Quitting Corporate Singapore for Astrology with Donny Lim | Backstage Astrology Interview

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What’s the take of astrology in Singapore? I mean, looking for an astrology here,

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just like most places, it’s like looking for a leprechaun or looking for a unicorn, so to speak.

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There’s still this kind of perspective that, you know, just because you do astrology, you are somehow like buy me a

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buy me a buy me a coffee or tea, I’ll tell you your fortune kind of thing. But I’m kind of over it.

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But I think after like 12 to 15 years in corporate, you just kind of know how far you can go in that realm. Midlife crisis

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came with all the outer planets just hammering me like crazy

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and you just you just kind of realize that where have I deviated from my true essence and with that you I just kind of

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like you know what if I don’t do this now then I’m probably never going to do it.

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I’ve gotten my certificate. That means living, eating, breathing, everything. Right.

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Astrology. Basically, you mentioned that Singapore, you know, the culture is different can be very um

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for a long time I know I got it, but to really put myself out there is a whole other thing. And not to mention the

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whole like social media sphere in which you have to navigate in. I’ve seen like

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really, pardon me for using the word trashy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, trashy astrology out there that I’m

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like, really? You’re going to you’re going to put that out there? And and it kind of minimizes what we do on a daily

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basis that we have to come back from that. Yeah. I’ve got a very lovehate

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relationship with social media,

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touch on mundane things. Uh, I have actually received I think in 2022

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to 2023 a lot of death threats. Okay. People just unliking what this Asian guy

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is putting out. I’m just going international. I mean,

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I’m a I’m a very strong 9inth houseer in my placidus birth chart. So, I’ve got to go international. I can spill more Astro

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tea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unhinged and uncensored Astro tea. like what I really

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think is going to happen, what’s coming up. Sun and Venus will

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conjunct at 16° 22 minutes of Capricorn and it’s going to be tightly conjunct

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Mars as well. Exalted by the way, anything that highlights Mars in the process and is exalted. It does

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represent some kind of organized military action. One of the things that

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I can foresee is potential martial law. I mean, I’m not going to sugarcoat things.

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Welcome back to another backstage astrology episode. My name is Myra Medina and I’m here with Don Lim,

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astrologer. I am so excited. Donnie, how are you today? Thanks for being here.

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I’m good actually. Thank you. I mean, like it’s an honor to be here. I know you’ve been following my channel for the

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past four year plus. So you know exactly what I’ve been doing for the last four

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years working in the capacity as an astrologer. So yes, your astrology is so like indepth

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and full of detail. So I think that’s why probably I got like this energy resonance. I’m like okay this guy is so

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detailed. I want to learn how to decode astrology. And you’re so much fun. Like

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personally this is my opinion. I really enjoy your videos because you’re very witty and you know you always say things

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as they are and so Don tell us to the people that don’t know you how do you

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want people to know you really from what you mentioned that I am very detailed because I’m a Virgo rising

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you’re a Virgo rising and it’s on the fixed star deniba as well

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so that brings in the occult the esoteric and the metaphysical is talking

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about not only me doing astrology but me also doing like alchemical healing work as well on the site.

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Yeah. Um it kind of recharges me. So it’s very symbiotic in a lot of ways.

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And uh recent years I’ve uh even took the next step and um attended a few

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mystery schools to kind of deepen my knowledge of practical occult

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metaphysical and esoteric knowledge. Um so I’m on that journey really uh as we

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speak. I’ve got a German haven so totally mercury road

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and uh I’m a very strong placidus 9inth houseser so very Sagittarian like so to

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speak but of course it’s not in a sign of Sagittarius. Uh Donnie, you’re based in Singapore. Tell us how is it is it

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like astrology is it popular there? You know how what’s the take of astrology in Singapore?

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I’m looking for an astrology here just like most places. It’s like looking for a leprechaun

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or looking for a unicorn so to speak. And uh

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there’s still this kind of perspective that you know just because you do astrology you are somehow like parking

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yourself in Starbucks. Mhm. Like buy me a buy me a buy me a coffee or tea I’ll tell you your fortune kind

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of thing. But I’m kind of over it. Mhm. Maybe because of my age and also experience. Yeah, it’s far and in

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between. I mean, there’s a few over here, but I think they’re more catered

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towards the local markets. Mhm. Okay. Whereas I’m just going international. I

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mean, I’m a I’m a very strong 9inth houseer in my placidus birth chart. So, I got to go international. Hopefully

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have mass appeal. Ninth house have that kind of energy as

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well because it’s you know the house of international borders right how how did you start your astrological

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journey before YouTube and then after YouTube because know you’re on YouTube

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now but before what was going on before were were you doing astrology or not or like how did it start? I mean, it’s that

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classical Asian upbringing story that, you know, um, and also very Singaporean

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one because you’ve got to, uh, be of a certain mold. This even

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cascades down to the type of educational structure that I’ve

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grown up in is very rigid. Wow. So, I’ve just kind of like, you know, um,

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done what I needed to do, right? But I’ve always known at the back of my head that I’m supposed to do

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something that’s very different from other people. Probably that’s because I’ve got Uranus in the second house.

