Hello everyone. Thank you so much for listening to embodied astrology. My name is Renee and I'll be your host for the next hour or so. I'm a Consulting astrologer and a sensate intuitive. I understand astrology as a language for deepening our awareness and experience as embodied beings. I think astrology is such an amazing tool and generous language it gets us. Us a lot of creative context for getting to know ourselves better understanding who we are as human beings having a Earthly experience in our relationships in our world all the stuff that we're going through. So in this podcast, that's what I'm going to be talking about. I'll be looking at current astrology transits what's been going on the last couple of weeks. It's coming up the next couple of weeks. I'll be thinking about the way that astrology relates to our Bodies and I'll be offering a number of tools and suggestions for approaching your embodied experience as a way to get to know astrology a little bit better in today's episode. I'm going to be talking about the full moon in Sagittarius exact on June 17th, 2019. I'll be discussing how the energy of Sagittarius and the energy of Gemini as the opposite sign of Sagittarius and the full moon is always an opposition how these energies live in our body. He's how they are embodied and how their symbols or ways of thinking about our physiological States and what happens in our bodies and our embodied experience. So astrology is not a set of 12 separated things that people are it's actually a really vast and nuanced way of describing The Human Experience and all of us contain the energies of Gemini and Sagittarius. Is so be talking about that today. 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That's a conversation between myself and the folks that big Dark Energy podcast Rose blakelock and Golem of clova one of my favorite astrology podcasts and so much fun, too. Listen to and it was so much fun to connect with them and you can listen to our conversation where we talked about all kinds of things. You can find the link also in the show notes or from embodied astrology.com. Alright, everyone. Let's get into this astrology. Hey friends. Do you have something you want to say or information that you want to share? Have you thought about making a podcast? If you haven't heard about anchor it's the easiest way to make a podcast. Let me explain first of all, it's free to use and you can use it on your phone or on your computer. There are built-in creation tools that allow you to record and edit your podcast right from your device. Anchor will distribute your podcast for you so it can be heard on. 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Around what to do this podcast on so usually the process I'll spend a bunch of time kind of thinking about the themes of the new moon or the full moon or whatever season we're entering into and then I get to the day of the recording and whatever comes out comes out this morning. It felt important to connect with a really deep embodiment and sensation of this full moon and the signs that it's a Activating so the full moon is always in opposition between the Sun and the Moon and currently the sun is in the sign of Gemini. It's about five days away from moving into the sign Cancer. So it's been in Gemini for the last three weeks plus and the Sun and Gemini is bringing a lot of attention and awareness into the Gemini themes as I talked about in the Gemini season horoscopes and podcast Gemini is associated to the mind and to the mental. Sharon astrologically and over the course of the last month. I have been very aware of my mind and very aware of my thoughts and perhaps that's in part to just thinking about astrology and knowing what this season is, but I also feel like some of the other themes of Gemini such as Communications exchange hearing listening comprehension and understanding have been really big themes for me as well working with clients is always a reflection for me on how I'm feeling. Astrology, of course, but the issues that people are coming in with a lot of them also have to do with communication and exchange and working skillfully with the mind and what happens in the mind which of course our thoughts so over the course of the last few weeks not only the Sun but also the planets Mercury and Venus more recently have also been in Gemini and Mercury as the planetary ruler. Of Gemini is increasing. The Gemini Vibe and Venus is actually in the esoteric astrology tradition considered to be the sole centered ruler of Gemini. And so through this lens Venus is also in one of its home signs with Mercury's relationship to Gemini. We really do have this idea of the mind and the mental identifications and mental identifications happen through language and through whatever. Ever it is that kind of precedes language, but whatever that is is some kind of locating or identifying and fixing of a personal Awareness on some kind of idea or some kind of concept Venus as the esoteric ruler of Gemini brings in the knowing and experience of connection and language being too. Sort of love. So with Venus as this kind of exalted Gemini possibility. What we have is a connective ability or a mental ability to move more towards love and to move more towards relationship. So over the course of these last couple of weeks. I know that for me my attention has been greatly in the language and the stories that are filling my head and then this awareness of the balance. between how language and story can influence my perception and felt State and experience and also how language and the mental state can really get in the way of my own connection and in these past couple weeks have really been trying to sit with this idea and practice this idea that I can connect through a heart space and through a relational space, especially when I noticed that my mind is Going off doing the thing that it does which is usually move really fast and loop around as I think many of our minds do Gemini is representative of a binary. There's a this side and that side of something and this is really what our minds do they function. Well, their gift is in contrast and comparison and so our mind see effing and they go that's that thing. That's not this thing and we go not this not that It's this it's that over and over again. And we do this with ourselves. We do this with our stories or personal stories where we identify and we go it's this way. It's not that way but Gemini is also representative of the Curiosity of the mind and the learning process that wants to know what's it for you what's going on with this? Where did the story come from? You say? It's this way, but why and the Gemini? Energy is related to Early Childhood early cognitive development. And if you are fortunate enough to be around young kids the way that they questioned and particularly the way that they questioned the knowledge or the assumptions that you might not question. Any more is a real gift to be around. And so this kind of experience where maybe with a kid you might remember this in yourself or still do this in yourself, but definitely kids are teachers of this and you go. Well this thing is this way and they're like, but why and they want to know the answer and they're not really satisfied sometimes with the answers so they want to go well why but why why that answer why why why so the Curiosity ends