Amanda Walsh | Life by the Stars, Astrology Hub & the Courage to Tell the Real Story

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Did writing this book um ever threaten the identity people had of Amanda from Astrology Hub?

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I’m sure. I mean, I’m gonna I’ll find out more and more. Um you don’t really know how people perceive you, but as a

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Capricorn, you’re normally perceived

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as someone who has their ****

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together, right? like somebody that was an early reader came back after and was like, “Wo, I always just thought you

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were this like successful corporate girl who decided to start an astrology brand and moved to Hawaii and it’s

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just been like smooth sailing and you just like took the all the money you made and just invested in this astrology thing and it worked.” And I’m like,

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and then we both start laughing hysterically because it was like nothing couldn’t be further from the

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truth. Like there’s people that might read it and and really not like me anymore. Maybe it ruins an image they had of me. Do I want to be loved

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for who people may think I am or who I actually am? I have to ask you this because there’s a

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difference between creating content and revealing yourself.

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So at what moment did you realize this book would require something much more personal from you?

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The whole time I was writing it. Oh my god, people might actually read this. And then I went through a whole

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process around like how do how do how do I feel about that? That’s it’s very exposed, you know. And uh what were the hardest chapters to write?

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Well, by far the divorce chapters writing this book, what healed inside you because you wrote this book.

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There’s some healing that happened.

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I mean, Pluto in Aquarius going, you don’t get to move through the world in the way that you used to with this. You

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don’t get to pull those old stunts, Mars and Leo, the way I’ve done Mars and Leo before. You don’t get to do that anymore. So, there was this there was

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this tension and it was thick. Coming back to the Capricorn energy, um, how did your relationship with success being

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a Capricorn change while writing this book? Hm.

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Oh, that’s a really great question, Mayra. You’re so good at this. I love it.

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You’re really, really fun to be interviewed by. Um, well,

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today on Backstage Astrology, we go behind the scenes with a woman who has redefined what it means to bring astrology

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into the world. She’s not an astrologer, but she’s interviewed more of them than almost anyone alive. Amanda Walsh is the

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visionary behind Astrology Hub, home to the world’s longest running astrology membership, The Inner Circle,

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and the Astrology Hub Podcast. With over 12 million downloads and a YouTube channel reaching hundreds of

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thousands worldwide, she’s built one of the largest libraries of astrology teachings online, given a platform to hundreds of

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astrologers, and brought astrology into homes across the globe. And now, Amanda is releasing her deeply personal new

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book, Life by the Stars. If you’d like to follow her journey behind the scenes, join her intimate reader circle at life by the stars.com.

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I hope you enjoy this episode with Amanda Walsh.

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Welcome back to Backstage Astrology. My name is Mayra Medina and today I’m very excited because I have with me Amanda Walsh, CEO and founder of AstrologyHub.

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Amanda, thank you so much for being here. How are you today?

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Oh my gosh, I’m doing so good. It’s great to be back here with you and your community and I’m just honored to have this time with you.

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Amanda, last time we spoke, we were talking about your book Life by the Stars and then I went to Shifts Happen

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in London with Steve and Rick Levine and you presented you show us a little bit about your book and your book is about to be published

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if not already there. Uh oh, here it comes.

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This is the most amazing part about this right now. It’s a it’s a memoir and in it we have an overlay of astrologers

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notes which were written by Natasha Alter who was the astrologer who gave me my first reading ever in 2011. And so

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any of you who give readings, you never know what that reading is going to inspire in the person that you’re reading for. I mean, it literally changed my life forever.

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And I want to talk more about the process, the storytelling process, not only of Amanda Walsh, the Astrology Hub

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founder, but also Amanda as a woman that that is navigating, remembering, healing, reinvention, and also conscious

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leadership. So, Amanda, let’s talk about your book. Can you tell briefly the audience what is the book about?

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Okay. Well, it really starts when I’m 10 years old. This is a memory. I call them highlighter memories. Those memories in

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your life, like when you scan back in your life, and there’s certain things that just like pop off the page, like they were like highlighted in pink or

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yellow or green. And one of those for me is when I’m 10 years old, I’m looking in my bedroom mirror and it’s the ‘8s, so I

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have my perm and my bangs and my, you know, the whole the whole ‘ 80s vibe going. And I asked this question in the mirror and it’s who are you?

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And I didn’t get a response. So I remember leaning in and just being like no who are you really?

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And it was this question that it was the first time I remember having sort of an existential question like that. And it

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really became a guiding force in my life whether I was aware of it or not. It really dictated a lot of the decisions I

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made and the risks that I took and the path that my life took me on was this question, who are you? Like really, who

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are you? And I know so many of us that are drawn to astrology also carry that question, right? It’s like anyway, so

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that’s that’s what it’s about. But it’s it’s a memoir that then has an astrological overlay. So

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for the first 33 years of my life, I knew nothing about astrology. So it felt really inauthentic to tell the story

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with astrology in it before I knew anything about it. So, this one day I was on a walk and I’m I’m in the

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manuscript writing process and I have this thought. Wait, what if Natasha

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Alter, who is the incredible astrologer who gave me my first astrology reading ever, what if she could write like an

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astrological commentary on the story so that she could show how the astrology

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was alive and moving in my life long before I was aware of it. and then also when I was aware of it. So that’s what

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happened. And so throughout the book, it’s it’s a story and but there’s an astrological overlay that we called them

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astrologers notes. And so she has her commentary. So if you’re an astrology student, it’s kind of taking the concept

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of a quote unquote celebrity chart. You know how we always look at we always look at celebrity charts or or famous

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people charts, but we only know what was portrayed about that person, right?

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Maybe they wrote some things that give you an idea of their inner landscape.

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Maybe we have like inklings on what was happening with their them psychologically and emotionally. But

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this is really like because of the way I tell the story which is quite vulnerable and transparent. You’re really going to

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get to see how the astrology was so alive despite outward appearances despite what any one might have been seeing from the outside. How it was so

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alive in me uh my whole life and and this is true for all of us. But it’s a great so from that perspective for any

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astrology students it’s a great study guide. It’s a great ex a great way to

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experience astrology through a lived experience of my life and the journey that I’ve been on. So I I hope that

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people a either get inspired to read to to learn more about astrology but those who are already into astrology it’s like oh that’s so cool like what was

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happening with Pluto and what was happening at Saturn return it was you know what was actually happening when these really critical moments were happening in my life. Yeah, there are

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many critical moments and I have to say because I I already I read Amanda’s book already. I mean it it just you get hooked because it’s so relatable in a

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way even though you have your own story but parts of your story are very similar I’m sure to not only my story but

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everyone else’s story because we all all have challenges we all have plutonian experiences but before getting into more

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about the book please tell us what was happening inside you emotionally or spiritually or personally that made you

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realize I can’t keep this inside anymore. I have to share this with the world.

