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Astrology isn't just about signs and symbols.
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It's a tool for navigating real life.
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Hello and welcome to Astrology with Alisa.
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I'm your host, Alisa Dixon, and I'm so glad you're here.
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Let's dive in.
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So, what have you been obsessing over lately?
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Seriously, think about the last week or two.
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Is there something you just can't seem to let go of?
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Maybe it's a relationship, something at work, a problem you're determined to solve, or maybe something you've been avoiding that suddenly demands your attention.
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If you've been listening to me for a while now, you probably know there's a reason I'm asking.
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And today, that reason is Pluto.
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Pluto stationed direct last week.
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And you didn't think I was gonna gloss over that now, did you?
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Because even if I wanted to, Pluto wouldn't let me.
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Pluto is a lot of things, but casual isn't one of them.
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And when a planet stations, it's like someone turns up the volume.
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And Pluto has been essentially standing still in Aquarius at the exact same degree and minute for well over a week.
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So all that intensity, that need to dig deeper, to figure something out, or just not let something go, well, that's very Pluto.
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And I can tell you exactly what I've been obsessing over.
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And you guys, I have gone down quite the rabbit hole.
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It all started with something pretty simple.
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You may have noticed I've been experimenting a lot with my podcast this year.
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You know I love my Wednesday solo episodes.
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Keeping astrology simple, talking about what's happening in the sky, and sharing stories about how it shows up in real life.
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That's always been the heart of my podcast.
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But I've also been having so much fun recording conversations with other astrologers.
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Some are short and sweet, like my three-question format from conferences, and other conversations go a little deeper into a particular topic.
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And the thing is, I want to do it all.
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But I have come to realize that I really want to keep these Wednesday solo episodes at the heart of what I do.
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Which means if I'm also going to keep releasing all these extra conversations, which I very much want to continue to do, I need a better process, especially when it comes to video.
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Because you guys, YouTube is its own animal.
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I don't typically do video for my Wednesday solo episodes, but conversations with other astrologers, that's something people enjoy watching.
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And I've got nine more interviews from UAC in Chicago that I haven't even released yet, not to mention a few longer conversations I've been recording.
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So I knew I needed to figure out a more efficient way to edit and release these videos.
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And apparently Pluto decided that needed to happen right now.
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Because for almost two weeks, that's practically all I've been doing.
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Editing videos, testing software, figuring out new processes.
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And here's part of the problem.
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Usually, so much time passes between one video and the next that by the time I sit down to edit another one, I've forgotten half of what I figured out the last time.
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And I end up spending all this time relearning how to do everything.
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So this time I wanted to produce several videos back to back, really get the process down, and make it something I could actually repeat more efficiently without starting from scratch every single time.
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So I've really let it consume me, eat, sleep, breathe the video production process.
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And meanwhile, I've got this big event coming up in Cincinnati next month, the Body Mind Spirit Celebration.
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I'm gonna have a booth there, doing astrology readings, and I'm also giving a talk about connecting with your children through astrology, which I'm really excited about.
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But I've got a lot to do to get ready.
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I need new business cards, I've got digital products I want to finish, marketing materials for my booth, tablecloths, posters, door prizes for the talk, giveaways at the booth, all those little details that go into putting together an in-person event.
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And I should probably finish preparing the actual talk I'm giving.
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Oh my god, who am I kidding?
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I need to start preparing the talk.
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And yet, as I started mapping all of that out two weeks ago, there was this little voice in the back of my head that just kept saying, Judith Hill, Judith Hill, you need to get that Judith Hill conversation out.
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And I had been putting off editing that video for months.
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Not because I didn't love the conversation, quite the opposite.
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Judith is someone I've admired for
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years, and I loved everything about our conversation, except this little mistake I'd made with one of my recording settings, which meant the video needed a lot more editing than my others.
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And every time I thought about starting that process, it just felt like this enormous project.
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So I kept putting it off until suddenly I couldn't anymore.
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And the funny thing is, I didn't want to put it off anymore.
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I really wanted to get that conversation out there.
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So I finally got to work on it.
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And the week before I was planning to release it, I reached out to Mel, Judith's right-hand gal, who is also the director of her Academy for Astrological Medicine.
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I wanted to let her know that I was finally getting ready to release our conversation.
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And Mel was so excited.
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She said, Oh my gosh, what amazing timing.
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Judith has her summit coming up next weekend.
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And releasing the conversation right before the summit would be such a wonderful way for people to get to know Judith and learn more about her work.
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And I thought, oh my gosh, not only am I finally getting this conversation out, but I have an opportunity to help Judith promote her summit and help her audience get to know her.
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And I loved that because here's someone I've admired and learned from for so many years.
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And now I had this opportunity to give her something back, to support her work in my own little way.
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And suddenly that little voice that had been repeating Judith's name in my head started to make sense.
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It was almost as though something was saying, the time is now.
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And you know what?
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I think that voice might have been Pluto, with all that intensity building around the station, that feeling that I just had to get this done.
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And then discovering why the timing worked out so beautifully, I thought, well, there you go.
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Apparently, this was the week I needed to get that video out.
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So I did.
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And I made a little clip about something Judith and I discussed choosing the right moon sign for getting your haircut.
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I posted it as a YouTube short and as an Instagram reel.
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And you guys, this is really crazy.
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Within 24 hours, that Instagram reel had more than 30,000 views.
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30,000! I had so many comments, people sharing their own experience with haircuts and moon signs, people tagging their friends, sharing the video, and suddenly I had all these new people discovering my astrology content.
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Now, I don't know what officially qualifies as a video going viral, but compared to my usual numbers, this was definitely viral for me.
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And that was pretty exciting.
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And here's the part that really got my intention the timing of it all.
