Alex Trenoweth

Award-winning astrologer, teacher and author

Cancer
Leo
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Meet Alex Trenoweth Unfiltered! Cancer Sun, Leo Moon and Gemini Rising; Educator, Award-Winning Astrologer & Author of 3 books including “Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence”, Alex bridges the gap between astrology and education. Her pioneering research on Jupiter and Saturn cycles offers transformative insights into adolescent development. As a global lecturer and founder of the “Rohini Academy of Astrology”, Alex empowers parents, teachers, and students to navigate growth with cosmic wisdom.Ā  Her work has helped astrologers, parents, and educators understand learning and adolescence through planetary cycles—especially Jupiter and Saturn.

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Episode Summary

In Episode 1 of Backstage Astrology, Alex Trenoweth shares what it actually looks like to bring astrology into the real world of education—where prejudice is real, workload is relentless, and ethics aren’t optional.

She explains why she tracks Jupiter cycles in classrooms, how a failed ā€œSun-sign seating planā€ taught her what not to do, and why the conversation about children’s charts must begin with safeguarding and clear boundaries.

This isn’t astrology as performance. It’s astrology as responsibility.

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is for you if you’re:

– An astrologer trying to find your niche without competing or copying.

– A teacher / educator who wants a fresh lens on learning and classroom dynamics.

– A parent / caregiver navigating the ā€œwhy is 13 year-old period so intense?ā€ phase.

– A student of astrology who wants real-life application (not just hot takes).

– Anyone passionate about ethics & safeguarding in children’s astrology.

Astrological Approach

Alex’s approach is practical, classroom-tested, and ethics-first:

  • Jupiter = learning through expansion (from basic pieces into meaning, language, essays, worldview).

  • Saturn = structure, boundaries, accountability (the rules that keep learning—and families—stable).

  • Mercury = transmission + rote learning (messenger function; ā€œthe bits,ā€ not the whole).

  • Outer planets (light touch): e.g., Uranus as a timing factor around early teen rebellion windows.

  • Inner planets ≠ the teacher’s job: she avoids turning astrology into personality labeling in education.

Fun Fact

Alex is a musician who plays the trumpet semi-professionally. She describes herself as ā€œcurious about everyone,ā€ able to talk to anybody. Her rising sign is Gemini, and she jokes it depends who you ask which ā€œsideā€ you’ll get.

Journey as an Astrologer

Key turning points from Alex’s story:

  • As a child, she thought astrology was ā€œwrongā€ because Sun-sign stereotypes didn’t match her.

  • A friend introduced her to the Moon and Rising sign, and she was ā€œmind blown.ā€

  • She studied seriously while raising a family—doing exams while caring for a newborn.

  • Early in her teaching career, she was warned she could be dismissed for being an astrologer.

  • Instead of hiding forever, she refined a method that focused on learning cycles (Jupiter/Saturn) rather than personality labeling.

Key Themes & Topics

  • Astrology stigma in professional settings (ā€œfortune tellerā€ assumptions, dismissiveness).

  • Why **Jupiter—not Mercury—**is central to learning.

  • Classroom reality: teacher workload, lack of support, and emotional labor.

  • The adolescence window: Jupiter return (~11–12) and the ā€œbig rebellionā€ timing around ~13.

  • Ethical limits: what astrologers should not do with children’s charts.

  • Safeguarding basics: never 1:1 alone with a child; training and clear protocols.

  • How parents can talk about money with kids (without shame, with reality).

Quotes

  • ā€œI don’t believe in astrology. I practice it.ā€

  • ā€œPeople think I’m a fortune teller… that’s frustrating.ā€

  • ā€œBe the kind of person your younger self would admire.ā€

Resources & Books Mentioned

Alex Trenoweth Books and Pioneering Astrological Work

Books by Alex Trenoweth:

  • Zeus on the Loose: Unlock Your Child’s Cosmic Superpower (Waterstones listing / publication info).
  • Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence.

  • Mirror Mirror: The Astrology of Famour People and the Actors who Portrayed Them.

Mentioned / Referenced in conversation:

  • Jupiter-Saturn cycle for education & development.

  • Child safeguarding / child protection frameworks (training is non-negotiable).

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Listener Takeaways

What stayed with me after this conversation with Alex wasn’t just her knowledge — it was the way she carries it.

  • I was reminded that you don’t have to be louder to be legitimate.
    You don’t win respect by shouting or over-performing. You earn it by being clean in your craft, disciplined in your thinking, and consistent in how you show up.
  • I also saw, very clearly, that your niche isn’t something you ā€œbrand.ā€
    It’s something you commit to over time — even when it’s uncomfortable, misunderstood, or not trendy. Alex didn’t decide education was her niche. She stayed with it long enough for it to become undeniable.
  • One of the most sobering takeaways for me:
    If you want to work with children’s charts, good intentions are not enough.
    Care is not enough.
    Love for astrology is not enough.
    Safeguarding isn’t an ā€œextraā€ — it’s the minimum. It’s the ground you stand on before you even begin.
  • Alex also completely reframed Jupiter for me.
    Not as blind optimism or ā€œgood vibes,ā€ but as timing, growth, and responsibility. Expansion asks something of us. It’s not passive. It’s a cycle we have to consciously meet.

And maybe the most important thing I took from this conversation:

The most powerful astrology isn’t the kind that labels people.
It’s not about boxing someone into a chart.
It’s the kind of astrology that opens doors — that helps people learn, grow, and move through life with more awareness, not more fear.

This is the kind of astrology I want more of in the world.
And this is why these backstage conversations matter.

Transcript

Backstage with Alex Trenoweth

0:03

Welcome to Backstage Astrology, where we take off the expert mask and get real.

0:08

My name is Myra. I’m an astrology enthusiast and also a creative advisor.

0:14

I’ve been helping astrologers with their digital stuff for a few years. And the more I get to see them behind the

0:21

scenes, the more I realize that also our astrologers go through a lot of big

0:26

challenges. is they have big fears, big insecurities. I always wonder what it

0:31

was to be an astrologer, how their lives look like really behind all the cosmic

0:37

wisdom. I always had this question of like how is your life really and also obviously if you can make a living out

0:44

of astrology. So in this new series, I’m trying to talk to astrologers and to

0:49

really understand what goes on with their lives behind the scenes, all the challenges they have faced as

0:55

astrologers before and actually because obviously before maybe if you would tell

1:01

someone you were an astrologer, they would label you in a certain or specific way. This is a story that I keep hearing

1:07

from them. point of this um new series. I want to talk about their doubts, their fears, their breakthroughs, all the

1:14

behind the scenes moments, obviously their personal lives if they are willing to share. This is the goal of this

1:20

podcast is to create genuine connections with astrologers as human beings to to

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get to know them better. And I hope you enjoy this series. Let’s see how many astrologers I can get here. And if

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you’re an astrologer and you have a story you want to share with others, um please just send me an email. I will

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leave all the details below. We’re going to talk about the personal struggles. And in the second part, we kind of dive

1:43

into the transits and insights they are passionate about, the ones that they

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fear the most, the ones that they find most inspiring. Let’s see how this goes.

