Full Transcript for Episode 6: Everything's Connected: As Above, So Below & Why Disconnection Is The Root of Narcissism

completely in control. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:27.360 Astrology asks you to look up and consider that your life might be part of a much bigger system of cycles and rhythms and patterns and movement. 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:32.319 And the ironic thing is we don't believe in astrology. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:46.560 If we don't believe in astrology, and we think we are in control, and it's those people that look at astrology and say, I can't believe you're letting the planets control your life. 00:06:47.439 --> 00:07:28.079 And it's actually very disempowering because one of the core beliefs I have as an astrologer is that at a much higher level, we our soul is infinitely intelligent and we make a choice to incarnate at a particular moment in time, in a particular place, in a particular family, to give us the best opportunity, and that doesn't mean the easiest opportunity to evolve our own soul, to heal wounds within our own family and lineage and our own soul wounds, and of course, to move the collective forwards. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:08:00.240 When if you truly get astrology, it's like actually a very empowering perspective that yeah, I chose all of this, and I'm my soul is fully in control, not my human, my small self, my small I, but the big I. 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:14.160 Yeah, I chose to incarnate here and to be a really brave soul, go through this hard experience of being a human in a meat suit and forgetting everything, so that I could evolve my soul. 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:19.199 So, yeah, it's kind of like a real funny paradox there. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:29.199 Astrology asks us to see ourselves as being within the system of this universe, not separate to it. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:37.039 And so it's very confronting to the ego when the ego wants to make the individual the center of the story. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.399 And astrology is there saying, hang on, look up. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.759 You are part of something much, much bigger. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:51.759 And to me, that is why the reaction, the negative reaction to astrology, can sometimes be so interesting. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.879 Because don't get me wrong, when someone says I don't believe in astrology, I don't get it, that's fine. 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:03.679 You don't have to believe in astrology, and I get that it can be difficult to unpick and understand. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:18.159 So you can not get it because you don't understand it, rather than being so affronted that anyone else would believe in it, and like that you believe it's ridiculous, and how can you possibly believe that? 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:29.200 What is being defended there is nothing to do with astrology at all, it is the belief that human perception is the ultimate authority on reality. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:36.000 If I can't see it, measure it, understand it, control it, it isn't real. 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.840 And that's a very particular worldview. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:48.879 One that places the human being and particularly the individual human mind at the center of the whole universe. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.279 And to me, that's where narcissism comes into play. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:10:06.720 Because perhaps the opposite of narcissism isn't thinking less of yourself, perhaps it's recognizing that you are not the center of the universe. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:34.639 And I really feel like if we were to have this understanding as a collective that as above, so below, all everything is connected, we would not have the narcissist and the empath as these two extremes where the narcissist takes control of the empath because the narcissist would realize, hey, I'm part of something bigger and make spiritual meaning of the world. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:49.440 And so there wouldn't be no need for the empath, but also the empath, even if it wasn't an sort of extreme narcissistic case, would have this understanding of okay, like everything's connected. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.759 I choose to come here and learn some lessons. 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:53.600 What am I learning right now? 00:10:53.840 --> 00:11:00.879 And I mean all of that without spiritual bypassing, because, like I said earlier, being human is hard. 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:28.240 We have a lot of emotions, we have a lot of moving parts to deal with, and it's not about bypassing any of that, it is about being in deep feeling and deep relationship actually with your body and the currents that move through the body, and also seeing hey, I'm part of something bigger and I can be in this humanness and this hardship, but know that it's not going to last forever. 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:36.879 Just like the movements of the planet are constantly moving, so are our emotions and our situations in our reality. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:54.720 So, yeah, perhaps believing in astrology or not believing in astrology is maybe an indication of something bigger, of spiritual disconnection, of spiritual dishealth. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:04.720 And the spiritual path isn't about becoming more important, more wiser to me, anyway. 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.919 It is really about realizing you were never separate from it all in the first place. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:26.960 And astrology is, like I say, this purest expression of the perfectly balanced right brain and left brain, the left brain being all about logic and maths and patterns, and so much of astrology is pattern recognition. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:39.279 And the right brain is about the interpretation, using your intuition, and I think also being able to perceive meaning beyond the numbers and the angles and the signs. 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:45.600 Astronomy, which is the study of the planets, is astrology without spirit and a heart. 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:51.120 And they, of course, used to be the same thing, uh, even just a few hundred years ago. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:13:12.480 And I hope that anyone who's ever

