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Evolutionary Astrologer
Ari Moshe Wolfe is an Evolutionary Astrologer trained in the lineage of Jeffrey Wolf Green, with a path shaped by devotion, questioning, and a lifelong insistence on truth. He lives in Sonoma, California, is a father and partner, and is also a musician. In this episode, Ari shares the behind-the-scenes realities of his growth as a teacher: learning humility, navigating guilt and self-criticism, and building a practice rooted in spiritual integrity rather than performance.
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In Episode #3 of Backstage Astrology, Mayra Medina sits down with Evolutionary Astrologer Ari Moshe Wolfe. He shares his deeply human story: growing up in a strong Orthodox Jewish environment, privately wrestling with sexuality and existential doubt, and eventually experiencing the painful ādissolutionā of an entire identity structure. As he followed his inner impulse toward truth, he found astrologyāthen became disillusioned again when the teachings around him felt too absolute and not deep enough.
That disillusionment became a doorway: Ari discovered Evolutionary Astrology through Jeffrey Wolf Greenās work, and through apprenticeship and dedicated study (including with Adam Gainsburg), he found a framework that demanded humility, sincerity, and integrity. Today, his work centers on right intention, prayerful presence, and the courage to speak only what he truly knowsāespecially as he navigates visibility, teaching, and the real-life logistics of being a parent, partner, and professional astrologer.
Ariās work is grounded in Evolutionary Astrology (EA):
Reading the chart and transits through the lens of soul growth and evolutionary intent
Exploring how life events, crises, and relationships serve ongoing inner maturation
Bringing a spiritual-prayerful orientation into sessions (right intention, devotion, clarity)
Emphasizing integrity in interpretation: speaking only what he truly knows, and staying connected to whatās alive in the moment
He also shares a nuanced shift in how he frames his servicesāmoving away from a purely āastrologer as answer-giverā identity and toward intuitive guidance and soul-healing sessions, where the clientās real questions and lived experience lead the work.
CHAPTER 1 ā The Hunger for Truth
Ari describes a lifelong internal drive: if something isnāt honest, it eventually catches up to his conscience.
CHAPTER 2 ā Faith, Culture, and Private Chaos
In a deeply religious upbringing, he becomes a youth leader outwardlyāwhile privately navigating unexpressed humanity, sexuality, and destabilizing doubt.
CHAPTER 3 ā The Breaking Point
Recognition and awards arrive, but instead of pride, Ari feels inauthenticālike heās living a life that doesnāt match his inner reality.
CHAPTER 4 ā Nodal Return: Loss as Growth
He frames a major turning point around the nodal return: maturation, spiritual growth, and the cost of becoming honestāletting an entire path fall away.
CHAPTER 5 ā First Contact with Astrology
A single book, an intuitive recognition of archetypes, and early internet communities become a bridge into chart study.
CHAPTER 6 ā Disillusionment (Again)
Even with many books and teachers, astrology feels too descriptive, too absoluteāuntil he finds EAās depth.
CHAPTER 7 ā Integrity as the Path
Jeffrey Wolf Greenās work triggers jealousy, inadequacy, and karmic resonanceāthen becomes a teacher of humility, devotion, and sincerity.
CHAPTER 8 ā The Real Work: Teaching, Business, Boundaries
Ari shares how growth now includes structure, SEO, consistency, and energy managementāwithout losing soul.
Evolutionary Astrology (EA) and soul growth through chart dynamics.
Religious identity, dogma vs. devotion, and the cost of truth.
Guilt, self-criticism, and the fear of being seen on video.
Disillusionment with āabsoluteā teachers and surface-level astrology.
Discovering Jeffrey Wolf Green and the Pluto teachings.
Integrity in teaching: speaking only what you know.
Prayer, right intention, and presence as professional foundations.
Boundaries with clients: leadership, attunement, and not āsavingā.
Running an online astrology business while parenting: time, energy, structure.
Creativity, timing, and the invisible labor behind newsletters and videos.
On authenticity and guilt:
āAfterwards⦠I said something that I didnāt really understand⦠it didnāt feel authentic⦠and then I felt a lot of guilt.ā
On disillusionment as a doorway:
āI became disillusioned⦠it felt too descriptive⦠it wasnāt meeting the longing of my soul for truth.ā
On the core practice:
āI come back to purpose⦠right intention and attitude⦠I always pray in the beginning.ā
Books mentioned / directly referenced:
The Only Astrology Book Youāll Ever Need ā Joanna Martine Woolfolk.
Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume 1 ā Jeffrey Wolf Green.
Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology (about EA)
Teachers / influences mentioned:
Jeffrey Wolf Green (Evolutionary Astrology).
Adam Gainsburg (EA-influenced mentorship / apprenticeship context).
Mentions of early online astrology community figures (by Ari in conversation).
Mayra Medina, Your Host
Mayra is a Creative Consultant for Astrologers working at the intersection of communication, branding, and archetypal astrology. Mayra believes that what truly drives visibility and impact is a compelling story, strong visuals, clear purpose, and thoughtful strategy. Learn more about what she can do for you:
What I learned from Ari that stayed with me:
1. Disillusionment is not the end ā itās initiation.
What impacted me the most was hearing Ari talk about disillusionment ā not just with religion, but even with astrology itself. That moment when something no longer feels true⦠and instead of doubling down, you let it fall apart. Thatās not failure. Thatās integrity. Thatās evolution.
2. Guilt can be a compass ā if you listen carefully.
When Ari spoke about the guilt he felt after saying something that wasnāt fully embodied⦠that stayed with me. Not guilt as shame. But guilt as feedback. As the soul saying: āThat wasnāt aligned.ā That level of self-awareness is rare. And humbling.
3. You donāt need to have all the answers to be a teacher.
This one hit home for me. The pressure to ābe the astrologerā ā to answer everything, to know everything. Ariās shift from āI must respondā to āI must stay connected to my intentionā changed how I think about sessions, content, even this podcast.
4. Authenticity requires structure ā not just inspiration.
I loved how honest he was about business. SEO. Strategy. Making it work. Authenticity is not passive. Itās not āIāll just flow.ā Itās claiming: I want this to grow ā and then becoming more yourself in the process.
5. Identity dissolves before clarity arrives.
Listening to him describe losing an entire religious identity⦠that was powerful. We donāt become ourselves by adding layers. Sometimes we become ourselves by subtracting what isnāt true anymore.
6. Teaching is a spiritual practice.
The way he begins sessions with prayer. The way he sees each reading as shared healing. That reminded me that astrology isnāt just interpretation. Itās presence. Itās leadership. Itās holding the container without trying to save anyone.
7. Youāre allowed to evolve beyond your label.
I loved when he said he removed āEvolutionary Astrology Readingā from his services. Not because he stopped being EA ā but because he grew beyond the label. That gave me permission to reflect on my own titles, my own structures.
8. Growth sometimes means committing more, not less.
This was big. Sometimes we think freedom means keeping one foot out the door. But for Ari, authenticity required stepping fully in. That tension between spirituality and ambition? Thatās real. And itās okay to want success ā as long as youāre becoming more honest in the process.
