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Hello everyone and welcome to the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Jen and I'm Kat and we're here

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for your first season four episode. Welcome. Welcome everybody. Can't believe season four.

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We've been doing this for a bit now. We're so grateful that you're here still listening

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to our crazy voices. And the most impulsive decision to start this podcast and here we

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are and life has had so many ebbs and flows along the way since we have started this journey.

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So we love you all and appreciate you being here as always. And we wanted today's episode

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really just to be kind of a drop in on what's been going on with Kat and I. I also wanted

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to share some of the astrology coming up for like the first half of the year just to give

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you that little forecast. And yeah, we are here. We're here. 2023. Yes. To start us off

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Kat. Yeah, we realized we never shared our like words of the year. So if you want to

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share yours and kind of talk about what's been coming up for you recently. Sure. Yeah.

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So 2022 was a really hard year when I was doing my reflecting and my journaling prompts.

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That was like the underlying feeling that was just coming up from the air. And it was

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big and beautiful. And there were so many amazing moments, of course. And I don't want

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to like the hardness to overshadow that. But there were so many challenges for me from

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like buying a house starting the year with that. And then having like the cockroaches,

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the break in. The worst start of a home. Seriously. Like you could have had that. That was a nightmare.

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And just like not knowing that a lot of that stuff was normal and like to be expected.

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It just seemed like the end of the world when it came up. And then yeah, there was like

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a lot of other things with transitioning my work, getting a job again. That was just a

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big transition to get back into after a year and a half of working for myself. And then

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like yoga teacher training, leading retreats, just like a lot of busyness, especially in

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September and October that all kind of felt like it came to a front and everything was

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just very overwhelming and beautiful and awesome, but just like too much. So my word for last

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year was rooted. And it was because like I knew I wanted to buy a house. I knew I wanted

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to get that job. So my root chakra, I wanted to really focus on that and like have this

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grounding energy. And it's funny because the universe was like, oh yeah, we'll give you

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your root chakra stuff, but we're going to turn it on its head. And so it was like an

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earthquake is what it felt like. But with that, it was so amazing just to reflect on

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the highs and the lows and everything in between and just all the lessons that I could take

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from that because I really think that all in all, like my intention did manifest in

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the way that I needed it to. And reflecting on that too, I was able to land on the word

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for this year, which is peace, inner peace, peace just like all in my life, everything

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I interact with everyone, all the things that I do and engage in. So peace, peace, peace.

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I know what I'm leaving in 2022, which is a lot of just like saying yes to everything.

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A lot of the people pleasing a lot of even ego of like, oh, I should do this. Oh, that's

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a great opportunity. I'd be stupid not to take it when I was just ignoring my needs

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in many ways. And so a lot of things like conversations in my relationship with Kyle

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like made me realize that really conversations with my therapist. I also like did EMDR last

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year and overcame some really big fears. So all of that and the ketamine journey. Yeah,

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sure. A lot of work, a lot of challenge, a lot of difficulty, but a lot of transmuting

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things so that this year I feel like I'm arriving at this place of just being so ready to kind

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of like take my time in this year and have less on my plate and be really intentional

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with my energy so that I'm not finding myself and that depletion mode that I was in for

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so much of last year. So excited. So far, so good. Of course, we're recording this. It's

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still January. I know this is coming out on the third. So we'll see what the last couple

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weeks of January have here. But so far it's been mostly aligned with my intention of peace.

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A couple of little things here and there. We're like, oh, is this, you know, is this

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aligning with peace? It's like, OK, let's come back. So I really credit all of my rituals,

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meditation, my all of that has been going really well. And yeah, just peace, peace,

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peace. I think what you just said is also perfect. Like landing back into peace, even

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if it, you know, things kick it up. Landing back like that, knowing to come back to that.

