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For anyone who's heard of astrology

>> but doesn't really know what it is. What

is astrology and how does it work?

>> So, astrology is the study of how the

sky mirrors what happens on Earth.

Astrology in your astrology chart is a

mirror of your life, of your life's

purpose, of your soul. It's a mirror of

the events that also happen on the

earth. And when you're born, somebody's

astrology chart is literally like a map

of their life. It's a map of your

potential. It's a map of your problems.

It's a map of your growth edges. It's a

map of all the ways in which you need to

grow and work and change into yourself.

And what it also signifies is that

there's this kind of sense of you're an

amulet of the exact time that you were

born. So every single moment of life has

its own chart. So us meeting today has a

chart for it and it is a crystallization

or the chart becomes a map of what we're

crystallizing together. So you as a

person when you're born, we look at we

take a snapshot of the entire sky when

you're born and the exact lo location

and the exact time that you were born

and we see where everything was in the

sky and that is the amulet of you if you

so choose to work with it and look at

it.

>> So you're looking at everything from the

stars, the moon, the position of where

you were born, the time of birth.

>> Yeah, we're looking at everything. So

literally right now if we were to take a

snapshot of the sky because we are in

this place and because it's this time

there's a specific sign rising up over

the horizon. The sun is in a specific

place in the sky and everything else out

there in relationship to the earth is in

a specific place and it's having a

certain relationship. And so astrology

is the study of those relationships. One

of the longest standing scientific

documents is from ancient Babylon and

it's a 700year

documentation of the planet's movements

and of what happened on Earth during

those movements. So, it's literally our

longest standing scientific record.

Humans forever have been fascinated with

what happens in the sky. And if you

think about it, I was somewhere recently

where there wasn't a lot of electricity

and I could have this like beautiful

swath of sky and I was like, "Oh, wait.

Remember or think about what it was like

before electricity. The sky, if you

could see it, if it was a cloudless

night, it was just like teeming with

light. You could see galaxies. I mean,

you can see the Milky Way. You can see

and then you can see the planets moving.

And so we've always until very recently

had a very specific relationship with

nature, with all of life around us. And

the sky has always been a part of

[snorts] our relationship with life. And

the study of the planets and the study

of the moon, the study of the sun, the

study of the cycles that we live within

also taught us how to count, taught us

how to understand rhythms. I mean, it

taught us math. So it was always an

integral part of how we came to

understand who we were. And so through

the study of the planets for again

hundreds and hundreds of years, people

came up with the ancients came up with

an understanding of what the planets did

and kind of what they meant. And so we

have this lineage of thousands of years

of documentation and thousands of years

of scholarship and [snorts] thousands of

years of people examining

what the sky was looking like and what

it meant for people living that moment

out. So, you're a moment in time and I'm

a moment in time. And that moment in

time had a specific

essence and then you as a person with

free will, as a soul, you get to live

that out and express that however you

want. Like, but it is what it is. But

you have free will within that.

>> We're going to get to that. I'm going to

ask you [laughter] that. When when did

>> I know it freaks people out.

>> No. When did humans when did humans

start to develop astrology or start to

interact with this mindset that what we

see in the sky has relevance to who we

are? Because when you say who we are,

are you talking about

>> personality? Are you talking about you

know what what elements are you talking

about? So the personality kind of test

of astrology is fairly new in terms of

astrology's long long history. But

humans have painted like some of the

earliest paintings we have from the

caves of Lasso and France. They are the

stars. They are the pleades. They're the

stars that would rise up around the

spring. And so it was like the rebirth.

And so again, we have to remember like

as hunters and gatherers, as people, you

know, just like figuring out how to live

on the earth, we would know what time of

year it was because of yes, where the

sun was, but also because of what

constellations were rising. So we were

literally like it was part of our

ability to to find sustenance, to

understand where we were in time and

space. So in terms of understanding

ourselves and our lives and how long

that is, we can only go by what we have

written down. So that's at least a

couple of thousand years old. And I can

only assume that it was much older than

that because, you know, whatever was

written down might have been lost. And

you know, the written word is a fairly

kind of newer technology in human

history. But it's at least a couple of

thousand years old that we've been

making meaning of what it meant when you

were born that the sun was doing this or

there was a you know this thing

happening over here. And for a large

part it was used to understand like

rulerships and it was used to understand

the ways in which civilizations would

kind of come about and like when it was

good for the king to do this or the you

know so and so that was in in power to

do that. And then slowly over a longer

period of time, it began to be much more

about the person and like it became more

open to the greater public.

>> For for anyone who's listening and

they're skeptical about astrology, they

have their doubts, they're cynical about

it,

>> what would you say to them?

>> Great. I love it. Like you should be

cynical. And also, God forbid we all

like the same thing. [laughter] It's

like I don't think that I don't really

even want to live in a world where we

all like believe in astrology, whatever

that might mean. I think diversity is

really important. I think that the ma my

main agenda is that you understand what

your life's purpose is and you move

towards that with the greatest efficacy

possible and that moves you towards

serving the world in your own specific

way. I think that for me, astrology is

my quickest entry point into that, but

there are a thousand and they're all

legitimate and wonderful. I just want

you to find yours. And so, if you don't

like astrology, great. I don't know of

anybody, and I, you know, I'm sure there

is people out there. I don't know of

anybody that has spent a significant

amount of time studying astrology, like

really thoroughly studying it and then

feeling like it had no merit whatsoever.

Young the the psychotherapist,

psychologist, uh, famously thought it

was ridiculous and studied it and

converted himself and then he actually

became somebody who impacted the field

greatly. But I feel like most people

that don't like it are thinking about

sun sign horoscopes, which are like a

gateway drug into astrology, like

they're not the thing.

>> Talk to me about the difference between

what you're talking about and sun sign

horoscopes. So, sunsign horoscopes were

developed around the time of the

printing press so that people could have

an easy access point, an easy entry

point into understanding their

astrology. Cuz basically, if you knew

the day that you were born, give or

take, you knew what sun sign you were.

But before that, it was very, very

focused on the rising sign. And the

rising sign's so specific because again

it's about where you're born and the

exact time because that's the exact

piece of sky that's rising up over the

eastern horizon.

And that's your marker of life. Like

that's your yes, I'm here. I'm saying

yes to this life. I am, you know,

separate from the body that brought me

here. All of that. [snorts] So your sun

sign is like something you share with

people that are born within a 30-day

span as you. It's very general.

There's a lot to be gleaned from it, but

it's not your chart. Only your rising

sign can tell us your entry point and

then it sets up the entire chart. It

sets up the meaning of everything else

for you. So, it's like looking at a

sliver of a picture or like even a a

pixel instead of looking at the whole

thing. So yeah, if you are like, I don't

want to be boiled down to a couple of

tropes about my sun sign, I agree with

you. I don't either. That's why I don't

even like talking about my chart in

public because I don't like having

people think that they understand who I

am by something so surface level.

>> And your chart is so much more complex

than that. I mean, there's like there's

like fractals of fractals that you can

get into of meaning that people again

spent thousands of years developing and

like uh and and pouring their their life

into. And so your sun sign is like it's

fun to share. It's very memeable. It's

very gameable. Um it's very sharable.

And so it's an entry point, but it has

so little to do

>> with the reality of what we're actually

looking at when we look at your chart.

>> Yeah, that's relieving.

>> Yeah,

>> that's good. Yeah, it's really helpful

because I feel like you're absolutely

right that it's sharable, it's

interesting, it's fun to talk about, but

then when you look at how valuable it is

or how accurate it is, naturally, it's

never going to feel that way. Yeah,

>> it's the same as a broad personality

test that divides you into four core

personality types. It's like, of course,

we're far more complex and layered than

that, and we all believe that,

especially as we get older. Can you

explain? You've been referencing birth

chart and chart. Can you explain

>> what that birth chart is? I imagine it's

when you're born, as you were saying,

where everything lands in the sky, but

can you explain how someone can read

that chart? What does that mean to read

someone's birth chart? Yeah. So, it's a

snapshot of the sky the moment that you

were born from the exact location and

time that you were born. And everything

in it is in relationship to each other.

So, you're actually describing all of

the relationships that make up your

life. And

it is, you know, you can look at it

through the lens of your personality,

which is one thing. I think it can be

quite reductive when we do that. But

what like ancient or traditional

astrology is more about is looking at

the quality of each area of your life.

Like where can someone expect to have

success? Where can someone expect to

have maybe some difficulty? What are the

things that are like working for them

and what are the things that are going

to be a challenge and therefore a growth

edge and therefore an opportunity to

develop themselves. And so you can glean

somebody's like nature from it, but it's

really about like, you know, if

someone's struggling to find love in

their life and you look at their chart

and you see like, oh yeah, I can

understand why that's a struggle. It

doesn't mean that they're going to be in

a struggle forever. It means that there

the chart is going to distinguish what

the thing is. And therefore once we know

what the issue is, we can work more

clearly or more definitively towards the

solution for that thing. And so it can

be a really great aid in terms of like

what's what is the pain that you're

carrying? Like what are the things that

you're burdened with in this life? Your

chart will reveal that. And that can

also be a real solace cuz it can feel

sometimes like we have this thing that's

like against us in life. Like why why

won't this thing work out for me or why

doesn't this ever kind of take shape for

me? And when you can see it in the chart

you can be like oh okay that's just a a

setup but there's other ways to work

with that thing but I have to know what

the issue is first. And so I think that

astrology helps us to identify if you

have somebody you know adept looking at

your chart or if you have you know good

education around like what it actually

is then we can use the chart to really

open up those doors for us because

without knowing what the issue is it's

really hard to try to meet it.