Welcoming Ari
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I struggled with years years with an immense amount of guilt.
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It can simply be like after a session or um you know teaching a class on I used
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to do a lot of EA Zoom meetings. Right. Right. Where I would notice afterwards that I said something that I didn’t
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really understand or maybe I said something true but my energy was like up
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here and it didn’t feel authentic and then I felt a lot of guilt. Right? And in some cases this led to such a torture
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where one of the reasons why I was hesitant for many years to teach my own training
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program was because of that that core dynamic. I didn’t want to record
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anything. I didn’t want to get myself on video because of a strong tendency to actually sort of disconnect from
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authenticity. And then the guilt that that would generate and the like the immense amount
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of do I have to delete it, do I have to re like there’s a lot of internal self-criticism that I would say throughout my entire career most people
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would probably not even recognize was ever even there. [Music]
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Welcome to Backstage Astrology, where we take off the expert mask and get real.
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My name is Myra. I’m an astrology enthusiast and also a creative advisor.
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I’ve been helping astrologers with their digital stuff for a few years. And the more I get to see them behind the
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scenes, the more I realize that also our astrologers go through a lot of big
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challenges. They have big fears, big insecurities. I always wonder what it
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was to be an astrologer. How their lives look like really behind all the cosmic
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wisdom. I always had this question of like how is your life really and also obviously if you can make a living out
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of astrology. So in this new series I’m trying to talk to astrologers and to
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really understand what goes on with their lives behind the scenes all the challenges they have faced as
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astrologers before and actually this is the goal of this podcast is to create
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genuine connections with astrologers as human beings to to get to know them better. And I hope you enjoy this
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series. And if you’re an astrologer and you have a story you want to share with others, um, please just send me an
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email. I will leave all the details below. We’re going to talk about the personal struggles. And in the second
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part, we kind of dive into the transits and insights they are passionate about,
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the ones that they fear the most, the ones that they find most inspiring. I’m guessing you’re here because you love
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astrology and you admire astrologers as well. And of course, let’s get real. Let’s get real with the astrologers.
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Let’s try to uncover what happens behind the scenes. So, thank you for being here and I really hope you enjoy each
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episode.
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Hi, and welcome back to Backstage Astrology. My name is Myra and today I am honored to be with one of my favorite
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evolutionary astrologers. Ari Mosha Wolf is here with us and we are gonna talk
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about his journey. Ari, how are you today? Great. Thank you for having me, May. So, um, you know, I always ask you
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guys to introduce yourselves. Um, how would you like people to to know you? How would I like to be known? I I I
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suppose I don’t have strong preferences. Um, as an astrologer, I’m an evolutionary astrologer. I I’m trained
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in the modality of EAS taught by Jeffrey Wolf Green. Mhm. Um, so my work is all
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about looking at the transits, looking at our natal chart, looking at the dynamics in our life from that perspective of how is everything serving
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our ongoing evolutionary growth. Um, more recently, I’ll share what’s interesting. I’ve been been giving
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myself a lot more permission to bring in my own political perspective. Um, I
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think often in in the astrological world, there’s and rightfully so. I mean, there’s we don’t want to alienate
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anyone. So there’s this idea of wanting to be neutral um and and not be partisan and I don’t consider myself partisan in
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a sense of like I’m taking a side. For me it’s been this journey of for me to feel energized by my work as a teacher
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um you know and sharing in this public platform I need to feel authentic. So
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this has been a a journey for me in finding what’s authentic for me. And you
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know, you can’t interpret the the transits and separate it from what’s happening in the world. And so you
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really can’t avoid your own interpretation of what’s happening in the world. So I’ve been having a lot of fun uh just kind of pushing that edge of
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being more authentic with my perspective, knowing that not everyone will agree, but needing to really kind of claim and connect with what’s true
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for me. Besides for that, I live in Soma. I have a family here um in Sonoma,
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California and um I’m a musician. Yeah, I follow your work. I love I love
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everything and exactly I love what you’re doing right now because being authentic is important right now and we
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know uh right now in the social media wise people are craving for authenticity
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and I think what you’re doing is very brave. I cannot do that at the point right now. Um so I really admire in
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Israel. Yeah. Yeah. I really admire what you’re doing because for me it’s always I’m always separating the astrology from
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my day-to-day life. Um sometimes I do post thing, you know, a little bit of a
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story, but I think what you’re doing is extremely brave and I I think we need that and you’re an inspiration to me to
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actually maybe um start doing that a little bit more. So, thank you for that. But let’s just look back a little bit in
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your life. Um, before you were an astrologer, uh, who were you? That’s also a hard question. Well,
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I’ll never be able to to be concrete around who I I think for me, it’s always been I mean, I’m I’m very Sagittarius.
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Okay. So, these are always very these existential questions of identity. Um, it’s always been a journey for me. I
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grew up uh with this deep internal longing and desire to know what was true
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and to to to make sure I was living in in alignment with that. um grew up Jewish Background
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within a strong Jewish culture. My parents, we actually weren’t traditionally Orthodox, but we became
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more of that when I was six or so. I think I was the first I’m the youngest of four, so I was the first sibling to
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have an Orthodox bar mitzvah. Uh and I I was the child to just take it on, you
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know, studying Talmud and uh having extra study sessions with other other rabbis after school. So, I went to a
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very strong religious upbringing through through high school, from, you know, kindergarten through high school. Um, I
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cared so much about it. I cared so much about having a closeness to God. And it
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was around actually I was in uh I was in Israel I think the summer before
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10th grade and it was like a like an all summer boys learning program where we
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basically wake up really early literally learn Torah all day just like studying all day and go to sleep. I was fatigued
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but there was a a spark when there’s motivation and spark then we have a lot of energy and so I did want to learn I
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did want to study. I really developed my skills and my knowledge and my confidence in in pract in that culture
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there’s a lot of value around you know people of the book like just the the the knowledge and the wisdom of actual study
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and and sort of toiling with the knowledge with the texts but it was also around that time where I
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was you know really beginning to go through puberty and just sort of developing these human qualities
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and I had to reconcile between this like growing sexual energy and my sort of
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deepening philosophical acuity with what I was learning. And it was hard because I didn’t feel ready to question.
