Philip Daniel Miles: From YouTube Loss to Cosmic Vision | Backstage Astrology Interview

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Unfortunately, my YouTube channel has been terminated. Uh is the word that YouTube used um last year, which is a

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fantastic loss cuz I’m talking about videos from 2011 and 12. Wow. Phil,

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I see a much stronger person in me now. Uh a much more authentic person. And I

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organized some great astrologers to come do a second event. And yet we didn’t sell as many tickets. So, we downsized

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the event just to to me and another top astrologer. And unfortunately, because

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we didn’t sell enough tickets, that astrologer decided that it wasn’t feasible for them to show up. I I I

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learned a tough lesson through this ordeal cuz there and then I should have canceled the event. This was a really

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hard one of the hardest, it’s certainly the hardest thing in my career. How do you prepare for your readings?

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And my first thing to do is not to brick up their chart. is to engage with my client. For me, it’s very important that

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I’m teaching someone how to use their chart and to know their chart and maybe even if they get to know it, they can

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follow transits as well. So, Phil, what’s your biggest dream for your contribution

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to astrology? Now, as a father, I never met my dad myself. So it’s really important to

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embrace the role of fatherhood and astrology should be integrated into

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every classroom and these classrooms would be best outside in the garden in

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my vision. I feel that to have a lot more psychological but astrological

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review in documentaries and reality TV such as um a big brother. I would love

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to be a producer of that not a contestant. One of my biggest journeys, one of my big experiences is that I

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didn’t meet my dad because I was born through an affair. But I was a gift because my mom actually had a

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bereavement and lost a child before I was born. And so my mom, she was before

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she was a psychotherapist, she was a nurse. They organized to have me as a gift. I was born through an affair, an

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organized affair, very taboo, very venus and scorpion style. Correct. But

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but I never met them. And obviously you can hear there’s a lot of questions there and a lot of ponderance of are

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they into astrology? Like what’s their birthdays? I didn’t even know my dad’s son. My mom was able to share with me my

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dad’s birthday a couple of months after my son was born. But the most resoundingly brilliantly wow moment of

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it was that my dad and I have the same Chiron degree

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in Gemini at 16°. [Music] Interview Starts: Philip’s astro-coloured routine

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Welcome back to another episode of Backstage Astrology. My name is Maria Medina and today I am honored to be with

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Philip Daniel Miles and he’s a dedicated astrologer whose life’s work is deeply

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intertwined with the celestial arts. Phillip, how are you? Thank you for being here.

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I’m fantastic. Thank you for having me. I’m very grateful to converse and connect. Phipe, I was really um you know

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surprised by by this um beautiful the you know introduction you giving your website where you are saying that as the

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you know as an astrologer and your life is intertwined with the celestial arts. Can you can you explain

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more about that? Well, the first thing that I begin my day with, which is celestial, is

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probably putting my socks on. And they are colorcoded very much, if I can find

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the right ones for the day. And I’m pretty good at that. So on today is a

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Wednesday and in Spanish that is Mercles

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and in French it’s Merced, right? And so it’s Mercury’s day, the market

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day. And so I consider that’s the day of trade and exchange, right? It’s about creating a bridge from you to I. It’s

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very appropriate that we conduct this interview. Uh and you open your bridge

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from you to me. So yeah, I always choose things that are

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material colored. Um sometimes I have to stretch because I’ll be like, “Oh no, I

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haven’t done the washing.” So I’ll try and find something that fits. But generally something a bit more sporty.

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Not as sporty as Mars Day though. That’s the day before, right? Um, but color

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orientated, so maybe silver, purple, something more fun on a Mercury day.

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Whereas or Jupiter’s day or Judy, uh, I would

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say that that’s more of a deep purple or deep orange cuz it’s the Jupiter colors.

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You get your pastels on Vendredi or Venus, which is Venus’s day, or Freya’s day, and Sabado, Sabbath, Saturn’s day

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is black, maybe black wool if it’s not too hot. Oh, interesting.

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The sun’s day, bright yellow. Monday, you wear white or or blue for the moon’s day. Martz, Mars’s day, or uh what do

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they call it? Mardi in French. Um then I’ll be wearing a blue or a deep red

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again. Mhm. Interesting. That’s beautiful. Way to start the day. So

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guys, yeah, that’s the beginning of it is the color color orientated, but I matched the whole of my actions to do with it

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too. Yeah. So, as I said, like um on a Mercury day, it would be more communication and

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writing uh and murial stuff. I’ll probably write about Mercury that day,

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whereas it will go through the week with the trends of the planets, what I’m doing.

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That’s really cool actually. And this is one of the of the reasons I mean when I first saw you on YouTube like years ago

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and you know you were just talking about astrology in a very fun way. You’re always bringing astrology you know like

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an out ofthe-box thinking. How do you do that? It’s it’s so nice to have a such a

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different perspective. Can you tell us more about your your perspective in regards to astrology?

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Well, I would say that actually astrology is just fantastic, isn’t it?

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Like it’s a motif. It’s it’s our chart. It’s the days of the week. It’s the ability to have context for any

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situation, circumstance, and I love it. We can talk about it till the cows come home every single day.

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Astrology is brilliant. But when it comes down to frequency, now that’s very astrological, too. But

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because I see that um temperament and harmonics and energy is all derived and

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seen through astrology but coming to the very center coming to the heart coming to really being able to His out-of-the-box approach to astrology & early inspirations

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lift ourselves up that is some like going to the well the the eternal well

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that’s within ourselves or the fountain of youth whatever it is is that spark of as you said charisma um I don’t know

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what it is the French call it juna um but The point it’s about really

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finding where you’re enjoying yourself. Where’s that spark of I am? Cuz that

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spark of I am is joy. And if so, it can be a harder day. It can be a heavier

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moment. And it can be really a reach to

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bring that fortitude out, that gusto, that that happiness. But the way I see

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it, someone who was myself making videos every day on YouTube, I had a YouTube

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channel where I would do one video walking around talking on my phone. Yes. Doing quickly about messages.

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Yeah. And I’d do another video like this where we sat formally, maybe an interview, maybe talking about astrology. Um, but

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the ones that I would do walking around talking on my phone out in public, I

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would find that that would shoot I would be saying things that would uplift people, the audience,

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uplifting me. I’m talking to me. I’m boosting myself up knowing that if I’m lifting my

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spirits, then somebody else is going to be connecting with that. Oh, well, it works. I mean, at least for

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me, it worked when I saw you. So, that’s beautiful. Tell us more about your your approach to astrology, which which type

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of astrology do you do? What’s your favorite branch of astrology?

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Well, I feel that after studying very different angles from different astrologers, different types of books,

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like I think a good advice for someone who’s just starting astrology is to get a book of each subject. Uh, and so

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firstly, you get your beginner’s book, learn about the signs, learn about the planets, that’s the basics. But then you might want to get a book that focuses

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just on planets, one that just on houses, one that’s just on aspects

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and go through each segment like that until you’ve built your knowledge base

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on each of the criterias and you’ve got a good template. And then you can branch out even further and you look at more

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techniques like maybe the henistic astrology, evolutionary astrology, maybe you’re

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looking in the psychological department, maybe you’re looking in the more of uh

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mundane astrology happenings and then you find what resonates with you and you might find that there’s different parts

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that resonate in different ways. Like I really love a technique book, but I really love a psychological book. And I

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think that once you get both obviously then you’re able to apply your craft in different ways. So I really appreciate

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the uh henistic template and use whole house signs because I like the roots

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going back to Mesopotonia uh which the cradle of humanity many say

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uh certainly of civilization uh which used astrology. Um I feel that many of

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these civilizations used astrology and it’s just through recent centuries uh

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since the world has become more corporate uh which is really derived

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through potentially uh religious conquering and like stuff like this um

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coming down through patriarchal societies. um they then cancelled out a lot of the astrological uh heritage

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for instance like I know that Britannia was taken over first we were taken over before we became conquerors us British

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people but we’re all we were all conquered at some point I just want to be clear about that but the point is

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they after once we were conquer us us British we went over to India and stole their tea and their astrology and

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renamed it India which was a slave name for the country and I’m Not like causing an offense here. I’m just calling what

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on my account of history is. But this was like known as another land. Like all of the lands, America wasn’t America. It

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got taken over. They called it America. Same with England. It wasn’t. It was the Meadow Land. Uh what it was called prior

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to all of these takeovers, but everything was astrological back in the day. And it’s all kind of got a little

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bit dis um taken away. So, we’re having this renaissance period now due to

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technology, bringing all of these informations back to the surface, and that’s been going on for some decades

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now, to the point that we’re all hustling and bustling with a little bit of astrological knowhow.