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That's the point of an intention, right? As we have that word that then even when things

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go different, we can, you know, let that be our guiding light. That's why setting a word

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is always like so important and fun. But thanks for sharing all that, Kat. And yeah, I think

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for me, last year we talked some in our reflection. My I let my words be inspired action. And

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I was 100 percent in action mode last year. I had taken the year on the road the year

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before that. So last year included coming back to Denver, getting a place again, moving

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fully into that, making my home my own and lots of stuff. So it was busy. I think a lot

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happened with business stuff for me and getting back into the flow of working then and finding

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that balance. And it's my Saturn return and lots of lessons within that. So it was just

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a very busy year. But I think inspired action was beautiful. I felt really pretty consistent

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energy throughout that year because last year because I had given myself a year of rest

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before and rest is not maybe the best depiction of what it was because there was a lot that

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came up around rest wounds around rest. But yeah, I felt inspired last year. It felt really

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beautiful to like re enter everything with like fresh eyes. And I think I really needed

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that. And yeah, my energy was fairly consistent throughout the year. And that was really great.

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I think I'm going to share some of the astrology of what has been happening like like through

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November, December, January here. I think a lot has come up at the end of 2022 coming

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into 2023 for me. I set my word as experience because even as I was entering into the new

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year, I had so much stuff coming up for me. And I actually just like cried and was overwhelmed

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because I wanted to set a word. I've always said a word and I just like, yeah, I felt

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like I couldn't even bring thoughts into the equation. I was feeling so much from the retrogrades

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we just went through. And then I was like, within all this feeling, like maybe I'm just

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meant to experience. And I think yeah, this year is going to be I think a lot of leaning

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into my sensitivities and my softness and a lot of that like feminine kind of energy,

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like really owning it and staying in feelings longer. I think last year would have been

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a little bit more of a masculine action year for me. I was going a lot and I think I was

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going in a much healthier way than you know, I ever have before. But still think this year

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is going to be leaning into a lot. I've already felt from the stars that I haven't been able

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to really grip that same kind of control and that same kind of being able to know exactly

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what's coming and having a plan that's mapped out. Like I already feel like I can't even

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predict what's happening in two weeks in this moment, let alone like what's coming up months

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from now. And so it's yeah, I'm being called into really present minded thinking again,

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which happened a lot on the road. So it's kind of funny the swing of it. I feel like

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last year was a totally different energy than I think what this one's going to include.

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And I think there's gonna be a lot of transitions in my life this year. There's a lot of things

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that we have discussed and talked about. So it'll be very fascinating to see where my

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life lands in this. But yes, I'm going to experience it all. Really nice and a good

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word for it. And something you brought up too of like, with our own years reflecting

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on them as being like, oh, a masculine year with like a lot of doing or feminine year

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like this, like with the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rabbit, which is a

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year year. So naturally with that energy comes like some slowness and softness and more femininity.

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And I think it had me reflecting on how last year, my word rootedness, like I mentally

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had gone into it thinking it was going to be more yin and feminine with like, oh, just

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like leaning into safety security. But no, it was very masculine. And so that's why I

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had to like flip it so much this year for the feminine.

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And we're both wanting the same thing. So I like that. Yes. Received. Yes. Peace. So

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good. And I would love, Kat, before I go nerding into astrology mode, if you could just give

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a few bullet points, like I know this podcast, what we've always wanted out of this is to

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just be able to talk through a lot of concepts that have helped us have like just a full

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embracing of everything that life is giving us share spiritual tools, like, you know,

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emotional healing tools, things that have helped us get into our body all to kind of

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ride the waves of life. But you know, where we call ourselves awakened together because

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awakening is this endless journey that doesn't stop. And I would love to hear like where

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you feel like you are somewhat in your spiritual journey and just, yeah, any any themes around

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that if there's anything separate from what you've already shared?

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Yeah. Well, I'll say that, I mean, so far this year, I feel like my piece, something

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I've been really prioritizing to keep my piece on the pedestal is really in my morning ritual.