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It was never about um trying to conform or or fit into something. It was about I
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was so afraid that if I if I kept on questioning, if I
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really follow that, you know, that impulse towards truth, if I really went
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there, I would destabilize my entire life. It’s actually interesting. I think
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that’s um from a Jupiter point of view, I think that’s something we all if I’m
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really honest, if I really if I’m really sincere, don’t contrive it. if I don’t try to make myself something I’m not or
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contrive my experience, I’m kind of afraid of what like what if I follow this all the way and things end up not
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the way they are now. Um we we reach those thresholds in our life where um
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that’s like it’s a very Jupiter thing actually. So yeah, I began questioning and
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um it it took three years or so um of of intense existential crisis and emotional
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crisis and struggling with my humanity, with my sexuality, with my beliefs, with
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not really having anyone to talk to, right? except for like there’s this one rabbi
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um where I was questioning and talking about very very basic questions like you
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know if what does it mean that like what does it mean that God wrote the Torah like it helped me understand if I
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believe that I needed more tangibility and so I was having difficulty with making my beliefs
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concrete and accessible to me or like if the if the rabbis from 2,000 years ago have taludic you know author authority
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and power and weight over my life. Why? Like, how do I know that’s true? Why is
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that true? But I didn’t want to disrespect them. I loved them, but I also had the sense of there’s there’s a
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question here. And the answer was always pray more, study more, you know. Um, but
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I ended up really kind of living a polarized life, like a lot of
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unexpressed human teenager stuff that was just like didn’t have a context. So, it was kind of out of out of order. It
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was totally totally chaotic and ungrounded and uh very emotionally um disregulated,
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but I did my best to keep it together on the outside and and try to live a normal Jewish
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life. I was even a leader in an Orthodox community doing a lot of like networking. I was working with a special
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needs community within the Orthodox organization, bringing them into Orthodoxy and creating programming. I
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was I was functioning. I was active. I was engaged. I was sort of inspiring because I was more of a a youth leader
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but had a really um chaotic inner life. Yeah. I was a lot of things privately
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that no one knew about. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I I know. I just want to follow. Um how did you overcome that?
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What what was the breaking point? Because of course you have these two kind of like brains or personalities or
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whatever it is. I I’m assuming maybe I’m wrong that there was like a breaking point where where you said okay or was
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there a breaking point or or a crisis or something? It was. Yeah. Um I think there are a few moments there is like um
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yeah it was the end of my 12th grade year. Mhm. And literally in my 12th grade year it’s like we play the same
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archetypes but at different different stages of our lives. I was traveling in in my 12th grade year. I was I was doing
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like Orthodox Jewish stuff with that organization that I was a part of and I actually traveled throughout the United
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States and uh wrote emails and had a you know a platform.
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I I won a couple really prestigious awards at the end of that year. Um the
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kind you know within that whole organization it’s a national it’s international actually. um the kind that
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really puts you into esteem with rabbitical leadership and just opens doors for you if you are to continue on that path. Um and I felt I felt deeply
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inauthentic. Again, a Jupiter thing. I felt like I was lying, you know, like no one knew about my like sort of private
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internal life and things I was doing that I really wasn’t supposed to be doing and right the questions that I was
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having that I was kind of internally doubting the whole religion. um it was in congruent because I was
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always a compassionate, kind, caring person and so I cared. Those things were true but I wasn’t in alignment with the Culture and Religion vs. Ideology
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culture and the ideology and that broke my spirit like receiving that I was like really it really touched
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me. Um and I couldn’t I couldn’t continue on in the same way anymore. It
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was hard. So this is just before um ending high school.
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I was actually going to go to Israel. Also in my culture like you know modern Orthodox East Coast jewelry uh it’s very
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common especially for men for boys to before they go to college to spend one
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year in Israel learning in a yeshiva right and I actually got uh um what’s
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the word welcomed or um accepted into a yeshiva that’s like it’s a little more black hat which is like you know more
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more I know you know that right it’s like more a little more from like more yesish. a little more strict, right? But I
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wanted that because to me that was the opportunity to ask I I wanted a very serious and devoted and clear like I
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didn’t want ambigu. I didn’t want any kind of secularism. I didn’t want distraction. Um I I wanted a really
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clear I didn’t want girls, right? I wanted a very clear unambiguous environment where I can just completely focus on Torah study and asking
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questions and with people that are solid in their path. But I got mono for doing
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something I wasn’t supposed to do. So, I couldn’t go to Israel, but I got sick
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and ended up staying in the States. I went to Yeshiva University instead. Uh,
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which I was going to go to after my first year in Israel. And that’s a it’s a Jewish college, but also has a very
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strong secular department. So, that was like the perfect opportunity. This was during my nodal Ari’s Profound Nodal Return
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return. So, that’s like 18 and a half, 19. Mhm. Mhm. This is like everyone I
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mean this is like nodal return stories, right? Like everyone has their nodal return story. It’s really
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I think to a significant degree for a lot of souls where the core soul
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dynamics really begin to set in motion in this lifetime. There’s a huge level of maturation and spiritual growth that
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happens at that point in a person’s life. So um I have a Gemini north node.
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So, I was able to read all kinds of secular books and kind of access
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information that I I was curious about um but never studied before and have a
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lot of conversations. Even though it was a Jewish college, there were secular people there that didn’t, you know, my
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parents made me go, but I don’t really, you know, there were a lot of Jewish people as a boy school um that didn’t
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necessarily resonate with the religion, but they were still a part of the
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culture. So I was able to interact with a lot of different people, have a lot of
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conversations. It was a very mindopening experience. Mhm. And I studied, I did a
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lot of work and just really committing myself to like ask questions. But at
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that point in my life, again, a Jupiter thing, we think of Jupiter as like expansion Experiencing losses with Jupiter
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and growth, but there’s so much loss with Jupiter. Um, to become an honest person means you
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you let a lot go. So I had to be honest. I couldn’t let myself pretend to be
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something that I wasn’t. So I lost everything that whole path gone. Even in
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the beginning of my first year of college, I was still a part of this or you know
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basically the next I was a leader now as a young adult going to different college
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campuses which is like the coolest thing traveling to college campuses meeting other people, leading prayer groups,
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educating um you know and and it was authentic in the way that I I love teaching and it was an opportunity to
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bring my my teaching forward and to interpret Judaism in my authentic way and to and pray and um but I had to tell
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the rabbitical leader, I don’t know if I believe in God in the way that religion’s teaching it. like I just
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don’t know if it’s true for me and I’m having these questions and I’m I’m you
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know I’ve connected with women in in ways that are not allowed and these are the things that I’m struggling with and
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I’m not I’m not praying every day in in the traditional prayer practice and like
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I guess you can’t do this anymore you know and um and that was it and there Dissolution of Identity
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were a few moments of that over the next year or two where it was like oh I guess that’s done oh I guess that’s done a
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dissolving of a whole identity structure that was so rich and it was home for me
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of all this sagge in the fourth house, right? That was um but it wasn’t authentic and so I I
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couldn’t I couldn’t make myself um be something that I wasn’t. So I the the
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spirit of Judaism actually never left me like the the the teachings and the sort
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like the more mystical devotional qualities are very much in me but the dogma isn’t
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and it’s literally that the next couple years were just a gradual but one thing that happened during that time and I
