Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Wherever here is where ever you're listening from in the future in time and space. This is Renee. I'm your host. This is embodied astrology and today's episode is an offering to the Leo new moon. It's the day of the new moon July 31st 2019. I'm going to talk about the astrology for this new moon. It's been a while since I've just given a reading for aChart and so that's what I'll be doing today. I'll be reading the chart for the Leo New Moon also be talking about some of the recent astrology in the past week or so since the sun has moved into the sign Leo and I'll be considering the next two weeks as we move from the new moon into the full moon. So this waxing cycle I talk about astrology through the lens of embodiment. I'm a somatic movement educator. That means that I educate about the body about the Soma the somatic intelligence of the body. I consider any type of embodiment practice a wonderful practice. So whether that's yoga or dance or just sensing your body learning your Anatomy learning the names any kind of physical practice that involves a tune moment really tuning into the body's intelligence not so much asserting whatever. For more practice upon the body but really letting the body speak and I think astrology is actually a really amazing way to think about the body. I've studied medical astrology for a while now, but just in general astrology as a language speaks to our embodied experience, it's a language for us here on Earth. And of course on Earth, we're living in bodies and our bodies have to live their lives in the contexts of Earth and that means our Seasons the circumstances and what our bodies mean the embodied experience whether that is the physical capacity that we have in our bodies whether that is the stories the many layers of stories that we embody because of our bodies how we look what kinds of Emily's and cultures and contexts were born into astrology provides a language for us to think about these things in a really creative and generous and I think a very non-judgmental way. So I'm excited to share with you on this new moon day. And before I get into the astrology, I want to start with a check-in and just let you know a little bit about how I'm doing and what I've been up to this is the Leo new moon and Leo self expresses. So I thought uh, I don't talk about myself that often not really so much my day-to-day and why not? So I'll just begin where I am as I mentioned. It's July 31st. It's about one in the afternoon. I've spent the morning practicing in the way that I do on the new moon and the full moon which is to give myself a lot of space in the morning to wake up to make my tea. I usually begin on these Moon days with some writing and journaling and then I draw a picture of the chart and and drawing the picture I get a sense for how the planets are working with each other and I get to engage my creative mind and of course my embodiment my felt sense of the astrology right now, and then I sit and meditate and try and not think too much about what I'm going to To say take some notes about whatever arises and then at some point I sit down and start recording and so I'm sitting in my bedroom looking out the window. It's a beautiful beautiful sunny day and I'm feeling a lot of love right now while I was dry in the picture for the New Moon shirt. I was listening to the Leo playlist on Spotify Spotify has been doing the partnership with An astrologer named chani Nicholas and there's a good chance you've heard of her if you're an astrology Enthusiast. She's quite famous at this point and I've been following Changi for about seven years or so now maybe a little longer she started off with just a newsletter under a different name. And in the last couple of years. She's really blown up as she started to use her own name. I think that was a big part of it kind of stepping into her power and I just love her I was I'm so excited to live in a time when someone like Channing Nicholas is a possibility model and a role model for so many people she has a huge following and she's queer. She's pretty politicized. She's really radical I think and how she reads astrology and she's a great astrologer and she makes Playlist I don't imagine she doesn't herself make the playlist but people at Spotify make the playlist in collaboration with her for all of the signs. So that's pretty fun. I was listening to that and then earlier this morning. I was kind of going through Instagram looking at pictures and thinking about how I'm a part of this emerging community on the internet where All a part of it if you're participating you are too and just feeling really inspired by a lot of the the people that were showing up on my feed and what they were sharing. Some of them are friends that I've never actually met in person, but we've corresponded and followed each other's work. There's a person in New York named Jennifer Patterson, and you can find them on Instagram under Corpus ritual. And she's just releasing a book on her breath work practice that she offers and is a person who's an herbalist as well. And I got so excited that this is coming out that their support for this kind of work coming out into the world. I was looking at the pictures of a person that I've never really correspond with but whose art and Writing Practice, I deeply deeply admire. Her name is Alexis. Pauline gumbs you can find her on Instagram at Alexis Pauline. She's an author and her writing is some of the most Exquisite writing I've ever encountered it breaks my heart and it fills me with awe and inspires me so deeply every single thing I've ever read that she's written and recently she's been devoting her social media practice to writing about sea mammals and Her post this morning was yet, another just beautiful offering some you know, 100 words are so two dolphins and thinking a lot about her ancestry and the transatlantic slave trade and these Dolphins migration pattern and kind of a mystical and really creative way of speaking to the welfare of our Oceanic friends. And then I was looking at the feed of a person who I do know and have been just really fortunate to know for almost 10 years. And this person actually will be featured on embodied astrology in the coming week. So we recorded an interview her name is jeevan sing and you can find her on Instagram at flower hand wellness and jeevan is a somatic womb healer and Woman pelvic healer and integrative mental health specialist and she has this really amazing offering around embodiment and womb and pelvic care that is very gender inclusive and has a really I think exceptional understanding and perspective of holistic health. So I was kind of feeling this lightheartedness and inspiration and love love and excitement to be interacting with and a recipient of these people's generosity. They're sharing their creativity and I was thinking about how we're hopefully maybe I think moving into this age of Aquarius and if you follow astrology and you know anything about it, then you know that of course, there's not any essential nature to the signs. They're not good or bad. So as we move Into the age of Aquarius, of course, we're moving out of the age of Pisces and into this age that has to do with more of a group construct a togetherness or a weakness, but there's really an importance on community and the work that we're doing together. And yeah, I was just kind of getting ready for this offering and thinking like, what do I have to share today? What's wanting to come through me and I was enjoying my own kind of creative practice of drawing a picture of the new moon and being in my body and