Timeless Spirituality
Timeless Spirituality, hosted by Daniel "The Past Life Regressionist," is a captivating podcast that explores the depths of spirituality and its connection to time. Join Daniel and his guests as they delve into past life regression, astrology, and the timeless essence of existence. With occasional humorous moments, this podcast offers profound insights, making it a unique blend of enlightening entertainment. Tune in to connect with your inner self and uncover the totality of who you are and who you've been throughout time.
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Timeless Spirituality
(SEASON FINALE) Ep. 104 - The Astrology of the Mirror of Time "Home Series" (ft. Christine Rodriguez)
Vedic astrologer and host of the AstrologyNow podcast, Christine Rodriguez, joins Daniel to wrap up the Mirror of Time “Home Series.” In this episode, she shares her insights into the astrological influences that have shaped this season. Together, they explore key astrological transits, reflecting on how these alignments have influenced the creative process behind season four and the events covered throughout the series.
Christine provides practical guidance on how astrology connects to real-life experiences, offering insights into the role of discipline and growth during times of change.
As we close out this season, Daniel also provides a sneak peek at what’s ahead in season five.
Christine’s bio:
Christine is a social worker, Vedic astrologer, and yoga teacher based out of Austin, Texas. She worked for three years in social work while discovering her passion for fusing mental wellness techniques with Vedic philosophy. Christine is now the host of AstrologyNow podcast and teaches individuals how to curate a life of meaning, clarity, and authenticity utilizing ancient wisdom with modern approach.
Website: https://www.innerknowing.yoga
Instagram: @astrologynow_podcast
DANIEL'S UPCOMING WORKSHOP: December 21st, 2024
https://www.jennysrp.com/event-details/experience-the-magic-of-the-season-with-quantum-healing
Christine Rodriguez, host of Astrology Now. The Astrology Now podcast.
Speaker 2:That's correct. It is in fact Astrology. Now.
Speaker 1:That was a bad dad joke that I had there. Anyways, welcome back to Time of Spirituality. I am super duper, duper excited to have you here today because we're going to now bookend this season. You were in the first episode of season four and now you're going to be in the finale and of course you showed up there a couple episodes ago to pop in. But welcome back for the bookend. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you so much for having me, and I'm just so honored to be here. As I've mentioned many times, I've absolutely loved this series, and so to be included in it is such an honor and a privilege, and to help you kick it off and bookend it again, it's just. It tickles me, and this is by far this is by far my favorite episode, even though it is in the making, because I absolutely love astrology and getting to put the events of your life to astro, astrological terms is going to be extremely fun and rewarding for me, and so I'm just really looking forward to this segment.
Speaker 1:Yay, I know I said at the end, but I'm just going to say now.
Speaker 2:Yay.
Speaker 1:Speaking of which? Did you listen to the finale?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, how was it good are we? Are we recording right now? Yeah yeah, did I listen to the finale and was it good? Was it good? Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1:I thought it was great I don't know why my jaw is clenched like this. I don't know why I'm not moving no, I thought it was great.
Speaker 2:I loved the finale. I thought it was awesome okay, yeah, about this episode? Yeah, so if that was the finale, what's this?
Speaker 1:well, that was the finale of the story, the five-part story. This is the finale of the season because wow I mean I could have planned a little better. I just thought it'd be cool to have some follow-up episodes after the story finale, cause I really wanted this episode to be after the finale, cause I just thought this was going to be the culmination.
Speaker 1:So with that I probably should tell everyone what this is going to be about. 18 months ago I called Christine up one day and I told her about the series and I said I want to do an episode where we. I told her about the series and I said I want to do an episode where we do the astrology of the series. And she just was so excited about it and we've been talking about it for the last year and a half and I'm just pumped that we finally get to have this come to fruition. So I'm going to go ahead and talk about some of the events that happened throughout the course of the Mere Time Home series and then I'm going to go ahead and talk about some of the events that happened throughout the course of the Mere of Time Home series and then I'm going to hand it over to Christine to talk about the astrology. I don't know whatever she's going to bring up. I've just astrology is in her court. So do you want to say anything or do you want to just jump in right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think what I would add is that for people who are listening, who are, like astrology curious, this is a really great way to apply astrological kind of like verbalizations to your own life, or to think about your own life astrologically as we kind of move through it, because I am going to be discussing things like Saturn opposing natal Saturn or, you know, jupiter transiting the natal moon, and so, if any of that makes sense to you as you kind of follow along there, there actually may be lessons and tidbit for how astrology may impact an individual. So if that is something that you're interested in, this could also act as like an educational segment as well for the people who are coming to your podcast who are, like, maybe intermediate in astrology. It's probably not going to be. I'm going to try to break it down as easily as I can for the people who are listening, but again, for those of you who are listening who do have a background in astrology, you may learn something here or there which could be cool.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited for this.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:All right, are you ready for the first?
