. So Mars and

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Pluto technically begin opposing one

5:51

another in early September of

5:53

2024. That

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early September is the time at which

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Mars enters cancer and is therefore in

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a whole sign opposition with Pluto

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who's at the anoretic last 29th

6:03

degree of Capricorn. That's pretty

6:06

significant. Mars is

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also in its fall in cancer, a

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challenging place, a place that

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also offers a lot of

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healing for Mars -related themes and

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Cancerian themes. We've talked

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a lot about that on my channel over the

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past months. Let's go forward

6:23

and bring this up to the

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time that they first opposed while Mars

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is in direct motion now I

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want you to write these dates down

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The reason it and this is

6:33

optional obviously I'm assigning homework, but

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you get to choose if you

6:37

want to do it or not

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so Mars opposes Pluto between

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November 2nd and

6:44

3rd of 2024

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At that time the two planets are

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opposed in cancer and Capricorn and both

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are at the 29th critical anerotic degree

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That's a pretty powerful encounter for these

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two planets and you may remember that

6:57

at the beginning of November But if

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you don't remember what was going on

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go back in your emails go back

7:03

in your text messages go back in

7:05

your you know the pictures in your

7:08

phone or your Instagram or Facebook or

7:10

Twitter posts or whatever it is or X or whatever they call

7:12

it now so the reason i

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say that is because that's what i recommend

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my students do when trying to track transits

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from the past that maybe they don't have

7:20

the best memory for just go back and

7:22

look at some of the places where you

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store your day to day thoughts and activities

7:26

and exchanges that's pretty good for social media

7:28

text messages emails. And you

7:31

may get then a hit for

7:33

what the critical mass of the

7:35

moment was by that i mean

7:37

what was changing. Mars

7:40

Pluto is a force of

7:42

change, the evolutionary force

7:44

of necessity, forcing death, forcing

7:47

rebirth, a kind

7:49

of creative, explosive, catalyzing, eruptive

7:51

quality to Mars and Pluto.

7:53

So what was that force

7:55

looking like around early November

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for you? That is part

7:59

one. Now, the

8:01

reason I say write these things down

8:04

is because I'm also going to give you

8:06

five topics to meditate on. And

8:08

I want you to ask yourself the questions

8:10

or the looking at these meditation topics

8:12

around these dates. So that's why it's important

8:14

that you take a moment and just

8:16

jot these down and then do a little

8:18

memory work. I promise you, if you

8:20

do this with some care and intentionality, you're

8:22

going to learn a lot. This

8:24

is, you know, astrology as much as we want

8:27

it to be, just tell me, just tell me what

8:29

it means, tell me what happens. Astrology

8:31

is a process of

8:34

karma and evolution

8:36

occurring across cycles in

8:38

time. If you only

8:40

ever stay glued to the current moment

8:42

and what's happening right now, what

8:44

it means right now, you will miss

8:46

the larger arc. It would

8:48

be like saying, I just want to

8:50

see one episode in the middle of

8:52

the third season of Outlander, as I

8:54

showed that my wife and I watched.

8:57

You could see that and you'd be like, oh, I

8:59

have no idea what this is. It was a

9:01

good episode, but you will miss the entire story arc.

9:04

So do that work. It's worth it.

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Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox.

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So we continue on. Mars

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enters Leo in early November and

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we know that it took its

9:15

time and then Pluto entered Aquarius

9:17

around November 20th. Now they're configured

9:19

again by whole sign opposition. What

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happens? Well, we know by

9:23

early September that Mars stations around

9:25

the sixth and turns retrograde and

9:28

then is heading back into

9:30

the degree -based opposition with

9:32

Pluto, which occurs At the

9:34

um, whoops here we go

9:36

right in the beginning of

9:38

the new year We're looking at

9:40

them around january 2nd into

9:42

the 3rd opposing while mars

9:44

is now retrograde So here

9:46

is the second period of

9:48

time early january Just ask

9:51

yourself what was happening in

9:53

early january in what way was

9:55

i changing in Where was

9:57

the evolutionary force of necessity

9:59

happening? What was being

10:01

catalyzed? What forces were erupting?