then feeling this web of community this uplifting that I feel when I engage with their work and the support that I feel from them in so many ways, whether that's inspiration or motivation or friendship and that felt like a really important place to again was to just give a shout-out to you fabulous human beings and everybody that I didn't mention and that's you if you're listening and what it is that you and we are offering in the world right now the ways that we're seeking to express from our hearts whether that's in the smallest moment of interaction and and interpersonal expression whether that's in In solitude when we are kind of checking in and trying to listen deeply to ourselves whether that's in some kind of group offering or on a platform that's reaching many people. Thank you for being here. So it's been a slow morning. I've been moving pretty slowly. I flew in last night from Colorado. I've actually been gone from my home in Portland for the last three weeks. Spent a week in Tacoma Washington teaching for the Pierce County teen and adult summer reading series and I got to teach six classes at six different libraries Autumn bodied astrology and it was really fun to be able to offer astrology as a tool for adventure story writing which is what the theme of these classes were and I traveled all around Pierce County and taught classes at several very rural libraries got to work with people. Ooh-hoo. I probably wouldn't encounter. Otherwise, whether that's due to financial accessibility or spatial accessibility or just interest it was really cool that the library was interested in what I had to offer and that they were supporting me to be there and that was also giving me a lot of Hope and I was thinking about how many young people are interested in astrology now and again just feeling grateful for change. Nicholas for providing such inspiration for so many people definitely folks my age in their 30s and a little younger than me in their twenties, but especially to people who are in their late teens right now and a lot of the the folks that came to these classes were in their late teens and I was really surprised to know that they already knew a lot about astrology. They knew a lot about their signs. They knew their birth times they were thinking about their compatibility. At ability with their friends or romantic interests, and it was so fun to be able to talk with them and from Tacoma and went back to Colorado where I spent a good part of my life growing up and I participated in a week-long immersion dance and expressive Arts camp for grown-ups. The youngest person there was 16 and the This person there was in his 70s and this particular community that gathered around this immersion as a community that I've been part of since I was 11 and the woman that is kind of the the founder and the leader of this community is the woman who adopted me when my mom died when I was a teenager. She's a really exceptional human being and I feel so grateful to I have her in my life. It's been really amazing to watch her progress as a teacher from the time. I begin with her 25 years ago until now if you ever find yourself in the Colorado area look for them. They're up in Boulder. And her name is Melissa Michaels. She runs an organization called Golden Bridge and she travels a lot as well. So shout out to Melissa. Thank you for all that. You hold and help with So shout out to Melissa. Thank you so much for holding us in such a beautiful space. anyway I felt just so inspired again and really bolstered really carried by the energy of this group. There were people from all over the world. There were 72 participants. I think from every continent and every single person. There was a leader in some way they were working in community. They were working with Arts. And they were working as activists leaders for peace and they were there to dance mostly. That's what we did. We did a lot of dancing. We did a fair amount of art. We did a ton of processing and talking with each other and I just saw how much this type of work transforms and heels and provide support for really deep and important conversations to happen. and I was reminded again that my love of somatic practice of embodiment practice is also my love of social justice and my commitment and deep desire to involve myself with activism with activism for peace and for healing and for environmental sanity and over and over and over again, my experience has been that when these two Topics or practices do not intersect neither is actually that helpful. So in my experiences of embodiment spaces, whether that's yoga class or a dance Community or studying so Maddox as I did for years the places where there was a lack of conversation about embodiment in a more political framework what it means to be in our bodies from a social political sense, which bodies have access to health to wealth to Mobility Etc, which ones don't and the reasons why when those conversations were not present the embodiment work and the healing that I was able to participate actually felt really flat to me and I remember kind of in the middle of a cymatics program that I was involved in for about five years. Having a breakdown in one of the classes and kind of asking the group like where is the place for this conversation and looking at a room? Probably about a hundred people all white mostly privileged, you know, privileged enough to get ourselves there and thinking like God, this is something about this is really wrong that there's this amazing transmission that's happening in this space. That is so so deeply healing that's so deeply integrated an integrating but that we are not actually addressing our social positioning that we're not actually addressing how we can move out into the world from this place as agents of healing and to engage with our own healing through reparation in the social fabric not just in the the somatic realm and in the Is that I've been in that are very dedicated to social justice. There's often a lot of conversation that is pretty grueling and a kind of rigor that has to do with training our minds to unpack layers of conditioning and having conversation that is often incredibly challenging and in those spaces that I've been in when an embodiment practice is not Included when it isn't brought in a pretty major way, I end up feeling really destroyed and fragmented and distracted and disembodied and often. It feels like the conversations are not that effective that maybe they can push forward a little bit they can start to chip away at some hardened layers, but that when there is the embodiment work that's brought in when we work. With the concepts that arise through our somatic intelligence through actual relationship through actual feeling then we really get somewhere because the the problems that we're trying to address, you know problems of systemic oppression and Trauma. Yes, we can talk about them conceptually. It's so helpful to have language but these are embodied experiences that have very very Very deep roots hundreds and thousands of years of growth in those routes and the words just by themselves or the theory just by itself. If the embodiment isn't there sometimes just creates another layer of hardness and identification or it's too much to engage with. It's too overwhelming emotionally and there's a shutdown or there's further distance. so in this last week of sitting with this group doing the work of embodiment practice and social practice learning to relate with one another and having several conversations around social positioning many of which were messy and imperfect and kind of fucked up but also also they were