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Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Exalted in Scorpio by the way, right? Um forming aspects all over my chart.

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It’s probably one of the more heavier aspected planets by Uranus. So I’m meant to do something that’s a bit quirky and

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out the norm. not like kind of like follow the traditional path right

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and uh do what I need to do to be accepted by society. Uranian energy is very different as you know.

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Yeah. I’ve kind of delved into my birth chart for quite a bit from

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a young age and un understood it from a from a more nuanced way. But back then I

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just didn’t have the guts to to really go for it. Mhm.

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But I think after like 12 to 15 years in corporate, you just kind of know

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how far you can go in that realm. And the kind of treatment that I’ve received

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and all those things and midlife crisis came with all the outer planets just

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hammering me like crazy. And you just you just kind of realize

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that where have I deviated from my true essence? Wow. on my true authentic self to be

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honest. And with that, you I just kind of like, you know what? If I don’t do this now,

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then I’ll probably never going to do it, right? And I’ll probably be miserable anyways.

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Some sacrifices have to be done. Yeah. And be accepted,

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but I’m willing to take that chance. So, um I even elected my last day in corporates. It was 711. It’s so easy to

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remember like like 11th of July. Yeah. July 11th. and of a certain year in the

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last decade and and I just went off to enroll in

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an astrological school a proper one and really did 10 modules of astrology.

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I mean the whole course would have taken like 5 years or more but I completed in three and a half years.

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Wow. Okay. Well that means living, eating, breathing everything, right? strategy

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basically and really in my free time I’m just like buying books and just like devouring it.

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I’ve gotten my certificate. I didn’t go all the way for diploma essence because

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you know I’m I’m I don’t believe in you know paper certificates altogether. I

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just want to have like real life or should I say real time experience. Yeah. Locked in.

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Amazing. So I completed everything and got my certificate around 20

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19 end of the year. And then we all know like well for me at

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least like around 3 to six months later we all know what happened in March 2020.

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And uh that’s when I was like okay so I’ve got no part-time work. That’s how I

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actually have enough time to go balls to the wall with it with

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astrology. Finish it in three and a half instead of five or more years.

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So, there’s no part-time job for me to go back to and I just like, “Okay, this is it.” So, let’s let’s do this, y’all.

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Wow. Donnie, so what happened when I mean when when you said, “Okay, I’m I’m going to give it a shot.” And then you

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were telling your friends or your family and you know, because you mentioned that Singapore, you know, that the culture is

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different, can be very um particular. So what you know how was

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that journey of of revealing of telling friends and family you know what I’m going to become an astrologer full time?

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I mean initially it’s almost like I’m in the closet with it.

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Uhhuh. But after I quit corporate, there’s no way that, you know, you can um

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hide it anymore because I’ve converted from a full-time employment with benefits to a part-time employment and

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really like init well technically going back to a student kind of life, right?

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And budget as well. Yeah. And um and just uh really go for it. I

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mean it was kind of like a weird dynamic looking back at those years but

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you know I guess time is the best medicine as with anything. Uh acceptance

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comes along with time and they try to understand it but they don’t

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which they cannot understand it and still accept it. You know what I mean?

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Mhm. And even until now I’ve got certain like backhand remarks coming at me but

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I’m not really bothered by now because I know what I can do and this kind of translates into the the

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numbers that I have and then they start believing you know how you know Asians are they have to like see figures and

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um tangible result in order to kind of start believing in something. The

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skepticism never stops. But the thing is, um, once they kind of see the numbers and I can kind of do this on a

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more or less full-time basis, then they just kind of keep their mouth shut. Really?

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Wow. You know, I mean, I I am not familiar obviously with the with Asian culture. I’m from Mexico, so it’s really

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far away. So, you know, you’re telling us like, okay, you know, Asian culture can be

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like this or like that. It’s kind of like you never imagined the your journey particular know because of the culture.

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So what was the hardest challenge you know within Asian culture in in like in

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this journey? What would you say? I guess is that you really have to believe from a very deep heart level of

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yourself and your capabilities and where you want to go because for me this isn’t like a day one thing whereby oh I think

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I’ll just dabble into astrology. You know, I I for a long time I know I got it, but to really put myself out there

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is a whole other thing. And not to mention the whole like social media sphere in which I have to navigate in a

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um Yeah, I’ve got a very lovehate relationship with social media.