>> So you can do that through therapy you

can do that through a lot of different

avenues again astrology is one of them.

How much of how much of this is is it so

important you just said that the

practitioner needs to be adept?

>> Yeah.

>> And it almost feels like to me that the

recipient needs to be adept as well.

>> Yes.

>> And what I [laughter] what I mean by

that what I mean by that is like I I've

always looked at so I never studied this

but as part of my teachings in the

monastery we had people who practiced

Vadic astrology

>> which is thousands and thousands of

years years old. people had incredible

experiences of uh using there's places

in India where they use leaves and

there's writings on leaves there's

charts with literally like strings

attached I mean it's it's spectacular

the the culture and the history of it

>> but what I found was that for example if

I know it's going to rain tomorrow and

there's an adept weather forecast with

by the way I don't know who does good

weather forecast anymore [laughter]

anyway but let's say it's going to rain

tomorrow as an adept person who's

looking at that forecast. I know

tomorrow I better take my umbrella, my

uh uh boots that I'm happy about to get

wet in the rain and a raincoat. And so

it requires me to adapt to the

information.

>> Whereas often what I found today is when

people feel like they're going through a

bad phase or there's something not

working for them. It's kind of like,

well, I can't do anything right now cuz

I'm going through a bad phase. And

that's like me saying, well, I can't

have fun tomorrow cuz it's going to

rain. So talk to me about that. And and

if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.

I'm just sharing it from what I've heard

and seen.

>> Yeah. Yeah. It is the human problem. It

is the human condition, I think, to try

to reduce things down to something

that's simple enough to either blame

life on or to try to like figure out

really quickly. And we also try to I

think have one answer for everything.

So, you know, I mean, I get why it's so

annoying cuz everyone will be like, "Uh,

Mercury retrograde." And you're like,

"No, that's not what it's about."

>> I'm going to get I'm going to ask you

[laughter] about that in a bit.

>> That's not You can't do that. Like, you

can't blame every or I hear people say,

"Well, you know, I'm a Scorpio." And I'm

like, "That has nothing to do with being

a Scorpio." Like, I I get the desire to

do that, but that's not You're using a

hammer to do everything and you need a

feather sometimes and like you need

different tools. So yeah, it's um it is

a it's a it's an interesting thing

because when we're going into a time

period that looks really complex

astrologically, you want to hold it with

like, okay, this looks like it's going

to challenge us. It looks like it's

going to require a lot of mindfulness

from us and it looks like it's going to

require a lot of tenacity and it looks

like it's going to require more from us

than general times. Great. So now we

know that. So show up. How can I help

people show up to that moment? Not

reducing it down to everything's going

to be awful or this is why this is

happening. Because if we lived in a

world where compassion and, you know,

thoughtfulness and community and

people's health and well-being were

front and center, then bad astrology

wouldn't be that bad. It's not the

astrology that's making things bad. it's

revealing or it's it's giving you a kind

of understanding of of again certain

cycles and timings of things. And so if

we can see like well what happened the

last time this cycle happened and what

what worked then we can use it as

something that's empowering. If

astrology isn't empowering I don't think

you should use it.

>> If you feel like astrology is reducing

you to something or freaking you out or

making you paranoid I don't think it's

working. I [snorts] think you should put

it down and not pick it up again

>> until that passes or maybe for the rest

of your life. Like it should help you to

feel like you're more located and you're

better prepared. Like it's I love the

rain. So if it's going to rain tomorrow,

great. Maybe I can like have, you know,

a moody day where I drink tea and write

in my journal.

That's my fantasy. I have a child, so I

[laughter] can't do that. But

>> I love that.

>> I remember days like that.

>> I love that. No. Uh what's the

difference between your sun, your moon,

and your rising? Because you hear people

use this language all the time.

>> What's the difference? What does it

mean?

>> Yeah. Well, your rising sign is the

marker of your life. It is the marker of

your yes to life. So, it's the marker of

your motivation. It is what you're

motivated to do here in the world. And

it is your yes. It's like, okay, I'm

here. I'm born. Your sun is how you

shine. It's like part of how you

illuminate, how your soul illuminates

things. It's like what lights you up.

And your moon is your body. Your moon is

the physical world. If you think of the

moon as a reflector of the sun's light,

the moon in our chart reflects the light

of our soul, the light of our sun. And

we can only have this incarnation

through the body. And so it it's the

holder, the keeper of memory. It is

about the physical world and the

physical realm and how sacred it is to

have a body to have incarnated into. And

we get to do our life purpose through

our body a little bit every day. Come

the tiredness and the joy and all the

things. But the body keeps the score of

all of that, so to speak.

>> So when you're reading someone's birth

chart, you're seeing all of these.

>> Could you give examples of what would

fit into each one for anyone that you've

read before? Randomly, obviously not.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, like when someone

has a Leo rising, then they're motivated

to show up and really shine in the

world. They're motivated to illuminate

something, to be charming, to be

adorable, to be like a recipient of

people's adoration or attention. But

what it also does, the rising sign gives

you a key to the meaning of your life

because it the planet that rules that

sign is the planet that steers the ship

of your life. And so if you feel lost,

if you feel like you're not sure what

your purpose is, one of the quickest

ways to understand it astrologically is

to understand where the planet that

rules your rising sign is. And so if

your the ruler of your rising sign is in

your 10th house of career, then that's

it's going to be a major part. If it's

in your sixth house of service, then

maybe your your volunteering is going to

be, you know, it's like where are the

planets located and what job are they

doing? The planet that rules your

ascendant is literally at the helm of

the ship of your life. And so quite

often when I give people readings and

over the years I've given mostly

strangers readings and you know back

before Zoom before the pandemic when we

were all on Skype I wouldn't even see

the people. I mean I guess we could have

cameras but mostly it was like I was

almost like on the phone with people and

like all over the world and so I didn't

know them. I had never seen them. I

don't know anything about you. I'm just

going to read your chart. I'd start

there and 99% of the time people would

be so relieved to hear that that's what

that was because quite often they hadn't

been fully living into it or it was just

so innate that that's always what they

did and they're like oh that's yes that

is that thing that's what I've always

been known for and so when you're not

living in accordance with these these

kind of like signs to me in your chart

if you're not living in accordance with

your purpose

then everything is going to feel wrong

and everything's going to feel

misaligned. Like for myself, I never

thought I would write a book. It's not

anything I would ever think of, but

nothing in my life was working. And I

felt so stuck and I felt so I felt like

such a failure. I felt like I couldn't

figure out my place in the world. And I

started writing and people started

reading it and it started to take off

and I was like, "What is this? This is

wild." And it wasn't until I started

working with my teacher, the person who

would like really teach me about the

lineage that I practice in that I

understood how important it was to

follow that mark in my chart because the

ruler of my ascendant is in the third

house of writing and speaking and

teaching. But that's nothing I had put

together before. Like you can look at

your, you know, own, you can look at

yourself in the mirror. You can read

your, you know, you can look at yourself

all the time and not get it. The beauty

of having a therapist or a guide or a

coach or an astrologer, somebody that's

got some wisdom, is that they hold that

third space for you so that you can have

that kind of self-reflection.

So coming to know that like that natural

inkling in me was there in my chart gave

me the permission to just fully do it.

>> Yeah.

>> And then everything started to work like

overnight. I people started to pass my

stuff around. I met my wife within 6

months. I mean like things just blew up.

And it was because of that. I remember

the moment where she was like, "Well,

the ruler of your ascendants in the

third house." And I was like, "Oh." And

it all just clicked. And I'd always

wanted to write, but I never thought I

was smart enough. I didn't think I was

educated enough. I didn't think I was

able to do it. And it's literally one of

the things that changed my entire life.

And it's right there plain as day in my

chart. And I didn't see it for like 20

years. [laughter]

>> Wow.

cuz I started looking at astrology and

understanding my chart at like age 12.

>> Wow.

>> So, but I didn't really I didn't really

know what I was looking because I didn't

have traditional astrology. Right.

>> So, you know when you meet your teacher

>> also everything really starts to come

into practice and into place. And so

when I met my astrology teacher

>> and she taught me this really ancient

traditional way of doing astrology, it

just landed everything. And it was like

this whole rubric that was so clear and

so concise and so specific and so not

about my intuition or not about you know

what I felt about the chart or anything

like that. Not about like oh I knew this

Scorpio once and they did this. It's

like really like no if this is here this

means this.

>> Yeah.

>> Do this and see what happens.

>> So so you're actually saying that

astrology

is guiding us when you say purpose.

>> Mhm. But really you're talking about

activity, task, methodology. Like you

said, writing, speaking, teaching.

>> Yeah.

>> Those are very occupational in that they

are an activity that someone can take

out. So you're saying that astrology, am

I right in saying that? You're saying

astrology

shares your purpose and it defines

purpose as activity of greatness.

>> Yes. And it can get more complex than

that. So say if the ruler of your

ascendance in your eighth house, the

eighth house is a place of loss and

grief and mental anguish, it's also a

place of inheritance and other people's

money and there's a lot of things

connected to it. And so when you see

somebody's, you know, when you see a

significant placement in a part of the

chart that's really difficult, you have

to wonder if they've got there yet. But

often when I see really significant

placements in difficult houses in the

chart,

I'll ask like, are you a are you a grief

doula? Are you someone who does

traumainformed

counseling? Are you, you know, do you

feel really receptive to other people's

pain and suffering? And so it's not as

clear sometime like sometimes it is like

you could go and study and be you know a

someone who does hospice work or

something like that if that called to

you but sometimes it's a little bit uh

less specific. But it's very important

still for that person to be able to move

towards that area of life and know that

the inklings that they have towards that

area of life are very much embedded in

their life's purpose. And I've just seen

time and time again once they once you

take that action towards that that

things just start to open up and fall

into place. And then you find your way

to do that signature in your chart. Can

your astrology tell you whether you're

going to be a millionaire or a

billionaire? [laughter]

>> Well, there's a famous quote attributed

to JP Morgan that says, "Millionaires

don't use astrology, but billionaires

do." And it's not clear if he actually

ever said that, but he worked with an

astrologer, Evangelene Adams, for a very

long time. And he was actually like a

student of hers. He got readings from

her and she taught him. And so he used

astrology to do his banking. So I think

that there are definitely signatures

that can tell you when somebody is

really adept at working with the

material world

>> and whether they engage with that or not

is also their choice.