Speaker 2:I am ready for the first and I have been assigned not necessarily talking about things, so I'll refer to things as the first and the second and the third.
Speaker 1:So the first event is January 28th 2023. Now, that's the first day I started writing the project. I think that that's probably the day that I came up with it. I can't imagine. This is one of these things where I was thinking about it for a long time, although I could be wrong, but I'm curious to see what the astrology of the day was when I started writing the project. So what comes up on that day?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love this question, so am I free. Can I jump in really quick for one second? Yeah, I love this question, so am I? Oh, can I jump in really quick for one second?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So for anyone who is a beginner with astrology or unfamiliar with it, Christine's going to be specifically talking about my chart and how the planetary transits are interacting with my chart on that day. So, even though the planets may be in the same position, well, they would be in the same position for you that day, but it would just have a different interaction with your chart because of the makeup of your chart. So if it doesn't match what was going on in your life at the time, that's why Totally, absolutely, 100%, right.
Speaker 2:Like, transits are always going to be completely specific to us, and so we are going to be discussing how the planets were influencing your specific birth chart, and the transit that we're talking about will happen for people you know. So, for this first example that you're giving us, rahu was transiting your moon. That's going to happen to everybody eventually, you know, within the next couple of years. And, um, you're having a Rahu K2 return, which is something that happens specifically around your age, and so that's something that everyone will be kind of experiencing around your age. So so you know, it's, it's definitely applicable, but, as you said, the transits we're going to be discussing today are incredibly specific to you. But do you mind if I go ahead and kind of run with that in terms of the astrology?
Speaker 1:Run, sprint, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, talking about that, when Daniel was born, he was born with Rahu in the sign of Aries and Ketu in the sign of Libra, between the third and ninth house.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, last last. I'm sorry to kill your flow there.
Speaker 2:This is.
Speaker 1:Vedic that Christine is doing right.
Speaker 2:Rahu and Ketu are the north and south node, and so Rahu, in the Vedic system of astrology, is an insatiable desire and it's essentially when we come into this world. It creates this magnetic pull towards various areas of life to ensure that a certain karma is created, and attaches us to the material plane. That's the whole role of Rahu is to keep us absorbed material reality so it can give us things like beauty or vehicles or luxuries or whatever it is that keeps us attached, whereas Ketu, which is the South node in the Western system of astrology, ketu wants to separate us from material reality, so it can separate us from things, it can create a sort of distance, but it's also very spiritualizing and it can give it a lot of spiritual insight. And you know, k2 can kind of create this expansive, unbounded quality as well. K2 doesn't completely deplete us of worldly pleasures, but it is constantly wanting to seek God, and you don't need anything in material reality to seek God and you don't need anything in material reality to seek God. So those are the two polarities that we're talking about with Rahu and Ketu. And so for Daniel, rahu is placed in his third house, and I always think of the third house as the stage.
Speaker 2:In astrology it is where people go to perform music or to perform poetry, or even be on stage as a musician I don't know if I said that already I'm thinking of, like comics, people who stand up for comedy, or musicians, or, again, like poetry and prose.
Speaker 2:But there are a few different houses in Vedic astrology that have to do with the stage and performance. I would say the fifth house is also one of them, but the third house has a huge connection to performance. I would say the fifth house is also one of them, but the third house has a huge connection to performance and it also has to do with creativity. It's the third house of the Zodiac, so it kind of has its association to the third sign of the Zodiac, which is Gemini. So it has a lot of different things that it likes to do. It has a lot of different interests and a lot of different hobbies, and so if you've made it this far in Daniel's series, I'm sure you've picked up on the fact that he loves to perform, he loves to be on stage, he performs music, he does. I mean, I'm sure, daniel, have you done comedy at some point?
Speaker 1:I like to think I'm funny. I've never done traditional standup comedy, okay Okay, that surprises me. At least not yet you do.