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So, how long uh have you been doing astrology? I think quite a while from what I I read on your website.

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Yeah, it was around 2008 2009 that I started taking an interest, but it

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wasn’t my main focus at all. My main interest was um like uh going into the Overcoming fears, food struggles, and starting on YouTube

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metaphysics of reality, what’s the template of reality and that was very interesting to me

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and learning about also consciousness and people like Bruce Lipton which talks

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about reprogramming your your consciousness and your patterns your habitual patterns so you’re not victim

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to circumstance and even I also very much enjoy Bruce Bruce Lipton who talked

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about epigenetics which means consciousness above your genes. So you’re not victim to oops you know me

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I’m just clumsy. Yeah, we might have certain traits and some of them could be incredibly ingrained, but we are able to

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rewrite them or even to raise the octave of those traits and say that actually

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we’re changing the frequency into a a more dignified expression of something

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which we thought was uh something we were stuck with. Uh and so basically you’re able every I think it’s take

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takes 21 days to reiterate and to reprogram um what is uh a story held in

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a cell. Wow. Story is funny, isn’t it? Because it’s power stored in our cellular membrane

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cellular membrane and that’s what makes us up. We wake up every day though carrying in

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dragging in the old stories. So, we have to remind ourselves who we are, what we’ve done, all the different things

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we’ve achieved and accomplished because we might have the same grumbles or chatter that we might have broke up with

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when we were a teenager or something like that. Yeah. So interesting. We’re in our 50s, 60s, and we’re still

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having to remind ourselves, well, I just, you know, I’m a gold medalist. I’ve accomplished that. I’ve raised this

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many children. I’m a grandparent now. And yet I still have the same I still have to remind myself of all the

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achievements and accomplishments cuz the grumbles still come in and that’s part of the human nature.

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Amazing. Thank you for sharing that. And yeah, Bruce Lipton, I recommend this uh well his books to anyone. I think it’s

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so interesting and so it’s funny. It was like those it was those inspirations which brought me to

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astrology eventually. Uh and uh I started a YouTube channel because of a

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passion of that type of consciousness. Uh there was a woman who does interviews

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uh called Leelu Marles and she was interviewing Bruce Lipton. She was interviewing Joan Dispenser. She even

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interviewed astrologer called K Patcher and he does I still watch him now. He’s

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a good astrologer. He does a payload report every Wednesday. uh and it gets thousands of views and so that was in

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200 bless you don’t worry

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so it in 2011 I had become so YouTube

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orientated like watching the likes of uh Nardia Sha the the Leo King these types

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of astrologers and learning from these fantastic interviews by a woman called Leelu Marles and she had a channel

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called Juicy Living TV and she would ask these spiritual pioneers what made life

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juicy for them. Oh, cool. She interviewed Bruce Lipton, Joe

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Dispenser, and even astrologer K Patcher who would do a weekly astrology report

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on Wednesdays called the Paleo Report. I saw that in 2012.

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Um, she also so she inspired me to start my own YouTube channel. this lady because of all these interviews. I

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didn’t know that I’d actually go on to do interviews or even do any astrology videos at this point. It was just about

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starting a 100 day reality challenge to face your fears and to overcome them or

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to move towards them at least. And so I would talk about vulnerable things from

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my experiences uh growing up and also one of my biggest fears which was a food

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disorder. um one of my and so which I’m still healing and have managed to move

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towards in a big way and uh it was really helpful that tool to be able to

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plot the progress and I did numerous of these serieses where I would talk about

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overcoming these fears even to the point of last year when I became a dad I was

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still doing this 100 day I wanted to ask you about that part of your life as well

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okay we’ll talk about it later if you Yeah, I’ll come back to that. So, um,

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cool thing is, uh, into I I started the YouTube channel. I didn’t know where it

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was going. And but I was talking to the camera like in a different way than I’m talking to you now. I would talk mumbly.

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I would talk like shy. Eye contact wasn’t good. It wasn’t there. I would also talk like I’ll give you one moment

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of impression. Right. Trying to talk like more cockney or more

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like an accent to fit into a social sphere to be accepted. I was trying to be more of a a guy, a giza. And that for Working with Lada Duncheva & building an international practice

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me, I look back at that now when I had those videos available for view. Unfortunately, my YouTube channel has

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been terminated uh as the word that YouTube used um last year, which was a

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fantastic loss because I’m talking about videos from 2011 and 12. Wow. Phil

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on those videos I would when I see the person who was having to talk in that

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voice of looking for social acceptance or whatever it was the person or I was,

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it’s not like I poo pooing him now by talking about it. It’s just like I see a much stronger person in me now

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uh a much more authentic person like it’s it’s night and day and so when I

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look at that person I have a lot of compassion for me for me and I I love me so much

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because of all the healing that continues to take place and has taken place in the past decade or whatever it

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is 15 years uh in that process. I love myself so much and admire myself so much because I

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know how far I have come even though the video doesn’t exist anymore. I implore and encourage anybody who’s got a

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passion whether it’s astrology, whether it’s sport, whether it’s cookery, carpentry, hairdressing, whatever,

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start. You don’t even know that it’s going to be that which you continue with. I didn’t know that YouTube would

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actually then provide for me because I was consistent with my video making. By 2012, I made my first horoscope and I

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was so nervous. I didn’t want to do it and been told you can’t call yourself an astrologer because I wanted to be, you

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know, top doing a good job at reading this chart. And so I held back from doing it. But I did do it. And that was,

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you know, over a decade ago. And um I cons consistently went on to do it and

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practiced learning my craft. By 2015, I started making new moon and full moon

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videos, and I did my first readings for clients. I did two readings that year for clients

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that paid me to do the readings. One of them is an astrologer these days, uh, one of these clients. Uh, and so, you

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don’t know who you’re meeting when you first start, but the fact that you start gets the ball rolling. Um, the next year

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I went on and I probably did about 10 readings. The next year I went and I did a hundred readings because I got a

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fantastic opportunity by 2017 to work with Lada Danchiva, a masterful astrologer from Bulgaria,

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some another person who I’d watched for many years on YouTube by that point. I was very fortunate to get the

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opportunity um because I just sent an email to Lada and I said,

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“Hey, I would love to work with you.” And I poured my heart out and I said, “This is what I’d like to do.” and she

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responded and given me an interview. And that was very fortunate because I think she received hundreds of of those types

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of letters. And she said it was because of my fixed stars that my chart just

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jumped to the top. Uh and so I was very grateful for that and she was very

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passionate about uh talking about my chart with me in my interview and the fixed stars that I have on my moon and

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my sun. Uh and so that was very cool. Wow. That’s the story behind that’s how

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I found you. also. So, yeah, that was really cool. Oh, wow. Okay. I’m nervous that like her first uh the

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first videos with Lada like I swept my t-shirt through. So, I had thousands of

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vid viewers all of a sudden listening to me talk about astrology from basically one or two that I had on my YouTube

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channel before. Um so, it was a birth of fire. But I really loved the experience

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uh of being able to share. Um, I think if you got when you’re doing something, the best way to do it is to be out of

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your depth with the situation. Um, because, uh, although you might, um, you might

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splutter and sink a little bit, you’re going to learn to swim really well. And, uh, I really enjoyed that experience of

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working with Lada. And that gave me the opportunity to meet so many other astrologers.