>> I see a lot of people that have a lot of

talents in their chart in their life and

they don't necessarily engage with it.

You also have to have the friction. You

also have to have the thing that spurs

you into action to make use of the gifts

that you've got.

>> But your astrology doesn't tell you

whether you have that part.

>> Yeah, it does. Yeah.

>> So, so your astrology could literally

say you have talent but you have no

spark. [laughter]

>> Well, I wouldn't say that to somebody. I

would say

>> if someone has a really like easy setup,

I would say the most important thing for

you to do is to embrace the struggles in

your life. is to like really lean into

what is going to challenge you and who

is going to challenge you and what's

going to help you to struggle to find

your own way

>> and don't lean on the things that are

necessarily so easy.

>> It's fascinating because I can think of

so many people in my life.

>> Yeah. And it's interesting that

astrology also, I assume by what you

just said right now, believes in growth

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friends who say to me, and they're not,

they're not speaking astrologically.

They're just speaking in self-awareness.

And they're saying, "Jay, this is just

who I am." They're like, "Jay, you're

ambitious. You're driven."

>> You know, [clears throat] I'm not.

>> And so, you know, this is just my life.

And I'm like, well, I don't know if I

was always ambitious or driven. And I

feel like there were skills I learned

and habits I developed and there were

coaches and mentors in my life who

taught me certain things and you can

build confidence and you can build skill

sets that allow you to live a better

life. And I don't just mean materially I

mean spiritually as well.

>> And they'll be like no no no but you

know some of us are wired like you and

some of us are not. So

>> is that true? Is that

>> I mean there's I think there's some

truth to that.

>> Okay. But I think you can choose to not

rest there, right? Like it's do what do

you want from this life? It's really

about that. Like are those people happy

or are they suffering? Right?

>> But are they interested in their

suffering enough to do something to

change it? And so what I'll look for is

is time periods that will come along and

kind of put the pressure on and be like

this. You're going to if you haven't

done your work, if you haven't

individuated, if you haven't really

tried to build something in yourself of

your own efforts, then this period of

time is going to really be rough.

>> But that's good for you. [laughter]

You know, like Saturn will come along as

a planet of boundaries and structure and

it will come along and hold you in place

until you figure out h how to either

find another way to move or to like lift

the weight that's on you enough times

until you get strong enough to move it

completely.

>> And Saturn's a a planet that you can

also look at in terms of your life

cycles. So sata S Saturn comes along

every seven years and does something

really important. So at age seven it

comes along and helps you to distinguish

yourself a little bit from your parents.

Helps you to find like your own. And

then at age 14, age 14 usually it's

called a Saturn opposition and it's

usually a time where something happens

in our life and you know we're 14 so it

kind of makes sense psychologically

speaking but something happens where

we're like wait a minute this is what I

want. This is what you want. These are

the expectations you have on me. This is

what and then at 21 we have another one

and it's part of the adult cycle. And

then from 28 to 30 Saturn closes the

loop and we go through something called

a Saturn return. And that's where we

move through our first really big

threshold where we move from whatever

remnants of being a child or whatever

remnants of being a young adult kind of

like have to trickle away and we're

asked to move and cross a threshold into

our true adulthood and to take

responsibility for our decisions and our

actions.

And so if you miss that, if you're like,

nah, it's going to be harder and harder

and you'll have like in the next seven

years, you'll have another moment of

struggle. And so that like saying the

seven-year itch is interesting because

it is like a Saturn cycle.

>> Yeah. And even in marriage, right, like

>> most divorces happen at 5 to seven

years.

>> Oh, that's interesting.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. It's that friction point.

>> Mhm.

>> Fascinating. Okay. Well, you write in

your book that our chart isn't our fate.

It's an invitation. And I think this

idea of fate and free will, and you

mentioned it earlier, but what does

astrology believe about fate and free

will? Do we have agency or is everything

predetermined?

>> You and I right now are in this city.

We're not in a city. We're not in

France. We're here. And so

there's certain conditions here. We

can't do everything here, but we can do

all the things in in this city that we

can do. And so it's the same with your

chart. It's like you're given a

landscape. What do you want to do with

that? How do you want to approach it?

>> Yeah.

>> And how do you want to work with these

really specific skills and this really

specific setup?

>> Yeah. It's almost like I was born in

London.

>> You were born in Canada.

>> Yeah.

>> And that created a certain environment

of what was available, what I was aware

of,

>> what was possible.

>> Yeah.

>> But somehow I've ended up in LA. You

lived in LA and you live in New York

now. Yeah.

>> And if someone told me all the way up

until the age of 28, which is when I

moved to New York, if anyone told me

that

>> Yeah. [laughter] If anyone told me up

until that age that I would ever live in

any other place apart from Northwest

London, I wouldn't have believed it.

>> Wow. Oh, so you left London at 28?

>> I Yeah, I the first time I left was when

I lived in India for a period of my time

as a monk and then I left when I came

and lived in New York first and then now

LA. So,

>> the reason I'm bringing that up is to

say that there is more choice

>> and free will and agency than we

sometimes think when you're looking at

astrology. And you might consider

everything's predetermined.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Like I know, you know, I'll

see like harrowing transits come up for

me and I have to be like, I'm not going

to catastrophize this, but I have to

work against it. You know, it is just a

natural human thing. And then I'll live

through it and I'll be like, "Oh, that

was totally different than I thought,

but it's so emblematic of what it was."

And I absolutely needed to go through

that. It's always about like distancing

yourself enough from the thing, from

your astrology chart, from the thing

that you're going through so that you

can understand what life is trying to

teach you. So when people come to me and

they're like really in trouble or

they're really in a lot of pain,

sometimes it can help to be like, "Yeah,

this started 6 months ago and it's going

to last for like another 8 months."

You're in the middle of it. You know

what it is. This is it. Like how else to

how do you want to hold this?

>> How do you want to work with this? What

is this teaching you? like this

might be some suffering but what else is

here to to teach you or what is it here

to teach you what can you learn and if

if I am struggling and I look and see

I'm in a challenging aspect then I can

be like oh okay then it's not just out

of the it doesn't feel random I think

for some people

>> and so that's the other side of like

Mercury's retrograde is nothing's going

to work out. [laughter]

>> We don't want to do that,

>> but we do want to use it and be like,

okay, it's just a time period. It's just

a cycle that we're in that I'm in.

>> Does your astrology tell you who you're

going to fall in love with?

>> No. It tells you though what you need

out of a relationship.

>> Interesting.

>> So, it tells you the quality and the

nature of the person that you need. So

for me also, I didn't realize this until

after I had met my wife, but I really

need somebody to like work with me. I

need someone to be like, right, I need

someone to partner with me in every

single way possible. And when we met,

she just did that instantly. And I was

working with my teacher at that point

and she pointed that signature in my

chart out to me and I was like, "Oh my

god, that's what she does." like me and

my wife met and I didn't even know how

to put a PayPal button on my website

like on my blog and she put it on there

in like 2 seconds and I was just like

wow you're a magician [laughter]

and we just became business partners

like immediately and so then we grew

this business together and then we

created an app and you know the the rest

is kind of history but she was an

immediate partner for me and that is a

very specifically

uh accurate

you know, like read of my chart so you

you can see like what kind of qualities

and what kind of nature you need from

somebody.

>> Does it predict when you're going to

fall in love?

>> I mean, I'm sure those Vadic astrologers

at the ashram would say yes. There's

certainly definitely timing techniques.

There's like ancient timing techniques

for everything. I think that um they're

correct. They don't necessarily I don't

know if they'll always say like how long

it will last. Some astrologers are

excellent at doing that. But I think

that what's more important is

understanding yourself, understanding

the qualities that you need in a partner

and

finding that energetic match with

somebody else before you really even

touch the astrology. I don't know. I I

think I'm not as interested in finding

out when something's going to happen in

my life as I am in understanding who I

am.

>> Couldn't agree with you more

>> and what I've got to give this moment

and like what's possible here. Like what

what could I what could I do with what I

have? Because I think that our agency is

the greatest power that we have. And so

I again I never want the astrology to

get in the way of you understanding your

agency.

Yeah.

>> So those predictions can be right, but I

don't know if they're helpful to know.

>> Yeah. It see I I imagine though that

that's the kind of questions people ask

you

>> because when I when I talk to my friends

who go to astrologers it's constantly to

figure out like when am I going to meet

the guy or you know when when should I

you know when should I think about

selling my company or when should I

start my company or

>> those are the questions that I'm hearing

that they're asking and then they tell

me what their astrologer said and

sometimes people will be as specific as

you should marry someone whose name

begins with R

>> and you'll probably meet them in the

next 6 months. Yeah.

>> Or or they'll get an answer that's like,

well, you're not going to find someone

for 2 years.

>> Yeah.

>> And and so what do you make? You're

saying that that could be accurate, but

you're saying that's actually a not the

best use of astrology almost.

>> Well, that's that's up to you.