10:03

Where was I seeing the

10:05

need to transform or change

10:07

with some urgency? What power

10:09

struggles or conflicts was I

10:11

facing? And then you

10:14

can also look back to

10:16

November early November and say

10:18

when was that early November

10:20

encounter? Or what

10:22

was happening then and

10:24

how were these two periods

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tied together? So again,

10:28

just noticing Now We're

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gonna see Mars then retrograde into

10:33

cancer takes a long time in

10:35

the sign of cancer and Of course,

10:37

we've just had Mars leave

10:39

cancer at long last difficult Mars

10:42

retrograde honestly

10:44

Then Mars is gradually moving

10:46

forward through the month of March

10:48

and here we are in April and

10:50

it was on the 18th that

10:53

Mars switched back into Leo. So

10:55

now here we are for

10:57

Saturday, April 26th, where they

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collide one final time. So

11:03

now we're talking about late April, early

11:06

January, and early November

11:08

as three points in time

11:10

connected archetypally and thematically

11:12

to the entirety of the

11:15

Mars retrograde process. you

11:17

could look at two sets of

11:20

houses you could look at the

11:22

leo aquarius set of houses in

11:24

your birth chart you could also

11:26

look at the cancer capricorn houses

11:28

though i think that for the

11:30

sake of this weekend you're

11:32

probably gonna get more out

11:34

of the leo aquarius access

11:36

and that is what i

11:38

covered in the horoscopes on

11:40

my live stream yesterday so. Noting

11:45

these things, here are five

11:47

topics to meditate on. These

11:49

are questions that I would

11:52

ask in relation to that early

11:54

November, early January, and

11:56

now late April trifecta of

11:58

Mars' Pluto oppositions. The

12:00

first would be family karma and

12:02

parental karma. With Mars in Cancer and

12:04

Mars in Leo, you have the

12:07

signs of the Moon and the Sun.

12:09

These signs, among other things, can

12:11

refer to mothers and fathers. They

12:14

can refer to matriarchs and

12:16

patriarchs. They can refer to family

12:18

karma, broadly speaking, parental karma,

12:20

broadly speaking. So

12:23

in what ways, along the

12:25

lines of these three

12:27

occurrences, have you been noticing

12:29

or actively working to change

12:31

your family karma? What ways

12:34

have you been noticing family

12:36

karma playing out? By family

12:38

karma, what I mean are the relationships with

12:40

your family members, maybe some

12:42

of the hurts or

12:44

wounds that we,

12:47

almost all of us have some that

12:49

come from how we were raised. And

12:51

usually it's a, for most of

12:53

us, at least it's a mix of

12:55

good and bad. And then there's often

12:57

questions for people who have kids of their

12:59

own. with respect to how you're

13:02

parenting, what you're passing on, what you're actively

13:04

working to change within your family lineage. And

13:06

you can do that work, obviously, whether

13:08

you have kids or not, but sometimes

13:10

it becomes very vivid sometimes when you

13:12

have parenting responsibilities of your own. So

13:16

family karma, parental karma would,

13:18

broadly speaking, be

13:20

one major way of tracing

13:22

the arc of those three

13:24

oppositions, early November, early January, now

13:27

late April. Number

13:29

two, a

13:31

process of martial revision

13:34

or setbacks. So martial

13:36

revision means anything that you

13:38

are revising with respect to

13:40

the topics that Mars rules.

13:43

So let's say there have

13:45

been revisions with how you

13:47

are working with Mars on

13:49

a psychological level, let's say.

13:51

Anger, willpower, frustration, assertiveness, directness,

13:53

boldness, courage, the facing of

13:55

fear, how you handle fear

13:57

and anxiety. How you

13:59

take action in the world in

14:02

what ways have you been asked

14:04

to revise something? I

14:06

think of a very basic way

14:08

for me That I've been seeing

14:10

this play out in terms of

14:12

the training Regiment that I've been

14:15

going through Walmart's retrograde Which is

14:17

not surprisingly wrapping up my coaches

14:19

having me wrap up with this

14:21

phase as the retrogrades concluding And

14:23

the last Mars opposition is taking

14:25

place because the process began when

14:27

the first two opposed in early

14:29

November. So a process

14:31

of revising my training program, my

14:34

macros, like everything. That's a

14:36

very simple mundane example, but it

14:38

tracks very easily for me

14:40

around the three oppositions. So

14:43

a Marshall revision could be how you're

14:46

exercising or the exercise or health

14:48

care regimen that you have insofar as

14:50

Mars represents things like You

14:52

know athletics and exercise and stuff

14:54

like that, but it can be

14:56

deep How do you handle anger?