1:54

And if you really like this conversations, please, please like the video. Help me a little bit with the

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algorithm to get the message across. And obviously, I know this is for a very specific niche. I’m guessing you’re here

2:05

because you love astrology and you admire astrologers as well. And of course, let’s get real. Let’s get real

2:11

with the astrologers. Let’s try to uncover what happens behind the scenes. So, thank you for being here and I

2:17

really hope you enjoy each episode.

2:25

So, living in London, everything’s very cramped. So, to find one thing, I got to move five other things. So, I have I

2:31

have mirror mirror. I have growing pains. And then Zeus. Oh, this is the one like coming up, right? The one

2:37

you’re you’re Yeah, this is final edits today. So, I just got the the final PDF.

2:43

Uh Steve has done that. How exciting. Yeah, Steve Jud has done the um forward.

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Yep. And um transiting Jupiter is on my Venus today. when I met you in the

2:55

conference and you know when you actually told us you told us that the planet to look at for education is

3:02

Jupiter I was like what is she saying like I I was I was always told that it

3:07

was Mercury because you know learning communication so when you said that because for me it was like like how like

3:14

of and then it’s like of course you know when you when you actually started explaining it I was like it makes all

3:21

the sense in the world so that actually you blew my mind.

Who is Alex Trenoweth?

3:28

I’m honored to be here with Alex Trernowed. She’s an author, teacher, and award-winning astrologer who blends the

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wisdom of astrology with the art of teaching. Like, she’s an actual teacher, so she knows what she’s talking about.

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And now with her pioneering research into the impact of planetary cycles on

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childhood development and education, she has brought astrology not only into the classrooms, but also in conferences

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worldwide, empowering educators, parents, and astrologers and people like me that don’t even have children, but

4:00

you know, I’m so interested in your work. So, Alex, welcome and thank you so much for being here. Please tell us a

4:06

little bit more about you. Like, I mean, I already introduced you, but how would you introduce yourself? What do you want people to know about you? Well, I’m a

4:14

Gemini rising, so it depends on who I’m talking to, which side of me you get, but um I’m I’m kind of a a jack of all

4:20

trades, master of none really, except for astrology and teaching maybe, but I I dabble in a lot of different things.

4:26

Um I’m a musician. I play the trumpet semi-professionally. Um I I I love to

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read. I love literature and and um you know, I’m always reading something and I’d love to write. Um but see, I like to

4:39

play games, you know. Um, so you know, I’m kind of somebody who can have a conversation with anybody and you know,

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I’m genuinely curious about about people and and about situations and places and

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um, you know, I love I love to learn. Yeah. I have to tell the the whoever is watching this that I met her at Chief

Making London an Astrological City

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Happened at the conference that or organized by Steve Jo and she just came into the room and she sat with us and

5:02

she was like drinking wine with us and we were talking about I wasn’t drinking wine. I don’t drink wine.

5:08

I was drinking. Yeah, we were having such a good time and and you were also talking about making London the an

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astrological city. So, just randomly, can you and can you explain the people what you mean by that?

5:21

Well, I mean London is an astrological city. There is so much here. So, one of the things I wanted people to

5:27

experience, um, we started off at St. Paul’s, which of course was where Charles and Diana got married. um you

5:33

know, one of the most ill- fated marriages in history. Um they got married on an eclipse and any astrologer

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would have advised them not to get married on an eclipse. But anyway, and also Megan Markle was born only a couple

5:45

weeks after that. Uh and then I wanted to take you to Bracken House to see the our version of

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the astronomical clock, which is with Winston Churchill’s old offices. Then we went down to Misan Museum and the

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Misarian Museum um is um an old temple mistress museum that was um they were

6:03

excavating to build some uh the tubes extend the tubes and they found this old temple so it’s free to go inside and I

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thought wouldn’t it be great if I can just get all these astrologers in and we could explain precession of the

6:15

equinoxes better than their guides at the museum. Um and then we went to we

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did something else. Oh, we went to see Buudika um the statue of Buudika and um

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Westminster. But I just wanted to like claim uh London as you know a really important area for astrologers.

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Astrologers come you know to London and they don’t know what to look for. But I I’m saying these all these great things

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you can see. So London is or was or or well I want it to be you know a a hub

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for astrology uh people who are interested in in looking at the at the at the city as um this astrological hub.

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It is the financial district of course of of England um with um Fleet Street

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and and you see Mercury everywhere you know Mercantal u you know you see see the god of commerce all over the place

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in in uh London. So, I wanted everybody to experience that. That’s brilliant,

7:13

Alex. Uh, so, so tell us when did you first realize that that astrology would play a central role in your life? I

I thought Astrology was Wrong

7:19

mean, because you’re a teacher and and and a daughter and a mom and a sister, but but know what happened.

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Well, I mean, my mom was reading the u must have been a Sunday supplement. I was maybe pre-teen and um she was

7:33

reading the descriptions of cancer. I’m a cancer son. My birthday’s the 20th of July. and she was saying, “Oh, cancers are

7:40

home loving and shy.” And I was like, “Hm, I guess astrology doesn’t make sense.” And then she’s a Sagittarius and

7:47

of course they’re exuberant and enthusiastic. I was like, “Wow, I think astrology really is wrong.” So if

7:54

anybody asked me what my sun sign was, I’d always say on the cusp of Leo. I had never owned up to being a Cancer. And

8:00

then um in my final year of university, I had a friend who asked me if I was a Leo. And just to be contrary, I said,

8:08

“No, I’m a cancer.” And then she said, “I bet you must have the moon in Leo.”

8:13

And I had never heard of such a thing. And so she did a a rudimentary chart for

8:19

me. And it just looked to me like some sort of magical incantation. And I was really drawn into the symbology and, you

8:26

know, the whole entire thing that she was reading in ephemeris and plotting these planets in. And she finished what

8:32

she was doing and she says, “Yep, there’s a moon in Leo. And if I’ve done my calculations correct, uh you’re a

8:38

Gemini rising, which makes your Mercury in Leo, your ruling planet. And I was

8:43

mind blown. No wonder I felt like a Leo. Wow. And no wonder why your your

8:49

conferences are like so fun and entertaining. I mean, beyond the wisdom that you already provided, but it’s it’s

8:56

really like I mean, if there were popcorn in the conference, I would have like probably bought some. It’s really

9:02

good entertaining. We had a laugh there you know every five minutes with you and at the same time you were you were

9:08

teaching us about these um planetary cycles but you know what were the

Alex on the Hurdles of Bringing Astrology into Education

9:13

challenges the early challenges when you decided I’m going to be an astrologer or I want to you know I want to spend part

9:18

of my life doing this what were the challenges you faced integrating astrology into your profession as a