>> Right.

>> Right. It's like what do you want to use

it for? I don't use it for that because

I don't think that's helpful for the

people I work with.

>> Right. I think that picking a time to

launch your business is great. If you

like give me a time frame, if you're

like, I want to launch it in the next 3

months, I'll give you the best day and

time within the next 3 months to launch

it.

>> Talk to me about that. So, how is that

calculated and why is that important?

>> You just look for the best signature

within the time frame you're given. You

don't have like forever. You just have

like the time frame. So, people want to

get married. I'm like, well, what's the

best day in August to get married? And

then I have to look at a time that's

like reasonable to get married. Like,

I'm not going to say 4 in the morning.

I'm going to say I'm going to look for

like an evening period or an afternoon

period and then look to see I want the

conditions of the planets associated

with the event to be good. So a wedding

I want Venus to be good and if Venus is

really not in a great situation the

month you want to get married then I'll

look for something else like I'll ask

you like is it really do we have to do

August? [laughter]

Could we do July or is that totally out

of the question? And if it's out of the

question then it is. is you just you

have to live your life.

>> And how does that impact the quality of

a marriage or a business?

>> Well, it is the the imprint of it. So,

it's the launch of it. So, it's the mark

of it. And so, you don't want to play

God with it. You know, there's there's

like there's problems with every moment

in time. There's problems with every

chart. You just want to look for

something that's relatively auspicious.

>> Yeah. It's like trying to find a sunny

day.

>> Yeah.

>> It's like no one no one like you don't

want to get married on a rainy day.

>> And so you're trying to find like that's

just a natural inkling. Yeah.

>> And so you're saying similarly on a plan

level like you want to find a day that

feels auspicious for a better word like

>> you know you're trying to find a word a

day that has good energy.

>> Yeah. It has like a good coming together

>> of of things. It's got like a good a

good picture to it. And so you want to

begin something if it's within your

control. You want to begin something

with as much on your side as possible.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> But then the thing you have to learn is

that's still up to you. Like that's

yours to still learn. You can pick the

best astrology chart in the world, but

if the person you're getting married to

isn't the right person for you, like

it's not going to do that much. Maybe

the divorce will be better.

>> Yeah. [laughter]

>> But it's still like you still have to

live your life. You still have to take

the actions. You still have to do the

hard stuff. You still have to show up.

What do you feel having helped so many

people being deep into this work?

>> How have you seen astrology really help

people? Where is it truly changed

people's lives?

>> I think it really truly changes people's

lives when they need the confirmation

that their soul's purpose is what they

think it is.

So like I remember when I met my wife, I

refused to look at her astrology chart.

I didn't want to see it. I didn't want

to know. Oh, I sent her to my teacher

and she got a reading and my teacher

didn't know anything about her,

looked at her chart and said, "Oh,

your your life's work is in the realm of

gender- based violence." And she was

like, "Yeah." But she was a banker at

the time, and she wasn't

valuing that part of her work, even

though it was something she had done

since she was 16. And that reading gave

her the kind of affirmation she needed

to move fully towards it. And it's one

simple thing, you know, it's one thing

that someone says to you. And it's quite

often at those junctures in our life, we

just need that one thing, that one

person to just hold that little bit of

space for us to say, "Yeah, you are.

There it is. It's plain as day." M

>> and then you can then you again have to

go off and do all the work. Astrology is

not going to do the work for you.

>> Yeah. You have to act on that insight.

>> But that insight can be so reassuring

and reaffirming totally because

>> everyone else has been reminding you of

the opposite ever since you were born,

>> right? We have a lot of obligations. We

have a lot of responsibilities. A lot of

people want us to be a certain way, not

because they're bad people, but just

because of whatever conditions we're in.

And astrology is one tool that can help

you to distinguish yourself and really

see yourself a lot more clearly. And so

when you do, I think if you're

conscious, then you can take action.

>> Until we have consciousness around

something, we don't really have a lot of

choice.

>> Mhm.

>> But once something comes into awareness

and consciousness, we then have choice.

what am I going to do with this

information? How am I going to act? Is

this mind to do something with? And so

if you need that, then a a good

astrology reading should be able to give

you the shape of yourself in a in a

really clear and specific way.

>> And then you get to choose what you want

to do with that information.

>> Mhm. Yeah. Absolutely. Do you believe in

divine timing?

[laughter]

>> Yeah. I mean, I work in timing. It's

like my whole life. My whole life is

timing. And yeah, I really do. And I

think that astrology is a part of it.

It'll tell you about your life cycles

that you're in. But you [clears throat]

again have the agency to meet those

moments with your

work and your effort and your

consciousness. And then you can, I

think, speed up everything. But that

requires you to say yes to the things

that are yours to say yes to. It

requires you to say yes to your talents.

It requires you to say yes to your

agency and then to fully fully own it

and everything that comes along with it

and then move boldly in that direction.

>> And then I think that time starts to

kind of meet you in a way. As I'm

talking to you, I'm just thinking, we're

asking all the wrong questions of

astrologers. [laughter]

Like, I'm just like, when I think about

all my friends and every question they

asked, I'm like, "Wow, we're asking bad

questions because

>> there's just so much more." And it's

kind of just it's kind of like how, you

know, there's that I don't know who said

this, but the whole idea of how if

aliens came down to Earth and saw us all

just staring at our phones, they'd be

like, "Why are you wasting life?"

>> Yeah. And it almost feels like that that

what we're going to astrologers for and

what we want to use it for seems to be

so rudimentary

>> compared to what it truly can offer.

when as I'm talking to you.

>> Yeah.

>> I'm like, "Wow, it just feels so much

bigger than that and so much deeper than

that

>> and so much more meaningful

>> and we're using it to figure out like,

you know, am I going to meet my person

in 3 months?" But that's because that is

our insecurity. Like that is what people

are struggling with is

>> really that question is act the question

may not be ideal but it's coming from a

deep rooted insecurity of am I lovable?

>> Yeah. And that's because through time we

have felt that we're not lovable based

on people we've dated, family

experiences. So to go back to that and

expand my compassion, it's like well

actually the question we're asking is

based on this deep

>> feeling of just not being loved.

>> Yeah.

>> And therefore we're not we're not really

asking will I find love in 3 months. We

don't really care about that. But we're

just like will I ever find love is

really the question I'm asking. And I'd

like to have have it to happen tomorrow.

>> That'll make my life better.

>> I think it will.

>> How how would you Yeah. So how would you

guide someone who is going through that

experience that I just mentioned to you

when you're reading their charts and of

course their chart is going to say what

it's going to say

>> which we you know you can help me

hypothetically but

>> what what happens what what are you

>> if someone comes and they're really

>> they're just like you look I got

>> trying to make something happen.

>> Yeah. So like I got broken up with

>> two years ago.

>> Yeah.

>> I am still getting over it.

I've been dating this guy. I

don't know if he's into me. I can't even

tell. But I just really want to settle

down. Like, I just want to fall in love

and get married and have kids and have a

great life and I'm a good person and

I've got my career sword and that seems

to be going well. But

>> every straight woman out there,

>> Totally. Totally. And I have a lot of

friends who are in that position, right?

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

>> They're coming to me.

>> [laughter]

>> I will anchor myself in in what I'm

feeling from them. So, I'll I'll have

the chart, but if what you're saying is

you're not over him or you're not over

the breakup yet, like what happened to

you? What are you still holding? Like,

that's when I just want a human to

human. Like, there's the chart, but like

can we just have a conversation about

what you're holding right now? And like

that is a legitimate

feeling of frustration and despair and

feeling like you're going to be left out

of a life cycle like you know you're not

you're not in it. It's missing you. It's

like passing you by. And that's a real

feeling. And it it is also situated in a

greater context where there's a lot of

people in your similar situation that

feel the same way. So you're also not

alone. It's it's your personal life and

it's also there's a a sense of like

there's another thing happening. And

then I'll go to the chart and see what I

can talk about. I want to talk about the

person that I see in the chart that will

be your partner.

>> And I want to talk about that and be

really specific about it. And then I

want you to meditate on that. I want you

to sit and this is from Katherine

Woodward Thomas calling in the one.

[snorts] One of the best meditations

that she ever gave me and I've given it

to millions of people is to sit in

meditation and just not no thoughts

about no specifics about like who the

person what they look like or what they

do for a living. None of that. What do

they feel like? What does their energy

feel like? And what do you feel like

sitting across from them? And what is

that energetic match? And then I just

want you to go out into the world and

feel that

>> who has that energetic resonance for you

and who doesn't.

>> So there's this things you can get into

all the details in the chart, but then

there's just the like let's just be

human

>> and just acknowledge that what you're

carrying right now. It's it's really

hard

>> and that loneliness is really real.

>> And I don't want to diminish that at

all. Mhm.

>> And all I know that you have in terms of

your agency is to yes work on yourself

and develop yourself, but also just to

like be with it.

>> Yeah.

>> You know, like I was 38 when I met my

wife. I had had a bajillion

relationship. I was like, I'm just going

to be alone forever. I had totally given

up on it. And then

it was like I walked out of that life

and into a totally different life. M

>> and that can feel like a setup too to

say to people cuz you know it's like I

got I feel like I got really lucky to

meet her in this lifetime and it's a

really I feel like a really rare special

relationship

and I also did everything I could

[laughter]

I did every course I did everything

under the sun and then I did just kind

of like let it go

>> and when I met my teacher and when I

started to feel like I was meeting my

life's calling and my purpose. I did

everything I could to anchor myself to

that

>> and I do feel like there was some kind

of synergy there. So you ha everyone has

some kind of story like that and each of

ours are so specific and I always say to

people what if you don't meet them for

another 15 years like I don't know maybe

you'll meet them tomorrow but what if

you don't how are we going to make sure

you live a full and beautiful loving

life and like you've got tons of

relationship and tons of intimacy and

joy and bliss and fun. Like what do you

actually need to do to feel like you

aren't holding yourself back from life

because somebody else hasn't shown up

yet? We have no control over I feel like

the moment my wife was ready to meet me,

she appeared like out of thin air and

like a day before it just wasn't ready.