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And that's really nothing new. But this is my first opportunity of the day where I feel

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like I can really connect with my higher self, connect with spirits, and I do that through

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meditation. So I love that it's not even something I have to think about right now when in the

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past in my journey, like, it, it would sound really, really hard to sit down for meditation

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three days a week. And now I'm doing it like most, you know, almost every day, sometimes

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like five to seven days a week. And that's just normal. And I noticed when I haven't

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had that time, like midday, because my thoughts are just going a little bit faster and a little

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bit more chaotic, but just having that time to connect. I've been doing some spirit guides,

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meditations, and just sitting with my guides more often. Also, actually, close towards

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the end of last year, something kind of just came to me where, as you know, like you're

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vegetarian, I've been a pescatarian for the past five years. And I just had this this

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feeling like right around Thanksgiving time, which is funny, that I didn't feel aligned

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with being pescatarian anymore, that I felt that it was kind of holding me back and that

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I would feel guilty when I would want something that had like bacon on it, or that I would

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feel shame if I had something like unknowingly that had meat in it. And I sat with that and

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I kind of reflected on that. And I just came to this point of like, why am I doing this

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harm to myself? Like, no one else cares. This is strictly self imposed that I am creating

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these food rules. And that's something that I work with my clients on a lot in health

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coaching is like, not not having your food equal your worth, or like the amount of food

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or the quality of food, of course, like, we want to keep it high vibe so that we're feeling

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our best and that that's coming from a place of self love. But if these rules aren't coming

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from a place of self love, what are they for? You know? And so I've made the decision I'm

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not like a meat eater, I would not identify again. But if I had to choose a word in this

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silly, but I'd go with flexitarian. Wow, that's a good one. God. Aquarius season is here.

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I got with the jokes.

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You can always count on me.

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I love that.

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Not that I'm gonna go put myself in another box right away. But that's kind of another

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big thing that's been surfacing for me. And then the last thing that I'll share that's

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been shifting for me is for a good chunk of last year, the majority of last year, maybe

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all of it, I was really finding myself operating from this place of scarcity. And I think,

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you know, it was the big transition of really having a couple years to reflect on like,

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oh, my old salary was really nice. And working for myself, obviously, like I had a lot more

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time and flexibility. And in many ways, like I value that more than money in many cases.

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But after buying a house, like, okay, we have expenses, I kind of have to tap back into

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that 3d realm of, okay, the reality of that. And so I did a lot of manifesting a lot, a

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lot of just like, trying to identify when the scarcity mindset came up, and then kind

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of being with it and asking it like, is this because I'm feeling like I just don't have

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enough? Or is this because of something else? And basically, I had some really hard conversations

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for me, but like, really, really important ones and growth oriented at work, advocating

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for myself and got to hate those conversations more than anything where you're like asking

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for a raise asking for more money, because I think especially as women, we are told that

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like, that's a big no no and taught that from a young age. But I did the things I listened

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to a great audio book about boundaries, actually, it's called boundaries, how to set the limits

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that will set you free, something like that, by Melissa urban, who is the creator of the

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whole 30. So she knows rules. But I'd highly recommend that book. And then yeah, kind of

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how that has all played out over the past six months is I got the raise, I got a bonus

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and on Friday actually got in a bonus that I wasn't even anticipating. So it seems like

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abundance is just coming my way this year. And I am welcoming it with open arms. Time,

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money, all the things that felt like I didn't have enough of are here. So grateful. Beautiful.

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Beautiful. How about you, Jen? You've got a lot going on. Literally so much. Yeah, I

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think on my spiritual journey, as of now, I think I've had a lot of conversations with

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different people and like my community and stuff. And just yeah, various deep talks with

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people about, you know, I still think from the big spiritual social media wave that kind

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of all happened in the pandemic, which was really beautiful in a lot of ways, I think

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there's been a lot of misinterpretation of some things. And so I've had a lot of conversations

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more around what spirituality like means to me more recently. And it's been fun to kind

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of talk that out. But I think so much that this isn't you do your practices perfect.

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And then you know, it goes away. I think as Kat was saying with meditation, I have habit

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loops for things now that used to take the utmost effort to get me to do and I would,

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you know, shame myself when I wasn't doing it. And it took really little baby steps to

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build habit loops and to where now yeah, I meditate three times a week and I have some

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form of body movement or yoga practice three times a week. I still do my happiness formula,

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all this is in it, my reading and then my nature walk or run and then some form of like

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lifting for my body because I am neurodivergent and hypermobile and my body's super sensitive.