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Mayra, I would say that it goes back to when I was living through some of the most challenging experiences that I talk about in the book.

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when I was in them, I remember having the thought, if I can get through this period of my

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life and not just survive it, but thrive on the other end of it,

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I will love to help other people in similar situations.

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I I would love to share what I learned so that other people going through these kinds of circumstances, divorce,

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financial ruin, existential like what the heck am I doing with my life moments of you know geography changes all those

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kinds of things motherhood parenthood if I can help people with this my story

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then it’s that moment of like then all of this will have been worth it so it was about 2019 when I started actively

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trying to write something. Now what I was trying to write in 2019 is very different than what it ended up being.

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Um but it wanted to be what it is because I started writing something where it was

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like a little bit about my story but then more about how to actually start working with astrology in your life like

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in a really tangible way. And so I start the the first part of the book which is a little bit about my story and it was like 10 pages, 20 pages, 30 pages, 40

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pages. I was like, “Okay, I guess I’m telling this story. I guess this book is this story.” So

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emotionally sp Okay, to go back to your question, it just feels like, you know, we’re all

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on our heroes or heroins journey and and a really important part of that journey is the part where you come back and you share what you learned. And so that that

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that urge or desire has been in me for a while now, as I mentioned. And then I got really tired of talking about

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writing a book but not having a book. I got so sick of saying that of having

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that thought of wanting to do it but not doing it that I finally just said I’m doing it. Like I need to do it. This is

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this is the time. I’m I’m really tired of myself at this point.

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Yeah. Yeah, and it must have been also a a challenge because you’ve been holding space for other people’s transformation through astrology hub all these years.

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But Amanda, what part of your own story had remained untold until now?

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Almost the whole thing, Mayra. Honestly, there I I remember in writing it, I I had this moment of, “Oh

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my god, there’s not one single person on this planet, not my parents, not my partner, not my kids, nobody knows all

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of this.” And really, as the host of the AstrologyHub podcast, it’s it’s not about me. So, I don’t talk about myself

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that much on the podcast. I really like to make it about my guest, right? Mh.

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I mean, there’s snippets here and there and in the inner circle, you know, our inner circle members have heard snippets here and there, but there’s really

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nobody that knows the story in its entirety of the where not, especially not in the way it’s told in the book, which again, this was one of those

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moments that I, you know, I always feel like the universe dangles these little carrots in front of us and they look really like juicy and it’s

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just like, yes, I can do that. That’s easy. So, when I did sit down to write the book finally when Jupiter went into

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Gemini uh a couple years ago, Mhm.

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and my Jupiter is in Gemini. And so, I was like, “Okay, I’m going to have my Jupiter return. It’s Gemini, so like this is the time I’m going to ride this wave and I’m going to write the book

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while Jupiter’s in Gemini.” And I was like, “Oh my gosh, I’ve told aspects of this story a lot of times.

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Maybe I can just pull the transcripts and like put that together.” And I had recently given a talk at a conference.

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So I was like, “Oh, I really like already have like half of this book written.” So I get a book coach and I

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share the transcripts with her and I’m like, “Look, like I feel like this is, you know, at least half of a book already.” And she she has it for like a

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week. She gets back to me and she’s like, “Yeah, I’m going to challenge you.

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I’m going to challenge you to tell your story in a way that you have never told it before.

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Oh my god.

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And I was like, “Oh god.” Like my heart just sank cuz I was like like the ju the juicy carrot was, “Look, your book is halfway written. Like you this is going

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to be easy.” And then she was like, “No, you’re going back to the drawing board.

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Like start over.” Oh, no. But it was the best question that I could have been asked, Mayra, because because I really did get to do that.

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And I I never imagined writing a book with like dialogue and scenes and like really inviting the reader into almost a

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fictional account. It’s not fictional, but it feels fictional, reads fictional.

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I didn’t I never thought to do it that way. And so it was it was this challenge that was posed for me. I was I was

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primed and ready with this Jupiter and Gemini kind of like, okay, I have a year like I have a year to like write the book, right? And and it was it was

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amazing. Like I actually got to rekindle my love for creative writing, which I remembered I used to love when I was in

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grade school and I had forgotten about that because writing had become so dry, you know, through high school and college and graduate school. It was all

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like the scientific method and researchy and very just dry for me. Uhhuh.

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Yeah. It wasn’t wasn’t as fun. So this was just like this. Oh, okay. So once it started coming through and I started remembering scenes and elements from my life that I didn’t even know I

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remembered, you know, but then it was coming through in like like colorful detail, that became fun to really just

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write it that way and and then really invite the the reader into come with me to Hawaii. come with me like start with me in California and New

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York and then come with me to the big island and and and move over to Maui and like have these experiences with me.

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I must say that I was imagining every everything. That’s why I love reading. I don’t I’m not an avid reader. I have to say I like uh well astrology books but like novels like but real life novels.

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So when you told me this is like real life experience. I’m like okay I have to read this one because it’s a real story.

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And when you were, you know, talking about New York and going to these bars and these talks and then how like you imagine everything, the volcano thing

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and motherhood, divorce, everything you went through. But I have to ask you this because there’s a difference between creating content and revealing yourself.

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So at what moment did you realize this book would require something much more personal from you?

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the whole time I was writing it. But but one of the little tricks that I played with myself or I don’t know, maybe the

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universe was playing with me, is as I was writing it, I was in such a writing bubble that I didn’t really think about anyone reading it. It was almost like I

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was I was writing it for myself in a way, you know, and and in that it was easier. But there was a moment when I

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was done with the manuscript, done with editing, done with proofreading, you know, all the little

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things that have to happen where I went, “Oh my god, people might actually read this, you know, like and then I went

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through a whole process around like how do how do how do I feel about that?

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that’s it’s very exposed, you know, and uh I mean I could go into more of that

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process, but eventually I just knew that it was a story that I I just had to get over myself. It’s the same thing Mayra

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with the the podcast. Like so many times I’ll I’ll I’ll see a recording of myself or there will be pictures of me or

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whatever and I’m like gh I do not like that. But I’ve had to so many times just be like get over yourself.