9:25

teacher because you’re a teacher right like well I mean astrology became um I mean I

9:31

knew I wanted to be a teacher since I was a child. But um you know um I I was

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trying to do astrology classes when I first came to England because I’m actually from Detroit, Michigan. So I came to England and I mean I really made

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things difficult for myself because I had a family when I started studying astrology um in earnest and in fact um I

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had scheduled myself to have my first astrology exam um when my daughter was

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was due. I thought that she was going to be born late, like my sons were born late, but she actually came early. So,

10:05

she was born two weeks before the exam started. So, I there I was breastfeeding a baby and trying to do my astrology

10:12

exams. Um, and then um, of course, I kept piling pressure on myself doing teachers training and then doing the MA

10:18

in cultural astronomy and astrology and and raising a young family. So, I didn’t make things easy for myself, but I did

10:25

persevere. I worked with the faculty for astrological studies and I’ve worked with a lot of different schools and I’m

10:31

going to stick my neck out here and I’m going to say the faculty is the best astrology school because with them I got

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to go to Oxford summer school um and I just really feel that I I I because I’ve looked at other schools and and worked

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with Kepler College and a few others. I really do think the faculty is is the best and um you know I so I stuck it out

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even though I had some setbacks you know I stuck with it and I’m really a very very proud diploma holder. Yeah. Yeah. I

10:58

know you are. Yeah. similar as Nick and and Steve. You you guys met there or

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uh Steve and I um we known each other before. We did the MA together along with Nick Campion who was teaching but

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um we had met at um an astrology camp like an astrology festival and because

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my children were young and because we were going to a lot of festivals we kept running into Steve. So Steve, you know,

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is a very old friend of mine and I lost contact with him for a long time and then really with the past five or six

11:30

years we got back into contact and it was I have to thank Pam Gregory. Um she

11:35

did an interview with me and we got like 40,000 views. I mean 40,000 views and then people started talking to Steve

11:41

about me and so Steve said let’s do some work together. So that’s how that connection happened. Oh okay. Okay.

11:48

Great. So when you um I mean you are a teacher and then you have your astrology

11:53

going on you know it’s a good Gemini doing two or five things probably at the same time. Um so how did you manage you

12:00

know because I understand you were trying to pull astrology into your

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education thing but you faced you also faced some challenges there. Uh what was

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the major setback? Well, I mean, it started off the I mean, my first day of being permanently employed, I I my my

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given name is not Alex. I have a legal name. And um the head teacher, you know, I asked the head teacher, “Do you mind

12:24

calling me Alex?” And she said, “Well, let me think about it.” And so she must have googled me and then I was pulled

12:29

into her office and and because it was a Christian academy uh you know she made it clear that you know if anyone

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complained about me being an astrologer I could be dismissed for gross misconduct for bringing the academy into

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disrepute which you know you know my first day of on the job you know was enough to scare me into shutting up but

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banning me from doing something is a pretty sure way I’m going to squeeze it in somehow. So I started off with sun

12:55

signs which was a disaster. I I I tried to do my seating plan according to sun signs. You know I had all the fire signs

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in one row, all the earth signs in the next, the air signs and the water signs. And of course what happened was the air

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sign h sorry the fire signs took over being loud and boisterous. The air signs shouted over the head of the earth

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signs. The um earth signs just kind of sat there in silent shock and the poor

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water signs started um hugging themselves and rocking to self soo. So, it was like, you know, it’s not it’s not

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only, you know, too hard to remember everybody’s sun sign. Although I probably could get used to it, like

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getting to know names. It’s impractical really. But then one day I was when I was realizing I was thinking, “Oh,

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teaching isn’t for me. It’s too hard. I got too much going on and I was getting ready to quit.” Um, but I remember I was

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teaching McBTH and um as an English teacher and I turned around, looked at them and I thought, “Huh, you guys all

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have the same Jupiter sign.” And then I have my Jupiter sign, my Saturn sign. you all have the same Saturn sign and

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we’re all playing off against each other. And that’s when I realized, wow, I I think there’s something here because

14:00

we teach children by your groups. So, I did a Jupiter cycle of

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observation. Then I wrote Growing Pains. Yes. And then another Jupiter cycle has

14:12

passed and and then I’ve written the follow-up which is Zeus on the Loose. But so, you know, um it it’s I’m a

14:18

different teacher than I was back then. Now, if someone a teacher pulled me into the office and said, “If anybody wants

14:24

to fire you for being an astrologer, I would immediately jump on the bandwagon

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of, you know, religious persecution.” And I’m having my arguments ready. And I kind of wish somebody would challenge

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me, but nobody nobody has. Uh, but I do use astrology differently. I

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mean, I’m not I’m not about sun signs. I’m not against sun signs. I’m just I just don’t use them in in learning

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because I don’t think it’s relevant. Um I say the inner planets are to do with a child’s personality and that’s not my

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responsibility. That’s mom and dad’s responsibility. My job is to teach and that’s Jupiter and Saturn. But when when

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you were you know um called by your this manager director um okay but what about

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your your peers your colleagues were were they interested the other teachers? Were they asking you questions about hey

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Alex what do you think or or not really? Were they supportive or I mean, you

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know, I I think one of the most frustrating things about being an astrologer is people want to treat you like you’re stupid, you know, like, oh,

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you believe in that superstitious or that medieval rubbish, you know, they want to act like you don’t know what

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you’re talking about. Um, and um, you know, so I had to deal a lot with that. And we had a um a speaker uh come to do

15:37

our teaching teachers training and we had been giving his book to read over

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the summer. It was called Bounced and he was advocating to 10,000 hour rule. You know, if you master something, you must

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have spent 10,000 hours practicing it. Well, he was a professional pingpong player. And so he’s talking and I’m

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listening to him talk about 10,000 hour rule. And I’m like, “Wow, I got 10,000 hours as a teacher, easily, 10,000 hours

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as a trumpet player and 10,000 hours as an astrologer.” And just as I was starting to feel really good about it,

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he suddenly throws in, you know, astrology, you know, I don’t understand why astrologers persist in their study

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of astrology when it’s been proven wrong. So then all my colleagues of course turn around and look at me and,

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you know, the look that they give you kind of like, what are you going to say about that? And um you know I thought

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bite your tongue just take it on the chin. But then I got really annoyed and I just thought hold on you don’t know a

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thing about astrology. So I let him have it you know and I told him that as a non-ping pong player I would not even

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question whether or not ping pong was actually a sport let alone a sport for a man. And um you know that shut him up

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pretty quickly and he actually apologized. And so you know that’s kind of the attitude I have to anybody who

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wants to argue with me you know whether or not astrology is true. Well, how much have you studied? I haven’t seen you at

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any conferences, you know. I haven’t seen you in classes and and um you know, I don’t know your name, you know, in the

17:02

astrology circles. So, I I guess you don’t know much about astrology. That that’s my take. Wow. And and and

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how because now it’s shifting now, you know, astrology became popular again and now I guess they are treating you

17:15

differently now or how do you feel about you know that change from where you started up until now? Do you know do you

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feel different people how they treat you or um well I think you know the astrology

How Astrology has evolved — And what it means Today as an Educator

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world excuse me has changed in in that you know we used to be um you know 10

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years ago that the the fashion was to go to astrology conferences and you know to

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give lectures but now it’s all changing now we’re shifted onto social media right and and like a lot of other topics

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you know astrology doesn’t really get you can’t really get in depth on social media kind of like politics. So I see a

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lot of arguments going on, you know, about things I I don’t think matter. What matters is what you practice. And

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in fact, that’s what I say to people. You know, I don’t believe in astrology either. I practice it. Wow. And uh Yep.