the binary is one way that we can think of Gemini in its function for all of us and how we contrast and compare and Shin how we can hold the complexity of different answers or different points of view the multiplicity of things but with Geminis correlation to the mind, there's also the state that we can get in of identifying with the thoughts and so language comes in and of course, you know this experience because we all have it most of the time we become our thoughts wherever the mind is focusing that Lee creates the container for perception, it creates the container for experience. So as we continue with this podcast with the experience of talking for me or listening for you and some kind of conversation and exchange that we're having in this space. Let's take a minute and just get present with the mind. So an invitation now is to bring your awareness into your body. And take a couple deep breaths. And whatever my words have been doing for you as they've entered your ears and entered your awareness notice the residue notice how your thoughts might be responding to my thoughts. Or other thoughts or other stories that maybe in the background or in the foreground for you and how those identifications ideas Sensations are coming in. And just take a moment to notice what's present in your mind? What images what thoughts what locations What feelings? Usually for me the moment that I start to bring awareness into my mind and into my thoughts is also the moment that I start to check out and I'll you know intentionally begin to meditate or we can call this meditation or an approach to meditation by noticing kind of just noticing what's going on and my mind is real slippery as I think many. People's minds are so as I start to bring awareness and attention and still my thoughts or try and notice where they are another part of my mind kind of slips into whatever is Habitual and often. These are tasks or memories in the yoga Sutra. There's an offering around what kinds of thoughts we can have. And so it is said in the Sutra it's offered in the Sutra that there are five different kinds of thoughts. There are improper thoughts or improper knowing incorrect knowing maybe it would be a better way of saying it correct knowing memory sleep and Imagination and out of all of those kinds of thoughts. They all produce Sensations and some are pleasurable and some are not pleasurable. But those kinds of thoughts of course are the fluctuations and the identifications that come in in a very slippery way. So incorrect knowing might be some kind of delusion or fantasy or reactivity that's boiling up. That's kind of surface. Seing the places where we kind of circle around distress are often places of incorrect knowing or where we're getting hooked on something where we're thinking that something is the way it is and we're having a really strong opinion is usually a place of incorrect knowing and incorrect knowing can produce a kind of heat and agitation and the body as well as dullness. Correct knowing I think is something that's probably a little bit harder to Define because what is correct my experience of correct knowing or when I feel like I get into that space as the closest thing to emptiness. It feels like presence and when my mind can abide there in a state of presence, sometimes thoughts come in, but the way that I'm perceiving those thoughts as a kind of commentary or temporary. Ocean but the feeling of the correct knowing is the knowing that those thoughts are temporary that they are a kind of commentary and that they're not really the reality of something memory as another kind of thought is another slippery sensation. And so this happens to me all the time when I sit and think I'm going to meditate like I'll sit and I'll have about two breaths of presence may be correct knowing I'm feeling myself and space and time without attachment to the thing that I'm thinking and then something will remind me of something and my mind will drift off into some kind of trajectory or memory or into imagination, which is another kind of thought into some fantasy about the future and it's also just as often that my mind kind of gets sleepy and so sleep is another kind. Thought and to kind of go back to this idea of the mental state being related to Gemini Gemini is this energy that is associative. So it moves forward and back between one thing and another and our memories can trigger our imaginations. Our imaginations can be the kind of a Vortex or the foundation for both incorrect. Young and potentially correct knowing sleep is a place where memory dwells all of the time and Imagination can lead to so all of these different kinds of thoughts. They're associating to each other all the time. There's always connections between one thing that arises in mental Consciousness. And another thing. So with the symbolism of Gemini as the associative mind and Associative mind it travels and it'll grasp one thing and then the next thing and then the next thing so how Association works is one idea stimulates another idea. And usually the way that ideas are stimulated becomes fairly habitual and this is basically how we learn. So in a state of active learning we can make an association we go, uh a equals SB or one plus one equals two and then when we've made some kind of Association when we have experienced that it functions, it makes sense. Then it becomes a habit and an expectation the ways that our minds Loop inhabit can again Loop between these different states of thinking an example here is if I have a memory that gets stirred up I might easily And jump into an imagination. I'll have a memory that comes up of some kind of painful experience and then I'll jump into an imagination where I somehow relieve the pain I prove myself right or I Avenged something or I have a memory that jumps up and then I slip into incorrect knowing I start to ruminate I start to project story into other people. Maybe that have been there in my memory or other aspects of that. Emery and then this might lead me into a state of sleep the state of numbness where I kind of shut out or shut down. So with Gemini with the way that it works these loops and functioning of the Mind happen really kind of unconsciously and I used the word slippery a couple of minutes ago, and I really feel it like that the way that our minds Loop and the mental identifications feels so far beyond any kind of of conscious control for me most of the time and meditation is one of the times that I can really practice being present with the way that my mind travels and one of the ways that I can be really present is by tuning into my breath and another offering that comes through the yoga tradition, which is where I've encountered it but probably is present in many other places is the correlation between the Mind and the breath and so in yoga philosophy, there's this kind of saying that Prana equals chitta and chitta is a Sanskrit word for the substance of the mind and the substance of the subjective experience. And Prana is a word for the breath Prana is also referring to kind of basic Life Energy what fills up the material nature here on Earth and allows it to Express so let's again just kind of tune into the mines and you've been listening to me and I've been talking so there's this residue of words. And as I start to pay attention to myself to that residue of words, I can feel