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I wanted to ask you about that because obviously you prepared you have your your searchs and everything and then and

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then you put yourself out there. M what was the biggest fear before like when you were like opening your YouTube

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channel and like what were your thoughts like okay I’m doing this like were you excited were you afraid how was that

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journey of putting yourself out I guess is something that’s inevitable for me because you know we are living in

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the internet age and everything for me I’m you know I’m a Gen Xer

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uh so you know is that uh I got to assimilate to it in other words and I’ve

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got no formal media training, stepping into the whole social media game as astrologer full-fledged and and I’m just

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kind of putting myself out there and just like hope for the best and of course there’s blowbacks because the

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thing is that uh once you touch on mundane things

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and it is not something that people want to hear they can be keyboard warriors first and foremost about it but I have

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actually received uh I think in 2022 to 2023 a lot of death threats.

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Okay. Wow. Yeah. And it’s been consistently those two years that I I I I remember very

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well because people just unliking what this Asian guy is putting out. Donnie, I’m so sorry. How do you deal

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with that? Like I mean obviously the first message probably you know like you got scared but then how did you over

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overcame well I mean I just kind of detached myself from the situation and see it from a third party kind of perspective.

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I mean they can troll me all they want because trolls are everywhere. But the thing is that do I still believe at the

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end of the day what I do? If the answer is yes then you just got to slowly but surely suck it up and build a

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thicker skin. Yes. Yes, I guess that’s why my face doesn’t wrinkle now. True.

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So, Danny, tell us more about tell us more about your your astrology

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practice. What what’s your favorite astrology like branch or you know, how

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did it start and why are you doing what you’re doing currently? I’m a bit of a mumble jumbo kind of like

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astrologer. I to mix things as long as the technique work. I don’t discriminate. I mean I started off

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learning astrology. I mean those 10 modules I remember because it was a tumultuous time with my tutor uh in

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London. We just go back and forth. I started off with classic western

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and then the optional should I say elective modules towards the end is more

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of like towards uranian okay astrology and then I later on picked up

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some um traditional and henistic techniques as well and just put them in

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so um it’s basically what really works for me I think that’s coming from my

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geminomic haven you know and just connect the dots Mhm.

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And that Virgo distills everything into something that’s cohesive and workable.

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Yeah. But also I know you are an expert on like Venus star point. How did that

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start? Because when I when I began listening to your to your amazing videos and your predictions which are very

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accurate. How did you move from like this to Venus star point? What what was

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the motivation behind it? I mean, Venus star point to me is a suitable medium

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in order to pull everything that I’ve learned into a much more concise way of

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looking at things because when I look at Venus star point basically like sun and Venus conjunct on average every 9 and a

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half months in the sky to form their energetic zodiac point

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and transit Venus star points is very different from other

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ways of looking at things because it moves not with the grain of the zodiac but against the grain of the zodiac.

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So when you actually say like a trans Venus star point is coming in we are having one of those soon it starts at

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29° of a sign when something is phasing out then it it is at zero or one degree

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of a sign it moves backwards just like eclipses. Uhhuh. So when people kind of tell me

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that also tell me more about this, I just say like, well, people always say that I love to look at eclipses and

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Venus star points and all those things that move against the grain of the zodiac. And I always tell people that

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the closest thing I can think of will be Mayan astrology.

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Ah, okay. Okay. because they look at Venus cycles and eclipses a lot, which I

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use it a lot more than perhaps most astrologers in my practice. I wouldn’t

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coin myself as a mind astrologer at all because there’s probably more nuanced things um that you know I will put it in

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my back of tools later on. It’s just a very convenient medium for me to um

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explore other stuff that I’ve learned along the way. Well, I would love to ask you how has your 2025 been for you

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personally and then move a little bit to how what do you expect from 2026 because

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clearly we’re living some challenging times in the collective realm. So, how

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has 2025 been for you? you know, um, it’s been kind of introspective.

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Uhhuh. I guess because for me, I’m dealing with a lot of 12th house related matters. So,

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there’s a lot of like endings and beginnings. It’s almost like that caterpillar that’s going through that

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metamorphosis into something else. So, I’m going through that process right now. uh astroctography to see like hm

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maybe I should relocate to this place for my Jupiter return since the chart is

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valid for like close to 12 years till I’m like old and saggy and nothing is jiggly

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so I’ve seen now that we’re talking about astrocardtography I’ve seen like a rise of ostrocardtography after 2020 I

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would say you offer that service how would you explain to someone that doesn’t know what it is what is astrocardtography

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I guess the shortest answer will be astroctography is the art of projecting

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certain um planetary or depending what point

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you’re looking at. Mhm. And map that onto the world map.