18:07

Go ahead. No, I was just thinking you must have a million experiences and and

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you know accommodating the children according to their moon or Mars, you

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know. Is there any experiment you did that failed or that you’re laugh that

18:23

you can laugh at right now? You were trying the sun signs. Yeah. But um I I

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never really looked at you know I mean once I did the sun sign and that was that was you know a failure. I mean

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obviously we have their date to birth. So I mean I can’t help you know if someone’s got a birthday in October and

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I see the date of birth of course I know they’re either a Libra or Scorpio. I can’t help it. And same with knowing their Jupiter sign. And I know they’re

18:46

Jupiter sunsets because their size, right? Because we’re teaching by your group. But I try not to um well, I don’t

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let my judgment cloud, you know, how I teach other than it advises me um you

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know, gives me ideas, you know, for how I can get a lesson across to different year groups and gives me ideas. It helps

19:05

me generate ideas. But it doesn’t mean that, you know, just because you’ve got a group of Jupiter, I don’t know,

19:11

Jupiter in Virgo students who might be really good at analyzing things, it doesn’t mean that, you know, I’m going

19:17

to stop them from learning things about law or culture or or whatever else. It just I just helped me generate ideas and

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also maybe helps me to understand their weaknesses a bit better so I can get

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more people in to help me on the difficult bits that they have to master because that’s one thing about the

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national curriculum here in England is that it touches all the bases you know whether we want whether we agree with it

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or not there’s lots of different skills that um children can learn but I think astrology can really where I think it

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really comes into its own in teaching is that it helps simplify a teacher’s

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workload. blow because teachers they are overworked. Um it’s ridiculous. Um you

19:56

know how much a teacher actually has to do has to has to get on with and um um

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you know it’s it’s quite an unfair situation. I was at um um a an event

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yesterday um where we were treated as guests like kings and queens and we had three meals. I not just meals but really

20:14

lovely lovely meals. And I just thought to to myself at the end of the day this wasn’t a school event. This was a

20:20

corporate event. I just thought, gosh, I am in the wrong profession, you know, because these guys get paid well, they

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get fed well, they get this beautiful building to work in, and here we are, you know, bringing in our sweaty peanut

20:30

butter sandwiches. So, oh my god, Alex. So, tell us why

Jupiter’s Role in the Learning Process

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Jupiter? Why Jupiter? You know, um I I think people are just as curious as I

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was before finding out your work. Yeah. So I mean you know a lot of astrologers want to argue with me about

20:49

you know oh it’s mercury the planet of learning but I don’t think it is u mercury is mercury was a messenger god

20:56

so he he brought the messages from various places and he delivered them he didn’t you know he was a trickster but

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he didn’t you know he just repeated what he heard so I think mercury is to do with rote learning um you know uh you

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know a teacher holds up the letter t you know what does the sound make t that’s wrote learning but Jupiter learning is

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taking those sounds to form words to form the blends of different sounds like

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the th sound in English for example um to form sentences to form paragraphs to form essays the Jupiter it takes that

21:28

those little bits of information and expands it and and and and it makes it into something really magnificent

21:35

people’s accents is quite interesting people say to me because I’m I was born in America you know you don’t sound

21:41

British well my Mercury is in a fixed nine, you know, so it’s my accent isn’t

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going to change because I learned those sounds when I was young, uh, and, you know, they just stayed with me. Whereas,

21:53

I think someone with a mutable Mercury, their accents might be a little bit more changeable. But I’m talking about those

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little small little words, the little movements that we make with our our tongue and our jaw to form the sounds

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that we make to speak. How interesting. I have Mercury and Jupiter in Aquarius.

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So maybe my accent will never change. I don’t think so. Not in a fixed side.

22:18

Let’s see. So, Alex, going back to the challenges you faced, um, what is one

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fear or limiting belief you’ve had to overcome as an astrologer in the public

People think I’m a Fortune Teller

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eye? Well, as I said, you know, I I find it really difficult to cope with when

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people um make assumptions. They think that I’m a fortune teller. That that’s

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frustrating. Um you know, I I I hear like really stupid comments that people make. Well, you should have seen that

22:47

coming. You’re an astrologer. It’s like, well, that’s not how it works, you know. Um so, that’s frustrating. Um and just

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the general prejudice. Every nearly every astrologer I’ve ever known is a total book hoarder. You know,

23:02

they read everything and they’re highly educated usually and um you know, they’re curious about the world and and

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you know, there there is something about an astrologer because they’ve overcome all that prejudice because they’re

23:15

naturally curious that I think that they are they tend to be really intelligent people and they’re invested in their

23:21

education as well. You know, they’re they’re high up. Um, you know, case in point, Nick Campion, Dr. Nick Campion,

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you know, one of the probably one of the most gifted historians we have, you know, um, you know, he knows his stuff.

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Patrick Patrick Curry, our late great um, Jeffrey Cornelius, you know, all these people are really highly educated.

23:41

Yeah. And I was impressed also talking about about education and and the amount of research you’ve done. I mean, when I

23:47

saw your work, I’m like, she’s an academic astrologer. I mean there’s no other way to put it because you’ve done your research, you’ve compared, you you

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actually work with the kids, you you watch them every day. So I mean I think

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this is, you know, sometimes what people don’t understand that astrology goes beyond the the the crystal ball, you

24:06

know, and and that prejudice as you said. So So tell us more a little bit about I mean you’re traveling, you’re

24:12

teaching, you’re a mom, you’re a wife. Um, how do you stay grounded and energized behind the scenes? Because I

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mean there is a lot going on, I guess. How does your agenda look today?

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I’m not a wife. Ah, okay. I’ll edit that part. Yeah. Oh, no. It’s okay. It’s

24:30

okay. Let me know. Let everyone know I’m single.