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like it’s not it’s not about that. It’s not about you. It’s about what this is what this is enabling for people. And so

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when I really just focused on the why of doing it and imagined people potentially

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benefiting from it, it I had to go through that same process of like, okay, you’re going to have to get over yourself at some point and just put it just offer it. This is really just an

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offering and trust that the people who need it and want it and can benefit from it are going to find it and that they’re

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that in you being vulnerable and transparent, you will enable that for other people and they will know that they’re not

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alone. I think it’s something about being a 12th house sun because I think

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in some ways tuning into the collective consciousness and the collective

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like mental space for me and I don’t I mean Natasha has said something to me about this being 12th house.

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She said that when we have placements in the 12th house, we’re clued into the collective

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consciousness in a different way. And so I have trusted that and and really when I have

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something that like I really need, I trust that other people really need that too. And so I go with that. You know,

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it’s kind of like if I’m needing it, probably there’s other people like me out there who also need it.

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I think I’ve had a archetypally collective life. You know what I’m saying? Like a lot of the experiences, a lot of the

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thoughts, we all share. I mean, we we really we share them. We think we’re alone with them. But when we hear other people sharing, it’s like, “Oh, God.

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Okay, wait. Me, too.” And that just makes you feel less alone. So, when I imagined myself, okay, I’m going to share some stuff. This is pretty

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personal. Actually, I went I had an opportunity to go to my mom’s book club.

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And so there’s these women like in their late 70s, early 80s, just so awesome, not astrology people, not necessarily

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even like, you know, esoteric or spiritually minded or mystical at all. They had the best questions. I loved it.

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But one of them was like, “I’m on I’m on chapter three.” She goes, “It’s quite personal.” And I was like, “You’re only

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on chapter three? wait till you get to chapter 33. I’m like, if you think this is personal now, oh my god, just wait.

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But it wasn’t I I wasn’t sharing these these details to be sensational. Yeah.

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It was really to share that again, you’re not alone. You you you we all think we’re alone. We think there’s

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something wrong with us. We think that we’re weird. We think, you know, whatever. But I knew that in in telling the story as authentically and

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transparent and also Mayra I I couldn’t hold like I couldn’t it was almost you know I have a lot of

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Saturn in my chart and it was almost like I wasn’t allowed to um to skim the

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surface of certain things like I had to go deep and actually certain parts I had to rewrite several times because my my

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some of my early readers came back And we’re like, I I’m not really connecting with the divorce part. And I’m like, okay, well that’s a huge miss because that was that’s like my rock bottom.

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Like honestly, like that is my rock. And if and if if that if you weren’t really connecting with that, I missed. So I had to go back and rewrite that several

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times because there’s this there’s this fine line of like too much detail and and unnecessary

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detail and and really being vulnerable about the inner process. And that’s really what I I didn’t I didn’t want it to be, you know, exposing pe you know.

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Yeah. Like that there’s that line, right? Like because it’s not just about you. There’s other people that are involved in all these different periods of time in your life.

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But how do I how do I with the most vulnerability and authenticity share the

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actual inner landscape and dialogue and experience? And so I did have to go back several times and rewrite several parts

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of the book. You know, in the beginning the first part was way too long. You know, my my like because I had to like

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somehow give you all the readers enough of a before to experience the after. Yeah. Before the story.

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Yeah. Yeah. You have you Yeah. You have to understand who I was before. Like my daughter Sophia, she’s in the process of reading it. She’s like, “Mommy, you were

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kind of annoying when you were in New York.” And I’m like, “Baby, I was a really different person. I’ i’ve tried to tell you that, but like I’m glad you’re experiencing it through the book

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now.” I was like, “I’m I’m I was a really different person.” She’s She’s like, “You would come to Hawaii and like feel antsy.” And I’m like, “Yes, because

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I was coming from Manhattan and my nervous system was like completely wired.” And so I would come to Hawaii

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and I couldn’t relax and I was bored and I needed the stimulation, you know? So she’s like, oh, she’s like, you’re one

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of those annoying, you know, I was like, yeah, yes. But, you know, so anyways, that but but in the first iteration of

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of the book, that part just I it was hard for me to know how much to give without giving too much and keep the pacing right and you know, all these

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things that I got to learn in the process of writing a book, which I’ve never done.

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Exactly. I want to I want to go there because I think reading your book personally, it’s sort of like it’s like a call to remember. a call to remember,

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you know, just looking back at our our lives and and and see ourselves in the story in a way. But the the question I

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have is why this book needed to be written now or published.

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Well, that was not my choice. And Mayra, it still remains to be revealed. So, I wanted to one of the

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reasons why I decided to self-publish was because when I started writing the book, I’m like, I’m not going to wait three years. Like, that’s way too long.

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Okay, it’s been three years for sure.

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Like, so it’s like I thought and then I thought it was going to be published in 2025. I was like, this book

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is going to be a 2025 book. I I thought that it was meant to be published before

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Saturn and Neptune conjoined at 0 degrees of Aries because I thought it was the a period at the end of a story

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for me. I thought it was the closing of a chapter. I thought it was the like I said the end of the heroine’s journey when she comes back and she shares the

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story and then a new chapter opens and that one’s kind of in the past. So, I had a lot of ideas about the timing of this book and it had its own ideas.

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So, I don’t know, but I really think Okay, one clue I have is I was having a

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conversation with someone in California who again doesn’t know much about astrology is is is in I don’t know how

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old she is, maybe late 40s, early 50s, is having a lot of questions about her

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life and her direction in life and what she’s doing with her life. you know, it’s it’s a it’s she’s like, “And everyone I know feels the same way.

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Everyone’s like questioning what the heck are we doing here? And all these places that we trusted, we don’t trust anymore.” And and I was like, “Okay,

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well, that might be why.” Like, if there’s a collective questioning, this book really can meet people there.

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and very gently, you know, it’s because it’s story. It it it is a gentle on-ramp

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into a lot of the spiritual realms, a lot of the of course astrology. It’s it’s a way that people could go, huh,

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maybe there is something here that maybe maybe some of these things she was grappling with that I’m grappling with, maybe there’s some answers that I

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haven’t considered and maybe I can go down this path or that path. I really see it as a very again a very gentle

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bridge laid down for people that maybe just like me had never considered

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astrology, had never thought that that it could offer them something.