Speaker 2:You get up in front of people and you perform all the time and you love that and that's like what you're, you're like in your happy place when you're performing. And that's what the third house is. And it's also the house of courage and bravery, because you need a lot of courage and bravery to perform. Again, the third house has to do with, like, publishing, and it has to do with media and creativity. So for Daniel to have this big project that he started while he's having a Rahu return in the third house of all of the things that we just discussed, it makes complete sense. You know he's telling a story, he's broadcasting it to the world and he also even implements his own music into it.
Speaker 2:And so everybody has heard of the Saturn return. All of us have a Saturn return. You know, around 28 to 30 approximately. We have planetary returns for every single planet in our birth chart. We have Mercury return, solar returns, jupiter returns.
Speaker 2:The Rahu Ketu return is a very karmic time. It's an incredibly karmic moment in time because the karmic nodes represent karma, and for Daniel, it was this return of karma to the third house of all of the things we just spent time describing, and then also the ninth house, which is teaching and sharing. Um, it has to do with philosophy and spirituality, and so maybe Daniel can speak to this, but it could have also impacted one's again like philosophical belief system or religious belief system too. The other thing that I'm noticing on this day that I thought was really fascinating is that you're having the Rahu Ketu return, but your, your moon, is also returning. You're having a lunar return which happens like once a month, so of all of the days of the month that you chose to start the project in, it was when the moon was in Aries, which is where your moon was so feeling yourself, feeling expressive, you know, sharing emotions. It's totally lunar return.
Speaker 2:And the final thing that I'll say in this moment is that Uranus was very close to your son, so you have an exalted sun in the third house which is contributing to a lot of that desire to create and to express, and now Uranus is hitting your sun, and so it's this electric, revolutionary jolt. It can give you downloads of ideas and inspiration and passion, and so it certainly was a super supported day to do it, for your creative work. For sure. One of the things I thought was interesting is that Saturn was sitting on your ascendant, but we can talk more about that in a second. I'm going to give you a second to cut in if there's anything you want to say.
Speaker 1:My only question has to do with Uranus there. Okay, I guess the moon factors in, maybe not directly to that aspect, but, as I mentioned before, throughout this season, this is by far the most or most open and vulnerable I've ever been publicly, and I'm still in disbelief that I put this thing out there. I still can't believe that I just went for it and I wonder if Uranus has anything to do with that.
Speaker 2:Totally, I would say so. I mean, it's like it's revolutionary and so it gets us to do things that are different. And the other thing is that the third house is the house of bravery and courage, and I think that it takes a great deal of bravery to be vulnerable and to share and, with your moon, being with the sun and Uranus as well, I think that would also have something to do with it, like on the day right, because the moon is only there for a brief period of time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know, the other thing and I was going to talk about this that I thought was interesting is that Saturn was crossing your ascendant, and for you specifically, because in the Vedic system you're an Aquarius rising, which is governed by Saturn, and so Saturn was sitting in its own sign, in its own house, and that creates something called a Sasha yoga, and a Sasha yoga can give an individual a lot of discipline, a lot of willpower, a lot of commitment, and it can help people feel like they have the ability to step into a position of leadership, and so those qualities could have also contributed to that. Just like for lack of better words, like vote of confidence, for you to feel confident moving forward.
Speaker 1:So is that the meaning of having Saturn crossing the ascendant?
Speaker 2:Not for everybody.
Speaker 1:Gotcha.
Speaker 2:Right For you, because Saturn enjoys being an Aquarius. It creates a specific yoga. But if someone were an Aries ascendant and Saturn crosses Aries, then Saturn is debilitated. So it's a totally different energy.
Speaker 1:Aquarius best of the rising signs. That's a fact.
Speaker 2:That's what they say. That's what they say.
Speaker 1:So I guess you could say it was. Maybe it was written in the stars that I was to start a project that day. Now here's what's also coming up for me right now. There is almost a disappointment that I'm feeling because Saturn comes to that place approximately every 28 to 30 years.
Speaker 2:So it's going to be another.
Speaker 1:That's how long it's going to be until I'm going to have Saturn crossing my ascendant again, okay, so I think there's this disappointment, and it's even it irks me to say it, but I'm like this was it. I have this placement, that or this transit that's giving me all this, this confidence, and I used it for this.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:I'm just I'm being honest right now. I know that that's ridiculous, because the amount of personal growth that came from this Totally it can't be measured and I'm so proud of myself for doing it, but I almost feel like it's a missed opportunity.