14:58

How do you handle conflict? And

15:01

then there may be some

15:03

connection between Marshall revision like Getting

15:06

better at handling conflict and family

15:08

karma right so you can

15:10

end up tying any of these

15:12

together Setbacks would also be

15:14

where has your will your sense

15:16

of direction or ambition? felt

15:19

like it's been thwarted or blocked. I thought

15:21

I wanted to go in this direction, then

15:23

I faced some setbacks or some delays. Retrograde

15:26

can be

15:28

about dealing with setbacks,

15:30

delays, reversals of fortune, the plot

15:32

somehow getting flipped on its

15:34

head. So

15:36

track along early November, early January,

15:38

now late April, what

15:41

setbacks have you faced? What hurdles

15:43

came into your path that you

15:45

had to get over. Do you

15:47

see those changing now? Number

15:50

three, a refining

15:52

of will, anger, force, action, and courage. I

15:55

kind of mentioned this in number two,

15:57

but I find that Mars

15:59

retrogrades are fantastic

16:02

for becoming

16:04

more Aware of what works

16:06

and doesn't work when

16:08

it comes to the expression

16:11

of anger or or

16:13

action or force or will

16:15

Maybe I had to face some

16:17

fears. Maybe I had to develop more

16:19

courage around something Maybe I had

16:21

to to be patient rather

16:24

than impulsive Mars retrograde will

16:26

sometimes curb our appetite or

16:28

you know curb our enthusiasm

16:30

and say You need to

16:32

develop better restraint with respect to

16:34

your will your force your

16:37

actions in the world better discernment

16:39

know when to act and

16:41

when to wait So any way

16:43

in which you've just been

16:45

refining your blade the the Mars

16:47

blade. Let's call it Number

16:50

and again track that out

16:52

early November early January

16:54

now late April number four

16:56

dealing with frustration one of

16:58

the things that I I'll just use this

17:00

example again of the training regimen, that

17:02

a new training regimen I started under the

17:04

first Mars Pluto opposition that's now just

17:06

finishing under the final. Initially,

17:10

knowing that I was going

17:12

to be revising elements

17:14

of my program, I

17:16

felt like, oh, this

17:19

is going, this sort of, what do I want

17:22

to say? My expectations have

17:24

had to adapt, right?

17:27

And so that means that i'm frustrated

17:29

because i'm not getting what i wanted

17:31

or i'm not going where i wanted

17:33

because i'm changing approaches and strategies and

17:35

So when something

17:37

comes up that frustrates

17:39

you You can give up

17:42

you can quit or you can

17:44

persevere How we deal with frustrations

17:46

is maybe one of the

17:48

most obvious forms of I

17:50

guess what feels like cosmic testing that

17:52

i've ever seen in my practice

17:54

Very common when people have transiting Mars

17:56

hitting their or transiting Pluto hitting

17:59

their natal Mars for example That they'll

18:01

go through periods of time where

18:03

they just feel disempowered or they

18:05

feel frustrated or they feel blocked

18:07

and then It's a matter of

18:09

not getting angry not throwing an

18:11

existential tantrum and sort of dealing

18:13

with it coping with it developing

18:15

the staying power and the Perseverance

18:18

to work through something that's frustrating

18:20

you If we learn

18:22

to see the things that

18:24

frustrate us as opportunities to

18:26

refine, to grow, to

18:29

build character and patience, I think

18:31

it helps. It doesn't always

18:33

make anything easier, but I do

18:35

think it helps. So where has

18:37

there been a process like this

18:39

that I'm describing taking place? And

18:41

again, look back at these punctuation

18:44

marks early November, early

18:46

January, now late April. And

18:49

then five, which is something I focused

18:51

on this week in other episodes, what

18:53

needs to happen as a matter

18:55

of evolutionary necessity right now that

18:57

has been building and building and

18:59

building and developing and moving beneath

19:01

the surface through this whole period?