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remember in the short you you posted I discovered that I shared this in in a recent talk with you or a few that was
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like a couple years ago when I had no gray hair. Come on. This is what the past couple years have done for me. Um, you know,
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sometimes in high school like mentionings of astrology would come up,
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but you one was not allowed to study it. So, basically, I I I turned towards astrology and just began the part of me
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that wanted to know the truth. It’s like I can’t um and this continues to this day. I
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can’t ignore it. If there’s something that is not clear or honest or I’m not
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I’m not uh looking at something that’s there or I’m being dis disingenuous about something eventually it catches up
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to my conscience and I it has to be addressed. So you know the questions
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around astrology I I I couldn’t not look there. So it’s almost like the path had its own inevitability to it in that
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impulse within my soul to continue seeking and to know the truth. Yeah. you were mentioning. Yeah, I was
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watching one of those videos we made and you mentioned that exactly that you couldn’t study astrology. There were
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some like rules to study astrology under the context you were in. And then how
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did you make that switch where where where you said okay you know what I’m just going to follow my intuition and
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study astrology the way I want. How was that switch that changed? It was
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gradual. So I actually went to Israel for a year after yeshiva university but I didn’t go to um I didn’t go to like um
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a yeshiva I went to I went to a kibbutz um again it was an orthodox kibbut but
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you know kibbut and there’s a lot more uh it was in the bchan in the baitan
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valley just near the kineret and um that provided ample opportunity for a little
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more space and freedom and discovery and then you know I left that kibbut and I actually that’s a whole journey but I I
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traveled and had a a lot of really important experiences. But during that time, there was a woman at the farm who
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introduced me to my first astrology book. I think she gave it to me or I don’t First Contact with Astrology
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know where it came from. Maybe she gave it to me. Um it was like I forgot who
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wrote it. It was called the only astrology book you’ll ever need. Very simplified popular c you know c
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culturally popular book. Mhm. Um and that was just like a very easy in I
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guess to learn the archetypes and and learn the basics of like how science planets right and the internet was
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available then that was like you know you can pretty recently in the past few years at that time Google things and
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learn you know new things like we’re literally we’re looking at like uh 22 years ago 22 23 years ago
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so um that was something that I was exploring and I remember once I met
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someone in Israel and he asked me guess what my sign was and I said Scorpio and
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I was right and I knew it because I felt the Scorpio and it was my first time
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realizing that I had an I was already developing an intuitive sense of these archetypes. Okay. And I just was I was
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interested in looking at charts. Um I joined you know tribe.net. Do you
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remember that tribe.net? No m I don’t remember. It was in it was we’re we’re we’re a similar age. So it was like it
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was before face it was like before Fster even I think it was like the early social media. Uhhuh. Where you join
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different tribes and they’re like discussion groups and there it was really cool. Wow. Okay. It was before it
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was before the craziness of the world today. Um, so Antaro Ali, really cool
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guy. He passed recently, a beautiful man, beautiful astrologer, an actor. He was leading an astrology tribe. And um,
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wow. Every once in a while he would like do for a $100 an online course with a forum and it was like a lot of a lot of
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culture, a lot of activity, a lot of posting charts. And I had the opportunity to ask questions, learn, and even share insights. And I found myself
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authentically interested in it. Just it was there. Um, I remember interacting with Zayn Stein. He’s well known for his
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research on Chiron. There’s some pretty cool people that were in that little world.
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Um, so I was just amassing books. It became a a a process. But what’s interesting is in the fall, um, October
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or so of of 2025, 2005, I became disillusioned. So I was Disillusionment
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already living on the west coast and had way too many books and I felt like there
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was so much knowledge this moment of walking um on the bridge in Olympia and
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just feeling this like heartache and like maybe like an apathy um
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yeah like like a hopelessness like a few like I’ll never be able to understand what this really is like I knew
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astrology was a Yeah, but I was a little bit disillusioned by all of the teachers and how absolute their their knowledge was.
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It felt too descriptive and I didn’t feel that it went as deep as I wanted.
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And um I I was just feeling like it it wasn’t it wasn’t meeting the longing of
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my soul for truth. And so I felt I felt like it was it was not something I can ever really know. Um and I actually I
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think gave away almost all of my books and was just letting it go. And again another we we’re authentic about Jeffrey Wolf Green
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that was literally the you know the time when uh Jeffrey Wolf Green’s work came
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into my into my awareness. I was going to ask you that because of course you were looking for like going deeper and
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that explains I guess in my humble time I know you why you chose this
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evolutionary astrology particularly with Jeffrey Wolf Green. Yeah. So, so tell me how how did you encounter his his
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teachings? Um, well, my friend my friend introduced me to his work and Adam Ginsburg who
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also was deeply inspired by Jeffrey Wolf Green’s work. So, both of those came at the same time. I studied with Adam and
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even lived with him for just being like I love his work. I love his words, his language. It felt really familiar to my
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soul. As it ends up, Adam literally grew up a few miles from where I grew up and
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his mother attended the same conservative synagogue that we attended before we became Orthodox. So like our
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families were somewhat connected. Um you know, but years later when neither of us lived there, we we met each other. So
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yeah, I apprenticed with him and really went deeply. And um I also discovered Jeff Green’s work at that time, but it
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was a little bit intimidating for me. Uh um why I read the introduction to the
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Pluto book and I was kind of angry. There was um a deep karmic
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um dynamic that emerged right in that moment. So obviously I have you know
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history with this soul um many past lives like there’s there’s a there’s a deep familiarity
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and and probably some unresolved karmic residue. So I felt jealous when he when
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I read those words I felt like I should have written that and so I felt in I felt jealous and I
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felt inadequate. Mhm. Like I was far from where I knew I could be. And so
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reading the clarity and like it resonated so deeply with an intuitive knowing that that it just brought up too
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much for me. kind of like a Virgo sort of like um it it it reflects too much
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what I know I could do but I don’t want to get started because the I’ll I’ll realize my imperfections and
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inadequacies continuously. Wow. Um and for me that was a big it’s been an
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important part of my soul work in this lifetime and kind of the theme I’ve been
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expressing learning how to only speak what I know. And I think there’s been a pattern for
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me as I understand it. There’s been a pattern for me in prior lives of kind of
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adopting this teacher persona and maybe taking other people’s works or teachings
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and uh representing it as my own but not necessarily having realized it or having convinced myself to know something that
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I didn’t really know. So there’s been a dynamic around that. And so to be humbled by this deep wisdom that felt
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really alive in my soul, but to actually eventually realize the immensity of this
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wisdom and allow myself to receive it and learn it and and become an authentic student of this work. That that was a
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very important and necessary part of my own journey. It’s interesting because it resonates with this part of me that was
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disillusioned by the the nature of the teachers and the the the teachings um
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where it didn’t quite reach deep enough for me. And then when I found something that was very deep, it actually wasn’t
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just knowledge, it was actually a soul path. Mh. um that would really help me
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to learn how to be a more honest person, how to cultivate, you know, more sincerity, um more openness and more
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sincerity, more humility in my own learning. And so that just became a path that I never intended to become an
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evolutionary astrologer. I never even intended to make a business out of it. It was just again that impelling like
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here’s something authentic and I have to go there. So Adam certified me in 2008
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and then I I dived after then full on into the EA school.