>> Mhm.

>> And I'm older than her. And so it was

like I was like, "Oh my god, like I am

that's it. like I've I've lost I'm too

old now or you know all the things that

that come with being out of sync in

those kinds of ways. So we each have our

own journey. We don't know why it is.

And yes, the chart will speak to it. But

I first and for foremost want to hold

you as a human and acknowledge what

you're struggling with. And then that's

a real struggle and those are real

fears. Can people miss the love of their

life success

that moment because they weren't

prepared at the right time?

Oh gosh, [sighs]

that's [laughter]

I

I think that for me,

I have certainly

done things to delay

my own success and my own arrival. I

have burned bridges. I have done things

in the past that I look back on and I'm

like, "Oh my god, but I was so full of

insecurity. I felt so unlovable. I felt

so all the things that I didn't know how

else to act. I was coming with my best

and it wasn't meeting the situation. So

in one way it's like well I wasn't ready

for it and I had to learn and grow and

you know really like kind of wrestle

with life and learn and so I wasn't

quite ready for it. But

>> I don't know if you can miss it. I don't

know. I think I feel like that's kind of

fatalistic. M

>> I I just feel like when you that you you

won't catch the other relationships

maybe or the other job opportunities

like you will lose some stuff if you

don't know how to show up for it

>> but it doesn't mean that it won't come

back in a different it

>> doesn't mean it will never exist

>> it just means it could be delayed.

>> Yeah.

>> And

>> and then you got to wait for the next

bus to come. [laughter]

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> And then you got to like figure out what

you're doing with yourself. Are you

going to read a book? Are you going to

waste your time on TikTok? I don't know

like what are you going to do in the in

between?

>> Yeah. Does astrology believe in the idea

of the one that there's one perfect

person for you or that there are many

people who it could work with?

>> I don't think it it doesn't have that

kind of judgment. It looks at the chart

like you can see when someone will have

multiple significant partnerships. You

can see when people have multiple

children. You can see like there's are

there are ways of seeing those things.

And then there's, you know, it's really

important for

us to understand like how

how we work, right? So like if I

understand how I work, then every

relationship I'm showing up to is going

to have a greater potential for me to

learn from.

>> [snorts]

>> And so the one I don't know like every

everyone that I'm in a relationship with

is so important to my life and my

understanding like every single friend,

everyone in my company, everyone teaches

me so much cuz I'm always learning about

how I'm dealing with another human being

given the conditions I'm dealing with

them in. So I think everyone is the one

that we're if we're in a relationship

and we're in contact like that's it. And

then there are these people like no one

else in my life made me feel seen the

way my wife did ever. No one got me. I

don't trust anyone like I trust her.

Like her talent, her her instincts, her

intuition, her knowledge, her wisdom is

for me just unparalleled. So the synergy

between us when we met was just

undeniable. There was too many things

that happened that were like that was

how did you know that I was going to say

that or how did you pull that book out?

I was going to give it to you. You know

there was just so many things that

occurred that I was like this is bigger

than the two of us. This is something

else. This is a third thing. And that is

so unique and so special that you might

call that the one and that's fine if

that's the language. I just think it's

really important to recognize when those

things occur. There are some people that

come into your life and they just change

the entire trajectory of it. I've had

teachers like that and I've had, you

know, this relationship that has been

like that and everybody else was really

helpful, you know, like [laughter] we

did great. It was, you know, it did it

was fine.

>> But this is a distinct category in and

of itself, I think, when and that's my

calling. Like that's my life story.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> I know people that don't have that

story. They have a different story. And

so some people's one is their career or

their art, their calling. Like that's

their one. And that's beautiful. And I

just I want us to live in like a village

full of really distinct different humans

that do life in all kinds of different

ways so that we can share child care.

And [laughter]

>> I love that

not everyone should have children. Not

everyone should get married, you know,

like some of us should live on the

outskirts, some of us should live in the

center. Like some of us are cooking for

everybody, some of us are teaching, some

of us

>> will astrology tell you that's better

for you. Like does astrology does

astrology predetermine whether you're

going to have kids or not? Like how many

kids you'll have?

>> I've had a Vic astrologer tell me that I

wasn't going to have kids and I do.

>> How do you how So how do you reconcile

that as someone who practices who

believes in

>> I understand why he said that and yet

it's not true. So it's like

>> it's a certain condition in my chart and

it's like not great for having kids. And

you could

>> I mean I'm queer so the way we had a kid

is different than how heterosexuals have

kids. So if he was trying to look at my

chart through a heterosexual lens then

yes he's right. But

>> interesting. Yeah.

>> You know so it's really about the

astrologer and where they're coming

from. I've [snorts] had an astrologer

look at my chart and be like I don't

know how you're ever going to find love.

like basically you're doomed.

>> How is so how do you reconcile that?

>> I was like that's a really awful thing

to say to somebody that's not helpful.

Even if you think that's true and you

think you're right, I don't know how

that's ever going to help me.

>> Yeah. Yeah. So, as an astrologer or a

coach or a therapist,

even if my person in front of me takes

it all with a grain of salt, I have a

tremendous responsibility

to be very encouraging of somebody's

best to come forth.

>> I don't need to make them feel doomed.

>> That's everybody already does feel

doomed. Like, we already go there. So,

what can I do to help fortify that

person to help them find their power,

their creativity,

their special thing in this life, and to

move from that place?

>> Um, I don't need to make you feel like

you've got a lack of anything.

>> And I also don't need to predict

everything correctly that you're ever

going to do and say and be. I want that

to be part of the mystery of who you

are. M

>> I just think that you have like

I don't know when I see somebody's chart

I'm so fascinated like I'm like oh my

god you have this thing and you do this

thing and it's the exact replica of you

you're living it out you don't even know

it but it's the exact signature like

that's so beautiful to me so my work is

mostly incredibly awe inspiring cuz I

don't have people coming to me with

questions of like when am I going to

meet the one

>> I really do have people coming to me

with questions of like, okay, I've done

this huge career and now I'm at this

other place and I'm wondering what else

there is.

>> Or, you know,

>> beautiful. Yeah.

>> Yeah. or I'm in this really dark hard

place and I feel like the world's turned

against me and I'm like I'm in that kind

of crucible place

>> and then I get to be like yes I see that

and I'm with you and like this is part

of your journey and I know you've got

what it takes to move through this and I

just

>> want to witness that with you like I get

to witness people's

uh awareness and healing and their

journey and their gifts and I get to

remind them of how powerful they are.

You know, people like I'm sure you have

this too, but like people with

extraordinary like talent and success

doubt themselves so much. I'm like

>> you too.

>> Yeah.

>> You struggle with this insecurity. You

struggle with this self-doubt. [gasps]

>> Wow. It's just the human condition.

>> Yeah.

>> You know, it's incredible that we're so

alike in that place. But there's so much

to what you said about the adeptness of

the practitioner, like the practitioners

that you met that told you, "Hey, you're

doomed. You're never going to find love

or

>> whatever it may be." Like I I was

thinking about it because I think the

often

skepticism is well, if everyone's

telling you different things, then it's

not an exact science and there can't be

truth to it then,

>> right? And I was thinking about even

medically like I remember this is a long

time ago now but a doctor checked my

throat cuz I felt I had a sore throat

but it was really bad. I was like

>> losing my voice. It was painful and he

said, "Yeah, you got a sore throat just

take antibiotics or whatever." And I

took them.

>> Four weeks later it was really bad.

>> And I went to the doctor. I went to an

ENT surgeon nose throat surgeon to be

really clear. And he immediately said to

me, he goes, "You've had polyp growing

in your throat for at least x amount of

months. I can't remember now."

>> And I was like, "Wait a minute. I

literally just got it checked 4 weeks

ago." And he goes, "No, these are

predunctulated uh polyp. They're big.

Like they couldn't have grown in 4

weeks."

>> And so I'm like, I met a doctor who

wasn't an expert, who didn't who was a

doctor, but didn't have

>> the the right tools or whatever you want

to call it. And then I met a surgeon who

was very adept at his job and

immediately saw what the problem was.

and I was in surgery and had to get the

polyp lasered from my throat. But all of

that to say, I think sometimes people

look at astrology and just go, "Oh,

well, if three people said three

different things, then obviously there's

no truth to the actual thing,

>> right?"

>> But that's not correct because like

you're saying, there's so much

>> left to interpretation, cultural

understanding,

>> uh, you know, disposition of. Does that

make sense?

>> Yeah. And that

>> I'm saying in defense of

>> No, I understand what you're saying. I

think if astrology works, the three

astrologers should come up with the same

>> Yeah.

>> thing, the same reading. That's and

that's part of why we made an app

because my my theory is if it works, you

should be able to pull up your chart in

my app and get some kind of guidance

from it and get feel seen, feel

witnessed, and feel like, oh, I make

sense to myself. just because the

technology of the astrology is sound

when it's used

well. And I think that, you know, we're

humans and so you have to take that into

account that when you're going to

another human for advice or for their

expertise,

you're going to have your own

relationship with them. You're going to

walk into the room and they're going to

have a reaction to you. [laughter]

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

>> And it's up to them whether they deal

with that in a productive way or not.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. So many people talk about Saturn

return. Yeah.