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And so I have to have these practices to feel good in my body and mind and soul. And I've

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kept up with this happiness formula for a long time. I've shared it before. But yeah,

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I've stuck with that. But I've really realized to that spirituality for me is not what practices

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you are and aren't doing throughout things. It's really learning to feel connected and

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not shaming yourself through all the different stuff that can happen. Like there's so much

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that can be out of our hands and just being able to kind of, you know, look at it from

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a point where we're honoring our space for feelings and space for perspective and asking

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for help and digging into the why we felt a certain way about things. It's all about

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just like more intentional reflection to realize that there's always a personal way to look

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at things. There's always a way to kind of zoom out. And I think it's the balance of

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zooming in and zooming out. That's really helpful with spirituality. It's not about

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this perfection energy. If we start bringing that in, yeah, that is not what this is about.

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And I think I've had a lot of conversations on that. And I think for me, on top of having

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kind of this even formula for mind, body and spirit within that, I still will sometimes

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get so regiment that I forget that those practices are there to help me get back to my body and

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to feel into things. I almost treat it then like a checklist. So I've had to learn to

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come back to intention with thought and all of those. So what one day is a problem? Like

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all I wanted so bad, if you would ask me like four years ago, I just want a routine, help

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me. I could not get a routine for the life of me. Now I have a really perfect routine.

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I don't break my routine. And now that's my new problem is breaking my routine and knowing

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how to like safely honor feelings within it. So just remember that it's not all one thing.

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The thing that's a solution one day is a problem the next. And that's how it all goes. But

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I think perspective within all of that and reflection within all of that is just so important.

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And for me, the most spiritual of things, I still go to regular Reiki and I still have

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had like really cool energy experiences and really cool stuff that's happened in meditations.

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I've been playing a lot more with like chanting meditations and it's been really fun. And

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yeah, lots of little things, but I think the biggest is astrology. I am like, I've done

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so many readings now and I'm so grateful for that. And I think it's just endlessly just

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points to another like frame of reference for us to kind of surrender in different ways,

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because so much of what is often coming up for us is to show us another side of our soul.

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And when you like know the astrology for me, I think, you know, you can turn everything

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toxic. People can use astrology to once again deflect feeling all of their shit and you

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know, judging other people, you can use it as a weapon just as much as a strength. But

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I think yeah, astrology just endlessly makes me feel so spiritually in tune because I depersonalize

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a lot of the stuff happening to me. And that allows me to actually feel it more. I'm like,

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okay, I know up in the sky, this is happening. Like, what does this feel like to me? I feel

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like I'm communicating with all of the planets, what they're doing up there. And it just makes

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me feel like so in tune and whole. And I love having astrology as that kind of reference

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and being able to look at a bunch of individuals charts and their souls and like all the people

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that have let me dig into that with them, your birth chart and how you are. It just

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it points to the uniqueness. No two people can have the same birth chart. And it just

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shows that we're all like pieced in this together. And as I've shared in other astrology themed

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episodes is we have some stuff that links us in with our yet our peers are close and

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age peers collective like our generation. And then there's just so much cool connectivity

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and all of it. And I think every time I dig into astrology, I feel a lot closer to the

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universe and that higher higher force. So I'm going to talk a little bit about that.

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Yeah,

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lowdown for what to expect in 2020.

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Literally. And first, before even going into 2023, I just want to share and validate if

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yeah, start. So I'll start we'll start in August of last year, just to say one other

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little thing here. Mars is the planet of intensity and drive and our energy. And it's passionate

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and angry sometimes it has that fiery energy. And it's how we get moving. And so it's a

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really powerful part of our chart in a lot of ways. But normally it only stays in one

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sign for two to three months. So we get to be charged by an air sign that we get charged

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by a fire sign and we get charged by a water sign and we get all this energy kind of directed

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in different ways for us. Mars went into Gemini in August and all the astrologers were like

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kind of freaking out about it because they were like it is staying in in Gemini until

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let me get the exact date. 325. So March 25th. So we still have more time. And Gemini is

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such a Gemini Gen over here. Gemini is such a busy thinking sign and it's constant thoughts.