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So, you know, how do I fit it in? I mean um I once heard an interview with Barbara Streand and the interviewer said

24:41

you know how do you hold a note for so long and her answer was because I want

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to and I think that’s the answer I have when someone says how do you manage so much well I am one of the most

24:53

timeefficient people I mean I know exactly what I need to do I have set little goals for myself um but I’m just

25:00

time efficient and um and I think I can make things look a lot easier than what

25:06

they are cuz people will say to me, “Oh, you’re so lucky.” It’s like, “Lucky? Are you kidding? Do you know how hard I

25:12

work?” Uh, you know, so that that’s that’s another thing that really irritates me. People think that things just fall into my lap. But when

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actually, you know, I put a lot of effort into making some of these things happen. Um, yeah. So, you know, I think

25:25

those were those are my challenges, but because I understand myself, you know, I I know exactly what I need to do. I

25:32

don’t have any planets in Earth. So, yep. I have to make lists. I have to set

25:37

myself time goals and I just have to get cracking down with some. So you talk about um the Jupiter Saturn

25:44

cycle which is very important. How how how is how has it been for yourself to

The Jupiter-Saturn Cycle

25:49

to work with that cycle? What what are the major challenges? I don’t know where they are but maybe you want to share

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that. I don’t know. So um I just had my second Saturn and return the first hit. That’s true. So my my I think your first

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set in return is always quite challenging because it’s your first set in return. Well, this time I saw it

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coming and so I knew that it was you know I knew it was going to have it in May and um you know so the Steve Judy

26:14

event course happened in May. Then I went to Portugal and I had my I don’t know if you saw on on social media but I

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had the Saturn cake and I made I made everybody sing to me because I wanted it

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to be a celebration. You know it’s not just about getting old. It’s about really looking back on your accomplishments, which is what, you

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know, this summer for me is about looking back um and saying, you know, I’m a truck driver’s daughter, you know,

26:37

who expected me to do all these things and then, you know, looking ahead, you know, to the future, which, you know,

26:42

none of us are guaranteed a long future, but it’s being proud and pleased with what you’ve done with your life. Um that

26:48

that I wanted to have out of my Saturn return. And I think it’s better the second Saturn return. And the first

26:54

Saturn return is a bit of a challenge. That’s really cool. And I understand from previous interviews because I

27:00

watched you. You have Jupiter in Cancer. I do it exalted degree

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and now Jupiter is entering Cancer. You had your Saturn return. How do you feel

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about this? So, um I I um fixed it so that my next

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Jupiter return, which is in August, coincides with my um uh release of my

Alex Trenoweth’s New Book: “Zeus on the Loose”

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book um Zeus on the Loose, which is going to happen at Water St. which is um a main book seller. And it’s unheard of

27:30

for an astrology book to be launched at a major book seller. Usually it’s at Watkins or um Treadwells or maybe the

27:38

astrology shop, you know, a specialized esoteric shop, but Water St. is is the

27:44

big one. So, I’m hoping that um this will open the door for more really

27:49

quality astrology because the books in in Water St. are not very good. You

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know, they’re um the astrology books are not very good. there more for, you know, sun signs.

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Yeah. And I’ve got to apologize. My green screen’s playing up a bit back here. Oh, don’t worry. I can go. The wind is the wind is blowing. I didn’t

28:10

even notice. No, it’s okay. Don’t worry. Okay. Okay. So, that’s funny. The water stones, you know, because Jupiter and

28:17

Cancer like water and then Saturn returns stones and I was like, what’s going on?

28:23

Okay. So, Alex, did you ever doubted astrology at some point? Like you said, okay, you know what? This stuff is not

28:29

working. What What kept you going? Was there a moment where I don’t get fed up

28:34

with astrology. I occasionally get fed up with astrologers. Uhhuh. Um, you know, I I I get kind of

28:41

get tired of the ego and and the the compet the competition that goes on between astrologers and and I think a

Alex’s advice to other Astrologers

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lot of astrologers struggle to find their niche, you know, what they’re good at. And whereas I was always I always

28:53

knew what my niche was because I had Jupiter. I knew that as long as I stayed with children and families with my

28:59

Jupiter the way that it is that I would be okay as an astrologer. And in fact, I would tell astrologers, you know, hey,

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look at your Jupiter sign to work out, you know, where your teaching is, where where where you contribute uh to the

29:12

astrology world instead of, you know, trying to compete with other people. Um

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it was it was pretty clear for you because you had that strength already of being in the system education system.

29:24

Okay, that’s great. So um do you think that astrology can be used ethically in

Astrology’s Place in Modern Education

29:30

educational settings and what are the boundaries or or gu guidelines you would

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suggest? It’s a that’s a really good question and something that you know um I’ll try to um answer answer fully.

29:44

First of all, I mean, as I said, you know, as an astrologer, it isn’t my place to judge somebody based on their

29:50

Jupiter sign or on their chart. My job is as an educator, and my job is to hold doors open and to make sure my students

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are safe. So, that’s where my boundaries are, you know, first an educator and my

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job is not to change a child’s personality. Like I said, that’s the parents job. Um, but you know, I I need

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to make sure that I understand how my children learn. Jupiter helps me, but it doesn’t dictate to me. Mhm. Um, now I

30:16

have met astrologers who have said to me, um, I I can read a child’s chart

30:23

because, you know, I’m this wonderful astrologer and I always bring it back to this thing about child protection.

30:30

To work with children in a classroom, I have to have police clearance.

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I have to have the the right amount of experience. And every single teacher is

30:42

trained in child protection, what to do, you know, um, if a child um, discloses

30:47

something to you. Whereas astrologers, most astrologers do not have that training. And so, you know, I I think

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it’s not so much about being worried about what an astrology group can do ethically with astrology and education.

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It’s the other way around what astrologers can do in regards to working with children. So, if you’re an

31:07

astrologer and you’re listening to me and you’re reading children’s charts, you really need to stop and, you know,

31:13

do some child safeguarding training. Um, at least get some police protection and

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never ever under any circumstances. Allow yourself to be onetoone alone with

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the child. Always have the parents there. And um you’re absolutely correct. They won’t disclose to you. You don’t

31:30

want them to disclose to you. Um because what are you going to do if you have a self farmer in front of you? Really,

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you’re not trained to deal with them. What are you going to do? A teacher will know what to do. Um you know, astrologer

31:45

won’t um what are you going to do if you got a a 14-year-old girl who’s pregnant?