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And so it’s been fun to watch. So in the first uh early days of the book being in the world, it has reached

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not you know not in the top 10 but like in the top there’s been a in the in the 50s ranked in the 50s in the 60s of

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personal transformation and biographies and memoirs of women and I’m like whoa

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because if it can get into those kind of categories that to me is where there’s a ton ton of

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people that are open-minded, that are seeking and searching and maybe have never considered astrology as a viable

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ally or tool that can help them in their journey.

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So, it remains to be seen why now, but I kept getting from, you know, my

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intuition, my guidance, just write the book. Like, just write it. Don’t worry

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about everything else after. Just write it. you have to write it and that’s that was really challenging given you know I

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still run astrology hub and you know I’m still doing on the pocket like it’s not like I had this you know window that opened up where I could just go

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sequester myself and write the book but uh but my team’s amazing and really enabled me to have some space to do some

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ome of these things but it it remains to be seen but I think it’s part of the collective journey we’re in

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that really kicked off in 2020 is reaching a fever pitch right now.

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And I do think that there are a lot of answers and hope and peace in the book

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for people navigating those places and and and and the world looking really dark to them right now. You know, a lot

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of people really in that dark years of the soul.

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Yeah. Yeah, it’s amazing because also from the book and what you’re saying now, it seems like you are very in tune with your own intuition. Like when you

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know you just said like something told you just kept writing the book and don’t worry and and sometimes as women we get

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disconnected from that intuition and we think we’re crazy. Personally, when I read your book and I I was just mirroring myself and I was like, “Oh my god, I’m not crazy.” You know, when

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you’re talking about your past lives and this stuff and I was just like, “Oh god, like this is not only me. I mean it happened to her as well in her own way

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but the intuition is there and we just keep ignoring it because of what you discuss in the book also about the social structures that we live in and

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how we need to to adjust ourselves to that structure instead of the other way around. So talking about this um book

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what were the hardest chapters to write or chapter if you want to share only one

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or a couple and why? Okay. Well, by far the divorce chapters, the it’s over

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chapter, the aftermath of it’s over.

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The, you know, one of the symbols that is shown throughout the book is the mirror.

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And so, it’s, you know, I’m 10 years old and I’m looking in the mirror and I’m saying, “Who are you?” And then like it just it shows up several times throughout the book. And at that point

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in the journey, I’m looking in the mirror and I am so disheveled. I just

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I’m a mess. And I’m looking in the mirror and going, “Is this who you really are?” Like, is this is this what

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all of this came to? Is is you now? Of course that shifts towards the end but again

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really really finding the oh god you know what happened Mayra

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I journal a lot and during that period of my life this book by Debbie Ford

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called spiritual divorce somebody recommended that I read it I read it it was it was a companion along

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with astrology through this really hard chapter of my life and in it she had practices. So at the end of every

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chapter and her whole thing was like divorce doesn’t have to mean ruin.

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Divorce can be renewal but you have to do the work like and there’s a lot of work to be done. So at the end of every

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chapter there’s practices. And here’s what happened. This was amazing. I was in my

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basement looking for my divorce certificate for some reason. I needed it for something paperworky.

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And in that process, I found the journals that I kept at that time with

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all of my practices and all of my the inner like everything that was going on for me. It was such a gift because I was

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able to look back and really feel her again because at this point, you know, they they talk about speaking from the

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wound or speaking from the scar. And when we speak from the wound, we actually create more wounds. But when we

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can when we can speak uh and I’m talking about when we’re telling stories of our life when we’re you know rehashing certain events when we can speak from

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the scar because we’ve done the work we’ve had the resolution within oursel it’s a it it the impact is different it

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it enables healing instead of more wounding right so I’ve moved on like it it’s not

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emotional in that way for me anymore but being able to tune back into her me then

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and really feel again what I was feeling then.

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So that that that was pivotal. It changed the way that I wrote that entire section. And um and I’m so grateful like these are the this is that’s so magical.

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Like what the heck? I haven’t seen those books in like 10 years, you know? So I think you did a great job because I

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mean um I haven’t experienced divorce but as I was reading it I also thought wow this is very personal because you’re

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sharing like how you felt when you saw the guy and that other thing and with the new person and blah blah blah

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and I I’m so glad you did because many people just keep it inside and they never share it because you know the

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weight of society and your circle of friends or whatever it is. So, I’m so happy because I mean, touch wood if it

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ever happens. I like I I know how like what it could look like. So, I’m so I’m so happy you actually revealed all of it

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like all the process, all the feelings, all the the shocks because also it’s like who am I? So, I’m really really grateful for that.

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But also um did writing this book um ever threaten the identity people had of

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Amanda from Astrology Hub? I’m sure. I mean, I’m gonna I’ll find out more and more. Um I think absolutely. And that

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was also another thing that was like you don’t really know how people perceive you, but as a Capricorn, you’re

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normally perceived as someone who has their **** together, right? Like

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for whatever reason, a Capricorn is just like, “Nope, they got their **** together and they’ve always had it together, you know?” Right? So, I knew actually it was cute.

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Um, somebody that was an early reader came back after and was like, “Whoa, I

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always just thought you were this like successful corporate girl who decided to start an astrology brand and moved to

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Hawaii and it’s just been like smooth sailing and you just like took the all the money you made and just invested in this astrology thing and it worked.” And

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I’m like, and then we both start laughing hysterically because it was like nothing couldn’t be further from the truth. But see, I also think there’s

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medicine in that, Mayra, because because all the people you think look like they have their have it all together and that

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they’ve never been a disaster. It’s probably not true. They probably have, you know, and and maybe they’re afraid

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to share it. And so I almost I like it was like, okay, I mean, for sure, like there’s people that might read it and

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and really not like me anymore. Maybe it ruins an image they had of me. Maybe it it shatters, you know, a persona that

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they had thought that I was. And that might happen.

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And I had to be like, well, do I want to be loved for who who people may think I

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am or who I actually am? because that’s that is what this is. This is much more of a this is actually who I am. I

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personally when I get to experience the authenticity of someone’s soul, I can’t help but love them. Like to me, it’s like it just makes me love people more.

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And but again, I can’t control that. I can’t control how it’s received. I can’t control what people think about me on

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the other side of this. I just had to write it from my heart and and and trust that in our sharing from the heart. And I I saw this a long time ago, Mayra.

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Uhhuh.

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That when we create a space of love, when we share as purely and authentically from our hearts as possible, it enables healing.