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Mhm. So certain parts of the world will embody certain energy that your birth

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chart naturally contains. I just want to put a disclaimer here. Uh, for example, when you relocate or

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employ astrophotography, if you natally have a very gnarly square, it doesn’t go away.

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All right. Well, people think it’s magic, you know, it’s not. Oh, no, no, no. Um, but what I can do is

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to rotate your chart because when you more or less permanently

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live away from your birthplace, your birth chart actually rotates with you. And with that rotation the angles change

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and certain energy will be brought into prominence

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as a result and because of that your life in another part of the world will

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be different in terms of your experience and what you can manifest. By the way uh

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I was looking at my astroctography myself and the best place that I am

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trying to experience to live there for a while is actually Mexico. Really?

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Have you been there? I mean, I’ve I’ve not been there, but it basically rotates my chart close to

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180°. So, I’m a Pisces rising there. Oh. Oh, do you know? Well, well, just

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Yeah. Mexico, if you take the chart of 1325, like the really old chart, Mexico

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has a very pis like strong Pisces energy. there’s like Pluto moon like I

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don’t know if you look at it but it’s so like the first chart the the the noitan the Aztec one you know

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so yeah I mean that will be powerful for you I guess I don’t know well and over there not the whole of

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Mexico but I’ll be skipping Mexico City yeah yeah I’m more of like the eastern part

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so like Cancun Tulum down to Bise that that eastern half of it not Cabo and you

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know Mexico City because I’ve got gnarly uh energetic lines crossing over there.

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But the eastern part is actually pretty good. Uh yeah. So, so I may contemplate like

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you know go there for a month or two and just kind of soak it in over there. I’ve got Neptune MC conjunction.

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Wow. Powerful. I mean, yeah, Neptune, you know, it’s like can be tricky, but

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you can can be tricky. But with a Pisces rising and Neptune ruling Pisces, I was like,

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that can be that can be something. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, thanks for telling us about astroctography. I

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also think it’s amazing. Um I I found some some people are a little bit more skeptic about astroctography. Just on a

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personal note, I I’m from Mexico. I I live in Israel. So my chart I become a

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Virgo rising instead of a Taurus rising. So I become a Virgo rising with a Gemini

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MC instead of Aquarius MC. And oh my god when I hear the Virgo predictions I can

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relate so much like I’m like but I’m alurus rising and then I go to the Virgo

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and I’m like oh this is also so accurate you know so I don’t know what’s going on there. But

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I mean it’s also that you have to move away from your birthplace to where

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you are and stay there for a sufficient period of time. I usually treat it as a minimum of 2 years because there’s a

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mass return equivalent cycle. That’s when the relocated ankles have more prominence slowly but surely over your

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nato ones. But of course your nal ones do have some um weight to it because it’s your nato chart. But then the

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relocated angles will slowly but surely gain more prominence. So when certain planets transit over

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your relocated angles, it becomes more and more obvious in terms of what’s

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manifested and what’s your experience. Yes, I I think there is something there. But I feel it so so much and uh yeah,

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it’s been an experience like testing the astrocardgraphy and hearing it and I’m

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like oh yeah, definitely there’s something there. So Donnie, what else? What other services do you offer

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currently? Venus staroint readings. Well, I construct it in a way that it’s called a Venus reading because it’s more than

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just a Venus staroint look at service. Um, I also look at your

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Venus return and stuff like this. And I’ve been getting more and more requests for people to look at their Venus return

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instead of their solar return, which is interesting. They resonate a lot with their Venus more. Or it can be that, you

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know, I’ve got a prominent Venus. That’s why because mine is conjunct Jupiter in cancer.

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Oh okay. And my moon is in Taurus. So there’s a

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mutual reception. Ah okay. Moon and Venus mutual reception.

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That’s where it comes from. Uh it could be that uh people are looking for um money

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opportunities, relationship opportunities, openings to improve their self-esteem

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and their self-worth and all those things. And I’ve been doing a lot of like Venus return analysis. So much so

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that I’m probably more comfortable doing uh Venus returns than solar returns. But

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well, that’s for another time

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of what people can anticipate, you know, in their Venus returns because Venus returns are just not usually what

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astrologers offer. If you think about it, Venus rules the heart chakra and the sun also rules the heart chakra because

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of that Leo connotation. Mhm. So it hits different. Interesting.

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Yeah, we definitely remember it because it hits us at the heart chakra um on a deeper level.

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And do you think also I’ve heard that you know Venus is also related to to wires. So is there like a relation

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between your Monday predictions and you’ve seen Venus in certain positions

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and then we have wars you know have you have you studied that?