the busyness in my own mind and maybe you can feel it in yours. And together through our differences of time and space. Let's take a couple of deep breaths. And allow your mind to turn towards your breath with curiosity. and notice where your inhale begins How does it move into your body? Where does it spread? Where does it fill? Notice the quality of your exhalation. And just with that with one or two or three intentional breaths. Notice what happens to the sensation in the mind? Can feel for myself the way that my mind suddenly just gets a lot more still and the buzzing busyness of words and mental focus gets softer. It gets more spacious and one of the things that we can do to really work skillfully with the mind as to work intentionally with the breath the first or the second Sutra in the yoga sutras that Yoga, which is a word of course for Union for linking the mind with the body or the mind with the heart or the small soft with the greater Consciousness in the greater self that yoga is the cessation of the thought forms and the cessation of the identification with the thought forms. So how do we practice this paying attention to breath is one way another way that we can practice is by giving the Mind tasks. And of course focusing on the breath is a task and a very worthwhile task a task to practice all the time another task for the mind that I particularly enjoy especially working with Gemini energy is to create a link between mind and Earnest I've been practicing this recently with my hands and my arms and the hands and the arms are ruled by Gemini and medical astrology. They have Association to Gemini and then two Gemini's ruling planet Mercury. So just to kind of give give the background to this again Gemini is the sign that describes the way that we communicate it is the symbol of our ability to to learn to listen and to share their own experiences and the way that we articulate our own experiences based on the tools that we've been given to articulate such as language and such as gesture and in the body Gemini and Mercury rule the communicative functions, so we have the portions of the nervous system that have to do with communication how we perceive information how we process And then how we deliver it others, but we also have our the substance of our words which is the breath the air in the lungs and then the way that we can gesture so the collarbones the arms and the hands are Gemini and Mercury ruled and I've been doing this exercise recently that I've found really satisfying when my mind is jumping around from you know, everything on Earth. to everything on Earth and this exercise is also really helping me with pain that I have in my hands and my wrists and so if you're also a person who does a lot of typing or writing or you have tension in your neck and shoulders and experience pain in your hands, you might also enjoy this exercise but in a kind of more energetic and integrating way this exercise is one way that we can practice with Gemini which is to create a Conscious link between mind and body. So if you want to do this exercise with me, you have to be able to look at your hands and you have to be able to use your hands for this exercise. So if you're driving or doing something like, you know cooking you might need to take a break or come back to this. But if you're in a place where you can use your hands and pay attention to them then bring your hands together. Other and press your palms and your fingers together. And then just take a look at your hands for a second and turn your hands so that you look at your left hand and then you look at your right hands and you'll be looking at the fingernail side of the hand and get a connection for yourself between your eyes and your hands so that when you look at one hand you go. That's my right hand. You look at the other hand. That's my left hand. And then rub your hands together and maybe you hear my hands rubbing together. And as you rub your hands together, you can feel your skin heat up the friction of the rubbing creating sensation between your hands and then finish rubbing your hands together and let the hands just move apart a little bit. You might feel kind of a tingling through your palms and through your hands. Okay, now hold your hands maybe about six or eight inches away from each other the Palms facing in and we're just going to create links from the mines to each of the fingers. And so you can look at your thumbs and use your mind to tell your thumbs to bend in. So you're just flexing your thumbs. You're just wiggling your thumbs and your using your minds to tell your thumbs to move and you're also using your Things to tell your other fingers to not move. And then you can let your thumbs be still and look at your pointer fingers your second fingers and now use your minds to bend your pointer fingers towards each other. Now as you tell your pointer fingers to move, you're also really trying to get as present as you can with them so that the other fingers are not moving and if this is already starting to feel like a little impossible notice what happens with your mind and if you get really kind of focused and intent and like gripped around this task and let your mind stay relaxed just know that this is something to practice it's going to get harder as we go. So now if you can bring your attention into Your middle fingers and use your minds to connect to your middle fingers and then just take the middle fingers for words. the middle fingers towards each other and here I find that it's really hard to get them to move independently from the 4th fingers and maybe you you're feeling that as well or from the second or with fingers, too. And if it starts to feel really challenging you can take a pause and massage one hand with the other and feel the length of your finger bone and follow your finger bone into your hand. So you'll feel the length of your finger move into the the longer bone of your hand. And each of your fingers actually has a structural relationship to your shoulder and you might just With without kind of getting into all of that Anatomy, you might just give a squeeze from your middle finger down the kind of middle of the arm and through your elbow and up into the middle of your shoulder. And you might just imagine here the connection of your middle finger all the way up into your shoulder. And then when you've done that you could try it again and see if you can. Tell your middle fingers to just move a little bit independently of the other fingers. And then you can go onto your fourth fingers to your ring fingers and if you're finding again, so if you're finding that it's it's challenging to move one finger independent of the others. You can take a couple breaths are a couple moments to just do some sensing to feel how your finger is relating to your hand and how your hand relates to your arm and your arm relates to the shoulder and you might imagine Line of connection from the tip of the finger into the shoulder. And this kind of exercise of asking your minds to relate to one part of the body and looking at that part of the body so you can look at your fifth fingers your little fingers and go. Okay. I see you I sense you really try and bring your attention into that part of your body. And then I move you I asked you to move is a wonderful way to use the focus of our minds and to start to hone