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uh interview over a hundred fellow astrologers on YouTube which was a great thing and this

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become the backbone of my livelihood although I didn’t know it was going to provide for me for a few years I was

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still living with my mom very humbly uh eventually in the pandemic I moved from

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England to Mexico and I was very grateful that my astrological livelihood

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provided for me to live independently internationally for what ended up being is now 5 years. Uh like I lived in

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Mexico for 3 years. I’m nearly been living in Canada for 2 years. Uh and so this is tremendous. And it was a dream

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life that I’m living because I’m doing what I love. And I think that that’s the Successes and failures organizing astrology events in Mexico

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thing. That’s what I keep coming back to. My story is whatever it is that you love is encouraging other people to do

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it. I’m really good at encouraging people, being there, being on their team. That’s what I do in my

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consultations is cheer people on and say, “Hey, you can start wherever it is that you’re keen on and you you’re going

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to be able to follow through with your consistency and see that it it manifests results for you.”

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Yeah, I love it. Thank you for sharing that, Phil. What What has been one of the most difficult challenges you’ve

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experienced during your your career as an astrologer?

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I would say the biggest challenge is there’s a few challenges being seen like

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for uh and you you have to be very resilient when you’re in public. Uh to

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be hold your head high and not care what everybody thinks all the time and that

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is a big thing. And for me as a Libra person, I’m a double Libra

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and a south node Libra. Um, I care a lot about what other people think about me or I have done. I’m learning to not

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care. The irony is I’m quite into punk rock ethi ethics, which means that that

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generally is DIY, do it yourself, and don’t care to me to what other people

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think. Um, but I do care. I want people to see if I’ve worked hard. I would like people

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to know if I put my heart and compassion and and goodwill into something. And that matters to me a lot. There’s a few

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different challenges which I’ve experienced uh along the way. Um one of the greatest things that I I did was put

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on an event in Mexico. It actually was with K Patcher uh who I

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ended up seeing interviewed back in 2012. The funny thing is good story in 2020 I was very fortunate to be asked to

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do the Christmas special for the astrology hub. This is one of my best subjects on astrology and that is the

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Saturn, Jupiter, uh, and Pluto triple conjunction in Capricorn we had in 2020. Did you know

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that was the first time that they had all been in Capricorn for 735 years since the year 1284?

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Oh, you’re wearing that three whole Pluto cycle. Um, well, I was just talking about the

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significance of this because in 1284 there was an eclipse like what we had in 2020.

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Yes. But it was a south node eclipse in Capricorn and we had a north node

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eclipse in Capricorn in 2020. So my big point was is that when in 1284

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735 years ago there was this powerful direction of fastening people into a box

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Capricorn religious box. It’s a dogmatic box or whatever box. Just don’t look inside of you look box because self

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knows the cancer. That’s how you feel inside. You if you have a conversation with something inside of you, you can be

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persecuted for being demonic or mad or whatever story or guilt or shame the

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society wanted to put onto you. But obviously we’ve learned to grow through centuries of that and we’ve uh opened

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through the squeeze. I’d say as a collective we’re not victim to circumstance. We’ve benefited through

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the journey and now we’re much more conscious and coherent of who we are and what we are

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able to do and what society can be changed to be. And so this is an

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empowering time. This is the greatest time to be alive. This most exciting time and many of the mythologies are

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connected to that as well with uh uh the pi pipo of Hamlin. You know, all of

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these false leaders, these mediocre, these storytellers, the greatest storyteller is you watching this video.

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Each and every one of us are the greatest storyteller of our own lives and it’s important that we tell our story rather than someone else’s.

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So anyway, I was going to do that interview for the astrology hub and I ended up showing up an hour late. They

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give us a Zoom link just how like how we connected here to record this video and I clicked it an hour early. And so I

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showed up and Amanda from the astrology hub was interviewing K Patcher, this

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legendary astrologer who I’d been watching by this point for about 8 years

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uh at that point. And uh I just said, “Oh, excuse me.” I was so embarrassed cuz I was but I was like, you know,

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barging into their interview space and I said, “Excuse me, Amanda. I didn’t realize it was time zone an hour early.”

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She’s like, “It’s fine. See you in an hour.” And I said, I would be be very

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foolish of me not to say, excuse me, Kpatcher, you’re a hero of mine. Can I interview you for my YouTube channel?

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I’d interviewed about 100 astrologers by this point. Wow. So, I was I was very excited to have

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connected with so many, but he was one of the top of my list to be able to do so because it was very meaningful for

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me. He was like, “Sure, let’s do it.” We did it. We recorded and it was fantastic.

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But the point is we went on to record another one and then a year or two later when I was in Tulum I got him to do my

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event. I had put on an astrology event in Tulum on my Jupiter return.

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It was my third Jupiter return which I think on the beginning of that Jupiter cycle is when I would have began

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studying astrology. So the 12-ear cycle coming to culmination and I was able to put on an

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event with the very people that I was watching while sat on the sat on the

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floor watching the television. Like I was watching the same people on YouTube that I ended up paying the cash

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to to work the event that I spoke at and they spoke at. Yeah. It was a dream come true. And not

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only that, it was on it was in the Mayan Riviera Riviera which is an astrological

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resort in Mexico. So, it was just a dream and it was a three-day event. We had Santos Bonacci, Franchesca Audi, uh How he prepares for client readings & his teaching style

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Dylan the human design maven, Ellen Erin Wade, who’s also a fantastic astrologer.

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It was just a really good event and we had about 30 attendees and everybody

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seemed to have a great time. That’s really cool. It was really cool. So this I give you

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that backstory of the fantastic dreams coming true because I wanted to do more of those

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events after that roaring, you know, not only did we have a really good time, everyone got paid. It was

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great, but it was like, wow, we have to make this a lifestyle now. This is been

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great. And so I wanted to put on another one. And I organized some great astrologers

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to come and do a second event. And yet we didn’t sell as many tickets and it was a big challenge.

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So we downsized the event just to to me and another top astrologer. And

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unfortunately because we didn’t sell enough tickets that astrologer decided that it wasn’t feasible for them to show

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up. Uh and they told me and uh I I I learned

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a tough lesson through this ordeal cuz there and then I should have canceled the event. But there was a mixture of

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reasons why I didn’t. Firstly, my passion to want to put on another great event which was crumbling before my

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eyes. And secondly, the investment that people had put in, I’d already put into

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ping promoting the event and to paying my rent, which was a lesson which I

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would found to be very tough. I now know you do not touch your backbone

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through such a public event. you keep any investments cuz I probably should have told the

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people who bought their tickets that the event was canceled and refunded them, right? But what I did was I proceeded with the

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event and the three people who bought tickets rather than the 30 which came

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the year before. Um, they were quite disappointed to find only me uh on the

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beach in Mexico still doing my best to provide a fantastic service and teach them all about their charts for 3 days,

30:13

but it really didn’t cut the mustard for what they had come to expect. This was a really hard one of the hardest, it’s

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certainly the hardest thing in my career that I’ve experienced, but one of the hardest things I’ve experienced as a as

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an adult. And uh mainly because I don’t like to let people down. And I would

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like it’s it’s not just for being celebrated, but it’s also not wanting to disappoint people,

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right? And so what I’ve learned is some things can go grueling and some

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things can be unexpected and yet every what you have to fail sometimes.

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Yeah. Because they pave the road to success. I am going to put on more events. I’m

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going to work with more legendary astrologers because I work myself every day and I know that there’s going to be

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fantastic opportunities to provide brilliant experiences for other people who are passionate about astrology down

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the line. It’s just about knowing that you can’t let things defeat

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you and you’re on your road to continual success. That’s not that’s so good like the way

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you’re you’re approaching all this situation because I mean come on nobody is perfect and sometimes you know we get

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excited especially if it’s something that you’re passionate about and sometimes that can I mean passion can

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also blind us in a way but I mean from what you’re saying it seem to come from a good place. I love your approach and

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how you’re sharing this story with us because it’s not easy. So thank you for that. And changing gears a little bit

31:50

here. I wanted to ask you how do you prepare for your readings? Well, everybody prepares differently.

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Like I have friends and uh colleagues that will say that they spend hours uh

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preparing for a reading and looking at someone’s chart like uh I can think of a couple of uh great astrologers who do

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exactly that. Uh however, that is not what I do. That would ruin my reading.