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Basically, I’ve got a guest on my YouTube channel. Uh she’s from um she’s from Turkey, by the way. And uh she does

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a lot of very indepth analysis in which I’ve covered her research on my channel.

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Um in terms of Venus as a morning star and evening star, there’s actually not much of a correlation.

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Uhhuh. Uhhuh. In that aspect, whether she is operating as a morning or evening star in the sky,

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so to speak. Um, it’s more of a trigger for other

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things. So, it’s kind of like a enabler.

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She comes in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And uh I’ve got uh my 2026 into 2027

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presentation of the energy that’s coming up. There’s actually one section I

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dedicated to a phenomena that we are undergoing currently that kind of can

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explain on a historical level why certain countries are always on the news and I

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basically touched on China and Israel. They are more intertwined than anyone

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thinks. Oh my god, that that sounds so interesting. I love I love that too.

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That’s the thing. We are halfway through that process. Halfway halfway. Halfway through that process. Although

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the energy can linger into um 2028

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actually when I think about it. It started off in 2023 and we all know what happened,

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you know. October 7, 2023. I basically retraced that and then went further back

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I think all the way to the 1400s. Oh, and Okay. So, you’re going to you’re

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going to present this soon or I mean uh now it’s uh up for pre-sale if

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people want to purchase that. I mean, I’ve gotten testimonials, people saying that it’s it’s mind-blowing, but um

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because the slides, I would say, is mostly standalone, but I’ll be of course going through the slides with

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um with a lot more uh explanation and also background stuff. That’s probably

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too much to put in the slides in bulletoint fonts, but otherwise, you know, I’ll probably be using font two or something

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uh or font three, you know, and and it would still be too little. So, um, got

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to make it readable and easily dig digestible. Yeah. So, I’ll be going through the slides. Um, I

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think I’ll be doing that on my channel first because that’s when I can get a little bit more um I can spill more

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Astro tea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. unhinged and uncensored astrot like what I really

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think is going to happen because what’s coming up sun and Venus will conjunct at

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16° 22 minutes of Capricorn and it’s going to be tightly conjunct Mars as

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well exalted by the way oh in Capricorn yeah and uh yeah like that’s like end of

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first week of January I think January 6th or 7th of 2026 and that one I’m not

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fully looking forward to it because anything that highlights Mars in the process and

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is exalted. Uh it does represent some kind of

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organized military action.

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So one of the things that I can foresee is potential martial law. Okay, that’s not exactly something I’m looking

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forward to, but it’s just one of the many things that we may anticipate next year. Mhm.

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I mean, I’m not going to sugarcoat things here and say that, you know, it’s all Please don’t

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uh rainbows are unicorn farts because it’s not

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um it is it is more of like just uh threat 2026

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with caution and have a solid plan. maybe have backup plans as well, a plan B or plan C if you can, and I think

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you’ll be covered cuz uh 2026 to 2027, it’s uh

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it’s not exactly uh a turnaround from 2025. Actually,

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this year is just like the preview of a lot of things. I don’t want it to overwhelm the

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audience because I can just spit things out like hot tamales.

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Yeah, true, true. Okay. It can be spicier than salsa. I’ll just kind of say a lot of things off the

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cuff, but I would say that the distilled presentation which I have for pre-sale

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now to the audience in which they can purchase by emailing me um so that we can sort out the invoicing

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that uh it is for yours to keep and just like go back to it and revisit

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it throughout 2026 into 2027 and you tell me whether like you know I’m open

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for like criticism and also for um you know for input from the audience as

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well. I know I’m still curious about finding out more things along the way.

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Definitely we can we can see that your curiosity always bring us new stuff and you know fix stars and and

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you know comments and everything. So it’s really interesting how you you you put it together and and and you can

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follow you know it’s not like like you know so I wanted to ask you more exactly about your practice and the

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intuitive part of being an astrologer. So, how do you navigate the tension between intuition and technique like in

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your readings and predictions? Because it can be can be hard. No,

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I think that through intuition it kind

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of rounds down what you need to look at. Uhhuh. And then with my existing back of

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tricks in my back or should I say techniques that I’ve picked up along with the years of

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you know training and interacting with people and testing techniques out. That’s very important. You got to test

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the techniques and know that it works right and distill it in a way that you know

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that it fits in properly as your repertoire of steps. Mhm. that you have to go through in

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order to get like a conclusion of certain percentage of certainty or confidence level if you talk about

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statistical term. And then once you kind of perfect that slowly but surely, it gives

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you that leeway to utilize your intuition more and more in order to kind