them and to train And as we bring more and more attention, in this case into the hands the hands also begin to know themselves and I feel this with my fingers where when I look at my fingers and I named them and I say, okay, I see you. I feel you when you move I'm going to move with you. I'm going to let my sensation travel with your movement and this process is building intelligence in my hands that's allowing the intelligence. That's innate in my hands and my fingers to kind of be awakened and stimulated to know itself. And then it's giving my mind to something to do and that something is a relationship not so much a loop or the habitual kind of pathway in my mind might take otherwise. So if you enjoy that little exercise maybe just bring it into your daily life a little bit. I've been taking pauses about once a day. To do this with myself trying to really build a relationship between my mind and my hands and in that relationship is also a gesture of what we're offering out what we're using our hands for in the world. We're creating and a little bit of a ceremony to bring more relationship and awareness into that creation. So we've been in Gemini season for almost a month. We're about to move into cancer season in Gemini season. There's a stimulation of of the mental identification and of language and connection of all kinds where does language come from where do our thoughts come from here? We have the reflection of Gemini and Sagittarius and that is today's full moon. So the moon as I mentioned a few hours ago was in Sagittarius. The full moon is now beginning to separate its beginning to move into its waning cycle. But this is just in the last few hours. So Sagittarius as the opposite of Gemini is the embodiment of teachers mentors beliefs. How do we learn to think at all? We learn from people who are taller than us. We learn from Big Ideas. We learn from belief systems from religions. From philosophies and that is what Sagittarius represents in the language of astrology. It is the way that our thoughts are formed from the construction of Truth belief systems. I've been reading this book called sapiens that I'm really enjoying and in this book, there's a lot of kind of unpacking of human evolution. So humans have a biological Evolution and then we also have cultural Evolution and the cultural evolution is the formation and expansion of beliefs and beliefs are what binds culture so we have religious beliefs. We have beliefs in nationality or identifications with different ethnicities and different backgrounds. The cultural beliefs that we share with our people and with our groups are in I think large part if not completely where our thoughts arise from. We learn our languages. We learn our expectations. We learn our assumptions and then these get filtered through our information processors are internal information processing and they become our words and how we understand the world. Around us and this is the balance between Sagittarius in Gemini in Gemini. We filter through the information and we make it make sense for ourselves and Sagittarius gives us the the information it gives us this big picture. It gives us the possibility with all signs. We have their exaltation their beauty and we also have their detriment or their wretchedness and when they become problems so Gemini, I is a beautiful sign when we're curious when we're connecting when we're using language and thought skillfully it is not so great of a sign when we're getting caught up in the thoughts when we're really identifying with the mental looping when we're giving in to our distractions and the way that the Mayans can associate very unskillful e and kind of based in some state of unconsciousness. Sagittarius is in its exaltation when it is vast and expanding when we're really pushing into the edges of our knowing when we're seeking to move into larger perspective. Sagittarius is in its detriment when it's opinionated and fundamentalist and preachy when we get hold of some kind of larger truth or belief system and then we think that we know something and then we want to like tell other people about it. I certainly know this for myself being a person who thinks I know things quite often, you know being in that space of like, oh, I've got this idea. I really need to share. It is very much a Sagittarian experience. But anytime we think we know something anytime we we think we've got the truth then usually what we've got is a box that were stuck in and so Sagittarius and it's exaltation is how we move into Two expansion of the Mind the axis of Gemini Sagittarius is the axis of beliefs and our open-mindedness our curiosity. It's the axis of our communication and knowledge the expression of knowledge. It's how we give language to personal truth Sagittarius. As a fire sign is personal all the fire signs have to do with the person and and personal truth is you know, what we believe in and what we believe in really influences how we communicate and how we're going to be open or not two other ideas. This axis is how we use language to connect truths and my personal truth in your personal truth are going to be different and if we can find a way to connect and to get curious to use our words and our gestures and our facial expressions to inform one another is truth Then we can grow in our Consciousness. And so this is also the axis of learning and mental expansion. And in this axis we get to really play with the Power of Words and language and concept to inform and shape the minds to grow our beliefs to expand our truths and to evolve in our expectations Sagittarius in the body rules the hip joints and the thighs and so So you might notice here how there's a polarity in a balance with Gemini. Gemini rules the upper limbs the joints of the shoulders the arms and the hands and Sagittarius rules the place where our legs connect to our centrality to are axial bodies Our spines and our torsos Sagittarius as a symbol is what we stand in and rise from if you think about the hip joint as a symbol where are Eggs meet our spine the hips give us freedom of movement and they give us the ability to travel and to move to into new terrain to hike to climb to elevate its where our lower bodies and kind of our foundations and in our foundations. We might are a might just name for a moment that we have Capricorn our rules our Traditions our structure. Sirs in the knees and then Aquarius our societies and kind of larger social Concepts in our ankles and then the collective Pisces in our feet. So the the lower limbs the collective the the social the society and then the traditions and the rules there an inker and our belief systems, of course rest. On the those previous signs are they rest on those ideas are hips are resting on the stability of our knees the adaptiveness of our ankles and then the connection of our feet into the ground. So when we can kind of think of Sagittarius as the symbol we can also think about the relationship between the symbols of Gemini and Sagittarius. Tereus in this larger framework and in this embodiment, so maybe you've heard this before like if you want to run faster, it's not so much. It's not completely about your legs. It's also about your arms. So if you want to run faster pump your arms harder, there's this relationship between the hips the lower Limbs and the upper limbs that it's pretty important and that