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I’ve watched it. I’ve watched it happen over and over both in in-person things I’ve done um online things I’ve done you

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know all every new moon with the inner circle like the the more we just we we share from this place of truth it

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enables more truth to to to be available to other people. So again, it’s one of those things. It was like, get over yourself, Amanda. Just put it out there.

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You don’t know. You can’t control. Like another thing for Capricorns, that’s hard. Can’t control it. But yeah, you know, let it go and just and just trust.

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Yeah. Trust. It’s so hard. But so like I mean, personally, I I feel the same.

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It’s so hard to to show the vulnerable part. No, because I mean, I’m a Taurus rising, so people maybe think, you know, I’m all like put together and

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everything. You got it solid. And then but I have this Aquarius energy and sometimes I say crazy things and then people are like whoa whoa whoa.

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But like I thought you were like steady and like solid ground. I’m like oh no.

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Anyway, coming back to the Capricorn energy. Um how did your relationship with success being a Capricorn change while writing this book?

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Oh that’s a really great question Mayra. You’re so good at this. I love it.

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You’re really, really fun to be interviewed by. Um,

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well,

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some of you may be familiar with the treasure mapping that we do at AstrologyHub. Every Aries new moon. So, every Aries new moon for the last like

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four or five years, we make treasure maps, which is basically vision boards.

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And in 2023, I made a treasure map. And there was an eclipse on that new moon. the stories

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from that treasure map could fill a book alone. It’s crazy just and it really makes you think about eclipse energy.

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But anyways, on it I put I put best-selling author and

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um at the time it seemed important for whatever reason for it to be a

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bestseller, you know, and the more and more that I wrote it and the more I feel like the process of creating anything,

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right? The process of creating a child in our bodies and birthing it. The process of creating a project, of

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creating a home, of creating any, you know, baking something that we we change in the process. And there were a lot of

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decisions that had to be made along the way that if bestseller was my goal, one

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decision would be made. If authentic community building and sharing from my heart was the goal,

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it would be another decision that had to be made. So there was a lot of times where I was like, you can go this way or that way, this way or that way. And what

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happened and emerged over time is it was like, yes, that would be awesome, but it’s not worth being out of integrity.

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It’s not worth putting this out there in a way that doesn’t feel right, that doesn’t feel good. So if it happens, great. Yay. If it doesn’t happen, that’s

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okay because I’m going to feel so good about the way that it went out into the world. And my my developmental editor,

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the first time I had a meeting with her, she’s this like super witchy amazing priestessy. She’s in Glastonbury. She’s so cool.

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Oh, yeah. She um she led me in a guided meditation in our first meeting and she had me

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envision who I would be or how I would feel when all of this was done. you know, when the book was written, when it

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was actually done, and all I saw myself, like the the the entire picture was just

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me hugging the book to my heart, so proud and happy and peaceful and

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content. And so that then became the guide, you know, that then it wasn’t is this going to make me be a bestseller on

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New York Times. It was, am I going to be holding this to my heart with that feeling that I had in that vision when

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we’re done with this? And and I 100% I like have a picture of me doing that because that’s exactly how I feel now.

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It’s just like like that’s how I feel.

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So the rest is who cares. I mean the rest is great and kind of who cares with everything we do, right? Like if we if

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we have peace about it, if we know we poured everything we could into whatever it is that we’re creating,

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that is where the ultimate fulfillment comes from, you know. And the the the ironic thing is usually that’s where success comes as well. especially now

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where I feel like the authenticity of creation is is more and more important with the like continued

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um technological kind of cold lonely world that is being

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is is happening right now. You know, the the more it can feel alive and warm and and maybe even kind of messy and like not perfect, the better.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think honestly when you mentioned that the book has its own time it does because actually I think it’s a

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it’s a perfect moment now with AI and all these kind of like disconnection kind of like artificial kind of connections that your book brings us

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back to hey there are people we are all living experiences and we all have things in common and people been through similar experiences and we are not

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alone. So I think the book knows what what it’s doing.

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Yes. But most important um writing this book, what healed inside you because you wrote this book, there’s some healing that happened.

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I mean, so much of what I I’ve shared today is the result of that healing process.

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Like, if you had asked me some of these questions six months ago, I might have been still really scared to put this out there. I would have I I might have

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really been hesitant. like there were there were parts of me that were still uh wanting to hold back and you

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just scared. I mean really. So there’s been a big process of

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becoming content to offer this through a process of healing. And even

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the thing I said like if people like me from a idea of me that’s actually

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doesn’t it feels really unfulfilling versus like people either liking or disliking me but it being real

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you know so I think um well also Mayra I’m I love putting the spotlight on

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other people. I love doing that. That’s like what I’ve done the last 10 years is just it’s easy for me to see and amplify other people’s greatness.

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I love doing that and to step out in this way which is very new for me, right?

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um has like again it’s just it’s kind of like I get to those points on the path where it’s just like okay let’s just jump like you’re going to have to just

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jump you’re going to have to just go but I I do I come to that a little slowly sometimes like when when we go to the

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beach my daughters like put their stuff down on the sand and run into the ocean and dive in and they know that I like

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put my towel down put my sand in the my feet my toes in the sand, look, you know, kind of like get my bearings and then eventually I’m going to get in the

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ocean, you know, and then I’m going to dive and then you can’t get me out of there. But it that’s kind of the process I feel like I’ve been in. It’s like this

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hesitancy. There’s been like snags of of, you know, what if they hate it? What if

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what if nothing happens? Actually, that was actually a bigger fear. It was like, what if I put this out there and it’s

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just like meh, no big deal. Like nothing just happened. But now, again, the process of getting to the point where I

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can hold that book with peace has made it so that if that happens, that’s okay.

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And there’s so many gifts that I’ve been given through this process that I never would have imagined. for example,

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reconnecting with some of the people in the book, reconnecting with them because having to reach out and get permission to use their name or get permission to

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tell this story and then having that relationship rekindled or the experience I just had with my parents at their

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house, packing up books, all like my dad with his huge hands like tape and bubble

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wrap and putting little I mean priceless.