healing also there was so much space around those conversations to come back to humanity together. I was just really inspired in this last week and particularly I was inspired by the younger folks. Who were there are a lot of people in their early 20s and under-21 person in particular who was one of the younger ones and who sat in a council that I was a part of on gender. So one evening, there was an invitation to join groups based on. Your gender your gender identity and there was a women's group. There was a men's group and there was a third gender group and within this community space for for third gender for non-binary for Trans or queer identities is fairly new and I was really excited to get to experience that there and there was a really beautiful circle of people who gathered And most of the folks who were there, I would say we're probably in their late 20s 30s 40s, and when we are sharing a lot of us were were sharing about our more painful experiences as well. As our revolutions are a Revelations around our own gender and sexuality, you know a lot of stories about. Oh well when I was growing up it was like this. It felt really hard. I felt really confusing as I become an adult. I've been fumbling around trying to figure out Ditta and then the youngest person there shared and this is a person still in their teens. And as we all did they began with introducing themselves by name stating their pronouns? They preferred Sheehy and they and then they said really kind of lightly and without any drama at all. I've always identified as all genders and my friends due to its normal for us. It's not hard for us to talk about these things. I love my body. I feel really comfortable here. and as I'm saying it I'm like I feel tears coming out me I can hear them in my voice again, and I was crying then listening to this person sure because it was so touching so deeply deeply touching to hear them say that and feel that all of the work that we do and when I say we I mean any of us who've kind of felt ourselves facing repression or oppression facing The lack of language to describe our own experience or the lack of any kind of cultural understanding or support where we can identify ourselves and feel safe or feel accepted and seen but we've somehow just kept going and needed to figure it out and needed to express ourselves and fought for it. It felt like oh This is why. This is why right here. And then yesterday when I was waiting for the plane. I was reading the news and had a kind of similar experience reading about Greta through soon Berg saying her name wrong. I think you've probably heard of her. She's a 16-year old Swedish activist and really amazing being who is an environmental activist and is also someone with autism And her delivery and communication and thought style or her mental patterns how she communicates how she hears how she listens and how she speaks is so incredible. It's so brilliant. It's so fucking clear and I was reading about how she, you know had been invited to come and present at the UN and said, well, I'm not going to take a plane. I don't want to participate. In creating more carbon emissions. This is not what we need. It's exactly the opposite of what we need. And so then there's this sponsor that she has its building, you know, solar-powered sailboat. It's going to take her to the UN conference is going to take two weeks or something to get her there and there are no commercial sponsors. There are no logos on the boat. And this is you know her dictate and I thought fuck 16 years old and this person has been an activist for a couple of years now, I think since she was 11 or 12 in a pretty major way and I was just kind of floored this is sitting there waiting for my plane, you know to fly back and thinking okay. This is really inspiring and I feel so inspired by the young people in the world right now, and I'm not in a place where I feel particularly young anymore. but I'm in my 30s and kind of feeling myself in the transition from feeling like a kid into feeling like an adult and starting to really kind of sense that I need to turn towards the the youngers to move into the future and to really follow their leadership and to follow their knowledge and to offer whatever it is that I offer for them with this idea of Becoming a good ancestor. So gosh. I've got a lot of tender feelings right now in the last week so much has been brought up thinking about all of these kinds of themes around our place in the social whole and how we each carry some peace how our Personal Expressions and are kind of unique positions and perspectives are super Important and our feelings are really important and at the same time none of those individual perspectives and certainly not our individual emotions are actually that important and that we have to find ways to work together and I've been feeling a lot of fear and sadness as I continue to hear horrible news about what's happening in the country and what's happening in the world. When I say the country, of course living in the United States, so whatever the fuck is happening here with the administration that currently has power is pretty horrific and also mind-boggling and I also am feeling like, okay. Well, maybe this is what we need. Maybe we need it to get this bad to wake up as a global Community Maybe. This is going to be the push around the corner and hopefully not over the edge and I've been so lucky to be around people and to be around work that is continuing to feed me and inspire me and allow me to position myself towards hope and I really hope that you who are listening are able to as well and this feels like my most present sentiment at this moment. Is the desire to turn towards hope and the desire to offer myself and whatever way large or small to some kind of creative Liberation and Collective healing in my community which includes you and in the world that I'm a part of which includes all of us. This is a really strong feeling for me today on this new moon on a That the Moon is new it's always day to plant a seed to think about a new beginning in that Dark Moon. We have the potential for New Growth for some beginning to take root. We have an ending of the last cycle releasing of the last cycle and a stepping into the new and Leo rules our hearts. It rules. Our spines Leo is a sign that is ruled by the sun and the solar of Brilliant Energy is something that shines out of all of us and on this new moon day. I really invite all of us to think in to feel into sense into listen in to what it is that each of us have to express from our unique positions and perspectives that can combine with and harmonize with those around us. So our Radiance can get bigger so our warmth can get bigger. So our communities can become more vital more strong and whatever it is that we are here to do at this turning point in the world because we certainly are at a turning point made that work be healing may be offered with love. May it be offered with joy. This is a very special new moon for me because the degree point of the new moon is exactly on my ascendant been eight degrees. Leo rising and in two days on Friday August 2nd, it is my birthday. So naturally I think for many of us as we get to our birthdays there's a sense of a new beginning and this new moon coming at this time feels like a powerful one. I'll be 36 on Friday and I was reading this morning about 36 in numerology. I'm not really a numerology expert at all. Learn about it on Wikipedia and Google. So I was learning that 36 is a combination of the energies of three, which is a creative. Joyful more child energy and six which is a family energy and when they