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Firstly, let’s be clear. that would ruin my reading because I am I am a channel

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and if I’m looking at notes I’m going to get thrown off for a start even that’s

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the same not just in a reading but in a video presentation if I’m teaching about astrology if I’ve got if I’ve got notes

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and I’ve got to look at the dates it’s best that I’ve already looked at it and I only have to glance at it if necessary

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um because everything else will be much more fluent and fluid and flowing if I allow it to just come,

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right? And so my technique in chart reading is all I need. And I will start by sitting

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down with my client and I probably haven’t ever looked at their chart. And my first thing to do is not to brick up His dream of astrology in schools, gardens, and Netflix

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their chart. It’s to engage with my client to ask them about their day and I’ll ask them about how their day is,

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what they’ve been up to. I try and make them laugh, see if they’ve got anything to say. If they can’t, if they’re not going to

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laugh soon, then I’ll just be nice and we’ll we’ll uh after after we’ve got

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into their day, we’ll talk about Oh, so when did you get interested in astrology? And we’ll go from there. How

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well do you know your chart? And then we bring the chart the screen whether they know it lots or they ain’t got a clue about it. you know, some I

33:35

have a client uh who I see and help him with his cryptocurrency investments and

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he doesn’t know much about astrology, but he enjoys to talk to me and he enjoys the business advice. But very

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often he’ll send me one of his friends and they might not even know or care

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about astrology and it’s been recommended that you know you don’t accept clients uh if they’re a a gift.

33:59

But so there’s different ways of approaching um a cl a client. So I will

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have other clients who are completely they know their chart. They they they’ve had loads of readings from different

34:11

astrologers. And so I prefer someone who knows their chart actually than someone who

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because it’s a lot easier to connect and be fluent and to go deep and to explore and maybe we can go into some different

34:23

techniques, right? But if someone doesn’t know at all, then I will apply them of the basics and try and teach them. For me, it’s very

34:30

important that I’m teaching someone how to use their chart and to know their chart and maybe even if they get to know

34:36

it, they could follow transits as well. So, what we’ll do is we start with the

34:41

ascendant uh and then we’ll explore the ruling planet of their chart. So, for

34:47

instance, if you’ve got a Taurus ascendant, then we’ll look for where Venus might be. If it’s not in the first house, then we get to start our story

34:53

straight away because the ruler of the chart, ruler of the first house will be

34:58

very much distinctively expressing the caricature of the individual. And so that’s where we start. We look at all

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the aspects. We look at the house and um we go from there. That’s really cool. I also see on your

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on your website before our interview that you also do astrological coaching.

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Can you explain us a little bit what you do there? I’m curious. Well, that would be when I teach people

35:23

to read astrology charts, their chart. It would be firstly read their chart and

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then it would be okay. Well, how do we read uh multiple charts? So, like this

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dispondence is the way I like to tell a story with astrology because it’s like following

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the breadcrumb and it always unveils everything. Right. Right. But I also like to teach people how to

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read their transits. uh how to read a chart, how the sky works. I always try to teach people even

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if they aren’t in a reading like the Uber drivers um about how the

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everything’s rising in the east and how you everything sets in the west. That’s

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where sun that’s where stars go to die. That’s why in every town they party down

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the west. It’s the truth like the the entertainment complexes are always

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situated in the west of every city where the sun sets and interesting.

36:22

Yeah, because it’s like that’s the night culture. Right. So, Phil, what’s your biggest dream for

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your contribution to astrology? Well, now as a father, I never met my

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dad myself. So it’s really important to embrace the role of fatherhood. I’ve

36:44

always had excitement to have a school for astrology. Not like I own a school,

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come to Philip’s school of astrology. It’s online. It doesn’t have to be my school. I just like to be there. And

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there can also be uh cookery or nutrition or yoga and art, music. In Venus in Scorpio, taboo origins, and Chiron in Gemini

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fact, astrology is useful with everything and astrology should be

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integrated into every classroom and these classrooms would be best outside

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in the garden in my vision. Um, obviously this isn’t ideal, but it’s what I would

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like. I would much rather have a a re a restructure of education than send my

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son to the one that the education system that’s currently up and running cuz I do not resonate with it one night one bit.

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Yeah. And so to basically self-organize and and connect with other people who’ve got the ability to share consciously and

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conscious communication uh talking about learning about frequency

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frequency is tone if we talk about the magic of Gemini going back to this then

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it’s it’s the pitch the frequency pitch that creates the whole picture like you

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know if I’m full of doubt or you know when I was talking a minute ago about that fail fail

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experience. Yeah. Like I wasn’t talking as with so much amplitude. But you heard also that I was

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able to turn the story into a positive because frequency is all about the does

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it does it lay flat or is it a resounding vibrational frequency which has got a whole lot of amplitude to it.

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And so it’s important that we learn about our communication with other people like are we being like how are we

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communicating with other people? or we coming across with openness and love or we come across as sarcastic and closed

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and disgruntled you know that’s amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with

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you. Yeah. Yeah, I also think uh astrology needs to come in into the classroom

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somehow or in the school at least along with yoga and like financial

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kind of like education for kids you know I mean and it will be awesome also if astrology could also be part of that

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curriculum you know in a way but I have um but in the entertainment world

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I would love to be much more um maybe you know I’ve learned you don’t sell

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yourself you got to go to the very top with your ambitions. So, you know, I used to

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think, oh, I would love to create some much more uh sustainable content for YouTube, maybe a few documentaries. I

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want these documentaries on Netflix. I want these top tier funded by people who

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are able to give us, you know, good backing so that we can pour our quality top-notch astrological energy into it.

39:37

For instance, maybe a not just a documentary, but a reality TV show. You remember Big Brother? My mom’s a

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psychotherapist and has been for 30 years. And so I’ve always been interested in

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psychology, which is obviously why I’m an astrologer, one of the reasons. And um so she teached the course the for

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people to become counselors and psychotherapists now. That’s at the university in England. Um,

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and so I feel that to have a lot more psychological but astrological review in

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documentaries and reality TV such as um, a big brother cuz that it used to be

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based much more on psychology rather than like the TV the gossip and

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yeah it was much more like who are these people? What are they doing? What are they thinking? How are they feeling? That would be brilliant.

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I would love to be a producer of that not a contestant. I actually

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In 2018, I actually uh the day of Uranus’s ingress into Taurus, I went to

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London and to Wembley Stadium and interviewed for Big Brother as an astrologer contestant. No, you did.

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Yeah. I met the producers and went to the final and it was a really great experience. I remember it because it’s

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not the kind of thing I was regularly doing and it was the day of Uranus’s Ingress. I remember both. I remember

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that one and when Uranus went into Aries, I also that was like the year I moved out from home. I remember I I’m

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going to move out from home. I’m going to there was um when I got a job

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cleaning caravans just determined to to get myself out and that was upon the first Uranus ingress into Aries. The

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second one was into Taurus and I went to Big Brother. So what we’re going to do with this one now it’s gone into Gemini.

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Uh, you know, I feel that maybe this is that opportunity to get this Netflix up

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and uh that would be so cool. I would definitely definitely watch that big brother even though you know like just

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for the the psychology you know like how they interact where are their moons you

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know these kind of things. It would be so cool if you could do, you know, that come true.

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The audience, my aim, my mo the audience are learning too while they’re watching

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it, you know, and so it’s just a really great show and it needs to be funded. It’s it’s a it would be a smash hit. So

41:58

Netflix producers watching this interview, you know, contact us and we’ll be very happy to facilitate for

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you. Oh my god, that’s so exciting. I’m so happy already. I hope it it becomes

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true. If you need any help, let me know. And finally,

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which planet in your chart has given you the toughest lessons?

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It’s a really good question because this allows me to uh bring in something I wanted to mention. You know, you could

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say uh Venus I have in Scorpio which is uh can be very challenging because

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um Venus and Scorpio is like a lot of the occult taboo things. Uh and so it’s been

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a challenge. I was born through an affair myself and so my chart is everything under the horizon all hidden.