had a reading from me or even studied astrology on their own knows that it is extremely technical and logical, as well as being rooted in this idea that the life we are living is something we chose and part of something much bigger. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:20.000 So we're going to be diving into this a bit more in this episode around what is the law of correspondence? 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:25.440 What does it mean when we think about this phrase as above so below? 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:28.720 And so, how does astrology really work? 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:48.879 So, the law of correspondence, there is a phrase you might have heard before that actually comes from a very old piece of writing, the Emerald Tablet, which is attributed to a figure named Hermes, who was half Greek god and half Egyptian god. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:54.480 The phrase that you may have heard is this one, as above, so below. 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:30.799 And what this means at its simplest is that the pattern you see on the vast cosmic scale in the sky, the movement of the planets, the moon, the changing of the seasons, even, and within that, the greater cycles of time, the yuga cycles, which maybe I'll do an episode on at some point as well, that is what we call the macrocosm, isn't separate from the patterns that are being mirrored on the small intimate scale of your own human life, the microcosm. 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.200 They're the same thing, just at two different scales. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:48.960 What happens in the cosmos in the sky is echoed or mirrored in human reality, and equally, what happens in your own life is a mirror, an echo to the heavens right back. 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:52.559 It is this connection, this ethereal connection. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:54.960 And that's interesting, isn't it? 00:14:55.200 --> 00:15:04.720 When there is evidence that human bodies are made of literal stardust, we are literally the cosmos, and the cosmos is us. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:26.000 And that kind of brings us back to what we were talking about with ego, because the spiritual shift is really moving from I am a separate person looking up at the heavens, the cosmos, the universe, to I am part of the universe looking back at itself. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:31.279 And that brings this different way of understanding what it means to be human. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:36.240 And that to me is the philosophical foundation that astrology sits upon. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:55.279 That the same underlying pattern is playing out everywhere in our solar system at every scale, all at once, and the planets are one of the clearest, easiest, most trackable places to see those patterns and why those patterns need to happen at the time that they do. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.159 And there are different theories of how this might work. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.679 And look, science doesn't know all the answers. 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:10.399 There is so much more we don't know about the workings of the universe and quantum physics than we do know. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:15.519 But I'm going to bring to you some of the ways people have tried to explain it. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:21.440 So the first way is perhaps related to the moon with gravity and tides. 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:29.679 The moon is our closest cosmic body, and we know that it definitely moves the tides of the ocean. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:48.080 So we can extend that logic a little bit further to say if the moon's gravity can move an entire ocean, maybe the other planets exert some subtler gravitational pull on our own human bodies, which are, after all, mostly water. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:54.559 But I really believe that this is a unique quality that only the moon has. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:01.919 The moon is linked to moving the waters of our body through which our emotions run. 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:12.720 And so the moon in your birth chart is very much about your human experience of feeling, of what it is to be human and what you need to feel safe. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:20.160 And we have this beautiful, hopefully special relationship with the moon if you're listening to this podcast. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.720 We can look up and see her every single night. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:36.960 And if you listen to the last episode, I talk a lot about this, and we can see from the size of the moon how much energy is in the collective and what we might be feeling as a result. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:50.720 So I very much believe that this gravity effect is a quality that our moon brings to us as beings inhabiting the very earth she orbits. 00:17:51.759 --> 00:18:03.519 And I read somewhere once, and I really can't remember where this was, but it's like when Earth was created, I feel like she lived a long time without a moon. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:13.279 And the moon was necessary when humans started inhabiting the earth, and so she manifested the moon for us. 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:31.759 First of all, initially, so that we could keep track of time, which I talk about a lot in the last episode, but I think also to move the tides of our being, because it is through emotion that we make decisions as humans. 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:43.920 We notice how we feel, that we feel angry or we feel sad or rejected, and those emotions impact our decision making and the actions that we take. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:58.880 And so this is why the moon is also associated with karma, because it is through emotion that we take an action that, and every action has an opposite and equal action, right? 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:05.119 So yeah, that's a bit about the moon and this theory of gravity. 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:14.480 And I don't believe the gravity from other planets would be significant enough to directly impact us in this way on Earth. 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:47.279 I mean, I feel like Jupiter does impact us through gravity, but in a different way, because Jupiter is