combine they create nine, which is a humanitarian energy. So 36 and numerology is the Creative Energy that serves the assisting or the helping of inclined to I was like a wonderful that's exactly how I'm feeling. That's exactly what I want to devote myself to right now. And then I read something about 36 in the Jewish mysticism tradition. And as you may know if you've heard me talk about my ancestry before I have a lot of my ancestry, our ancestors are Jewish, so I learned that in Jewish This is I'm that 36 is the number that's associated to Mystical righteous people. There are supposed to be 36 of these people on the planet or in the world at all times and without them without any one of them the world would come to an end and these beings are concealed even to themselves their humble and their humility is the concealment. It so it's not an ego trip. It's not you know a savior idea but they emerge with their mystical powers specifically to help avert disasters and to help avert persecution from enemies. So I thought that was really interesting. And then finally I was thinking about that in relationship to Leo as this. Energy that's ruled by the Sun and of course the sun being the center of our solar system and kind of the central point for all of the matter and the particles that are swirling around it to orient with and Eric Francis. Who's an astrologer. I check in with quite a bit has talked about Leo being associated to Dharma and the way that he describes Dharma the meaning he gives to it is Acting as if to hold the world together, so I loved all of that. And as I say all of that I want to say all of us have Leo and myself as a person that has Leo in My Lens as a Leo Rising person. This is how I'm seeing the world and also Leo in the sun sign that this is my vital energy. I'm here to express Leo in a particular way and to learn a lot about Leo, but All of us have Leo All of Us carry this energy forward and these archetypes or for all of us at this time. I think that there are much more than 36 people may be 9 billion people on this planet right now that are actually Mystics and we are all concealed and and we are concealed to ourselves until the time in the moment comes when we're able to step forward and offer our gifts and we don't get to choose when that is. Is but when were called upon we answer the call if we're doing the work to listen and for me, that's really what the season is about. And what the offering of Leo is about is listening to our hearts and listening to the call of our spirits. So with that check-in, I'm going to move into my interpretation of the chart for this new moon where I'll be talking about astrology that has quite a lot to do with everything else that I was just talking about before all of that. I would like to say that there is a lot of support for you from me for Leo season. If you haven't already, please listen to Glow time, which is Embodied astrology for Leo season episode. I put out on the 22nd when the Sun moved into Leo and in that episode I offer an embodied meditation a somatic meditation for connecting with Leo in the body with the central axis. And then with its energetic manifestation and this is a practice. I've been checking in with pretty much every day for the last two weeks. It's been really supporting me to hold and carry and Love Leo and myself and others. There. Are your horoscopes your month ahead forecasts for Leo season. These are unique horoscopes for every sign. Listen to your son. You're Rising maybe your moon sign. These are all free. There's also an Extended reading for Leo season available to subscribers. And in that extended reading I offer an in-depth month ahead horoscope and look at all of the planetary. Transits and I also give you a PDF that is kind of a calendar layout with day-to-day the planetary aspects and lunar cycles and space to make notes so that you can research how astrology is embodied in your life. 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It's everything you need to make a podcast in one place learn more about it and download the free anchor app or go to Anchor dot. F m-- to get started this new moon in Leo is also coming after the last three years or so of eclipses happening. Leo season so last year the eclipse has started to transition into cancer and Capricorn season in 2017. The eclipses were solidly in Leo Aquarius season and in 2016, they began to inch their way in and so eclipses are kind of wave-like movements they span about three years, but only really Lee for one year are they only in one polarity or set of signs so eclipses are really powerful times as an astrological metaphor or symbol they are associated to Karma and specifically to the way that Karma or the residue and influence or momentum of the past catches up to the present and then tells us into the future and of course we exist in nonlinear cyclical kinds of experiences at least in kind of a western modality of time and space we think forward and onward and upward but really when we feel into our lives most of us, we're kind of living our lives in cycles and eclipses speak to those Cycles cycles of time passing cycles of experienced cycles of understanding around eclipses. We may be confronted with the past either being called into accountability for our past actions gifted with the benefit of past actions. We may be brought back into relationship with people or events or memories from the past. So pretty powerful times eclipses are and all of last year. Excuse me all 2017 a good part of last year in 2016 eclipses were happening in Leo and Aquarius. So this sign and its opposite have been pretty revolutionized over these last few years. And as this new moon comes it feels like there's a lot of Awakening and awareness. It's coming around the energy of the new moon now a big part of the sensation for me as I look at the X has to do with a grand fire Trine that is being stimulated all month long by the movement of the personal planets through Leo. So when I say the personal planets, I'm referring to what are sometimes called the minor planets or the inner planets the sun and the moon are the most personal and also not planets. The sun is a star. The Moon is a satellite but in the language of astrology, these are two luminaries. And the kind of celestial figures that we're most personally involved with and of course without the sun. We wouldn't be alive or Earth would not support and facilitate life and without the moon, who knows what we would be because the moon greatly affects the speed of the Earth's turning around its own axis that greatly affects the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and of course the tides the title Rhythm if the moon Somehow got flung away from the earth. The earth would be a very very different place than what it is. And that reminds me of a book that I've been reading recently. It's the second in a Trilogy of books called the broken Earth series. Just wanted to say that if you hadn't read that those books, they're really awesome and Kay Jamison is an amazing author and has nothing to do with what I'm talking about except the moon and its presence. Is a very important role in these books. So if you've read them, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't read them you should read them. Anyway, I digress the personal planets also include Mercury Venus and Mars. These are planets that orbit around the sun fairly quickly Mercury orbits the Sun and under a year Venus takes a little bit under a year as well and Mars takes about two years to orbit the Sun so So the movements of these planets travel through the signs fairly rapidly in comparison