>> What is it actually?

>> It's when Saturn comes back to the same

place it was when you were born. And

because Saturn is the planet that to the

naked eye is the last planet in the in

our little solar system. It was thought

as such a big moment because every 28

years you go through this closing of a

loop. So between the age of 27ish 28 27

to 30 you go through this kind of

closing of a door and a threshold

experience into a new stage of life.

Saturn is the planet of responsibility

and of

adulthood. And it's also the planet

that's of mortality. It's like hey I'm

the time lord. Like you don't have all

the time in the world. So at 30, you

should be going through some kind of

crisis, some kind of like, oh, I guess

I'm going to get old, too. And you

should also be doing things [snorts]

that require everything from you. Saturn

is a planet of discipline and hard work.

And so this is the time to put your

money where your mouth is to like be

in the game fully and to again own your

choice and to say I chose to do this.

And it's also a planet of separation. So

in some way shape or form we usually

separate from our family of origin.

Maybe that's psychologically, maybe it's

physically, maybe we get married, maybe,

you know, some kind of big life

transition happens at that time that

distinguishes us from our family of

origin. Not that we're not still part of

it and we could still be living at home

even in well and you know for the rest

of our lives but there's something here

that's like I have to build a really

solid foundation in the world that is

mine that is apart from the thing that I

come from or apart from the convenience

or the comfort of the people that you

know hopefully you have people that love

you and you can feel like you can fall

back on them but you need to understand

that you can go out there and do

something for yourself or that you can

separate in the ways that you need to

separate psychologically, emotionally,

sometimes physically, sometimes

monetary.

>> That's not a negative thing at all.

>> That's really

>> But then why do we talk about it in such

a

>> because the internet [laughter] because

people are like, "Oh, my Saturn return

was awful

>> and then they blame everything on the

Saturn return." But a Saturn return

should be a time of of a kind of like

again discipline, awareness, strictness

almost like severity sometimes, but also

like so much joy. Like in my southern

return, I moved to LA

>> and I was I didn't know anybody here. I

didn't have any money. I didn't have any

contacts. I didn't have anything. And I

was like elated.

>> I really did walk out of my life. I was

living in Toronto and I I left and I

started this whole new chapter here and

it was on my own terms and I had to

really prove myself to myself

>> that I could do this and there were days

where I didn't have anybody to call and

there were financial struggles and I

didn't have a car and like it was a

whole thing but I did it and that no one

could ever take that away from me

>> and as much as I believe in community

and I believe that we shouldn't live in

an individualistic kind of culture. We

have to do those things that help us

understand what we're made of.

>> That h help us understand like put me

anywhere and I'll figure it out.

>> That's how I function at least. And so

that happens at there's a version of

that that happens at 7, at 14, at 21,

and then at like 28ish. That's the big

one.

>> I can relate to every single thing you

just said.

>> Yeah. every single thing you said. It's

it's so vivid for me. It's like

>> 14 in I mean this is small but

>> I remember at 14 that's like the age in

England that you decide what you're

going to study for like

>> oh that's

>> like it's it's an you do it quite early

I assume. So I remember like fighting

with my parents about what I wanted to

focus on and I won and did what I wanted

to do

>> and that's when I fel first felt

confidence in who I was and my ability

and then 21 going on 22 I decided to go

live as a monk.

>> Oh my god. So that was a big decision.

And then 28 I moved to New York and I

was in New York for 2 years going

through exactly what you said when you

moved to LA.

>> Yeah.

>> And it's amazing how that tracks and now

I'm 38. So I've been through 35 as well.

>> Yeah.

>> Um which was an amazing year. But

>> you plant a seed at the Saturn return

cycle of your own selfhood, of your own

adulthood.

>> Yeah.

>> You're like, I am going to stake a claim

here. Maybe this is hard. Maybe it

sucks. Maybe I'm lonely,

>> but I'm doing this

>> and this is my choice.

>> And then by the time you get to 36,

you're at that next first quarter square

and you get to see what worked.

>> Like what from that seed that you

planted at around 30,

>> yeah,

>> is growing,

>> right?

>> And then you're like, okay, I'm either

going to double down on that now

>> or it's not a viable option. And so it's

this really, I think, really helpful

kind of growth cycle. It's so important

because we almost look at all the long

wrong ages. [laughter]

>> Uh like if you look at the material take

on it, it's like we look obvious we look

at like 16 or 18 becoming an 18 becoming

an adult.

>> Like sweet 16 birthday 18 become an

adult. 21 sure you graduate. So that

feels on track but then it almost feels

like after 21 no one cares and then it's

like I'm 30 and I'm 40 and then you're

just scared about

>> the next decade. Yeah. So it's it's less

about growth. It's less about I I loved

what you were saying about how like from

28 to 30 that whole idea was I'm locking

in. I choose what I focus on.

>> The discipline, the grit. I mean, I can

relate to every single one of those

things.

>> I have to put I have to invest in

myself. So, we're talking about those

people earlier that maybe have a really

easy situation. If they don't do that

sad and return thing and they just kind

of fall back on what's easy, then at 36

it gets harder and then again at like

the early 40s it does too. And it's

Saturn is also this like mark it can

feel depressive

until again you kind of start to work

towards well what is the discipline that

I need in order to do this? But some of

us really like thrive on discipline and

[laughter] some of us really have a hard

time with it. You know, there are

signatures in the chart. I have I have

some friends like this that they're just

so good at having fun. And so it's hard

to like gather them and to like help

them to focus because part of the

signature of their life is to like enjoy

things

>> and then you have to kind of like work

against that somewhat.

>> Yeah. So if someone's about to enter

their Saturn return,

>> yeah,

>> what would you recommend they do?

>> Do the things that are hard that are

that are going to require everything

from you that are going to be worthwhile

in the long run. Like what is going to

be satisfying to you 7 years from now?

Do not think about instant

gratification. Do not This is not a

social media game. Like this is about if

you only had seven years left, what

would you do? Like what do you want to

make sure you've left here and what

would move you deeper into your

integrity

so that you were proud of even having

attempted it? And if it's not that

serious, then it's not really either

part of your saturn return or it's not

going to last for that long.

>> [snorts]

>> And so if you it's a lot of times people

will get to that age and you'll start to

see their life crack because they've

spent their 20s in an industry that

maybe wasn't the industry of their

dreams or that took everything from them

and they realized it's not really their

calling. And so they've been locked in

this maybe like corporate thing or

they've been locked in this other you

know relationship and you start to feel

the cracks show at around 28 2930

>> and so this is your chance. This is like

a portal of time. I mean any day is your

chance but this is a time where the

pressure and the gravity of what doesn't

feel good in your life will become

really acute. So, if you're fearing your

Saturn return, you're actually fearing

the truth of your situation and you're

fearing confronting

what you actually need to do and the

work it will take to do it. And that's

fine. You can fear it, but you can also

just like embrace it

>> and move into it and and be okay with I

think you also have to be okay with

being alone, going it alone. You have to

be okay with doing something that wasn't

expected. You have to be okay with

disappointing people.

>> And it's a time where you're supposed to

learn about boundaries.

And so if you can't have a boundary with

yourself, which is to say, I will not

abandon myself,

then it's going to be really rough. M

>> but if you promise that you will not

abandon yourself, you will not abandon

your gifts and your talents and your

inner knowing, then the Saturn return

will really set you on a course that

feels like liberation

>> because it's stripping you down and

being like it's this or it's going to be

like what pain do you want to choose? M

>> you want to choose the pain of choosing

the thing you know you need to choose or

do you want to choose the pain of

denying that

>> and that's kind of the crossroads that

the Saturn return finds us at.

>> You have totally redefined my

perspective of Saturn return [laughter]

>> brilliant. It's so much more powerful as

well. It's

>> Yeah, it is. It's so powerful.

>> It's so powerful. It's so empowering.

It's so clear. It's so

>> it's so better than it's so clarifying

>> to know what you need to focus on and

what this period of life is about. and

>> also just like the willingness to get on

with it and build and you know create

and so

>> the other the other word that's thrown

around is Mercury retrograde

>> and so I was like [snorts]

>> so what is Mercury retrograde

>> and how does it actually affect you?

>> Yeah, it's very common. It happens three

to four times a year for 3 weeks a year.

3 weeks each time. So that's like at

least 9 weeks a year out of 52 it's

going to be retrograde. So because it's

so common,

it is so prevalent and it is so

misunderstood. So [laughter]

>> please clarify.

>> I wish no one ever mentioned Mercury

retrograde [laughter] because I think

it's the main reason why people hate

astrology because someone at the office

will be like, I told you everything was

going to go wrong because Mercury's

retrograde. Um it is a planet of

communication and is a planet that can

rule every and we you know rely on

gadgets and technology and that's all uh

the ways in which we communicate. So

there are some very famous you know

things that have happened during a

Mercury retrograde with tech companies

that are kind of comical. I'm sure

they're really difficult for the people

that are working in them, but for like

sites to go down and for communication

to be bumpy is what is supposed to

happen during Mercury retrograde.

>> But it becomes this catchall for

everything. It becomes a catch-all for

everybody's every emotion. It becomes a

catch-all for every single thing going

wrong ever in the universe. And so then

it loses its definition and it loses its

specificity and it loses its meaning.