relationship. Evolves into a contralateral awareness in the body. So when you walk and your left arm swings forward and your right leg swings forward that kind of function of the homo sapien to be upright and bipedal that were walking and the opposite limbs are swinging forward at the same time. This gives us the ability to come into midline and to balance with some kind of central. Eeyore forward-moving Focus the contralateral pattern evolves from What's called the homo lateral pattern and that's left side right side. So to get into this place, we have to move out of a binary out of going that's it. That's it. We've got to be able to put both both sides forwards at the same time. They have to balance each other. So maybe maybe even In this or hopefully you're following this as my mind is associating between the embodiment and the symbol of the sign and the concepts of the sign. So when we are working really skillfully and beautifully with the possibility of these signs Sagittarius and Gemini what we get is a central axis. We get a thread of Integrity that we can follow that keeps us in our uprightness. And that of brightness is where our ability to conceive of larger perspective and experience meets our capacity to learn where we can grow our minds where we can grow our expectations where we can notice the the looping pattern of the mind and how our thoughts might actually impede perception and where we can get curious allow our thoughts to grow expand our perception expand our truth. This is a And it's a path of integrity and it's a path of evolution and for me when I feel into Gemini and Sagittarius, I really feel into the potential of evolution for the human spirit for the function of the mind and for the ways that we can Elevate and awaken in our lives, which I think is everybody's Birthright and potential. Now this axis of Gemini and Sagittarius has been greatly stimulated over the Last nine months or so since Jupiter moved into Sagittarius last November and Jupiter is the planetary ruler of Sagittarius. And what Jupiter does is it teaches us and it expands and experience. It brings things to the Forefront of our awareness so that we can learn and grow in the body Jupiter rules the liver. I heard from one of my teachers that the liver does so many jobs that We couldn't even fill an entire set of Psych encyclopedias with all of the stuff that the liver does and doctors are still finding out how much stuff that the liver does and this is the essence of Jupiter. How much can we process? How much can we digest the liver is one of the places where we produce the enzymes that we need to digest anything. It has a lot to do with how we can absorb information and nutrition how we can detox and Keep ourselves in a state of balance. So Jupiter in the sign of its ruler ship Jupiter in Sagittarius is a metaphor for a lot of what we're doing right now. I think with information and with personal truth how much information can we bring in in our lives? How can we absorb it? How do we make sense of it? And ultimately, how do we grow in it? How do we expand our perception? How do we give from this place? Jupiter is a gift its It's a benefic it has a very generous energy in the Zodiac and it's one of the places where we find our talent where we really want to give. So as you kind of consider these themes definitely think about where Sagittarius is in your birth chart what house it rules what house Gemini rules and in the place that Sagittarius rules in your chart is a place where for the last nine months or so and through December of this year. You're you're growing lot your We reaching into an expansion of possibility and in order to get into that expansive place where you can really give your gifts where you can grow into the next level of your Evolution. There has to be a process which is probably really stimulated right now around waking up to the mental identifications waking up to the ways that the Mind might keep your perspective smaller. I do want to take a moment just to give a plug for a rich treat that I'm offering in September that is going to be focused on Jupiter. We're going to be working with Jupiter and Capricorn which is a cycle that begins this December and from September 29th through October 2nd. I'll be leading a retreat in southern Washington where we work with Jupiter and Capricorn as a symbol and it's like Alchemy magic and embodiment Retreat kind of Resting into these symbols and exploring their possibility and using them to set intentions for 2020 and how we want to use our energy next year. So if you want information on that, it's in the show notes and you can find it at embodied astrology.com as well. So to get back to Jupiter. There's a lot of emphasis on Jupiter with this full Moon. The Moon was conjunct to Jupiter yesterday. That's June 16th, and then the son I'm in Gemini was opposing Jupiter at the last quarter square or the second quarter Square in Virgo. And that was on June 10th. So the sun and the moon are our right and our Left Eye's astrologically our objective kind of larger Consciousness that the sun brings it brings attention into something. The sun in Gemini is opposing Jupiter. It's really asking us to get in touch with what we believe in. What are deeper truths? What are we in Korean? And the Moon is our subjective awareness. It's the personal experience and so in these last few days you may have kind of felt the way is that your belief systems are really functioning in your body now Jupiter right now as I'm recording. This is in the second of three exact squares with Neptune and this aspect was exact yesterday as well. I'm June. 16th the first aspect occurred in January. It was exact on January 14th and the third and final aspect will be in September on the 21st. Now a square is a challenge and so whenever two planets are square to one another we get the challenge of they're combining energies if you just imagine a square it's a 90 degree angle. These are two energies that are working towards fairly different aims. Their energy has to find a way to work together. And in order to understand this, let's take a moment and talk about Neptune. So Neptune is currently in Pisces and Neptune is What's called? The modern ruler of Pisces and Jupiter is actually the classical ruler of Pisces. So Pisces is an energy that in the body rules are endocrine system. The way that an emotional state can change very rapidly sometimes but completely and the physiology of an entire system can shift with endocrine. So one little drop of cortisol in the bloodstream or adrenaline or dopamine. These are chemicals that our bodies produce and shift our entire state of awareness. The endocrine system is stimulated by and in With the emotional system and when we feel things oftentimes, there's a chemical foundation. So like if you're feeling really in love your body is experiencing increased dopamine production and the emotional system can also trigger the endocrine system. So if we're feeling really fearful, for example our bodies, then we'll release more stress hormones so we become More sympathetic and ready to to reactor to respond in a protective way in a more conceptual framework Pisces rules, the larger experience of things and therefore it can't really be articulated because the larger experience of things is always too big to really understand. So we have kind of global