to the outer planets Jupiter takes a year Saturn takes about two and a half years all the way to Pluto which can take about. I think it's like 260 years almost to orbit around the Sun. So the personal planets describe our personalities Mercury our mental communication listening speaking. In style Venus our values as well as our Beauty our attractiveness and how we love what we love Mars. Our energy our will power our interests our desire our Drive our aggression aggression are our protective and defensive Styles and with the personal planets what we get is stimulation, so Whenever the personal planets are traveling through a sign they stimulate that sign they bring the signs qualities into our awareness when the personal planets make aspects to the outer planets. They bring outer planetary energy, which might be thought of as trans personal or Collective energy into our personal experience. So all of Leo season pretty much in into Virgo Little bit we're experiencing the personal planets in Leo and as they travel through Leo, they are aspecting the other fire signs and the planets in them. So in Aries, we have the Centaur Planet Chiron and in Sagittarius, we have the planet Jupiter. So all of Leo season we have what is called a grand Trine in Fire and a grand Trine is when all three signs. Signs of the same element are stimulated by a planetary movement and that planetary movement is acting in unison. So these three points are holding space together their aspected by 120 degrees and the triangle shape is the most supportive shape. This aspect is kind of a flowing lending aspect energy can move very quickly and rapidly easily and Add obstruction what is fire energy. Well fire energy. First of all is personal in the astrological language the fire signs present the person the personality with Aries. We have the sign that rules the self-concept the identity the ego how we know ourselves in this embodied experience with Leo. We have our joy our vitality. Literally our circulatory energy are you know our energy what it is that we're admitting how it is that we're radiating what it is that we're expressing with Sagittarius. We have our belief systems and the feeling of purpose. This is what I'm here for. This is what I'm going to go for. This is how I'm going to grow and make sense out of my own life. So the fire signs are not particularly concerned with relationship all Of course, we are always in relationship and that's how the fire energy grows as it comes to know itself. But the fire energy is very much about the the self and how we know ourselves how we express ourselves and what it is that we are kind of going for a growing towards in our in our paths as individuated beings. So with Chiron in Aries we Have an energy that is associated to a healing journey of some kind and if you want to know more about Chiron, please listen to the Aries season episodes areas season begins on March 22nd, and you can also listen back to I guess it was an aquarius season in February. I think that Chiron went into Aries and actually if you just Google embodied astrology Chiron, you'll get all The episodes where I'm talking about it. Anyway Chiron is a healing a lie this planetary energy assists Us in resolving our pathologies and pain patterns how we resolve is we recognize there's a quality in Cairo Ron's energy that allows us to recognize two name to articulate and to form understanding around something that intern kind of releases the attachment that we have to it or releases the unconsciousness another way to say that is bring something to Consciousness so that we can work with it skillfully in Aries Chiron is a force that I believe is going to really help us get to know ourselves in pretty deep ways. The last time Chiron was an Aries was in the 1960s and this is before its Discovery, but at that time there was a huge wave all over the world and definitely in the western world where I'm speaking from of self-realization and self-knowing and in the self-realization in the self knowing a lot came for words in terms of self-responsibility civil rights environmental justice kinds of larger themes that were definitely Really quite immersed in right now and I think trying to make sense of and carry this work forward kind of bring it into the next evolutionary steps Chiron and Aries is a nine-year Transit. We're going to have this influence through 2027. And this is just the beginning. So the kinds of conversations that a lot of us have been engaged with and that are surfacing in the world particularly around social positioning. And bias are hugely important conversations that are just going to get bigger and deeper and more nuanced in this next decade or so. How do we understand ourselves underneath the stories that we have about ourselves that we have been given and these stories that we have been given have permeated our awareness unconsciously their stories that we have been socialized by and entrained with and when I'm speaking about these stories, I'm think I'm speaking to the stories that have to do with our embodiment. So if you are born into a body, then you are born into a collection of stories and as your body evolves and grows and as you learn about yourself and as you express yourself, then your stories expand. Sometimes you get new stories. Sometimes you let old stories go but as we become aware of ourselves, we also become aware of the story of ourselves, and I think anyone who's listening has probably Had the experience of recognizing that a story isn't true and this kind of recognition where we might recognize. Oh, I grew up in a poor family my whole life. I've thought these negative things about myself and my family because the stories that Society has about poor people are overwhelmingly negative. So there are societal stories about poor people being lazy poor people being stupid and rich people. Being you know more worthwhile more intelligent blah blah blah. We all know that this isn't true. We take any time to examine these ideas. Absolutely untrue yet. There is a societal bias around wealth around economic wealth that leads to stories of wealth equating with some kind of goodness and poverty relating with some kind of negativity or lack of goodness. Now in this example if this is a story that someone is born into that they embody then these kinds of beliefs will be reinforced over and over through social interaction kids at school media adults as these people grow our as this hypothetical example person grows the experiences that they have. Because of their economic position the experiences that they are able to access or unable to access because of their economic condition will lead to kind of a reinforcement of these stories right like, oh I don't have enough money to go to school. Therefore. I'm not smart enough or therefore then I have to take these jobs and other people respond to This particular kind of job or you know working class as lower than the du du du du du so, this is an example at some point someone in this particular condition will probably realize this is bullshit and that realization that recognition Could Happen fairly early on in a more abstract way like why the fuck are these people telling stories about this? I I know plenty of people in my community who are poor who are brilliant who are kind who are worthwhile those stories are false, but the embodied shift of the story and the way that someone may or may not be able to work with themselves in their kind of internalised experience of the story is I think a really deep very profound practice that takes a lot of time. And so how we release ourselves from story particularly when the society