Speaker 2:People often feel that way about things, and that's why following astrology is so important, so that when you know that you're having a certain transit, you take complete advantage of it. I think that sometimes people think of astrology as like doom and gloom, of like I want to know when these bad things are going to happen. But I think it's really important to know when the good things are going to happen, so you know to ride it out and to take full advantage of it. But there were a few things happening, and I mean like Jupiter was also transiting your second house, which is like writing and sharing vocally.
Speaker 2:The second house has to do with the mouth and the voice, but I guess what I'm trying to say is good transits happen regularly. Like who says you don't have an even better transit coming up for confidence and grace and creativity? I don't think that it's something to feel like you missed out on. I think that it's my belief that things happen exactly as they should. So maybe this is exactly what you were supposed to be working on exactly at the right time, and you're going to have many more supportive transits for other creative pursuits.
Speaker 1:I have faith that that'll be the case. Yeah, and just one more thing on that. As you were talking, I was just thinking about my approach to writing the series and how I. I even tried to write it with a very timeless feeling, where I pictured someone listening a hundred years from now. Interesting and having them still be able to grasp it and having it, for lack of a better term, really hit home for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah so here I am talking about. Well, I went out with a whimper, but who's to say that it won't catch on at a certain point? Because here's another thing that happened. I'm going to be the first one to admit it. I know I brought it up with you in the first episode we did this season. I had a feeling I was gonna lose a big part of my audience if I went and pursued this, and I did oh no I wouldn't change a thing about it because it's still about the staying power.
Speaker 1:I still picture it as something because I'm sticking with the podcast where if someone listens to the podcast five years from now for the first time, they're gonna be like, damn, that was cool.
Speaker 1:I like how he took a whole season to focus on home yeah and how there's a theme going on there and how he spent a whole season with the theme that comes next, which you guys will find out about soon. I may have dropped a little hint intent. You guys may have picked up on it, but you probably didn't, because you have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyways, but if you come back and listen to this after the conclusion of season five, you'll hear the hint. With that said, I want to just say for everyone this is where I'm like okay, the Saturn kick. If you go back and listen to the Mirror of Time Home series after hearing the way it ends, you're going to hear it in a whole new fashion, because I wrote it with that intention, where I wanted everyone to be able to go back and listen and hear it in a different way, knowing the way that it finished. So I just had to put that out there.
Speaker 2:Shall, we move on to the next one. Sure, do you feel complete?
Speaker 1:I'll never feel complete, but I feel complete with that, I think, as complete as can be. We'll talk about it again in 28 years. So the next day I want to look at was also from part one, and it's the day when I you know, in my notes here I have it as the day when I almost did myself in, because it's still kind of, you know, it's hard to it still sits with me all these years later. So this was back in summer of 2028. I'm sorry, summer of 2008. And for this one specifically, I'm not saying the date, not that there's anything to hide, but there are just some parts of that day that I still want to keep to myself and not share with the world even though I pretty much put everything out there.
Speaker 1:So I feel like by not talking about the actual day I mean I provided Christine with the day so she can do the correct astrological assessment We'll just say summer of 2008 for right now. So what you got?
Speaker 2:and eight for right now. So what you got? Well, something that I thought is interesting is that Saturn is in the opposite placement, as it was at the beginning of your project. So when you started your project, saturn was in the sign of Aquarius, which is on your first house, and on this day, saturn was in the seventh house, opposing your first house, which also means, you know, saturn is opposing your Jupiter, which we can talk more about, but I just kind of saw that right off the bat and I thought that that was pretty interesting. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:The other thing that I noticed is that this event occurred actually a few days after an eclipse, and so it's in eclipse season that you were experiencing this. Okay, and the eclipses can always create some mental destabilization. The eclipses really tend to rock us emotionally, especially if the karmic nodes are transiting difficult houses, because remember that we have eclipses because of Rahu and Ketu. If we didn't have Rahu and Ketu, we would never have eclipses. What that means is that eclipses are inherently karmic. So wherever the eclipses are happening, for that 18 months, for Rahu and Ketu's transit, it's going to depend how we're getting affected by the karmic eclipses, and Daniel was being affected by the sixth and the 12th house.
Speaker 2:This is notoriously challenging. I talk about this all the time. The 6-12 axis is a difficult axis. It has to do with challenges and oppositions and enemies and hurdles, fears, phobias, anxieties, feeling isolated, hard transits. The 6th and 12th are challenging, to say the least, you know. And so that's where the karmic notes had literally just entered a couple of weeks before this event and I'm not going to share the exact degrees because we're trying to avoid the date, but it was kind of here in eclipse season and Daniel was running a moon Rahu Dasha.