quite far out in the solar system, and a huge planet, like the biggest planet, and Jupiter is associated with abundance opportunity, but also spiritual protection, because the gravity on Jupiter draws passing rocks and stuff like that, space debris into its field. 00:19:47.440 --> 00:20:05.839 So Jupiter has a lot of these rocks and a lot of its own moons actually orbiting it, that if Jupiter wasn't there exerting its gravitational pull, those are rocks and space debris would hit Earth and yeah, cause huge destruction. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:22.079 So it's like again proving this point of interdependence that if one planet were to be destroyed, it would have a huge impact on our ecosystem here on Earth, our ability to survive here. 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:28.400 So the next theory that I want to talk about is electromagnetism and solar influence. 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:36.079 So we know the sun drives our seasons, our circadian rhythms as well, and of course our mood. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:45.680 You know, seasonal affective disorder is a real clinically recognition and is tied directly to how much sunlight we're getting given. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:55.279 But I also think there's something interesting in that is like it's our belief as humans that everything must be positive all of the time. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:06.000 It's this constant desire to live in summer in terms of the weather, but summer within ourselves for everything to be good, for everything to be blooming all of the time. 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:28.720 And so perhaps if we were able to accept that winter to slow down, for the stuff to go within, for the stuff that's happening within to be happening just like the ground in winter, you know, stuff is still happening, the magic is happening underground. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:36.960 And the problem is the world that we live in tries to force us to always be on, always be busy doing, achieving. 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:51.519 And in the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere, we have Christmas where it's parties, it's presence, it's socializing, it's all of these huge commitments and drains sometimes on our energy, which can be beautiful. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.720 I'm not saying Christmas is awful and terrible. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.519 I'm just trying to illustrate the point that it's a time when we need to do less. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.119 Go within. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:10.559 And so it's like seasonal affective disorder is like a trauma response to us not living in tune with the seasons. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:14.000 Anyway, there's a bit of a tangent, really. 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:27.759 Because what I wanted to talk about was how solar flares and geomagnetic storms have been correlated in research with measurable effects on human and animal health and behavior. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:42.720 And some astrologers extend this into a broader idea of cosmic weather, where shifts in the solar system's activity ripple outward and touch us more than maybe they do normally. 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:48.720 So we know that solar flares literally affect electricity on Earth. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:56.079 And there are solar flares that have shut down electrical substations and things like that. 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:05.359 And some people say a huge solar flare is the biggest risk to the entire grid of the planet going down for a substantial period of time. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:07.279 And do you know what? 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:12.160 At the center of our solar system, I think this might be the sun's superpower. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:22.480 The solar flares get activated by sunspots that exist on the sun, and these have their own predictable 12-year cycles of their own. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:27.680 So even those solar flares and sunspots are not random. 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:34.240 They occur along with other predictable astrology that happens. 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:43.839 So what if the solar flares are yet another example of this idea of connectedness of as above, so below? 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:50.400 So that at certain times in certain cycles we get additional light. 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.200 We know that the sun is the giver of life. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:24:04.480 It's needed for plants to grow, for vitamin D, for warmth, for light, and probably more than that that we don't even understand yet. 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:16.319 Many philosophers have said that the sun and these cycles of solar flares affect our DNA and bring what is called the junk DNA online. 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.920 I don't believe there's any such thing as junk DNA. 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:24.799 And again, this feeds into spiritual awakening. 