at large or when our relationships with other people in the world continue to reinforce those stories is a spiritual path. So if you live in a body that is the recipient of Oppression of some kind of marginalized identity how you work with yourself to release. Yourself from the negative impacts of those stories while you are consistently having them reinforced by the world around you is a spiritual path on the other side. If you're a person who's been born into some kind of privilege and here's a hypothetical example, or maybe not hypothetical example, I'll just use myself as a person born into a white skin body. This is a privilege in the world regardless of any other layers of Oppression. I met experience as a female or as a queer person or as a person who did grow up fairly poor or comparatively and in the community that I was growing up in in my experience as a white skinned person. I am the recipient of a lot of privilege which means that doors open for me that I have stories that I get to tell myself about my own value about my own worth about my own intelligence that are then reinforced by Society because of access that I have because of the way That people in power believe me or allow me in that. I might not ever even see and it's one of the ways that privilege works is that it's invisible to those who carry it. So it's easy for people who are born into money to think that of course, you know, they are worth it. They've earned it or someone who's born into white skin to be able to pursue an economic path of Mobility that maybe someone who's born into darker skin cannot as easily. I just simply because there's less access and there's more barriers the darker that you are in this world. That's a very colorist world. So these are some examples of stories and the ways we embody them and just very quickly loop back around to what I was talking about in the very beginning which is the necessity of relationship between somatic practice and social justice practice. This is why it's because these stories of these Concepts are so fucking confusing there. So many different layers around them and the embodied experience that we each have is very personal and no body is wholly bad or good we all have our you know the ways that we really strive and we try and we're really good people and we all have the ways that we're totally blind and we hurt each other and doing an embodiment practice really trying to feel the way that these layers and sections of identity impact our own experience or others experience for me is like the only way I can even start to Grapple with it. And certainly the only way I feel like there's any possibility around healing or resolution. So this is what I think Chiron and Aries is going to do for us. I think it's going to really open our perspective around identity and ego and the Kinds of conversations that we can have around our positions are social positions our responsibilities as people who impact one another that these kinds of conversations are going to get bigger. They're going to get deeper. They're going to become a lot more nuanced Chiron is currently at 5 degrees of areas. It is going to move very slowly through this sign. So as I said, we have nine years, we're just at the beginning just barely scratching the surface. Surface of what this influence is or can be and throughout this month. All of the personal planets will be aspecting Chiron by trying and so what that means again is that we have a lending energy. We have self-awareness and realization and communication changing as mercury aspects Chiron we have our Subjective awareness and how we know ourselves and our emotions being influenced by Chiron as the sun and the moon aspect it. We have our connections and and our love Nature's and how we care and what we value being shifted in relationship to Chiron is Venus aspects it and then we have our power and what were willing to get out and work for and maybe what we're willing to fight for being aspected by Chiron with Mars. As all the planets separate from Chiron, they move into a trying with Jupiter Jupiter has been in Sagittarius since November of 2017 on August 11th. Jupiter is about to turn direct. It's been retrograde since April and Jupiter will continue its Transit through Sagittarius until this December. So Jupiter spends about 12 months in a sign and wherever Jupiter is it brings. It brings us to our study and it goes how can you grow here? What do you have to learn? What is the potential right now for you to gain something from this experience Sagittarius is a sign that is ruled by Jupiter. And when I say ruled by Jupiter what I mean, is that the planetary energy and the zodiacal energy are very similar can think of Jupiter as an emissary of Sagittarius wherever it goes it brings. Sagittarian wisdom Sagittarian wisdom is wisdom. It is knowledge. It is perspective what Sagittarius gives us is expansion. It asks us to grow in terms of our borders. It rules long-distance travel rules foreign languages. It rules the idea of foreignness, but how we interact with it how we interact with difference and how difference than becomes an expansive possibility as we lean into our own biases and we go whoa, I never even thought something could be that way. Therefore my perspective shifts Sagittarius rules academics Higher Learning religious philosophies spiritual quests in its detriment Sagittarius can be really opinionated fundamentalist kind of an Seeing energy and Jupiter certainly can be as well. So Jupiter in Sagittarius can definitely be a kind of galvanizing of beliefs and we're definitely seeing that in the world right now, but it can also bring a huge expansion and I'm definitely seeing that in the world right now as well. So this Grand fire Trine energy allows our mental Concepts to start to heal, too. To begin to integrate to start to know themselves through Chiron and then it allows our beliefs and our faith to grow and to deepen it gives us a sense of purpose and potentially allows us to increase our wisdom. So all throughout the month this energy is getting stimulated Mars started this Transit last month last season, July 10 that formed its trying to Chiron Mars is Leading the way through Leo today as I'm recording. The Moon is in its trying to Chiron tomorrow Venus will form its trying and then as I said, all of them are going to start to move in to try and with Jupiter Mars, was there a couple of days ago on the 25th. The moon will be there tomorrow. The sun will get there on the 7th Venus will get there on the 8th so notice what's going on in your personal? General awareness right now. How are you? Thinking about yourself? How are you feeling yourself? Who are you? What is the self when you really take some time to feel into it. This is deep study in any yoga practice. Who is the Seer who is the Observer who is speaking right now and a meditation practice is a wonderful way to explore that as you kind of sit and observe your mind telling you stories about who you are. That's a great way to kind of get into these deeper layers. So Mercury will enter Leo on the same day that Jupiter turns direct. This is August 11th, and then Mercury will start to form all of these aspects as well throughout the month of August today on the day of the new moon Mercury is stationing direct. It has been retrograde for the past three weeks and as mercury stations, Patience direct it will move back through the late degrees of cancer. And then it will re-enter Leo as I said on August 11th. And what Mercury does is it brings mental awareness? So in the upcoming month and these upcoming weeks really take note of what is arising. It's a