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like if nothing else happens, those experiences. So, it really has helped me um the process of doing it has helped me

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detach from the outcome of it and really focus on all the gifts that have happened. It’s it’s pulled my team together in a new way. None of us have

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published a book. None of us knew anything about book publishing. We have gotten our PhD in book publishing and the and the learning curve was vertical

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like and we made so many mistakes. I made so many mistakes. I mean, expensive mistakes, time-consuming mistakes and

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but all of that has just made us closer and made us like and everyone got to learn new skills and and that feels

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good. You know, now we can all say we we we started a publishing imprint as part of this. It’s Star Garden books. None of us have done any of this. You know what

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I’m saying? So, it’s just been the process of recording the audio book. Oh my god. I mean,

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because I was in a rush and attached to an outcome, I tried to get the audiobook done in my podcast studio where I record

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everything in a in in one week, which is reasonable, but I was stressed. It was like a really

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stressed period of time, but I was like, “No, I need to get this done. I need to get it out. The book needs to be published in 2025, and I want the audio book with it.” you know, all these

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things that I was attached to. And so I get the and and my my my sound engineer was like, “Yes, sounds great.” You know,

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keep going, keep going. So he gives me the files back after and I’m listening and my heart just sinks.

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There are peacocks, which if you’ve never heard peacock, they are so loud.

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There are roosters, my dogs, there are uh like deer, like all the sounds that surround my podcast that never get

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picked up on a podcast. I don’t know why. But I’m recording this audio book.

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And so I was like, “Oh my god, this this doesn’t work. I cannot put this out into the world. There’s no way. I would not

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be holding the book happy if this is what the audio version is like.” So we had to go back to the drawing board. So

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that was like 25 hours of recording that I had to scrap. So then my love was like, “Amanda, let’s do this, right?

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Let’s get you into a professional recording studio with a professional sound engineer. Let’s do this.” He he

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was so sweet. I mean, even that alone, the experience of of having my partner,

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there were things in this book that he didn’t know about me. Secret. Oh yes, of course.

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To have him so supportive and and one of my biggest cheerleaders, you know,

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saying this needs to go into the world, Amanda. This is going to help so many people. You need to do this. He was he

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was championing it. And so when I messed when I messed up the first audio book, he’s like, “Let’s do this, right? This

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is part of your legacy. This is you’ve put your heart and soul into this. Why would you do this second rate? you need to do this first class of course.

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And I was like to have someone help me reflect back to me where I am

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accepting mediocrity because it’s good enough, you know, like even even

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the picture I was going to use for the for the book. So I I had a selfie that I thought was fine. I actually quite liked

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it. I was like, “This is good.” So, we ordered the first the first test copies and and you know on the book in the

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cover there’s a headsh shot of me and a headsh shot of Natasha. So, I show my daughters the the test first test book

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and they’re like, “Oh, mommy, you cannot use that picture.” Meline’s like, “No one’s going to read your book. You

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have like no authority with that picture.” She’s like, “It’s obvious.

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It’s a selfie.” I was like, “Oh.” And then my love looks at it and goes, “Yeah, that’s not gonna work.”

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Like, “Okay.” I actually thought it was good. You’re all excited, you know? Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. I was like, “I thought it was good.” Anyway, so he’s like, “No, we’re going to get you a professional. You’re going to take professional pictures.” And I’m like,

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“Okay.” He’s like, “No, this is too important. Don’t you see?” So it’s like again sometimes the 12th house thing like Natasha has said many times you

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need like a committee around you. You can’t see like you need you need a committee. I’m like okay fine. So thankfully I have a

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committee and uh so he’s like no we’re going to go get you a real he he’s very familiar with that industry of great

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photography and everything. He’s like no we’re going to get you a pro. You’re going to get a real head shot. I was like okay. And that was the best thing. It was so much fun. We went and did it.

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it. I love I love the way they turned out. Same with the audio book. We went to Seattle. We booked a recording studio. I had a sound engineer with me

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who would like even if I like swallowed, she’d be like, “Okay, let’s go back do it again.” You know, it had to be perfect.

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I wanted to ask you, yeah, where are the technical, but let’s love the way the audio book turned out because it’s me and then Natasha reads

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her her astrologers notes. So, it’s both of our VO voices blended together and Oh, wow.

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I just I love it. But again, I I made so many mistakes throughout the process, but all of these mistakes

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helped me get to this point where I’m saying the things I’m saying to you, you know.

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Yeah. No, it sounds amazing. And also I wanted to ask you some other technicalities but I also want people to know do you feel the woman who finished

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this book is different from the woman who started the book?

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Oh yeah 100%. And when I thought it should be launched, which was at the end of 2025,

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the amount Okay, actually we just had Ren Butler on the podcast, and he was talking about it’s I think it might be from Rick Tarnis.

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This um the archetypes involved in birth and how it starts with Neptune, right?

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The dream that you know the the love making, the beautiful just right. So any creation not just birthing

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a baby but they were using actual babies as the like the um example. Okay. So

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Neptune starts then the process of Saturn kicks in where it’s building it’s refining it’s I

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mean with a book it’s editing it’s like all these very Saturnian things you know even the discipline of writing it right so it’s like a dream it’s like oh I want

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to write a book and then you like actually have to sit down and write the book. It was like this is a little more Saturnian, right? And then the next archetype that comes in is Pluto.

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And this I was in the Plutonian realms from October.

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I feel like it just ended in January, February, March, April. I would say Pluto and the

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the like deep alchemical transformation that was required for me to become the person who was ready to birth was happening.

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It was hard. I had to let go. We were going to be doing this big launch event in January. I had invited people. We

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were preparing for it. We had secured a theater. We were gonna I was gonna make the whole book come to life as like a

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stage experience, which I still think would be amazing, but I was so not ready

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for it. And so then, so the books didn’t show up. We weren’t even ready to sell the books. Like, what the heck? I was in

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I was completely in Neptune at 29 degrees of Pisces. like completely Neptune 29 degrees of Pisces because

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I I was so underestimating what it would take to pull off this event in a way that didn’t kill everybody who was

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trying to do it, you know. So, I eventually got to a point where I’m like, “Oh my god, I’m in way over my head. We the books aren’t even going to arrive on time. No one’s even going to

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have read the books, you know, the whole thing.” So, we had to cancel it, which was so embarrassing for me. I don’t like

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doing things like that. I don’t like having, you know, it’s almost like having to cancel your wedding or something. You know what I’m saying?

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Like invitations are out. People had already made travel plans.

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I did wonder what happened. Sorry to drop you, but I remember like reading the the invitation and everything and then I it was January and I’m like,

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h what happened with this and ah yeah. No, I mean we sent out a thing to everybody who was going to come. We like communicated it.