culture or Evolution could think of pie Season that way it's like how did we get to the place that we are who knows it was billions and billions of influences inter permeating with each other and therefore Pisces is also Associated to deeper meanings and larger truths such as God or whatever name you want to give God a sense of the spiritual Neptune in Pisces in their exaltation and their highest manifestation are loved. And the kind of love that is Oneness. It's non separation. It's non self. It is moving past the ego past the separated self, but Neptune in Pisces in their detriment are the ways that we get completely confused about what the self is and grasp to fantasies and Illusions and delusions. So the square between Jupiter and Neptune if Think about this conflict between truths and personal truths and then like a larger truth or a larger one or spiritual connection or confusion. We can feel some of the friction that is definitely so present in the world right now. And I know it's very present for me. I know it's also very present for my clients and for my friends who have been talking with this kind of question of like, well, what do I believe Leave in and what am I going to choose to believe in? My personal truth is based on story. It's based on my experience. It's based on my past. But I can also grow my personal truth can expand. I can tell a different story or I can evolve the story that I'm telling when I notice how my beliefs are limiting me. How can they grow? How can I let my self my mind my opinions my Goals grow and evolve and the other option right now is delusion. It is getting really attached to fundamentalist ideas to this is right or this is wrong to some kinds of opinion. It is like an increasing Erasure of that correct knowing space of that space where we can be present. aunt and an increasing attachment to the incorrect knowing which is it feels like bombastic or hyperbolic a lot of the times where we get really convinced around something when the ego or the self become aggrandized and that doesn't always mean really confident sometimes when the ego is really stimulated as when were the most insecure but it's when the self becomes what's centered so this Square between Jupiter and Neptune Is really stimulating a lot of this I think for a lot of people and as I mentioned a couple of moments ago, this is the second of three squares. So if you think back to mid-January, you might come up with with some themes and then you might also consider again where Sagittarius is in your birth chart and where Pisces is in your birth chart because these are the places that are stimulating each other in Conflict right now now Neptune is particularly activated right now. It's receiving A lot of aspects it is receiving a sextile from Saturn in Capricorn and a trying from Mars and Mercury in cancer. So the sextile from Saturn in Capricorn is a lending influence. This is bring the stability of Saturn and the stability of Capricorn to Neptune in Pisces. This is helping us to get a little bit more Discerning to clarify. Ourselves how we're working with our own states of Illusion or expansion the trying from Mars and Mercury is bringing in a lot of water energy. So Neptune is in Pisces Mars and Mercury are in cancer in the astrological language water is the emotional space and the feeling space and Mars in cancer is stirring up a lot of feeling it's bringing awareness to our emotional defense mechanisms and And mercury in cancer is bringing a lot of attention to the ways that we Bond and kind of the the cords of our relationships Mercury and Mars are also transiting right now with the North Node and the North Node is one of the eclipse points and we are now entering into a clip season. So as of next week when the sun moves into cancer, the next lunar cycles will be eclipsed Cycles will have both a solar and lunar eclipses. and this means that there's a lot of potential for Change and evolution with these themes and so the cancer themes cancer rules the home and we're we're safe as a concept in our bodies that rules the stomach where were nurtured and kind of how we feel comfort and how we Bond so themes of inclusion home tribe claiming who claims Us and how we claim ourselves and how we claim each other mothering and parenting and boundaries and safety, how do we protect our home how do we open our home to others these are Big energetic and emotional themes right now for many people and with Mercury and Mars there there's a lot of energy to shift hopefully to shift into evolve so Mars was trying to Neptune On June 14th, and Mercury was trying to Neptune on June 16th. So again, the trying is a flowing energy. It links these two signs really he's fully water flows right into water the water of cancer the very personal emotional state flows into the water of Pisces the non-personal collective emotion. On the 18th, which is tomorrow Mercury and Mars will come into an exact conjunction and Saturn and Neptune will come into their exact sextile. So as I'm recording this full moon podcast the themes right now of our discernment our ability to put some container around our feelings to hold them with At least somewhat of an objective space the Saturn in Capricorn influence that allows us to be fairly dispassionate is giving a lending influence to this other energy. That's really encouraging us to open up to become more inclusive to notice the ways that we're working with our emotions that we're working with our bonds. And I think for a lot of us this means coming into greater Clarity with our bonds and coming into to Greater Clarity with our emotional intelligence. That's what I'm hoping that it means for a lot of us. That's what I'm experiencing in myself is kind of the ability to work with my emotional self in a more rational logical way. It doesn't mean that the emotions aren't there. It just feels like I have a little bit less attachment with them. I can see them functioning doesn't mean they're not functioning, but I can Watch them functioning with enough separation that I can start to do something about it and I've been really appreciating that sextile from soldering these last couple days Mars and Mercury have also been in an opposition with Saturn and these aspects were also exact on the 14th in the 16th. So Mars opposed Saturn on the 14th and Mercury opposed Saturn on the 16th and the axis between Cancer and Capricorn, which is getting stimulated. is doing this work around the the softness and the interiority of cancers emotional state and then the container and the boundary and discipline and and discernment of Capricorn state so themes here our discernment dedication humility and refinement of the ways that we work with our own Egos and relationship and connection or increasing rigidity authoritarianism and War in our action and our words, which is a more kind of detrimental manifestation of these opposition's as we Of into the next week as I mentioned Mercury and Mars are forming their exact conjunction tomorrow Saturn and Neptune are forming their exact sextile. Then the day after Wednesday, June 19th Mercury and Mars will both go on to oppose Pluto in Capricorn. So next month. I'm going to do quite a long episode or not quite a long but an in-depth episode on Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn. I'm going to be talking specifically to Saturn returns and