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Again, not even with the intention to become certified, just because I knew in my soul there was an integrity piece. I
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I knew that that was something for me to study and learn. I was definitely the most active student on the online forum
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for several years. The old evolutionary astrology uh message board which ran for
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many years and I just felt like it was like an ashram for me. It was an opportunity for me to study and learn
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and ask as many questions and practice earnestly. I’m going to spend hours with a practice assignment really trying to
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integrate the knowledge and referencing the teachings. And so yeah, it just became a real uh sincere path for me.
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Yeah, it’s beautiful what you’re saying because I mean I was going to ask a silly question maybe because you were Path to Authenticity
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saying I just want to um you know build your own truth basically and share the
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the teachings that resonate with me and not like grab from someone else and just
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you know put it in my own words which is something that you know we today in the media we see that a lot. So my question
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is going to be very silly, but how do you do that? What daily practices
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took you there to to be authentic to yourself, honest, um humble? Uh really,
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maybe it’s a silly question, but I really I’m really curious to know more about that.
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I’m not sure. Here’s what I’m able to access. Um, I
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know what it’s like to live my day, to either feel alienated, to feel
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disconnected, to feel like I’m somewhere else, to be doing work, or to be saying something where I don’t feel like I’m
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actually like in it. I because I know what it’s like to feel in it, right? I know what it’s like to feel
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um that what I’m saying or what I’m doing is congruent with where I am right now, like in a relationship, right? to
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say yes to something and to feel that yes versus a say yes to something and to not really feel the yes. Um I struggled
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with years years with an immense amount of guilt.
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It can simply be like after a session or um you know teaching a class on I used
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to do a lot of EA Zoom meetings. Right. Right. where I would notice afterwards that I said something that I didn’t
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really understand or maybe I said something true but my energy was like up
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here and it didn’t feel authentic and then I felt a lot of guilt right and in some cases this led to such a torture
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where one of the reasons why I was hesitant for many years to teach my own training
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program was because of that that core dynamic. I didn’t want to record anything. I didn’t
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want to get myself on video because of a strong tendency to actually sort of
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disconnect from authenticity and then the guilt that that would generate and the like the immense amount of do I have
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to delete it, do I have to re like there’s a lot of internal self-criticism that I would say throughout my entire career most people would probably not
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even recognize was ever even there. Um, so that was a very torturous process.
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Um, and I think the answer that I’m able to access, it’s just been the journey of earnestly wanting to feel free,
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wanting to feel like there’s not some kind of like unresolved residue of
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something that’s that’s that’s icky, inongruent, unclear, untrue, dishonest,
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not fully authentic. Um so that desire then impels me as much as I remember it
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to create the space to anchor my mind in my prayer in my devotion and who I want
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to be in my intentions for the day um asking for help
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and um the practices that I do are the practices that I do and that’s not so
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relevant but it’s it’s the the intention you know and my my my right orientation
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I think is the most important thing. It’s easy to go into an experience without that right orientation
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and then to find myself lost or kind of outside of my authentic experience. So
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like when I do sessions, I always pray in the beginning and it’s just like taking a moment to connect with the the
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purpose, the intention to to connect with what’s alive in me like what am I working with right now? Kind of bring that forward inside and kind of offer
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that up as healing in the space, you know? So that’s that’s a big part of the work. Let me see if there’s another piece there.
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Yeah. I mean, just your question is helping me remember how real and important that is for me to
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to come back to purpose, to come back to right intention and attitude. I think that’s the main piece for me. Wow. Becoming an Astrologer
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Amazing. So beautiful. And when when was the moment where you realized that you
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were coming to be an astrologer? Because maybe you didn’t even realize, I don’t know, where you said like, “Oh, wait a
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minute. People are actually inviting me to things.” Or how how was that realization? Not sure. It’s a good
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question. Um, I was charging money for it. um as as
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early you know as almost like 18 years ago I think I was s charging for sessions back in 2008
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2006 you know yeah 2006 2007 even when I was maybe maybe I began charging in in
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2008 yeah I don’t I don’t know if it was an in yeah then I then I made business
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oh you know what it was interestingly enough I went to this mastermind intensive workshop
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um one of those like how to how to become a million in there, you know, actually had a lot of it felt it felt
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pretty cultish in retrospect. Um, but there was a lot of really great advice and a lot of good teachings around
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self-esteem and self- value and that it really motivated me to sort of step into okay this is a business. Yeah, that was
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around like 2008 2009 and um but even like what it means for me the my
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understanding of the business has evolved drastically and continues to as I you know having a family so like you
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know five five and a half six years ago that was a huge turning point for me right where it actually became like okay
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it’s not just like me it’s actually like an income generating business it’s not just like sure I’ll you know living in
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my van get paid when I do it’s fine I don’t need So then that’s pushed me to actualize on a completely new level and and to
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cultivate more confidence and heal a lot of my fears of not being an honest person and my guilt and all that kind of
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stuff. Wow. Wow. And so when did you realize you were an evolutionary
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astrologer? Um oh maybe I always knew I was an evolutionary astrologer
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from the from the beginning like the philosophy that the perspective aligned. Interestingly, may I at some point maybe
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in 2015 I took I took the title evolutionary astrology reading off of my
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services because I realized well I’m not giving an evolution like I’m reading the chart
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with an evolutionary astrology training uh an orientation but what I’m doing in
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a session isn’t an evolutionary astr like that was a I couldn’t find that to be true so I changed the name of my
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services to intuitive guidance sessions which feels more accurate to you know I’m I’m in a space of guidance and in
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intuitive connection and I’m using my my skills in EA but it’s not like I’m here
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to because people are emailing me this is a part of the authentic piece people were emailing me with questions with
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this expectation I’m an astrologer um so tell me these things about me
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and I I was exhausted it met the part of me that um self-pressured to have answers which then led to saying things
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that I didn’t really understand or know or or just kind of being more in a in a mental space but not in a connected
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space. I’m feeling very depleted and I realized, oh, I need to free myself of
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this expectation that if you get a session with me, I’m going to answer your questions, you know, according to
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this idea of like an astrologer giving information. So, I then shifted it to every session is a soul healing session
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and you have to give me what is alive in your soul. I need to feel your authentic
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inquiries, your challenges, your prayers, your intentions. And then I take that and I pray with that and I go
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inside with that and I meet that as another soul on on his journey. And that’s a lot more real for me than like
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giving information from a chart, you know. Wow. That’s so it’s always been I’m an EA astrologer, but I don’t
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necessarily, you know, um make that the thing that I’m doing. It is it is the roots of my work. It is my training.
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It’s what I teach in my training program, but even then it’s there’s there’s my own way of carrying it. So
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interesting. Okay. So, so when you prepare for consultations because you
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know it can be emotionally a challenge for for some astrologers maybe because
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what do you do to to draw boundaries if you do? Um and so you don’t take the the
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you know problems or challenges the person is facing or how do you deal with that? It’s cool. I I I almost never I I
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seldomly have that kind of issue. Um I know a lot of people have that kind of I
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think the the clarity of the boundary is in the clarity of my intention for what the space is for. Um
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the struggle that maybe I had was the um thinking I needed to answer every
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question and sort of be this person for someone. Mhm. As I’ve been letting go of that identity or that role and trusting
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my own leadership and my own intention and my own purpose, whatever comes up,
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whatever it is, I come back to my purpose. I come back to my intention and
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I don’t I don’t believe that I have the answer. I don’t I don’t already think that I’m supposed to know what to do.