31:50

And then what if she’s pregnant by her older brother? These things happen. And

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you know, what is an astrologer going to do? you know, um you because like I say,

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they’re not trained. Um and and like and as I said, these things happen, unfortunately, quite regularly in a in

32:09

the school system. So, they’re not like isolated cases. Nobody comes to an astrologer because everything is all

32:14

wonderful. They come to you because they have a problem and they need help resolving that problem. Um, and you

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know, I I always say too, you know, let’s say this child, this 14-year-old

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child who’s pregnant by her older brother begs you not to tell anybody and you as an astrologer feel that you are

32:34

bound by confidentiality because most astrologers, you know, have a confidentiality agreement and you feel

32:41

bound by that and you promise confidentiality. Well, then it all blows up because of course a pregnancy is

32:48

going to continue or not, but someone’s going to find out about it and the astrologer who heard that um disclosure

32:56

is going to be held responsible for the results. Now, if the parent is there in

33:01

the consultation, which is what I say should always happen, the parent is responsible. But even in that case, the

33:07

astrologer still has to decide whether or not that parent is competent enough to handle that problem. And this is

33:15

where schools are are very beneficial. So a teacher could listen to that

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problem, assure the child and the parent that that something will be done and they could take that problem and hand it

33:27

to the proper people who can deal with it appropriately. It’s not about passing

33:32

on a problem. It’s about making sure that the right person is dealing with it, that the astrologer isn’t taking it

33:38

on on board themselves because that’s absolutely the incorrect incorrect thing to do. They have to they have to be able

33:44

to know what to do um and not just keep that keep secrets. Wow. So interesting. Yeah. So in your

33:53

ideal world vision, how how would you teach others, you know, to implement

33:59

astrology in educating their children or at schools? Do you have a a vision about it? Actually, I wanted to ask you about

34:05

your school because I understand you have an astrology school which focuses

34:11

on looking at the charts of children ethically. So, please Alex, tell us more about this now that we’re talking about.

34:18

Sure. So I mean um I do think that astrology has a very powerful role in education and in raising children but it

34:26

does have to be done properly and it it has to be done you know within the child safeguarding and child protection

34:32

guidelines. So what I do is basically I take astrologers through the the child

34:37

safeguarding procedures hopefully alarm them well enough that they understand

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okay I can’t see children onetoone um and they know that okay if I’m going to work with children’s charts I need

34:50

police protection I need to be sorry not police protection but police um clearance um because teachers have to

34:57

prove that they haven’t committed any crime um and so astrologers they’re going to work work with children start

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they need to do the same thing. Um and also you know looking at Jupiter and Saturn and maybe a little bit of Uranus

35:08

only leaving the inner planets to the parents um you know the personality I I

35:15

may mention to a parent you know each child has you know moon and Virgo just as a point of interest but I’m not going

35:21

to assign like a future career to them any more than I would do the same thing with Jupiter and Virgo either. I

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wouldn’t say oh your child’s going to be a great doctor you know I wouldn’t do that. So we have to be very careful that

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we don’t create um um helicopter parenting. Oh, what do you mean by that?

35:39

Sorry. So it’s when um they also call it tiger parenting is when you know you say

35:45

something like you know uh oh your child is very good at analyzing this that or the other thing. They might be

35:51

interested in medicine but all the parent hears is doctor doctor. So they start forcing the child to do like

35:57

premed advanced premed classes, you know, make them do their homework, you know, eight hours, you know, as soon as

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they come home from school. They got music lessons, you know, French lessons, Japanese lessons, you know, got all

36:08

these different lessons and extracurricular activities because they think their do their child’s going to be a doctor and needs these extracurricular

36:15

things to do. So, you know, I’m I’m also about live and let live. You know, let a child explore. you know, you can explore

36:22

aimlessly and still get a lot out of that exploration. So interesting. You also mentioned that

36:29

you all would look at Uranus a little bit. Why? Just give us a hint because I

The Role of Uranus in Education

36:35

know maybe in your book you cover that topic. I’m not sure. Sure. So when you have your first Jupiter return at around

36:42

the age of 11 to 12, 11 years, eight and nine months is the average. Um so after

36:48

that point about two years later um Jupiter keeps going around the zodiac

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it’ll reach uh transiting Jupiter sexile its natal position at the same time that

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Uranus will have its first sexile to its natal position and it’s the first tameic

37:06

aspect from an outer planet at the same time. So you put those key words together,

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Jupiter big expansive and Uranus rebellion, you get the words big

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rebellion and that happens around the age of 13. And I know from you know um other

37:24

research that I’ve done that the age of 13 is the year group no teacher wants to teach because children are very very

37:31

difficult at that age. They are stop they stop listening to their parents and teachers and start listening to their

37:37

peers. So the other thing I tell parents is you know ex you know have that talk

37:44

about um you know sex and your expectations around family guidelines

37:49

before they turn 13 because it’s better that they hear from you than they hear

37:55

misinformation from their friends. Um you know so I think it’s really important that parents set those

38:00

boundaries and build are able to build trust. Keep those lines of communication open. Um build trust. um grant

38:09

privileges when the trust has been built because, you know, children of that age

38:14

really want to have their independence, but they’re still dependent on their parents for money, for emotional

38:20

guidance, for the roof over their head. You know, they’re not ready for independence yet. So, you know, um you

38:27

know, don’t let your children uh just grow out of it. They still need your support. Even though that separation is

38:34

a natural part of growing up, children still need you. And and I I I will call

38:39

children children until they are 18. I don’t care

38:44

if they’re 17 years, 364 days. In my head, you’re still a child and they’re a child by law. And I’ve heard all the

38:51

arguments. Oh, this is a really mature 16year-old or, you know, this person

38:56

goes on tours all over the place and they do this, that, and the other. No, sorry. they’re still a child. If they go

39:02

into a pub and they try to order a drink and they get served and they’re not 18, they’ve broken the law or the sorry the

39:09

um landlord has broken the law. So, it’s the same thing in astrology. An adult is an adult. 18 is 18.

39:16

Okay. Interesting. I you were also saying in one of your interviews because I there were two things that stuck in my

39:21

head from one of your interviews is to talk to your children about money. Yeah,

39:26

that’s very important. Can you elaborate on that because I really like what you mentioned but I can’t remember by heart exactly?

39:33

Well, I mean, I think that um you know, parents don’t talk about money, you know. Um we try to keep it

39:41

from our children, you know, how much electricity is, how much we don’t talk about our salaries in general. I mean,

39:47

we don’t talk about, you know, income or, you know, but but yet children are sensitive. They pick up on your

39:53

financial anxiety. You know, why can’t you have those expensive pair of trainers? All my friends have them.

40:00

Well, actually they don’t all have them. And you know, um if you want to earn your trainers, this is the amount of

40:06

money you need to earn in order to have these trainers, you know. So I I think

40:11

what parents um I I don’t like to use the word should, but you know what my

40:16

ideal suggest scenario would be is that you know, let them know how much that

40:22

costs in the real world. You know, let them know that sometimes there is a choice between paying the electricity

40:27

bill or buying a new pair of trainers. and you know which are you going to do and you know what skills. So I think

40:33

talking about money is is equally important. Interesting. Thank you. Is

Key Transits on Alex Trenoweth’s Radar

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there any current transit personal or not that you find either encouraging or

40:45

intimidating and why? Well, currently I have transiting Jupiter on my natal Venus in Gemini. And

40:53

so I’ve just been like really like I’ve had so many interviews and um my book is coming out and um just let me Zeus on

41:01

the loose. Yeah, tell us more about it if you if you want. Transiting uh Jupiter on my natal Venus and Zeus on

41:07

the loose has been my baby for the past 12 years. 12 years. It’s been in my head

41:12

but you know actually I actually u physically wrote it in about a month but

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like I say it’s because I had the title already in my head. I had you know the layout in my head. It was just a matter

41:23

of sitting down and getting it done. So, like I said before, you know, I understand what I need to do. It’s just

41:29

a matter of getting it getting it done. So, I really did teach all day, come

41:34

home, write my 2,000 words for a month to finish the first draft to get to I

41:39

got to 75,000 words. Um, cut down a little bit from there. But that’s how I approach this book. Get it written down.