19:03

You could look back and just

19:05

say from November up until or

19:08

early November up until now, what

19:11

is what plates beneath the

19:13

surface are shifting and may

19:15

cause some. Psychic

19:17

earthquakes in my life, but

19:19

they need to happen the

19:21

status quo needs to be

19:24

disturbed new actions need to

19:26

be formed or taken new

19:28

initiatives or forcing a conversation that's

19:30

not easy or maybe

19:32

forcing isn't the right word

19:34

but Acting in ways that you know,

19:36

you have to it must happen

19:38

now. There's a sense

19:40

of the Hexagram

19:43

28 again, right critical mass The

19:46

ridge pole is sagging. If I don't do something, the

19:48

whole thing is going to fall apart. Act,

19:51

change, evolve, or die, right? It's got that,

19:53

like, not literally, but got that ominous

19:55

feeling behind it, like, you better do something.

19:59

And also, you know,

20:01

by this exact same token,

20:03

it's like, if

20:05

you were patient, if you were

20:08

careful, if you rode through the

20:10

whole process, could you be reaching

20:12

a critical breakthrough right now? The

20:14

other meaning of critical mass in the

20:16

Yi Qing that reminds me of this

20:18

transit is the idea that acting right

20:20

now as a matter

20:22

of necessity has a

20:25

powerful creative effect. And

20:27

you can't avoid this

20:30

moment. You have to sort of

20:32

step into it. So what

20:34

does that look like right now?

20:36

Where do you feel that kind

20:38

of pressure to grow? Let's call it that.

20:41

Now, I want to note just

20:43

because I think it's important

20:45

that people who consume astrology hear

20:47

this somewhat regularly from astrologers. Not

20:50

all transits hit for everyone. Right

20:52

now, in your chart, there could be

20:54

a Jupiter transit that is really stealing

20:56

the show. There could be

20:58

a Neptune transit that is way more

21:00

interesting and important than this Mars -Pluto

21:02

opposition, especially if it's not touching into

21:04

angular houses, if it's not connecting by

21:06

degree to planets in your chart. So

21:09

if all of this feels like, geez,

21:12

this feels big and sensational. I'm not

21:14

really experiencing much. I have two pieces

21:16

of advice. One, learn

21:18

astrology at a deeper level because when

21:20

you can track your transits with more

21:22

sophistication and understanding of where transits are

21:24

hitting in your natal chart by degree

21:26

and hitting planets by degree or angles,

21:29

you're going to know how much to

21:31

turn the volume up or down on

21:33

mundane forecasts you hear from people like

21:35

myself because you know exactly how strong

21:37

it really is in your natal chart. The

21:41

other thing...

21:43

Well, I

21:46

lost my camera. Let's try this again.

21:48

Whoops. Here we go. The

21:51

other thing that you're going to notice... other

21:53

piece of advice that I have, sorry, I

21:56

lost my train of thought because my camera

21:58

actually hit a button that turned my camera off.