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Venus and Scorpio is like hidden. And so for me as an astrologer, when anybody uh

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comes and says, “Hey, do you want to interview?” I’m really humbled. I’m like, “Yeah, that sounds great.” Because Becoming a father, equinox election, and the next 5 years

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all of my chart is a bucket chart. There’s nothing above the horizon, which means you can’t see me and then someone

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lifts me up or shines a light on me. It’s really important, which is why it’s so grateful that I got the opportunities

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that I have done along the way because otherwise I might not have ever been seen or recognized by anybody. Uh, and

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so it always means a lot. I’m very grateful. So that’s always been a

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challenge. So if that’s the case, the top of my horizon to answer your question cuz I’m not going to say Venus is Chiron.

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And Chiron and Lilith I have on the top of the horizon and Chiron’s my only planet I’ve got

43:40

retrograde in my chart. And Chiron’s retrograde for half the year. So I imagine uh for 5 months of

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the year. So I imagine a lot of people are born with Chiron retrograde. I’ve got it in Gemini which is all about

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communication which is actually my special subject. I’m a good communicator. Uh but however like

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sometimes I can you can feel like I could stutter like I could be challenged by communication. I think that most

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people can get shy and stutter, but communication could be challenging or even being so wise, having so much

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knowledge. Uh, being so astrologically sound is challenging for me because not

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everybody can can digest a little bit of astrology, let alone a whole lot like what I’ve got to share. Uh and so for me

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it could be very ostracizing, very alienating to be an astrologer, to be so

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vastly uh to have to be to have such a vast amount of wisdom to share. I do say

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so myself in such a humble way. Uh but like that can be very alienating.

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So Chiron has been challenging in that way. But what I’ve learned as a gift through my Chiron this past year is that

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one of my biggest journeys, one of my big experiences that I didn’t meet my dad because I was born through an

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affair. But I was a gift because my mom actually had a bereavement and lost a child before I was born. And so my mom,

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she was before she was a psychotherapist, she was a nurse. And through nursing, she met my dad

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because my dad had a daughter who was crippled in a car accident. And so my

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mom was helping this young lady who was my sister, my half sister. And so my mom and this

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gentleman, my dad, they bonded over the ailment and bereiement of their

45:30

children. And my mom had had an operation never to have a child again. It had been 10 years since the loss of

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her first son in the 70s and I was born in the 80s. So for that to have happen,

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she had to have an operation to have her tubes put back together cuz they were tied. They organized to have me as a

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gift. I was born through an affair, an organized affair, very taboo, very Venus

45:56

and Scorpio style. Correct. But but the gentleman, my dad, his name is Philillip, and he decided that that

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although like I I probably don’t know all the ins and outs of it to be honest, but he decided to stay with his family

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cuz it wasn’t just he had three daughters. I have three half sisters and a half. And um I don’t really know them.

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I never really met them. I think I met the brother uh he took me to see the the cinema once when I was a little boy, but

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I never met them. And obviously you can hear there’s a lot of questions there and a lot of ponderance says are they

46:29

into astrology like what’s their birthdays? I didn’t even know my dad’s sun sign until

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oh year one story. Yeah it was actually I became a dad just

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over a year ago. My son’s a Leo. His name’s Asterx. My mom was able to share

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with me my dad’s birthday a couple of months after my son was born. And so I

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was able to see he’s got Mars in Sagittarius and he’s a Scorpio and a

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couple of other things uh uh which was very interesting. I haven’t really spent too much time

47:05

delving into it, but the most resoundingly brilliantly wow moment of

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it was that my dad and I have the same Chiron degree

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in Gemini at 16°. And so I know well not only because I

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have the date and year of my dad’s birth now that he was 52, but Kiron’s got a 52year cycle.

47:28

No. And so not only did my my dad obviously was going through quite a challenging

47:34

time at the time of my birth because not only did he have to give up his son

47:39

but he also had a daughter was crippled which is very Chiron. Wow. Which was my sibling. I have Chiron

47:46

Gemini which is about siblings. True. big big big big healings and big big big

47:53

learnings and big big big compassion for my mom,

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for my dad, for my sister, even for my dad’s partner,

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but also for me and for all of my clients,

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right? And this is why I love astrology. This is why I’m a fantastic astrologer. And

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this is why first and foremost, as brilliant as astrology is, I’m a healer.

48:21

Definitely, especially when Karen is on the very top of your chart and you know, kind of like lonely there. But I mean,

48:28

he’s talking to some other planets. Ah, by the way, um, FA shared his chart with me. That’s why you look you look at me,

48:34

you know, watching my phone. Sorry for not mentioning, but yeah, definitely

48:39

very Chironian. That’s how you say in English. Chironic. Chironian. Um well the fun thing about Chiron is it’s

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like um it’s a bit of the wound that never entirely gets healed

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but yet the more that you become conscious of the wound the more medicine that can be derived and shared and

48:58

procured through the experience. Yeah, I love Chiron too. I’m really excited. I’m going to write a

49:03

book about Chiron now. I uh I’ve got so much fuel for the fire

49:09

with regards to it. That’s my main mission now rather than pouring my energy into YouTube

49:16

is to make sustainable media that can provide for me and my family and for the

49:23

education of other people who are interested in absorbing the content I create. So I’m going to be doing that as well as

49:30

uh opening to connect with other people. If anybody wants to invest in a reading

49:37

then I will send you a link and maybe uh they can do so via that link. I’d be very happy to do so and uh facilitate

49:44

that for experience for other people too. So Phil knowing that you are a Libra rising and we just had the equinox and

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the eclipse and we are into this Libra season in this interesting times. How do

49:56

you navigate this Libra season, this equinox? and tell us more about your rising sign as well because you have a Libra vs. Scorpio: his unique take on relationships

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moon, you have the south node there. So, well, personally, this is going to be an

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exceptionally well, probably the most ever exciting equinox for me as I’m

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becoming a father for the second time and this time to a baby girl.

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And it’s actually radical because they our partner is due to have a C-section. My

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partner’s due to have a C-section. So, um, they gave me the choice as an astrologer to help choose the date,

50:34

which is an honor. Uh, and so looking and also I had information. The

50:39

information I had was that the C-sections often take place at 8:00 in the morning. And so, um, the equinox is

50:47

taking place uh, in the afternoon uh, where I am here uh, on the 22nd. So

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I chose the 23rd because I would really keen on the solar ingress into Libra and

51:02

then the igniting of the grand air trine which is really interesting energy in

51:07

it’s exceptional energy. Um, so anytime that we have an ingress into Libra,

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whether it’s the moon every 29.5 days, whether it’s Mercury, which we got going

51:17

on very imminently, or the sun, which will happen on the equinox, uh, or any luminary, it’s over the

51:24

course of the next 5 years. It’s going to be making a grand air trine with

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Pluto, which has been in Aquarius for a couple of years, and Uranus, which has just nudged into Gemini, and it’s going

51:35

to be there for the next seven years. So this orb that’s being uh like completed

51:42

every time we have a Libra ingress is very interesting and this is the first time we’ve got a taste of it uh this

51:49

this year and so I really felt like as someone who’s choosing and electing a

51:54

chart rather than you can either choose when the the aspects a little less than and it’s beginning to wax or maybe when

52:00

it’s a little less than and it’s waned or you can choose when it’s at its maximum and it’s like really drumming in

52:08

and amplifying the sound of that frequency and how’s it going to play out in so many different ways uh in the

52:14

chart of a person or even an experience. And so I figured go for the maximum. And

52:21

also like births closer to the equinox are said to be, you know, very on pulse

52:27

if you will will on theme even Christly if you will. And so because they’re near

52:33

the ground cross the cardinal cross that’s not to say that anybody else is more exceptional than the other. I do

52:39

feel that we’re all equally magnificent in our own brilliant and beautiful ways. Yeah. Um, so anyway, that chart’s brilliant

52:46

and I love it. Uh, as a Libra person myself, I’ve got a Libra moon and a

52:54

Libra South node. Mhm. And a Libra ascendant, all very close together.