41:46

Stop messing around. And um so that’s your creative process because I wanted to ask you then about you know your

41:52

creative process is just like sit and do it. I can be a bit obsessed. Yeah. I

41:57

have I have Neptune in Scorpio in the sixth house and and I can be really

42:02

really driven to the point that you know I if I’m writing on a Saturday I can sit

42:09

down with a cup of tea and pick up my cup of tea four hours later and it’s cold realize half the day has gone by. I

42:15

haven’t even eaten breakfast. So that that’s the kind of thing I can get into. So the other thing that I have is I have

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of course a timer um um that will go off um a good writing sessions for me I

42:26

think it’s two hours and I try to get 2,000 words done in two hours. Maybe I might need a bit more time but I try not

42:32

to because I can lose track of time. I I I try not to let that happen. Wow. So

42:39

you’re making a very good use of that Neptune in the sixth house because you know I listen to many astrologers and

42:44

some of them you know they always paint Neptune like as the bad guy like lazy

42:50

confusion blah blah blah. So when I hear this is very inspiring because actually you know see what you can accomplish

42:56

with that. Yeah. I mean you know there might be other things in my chart that drive me. I have Venus square Saturn. Um you know

43:03

you can never love me enough. I can never do enough. I have Mars square Saturn as well. You can never love me

43:08

enough. I can never do enough. So, I have that driving me too, driving me crazy. But,

43:14

but I think my Neptune I think because I understand my Neptune. Um, probably

43:19

probably a little ADHD involved in there in in the focus thing. Um, but um, you know, I understand what I need to do and

43:26

how how I like to work and and what works for me. I could tell you what doesn’t work for me is is um working in

43:33

short spurts. No, really. 15 minutes. 15 minutes. Have a break. that will not work cuz in 15 minutes oh I’ll be

43:40

playing games I’ll be you know looking at YouTube I’ll be distracted I won’t

43:45

get it done but if you give me that two hours I can get things a lot done in a few hours interesting so you know coming

Alex Trenoweth’s loving words of Guidance

43:53

back to the personal kind of story if you could give one piece of advice to

43:59

your younger astrologer self what would it be

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I I I’m really pleased with I always say

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to people, you know, be the kind of person that your younger self would admire. And you know, I hate to, you

44:17

know, I don’t want to sound like I’m boasting, but I am the kind of person I think my younger self would admire. Wow.

44:22

I think, you know, I’ve read a lot. I’ve done a lot. I’ve traveled a lot. I have, you know, many friends from many

44:28

different walks of life. You know, you know, I think that I have achieved that. Um, you know, I have three brilliant

44:34

children or 50,000 if you count my students that I’m, you know, proud of in so many different ways, you know. So, I

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think that my advice is be the person that your younger younger self would have admired. Amazing. Amazing. And

44:49

lastly, I I think um I just wanted to ask you, I mean, I think it’s pretty obvious for you, but many but probably

44:55

for many is not. If you’ve seen astrology improve teacher student relationships

45:01

or classroom dynamics, could you tell us I mean if it really has improved?

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um teacher student relationships or yeah I think um I I think that um

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you know there was there’s an expression a happy teacher changes the world and I think more should be done to make

45:23

teachers happy and I see so much on um social media that that parents are

45:29

blaming teachers you know for all the problems in the world and it’s like you don’t have you don’t have any idea what

45:35

teachers do for you you know it’s not just free babysitting you know the things that we do for our children and

45:41

you know the you know we don’t see our children as just being these I don’t

45:46

know inanimate objects we you know we love our children uh with boundaries of course but you know there is so much

45:53

that we do for our children and I love it when parents say to me um I pay taxes

46:00

therefore I pay your salary because I love it I’ll I’ll clap back with yeah I’m a taxpayer too where are my extra

46:07

teaching assistants for all these children with individual education plans. Okay. Um where are my toilet

46:13

breaks? Um you know, all these children want to go to the toilet whenever they feel like it. Where are my toilet

46:19

breaks? You know, if I I can only go to the L at break and lunchtime, you know what, you know, where’s my extra pair of

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hands that will help me when I have all this marking to do, you know? So, I’m a taxpayer, too. Uh but you know I I

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really think and I’m hoping um that with Jupiter in cancer that teachers and

The Role of Teachers Under Jupiter in Cancer

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nurses and anybody in a female dominated profession can start to realize hey you

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know why are they paying a football player a male football player all this

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money for kicking a ball from one end of the field to another but you know somebody who is teaching your child you

46:56

know six seven hours a day um you know giving them all all their all this

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effort and all on and all this hard work or the woman who is, you know, wiping

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your mother’s backside because she’s sick in hospital and you don’t want to do that. You know, why are they why are

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they treating why are these women being treated so badly, being paid poorly, being looked down upon and everyone

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thinks, “Oh, they’re women. They’re naturally good at it.” You know, that drives me crazy. So, I’m hoping that, you know, the more we talk about equity,

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the more we can make an improvement for uh nurses and teachers to actually drive

47:33

society. Wow. Amazing, Alex. And touching on on that point, is there anything now that

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we are here, we have a a few minutes, is there any advice or anything you want

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parents to know about your work as a teacher, you know, besides what you already said? Um I think you know just

47:53

for them to listen because I think there is so much to unpack and as you said there is so much they don’t know and

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maybe you want to give a message you know about astrology empowering you know uh them as parents. So whatever comes to

Great Advice for Parents

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your mind and whatever you want to share please just you know I would advise parents um I mean it sound like I’m

48:13

selling my book and I am a bit but you understand the child’s Jupiter sign because that is how the child learns and

48:20

the age of 12 the Jupiter return around the age of 11 or 12 is the most important year of a child’s life and of

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course I’m not saying you know if you got a 12y old child and a eight-year-old child ignore the eight-year-old I’m not

48:34

saying that at But I am saying, you know, when that child turns 12, it’s a great time to take that big family

48:39

holiday to go abroad, to learn a new language as a family, to maybe, I don’t

48:45

know, study a new skill. And for parents, too, just because you’re no longer in school doesn’t mean the

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learning stops. You’re on a you continue to be on a 12-ear cycle as well. If you

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have a Jupiter return coming up, if you’re 3, 36, 48, 24, 60, or whatever,

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start something. start something new, start a new cycle, start a new, you know, some sort of new course. Um,

49:08

Jupiter cycles actually um um have a significant transit every three years.