22:02

So first of all, just if you

22:04

study astrology more, you're going to know

22:06

where transits hit, right? And then you

22:08

know how much to turn the volume

22:11

up or down on the Mars Pluto

22:13

oppositions or the Mars retrogrades or whatever

22:15

the case might be. But

22:18

the other thing that I think

22:20

is important to to

22:22

be aware of is just

22:25

that there's a When

22:27

you track astrology and you pay attention

22:29

to it You will often notice

22:31

the transits around you rather than happening

22:33

to you Especially if they're not

22:35

hitting in your natal chart You might

22:37

see a this transit is really

22:40

affecting my spouse or my sister or

22:42

it's really affecting my co -worker my

22:44

boss or I just saw it

22:46

happen in the workplace or a friend

22:48

of mine Even if something isn't

22:50

affecting us personally I think

22:52

that the opportunity to consciously

22:54

connect with the kind of

22:57

daily movements of these symbols

22:59

is a powerful form of meditation

23:01

and it will often reward you when

23:03

it's not hitting you personally in

23:05

terms of giving you just profound insight

23:07

by being able to see it

23:09

in what's happening around you. So I

23:11

like to say, I like to remind people of this

23:13

because sometimes you listen to a channel like this

23:15

and you think, God, there's all these huge transits happening

23:17

and some of them hit and some of them

23:19

miss. Well, this is Why? And this is also why

23:21

a nice little segue here that I recommend you

23:23

come come study with us because when you can

23:25

become your own astrologer it

23:27

gives you just a next

23:30

level to understanding and working

23:32

with everything. And if

23:34

that's just for you and your spiritual

23:36

practice there's just nothing more valuable in my

23:38

opinion for people who like astrology. On

23:41

a second level a lot

23:43

of people who develop these

23:45

skills like it or not are going to be Really

23:47

valuable people to read for others and

23:49

sometimes you don't want that you're

23:51

like, oh, I don't know but You

23:53

might have a gift, you know, and then

23:55

other times people like I just really want to use

23:58

this to help other people because I love the language and

24:00

I want to help people grow That's a

24:02

fantastic reason to come study with

24:04

us as well. So after I

24:06

sign off here check out the

24:08

the informational video that I've tagged

24:10

on and I will see you all

24:12

next week All right. Take it easy, everyone.

24:14

Bye. Hey, everyone. Thanks for sticking around.

24:16

I'm excited to tell you about our upcoming

24:18

program, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic.

24:20

It is our first year course in Hellenistic

24:22

Astrology that begins at the end of

24:24

June. June 22nd is our starting date. I'm

24:26

going to take you over to the

24:28

course page to tell you more about the

24:30

program and what you will learn while

24:32

you are in it. So here

24:34

we go over to the Nightlight

24:36

Astrology website. You can find this

24:39

at nightlightastrology .com. Click on the

24:41

courses tab. Go to the first

24:43

year course. Now this program

24:45

is ideal for people who maybe have

24:47

a little bit of background already

24:49

in astrology. Maybe you've done some studying

24:51

on your own independently, taken some

24:53

courses or webinars and workshops, but you're

24:55

looking to deep in your understanding

24:57

of astrology and maybe Hellenistic astrology in

24:59

particular has been calling to you.

25:01

I'll tell you more about what Hellenistic

25:03

astrology is in a minute but on the first year

25:05

course page you're going to find everything that the course includes. I

25:09

want to make the structure of the course clear

25:11

first and then at the end I'm going to

25:13

tell you five reasons that I think anyone might

25:15

have for studying astrology and you can see if you

25:17

check any of those boxes. First

25:19

of all there are 30 classes on

25:21

the year. It's just a little

25:23

under a year -long program with 30

25:25

webinars. Every webinar is two to three

25:27

hours long, including a lively Q &A

25:29

and conversational section after we finished

25:31

our lesson for the day. Each

25:34

of those lessons I lead personally through

25:36

live webinars so you can attend those live.

25:38

If you want to follow along at

25:40

your own pace and your own time on

25:42

your own schedule, you can always look

25:44

at the recordings and take those in. And

25:46

I'm going to show you what the

25:48

class page looks like so you can see

25:50

how you can interact with the course as

25:52

uniquely and creatively as you want to.

25:54

But you can either attend the live webinars

25:56

or listen to the recordings or audio

25:58

or video. In between

26:01

major units of study within those

26:03

30 classes, we have separate classes

26:05

outside of the 30 classes that

26:07

are essentially tutoring sessions led by

26:09

our staff, our course directors. We

26:12

have three of them for our

26:14

first year program. Three tutors that

26:16

help me guide every single class

26:18

you're in and lead study sessions

26:20

and are also staffing an interactive

26:23

group forum discussion where you can

26:25

Ask questions, look at charts, practice

26:27

what you're learning with all of

26:29

your classmates and with tutors there

26:31

to help you. They'll always

26:33

answer questions within a business

26:35

day. So it's a really

26:38

well -staffed, well -structured

26:40

program. In between those

26:42

major units of study and the breakout sessions,

26:44

we also have guest speakers that come in

26:46

throughout the year that you get free access

26:48

to. The recordings are archived for you

26:50

in your class folders, so you're getting people

26:52

within our curriculum. You're also getting to visit with

26:54

some astrologers who are outside of the nightlight

26:56

school, but we really admire their work and so

26:58

we bring them in. You

27:01

also have a ton of bonus material

27:03

with every lesson we have recommended, quizzes,

27:06

study guides, optional reading.