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of save time. Basically, that’s it. Yeah, that’s a good actually way to put

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it because I’ve heard many astrologers when they’re starting it’s very hard to trust your intuition

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because you’re afraid of being wrong or you know I think that’s where the the Venus part the self-confidence comes a

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little bit into play as well where like you know they’re trying to trust their intuition but no no the

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technique you know matters and I think the intuition is I mean personally I

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found many more answers when I follow my intuition than in life, you know, like

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than than just following the recipe or the or the techniques. I guess it’s also like how you employ

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them. I I employ them like what I talked about in terms of like rounding down what I need to look at and then from

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there I got the aha Eureka moment and I just kind of cuz most of the time like

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you follow me a lot of the post that I’ve done are actually like when I’m on

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a bus walking no I’m just typing on the fly

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like a good Gemini MC the air the breeze must be in my face

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you That’s when I get my inspiration, the air elements. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That’s when you get most of my

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post. I mean, unless it’s after midnight, there’s a whole different story. I’m still typing in my bed. You know what I mean?

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Like when there’s that that spark of like, okay, let me get this out. Wow. So, when do you feel most

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creatively alive when working with astrology? Not the morning

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because I’m not a morning person. Uh usually when the afternoon sets in I get

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more and more like um inspired with that way. So um when you

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look at your natal chart is there any particular aspect that

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you know has been challenging? Is it a square? Is it an opposition? Is it a planet position that you’re like, “Oh my

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god, like do you want to share a little bit or?” Um, I mean, I’ve always struggled with a

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certain aspect which kind of ties back to the family environment which I grew up in. Um, is that Mars and Saturn

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conjunct square moon. Wow.

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Okay. Okay. Okay. And and uh all three placements are in fixed signs. So this Mercury retrograde

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in late Scorpio has been hammering me. Yeah. Yeah. The Mercury retrograde, right?

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And which is like the the planet or the aspect that that brings you like luck or that you

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feel like, oh, thank god I have this on my chart or something like that? I mean you know that square basically taught me

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emotional resilience and some things that you know it’s better to just leave it

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behind then rather just keep on pursuing it because you know it’s a done deal

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thing like because the moon represents like family and also like particularly the mom. I haven’t talked to my mom in

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over two decades. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. But that’s probably the best decision

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Mhm. Mhm. that I’ve done because it just kind of um

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bring into perspective where I want to go more importantly

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maybe because my north node is in my first house. I got to focus on myself and my path and my journey. And the moon

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can sometimes represent sisters as well. Mhm. So I’ve not been actively talking to my sister like not putting much effort into

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it as well because they are on their path and I have to acknowledge that as well.

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uh my sisters because uh they both have one particular configuration that might

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describe me. They both have Mars and Chiron conjunctaries that represents me.

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Yeah, because Mars can represent a brother figure. Oh, got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Oh,

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interesting. So fascinating. And the Chiron, I’m an astrologer. Very chironic. And talking about Chiron, has

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has your work as an astrologer ever like reopened a wound that you thought was

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healed or something or funnily enough the hardest module that I ever took in those 10 modules with the

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astrology school was family astrology. Uh-huh. There was a whole module or should I say

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partially a module talking about that and I and uh it’s just opening a whole

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bunch of things way back when I was doing that mod. The module I took longer

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than usual to finish and uh that’s because there’s a lot of uncomfortable things or should I say skeleton in the

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closets that um that needs to be revealed. But I feel safe. It’s just only me and my tutor who’s like you know

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a long distance away in the UK. And uh the only remark that

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she said was that it’s so brave for you to do this because it’s just so hard to to

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talk about what what you’ve gone through and put it in such a eloquent way.

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Wow. Yeah. Johnny, what part of your chart you’re still trying to understand

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or or accept besides the I guess the the Saturn Mars?

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I’m not sure. Saturn Mars conjunct square moon. Um I mean that one is like a whole uh

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lifetime to assimilate, right? Because it involves one of your luminaries. But the thing is that um

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it is true the challenges. I I actually do find that now squares aren’t as hard

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to deal with than opposition. Yeah. Oppositions are actually trickier

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because you’re always oxidating. It can actually make you bipolar. Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. Because you’re pul you’re put at two

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opposing ends. Whereas square is like okay at least it’s a fourth harmonic

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aspect you know right um but when it’s a second harmonic aspect opposition it is even more um

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tensionfilled sure you still have your challenges with a square

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but uh it is something that it is not impossible to master for me I guess the

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biggest statement with that square is to like you know in your heart because my Mars and Saturn is a Leo

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Mhm. Um, square, uh, moon in Taurus. You know what you got gifts and talents wise.