>> [snorts]

>> So, it's something really common that

happens. And what it's trying to teach

us is stop,

pause, and turn around and look at what

just happened. Review where you just

came from. Review the document. Do you

need to send that text? Like, it's a

good time to practice.

even whether or not you believe in

astrology, it's just like a good time to

practice mindfulness and thoughtfulness

and reflection. And that's really what

it's about

>> or it's supposed to be about. It's just

like a good time to be reflective. And I

find that it's a it's a I also have a

tech company. So, um I think that

sometimes we feel it a little bit more

acutely than other people. If

something's going to break, it generally

does break during Mercury. And I

[laughter] hate it because I'm always

telling people it's not you. I'm like,

don't make such a big deal about it. And

then I'm like, "Oh my god, here it is

again."

>> But what I also find having a team, and

this is for, you know, we all have a

team, whether it's a family or

housemates or business or whatever,

>> is that the team, whatever the team's

working on, like the system that we've

put in place to work on a project

together, if there's cracks in that

system, it'll reveal itself and it'll be

like, "Oh, well, we didn't put this

thing in place, so then the thing went

out completely wrong and why didn't we

have that system in place?" and

everyone's like, I thought you were

doing it. I thought And so you tend to

find the ways in which we haven't

systematized something in our life.

>> That's so interesting. I love that.

>> Yeah.

>> And that's a more sustainable

>> uh sustainable solution.

>> Yes.

>> Because if you figure out the system,

then the next time Mercury is in

retrograde, the same thing can't break.

>> Right. And it's just like for life,

you're like, "Oh, well, this was always

going to break."

>> Yeah.

>> So it just broke now

>> because it's time for it to break. But

this was never going to work long term.

So I can't I'm not going to get mad at

the planet. I'm going to be like, okay,

where else in my life am I not paying

attention to this thing?

>> Where else in my life am I not seeing

that like this system doesn't work

>> or there's there's a malfunction here

and I need to adjust the way in which

I'm approaching it. And also it's just a

really good time to think like how am I

communicating

to the people in my life

>> that I work with like are they

receiving are they hearing me? Am I

saying things that

are getting the message across?

>> Like what do you need me to say more of?

Or what do I say to you that like shuts

you down? Mhm.

>> What do I say to you that makes you feel

small or unworthy? Do I say things to

you that make you feel a certain way

that I don't want to do that, but I

might be doing it unconsciously? So,

it's a good time to also think about the

ways in which we speak to each other.

[clears throat]

>> And I think because our culture is so

like go go go and forward forward.

Um, these are just invitations to be

more reflective and considerate of what

we're saying and how we're saying it.

>> Do you think sometimes we use charts and

signs as an excuse for our bad behavior

or

>> always

>> acting a certain way? [laughter]

>> Always. I wish I wish I wish we didn't

do it because I I it's not what it's

about. It's never um

It's never the reason why someone's

acting badly.

>> Interesting. Yeah. It's not because

they're sign.

>> It's because a need isn't being met or,

you know, there's some they're

disregulated or, you know, there's

something else happened before they

walked in here. They might do it in a

certain style that might be in

accordance with what you think their

sign means, but it's not that. As

humans, we're always looking for

patterns. And of course, as an

astrologer, I love to look at patterns

because I look at cycles and I try to

see like, oh, what happened 300 years

ago when Pluto was in Aquarius? Oh, we

had an industrial revolution. Oh, Pluto

just went back into Aquarius in March of

2023. Oh, that's when Chat GBT exploded

onto the scene. Like, that isn't another

industrial revolution.

And there's a million signatures that

you can look at like that. So, it's

interesting to see like these big

cycles. But because humans always want

to find pattern recognition, what we

tend to focus on is like that Gemini

broke my heart and so I'm going to see

that characteristic in every other

Gemini that I ever meet, you know, and

that's I just don't think it's helpful.

>> We often hear about how certain signs

are compatible and certain signs are not

>> based on what you just said.

>> Awful advice. [laughter]

>> Not good.

>> Every sign is compatible.

>> No way. There are specific ways in which

the signs will re like say so when

people talk about that they're often

talking about their sun sign. So that's

again one tiny part of someone's whole

entire chart. I really want to look at

the moment that you were born you have

this full picture of the sky and the

moment they were born there's a full

picture of the sky. How do those two

pictures line up? Because there's all

those different points. I need to know

if you're what style is your Venus, what

style is their Venus.

There's no bad combination of Venus

signs. There's just styles. Like your

style of being your sun sign and my

style of being my sun sign will have a

relationship in a certain way, but

that's also obviously based on us. But

it's it's not about there being good and

bad matches. There's about being there's

certain resonances with certain signs,

but you shouldn't be with somebody just

because there's ease. Like that's silly.

>> And it really is about the whole

entirety of somebody and their chart and

the whole entirety of you and your chart

and how those full two things go

together. But I don't think you should

look at somebody's chart until you know

them.

>> Because we all make assumptions.

>> Yeah. Yeah, I think there's such a

negativity bias that we have obviously

naturally as humans.

>> Yeah.

>> That as soon as you hear like you said,

"Oh, my last ex was a Gemini. This one

is too." Or, "Oh, the chart said this

and this is what Yeah.

>> Yeah. Yeah. I don't I just don't think

it it's helpful when you're trying to

meet somebody and get to know them.

>> So, when you're dating, you'd suggest we

actually just date the person."

>> Yes, [laughter] I would love that. If we

if we happen to like them and things are

getting more serious and we believe in

astrology and value it then that should

come later.

>> Yeah. Then you can see like okay where

do we come together like what are the

things that we would be good at doing

together or you would just probably

notice like oh yeah that is what we

naturally do together. How cool that

that is reaffirmed in our charts. But I

think you should always

come to a first date or a situation

where you might be meeting someone and

really again try to feel what it feels

like to be with them. What is the energy

between you? Like do you feel safe? What

is your body saying? Like what are they

telling you? What are the little things

they're telling you that you would

normally not listen to? Are there red

flags? Like there's a million things to

look at and pay attention to before you

get to an astrology chart.

>> Can astrology charts tell you about some

of the long-term red flags?

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Like what?

>> Yeah. Like where you'll uh have like

communication issues down the road where

like your Venuses like our my Venus is

in a certain sign, your Venus is in a

certain sign. So, if it's really

different or if they don't have a

relationship with one another, then

we're going to have to work to kind of

like connect it. You know, there's

things that will eventually aggravate

you about any person that you're with

long term. And those differences and

disparities are in the charts, but

they're also in the relationship. So,

you know what they are. The chart will

just kind of confirm that that those are

differences. And this these are where

you come together and this is where you

kind of go your separate ways or this is

where you will generally tend to like

miss each other. Like my wife and I have

very different incompatible charts and a

lot of things just don't go together.

There's obviously places where it's like

full harmony. But then there's places

where we're just like kind of alien to

each other almost. And [snorts] it's not

that I don't relate to those parts of

her, she doesn't relate to those parts

of me. It's just we do it so

differently.

>> Yeah.

>> And that's what makes our relationship,

you know, it's like, oh, that's what

she's doing the thing or I'm doing the

thing. And that makes me have to

struggle to like appreciate and

understand somebody else and there's

always going to be that disparity in any

relationship.

>> Yeah, I couldn't agree more.

>> I feel like we always want everything

easy and simple and prepackaged and it's

like

>> Well, yeah, I couldn't agree more. It's

almost like that balance between it

shouldn't be

excruciating or torture you obviously

and then it it can't ever be fully

seamless and easy.

>> Yeah. That's only when we're first born

hopefully with our parent, you know,

like

>> if that

>> if that Yeah. Most of us don't even have

that. But that's what we're I feel like

trying to get back to that

>> totally that total union.

>> And that's not what being a human is. We

have to separate from each other and we

have to find those places

>> um of difference.

>> Yeah. As as it's coming up to the end of

the year and

>> people may be looking back and thinking

this year didn't go the way they wanted

to.

>> Maybe they didn't make the progress in

their career that they wanted. Maybe

their relationship is just about

surviving. Maybe they haven't found a

partner that they're looking for. How

would you encourage them to release this

year so that they can truly move into

the next year with a healthier mindset

and approach?

>> I think that one of the things that's

important to remember about this time of

year, at least in the northern

hemisphere, is that we're moving into

more and more darkness. We're moving

away from the great activity of summer

and we're moving into the quietness and

the stillness, which again is hard for

most of us because life is so busy. But

I think it's really important to allow

yourself to think about this frame of

time, especially as we move closer to

the winter solstice, as being a time

where we're just allowing a waning of

energy to occur, and we're allowing that

waning of of conscious activity to help

us transition into a a place of of

stillness and regeneration.

And then if we don't allow those times

of release, like if the year was hard,

it was hard for I think most people in a

lot of different ways in a a lot of

different places. And so if we don't

allow certain times, especially at the

end of the year,

to unwind and to to fully kind of just

like let it be like whatever this year

has been for you,

that happened. it impacted you. What is

it that you're left with now? And just

allowing some days, especially, you

know, in December, especially as we move

towards the 21st of December, the

solstice

to just be with what was, who were you

at the beginning of last year, who are

you now at the end of this year? and

have those moments of reflection because

you know like the year will change and

things will open up and it'll be busy

busy busy and it'll be a lot of things

but astrologically speaking 2025 was one

of those like gamechanging years where

all of these major planets change signs

and so it was a signal that this year

was going to be very different than

years that we've had in the past and

there was going to be things that were

going to happen this here that were

going to impact us for decades to come.

So, if you feel like you haven't been

able to do all the personal things that

you wanted to do, yes, like we're in the

midst of a massive transition and a lot

of change and so you're also

caught up in a greater cycle of things,

right? We're in a collective thing right

now. And so the world is working and

looking differently. And so

allowing yourself time to just reflect

and not even so much with your mind, but

just like allowing your body to

decompress in any way, shape or form

to just deal with the impact of what

this year has brought, I think is a huge

gift to yourself. and allowing yourself

some time again if you don't have kids

but allowing yourself some time to write

to reflect and to reset like you can

reset we can take a pause we can you

know turn the off switch off like let it

drop down

>> and give yourself a minute

>> Mhm.