27:08

And that allows people who are

27:10

really, really intense, deep, studious types

27:12

to go as far as you

27:15

want to with the material. While

27:17

other people who are maybe content

27:19

to take things in at just

27:21

taking in the classes, that's there

27:23

for you too. So you can

27:25

go as deeply as you want

27:27

to. The class. as

27:29

the year goes on, goes

27:31

through major units of study in

27:33

ancient Hellenistic astrology. So if

27:35

you're not familiar with ancient Hellenistic

27:37

astrology, this is the

27:39

earliest form of Horoscopic astrology.

27:42

This is where the astrology that

27:44

you've probably learned today comes

27:46

from originally, and that makes some

27:48

of its features unique. Like,

27:50

for example, ancient astrologers utilized whole

27:52

sign houses. We study why

27:54

they used whole sign houses, how

27:56

they used them, and

27:59

we study the why

28:01

behind really everything. Houses,

28:03

signs, planets, aspects,

28:05

dignities, essential and accidental

28:07

dignities, delineation approaches, how

28:09

do you read and predict within a

28:11

natal chart? all of those theoretical

28:13

areas of astrology, we not only learn

28:16

how to do, but we learn

28:18

the why behind it. And this is

28:20

what I think people find most

28:22

empowering about the course is that ancient

28:25

astrology really helps to give you

28:27

the rationale for everything so

28:29

that you have the insight available

28:31

to go off script. What

28:33

I mean by that is like,

28:35

let's say you're learning about

28:37

a sign, Aries or Taurus or

28:39

Gemini, you know, something like

28:41

that. Ancient astrology won't just

28:43

give you a list of the

28:45

adjectives or keywords or descriptions of

28:47

say a sign or a

28:50

planet. It will give you an

28:52

underlying philosophical explanation that then

28:54

allows you to extrapolate from it

28:56

the kinds of lists that

28:58

you read in textbooks. which

29:00

means you'll have an understanding of

29:02

why everything on a list in a

29:04

textbook is there in the first place.

29:06

And you'll also have the insight and

29:09

creativity available to add things to the

29:11

list that are a part of your

29:13

own unique intuition and contribution to astrology. And

29:16

this is what ancient astrologers wanted

29:18

students of astrology to learn, the why

29:20

behind everything. So

29:22

this is a class where even

29:24

though you're seeing things like planet

29:26

signs, houses, dignities, aspects, and you're like,

29:28

oh, I've already learned about those

29:30

things, not if you haven't studied

29:32

Hellenistic astrology, I don't mean to sound

29:34

condescending, but like truly most people's

29:37

experience coming through this program is

29:39

wow I had no idea all that

29:41

I didn't know about the roots

29:43

of everything that I've I've understood

29:45

thus far about astrology so it really

29:47

is about digging into the philosophical

29:49

core of why we do everything

29:51

and then you have greater intuitive and

29:54

creative capacity as an

29:56

astrological crafts craftsman or craftswoman

29:58

So anyway, that's a brief explanation

30:00

of why I think Hellenistic astrology

30:02

is important, not to mention that ancient

30:05

astrology was really focused on our

30:07

ability to accurately describe and predict things

30:09

in the realm of karma, fate,

30:11

and destiny, whereas modern astrology's hallmark and

30:13

strength is psychological depth. And so

30:15

when you put the two together in

30:17

our program, which is why it's

30:19

called ancient astrology for the modern mystic,

30:21

I think you have something really

30:23

special. So on that note, you

30:25

can see everything that we cover here. There's a

30:27

lot of video with some of our alumni you

30:29

can watch. Everything is there on the

30:31

page. Now, there are

30:33

five reasons that I want to touch

30:35

on briefly before I tell you about

30:38

your payment options and need -based tuition. These

30:40

are five reasons to study astrology, that if

30:42

you mark any of these boxes, especially if you

30:44

mark several of them, then I think it's

30:47

a good indication that you might be ideal for,

30:49

this program might be an ideal fit. So

30:51

the first one is If you

30:53

find that astrology has become a part

30:56

of your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly

30:58

spiritual practice, it is a part of

31:00

how you lead an inner life.