53:00

I’ve always been keen on relatability, which is what a key word for me is for for for Libra. A lot of people would say

53:08

Libra is all about our relationships. It’s all about our our comingings and goings which we have of the other

53:14

people. I would say personally that’s more Scorpio territory

53:19

because Mhm. And this is it because it’s a shared energy dynamic. You phone

53:25

someone, they’ve got to pick up the phone and you share that conversation. You do not know what they’re going to say. You do not know if they’re going to

53:30

pick up the phone. Right? However, when you’re pontificating and ruminating about that

53:36

phone call or maybe it’s across the room and you’re thinking, “What’s that person

53:41

going to do if I go and address them and if I say how hello, how do you do?” That is Libra stuff

53:48

and now I’m going to give you my reasoning. Uhhuh. This is not what you would often find,

53:54

but it for me it was tried, tested, and works and it’s phenomenal for us to to work with. And it’s fully explained by

54:00

the estro logos by the astrology. Mhm. And that is

54:06

when we look at the glyph of Libra often you’d think of the scales because it’s

54:12

these uh two pans. And traditionally with the more crude,

54:19

it would just be a line with another line and that second line’s got like a hump on it, like a humpback bridge.

54:25

Yeah. Yeah. And that could be the scales, right? But actually, Libra rules the hours of

54:32

the day, which is uh from 6:00 a.m. till 8:00 in the evening, which is the sunset.

54:39

Uhhuh. Uhhuh. 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. No.

54:44

Yes. 600 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Yeah. So, sunset time, the sun sets and opposite Aries, that’s

54:51

6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. And that’s when the sun rises, right? So, we’re looking at the sun in

54:56

the seventh house of the sky, we’re looking at the sun on the horizon. That’s what the glyph is, uh,

55:03

symbolizing. Oh, okay. Wow. Whenever we look out externally, uh, you

55:10

know, it’s always like whatever we lay our eyes on is the external horizon. Uh, and so, and Horus, Horus is horizon. And

55:19

so basically um it’s when we look at the sun especially at sunset gosh it’s

55:26

beautiful right it encapsulates the finest beautifully beauty sometimes you spend it with

55:32

someone you spend it on your own yeah true but it it takes your breath away but

55:40

when you’re there looking at the the sunset you’re not often thinking goodness me glorious ball of fire or

55:46

glorious portal of We’re thinking about our day. We’re thinking about our relationship to

55:53

whatever’s important to us in those moments. And often it’s really eating and dissolving.

55:58

It it’s not always on the surface level how how things are, how beautiful things are.

56:04

Yeah. It’s about it’s about our depth of perception. And that’s what Libra is. It’s the depth

56:10

of our perception. And that’s why it’s about the scales. How heavy does our perception? What

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weight does it carry? Are we casting are we carrying judgments with ourselves

56:21

uh like into the eyes of others or are we casting them upon others because really it’s all lays at our own

56:27

feet does the shadow uh and so for me that’s the depth of Libra that’s the

56:33

beauty of Libra and that’s why it’s all by Venus right so will you consider yourself like

56:39

a very venucian person or do you have another archetype that you are more you

56:45

know um feel more personal with I I would say that we’re all good splattering. Um I’d say that we have uh

56:53

different areas which are certainly concentrated in different aspects. I’m

56:58

very venetician. Um but my my Venus is in Scorpio which is Mars’s sign. Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in his chart — and how he lives them

57:03

However, that is the second house which is a kind of Venetian energy. Yes. Um so my work as an oultist, as an

57:10

astrologer supports my selfidentity is who I am. Um, but I’m also a family man

57:15

because I’ve got the moon in the first house. [Music] Oh, okay.

57:21

My ability to collect connect sentimentally is one of my greatest gifts that I’m able to share with my

57:27

family and my clients and always has been since I was a baby boy myself with my mom.

57:34

So, talking about my mom, one of the greatest ways that I fell into love with

57:39

people watching was one time I remember in a train station, we were waiting for the train. We had half an hour and you

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know, I wasn’t best impressed. Who was? We’re both Capricorn. She I’m She’s a Capricorn moon. I’m a Capricorn son. And

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so, we don’t want to waste our time. However, she conjured a game. She’s got Saturn on my ascendant and Jupiter

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opposite on my descendant because she’s got a Jupiter sat Jupiter Saturn opposition on

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my ascendant descendant. So my mom went to a lot of work with me. She played mom and dad for the most

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part. But she’s a good a good lady. Anyway, so she brought up this game where we look at people and we’ve got to

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guess their story, you know. Uh as I like to say, it’s a bit like pin the tail on the donkey.

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Yeah. Yeah. glory onto whoever we we see fits the the fitting canvas. And we do that

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in our relationships because we choose people that fit the perfect hangup for the story of our mom

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or our dad, whether they’re there or not or whether they were brilliant in our experiences or not.

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And then we replay them. I said we replay them because that’s the manner of

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actually getting to see ourselves on the big wide ocean of consciousness.

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The only way that we see ourselves is by having relationships that remind us of that which we’re so familiar.

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And that is sometimes our hardships and our pain through our family affairs that

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we’re born into that we chose to heal through our relationship with ourselves and each

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other. It’s actually a real big honor to be able to see our our our pain and to

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heal he heal it. That’s like a champion kind of thing to be doing. So my mom and I would pin all of these

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ideal stories to the businessman to to the far person who looks like a farmer to the person who looks like they

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probably can’t even buy a train ticket. Bless them. And uh maybe we can learn something from all of these reflections

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about ourselves. That’s a nice game.

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But hey, you also have I need to mention this because you know you have Venus in Scorpio but Mars in Pisces which is

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Venus exultation place. Mhm. So how do you leave that?

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Well, I’m also very grateful for the fact that they they’re in a very perfect TR with each other.

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More slow moving Mars is is has got Venus approaching. Uh, and so

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I kind of receive myself, if you will,

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through my reflection of my connections with others,

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and whether it’s through my work as an astrologer, whether it’s when you listen to music and you fathom a depth of

1:00:30

connection to the music and to the artist, whether it’s in a movie, whether it’s a a TV show or whether it’s a very

1:00:35

personal connection which you share with one another, a colleague, a friend. This is how it works. I kind of get feedback

1:00:41

about myself through the loop I connect with with others as a Venetian Libra archetype is how it works for me.

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However, you did ask me personally, am I um have I got any other um splatterings

1:00:56

of energy. I would say that that energy of Mars is the one I have to learn about the most because I’ve got the north node

1:01:02

in Aries, Mars’ sign. Um although I do have my ruling planet Venus in Scorpio

1:01:09

which is also Mars’s sign. It’s like I have had to learn how to assert myself and to lead and astrology has been the

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gift of the gods because it gave me a an identification and it gave me something

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to lead with. Before I remember before I’d follow like it’s lost sheep.

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I’d follow all my friends which was in bands. I was their best cheerleader. I’d I’d go on tour with them. I’ dance. It

1:01:34

was great fun. But did I have something to speak for myself other than that? Not until I found astrology.

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And so I’m very grateful for that. Yeah, it’s so interesting. Um when when I ask about your charts also you have

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well Jupiter almost conjunct Mars in Pisces which is very very interesting.

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How has that played out in your routine in your work in because it’s in the sixth house. So how has it played out?

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Do you have trouble like trouble like setting boundaries or something? I don’t know. Like they just are randomly asking

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you. Well, I think that Mars Jupiter is an a big energy. And so you need to be big.

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You need to play big. You need to act big. And you need to be authentic with who you are.

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And so that means being absolute in everything in your conviction, in your authenticity, in who you are. Whether

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you’re an astrologer, whether you’re a therapist, whether you’re a plant medicine guru, whether you’re a sexual

1:02:33

healer, whether you’re a family man, whether you’re a yogi, whether you’re a musician, you’ve got to be absolute in

1:02:40

who you are. And so that’s who I am. I have a really powerful uh consistency.

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One of my great colleagues, Erin Wade, she’s an astrologer. She worked my retreat I put on with Santos Bonacci and

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K Patcher and Franchesca Audi back in 2002.

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She said I’m the most consistent astrologer she’s ever seen because it’s been over a decade that I could put out

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work pretty much every day whether it’s YouTube videos, whether it’s writing on social media.

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That’s Jupiter Mars in the sixth house. It’s the consistent prolific dedication

1:03:18

devotion to my craft. Whether I’m receiving clients or not, I show up and

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share this information that only a small splattering of people are able to receive because it’s Christ

1:03:29

consciousness. I’m born a couple of days after the solstice just like my daughter’s going to be born on the equinox.