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There’s a lot of looking inside, you know. I mean there’s an experience with
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some time ago where one person had a and this has happened many times where a person might have deep emotional
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triggers right might come up and so it’s following what’s what’s the calling for the moment it may not be about like hey
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wait I got to tell you these things it might be just to pause and be present with them
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and intuitively ask if they’re open when the time is right you know would you
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like me to continue speaking or do you want me to pause or I have a reflection that’s arising. Would you like to hear
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it? Um, I always rec and this is healing for
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my soul. I always stop and reconnect with the individual, you know, check in with them and their energy oftentimes
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verbally, just to make sure it’s landing to give them the space to communicate, to invite.
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But it’s like if they have a qu or if they’re if they’re, you know, let’s say they’re they’re they’re having they have a lot of pain and they’re just needing
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right a lot of people might come help me, heal me, save me. I just don’t join them there. That’s not what I’m here
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for. And I have no problems jumping in and saying, “Hey, let me just stop you there. I I I get the essence of what
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you’re bringing forward and let’s just sit for a moment. Are you okay with me tuning in and offering some reflections
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now?” Right? I I take the energy back into the domain of my leadership because that’s my role. And sometimes people
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just really need a person to hold clear boundaries and say, “This is what we’re doing. This is the space.” And not
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necessarily cave into um sort of that that the empath kind of dynamic of I need to make you feel
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better. It’s not about that for me. So yeah, I think just staying clear in the prayer is the is the bottom line that
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that’s important. And talking about this, um have you ever encountered any
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challenging client where they didn’t, you know, they didn’t end up happy with
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a a session or something and how do you cope with those situations? Yeah, love it. Um,
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in in all the cases where that’s come up, it’ll often be, you know, maybe something I said that
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felt hurtful or alienating or, you know, or like, oh, I really wanted to talk about this, but we didn’t, you know, and
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I feel regret, right? So, you know, if it feels right, I might invite them to articulate that and, you know, or I say,
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you know, let’s set up another session to explore that, right? If there’s like a criticism about me, I I I have no
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problem with that. I want them to feel the space to articulate what their problem was. Whether it’s right or not,
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doesn’t matter. I want them to be fully expressed. Um, so I want to be able to hear what it
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was like from their experience, what their complaint is, what their issue is. That’s my purp,
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right? um if it’s really deep, you know, and it could be like I said something that
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either they misunderstood or I wasn’t emotionally attuned. I can very easily
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um mistakenly not realize the impact of certain words at times and that used to
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happen a lot more happens a lot less. But that’s that’s occurred, you know. Um and then it’s in my full desire to
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actually be able to learn from that and say, “Oh, you’re right. I really in most cases if a person has a complaint
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usually there’s some feedback for me where I could have been more thoughtful or present or attuned and I think in
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every single situation it’s been healing in every single instance where there’s something unresolved for the individual
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if there’s a calling for me to hear them they just really needed to feel heard relative to some part of their soul that
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was triggered right and so maybe in the past they haven’t had the opportunity to feel respected and it’s vulnerable to
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like go to a a teacher mentor type person, right? And say, “Hey, this bothered me.” Um, because I might be
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like, “It doesn’t matter, right? It could be very easy to be rejected.” I think most people
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um if they’re being triggered by something, there might be a past of having been hurt in that way in the past
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by teacher, counselor type people. Yeah. Yeah. So, to meet that and show them that I care and that actually it’s it’s
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a part of my own path too is really important. And I see every session as a shared healing. So, that’s a part of the
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boundary. Like I don’t I don’t think of my sessions as I’m giving something to someone else. I see it as if I can be in
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service to your soul by authentically loving and caring and really wanting to know where your growth is. I’m going to
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heal just by way of that orientation. I’m going to receive and I do receive so much. There’s so much learning and
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insight that I can then take into my own life. Every single session is about that. So if something comes up
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afterwards, yeah, I just really pray and tune in tune in on that level. That’s beautiful. I I think how you
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approach your readings and your classes and even your YouTube channel. I mean, there is a reason why we all feel drawn
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to certain key teachers or astrologers, but I I really like the the way you the
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authenticity, the the the being real kind of thing, which is what this podcast intends to do. So, changing
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gears a little bit, Arie, has there ever been a moment up until today where you
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have doubted astrology and you said, you know what, like this is not working.
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This is not paying the bills. This is not my thing or or not. Not not really. Mhm. Yeah. Um I would say
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I’ve often wondered where it’s going to go for me.
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It feels like it’s been really important, really helpful for me along this whole path in in just really helping me heal a lot of my own
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dynamics, come into a relationship to study and learning in an authentic way, learning how to be a teacher in an honest way, actualizing my confidence
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and my clarity of of thinking, and then how I’m able to use it as an instrument to to serve others. It’s just been so so
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helpful, so so useful, and I’m just immensely grateful for Jeff Green. And it’s almost felt like
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it’s all a path that eventually will have its own end. And I don’t know if that means
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I won’t teach or I won’t do sessions, but everything needs to be played out
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completely until it’s until it’s played out. And I know that my my own journey
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is going to continue and there are more thresholds to explore. Uhhuh. You know, for example, like on the on the journey
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of learning, there was a a phase where it was about learning the the content,
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right? And then practicing and then teaching, right? And but that that fell away and it came more into, okay, I have
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that knowledge, but not like I’ve learned at all or I know it perfectly. It’s more like the energy or the fuel to
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continue studying kind of just waned and now I have to teach and and create and
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share. And that became a way of integrating my learning. And that that phase of teaching has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger where it’s helping me
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clarify like the thing that I teach reflects the threshold of the the
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knowledge and wisdom that I’m seeking to integrate and kind of ground. Once that’s integrated, it takes me to a new
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level, new dimension. And I think I just had to play it out. like my internal guidance is I need to really step into
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this path of teaching um strengthening my voice, strengthening my confidence and to see where that
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goes. I feel like there’s also a calling for me to step into more teaching um that isn’t necessarily just for an
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astrology audience. Right. Right. And that that’s something that I’m called to explore. I’ve been doing a little writing on that um to allow more of my
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own learning to be accessible but not just to those that only want astrology. Yeah. See, I think there’s it’s going to
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continue to unfold. That’s in terms of doubt. Not so much doubt, more so more so a
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like it’s a hard thing to translate because I feel like I’m doing it to go
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all the way and complete it and play it out and let it go and see what’s next. Um, as opposed to like I this ambition
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to become someone. I I feel it’s more like I’m learning how to embrace the
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ambition to become someone because I understand that it’s necessary along the journey. I’ve actually
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resisted. I would say for the most part I’ve had always a little bit of like one foot out
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of the door, like a little bit of an uncommittal relationship to astrology and my teaching path. not wanting to be
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stuck, not wanting to be too defined, not wanting to be overly identified as this, right? Not wanting to get myself
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stuck in an inauthentic thing. And actually, it’s been the opposite where I have to step more into it to be
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authentic, to to learn how to be authentic, and to kind of fully let that blossom. Oh my god, Arie, that is so I
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don’t know because I was thinking that I’ve been following you for a few years now and I remember last like two years
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ago your channel had like few followers and suddenly you were telling me oh I’m you know I’m with this challenge and I
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think the moment you became or decided make the decision to be authentic now
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the the channel has grown a lot you know so I don’t know if there is a relation there how do you feel about that? Yeah.