49:13

So, you could break it down even more. But Zeus on the loose breaks it down even further than that. And it gives

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ideas for every single year of your life if you know your Jupiter sign. And there’s no excuse not to know your

49:25

Jupiter sign because I have the ingresses at the back. Oh, and all you got to do information there. So, all you

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got to do is look up your Jupiter signs. Um, and then I have um case studies in here to show you, you know, here’s a

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famous person. I’m looking at their transits. I’m not going into their psychology. I’m just telling you the things that they’ve done with their life

49:44

that could be either good um, you know, success or where they’ve overused their

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Jupiter because Jupiter isn’t always the good guy. Right. Right. Um, you know, Jupiter can, you know, be overzealous,

49:57

indulgence, and indulging. Um Jupiter is also significant when a person dies

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because death is the ultimate adventure. It’s taking a life and going from this

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earthly plane into the spiritual realm. So you know Jupiter isn’t always you know um we call it the great benefit but

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it it it can be you know something that we need to re it in u you know pull back

50:22

on our habits and um uh come to grips having a little bit more self-discipline.

50:28

So in the first book you introduces introduced us to the the cycle basically

How Alex can help You?

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the growing pains right this is the the book and in this second book go ahead I

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focus on yeah sorry I focused more on adolescence and growing pains because at the time I was only teaching um sorry I

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shouldn’t say only because I was teaching adolescence though no it’s not an only there I was teaching adolescence

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and um I was frustrated because you know a lot of people have that idea of

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they’re teenagers, they’ll grow out of it and therefore letting the kids get on into whatever they want to get into

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without having um you know more firm guidelines. Um and then Zeus on the

51:08

Loose is more written. I mean it’s directed at parents to help their children learn but it’s opening up to

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the whole entire life cycle. Alex. And lastly, because people may be wondering, do you do readings for

51:20

parents about their children or what what are you up to? You know, besides the teaching and the academic astrology

51:26

work and your books, um, how can you help us? I mean, you have your school,

51:31

what else do you do? How can we reach out to you? So, um, the way I work with I work with families. I do family

51:38

consultations. So, a parent will occasionally, um, say to me, “Oh, I got a 13-year-old child. they’re making my

51:45

head hurt. Um, can you do a reading for for them? And it’s like, uh, I’ll do a reading for you as well.

51:52

So, I bring the whole family in because I think it’s important that you have the whole picture, you know. Um, what kind

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of, um, relationship do the parents have? There are many different types of families. you know, there’s you you can

52:04

adopt a child. There’s stepchildren, there’s, you know, multi, you know, layered families, there’s um single

52:10

mothers, there’s single fathers, there’s all sorts of different kinds of family. So, my first question is going to be, what kind of family am I working with?

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You know, where is the birth placement? Am I working the majority of people who come to me are first-time parents of

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13-year-olds? Um, I keep track of these kind of things. So, they they want to know, you

52:29

know, you know, what do I do with my 13-year-old? They’re they’re off the rails. I don’t know what to do. And of course, the answer is grab a hold of

52:36

your Saturn and start making some rules. Um, so I want to look at the whole entire

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family so I can see where that that that difficult um child as the parents label

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them. I wouldn’t call them a difficult child. I would say the situation as a whole is difficult, but where those

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difficulties are and what can be done. So I’m not just looking at one person as a problem. I’m looking at the whole

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entire family as a solution and you know how the whole family can work together.

53:06

Wow. And lastly, Alex, tell us more. Why celebrities? Why royale? What I mean

53:13

because you were talking children, but suddenly you have this other amazing book about you know movies and

53:19

celebrities and it’s the astrology of famous people and the actors who portray

53:25

them and I find it fascinating. I don’t know why I don’t follow celebrity but I like I was like thrilled to to see all

53:30

these cases and my mind was like of course. So tell us more why why celebrities royalty.

53:37

Well I mean I think after I wrote Growing Pains I just wanted to kind of I called I call I was calling Mirror

53:43

Mirror my my pallet cleanser. I just needed to have a little bit of a step

53:48

away from um um astrology and education because also the pandemic um it’s my

53:55

pandemic baby as well and so I wasn’t teaching and so I thought okay well I

54:00

been collecting case studies you know the sinistry between um famous people

54:06

and the actors who portrayed them and the transit of when the movie was released. I had a few of these case

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studies together, maybe 20. Um, and I just thought, okay, well, during the pandemic, I’m going to finish this book.

54:17

And so I started off, um, I had nearly 200 case studies, 200 biopics, um, about

54:24

real life people. And we, me and my publisher paired it down to just over a hundred. And, um, like I say, it was my

54:31

pandemic baby. It just helped me um, it kept my mind occupied while I wasn’t teaching. It’s amazing. And also you I

54:39

mean in the conference you talk about the royal family and al go I mean it’s like you’re a we say in Spanish you are

54:46

a box full of different chocolates or something. I don’t know what the say in English is but you know so I I’m really

54:53

happy that that you know we had this opportunity to chat. Alex tell us more about what do you have coming besides

54:59

your book? uh any classes, conferences, talks, uh what what’s up with you so

55:04

people can, you know, uh follow you on Instagram and see where you’re going to be or just tell us a little bit more.

55:10

Okay, so um I just got um an invitation to speak in South Africa um but online.

55:17

I don’t I I might go down to South Africa. We’ll see. Um because it’s my it’s my Saturn return. So I’m thinking

55:23

for my 60th birthday, I might do a little tour around the world. But we’ll see. We I’m still working on that. I’m

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going to um I speak at a few local British um astrology local groups. Um I

55:36

am going to speak online for the Brighton astrology group. Um two weeks

55:41

from today actually I’ll be speaking about Zeus on the loose. Um my book launch is the 13th of August. I’ll be

55:49

starting my new classes. Um my school is called Rohini Academy of Astrology.

55:55

looking learn learn learning how to read children’s charts ethically and looking at child safeguarding and child protection

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guidelines. So what I do is basically I take astrologers through the the child

56:07

safeguarding procedures hopefully alarm them well enough that they understand

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okay I can’t see children onetoone um and they know that okay if I’m going to work with children’s charts I need

56:22

police protection I need to be sorry not police protection but police um clearance um because teachers have to

56:28

prove that they haven’t committed any crime um and so astrologers they’re going to work work with children start

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they need to do the same thing. Um and also you know looking at Jupiter and Saturn and maybe a little bit of Uranus

56:40

only leaving the inner planets to the parents um you know the personality I I

56:46

may mention to a parent you know each child has you know moon and Virgo just as a point of interest but I’m not going

56:53

to assign like a future career to them any more than I would do the same thing with Jupiter and Virgo either. I

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wouldn’t say oh your child’s going to be a great doctor you know I wouldn’t do that. So we have to be very careful that

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we don’t create um um helicopter parenting.

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it’s been really a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here and for, you know, you know, being the experiment in

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this new podcast. So, hope to see you soon. Good luck.

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Have a great solar return and and you know, let’s keep in touch. Thank you

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very much. Thank you.

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