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Yeah. And so I activate that cardinal cross. And when I bring through the

1:03:40

consciousness, I’m not just talking about astrology. I’m talking about pure love from the

1:03:47

heart. And I’m talking about pure love from our most sacred parts, our shadows,

1:03:52

the ones that we’re here to heal with love. Absolutely. Wow.

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And people know that if they know me. And if they don’t, you can book a reading with me via the link which will

1:04:04

be shared in this video. I’m actually doing a special offer. It’s $150 and it’s one hour. So you get the full NATO

1:04:11

chart reading for about 45 what 40 45 minutes. I often go over. So these hours

1:04:17

they’re a little bit longer but um then we go through your transits for the next year in application to your chart as

1:04:22

well so you feel confidence and trust. I’m a specialist of transits, but the

1:04:28

real juice is when we get into your most delicate, your most sensitive, juicy

1:04:35

parts of your story where you’ve been hurt, where you’re willing to peer into your

1:04:40

your pain, right, with love and heal it.

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And sometimes that’s a real murky, dangerous business because you’ve got to have absolute trust and love to be able

1:04:55

to see through those dark areas of the of the sky. But I’ve been through hell backwards many times. The river sticks Synastry expertise and relationship astrology explained

1:05:02

for me is familiar territory. And so I’m an expert at being the chauffeur and

1:05:08

guiding people through their stories. Yeah, we were saying actually before guys that also he’s an expert in

1:05:16

sinistry. Do you think that’s related to your like Libra rising Venus kind of thing or

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I well as a Capricorn uh I worked as an astrologer for about 5 years before I

1:05:28

ever put a video on YouTube. Uh 2012 was the first YouTube horoscope I uploaded and that was Dwayne Johnson. Uh and so I

1:05:36

like to perfect things before I bring them out. So, if it comes to my relationships industry, like when I

1:05:43

started working uh online doing readings, I should have been like, I’m an expert at relationship chart

1:05:48

readings. I’ve never ever said that, but I am. And I’ve been doing it for such a long time. Everybody I met while I was living

1:05:55

in Mexico, I would do my chart on their chart, and I did hundreds. But when it

1:06:01

comes down to clients, this is uh the most valuable thing you can do is chart

1:06:06

election when it come and uh sinistry relationship charts. There’s two different ways you can do a relationship

1:06:12

chart. You can even choose a midpoint chart where you get a midpoint of your positions. So for instance, if you were

1:06:20

born with uh the the sun at 10° of Aries and I was born at 0

1:06:28

degrees of Aries, then our midpoint chart would be the sun at 5° of Aries. Mhm.

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However, if I was born in 1980 and you were born in 1990, then what they do would put the

1:06:39

chart at 1985, which is the midpoint in time. And so the transits in the midpoint in time are a realistic day

1:06:46

that happened and took place and the midpoint chart is a a made up one in but

1:06:52

it’s astrologically sound. Both of them are often very similar for

1:06:57

instance that they might ch the chart might be cast of the sun and the opposing sign. So it could in our

1:07:03

midpointed chart it might be five degrees of Libra rather than five degrees of Aries

1:07:08

in one in time. So that that’s really interesting how that plays out because I’ve seen the pattern for years. But

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when it comes down to the technicalities of our psychological connection with others rather than the astrological

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happen stance and intriguing maths, um what it does is it gives us

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the ability to have compassion for those people that we’re in relationship with because we can see where they’re short

1:07:34

and where they’re long. And what I mean by that is their bandwidth. you know, have they got are they all wound up?

1:07:39

Have they had lots of trauma in that area? Have they got a short wave frequency or have they got lots of

1:07:45

patience because they’ve seen themselves? They’ve been through hell backwards and they love themselves inside and out and others too. They’ve

1:07:52

got a long bandwave and they can do a lot of things for themselves and for others in that area. Because when people

1:07:58

need a little bit more patience, like you hear my tone change, you know that we can be more patient

1:08:03

with those people and ourselves in those areas and more compassionate for what they’re going through and for what we’re

1:08:10

dealing with with them. Whereas if we see that they can cope because they’ve been through that and the other, maybe

1:08:15

we can back off and concentrate on ourselves a little bit because we know that that that’s what we need to do in that area of our relationship.

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It’s all frequency and tone. It’s not about what you observe. That’s what I’m

1:08:27

coming back to. We can look at the sun on the sunset, but it’s what you feel in the pallet and the repertoire of our

1:08:34

frequency in our connection when we’re looking at a chart, when we’re connecting with another person or when

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we’re talking about any subject. So interesting. Do you um do you teach

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about sinistry and these things or have you taught about it before or something like that or

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I’ve taught a few workshops like uh online and in person? Um and I taught I

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teach people every day wherever I go if they are open to listen. Um I gauge how much

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I had I went into a shop yesterday and I just did a sun sign moment. I asked him his sign and I left and I I I was

1:09:10

correct in my assessment which was fun because he was very tall and he was an Aquarius man but it’s not always the case.

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But but like uh some if I get the other day I spoke to somebody and we was able

1:09:21

to go into all kinds of more depths and I was impressed and I congratulate them on their depth of knowledge and it was

1:09:27

great and as as a I sell myself short a lot. I don’t put myself over and give myself enough credit for how good I am.

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Ah I see what I mean because because uh of uh I’ve generally I’m a sun Neptune person watered down

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but like at the same time when I do verbose and the big big myself up I can come over over the gregarious sun with

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the Jupiter Mars. So that’s the scales, this biting point of finding when you

1:09:54

make you either make yourselves too small, Libra dominant. Oh, others

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or you can be too big cuz you don’t know how to be that’s my challenge. But wow. That’s just an example for you

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because I am a fantastic teacher is my point and anybody who was to choose me

1:10:13

to educate people on astrology be making a smart investment where it’s a personal one or because you have a class of

1:10:19

people you want to learn because you’ve got a business full of people you want me to teach. I’m your guy. I should be

1:10:25

teaching the syllabus and I would be able to enroll a fantastic class load of astrologers who would teach that school

1:10:32

because I know a lot of fantastic astrologers who were fantastic teachers too and that’s the true answer to the

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question. Uh-huh. Thank you Phil. Yeah, actually actually I’m seeing you have a mid heaven in

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cancer. So that’s a very like loving energy like nurturing energy. A fun teacher. I’m a play teacher.

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And it’s training your moon. Well, not only do I teach I’ve got the ability to teach kids with Jupiter, Mars, but I

1:10:57

also have Saturn in Sagittarius. So, you know, um although that’s not Saturn’s

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favorite sign, I think it’s a really fun placement to have Saturn because it teaches in a in a way which has got all

1:11:09

of the joviality and it’s got all of the philosophy. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn’t change it. So my Saturn

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squares uh Jupiter as well. This is something very interesting I’ve been working with recently because we just had Saturn square Jupiter in the sky.

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Yes. Uh as well and so that was my moment like cuz like anybody we always have

1:11:28

moments like in our sky personally each all of us do because it can be activated

1:11:34

by that aspect playing out in our current sky and that aspect plays out once every 20 years. Um and so it’s fun

1:11:40

to have that have to wait 20 years to see it again. Amazing. Uh, I have your chart here,

1:11:46

guys. If I’m looking down, it’s because I’m looking at Phil’s chart. But lastly, what would you say is the difference

1:11:51

between a Libra rising and a Taurus rising? Because it’s ruled by Venus, and I’m a Taurus rising. So, I’m very

1:11:57

curious to to know your perspective. Okay. Well, firstly, they are different Libra vs. Taurus Rising and final reflections

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uh energies in the point that one’s masculine and one’s feminine. Um, Taurus is much more feminine, which

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means it’s magnetic. it’s mag naminus it’s there to draw towards it like Venus

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whereas um the Libra energy is a cardinal energy it’s cardinal air which

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is an assert it’s a it’s like they it’s leading with something else um which has

1:12:27

not been done before cardinal um whereas Taurus is fixed earth which is sustainable it’s reliable

1:12:35

it’s it’s valuable it’s all of those great it’s sturdy is Taurus Because you know I

1:12:44

would say that you you will take your time but it’s worthwhile.