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Oh, nice. Yeah. So, why not just kind of, um, put it on

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steroids and run with it. The most lemony out of the lemons that you’ve got. I mean I’ve got nice aspects

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as well but uh that square has been like you know in the background like telling

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me it’s like okay you got to check yourself you know you must always be authentic if you think about

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Taurus and Leo squares both of them need to have an essence of authenticity and

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that’s why I think you have observed that I’ve I’m not much different

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offline than online I talk the same way that I too

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because I I guess now with Pluto in Aquarius, people just want people who are real and authentic to be honest.

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Yeah. I think people are craving for real connections and authenticity rather than

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like too elaborated, you know, like like like super curated and comes across as disingenuous if you know what I mean.

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Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. I think so. Yeah. So, um, what transit or placement in

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your own chart has shaped your career the most and how

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which I guess is my Jupiter and Venus conjunction

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trining Uranus. Uhhuh. Because you know what I do technic well

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to be really like literal that’s why I talk a lot about Venus cycles. I do a lot of Venus return an analysis and I

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utilize like trans Venus star points in my analysis you know pretty frequently. Yeah,

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that’s part of my specialtity service, the Venus readings, but

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it’s teaching me with that water trine

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because of that Uranus in Scorpio. Uhhuh. That sometimes you just got to [ __ ] it

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all really and just really be yourself and just really go with what you know within

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yourself and just let that resonate out. I guess it’s even more important now because um

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with Pluto in Aquarius trining Uranus in Gemini. So when you look at

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social media that Germanian energy or Uranian energy social media,

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you’re looking for that person who’s real. Yes.

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Yeah. And it’s not about something that’s scripted or, you know, I think that’s why celebrity culture is dying because

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everything’s so curated. I think so. Every time they every time they appear,

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they’re trying to pluck or sell you something. And if you can approach social social media with a more like or

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at least come across as more honest and genuine and authentic,

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people will definitely resonate with you. And of course, there must be like um

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social impact that you need to bring along with that as well because of the Aquarian energy,

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right? When you do things from an impersonal way, it kind of takes your

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yourself out of the equation because I need to also tell myself that I’m just a

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messenger. I’m not here for the fame. I’m not here for, you know, all those stuff. Although

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it does translate into my income, which I need to survive when you get some kind of recognition

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and some kind of exposure of sorts. But am I really truly looking for that fame?

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I got to ask myself that because exactly on that on on that online platform, it’s

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so easy to get carried away of like, oh, you know, I’ve got 100,000 subscribers and you know, I’m this, I’m that, you

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know, like, oh my god, you know what I mean? Like, you know, and and and you can lose the plot.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s the same square of that moon to my Mars and Saturn that I have to keep on

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checking with myself as important. Yeah. for everyone even

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like especially in these times of social media and followers and I’m I’m so tired of followers you know I decided that I’m

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going I’m going to do what brings me happiness like like talking to you and and all of these astrologers and and

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that’s it you know like if they want to follow or not you know that that’s fine of course as you said and I want to want

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to like just ask you this questions because obviously that translates in our income like obviously

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I mean I do this for fun but it takes time it takes work and so on. So what

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has been the most challenging part of turning a student into a business in

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your own journey? Like I mean on top of what we talked about earlier in terms of um how to deal with

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social media because that’s how you put your work out there to let people know what you’re capable of.

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Yeah. And that’s when you build credibility for your work and that’s why they will click that button to or email

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you to book in with you first and foremost. Um what is the essence of

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the personality that you want to project onto the world? I guess that’s my that’s my question I always have to ask myself.

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And because I’m a very heavy ninth houseer, I’ve got something given to me which is potential mass appeal because

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that’s what the ninth house is about. So I can hit international borders 9

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house with a vast array. I mean I’ve got clients that in countries I’ I’ve never

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heard of you know like oh where’s Granada? Where’s Mosmbique? You know

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oh yeah I’ve got clients from there as well. They’ve they’ve been coming back you know what I mean? And and I also

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realized that encoded within my chart, I also can see the profile

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of where my clients come from. Ah okay. Okay.

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Yeah, that’s something interesting because that moon square Mars and Saturn the most supportive audience that I have

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that’s also recurring clients are black women. Interesting.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting trend. It’s almost like I can talk their language or know how they’re feeling

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somehow. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. It’s kind of bizarre, but it is what it is. Yeah.

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Yeah. Interesting. I think about this year with whatever

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astrologically that’s happening on I’m actually going through my to put it in short a soul retrieval process.

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Mhm. Fragments of my soul is coming back and I know it. Oh, powerful.