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It was it was really really hard. But then I had to do the look in the mirror

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part of what was driving that and why did I let

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that get so out of control even when when it didn’t feel good anymore like

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where it felt it where I I was like so you know sometimes we get these visions

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this happens for me a lot I will get an inspired idea And sometimes I just run with it. That’s

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like my Aries south node, right? Like I’m just like, let’s go. Okay. Okay.

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I know. Like I know I said before that I take my time to jump off the cliff, but sometimes I don’t.

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Sometimes I just go. And this was one of those just goes and it then it creates a life of its own

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where then I like don’t even feel like I can like it it is its own thing, right? So what happened was, you

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know, invitations went out and people were coming and and it felt like too late to to pull the plug on it because I

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don’t like to to not finish things, right?

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You know, but uh so I had to I So there what I found in this thread, I mean I found a

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lot of things, but one of the things I found was this I can pull it off story line.

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I can pull it off. And I would even ask people around me who had more experience in creating live events, do you think we

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can pull this off in the time frame? Do you think we can pull this off? And then I started to think about that phrase,

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pull it off. Why would I want to pull it off? Don’t I want to elegantly,

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beautifully execute? Wouldn’t I rather have it be spacious and enjoyable? Do I really want to just pull it off? And do

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I want my team to pull it off? I feel stress just thinking about that, pulling something off. You know what I’m saying?

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So, there was this old there was some old patterns in me that I needed to

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really address even this even this thought of like, oh, it’s out of my hands now. It’s happening. So even this

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this I’ve done this throughout my life and sometimes it has served me where I kind of put myself in a corner so that I have to do it.

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Push yourself.

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But isn’t that kind of violent? Isn’t that kind of aggressive? Why why is that

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what I think I need to do in order to create in the world? you know so there’s been a lot of like reorientation

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um also a lot of you know concern about the outcome of the book all those things had to be transformed and Pluto was like

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so alive doing all that stuff I have uh Mars in Leo opposing Pluto and Aquarius

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exactly through this period of time oh so basically Pluto and Aquarius going you don’t get to move through the world

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in the way that you used to with this you don’t get to pull those old stunts Mars and Leo the way I’ve done Mars and Leo before you don’t get to do that

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anymore. So there was this there was this tension and it was thick and so every day I I like felt like I was in this internal so

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so then there was the aftermath of the event like where it was a big long period of nothingness

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like I had no energy to launch this book anymore. I had no energy to even like do the final pieces because it was this

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huge crescendo of stress and then a huge like let down. And that’s another thing.

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That’s the other thing this book was teaching me. You don’t get to have those huge spikes anymore. You need

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sustainable energy that is much more even over time. And when you do this whole thing where you put yourself in a

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corner, you take on something way too big and way too short of an amount of time,

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you then have an aftermath where you’re exhausted for weeks, if not months. Do

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you see that that is not what’s going to be required for the long-term life of this book that you’re birthing? Like you

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need to you can’t do that anymore. So I was like, “Oh, I mean, I’m learning all this stuff in real time, right?” So then there’s nothing. So I’d say January,

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February, just quiet. Like I was in a very deep internal process. People would say, “Well, when’s the book going to come out?” I was like, “I have no idea.

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I don’t know. I’m letting it all go.” Oh, I got way in my head about choosing the perfect astrological date for it as well. I mean, I’m I’m really spilling

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the goods here, but this is like there was a lot of stuff going on, you know?

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Like I I got so attached to like it being the right astrology that even that in itself can be a trap, right? Like

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when we get when we it’s no longer it’s no longer helpful when we’re micromanaging and and trying to

1:00:07

control again that’s another way of trying to control the outcome. How do we know what the perfect astrology is for something? I mean sometimes it’s there’s

1:00:15

obvious things like probably don’t didn’t want to launch it on a Mercury retrograde. I mean or a station, you know what I’m saying? like and or avoid moon or you know like there’s certain

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things where but at the end of the day like that would have just been another way of me trying to control the outcome.

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So I had to like cleanse and purge all this stuff with Pluto and then the final archetype is Uranus where it like comes

1:00:38

out into the light and it’s it’s I was like as he was describing this on the podcast I was like wow I have really I

1:00:46

was thinking I was like I’ve really been living that archetypal jour journey with this book but we all do and these are

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all so whatever you’re creating right now there there can be the question am I still in Neptune? Is it still the dream that like just is like blissful and I’m like, you know, super inspired by it?

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Have I entered into the Saturnian phase where I need to call on those Saturnian energies? Am I in the Pluto? Like it’s

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just like how midwives say um they celebrate when the pregnant woman screams usually,

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I’m not going to make it. like I think I’m going to die because they know that that is right before the baby’s going to be born.

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How Plutonian is that? Like that’s literally like I’m gonna die. Like I the the the pain is so much that I think I’m I’m not going to make it through this.

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Right. So are you there in your creative process or are you you know has has the thing been born into the light and are you at Uranus?

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Wow. I mean you have answered all the questions I had for you because you know just evolving like that. So what does

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living by the stars actually mean to you now beyond astrology?

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For me it is being in tune with the magic and the rhythm of life.

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It is remembering that we are connected to everyone and everything. That we

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literally are from the stars and of the stars and that h living our life with an awareness of

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that truly enables us to step into a co-creative dance with the universe itself.

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Oh wow. It just it it is you know it goes back to Rick when I remember when Rick Levine the I said this at shifts

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happen when he first said to me that the definition of cosmos is order and beauty

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and I was like wowder and beauty like that is life by the

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stars you know just oh beautiful yes it’s the cosmos itself it’s It’s the recognition that

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we’re not separate from any of it. And there is a divine order and a divine intelligence

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as the underpinning of our lives. And connecting and communing with that every single day only serves to enliven our

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life experience. And so I hope that it just inspires more people to do that and to have that experience.

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It will. Well, I’m sure it will. I mean, it certainly did for me in many ways.

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Not only because I saw myself through your story, but because you tackle different aspects of how we perceive

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society or how society oblig oblige us to act or to be or to become like it’s very interesting. It has so many

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interesting and rich topics about life and um how society works and who we think we are in this society as women as

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mothers as entrepreneurs astrologers. So I’m very grateful for the book. Amanda truly from the bottom of my heart for me

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actually being in in Shifts Happen and you showing the book was like oh my god she’s putting it out there. It was it was so special. But Amanda, tell us

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where can we find the book and what comes with the with the book yet. I love the cover. Yeah. So fun. I haven’t get

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the the book. I just have the digital version, but right. Congratulations.