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:33.599 And part of me wonders if it's associated with right brain activation that I'm so passionate of talking about. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:43.279 And I guess it's possible that other planets have similar flares to the sun that impact Earth that we can't see or measure yet. 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:52.000 But my own gut feeling on this is that the moon has this connection to our emotional body and our waters. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:59.279 And the sun alone, which is the other luminary, influences our life force and our DNA. 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:08.799 So the next theory that perhaps applies more generally to all planets is the theory of synchronicity. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:13.519 And Carl Jung was a big believer in all of this. 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:18.240 But he never said that the planets caused things to happen to people. 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.200 He argued something different. 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:33.279 That astrology works through meaningful coincidence, that you're in a psychological state and outer cosmic events mirror each other meaningfully, without either one causing the other. 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:43.599 Like essentially the law of correspondence, that there are two expressions of the same

pattern showing up in different places at the same time. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:52.400 So when we're thinking about astrology, it's never like this disempowering view that the planets caused this or did this. 00:25:53.039 --> 00:26:00.640 It is more a viewpoint of this is happening right now in my life, and I can see it mirrored by the movement of the planets. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:13.279 And this, if we relate it to an archetypal framework, which is what astrology is, it is the most powerful way to explain astrology. 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:28.400 So the zodiac, the zodiac wheel can be understood as one whole circle, which is differentiated or split into 12 distinct expressions. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:33.119 And these are the zodiac signs around the ecliptic. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:41.680 The circle is the unity, and the 12 signs are the way that unity expresses itself. 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:54.559 So if you were to imagine white light passing through a glass prism, the light is one, it's a white light or a light that we can't see, but it reveals a spectrum of different colours. 00:26:54.799 --> 00:27:00.079 And in a similar sort of symbolic sense, the zodiac is one field of life. 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:05.839 We all have all of the signs and archetypal principles within us. 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:14.640 They are different moments, qualities, and perspectives, really, within the same whole. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:07.200 I can see that, but it's not theory that I subscribe to, and maybe I'll talk more about that on another day. 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:27.680 But there are 12 months, 12 hours on a clock face, 12 inches in a foot, 12 semitones in Western music, 12 Olympian gods, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 disciples, 12 labors of Hercules. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:35.200 So hopefully this demonstrates how often 12 is used to represent a complete ordered whole. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:41.759 And 12 is a special number as well because it can be divided into halves. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:58.880 So we have six months in one half of the year, six months in another half of the year, into thirds, and into quarters, which makes it very suited to expressing different cycles and relationships. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:13.200 And one way to understand the journey through the zodiac is as a journey from emergence to dissolution and then back to emergence, which is really like the cycle of our life, isn't it? 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:25.200 We emerge from nothing, and when we leave this earth, we go back to nothing because we don't know what is truly beyond this realm. 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:34.400 And everything, every idea, every project, every relationship, every job is a mirror of that. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:42.640 It emerges from something, and then as it dissolves, it it dissolves back to emergence. 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:54.880 And so the journey through the 12 signs is very much about that journey with Aries beginning with like I emerge and being associated with

beginnings and differentiation. 00:29:55.680 --> 00:30:06.559 And we can move through all of the 12 signs back to Pisces, the last sign of the does the zodiac, which dissolves back into the whole, into oneness. 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:09.920 And then the cycle begins again with Aries. 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:17.680 And this is not trying to say that every human life follows all of the stages in a strict linear order. 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:22.720 It's going to depend on different aspects in your chart and when you're born as well. 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:33.759 Because right now we have a lot of concentration of energy in Aries, for instance, with both Neptune there and Saturn. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:58.640 So it's like coming to this belief that we chose to be born at this time when Aries, when those signs, sorry, when those planets are in Aries at the exact age we are now, because there is something there with this Aries energy that we need to individuate, we need to differentiate, we need a new beginning somewhere. 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:12.240 And you know, and we can see that at a wider stick scale, like the earth, we need to begin again in a way, and take what we've learned and allow it to dissolve and start over. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:35.200 So within each of the 12 signs woven in other four elements, a fire, which initiates and animates and brings passion and conviction, and earth, which gives form and connection to this realm and substance, a desire to build. 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:47.599 We have air, which creates relationship and understanding, and water, which is about feeling and bonding and empathy and emotion. 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.480 And the four elements repeat three times within the zodiac. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:56.319 We also have three modes. 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:10.000 So every sign is a combination of an element and what we call a mode, and it is this combination of the element and the mode that is how the sign expresses itself. 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:21.599 So the three modes are cardinal, which initiates, fixed, which sustains, and mutable, which adapts and transitions to the next cardinal sign. 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:31.759 So if I were to talk through the first few signs of the zodiac, we have Aries, which is a cardinal sign and it's fire. 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.079 Then we go to Taurus, which is Earth, but it's fixed. 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:40.480 Then we go to Gemini, which is an air sign and it's mutable. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:48.640 Then we would go to Cancer, which is a water sign, the fourth element, but we go back to it being a cardinal sign. 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:57.839 So you can see how those patterns create different archetypes by the combination of the element and the mode. 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:12.559 So when we're looking at where the planets are in each of the signs, it is showing us how that combination of the element and the mode is going to express itself. 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.119 And that's how we can make predictions about in a birth chart. 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:20.880 You know, what might be the themes of someone's life? 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:26.960 What are they trying to, what would their most authentic self look like? 00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:28.799 Where are they going? 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.599 What is their dharma and their purpose? 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:40.400 And then we can also look at it astrology in a more predictive way to look at where are the planets right now by looking at those combinations. 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:56.079 So it is like this combination of the splitting of the number 12, with the number 12 being wholeness and synchronicity together. 00:33:56.480 --> 00:34:07.680 So another sort of theory that weaves into astrology, and honestly, I really believe like all of these things in some way are connected in a scientific way that we can't explain yet. 00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:14.800 But as I've said, planets move in these genuine, sort of rhythmic, predictable cycles. 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:18.719 Saturn is the same place in your chart roughly every 29 years. 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.239 That's why you have your Saturn return at 29. 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.519 Jupiter takes 12 years to return to the place in your chart. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:40.880 And some astrologers argue that these cycles of time simply correlate with real developmental stages in human life, like a kind of natural clock, in a way, that's ticking away in the background. 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:53.280 That human development happens in a way that we need to keep step with, and actually independent of any belief that the planet is affecting you. 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:56.800 I mean, I don't believe necessarily affects you anyway. 00:34:56.960 --> 00:35:00.079 My belief is much more in what I've said. 00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:05.840 I think it's a stronger theory to look at the archetypes and the law of correspondence. 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:15.920 Another theory is this idea of quantum entanglement, which you'll hear about in some mystical parts of the internet. 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:27.920 And this is the idea that the moment of birth creates some kind of lasting quantum correlation between a person and the celestial bodies overhead at that instant. 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.199 And maybe it does. 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:38.239 And maybe then, you know, the relationships that we have with the planets at that point in time goes on to tell a story. 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.679 I mean, it's not too far adrift from the law of correspondence stuff, really. 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:47.599 It's perhaps a just more poetic way of describing it. 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:56.719 There's another theory as well, which could be the more scientific theory, which is neutrino theory. 00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.559 So neutrinos are these very, very tiny particles. 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:07.280 I think you could fit like millions of them just on your