people who are working with their Saturn return right now are really wanting to understand Saturn and their chart. So make sure to listen in next month with the podcasts there, but briefly as mercury and Mars move into their opposition with Pluto these themes around deep transformation of underlying patterns and specifically the ways that we have attached to rules internalised rules in our Chips are what is transforming Pluto in Capricorn is a transformation of the rules and it's a transformation of long-held structure. So in your life notice what's coming up in your relationships and in your emotional bonds? And anyways that you are addressing your own internalized rules. I'm going to relate with you this way. I'm going to relate with you that way or you're addressing boundaries or you're addressing these kind of Silent expectations where you met maybe feeling into something coming into some kind of expectation or assumption about it taking that as truth, not questioning further Mercury and Mars in their opposition to Pluto this week really helped us to kind of move out of that and to move into potentially radical transformation of the way that we connect big themes for a lot of people right now are around attachment and emotional attachment and how we Lend ourselves or give ourselves to attachments or how we resist and Boundary around them so notice what's going on for you and check in with embodied astrology on Instagram. If you want to stay up-to-date with me, I'm posting about all of these aspects little stories about them. And then you can also check out as usual you can check out the embodied astrology seasonal planners and in the Gemini season planner, I talk about these aspects as well and the planners Are available to subscribers and you can subscribe at any time at any amount per month for these expanded planners and the next planner will be coming out on Friday. That's a June 21st. That is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. It's the day that the sun moves into the sign of Cancer and it's also the day that Neptune turns retrograde and Neptune will be retrograde through the end of November. And so these themes that I'm talking about in terms of Neptune and the For our increased intuition sensitivity to Collective emotion working more deeply with these larger spiritual truths is going to be a really big theme over the course of these next six seven months or so and in the next week after we get into cancer season Venus will go on to form a number of aspects with these same planets and these aspects are more challenging Venus. Susan Gemini right now and it'll form an opposition to Jupiter and in conjunct to Saturn and a squared and Neptune in the week the first week of cancer season. So the way that we're using the Gemini capacity for language and capacity for connection really does have to come into a place of much deeper relationality and all these themes are definitely going to continue to be present and learning spaces. So to summarize the podcast happy full moon. The full moon is always an illumination and relationship when we come into relationship. We come into awareness of difference and curiosity about difference allows us to expand our perception and expand our awareness some questions to consider at this full moon some Reflections to reflect on what and where are the roots of your Watson identifications, how is your mind being stretched towards a larger truth right now? And what is it that you are willing to stretch your mind for how do you connect with this expansion in the possibility of your own expansion and evolution? What are you working through transforming and releasing so that you can become more inclusive and inclusivity for me feels like a deeper state of love the more more that I can open my mind and become curious less identified with my thoughts the more I feel like I can actually love myself. I don't need to prove something. I'm not in a space of constant comparison and the more comfortable and loving I feel with myself the better my relationships get the more I can actually relate the more I can be in that space of not knowing not needing to assert but just being in the essence and being in the quality of connection. Action, so how nice is that really feels like a relief when I get there and definitely feels like something to practice as we move into these next few weeks the aspects that Venus in Gemini will be making Neptune turning retrograde. Remember that language is a tool for connection and language happens on so many levels. It's not just the words. We speak speak. It's also the way that our thoughts come into form and how we engage with our thoughts and we engage with our Concepts how we connect and communicate on the gestural level through our eyes our eyes soft or are they aggressive our ears receptive or are they listening for what they expect to hear? I want to give a nod and a shout out to low Mathis who's an artist who I've really been enjoying for a while and Recently, I was on their website again and just really appreciating the way that they use words to expand perspective and invoke love their champion of radical softness and they use tenderness as a tool for dismantling oppression and I just love these ideas. So I look them up at Laura Mathis.com. That's Lor a ma th is.com all kinds. Of inspiration on radical softness as a weapon. It's kind of a cool idea for Mars and cancer right now and yeah notice what you're believing notice what ideas are coming in remember that knowledge is not ideas. It's not right and Wrongs. It's not language. Its quality its Essence commit to the quality and teach by example be someone who is Teaching others and yourself constantly by checking in with presence and expanding yourself into that space of correct knowing which is not knowing that's what I think. That's what I know as the sun enters cancer on Friday. We begin the eclipse season eclipses this year in cancer and Capricorn season. So these are opportune moments my friends for Change and transformation stay awake and stay curious practice good internal parenting. Give yourself good discipline. Give yourself good encouragement. There is a lot of potential right now to change and expand perspectives and possibilities to close out this podcast today. I want to give a big shout out and just all my love to queer people everywhere. Thank you. Thank you for doing the emotional labor of changing perspective and expanding knowledge in yourself as you confront and battle and shift paradigms around sexuality around gender around presentation around connection around Community around intimacy. Queerness is so much more than sexual orientation. It really is a way of life. I mean, it's a complete perspective and perspective shift. A special thanks to all Queer trans folks of color those of you that are in bodies that are differently abled that are working in a lot of different intersections and through your lives. You are embodying these teachings of expansion and perspective and doing so much work for so many of us to experience life in a more accepting open-minded. Space so thank you. Thank you for shouldering that burden for doing this work and for committing to your truth in celebration of pride month. I've created a special episode with my friends Rose blakelock and Golem local OVA the to creators of big Dyke energy podcast big dark energy