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I mean, it’s like, okay, I want to be authentic, but also it’s the choice to actually make this work. That’s like
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that’s like the the Mars, okay, a thing that’s often lacking on the spiritual path, right? It’s like almost like this
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materialism or spirituality. Yeah. And I’ I I’ve been reconciling with that my whole life. um to actually consciously
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claim I want to be successful, I want to grow my following, I want to make money
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means I must become more authentic as I grow myself. Like it and that’s if I
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want to be more successful, I have to become more of myself. Otherwise, I’m going to be playing the business game
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and feel like a liar, like I’m just doing it for for the likes, you know? Um, so I’ve had to claim that as a
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conscious willful intention and I was sure I just had this great
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session with my friend Joe G, amazing guy. Um, he’s he’s a really skilled
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astrologer in his own right, but he did this business review where he like went through my channel like what are my weak
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points, how can I improve? Like I don’t even understand SEO. He explained SEO to me. These are like new literally new
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things for me. I’ve always felt intimidated by it, you know. So, yeah, that’s that’s where my soul growth is
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right now. And in cooperating more with like putting forward intentional,
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willful I’m going to make this work. I’m going to actively try. This is an intention. This is a goal. This is an
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agenda, you know? Yeah. Beautiful. Um, okay. So, what is one misconception
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people often have about you when they first meet you as an astrologer? Let’s just change gears here and, you know,
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Because you know we are in this community but people that are not in this community language of astrology
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sometimes when we say oh my husband you know oh my wife is an astrologer you know they get we get a look we get a an
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impression a face how was it for you or or is for you still like when people
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find out that I’m an astrologer yeah like your family friends or the the
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parents at at your kids school oh I mean typical no one understands Right. No, no
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one gets it. I imagine everyone had I mean with rare exception, right? No one has a clue what this work is like. I
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don’t think anyone in my family really understands. Oh, really? Um, are you the first astrologer in your family? Yeah. I
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mean, obviously I’m I’m kind of walking a very different path. Um,
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no one’s asked me to explain it. I don’t have a a deep need to. Like, I’m not I don’t I don’t I’m not worried about it.
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Yeah. I I I’m know I’m loved and you know but I don’t think I’m understood
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and when I you know I met a guy in the steam room at the gym a couple days ago. Yeah. Yesterday. Uhhuh. And um you like
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when you meet someone and you feel like you want to talk to them but you don’t know how to bridge it. You don’t want to
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bother them. I really felt like I wanted to talk to this guy. Um but he made he
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he felt it too. He said the first thing you know I forgot what he said. Oh, he’s like, “Oh, it’s really good to meditate.” He’s telling me like sitting
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quietly. He’s like, “Oh, it’s really good to meditate.” I’m like, “Okay, cool.” He wants social connection. I’m like, “I engage. You know, where are you
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from?” “What do you do? I’m an astrologer.” And he’s like, “Oh.” And and this is the
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moment, right? Like, let’s see it. It’s to It’s either Oh, how do you do that?
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And I know what they’re thinking. They’re thinking astronomy, not astrology.
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when they say how do you do that they’re thinking it’s like science astronomy right um that’s one answer or the other
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is like oh you know so like this is about you know where a person was born
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and all that kind of stuff right so I got the ladder and he asked me to explain my work there’s there’s some trucks in the background do you is it
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okay the background noise I don’t hear anything oh great this is a good microphone I got so um that’s good to
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know so yeah he he was very interested and and he said actually. Oh, you know,
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my my sister got a reading with an astrologer a long time ago. She’s really into that stuff. And he said she said
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that the astrologer said that she was a pharaoh in Egypt in a past life. And so that that brought up reincarnation and
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my perspective on past lives and how I work with a chart with respect to past lives. And um yeah, it was cool. I gave
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him my card at the end of the day. Oh wow. I walked naked out of the out of the steam room to go to the locker and
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and like here take my card. So it was a fun interaction. Um there’s always like
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yeah it’s always a mixed bag but it’s rare and precious when someone takes genuine interest. I don’t really know
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many people where I live in Soma like there aren’t a lot I don’t have person I
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very very seldom do I have like an inerson client. It just doesn’t happen because my business is online. So when
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I’m in the world it’s like with my kids with the synagogue with you know pushing a kid at a park on a a swing. So people
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don’t have a relationship to my work when I in the rare case and there’s a lot of more conservative people here. So
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in the rare case that I have a conversation there’s interest. It’s very delightful for me to have an inerson interaction. That’s why and I would love
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for you to come and do this sometime may it’s like to attend a conference my first conference ever uh since well The Magic of Astrology Conferences
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there’s an EA conferences I did in person a while ago but my first like public conference uh since 2006 where I
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I was attended I I taught at Norwak in Seattle that was so much fun wow to meet
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people and of course having a platform it’s like people know you and it’s like wow people that’s so touching and they’re saying thank you for your work
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you know but meeting other astrologers other people that are interested in this work and being a part of that community.
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It’s very precious and rare I think for a lot of astrologers. I’m curious if this is also I’m assuming right it’s
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like you don’t meet a lot of people in person that you can talk to about the kind of work that we do. Yeah. Yeah,
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it’s funny because people think we do, but where where I live in in Israel, um
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I don’t know. I I just know only one in in give a time that he was my teacher
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for a while. I’m a brilliant guy, but I don’t I don’t see him often. So, it’s
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the same experience. So, when I go to conferences, I am in Disney World, you know. It’s like everything we’re talking
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about the same thing. Everyone understands the language, you know. I say Mercury, they understand. I say Libra, they know and and it’s all these
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connections and people are using it differently. There is the medical tribe, there is the evolutionary tribe and and
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I mean I love going to conferences not because I mean of course because of the teachings because of course we’re going
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to hear some some of you guys but the connections and the mingling and the eating together and sitting together and
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I think it’s it’s really like therapy for me in a way. I don’t know how you feel about that. I have to find out from
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which conference. I want to go to more. I’m like, this was great. So, I got to find out from which conferences because I don’t really know of. Yeah, there are
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so many. Yeah. I just wanted to ask um about your business. How do you handle Real Life: Handling the Astro Business
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being a partner, being a parent, being an astrologer, I mean, and your
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business? What are the challenges you’re currently facing as an astrologer? Like with a business? Um
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time management, energy management, being having more responsibility
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um as a partner, as a father, and just tending to all the beings in my
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life, right? And earnestly wanting my energy to be clear and to to just be present like to be present with my kids
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when I’m with them, to not be somewhere else, to not to not have work on my mind or unresolved emails to read. Then I
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know what it’s like to I would say this is the challenge that’s been most prevalent is maybe the end of the day
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comes it’s 5 5:30 and I don’t feel like I’m done. I think a backlog of work and
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I know tomorrow I’m going to be teaching and doing sessions all day and I won’t be able to catch up on it or I didn’t finish the video or the newsletter I
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wanted to send out and I know when I’m going to next get to it will be three days and the energy or the inspiration might be gone. Right? So, um,
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structuring my life and co-creatively structuring with Michelle to support me
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to have the right kind of space to get the
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work done that I need to get done. And I think for me like learning boundaries has been a huge lesson for me. Like when
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I started off, I did not have that skill at all really. Um, really learning how
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to be not available. Uh, so that when I am here, I am available. learning say this is work
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time. I’m not available. You know, um those kinds of simple relational skills.