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Thank you. Okay. So, currently you can go to life by the stars.com. And when you go there, you’ll have two options.

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You can either buy the book from Amazon or other major retailers or if you want a signed copy or if you want bookmarks

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in a companion journal, if you want to join us for uh I’m I’m hosting a virtual

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live book club experience where we’re going to go through each part of the book. So part there’s four parts. Every

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week we’re going to go through one part together and we’re going to unpack the themes of that part and we’re going to do some of the practices that I did in

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the book that were so influential for me and we’re going to do them together.

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We’re going to share experiences and stories and I can’t wait for this because it’s going to be a way for me to intimately experience engaging with the readers themselves.

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So, I’m very excited about that. So, you can do either one. If you just want a book and you just want it shipped to you. Oh, also the audio book is available.

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Yeah, the audio. I wanted to ask you.

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Yeah. So, you can Okay. You can either buy from Amazon. Audible is going to be coming, but for now, if you want the audio book,

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you go to life by the stars.com, choose the option to buy from us, and then uh it’ll be one of the like format options

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is audio. Um, and also when you do any of the bundles like the book bundles with the things that I just talked about

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a second format is is you get to get as well. So you can get both the paper the

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hard cover and an audio book for example. So you can listen to the book while you’re waiting for your signed copy or you know so and there’s limited

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amount of signed copies. That’s one of the things I was doing in California at my parents house was signing all your little books which was so fun. Um, so

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yes, that’s that’s currently the way that we have it set up.

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I think it depends on on how everyone wants to experience the book. Obviously, I mean, hearing your voice, the audio most before. I’m an audible person. So

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for me, I mean, I would love to actually listen to the book and then you don’t you don’t realize you might need to

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talk to other people about the whole thing because as you read and I think I actually sent you an email like oh my god like I need like to tell people

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about this because I was seeing myself in the book and so I think it will be amazing if if people can also join the the the reader circle or the gatherings.

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So Amanda, thank you so much. Is there anything I’m forgetting you want to add?

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You want to send a message to people upcoming plans or next ceremony? Anything?

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Oh, well, yes. The other thing is if you do one of the packages, you get invited to our we’re doing a blessings way like a a shower

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because remember in the book there’s the blessings way chapter where I it was like the uh the women who gathered around when I was nine

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months pregnant with my daughter Sophia and brand new into Hawaii and they were like yeah we’re going to do that for the book which is going to be so fun. So yes.

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Yeah. I mean, I think I’ve said it before on this podcast episode, but just

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a message to anyone who is navigating big life transitions, who is making big life choices, who is wondering about the

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path forward, who looks in out into the world and is discouraged by what you see. I just really hope that my

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story will help to inspire you and give you give you hope and help you know whether actually whether or not you

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read the book, it doesn’t matter. You are here for a purpose. There is an underlying order in the universe

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itself, but also within you. And the more you can tune into that, the more you will be able to find your own

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path. And it’s not going to be the path that other people expect you to walk. It is going to be entirely your own. You

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are the only one that came here to walk your path. Your path is as unique as your fingerprints, as unique

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as your birth chart. And connecting in with that and then being around other people who are who are doing that

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too. It can be so inspiring. we can inspire each other to really give the gifts that we came here to give

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because we incarnated at this time for a very specific reason. And this is not the time to be holding back on whatever

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that is. It’s really the time to be understanding what that is, embodying what that is, experiencing what that is, sharing what that is with the other

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people in your life, especially the ones who who will support you in that. And I’m just just thank

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you for tuning in. It’s really fun to be able to have these conversations. So, thank you. And Mayra, thank you for the opportunity to to do this with the book. Like, this is

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my first real deep interview on the actual process of writing the book and all of it. So, thank you for that.

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Oh, no. It’s my pleasure, Amanda. I have so many more questions, but we’re going to leave it here for next time. Amanda, thank you so much. And I I have to say

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you are so brave and we all need that bravery like example like people that inspire inspire us to be brave

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and tell our own stories because we are all so afraid or we are hiding our wounds because we don’t want people to know and so your story personally has

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inspired me so much to become or dare to be who I am and show myself in a way that you know so if you don’t like it so

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what kind of thing because we are all so afraid of everything Right. Anyway, you know, the crazy thing is the more you do that, Mayra, the more I love you.

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So, just like keep going. Yes.

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Thank you so much. And thank you guys for tuning in. All the information about Amanda’s book will be in the links below or in the pin comment. And don’t forget

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to subscribe and for also subscribe to AstrologyHub and um Amanda again. It’s been a pleasure and hope to have you back.

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Thank you. I hope to be back.

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Thank you guys and see you in the next episode.

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Yay! We did it. Uranus and Gemini like weird things.

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Yeah, totally. How are you, Amanda? So good to see you. You look amazing.

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Thank you. You know, I don’t I’m not in my studio now. I’m improvising here on my sis at

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my sister’s house. So, I hope it looks well. It looks great.

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We’ll try our best. Yeah, we started recording the the episode we just released with Natasha like in my parents living room. It has a

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really high ceiling and I I could not get comfortable like I could not do it, you know? So I was like up I

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need to go somewhere else where it’s just more, you know, like you get used to a certain feeling when you’re doing this like the coziness like a small place.

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Yeah.

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Yes. I’m like I feel like I’m talking to people like way over there. I need it to like come in, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It matters. People think it doesn’t matter.

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I think it it’s important to to make your own corner. I’m a corner person.

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You have to be comfortable. You have to become it has to feel good or else you’re like my energy gets like scattered or like distracted, you know?

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Yeah. I get distracted, too. Like my niece is here because it’s it’s her room.

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I just told her to be quiet and she’s like, “Yeah, I just want to see what you’re doing.” Oh, that’s cute.

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Okay. Stay. Anyway, Amanda, it was so good to see you at Shifts Happen.

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They did such a good job with that. Like technically, you know, I was like, “Wow, I had no idea what to expect.” But when

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I saw it back, I was like, “Oh my god, that was amazing what they pulled off.” I have a little bit of a of a flu. I might mute my microphone because I need

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to cough every now and then, but the edited version will be okay. Don’t worry. Just going to You sure you sure you’re up to do it?

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Yeah. Yeah, I’m I’m okay. It’s just sometimes if the cough comes in when I laugh, you can hear I’m a bit sick. All this London, Mexico temperatures are so different.

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So, I’m just going to carry on and see where does it go. Great.

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Great. Hold on one second. I just wanna I just want to brighten my lips just a tiny bit.