>> to be a human.

>> Yeah. and just like let the reckoning

kind of happen, but allow yourself to be

human.

>> Yeah.

>> And just be as much as you can. It's the

gift of darkness. It's the gift of

winter. It's the gift of this time of

year is to just like less and less and

less and less because it'll all come

back and back and back and back. So any

of that stillness, anytime you can get

out in nature, anytime you can gaze up

at the sky, anytime you can really truly

be present with your people, like

hopefully there's gatherings and

hopefully there's, you know, places of

warmth and connection in your life. Just

let yourself be filled back up. If this

year has been disappointing, do what you

can to fill yourself back up

>> at this point. And are there any habits

or practices you recommend people take

into the new year or to set themselves

up for that new year to make it

different?

>> Yeah, so I do have, you know, like we

have on the app, we've got readings for

the new year. You can map out your whole

year if you want to use astrology. I go

through each month and tell you about

the energy and the pattern of that month

and like this month is like go time.

this month is going to look a little

clustered and a little bit more

difficult to like but we can do this and

this and this. So every week I give you

specific things to do. I'm quite

actionorientated

and also reflective but I do like to say

okay this is what this time is good for.

This is what we can do. And so I go

through each month so you could always

listen to all those readings and kind of

plan out your month or your year month

to month. Um, and there is a ritual for

the solstice that we have on the app

because I think it is a really powerful

moment. It's the obviously the longest

night and shortest day, but from there

the light starts to increase. So any

intentions that you set or anything you

do around the solstice, if you think in

terms of cycles

brings the everinccreasing light with

it. So, it's a really good time to

think, allow yourself to move into

stillness and get really contemplative,

fill yourself up, and then see like what

are my intentions for this year? And

plant those intentions by writing them.

You can burn them if you want. Gather

with friends, talk about them.

[clears throat]

How are you going to bring life into

your intentions?

like what are you going to you want to

again clear space get clear about it

write them down understand what it is

you're moving towards and then what are

you going to do we got to we have to

feed those we have to feed those

intentions then

>> every day but if you want to think of it

symbolically the winter solstice is that

time when the light just continues to

grow into the next 6 months so you could

use that as a encouragement

>> Jenny you have completely expanded my

viewpoint opened my mind in an

incredible way

>> and answered so many

>> hopefully not stupid questions, but uh

I've learned so much and and I really am

so happy that for your success and your

ability to help so many people because I

can easily tell from sitting with you

for the past couple of hours that

everything you're doing is coming from a

great place but also is truly trying to

guide people towards their greatness and

>> their best self and

>> you know through through all the amazing

teachings and studies and reseets that

you've done. So, thank you so much. Such

a joy.

>> Uh we end every episode of OnPurpose

with a final five. Yes.

>> These questions have to be answered in

one word to one sentence matter.

>> Okay.

>> So, you have a sentence. [laughter] You

have a sentence.

>> Uh so, Channy Nichols, these are your

final five.

>> The first question is, what is the best

advice you've ever heard or received?

>> If you choose it, do not feel sorry for

yourself about it. Your agency is your

greatest gift and your greatest power.

The moment you feel sorry for yourself,

you decouple yourself. You do the

yourself the greatest disservice. If you

choose it, do not feel sorry for

yourself about what it takes to make it

happen. You can unchoose it, but

[snorts] if you're choosing it, this is

what it is. Do you still want it?

>> Such a great answer. I love that.

>> So many.

>> So good. No, that was great. That was

great. I loved it. [laughter] Second

question. What is the worst advice

you've ever heard or received?

>> Someone telling me they didn't know how

I was ever going to find love.

>> I don't know if that's advice, but

>> yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Uh, question number three.

Does astrology tell you when you're

going to die?

[snorts and sighs]

[gasps]

>> There are ancient timing techniques that

do. I do not dabble in those arts.

>> Tell me more about the art. [laughter]

Tell me more about the arts you don't

dabble in.

I don't want to know that there there

are timing techniques. There's like

mathematical equations you can do.

There's ways that you can tell that.

There are people very few most

astrologers would say I don't I won't do

that

>> cuz I don't I don't that's not a

>> Yeah,

>> that's not an art form that I need to

look at.

>> It's above my pay grade.

>> Yeah. Got it. Um question number four.

What's a misconception about astrology

that you'd like to debunk?

>> That there are certain signs that are

good or bad.

>> They're all bad. [laughter]

>> Yes, they're all problematic.

>> Explain which what's the right answer.

>> Well, everyone every single sign is an

archetype. So the archetype is both has

qualities of both like magnificence and

horror because they're reflective of us.

>> So everyone's a problematic fave.

[laughter]

>> Uh fifth and final question. We ask this

to every guest who's ever been on the

show. If you could create one law that

everyone in the world had to follow,

what would it be?

>> I've listened to a lot of your episodes.

I don't remember this question.

>> Oh, it's always lost.

>> Okay.

>> So

>> I have a living. Yeah, exactly.

[laughter]

That's what I'm learning, Channy.

>> Yeah,

>> the law is that everybody's child is

yours.

>> M I love that answer. That's a great

answer. Never had that before. That's

brilliant.

>> Uh the book is called You Were Born for

This. The app is called the Channy app.

Uh Channy Nichols. Everyone, please

share what you learned on your Instagram

stories, your Tik Toks. I'd love to see

the clips that you all create and the

parts of this that you're going to

practice. Of course, use the app if

you're someone who really wants to know

your chart and understand how your next

year of 2026 is going to map out. And of

course, go and grab Channy's book, You

Were Born for This: Astrology for

Radical Selfacceptance. Uh, and follow

Channy Nichols across all social media

platforms if you don't already. Chenny,

thank you so much for being here today.

I hope this is the first of many times

that you'll come on the show and

enlighten me and our community and so

grateful for you and thank you for

asking answering all the questions

wherever we went.

>> So grateful to connect with you. Thank

you so much.

>> Thank you.

>> If you love this episode, you'll love my

conversation with Dr. Joe Dispensza on

why stress and overthinking negatively

impacts your brain and heart and how to

change your habits that are on

autopilot. Listen to it right now. How

many times do we have to forget until we

stop forgetting and start remembering?

That's the moment of change. No one

cares how many times you fell off the

bicycle. If you ride the bicycle now,

you ride the

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
astrology əˈstrɒlədʒi B2	noun - the study of the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs
chart tʃɑːrt A2	noun - a map or diagram representing a specific area or phenomenon
mirror ˈmɪrə A1	noun - a reflective surface, typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, that reflects light without refraction
potential pəˈtɛnʃəl B1	noun - the capacity or ability to develop or achieve something in the future
amulet ˈæmjulət B2	noun - an object worn or carried to bring good luck or protection
crystallization ˌkrɪstəlɪˈzeɪʃən C1	noun - the process of forming a solid, especially a crystal, from a solution or melt
snapshot ˈsnæpʃɒt B1	noun - a photograph taken quickly, typically without preparation
horoscope ˈhɒrəskəʊp B1	noun - a forecast of a person's future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the positions of the stars and planets at the time of a person's birth
rising ˈraɪzɪŋ A2	adjective - moving upward; ascending
synergy ˈsɪnədʒi C1	noun - the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects
transits ˈtrænsɪts B2	noun - the passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a particular place

Key Grammar Structures

• When you’re born, we look at the sky and take a snapshot of the entire sky at that exact moment.

  ➔ Zero conditional (if‑clause + present simple)

  ➔ The word "when" introduces a time clause that works like an "if" clause, triggering the main clause in the present simple.

• If you choose it, do not feel sorry for yourself about what it takes to make it happen.

  ➔ First conditional (if + present simple, imperative)

  ➔ "If" introduces a possible future action; the main clause uses the imperative "do not feel" to give advice.

• There’s a catch‑all for everything, and it loses its definition and its meaning.

  ➔ Existential there + be + noun phrase; parallel nouns with conjunction "and"

  ➔ "There’s" is the contracted form of "there is", introducing the existence of "a catch‑all"; the second clause repeats "its" to avoid repetition.

• Because Mercury is retrograde, it’s a good time to practice mindfulness and reflection.

  ➔ Causal clause with "because" + main clause (result)

  ➔ "Because" introduces the reason (Mercury being retrograde); the main clause states the consequence "it’s a good time...".

• You can see where the planets were in the sky at the exact moment you were born.

  ➔ Modal verb "can" + infinitive; relative clause "you were born"

  ➔ "Can" expresses ability; the infinitive "see" follows it. The relative clause "you were born" specifies the time of the snapshot.

• Your rising sign is the marker of your life; it is the ‘yes’ to existence.

  ➔ Compound sentence with semicolon; predicative noun phrase "the marker of your life"

  ➔ The semicolon links two closely related independent clauses; "the marker of your life" functions as a predicative noun describing "rising sign".

• If you don’t adapt to the information, you’ll end up like a rain‑coat on a sunny day.

  ➔ Second conditional (if + past simple, would + infinitive) with idiomatic comparison

  ➔ "If" introduces an unreal present condition; "you’ll end up" (future result) uses "will" contracted to "'ll". The phrase "like a rain‑coat on a sunny day" is a metaphorical comparison.

• The sky has always been part of our relationship with life; it taught us math and rhythm.

  ➔ Present perfect simple; coordinated clauses with semicolon; past simple in parallel clause

  ➔ "Has always been" uses the present perfect to express a continuous state from the past to now; the semicolon ties two related ideas together.