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I posted that reel on Wednesday night, October 14th, the night before Pluto Station Direct, right in the middle of that really intense station period.
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And I just had to laugh because there I was, completely consumed by this project, obsessed, unable to focus on really anything else.
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And suddenly all that energy was reaching thousands of new people.
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And that's a pretty interesting example of how Pluto can show up in real life.
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Because Pluto isn't just about death or transformation.
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Pluto is about power, intensity, compulsion, the things we can't seem to let go of.
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Sometimes it's fear, sometimes it's an obsession, sometimes it's that drive to do something where nothing else seems to matter.
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And sometimes all of those things are connected, which brings me to the part of this story that I actually think is the most important.
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Because when I look back at where all of this started, it takes me right back to last May.
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And guess what happened in May?
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Pluto stationed retrograde, May 6th, to be exact.
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And at that time, I was getting ready to go to Norwak.
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I'd bought these portable microphones because I had this idea that maybe I could record some conversations with other astrologers while I was there.
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And you guys, I've talked about this before.
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I was nervous, really nervous, because these were people I'd been learning from, people I respected, whose books I'd read and lectures I'd attended.
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And at the time, I kept thinking, who am I to walk up to these astrologers and ask them to record a conversation with me?
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Why would they want to do that?
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Surely I needed to do something to earn that opportunity first.
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And looking back, I can see a little Saturn in that thinking, but there was definitely some Pluto in there too.
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Fear, control, that feeling of needing to have everything figured out before I could put myself out there.
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And around the same time, I had also started a
six-month mentorship program with Celeste Brooks through OPA, the Organization for Professional Astrologers.
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And we just had our final group call this past Sunday.
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We were talking about what we'd learned, how we'd grown, and what had changed for us over these six months.
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And it really hit me because six months ago, I was afraid to approach these astrologers, afraid to ask people to collaborate.
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And now I'm excited about reaching out to people I admire and asking them to come on my podcast.
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I'm recording longer conversations, I'm making new connections, I'm putting myself out there in ways that would have really intimidated me back in May.
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And instead of thinking, who am I?
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Why would they want to collaborate with me?
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I'm starting to think, well, of course they would.
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Why wouldn't they?
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And that is a really big shift.
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You might even call it a Pluto-style transformation.
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Not because I suddenly know everything, because believe me, I don't, but because I'm not letting that fear make my decisions the way I used to.
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And that's what I find so fascinating about Pluto.
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Real transformation isn't always one big dramatic moment.
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Often it's slow.
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Sometimes it's uncomfortable.
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And sometimes you don't even realize how much you've changed until you look back.
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Because when Pluto Station retrograde in May, I was just beginning this whole process.
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And now, as Pluto Station's direct, I can actually see what's changed.
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The people I've met, the conversations I've had, the fears I've faced, and even this whole video editing obsession from the last few weeks.
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Because what I was really doing was figuring out how to get past something that had been holding me back.
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And that brings me to another Pluto theme: power.
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Because power isn't always about having control over somebody else.
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Sometimes it's about taking back control over something that's been holding you back.
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And that's what I love about looking back at these astrological patterns.
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Sometimes you don't realize how much has changed until you have a little distance from it all.
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So think back to May when Pluto stationed retrograde.
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What was happening in your life?
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What were you afraid of?
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What were you trying to figure out?
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And what's different now?
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Maybe something that once felt impossible doesn't feel quite so impossible anymore.
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Or maybe you're still right in the middle of the process because Pluto doesn't exactly work on our schedule.
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But when I look back at these last six months, I can see that something really has changed.
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And maybe that's the most important part of this whole story.
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Not the video editing, not even the 30,000 views, although that was pretty darn exciting.
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It's realizing that something I was afraid to do six months ago has become something I'm genuinely excited to keep doing.
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And you know, Pluto can show up in so many different ways.
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Last year I shared some pretty personal stories about how Pluto was showing up in my family.
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In two episodes, I called Pluto Part One and Part Two.
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And those stories have a very different feel from this one.
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So if you'd like to explore another side of Pluto, I'll leave links to both episodes in the show notes.
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Now, before I go, I do have a couple of quick things to share.
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First, if you've been enjoying my conversations with astrologers, I released another one on Monday.
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This time it was with Dave Campbell.
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Dave is the president of the American Federation of Astrologers, and he's an incredible astrologer with some really cool work around asteroids.
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This conversation is short and sweet, but I loved talking with him so much.
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And I'm happy to say he and I are planning to record another longer conversation sometime in the near future because there's so much more I want to talk about with him.
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So you can find that conversation right here in your podcast feed or watch the video over on my YouTube channel, Astrology with Elisa.
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And actually, you guys, please go watch my videos.
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I've worked so hard on them.
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After everything I've just told you, I really want you to see them.
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And if you're more of an audio person, I totally get it.
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But if you know someone who enjoys watching videos like this, please send them my way.
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I'd love for more people to discover these conversations and all these wonderful astrologers I've had the opportunity to connect with.
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And one more reminder, I will be at the Body Mind Spirit celebration in Cincinnati November 21st and 22nd at the Sharonville Convention Center.
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I'll be offering astrology readings all day long, both days, and giving a talk about connecting with your children through astrology.
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I'm really looking forward to meeting some of you in person.
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And I'll put the event link in the show notes.
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Alright, you guys, I'll be back again next Wednesday.
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And if you'd like a little more astrology in the meantime, you can also catch me every Sunday on the Fun Astrology Podcast.
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I have a new episode of Sundays with Elisa each week where I give you a little overview of the astrology of the week ahead, including where the moon will be throughout the week.
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I hope to see you over there.
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And as always, I love and appreciate you all.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Take care, and I'll see you next time.