really good time to journal another plug for the embodied astrology subscription journals because Can journal with the planetary aspects if it's helpful for you to have them written down but there's quite a lot that's about to be clarified for us with these aspects and the clarification is going to come in terms of the self. So very personal for each person. I don't know what it's going to be for you specifically but I definitely know that right now what's being stimulated is Leo and Leo has to do again with our radiant. Ants with our Vitality we are live here at this time in these bodies for such a short amount of time and I believe for a purpose. So what is it? What's the purpose that you are here for? This is a really excellent time to listen because there's quite a lot of available information quite a lot of inspiration and alignment with healing and with wisdom with your own path that He could be very surprising right now and this brings us into the kind of next energies that I'm going to talk about with this new moon because a lot of us are understanding things about ourselves and about our lives either because of big changes that are happening either very personal changes or changes in our immediate environments or changes in the Earth itself. It's the hottest year on record. Ever the political reality and news Cycles are absolutely fucking insane. And how can we not be affected we have to change we have to grow our values have to shift our sense of purpose really needs to take an evolutionary step forwards. So this new moon is aspected quite strongly with your honest and it's been a minute since I've talked about your honest and Taurus. A big theme earlier in the year. So if you listen back to the tourist season episodes that begins in May you'll hear me talk quite a bit about your honest in Taurus. So this is another long-term aspect is the seven-year aspect through 2026. You're honest is a planet that brings change Revolution and Revelation often through chaos. And sometimes through trauma Taurus is Earth. It is deep Earth. It is the most most earthy of the Earth signs and it is representative as well to our bodies as manifestations of Earth to what builds our bodies IE food and to what sustains our bodies IE resources. So Taurus is a symbol of Earth bodies wealth / resources and specifically food at this time on Earth. These are all changing. So the Earth obviously is in a rapid and very significant state of change that changes that the Earth is going through has a lot to do with how we as a human species are using and relating with resources food agriculture water oil are fossil fuels the ways that we have been consuming in. Patriarchal capitalism white supremacist capitalism are absolutely destructive. There's no way around it. There's no argument for capitalism. As far as I'm concerned. It's a completely ass-backwards idea that one person can benefit off of the labor and exploitation of others or of the earth. It is so fucking backwards to think about self-benefit at any time, but especially right now if it involves The labor and the exploitation of anybody or anything else. It will not get us anywhere. So whatever it is this kind of brainwashing mindset that has so many of us scrambling to figure out how to make our lives better at the expense of others whether this is conscious or not has to shift if we want to survive we have to figure out how to move into a way of being and existing. That is a communal effort and an understanding that the benefit of all is the benefit of the self the benefit of the self cannot come first. So this is the square aspect Leo represents the self. It's a sign that is associated to royalty and definitely to self-interest or to self a grand dies mint and you're honest in Taurus is going no more that doesn't work. This is where it's getting us and it's getting us a lot of Chaos. So all month long all Leo season long will be feeling the effects of the personal planets in square to Uranus. Now. This is happening pretty much right now. And in the recent weeks Mars squared you're honest on July 11th. The sun was Square to Uranus on the 29th. The Moon is square to Uranus today with the new moon and Venus will Square you're on us on Friday on August 2nd the Things are going to continue throughout the week. However as the personal planets move into their trying with Jupiter, so our beliefs are shifting because the world around us is changing again, whether it's personal circumstances, whether it's our value systems or whether it's our relationship to actual wealth and what we find valuable whether it's our bodies that are changing or we're recognizing ages that are affecting our bodies or ways that the world and the systems within the world are affecting bodies and embodied experience or the Earth We're recognizing that we have to change we can't be self-centered. We can't be stuck in our grand ideas about you know, how awesome we are how much we're going to get it's time to get real and really question what is needed now and this is definitely Sentiment that is underscored and underlined by a number of aspects that all again all of the personal planets moving through Leo will make two planets in Capricorn and Pisces. So Capricorn is another Earth sign and you've heard me talk about Capricorn a lot again. There's an episode that came out last month called a geology a serious business and in that episode I talk a lot about Capricorn and what's happening in that sign right now particularly the eclipses of this year next year and the conjunction of Saturn and Pluto. So if you want information on that energy, please listen there to that episode in brief this the the astrological energy that's occurring in Capricorn right now. The conjunction of Saturn Pluto and the South node. The South node is one of the places where eclipses happen and this energy is a reckoning kind of quality. It is not gentle it's quite intense and quite extreme feeling and there's a marked experience of finding and dying in it and the the need is deep accountability and transformation of shadow. Ticularly transformation of the shadow of the systems whether the system is capitalism whether the system is the education system or the medical system the systems in general that are in the world right now that have existed in the world for a long time particularly the systems that have been built upon white supremacist patriarchy and capitalism are killing people they're killing the planet. I take that back the president will live the planet Will Survive it survived for a long time. These systems are quite destructive to what we value in the planet and really what sustains us and if we want to live we will have to transform our systems and this is a very pressing matter right now. It's particularly pressing within the United States as an identity and an ideology. These aspects are occurring in a very Important place in the United States birth chart the birth chart of the Declaration of Independence and the US and the world in general is going through a very profound transformation right now and this transformation is the Gateway into the Aquarian age. So if we make it through we can make it through into collectivism we can make it through into an age of Peace. We can also make it through in To an age of a I take over and I don't know some kind of weird disembodied kind of existence. Let's not go there so all month long the personal planets moving through Leo will form what are called in conjunct aspects to Capricorn in conjunct is a 150 degree angle and an in conjunct is really uncomfortable. There is not an easy path into And ship with an in conjunct we feel