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Like it's just it comes in on a stream. And so everyone kind of got hit with that. If

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you have Gemini energy in your chart, it might not have felt too big of a shake at once.

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But then Mars went retrograde and whenever a planet goes retrograde, it takes the energy

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of it and then kind of manifests it a little bit more inward. So from October 31st until

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January 16th, we had Mars retrograde in Gemini after it and it's still in Gemini the whole

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time. But then all of that, all those excitable thoughts that you maybe had all come in all

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at once, like all these ideas, all of a sudden you couldn't really do anything with it. It

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just was kind of floating in your head. I think it made a lot of people very exhausted,

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like the burnout level of just thinking too much. It's like, I want the thinking to stop.

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Like that was very much kind of the energy and you almost manifested it yourself because

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there just wasn't action you could take on your thoughts. So you had to just let them

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be so you couldn't really cling to the thoughts the same way, which actually then in ways

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like makes you have to tune into other sides of yourself. And I know I've gotten to talk

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to a few people that this Mars retrograde since October has really brought up a lot.

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Any unconscious patterns around what you have shared, your thoughts, your thinking, like

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anything that's Gemini themed probably has bubbled up in some way, shape or form. And

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yeah, then we had a Mercury retrograde, which that happens three times a year and that's

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very expected, but that Mercury retrograde, which always hits Gemini and Virgo in some

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ways because Mercury is the ruler of those two signs. It was the Mercury retrograde is

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actually in peppercorn, but the two planets doing that at the same time. I think I have

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listened to people's lives and what happened and what has happened in my own freaking life.

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I feel like I'm a different person. I feel like I just lived 10 years in this cycle.

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So yeah, just some validation there. If things have been a little intense, like we are sitting

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here and it's January 21st, this episode comes out two, three, we are entered into Aquarius

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season now. We have an Aquarius new moon and yeah, it's actually kind of like the start

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of the year energy now. Like what we were going through before was not really the start.

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So it just wasn't, it wasn't accurate. It was a really weird start to the year. I had

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a program going on in this and it's just been talked about a lot too. It's just been hard

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to do what you normally do. So here we are. Let's talk about this year now, but yeah,

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we have actual direct energy now. So all of the planets are now direct and that we get

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that for a while and that just means that the energies kind of feel more normal and

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are playing out. Mars is still going to be in Gemini until 325 and then it goes into

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cancer and then it's on a normal rhythm again. So Mars going into cancer is going to just

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be like it's normal two to three months and Mars is going to be going normal now. So we're

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not going to have as much of that coming up in the first half of the year. We should feel

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probably a pretty big shift just getting out of that Gemini energy. And then yeah, we had

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Jupiter go into Aries 1220 and it's lasting until May 16th. And Jupiter and Aries is just

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... Jupiter is the planet of luck and abundance and Aries has this fiery energy of getting

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some stuff going and being more clear. There's also a good independent component with Aries

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that you can make some stuff happen for yourself. So I think it's a lot of honoring your needs

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within that and that's a really cool energy to get to have on top of everything going

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direct now. So we should be feeling like, okay, all that just happened, but I can do

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this stuff for myself. I can write my story. I can navigate things in a more clear way.

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Think it got a little convoluted there at the beginning of the Jupiter Aries, but we

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can feel into that energy a little bit more. And then the really freaking big one, there's

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actually three big ones to share in this year, but we'll start with, I guess we can do Saturn

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first. March 7th, Saturn is going to enter into Pisces and Saturn stays in a sign for

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like two and a half years because Saturn's a lot slower moving. So everyone that had

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Saturn in Aquarius, we're almost done with the Saturn returns for the Saturn in Aquarius

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generation. That was like a two and a half year period. We all just went through it.

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Now Saturn's going to enter into Pisces. So then the Saturn Pisces crew that will start

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having their Saturn returns, but Pisces is so spiritual and so intuitive and so sentimental.