31:02

And there is nothing more empowering than deepening

31:04

your connection to that language because that puts

31:06

you more in the driver's seat. It's always

31:08

good to have astrologers that you rely on,

31:10

teachers that you listen to. get a

31:12

little objective perspective especially when you're looking at

31:14

your own chart through a reading but there's really

31:16

nothing more empowering than learning to speak the

31:19

language at a deeper level for yourself and if

31:21

that calls to you if you want. To

31:23

understand things and be able to speak more

31:25

confidently and clearly about this sacred language that

31:27

you love. And this is a great reason

31:29

to take a structured program. Number two

31:31

is that you feel called to read charts

31:33

for people. Look, not everyone who takes our programs

31:35

is on a professional track, but we have

31:37

four years worth of professional training programs at Nightlight

31:39

that will prepare you to read professionally for

31:41

others if that's the path that you're on. Maybe

31:43

you don't even know if you're on that

31:45

path, that's fine too. Many people take our programs

31:47

just for the sake of their own personal

31:49

enrichment and again to be kind of. more in

31:51

the driver's seat with respect to your astrological

31:54

journey. You have more of an

31:56

understanding. You can be more confident

31:58

in reading symbols and experiencing transits with

32:00

your own understanding that you've cultivated.

32:03

But sometimes people want to read for other people. This

32:05

will definitely set you up to do that. We

32:07

have a certification track where you can take exams at

32:09

the end of every year. They're optional. You don't have

32:11

to if you're not on that level of interest. Number

32:13

three, you have

32:15

done a lot of self -study. You've heard things

32:18

from here and there, but you're looking to bring

32:20

it all together. it is overwhelming

32:22

to study astrology on your

32:24

own so if you want organization

32:26

structure and coherence what you're

32:28

getting in this program is going

32:30

on fifteen years of training

32:32

astrologers fifteen years of developing curriculum

32:34

that is. Has

32:36

in mind the overwhelm that many people

32:39

experience and this truck this program is

32:41

structured your one your two your three

32:43

however far you want to go with

32:45

our curriculum to give you an organized

32:47

structured. coherent way of understanding

32:49

the history and language of astrology

32:51

from both ancient times to modern

32:54

times in all of the vastness

32:56

that the field includes. And

32:58

also, as we go, we want to give

33:00

you the confidence that you are a

33:02

part now of an astrological lineage. Astrology

33:04

has always been practitioner -based. Coming through

33:06

nightlight, you are going to have the opportunity

33:08

to feel aligned with a lineage. If

33:10

you like my work, if you feel aligned with the

33:12

way I speak the language, then this might be

33:15

a good reason to come study with us. Now,

33:17

if you're seeking the why behind things, if

33:19

you're like, yeah, that's interesting, I get it, I

33:21

understand, but why? Why signs?

33:23

What's the difference between a sign and

33:26

a house? Why do they ever come up

33:28

with a sign and a house? What's

33:30

the distinction philosophically? Why does Mars represent this?

33:32

Why does Mars in this sign represent

33:34

that? If you are someone who feels empowered

33:36

by understanding the why behind things, you

33:38

are going to love this program because that's

33:40

how I am as a teacher. That's

33:42

how I am as a person. And that's

33:44

what this program is really all about.

33:46

Number five, you are looking for astrological community.

33:48

Look, I think nightlight is unique in

33:51

terms of the kind of warmth, acceptance, safety,

33:53

and inclusiveness that our community

33:55

includes intellectually, spiritually. We

33:59

are really pride ourselves on being

34:01

a peaceful kind of family. I'm a cancer,

34:03

right? So it's kind of a family

34:05

oriented environment. So anyway, I will

34:07

end it there. If you check any of

34:09

those boxes, you may want to consider studying

34:11

with us. Now I'm going to take you

34:13

over to two things. I want to show

34:15

you the dashboard. So here

34:17

is the Thinkific page. You're going to join

34:19

this and On your dashboard, you're gonna find

34:22

any courses that you've enrolled in at Nightlight,

34:24

and there are many, so you may end

34:26

up being involved in multiple courses, and you'll

34:28

find that they're all there on your dashboard.