thwarted by the system's right. Now. If you're tuning in with embodied astrology, I'm going to guess that you and I are on kind of similar bandwidth and it's like, how do we get out of this? These systems are so big they're so powerful. They're getting more and more dominating. The the walls are going up. Our liberties are being taken away. How do we fight against it? How do we change them? And the the need right now is to trust the process of transformation and especially with Leo to not let the system's dim the internal Radiance. So the radiance of Leo that rules our heart and spine is the radiance of love. It's the radiance of Freedom. It is the childlike innocence of unconditional love. Of playful creativity the way that we are flexible and adaptive and can learn through play. This is what we need to move towards right now as we confront the the fear and the intimidation of these systems and it is how we will transform them is by meeting one another with love with playfulness not trying to assert dominance, but allowing ourselves to be emergent together in this transformation now at the same time, Neptune in Pisces is forming the same aspect in conjunct 150 degrees with Leo. So Pisces is in conjunct to Leo and Neptune is currently transiting Pisces and Neptune is the planetary ruler of Pisces. And so this vibration of Neptune in Pisces is very very strong. And I should have said that Saturn in Capricorn Saturn is the planetary ruler of Capricorn so we have really Lee Strong very pure energy coming from both of these signs Pisces is the undifferentiated whole as an astrological symbol. It is a symbol of the ocean where all water returns and the atmosphere where all tiny particles of matter kind of float around and mix together Pisces is the great unknown. So this is a symbol Of everything we can't know that still affects us our ancestry the cumulative past the collective unconscious our dreams all the things. We don't know all that's invisible to us Pisces is also a sign that speaks to the ways. We lose ourselves. We lose our sense of self and Neptune is an agent of self undoing it gives us experiences that dissolve our sense of ego and our sense of separation and it asks us to move out and beyond our small selves. So Neptune in Pisces is emitting raised upon us that are kind of permeating and porous and dissolving of our separate skin. It's going you're bigger than that. You're more than that. Get out. Get out get out from your small mind in its detriment. However, it also leads us to Desire to kind of vacate and it can be a really addictive and distracting kind of influence. So with these in conjuncts from Pisces and from Capricorn in the planets in them, what we have is called a Yad now, this is not exact by aspect and so any astrologers who are listening and you're like it's not exact I know but it's a yard by sign and basically what that is is is to zodiacal energies in this cape case Capricorn and Pisces that are supporting their lending one another in their influence and then they're both providing these very uncomfortable kinds of influences into another sign in this case Leo, but because Leo is receiving in conjuncts from both Capricorn and Pisces, there's a kind of stability in the aspect and Leo is Growing and the way that I'm interpreting this is that as we lean into the unknown as we open ourselves to the profound and immense transformation that is taking place on Earth right now. We do this through becoming more and more heart centered by trying to tear down and see through the layers of false identification and misidentification that were carrying. By trying to dismantle egoism and really come into a pure and authentic Radiance. And if we do that, this is the way forward. This is the way we can access the exalted energies of both Capricorn and Pisces Capricorn and it's exaltation is alchemy old magic wisdom Pisces and it's exalted manifestation is intuition magic and really Sublime powerful. Love so my friends that's where I'm going to pause with today's new moon and I really want to wish you all the best for these next couple of days. As I said Mercury is turning direct today. The new moon is exact this evening around 8:00 9:00 p.m. On the Pacific coast. I think it's 8:43 p.m. The moon makes its trying to Chiron in In let's see about half an hour from when I'm recording right now probably right around the time. I publish this podcast the moon will make it Square to Uranus this evening at 5 p.m. And as mercury turns direct tonight just about 9 p.m. Pacific time. This is a really good time to start your journaling to make your new moon wishes and all of tomorrow and into Friday really wonderful time to work with this Newman energy. And the Uranian energy that's coming in the chyron support that's coming in and you don't have to know what it is. But open yourself come into your intuition free, right? I put out a guided meditation on intuitive writing a couple of months ago in Gemini season, maybe check in with that or check in with the Leo season embodiment and see what wants to come out of you. So thank you so much. If you want to work more with this energy, please consider coming on retreat with me in September September 29th through October 3rd. I'll be offering a three-day retreat in Longview Washington. It's on the Olympic Peninsula. It's a beautiful place queer run female run resort quote-unquote resort this place. That's kind of Lodge of old travel trailers vintage are Games and whatnot that have been renovated and we'll be working with Jupiter's energy and manifestation energy for our kind of spiritual purpose specifically with the astrology of 2020. So you can find more about that on my website embodied astrology.com under Play and Learn and Live Events and you can find links for everything else in the show notes. Thank you. I love you. Happy Leo new moon, and bye for now.
Don't lose your way with each passing day You've come so far Don't throw it away Live believing Dreams are for weaving Wonders are waiting to start Live your story Faith, hope and glory Hold to the truth in your heart ~Diana Ross, “If We Hold On Together” This episode explores the awesome astrology of the new moon in Leo on July 31, 2019. The new moon occurs on the same day as Mercury stations direct and makes several powerful aspects including trines with Chiron in Aries and Jupiter in Sagittarius, a square to Uranus and two inconjuncts (a yod) with Neptune in Pisces and Saturn/Pluto/South Node in Capricorn. Over the next two weeks as we move from new moon to full moon, the Sun, Venus, Mars and Mercury will all move through Leo, igniting a grand fire trine and stimulating profound movement in the Earth and Water signs. The changes we are personally experiencing now are not separate from the changes the Earth is experiencing. This new moon brings a message of integration and healing in the self, for integration and healing in the whole. This episode begins with a check-in, Renee shares a bit about her life and what she’s been up to lately, pondering thoughts and feelings very much related to the new moon astrology. The new moon chart interpretation begins at 40:00. Learn more about Leo’s qualities and practice with the embodiment for Leo Season and find your Leo Season month ahead audio horoscopes and short written horoscopes for all 12 signs here Get the Leo Season Month Ahead Extended Forecast by becoming a subscriber today! Click here to find out more. Want to learn more about Embodied Astrology? Come on retreat with me with this fall and work with your personal chart and manifesting your potential in 2020 If you enjoy this work, please consider leaving me a tip! 