is my favorite astrology podcast to listen to right now. I really recommend it if you're interested in queer astrology if you're Stood in as astrology as kind of jumping off point for a pop culture and for all things gay or daiki. I should say not always the same. Please check them out picked. I get energy. We had a really fun conversation. We talked about all kinds of things. So you can listen to that conversation listen to us talk about astrology and relationships and drugs and outer planet transits and our personal lives and you can find that link. In the show notes and you can find it from embodied astrology.com. I will be back with you on Friday. That's June 21st for cancer season, you can get your month ahead horoscopes there and just a reminder that subscribers get access to the expanded report and that includes PDF that gives you all kinds of info and updates for planetary transits and lunar cycles and suggestions for how to work with them working. Skillfully with astrology makes my life. A lot better more interesting, but also I have to say objectively better being able to use timing and to consider astrological openness. You know, it doesn't make everything perfect. But I definitely notice a difference when I'm using astrology and what I'm not and all the feedback I get from clients and from you all who are checking in with embodied astrology regularly as it's helping you to so, please consider subscribing 100% of your subscriptions go to supporting Work you can subscribe by donation. It's recurring monthly donation, but it can be any amount you get access to these expanded reports subscribers also get discounts you get big discounts on any of my online classes as well as my birthday reports and so every month, I put out a year ahead expanded birthday report for every sign Cancer season is coming up the cancer year ahead birthday report will also be coming out on Friday if you're interested in getting one of these for yourself or buying one for friends. They make really great. Eight gifts and again subscribers get discounts. Finally. I want to close out the podcast by encouraging everyone who's listening to get out there and support the folks who are doing some heavy lifting around changing perspective and expanding perspective giving us new information and being pioneers and leaders and examples of new knowledge. Expanding possibilities Alexandria Kasia Cortez and ilhan Omar you probably know their names are two of my favorite people to be paying attention to their both young women their women of color. They are women who are taking leadership in the United States Congress and they're also politicians who are supported more by their demographics by their constituents then Pac money and corporations and and their success is fueled by us. So if you like me appreciate the work that they're doing to bring a different perspective and an expanded conversation that feels definitely a lot more relevant and important onto center stage and into the political stage. Then please consider giving them a donation. They are working with crowdfunding not big Pac money. So check them out. I also want to give a shout-out to the Nat Turner project, which is a Based artist Collective and support for artists of color not Turner project gives small artist grants to artists of color and allows them to expand their practice and of course art and culture are some of the biggest ways that we expand. Our minds not Turner project is doing some fundraising right now for their year ahead with programming and if you are in Portland if you're in the Pacific Northwest or if You're just someone who wants to support the Arts and wants to support an amazing cause you can check them out at Nat Turner project Dot c-- o-- N 8e T. You are any our project dot Co and you can find more information about them there. You can also find them on Instagram and a link, of course in the show notes and then the final offering that I want to make and request for your support is To one of my listeners and a friend from social media Deb. Thanks so much for sharing all the information that you do share with me last week Dove shared some information with me about a supermarket in Los Angeles called mr. Wisdoms and the supermarket and the crunch on neighborhood. Maybe you're familiar with it is the oldest Organic Market or option in that part of Los Angeles and it's one of the only options for folks and an area that's otherwise a food desert when we're thinking about the possibility of expanding our minds and working skillfully with our mental state nutrition cannot be understated as an important factor how we nourish our bodies has everything to do with how we can come into relationship with our minds in a skillful way if we're eating junk our minds are going to be more dull more distracted more prone to anxiety. We are being nourished with good food and clean water. We can think clearer we can have more peace in our minds getting access to good food and good water is so critical and so important and something that unfortunately is not available for a lot of people. So there's a crowd funds right now to raise money to keep this Market open and I will include the link in the show notes. Oh notes, but you can also look for keep. I'm not actually sure how to say this name. It's a street name. I think it's Slauson or Slauson SLA uson keeps Lawson fresh. And yeah, you can give some money to the fundraiser and help people get access to good food. So please consider after you've listened them. Podcast sending support to these people. So these projects to these resources and sharing your resources as a means for all of us to expand our perspectives and possibilities and connections. Thanks everyone so much for listening. I really appreciate your support your time and your attention. I will be back with you on the 21st for cancer season. I'll check you out then until then happy. the moon and bye for now
In this episode  I talk about the astrology surrounding the full moon in Sagittarius on June 17, 2019. The full moon is conjunct with Jupiter, the planetary ruler of Sagittarius and astrological symbol of the Great Teacher or Guru. Jupiter works to expand our minds and open our perception. It guides us to reach into the unknown and stimulates our longing for Truth and Wisdom. Exact at the full moon, Jupiter is forming its 2nd of 3 squares with Neptune, and Neptune is receiving aspects from Saturn, Mercury, Mars and the South and North nodes (eclipse points.) The astrological potential of this full moon and the surrounding weeks is vast. As we explore personal stories and the nature of mind (Sun in Gemini) the beliefs that have formed our minds become illuminated and held up for examination and question (Moon in Sagittarius). Examining, questioning and leaning into new perspectives requires us to work through what has previously been unconscious and invisible. Through this process we move through barriers in our intuition and access deeper spiritual support (Neptune in Pisces, Jupiter in Sagittarius and aspects from Saturn and Pluto.) Enjoy :)   Intros end and astrology begins at 6:45  Become a subscriber embodiedastrology.com/subscribe   Make a one time donation embodiedastrology.com/tip-jar   Come on retreat with me! indiegogo.com/projects/keep-slauson-fresh-save-mr-wisdom-s#/   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 