1:12:50

You I the other day I was in the cafe and this belligerent person was saying

1:12:56

to this other guy who was who was having a coffee with that touristes were easily led and I think because they have a a a

1:13:05

bull’s ring. This guy didn’t know what he was talking about at all. And I said when this other guy got on the phone, I

1:13:11

said, “By the way, tourist is most valuable. Blah blah blah. It’s reliable. If you get something done by a tourist

1:13:16

person, you know you’re going to get it done well cuz they put the time and effort to learn their craft methodically

1:13:22

and consistently repeat it to the point that they know that the standard is going to be top tier.

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That’s Taurus. Oh wow. Your video content, you’re creating

1:13:34

these videos. you’re putting them out really nicely done in a consistent way that produced very nicely with lots of

1:13:41

time and effort put into it and it shows because it’s quality and that’s Taurus. Oh, thank you. Well, I think it’s a

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blessing and a curse at the same time, you know, because I’m like, why do I

1:13:53

need like I had this need for that it it needs to look good, you know? like I see other content and I’m like, you know, it

1:14:00

doesn’t need to look really good. But if something doesn’t look good, I I just need to like either I don’t publish it

1:14:06

or I and I think it’s like a course like in that sense because I don’t know how to get rid of that. You know what I

1:14:12

mean? Like with time I try to be more like yala, you know, like let it go. But

1:14:18

yeah, there is this thing of like no it needs to be good. And I respect this is I I’ll give you this a

1:14:25

tourist thing and my advice. So firstly my advice and the tourist thing. My advice is for me I personally I’ve got a

1:14:34

I made content for a long time and lost it which was a crying shame to feel. But

1:14:41

I also use it as motivation. I actually just started a brand new YouTube channel this past week. five subscribers I’ve

1:14:47

got now. Just started it, but I’m uploading old content that I have saved and found and

1:14:52

excavated from the internet and as well as making new videos, too. But I did have

1:14:57

over 2,000 videos and over 7,000 subscribers and lost it. So, it’s um the

1:15:03

way before I lost it, I was just put it out and move on to the next one and put

1:15:09

it out and move on to the next one. And some of them I take more pride over. Some of them I I didn’t make thumbnails

1:15:15

for years and I didn’t change my background and t it up for a long time. But and still sometimes now you just got

1:15:22

to do what you can with what you’ve got. Like I just had to pile kids out the door two seconds before we got on the

1:15:27

line. Have I prepared and sat down? No. I was feeding my son before we spoke. But it’s okay because of the passion

1:15:33

comes through. The point is is that when I look back at those videos before they was lost, I would be able to see the

1:15:40

growth and I’d see, oh yeah, I am making that little bit of more of a change of my presentation or my vocabulary or my

1:15:48

ability to ch to to share in different ways. And it’s not so much for me about

1:15:53

what we put down. It’s about getting it done and looking back and seeing, wow, I’ve grown. I did that. And I’m I’m

1:16:00

amazingly proud of that person back then who didn’t have the ability to be proud of themselves in the way

1:16:07

that I am for them now. And it allows us to hold that frequency in this moment in this current. So you

1:16:14

can obviously go back now and look back the first few videos you put out and see how you’ve you’ve altered and improved

1:16:20

in small ways already and you can be more proud of you of your work. And even we can look back and be critical and

1:16:26

laugh and and at the old person too. But we that’s the practice of softening and

1:16:32

healing and accepting. So I would say that’s my except the way I would do it.

1:16:37

The tourist medicine is you lay a golden brick every single day and you don’t know uh how many golden bricks you laid

1:16:44

because you just keep laying them every day. Every day you know that actually the first day you did the cement it

1:16:50

wasn’t as good as the second nor the 10th nor the hundth nor the 1,000th. 10,000 down the line, you’re going to be

1:16:55

doing the recognizing you’ve built a temple of golden bricks and you can get into that temple and reside. And so

1:17:02

that’s the magnificent. That’s such a nice Thanks for sharing that. That’s such a nice um reflection

1:17:09

of reflection. Yeah. Of um Venus in like Taurus rising this side of Venus. So,

1:17:15

thank you. We love an allegory. We do. Phil, I know you have to go, but it’s

1:17:20

been such a pleasure. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your wisdom. And guys, Phil is in YouTube. On

1:17:26

YouTube, you say on YouTube. I will give you the link to my new YouTube. Yeah, because people were asking invest

1:17:32

in a reading. I have limited availability as a father of four in this household now. However, I always have

1:17:39

time for astrology. Yes, he has. It would be great to connect with people. So, I don’t know if you knew

1:17:45

that in the you interview Steve Jot and in the comments people were asking what

1:17:51

like what happened to you. I don’t know if you read the comments and they’re like I can find it on YouTube.

1:17:56

Yeah. So, I didn’t have a place to send um when Steve put that interview out. I was in

1:18:02

between YouTube channels because unfortunately they said that they will always remove my YouTube channel. Now,

1:18:08

it was terminated and it it sucks cuz I as I said was contributing medicine.

1:18:13

I’ve had people write to me that I didn’t even know who they were that didn’t buy a reading but they said your

1:18:18

videos saved my life like more than one occasion over the years and I was myself

1:18:25

you know is give me something to do it saved my life

1:18:30

having I see that yeah okay but now guys he’s on Instagram for sure that’s how I

1:18:35

reconnect with him and YouTube coming soon that’s you know for people that are

1:18:41

Yeah people are asking about you. Yeah, I love making videos. I’m very grateful that all of these people remember me

1:18:48

um from the years of contributions because actually the funny thing is it this is the we can close on this. No

1:18:55

matter how consistent you are, whether you’re Pamela Anderson, who we watched

1:19:00

documentary on recently on Netflix, really interesting to watch documentaries, especially when people have been celebs for over a Saturn

1:19:07

cycle. It’s great. Yeah, I recommend that because you can look at when there were stars in the 80s or 90s and how when Saturn’s coming back

1:19:13

around, they’re getting their second burst. But the point is, if you’ve done something spectacular, which we all do,

1:19:19

we all move on and do something maybe a little bit more mundane or heavier that requires a little bit more attention.

1:19:25

I’m not saying being a dad is a heavy mundane thing, but it brings you down to earth because you’ve got to be there

1:19:31

every day doing in the grind doing things. Whereas my lifestyle before was making videos, singing songs, dancing,

1:19:39

going to the beach, and I still tried to get all of that in. It’s just there’s no beaches around here, I tell you. But the

1:19:44

point my point is, you forget about the brilliant things you’ve done when you move on and have to

1:19:49

do something else sometimes. Yes. And so you have to do your affirmation journal to remind you or something like

1:19:55

that. But when people come along on YouTube and say, “I remember you. You did all these great things.”

1:20:01

like, “Oh, yeah. That’s who I am. I’m an astrologer. I’ve been doing that for

1:20:07

almost two decades now, and I’m really grateful for the opportunity to continue to do it. So, thank you for remembering

1:20:13

me.” Oh, no. Come on. Please. I always actually I was one of those people who

1:20:18

wonder what happened to you. And now, you know, I start like, what was his last name? You know, Philip and I found

1:20:23

you and I’m like, “Okay, yeah, he’s still there.” So, yeah. Thank you so much. I’m going to be uploading every

1:20:30

day on my new channel um the uh different videos which I’ve managed to to get and we continue making videos for

1:20:37

as long as possible as well as teaching local local groups, creating schools uh

1:20:42

with astrological syllabus and all kinds of things. We’ll stay connected and we will we shall thrive.

1:20:48

Yeah, guys. So, there you go. I’m going to leave in a in a comment or something his YouTube um channel and his social

1:20:55

media in the description if you want to reconnect or connect with Phil. You have all the information below. Phil, thank

1:21:02

you so much for your time and thank you for being here with us and I hope you enjoyed this episode. Phil, see you

1:21:08

soon. I hope to have you back soon after you, you know, adapt to this new ph in

1:21:16

your life, you know, with your second baby girl. I wish you the best and keep us posted. Thank you so much.

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