like your the size of your thumbnail. 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:17.119 And neutrinos have been shown to move through solid objects because solid objects are not really solid, right? 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:20.159 They are particles with spaces in between. 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:28.719 So the neutrinos can pass through the spaces, and it's shown that they pick up the energy of the body that they move through. 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:55.280 So, for instance, if neutrinos are produced by the sun and probably all other planets, and they hold the energy of that matter, then when we take our very first breath when we're born, we are like imprinted by our first breath that holds all of this energy, these cosmic particles that could influence our life. 00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:01.280 And it's interesting how, of course, the breath is the bridge between life and death. 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:04.320 It's the first thing we do and it's the last thing we do. 00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:06.559 So, you know what? 00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.280 They're probably all partly true in some way. 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:24.320 And like where I've landed after thinking about all of this for probably far too long, like three o'clock in the morning, is that they are all sort of touching parts of the same underlying truth from different angles. 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:30.480 The moon's gravity is real, the sun's influence on our mood is real. 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:36.960 The seasons of birth shaping our early development is real and measurable. 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:47.920 Jung's synchronicity gives us this non-physical account of meaningful pattern without needing a sort of causal mechanism at all. 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:53.840 Neutrino theory is real, but it's just not fully understood yet. 00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:05.760 But what I do know is for longer than the last few hundred years, when astrology sort of fell out of popularity, we have tried to find meaning by looking up at the sky. 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:06.719 We had. 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:12.480 And then we have lost this sense of being connected to the cosmos. 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.800 I mean, in religion, it's like God lives up there. 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:21.360 Our thoughts and impulses come from up there. 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.039 Like when we're thinking, it's like stuff is descending into our brain. 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:36.000 And perhaps we've simply externalized something that was once understood as a relationship between ourselves and the cosmos. 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:44.480 I think once you start getting the law of correspondence and see the patterns, you start seeing them everywhere. 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.480 Well, outside of astrology. 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:53.440 You see that your menstrual cycle and the lunar cycle run on strikingly similar timelines. 00:38:54.079 --> 00:39:01.039 You can see the patterns with the rhythm of the tides of the ocean and the rhythm of your own breath. 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:19.360 The branching patterns of a tree's roots which look almost identical to the branching pattern of your lungs, the neurons in your brain, or also a river delta when we look down far enough from above to below. 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:29.440 Fibonacci spirals show up in a sunflower seeds, a nautilus shell, and a hurricane all at once. 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:33.519 Do we really believe all of this is coincidence? 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.639 I mean, how can it be when there are just so many infinite possibilities? 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:41.679 The odds would be far too high. 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:50.320 And I like to think about the clock here. 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:53.599 The clock itself doesn't cause the time. 00:39:54.159 --> 00:40:00.239 The hands on the clock and the time are expressions of the same underlying system. 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.000 The universe doesn't invent a new design. 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:08.880 Every time it creates something new, like a plant, a shell, a human. 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:13.199 It reuses the ones that it already has in its awareness. 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:20.880 The spirals, the cycles, the rhythms that expand and contract again and again. 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:42.159 So when you start noticing synchronicities, yes, through astrology, but through the 11-11 on the microwave, through the repeating numbers, through signs, through forevers, through magic, you perhaps start to realise that we're not living in a random collection of disconnected events. 00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:50.000 We're living inside a beautiful earthly web of relationships and patterns. 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:55.199 And this is where it connects back to your goddess brain, your right brain. 00:40:56.159 --> 00:41:02.239 Yep, we can understand that Earth takes 365 days to travel round the Sun. 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:07.440 And we can also understand that Jupiter takes 12 months. 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:09.760 That's the stuff we're taught at school. 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:16.800 And what we're not taught through the right brain is how we can start to bring a sense of connection to this. 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:23.760 That if I'm connected to the cosmos, what could the cosmos be showing me? 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.880 And I really hope this episode has helped you understand more about how astrology works. 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:38.719 And I honestly deeply believe that knowing this information switches part of your right brain back on. 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:42.480 It's a sort of activation in and of itself. 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:47.519 So maybe send this episode to someone who is on the fence about astrology. 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:56.000 This has been episode six of For Goddess's Sake, and thanks so much as always for being here and for listening. 00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:01.920 And for God's sake, the cosmos was never separate from you, my love. 00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:04.880 You are Stardust in human form.