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And it’s crystallizing into higher aspects of myself that I probably will

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need to move forward when you know when my first house perfection period comes

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comes along. So, so I’m doing all this work behind the scenes to house. But it’s beautiful how

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you how you describe it and how how you are in tune with it like really like

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conscious of what’s happening and how you’re feeling it and and the ability to put it in words. I mean not every

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Oh yeah. Yeah. I just I just say what I said that’s like spontaneous that spontaneous and just kind of picked out

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the words that most accurately describe my experience now. And I’m sure that

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once the first house perfection period hits, I’ll be like just, you know,

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let’s go. I’ll go off and do what I need to do for the next 12 years, you know,

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of my life. Don’t there’s a whole Jupiter return ahead and

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I’ve just gone through that earlier this year. By the way, I spent mine in Madrid, Spain.

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Ah, Madrid. Uhhuh. So, um, and because when I looked at my Jupiter

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return, there’s a sun and Pluto opposition close to exact.

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Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. And I put that opposition on the ascendant descendant axis and that’s

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right over Madrid. Ah, okay. Okay. Interesting. But I just want to tell

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people that even though the Jupiter return is an opposition, the Jupiter return is an extension of

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your natal potential in my natal. I’ve got some Pluto trine.

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Some Pluto trine. Uhhuh. So it still goes back to that trine natally.

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Mhm. The Jupiter return just highlights that sun Pluto connection. Ah okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So opposition

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is not, you know, it’s not like, oh my god, I’m going to be doomed for the next 12 years. I’m like,

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yeah, people I put that, yeah, I put it on the ascendant descending my Jupiter return and and next year transit Jupiter

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will be hitting my Jupiter return ascendant in Leo. Uhhuh. Mhm.

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So 2026 is going to be big because of that connection. Yeah. when Jupiter changes sign to the

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next sign and to be Leo of course. Yes. And uh everything’s going to you

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know and it’s going to oppose Pluto by the way. So there’s going to be like some well on a mundane basis some things

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will happen some shenanigans will happen but on a personal level I know I’ve got that NATO some Pluto trying to lean on.

49:11

Donnie it’s been such a pleasure to have you here. I really hope you come back. Maybe we’ll keep talking about other

49:16

different topics or your personal experience and see how 2026 is treating you maybe in a few months. Is there

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anything you want to tell those who are listening to us? Yeah, so I have my YouTube channel

49:29

that uh you can just type in Donny Limb astrology. D O N Y L I M astrology.

49:34

Apparently I have my own hashtag now. Nice. Fair. It’s been five years so of course

49:41

branding dear branding. Um, and uh, look for me on most socials. I’m

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I’m on there and uh, right now I’m still at the point of

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doing my own research. Yeah, because the research seems to be you’re very good at it and and when

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you’re very good at it, probably comes from a place of like either practice or a big passion, right? So,

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well, I guess it’s also that um, people are always questioning the validity of what I do.

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Uh so you have to kind of before even

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anyone asks, you have to be sure and come up with like uh uh

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something to say in terms of justifying where you’re coming from cuz okay uh there’s always this thing that oh you

50:31

can I can just talk through my ass. I said first of all I don’t have a big one

50:36

and secondly I don’t just

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pluck anything from the sky and just pass it off as the truth. For me,

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there’s always this element of research, say, and know exactly what I’m talking about.

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Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it’s so easy to be discredited in the field of what we do.

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Yes. By not um looking thoroughly at something or something in depth enough.

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I love it. I love it. I mean I love the the way you put out the everything you do so detail and everything. So I think

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people also we have a responsibility to question you know everything on YouTube

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not only astrology but everything we listen the news and everything. So I think it’s good also to to question and

51:27

if there are people like you who who are willing to put the data out there and explain it you know that’s really I

51:34

think the kind of people we need on the internet these days. So, I mean there’s a lot of uh

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astrologers and I would loosely put their astrologers inverted commas.

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I’ve seen like really uh subpar or pardon me for using the word trashy.

51:54

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, trashy astrology out there that I’m like, really? You’re going to you’re

52:00

going to put that out there? And and it kind of minimizes what we do on a daily basis that we have to

52:07

come back from that and build back credibility in what we do. It’s it’s like a never- ending game

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really. And so when I see someone who’s putting out halfass stuff, it kind of I kind of remind

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myself that I always have to keep my standards up. That’s amazing. Johnny,

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thank you so much for being here and for sharing a little bit about your personal journey and your hopes and dreams and

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your practice and everything. Guys, thank you for being here with us. Don’t forget to check Dony’s social media and

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his services the des in the description below. And I’m gonna say goodbye. Don, is there anything you want to say before

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we we go? If everything fails, just keep it funny.

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Thank you so much. And Donnie and guys, see you in the next episode.

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Okay. Ciao for now. Bye.