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Um defining my time and what I’m doing with my time. I think that morning time is really important to kind of get my
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mind straight and clear and kind of connect with what’s my intention, what’s my workflow, setting a really clear schedule, working with Michelle around
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the schedule and our shared needs to make it work ideally as best as possible for everyone.
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Yeah, it’s an ongoing process. I think to do that I have to have my priorities straight.
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Yeah. So my priorities are I want to be fully present, emotionally available and
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joyful with my kids. My priorities I want to enjoy my business and my work and be successful at it and feel energy
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for it. Okay. What do I have to do or when when am I going to eat? Well, probably do intermittent fasting on most
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days because that helps me with my energy. Okay. uh workout in the morning most of the time you know certain things
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or or chanting just like certain things that are helpful for me kind of generating chi and energy and you know
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to have certain rhythms that are guidelines for the most part of how I like to behave
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so that I’m you know clear that there’s and what you know most people with a business like what are the best times of
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day to do certain things right so my my mind’s fresh in the morning really good for like taking care of the email stuff
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and then kind of getting into the creative flow. Towards the afternoon, I can do a lot more um relational work.
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But honestly, that’s that’s a good time where I can just sort of do other loose ends. And it’s great if I can structure
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my days where I’m just following the flow and the rhythms and the timing of things and learn like I need to have breaks where I
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just walk or do nothing with no intention or have my phone with me in case I want to make a video in some random location. Um you know, things
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like that. I’m a sad. So, I need to be able to structure space in my day for a lot of freedom and spontaneity and
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unplanned energy so that I can feel into what wants to happen. And learning how
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to do that while also creating structures, you know, and that includes honestly days where I’m just not at home where
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learning how to create more space where I’m supported to like leave for a night, which I only recently began doing. Like
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having actual time where literally a 24-hour period of no plan. Um, yeah,
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it’s an ongoing journey of just being able to create more of all of the nutrients that our emotion needs to get
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all the things done that are important to feel source and nourished in his life and I’m still figuring that out. Yeah. I
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wanted to yeah to ask you because now that you that you’re sharing about the for example the inspiration no where you
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know you want to write a newsletter or a blog or whatever and you have that but then you know something happens you need
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to go somewhere and then it’s it’s cut out cut out exactly the most recent
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newsletter that I’m sorry for like the most recent newsletter that I wrote on cancer like Jupiter and I sent out the email yesterday Jupiter and Cancer I
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literally wrote it a week and a half ago but I wasn’t able to like edit it and so I just and then I came back to it two
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days ago to look through it like one art one created project sometimes one video might be a whole week. Yes. Because I I
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can’t force myself to completion if my creative energy has waned if I’ve had to distract
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you know and so it’s just there’s a sort of intuitive process where I also surrender to it and allow it to be as
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well. I love that because that makes me feel better. I’m selfish. No really
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because sometimes I feel the same. is like, okay, I have this Saturn video. It’s been sitting there and I need to finish, but if I don’t have the
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not not even the the k the energy, the inspiration, how am I supposed to sit and tell them
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something when I’m not even like I don’t know, but you you get me. I’m sure you get me completely. And and the fact I
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don’t have the energy uh but I want to do it. It’s like it’s not just about not
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doing something. It’s also how do I nurture the conditions because you know life is showing up for things that you
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don’t always feel right. So there’s also a learning for me around you know I’m going to do a session I’m going to teach. So it’s it’s cording the
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energetic state of of attunement and that means creating the internal environment and the practices to help me
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get in there. Yes. As opposed to just I can’t just be free and be like I’m only going to do things when I feel it. Plus
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doesn’t work. How do I actually you know cultivate that momentum? Sometimes just cleaning up. Yeah. You know, cleaning up
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and taking a walk and just sort of breathing with the intentions and allowing it to like re-emerge in my
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consciousness is very helpful. Yeah. Yeah. I get you. I mean, there are things we need to do because we have a
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business and you know, I don’t like doing the accounting, but you know, I it’s a mindset and okay, I’m going to
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put some music, make a coffee, and then just go on with the numbers, you know. So, we need to do that. But yeah, when
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it comes to the creative process, especially when you’re going to give information about a transit and and you
1:00:02
want you to speak your own truth, that that takes time in in, you know, it just
1:00:08
doesn’t come out. And and I think that’s something people not always get like the
1:00:14
the viewers because they’re like, “Where is your video from this week?” And I’m like, “Well, it’s it’s still in the
1:00:19
oven, but you know.” So anyway, everyone has different process. And lastly,
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Addie, what would you tell the next generation of astrologers
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if you if you could give them a message or or something?
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When something is new, it’s more generalized. And you know, like 30 years ago was
1:00:42
like, oh, you’re studying astrology. Now it’s like, okay, you’re studying astrology, but like what kind?
1:00:48
And and the more we get into something, the more we uh listen to something and feel into something, the more intricate
1:00:53
and nuanced and unique it is in all of its expressions. And so in your path
1:00:59
towards astrology or studying astrology, it’s actually it’s real, it’s powerful, it’s imminent, it’s alive, it’s helpful,
1:01:04
and there’s so many different paths and orientations and ways of utilizing it. So if you’re drawn towards it, really
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honor and trust what your soul is drawn towards the the teachings, the modalities, the teachers, the the ways
1:01:16
of working with it that you’re called to because that’s where astrology as a whole is growing and developing and
1:01:22
really becoming more real and applicable in the world. It’s going to become a lot more integrated and this next generation
1:01:28
is really going to take it on in this way and it’s because we’re seeing it as a real thing. So truly honor your
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calling and your path and there are amazing schools out there that can really solidly train you in the path that you’re called to. Yeah, trust it as
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a real calling. Thank you Arie. Thanks for their time and thanks for opening up and you know telling us about your
1:01:47
personal amazing stories and you’re really like honoring journey. I have to say I’m I’m really happy you know that
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our paths crossed and I hope to have you again because I still have some more questions but you know we need to honor
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the time. Okay, Ari, thank you so much and let’s touch. Thank you everyone and
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see you next in the next episode.
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