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And there's like a lot of feeling and yeah, feminine energy around Pisces. And Saturn

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is like opposite, like kind of a masculine sign and hardworking and like, how can we

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do this? And this energy though, I feel like is really going to bring about a lot of shifts

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around spirituality, like what's actually appropriate. I read a few blogs with people

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talking about how this has caused a lot of upheaval in the past with different religious

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stuff getting called out. It's like a redefining of spirituality, a re-embracing of creativity

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and doing it in a way that's like healthy and yeah, just actually surrendering and not

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being like stifled by previous boxes. Like Pisces is the most flowy intuitive wisdom

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sign in a lot of ways. So that's going to be a really fun energy to feel into starting

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in March and then March 23rd, Pluto is entering it into Aquarius and Pluto moves so freaking

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slow. So for the past 30 years, it's been bouncing between Capricorn and Scorpio. And

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yeah, this energy has been, I actually, I need to fact check on the Scorpio, but yeah,

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it's mainly been in Capricorn. Pluto has been in Capricorn and that energy is a way more

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collective energy. So Pluto shifting into Aquarius, it's going to be there for three

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months and then it's kind of going to go retrograde. And then once it actually fully enters into

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Aquarius in 2024, it's going to be there for like 30 years. So this is huge. We're going

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to get like a little nugget of what the Pluto Aquarius is going to do and Pluto shifts everything.

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It's the transformer in the sky and Aquarius is like, what do we need to do for humanity?

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How can we be like, let everyone express their uniqueness, their own individuality? So Pluto

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Aquarius is going to like, everything I think is finally going to fall. That's been keeping

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people having to stay boxed in and not embracing their individuality. So very fucking cool.

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Very excited for that one. I think, yeah, we're going to see a lot of shifts. We're

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going to get a little, a little taste there, like March, starting March 23rd, and it goes

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until June. It's going to retrograde back a little bit, but yeah, noting what's going

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on in that little period is probably going to be fine. I guarantee when Pluto does something,

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you see it on a more massive level. And I already, there's already been so many protests

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and stuff coming up and people fighting like Aquarius just is going to break down everything.

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It's all about freedom seeking for all. So it's going to be really cool. And yeah, there's

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one other transit, the lunar nodes are going to be switching into Aries and Libra and that

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happens in July. And just that we can circle back to that when it comes. But the nodes

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are so much tied to like our, our soul and our karma and just like seeing how we relate

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to maybe things our souls already mastered versus what we're being called into and how

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much we avoid that and go to what's comfortable. And we've been playing on this Taurus and

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Scorpio energy, which is a lot of like how you relate to money and scarcity and themes

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about what you own and how much material world versus spiritual of Scorpio. Like, yeah, there's

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been a lot of themes collectively on that. So Aries and Libra is going to be a big shift

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and the nodes also move very slow. So I think it's going to be individuality versus collaboration.

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I think there's going to be a lot more themes on relationship energy in some ways and the

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balance between those things versus all of the energy that's been kind of like more rampant

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around money themes, which it makes sense with what we went through in the pandemic

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and coming out of that. And I think the pressure of all of that's going to feel a lot less

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heavy when that switches up. So yeah, that has been your astrology forecast.

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Oh my God, Jen, thank you so much. I feel like I have a couple dates now to keep in

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mind and just look out for a little shifts in the energy happening.

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Yeah. And mark your calendars with this stuff. And also, yeah, go ahead. We use Moon Tracker.

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We've shared that before that app. You can mark all your full and new moons for the year.

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I feel like we finally just had our like, yeah, start of the year energy. So mark that

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stuff, write it down. So then you kind of just know like how to reflect better on what's

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going on. And maybe you can get deeper insight to the connectivity of all of it.

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That's right. Yeah. Keep an eye on your word and come back to it. See how your actions

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are aligning with that intention you set for this year. So thank you all so much. We're

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so excited for another season with you all. We have some amazing guest speakers and topics

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lined up. So be sure to follow us on Instagram at Awaken Together Podcast and leave a review,

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so appreciate it and love you all. I'll see you next time. Bye.