34:30

Click on one of them, and it will take you in. You're

34:33

gonna find that on the left -hand side,

34:35

there's orientation instructions, course information, class

34:37

links and calendar, all the technical stuff

34:39

you need to know when you join the

34:41

course, and then you're gonna find that

34:43

there's, when you go through the lessons, that

34:45

the lesson includes the video, the

34:48

audio, the slides, the transcripts, the

34:50

Q &A box text if you

34:52

couldn't make it live and see

34:54

what people were talking about, flashcards,

34:56

homework, a bonus PDF with all

34:58

sorts of additional recommended reading, bonus

35:00

videos, additional video links for

35:02

bonus material. So every single time that

35:04

you want to visit something within

35:07

the course, everything is nicely organized. So

35:09

you can see here, I'm going

35:11

to pause this before it starts going,

35:13

but you can embed the

35:15

video right there. It's embedded and you

35:17

can watch it. And then

35:19

if you wanted to, you could

35:21

also, right here, you

35:23

could also download the video and watch it

35:25

on your own device. And that's

35:27

same for the audio as well. And then

35:30

as you go, you'll see all of the

35:32

lessons are laid out. The study sessions are

35:34

also recorded if you can't make those live.

35:36

So everything is nicely arranged on the website

35:38

for you. And that makes it a course

35:40

that if you wanted to take three years

35:42

to accomplish, you could take three years to

35:44

accomplish. If you want to take it for

35:46

the sake of getting certified, you have the full

35:48

year plus an additional year to take the exam. So,

35:51

you know, two years total that we

35:53

give people if you're on a professional track,

35:55

but most people complete the program in

35:57

a year and a lot of people, over

35:59

50 % of our students go on to

36:01

our year two and then our year

36:03

three and horary programs as well. A final

36:06

thing I'm going to show you is

36:08

right here. You're going to find, here

36:10

is the enrollment options at the bottom

36:12

of the first year course page. Again,

36:14

this is at nightlightastrology .com and you're

36:16

going to click on the first year

36:18

course, go to the bottom. The early

36:20

bird payment saves you several hundred dollars

36:22

off the cost of the course. That's

36:25

available till May 15th. Early bird installment

36:27

plan saves you on the installment plan,

36:29

regular cost of the course. That's also

36:31

only available until May 15th. And then

36:33

need -based tuition. All of our programs include

36:35

a need -based option where we give

36:37

you a sliding scale and we say

36:39

you pick your monthly tuition number within

36:41

this sliding scale, which is greatly reduced

36:43

off the normal tuition price. That is

36:45

for people who are on a fixed

36:47

or limited income, receiving disabilities, single mom,

36:49

whatever the case might be. We

36:51

want to make sure that nobody's priced out of

36:53

studying astrology. So you don't have to feel any shame.

36:55

If that is you, if you need help, if

36:58

you want to take this, but you need to make

37:00

it work within a tight budget. We get it.

37:02

Times are tough right now. We don't think people should

37:04

be priced out of studying a sacred subject like

37:06

astrology. So we've been offering need -based pricing for 15

37:08

years. Nightlight is a

37:10

donation -based school. It started that way. We have

37:12

a sliding scale, so it's kind of like donation.

37:14

You get to choose your rate anyhow. So

37:17

if that's something that will help you, please

37:19

use it. Thank you for listening to this. I

37:21

hope it gave you a really Deep

37:23

and comprehensive introduction to what the course

37:26

is all about and why you might find

37:28

it Exciting to come study with us

37:30

starting at the end of June So any

37:32

questions you have about the program as

37:34

you're visiting the course email us info at

37:36

nightlightastrology .com We'll be glad to talk about

37:38

anything that you have questions about We

37:40

are here and we have a wonderful staff

37:42

of people at nightlight who will be

37:45

a part of your learning experience and are

37:47

all glad to help you Alright, that's

37:49

it. We'll see you again later. Bye You