Speaker 1:So you know we were talking earlier about Rahu and all the things wait you say moon rahu, dasha sorry and in the first transit we talked about it was rahu conjunct, the moon right, and it wasn't a dasha right.
Speaker 2:But you brought it right, right right well you have moon and rahu in your birth chart. Yeah, so that means that you were born on an eclipse. Weren't you born on an eclipse?
Speaker 1:A couple of days after.
Speaker 2:Okay. So when those two planets are interacting, there's going to be karmic events. That are happening for sure. And the thing with Rahu and moon conjoined is that it creates pioneers, visionaries, people who I mean seriously. There are so many famous people I can think of who have moon and Rahu conjoined because they are so innovative and they do things that haven't been done before. Because Rahu has to do with innovation and futuristic thinking and progression, but Rahu also has to do with illusion and not being able to see things clearly and, to be honest, insanity. So when people have like mental problems, some people are permanently, you know, some people permanently have like mental stuff that they're working with and you can see that in a birth chart. But then some of us go through bouts where suddenly we're having mental health problems. You know, and so you know Rahu is, it can be an easy culprit, for sure. That's one of the first plans I look to if people are feeling a lot of mental health distress.
Speaker 1:What was I being asked to learn that day?
Speaker 2:Oh man, what a question is that. I don't want to say anything else about, like where the moon was, because that gives insight into the day that it. Well, you said summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm still going to be mindful of what I say. But you can say the moon where it. Well, you said summer. Yeah, well, I'm still gonna be mindful with what I say.
Speaker 1:But you can say the moon where it was, it's cool.
Speaker 2:I think it would give it away. I think, honestly, because the sun was so close to k2. It's like confidence and willpower was just being completely eclipsed and shadowed, and so I do see there being a lot around inner confidence and inner fortitude, faith of the self and will to continue. Those are really some of the messages that would stand out to me Persever, perseverance, you know.
Speaker 1:I guess I stepped up to the plate then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let me kind of look here to see anything else. I mean, I think another thing is just like not trusting your mind. I think that sometimes we think that our thoughts are reality or that our pattern of thinking is a reflection of reality, when we all know that that's like the furthest thing from the truth. You know a lot of the time, and so there's a lot with the mind and mentality and kind of having faith in yourself over fleeting thoughts. That would be what I round that off with, Cool.
Speaker 1:Thank you for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you All right.
Speaker 1:So the next event comes from part two, and same thing with with the date. I just want to play this one close to the chest. Okay, Just to keep that for myself. But I've provided Christine with the date. So this is the day when the yogurt shop closed.
Speaker 2:So interesting.
Speaker 1:It was a very sad day for me.
Speaker 2:This is so fascinating. So, first and foremost, mercury was debilitated in your second house and the second house has to do with the mouth and tasting and food. So wild that there was just like a debilitated planet in the second um inhibiting you from tasting delicious treats and the other things I think about is like Venus. Venus is luxury and nice things and what makes us feel good, you know, like creature comforts. Venus was when that within a few degrees of K2. So Venus was being eclipsed. And then Jupiter, which is the planet of happiness and optimism, was also within a few degrees of Rahu, so it was being eclipsed. So it was like both of the planets that I would associate with eating sweets and decadent were, like you know, getting pulled into the void by the karmic nodes. And then you had that affliction sec afflicted second house. So it just like was not a time for delights for you for sure.
Speaker 1:What was the lesson for me to learn on that fateful day?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I don't even know. Let me see. I mean, I really think that the K2 and Venus is really significant. Significant because k2 again, it separates us from material reality to focus on god. And so maybe it is like, hey, daniel, like are you too attached to sweets? Yes, are you too attached to food? Is it steering you away from your spiritual practices?
Speaker 1:I don't think it steered away, away from my spiritual practices.
Speaker 2:I know Oftentimes after sessions I go and get yogurt. Did taking two trips to the yogurt shop distract you from your daily meditations?
Speaker 1:Do you remember where I was going to and coming from, when I would go to the yogurt shop twice a day? I was going to my astrology class.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it didn't take me away from it. Okay, could I have spent that time doing other things? Yeah, but I just just say that it wasn't taking me away from my because when it reopened, everyone go check out part two, cause you know, oh my God, what a day that was when it reopened. It was like everything you. You learn how not to seek external comfort through yogurt. Wow, I guess I'm just going to put it blank there bluntly what You're going to have to find another way because it didn't work.
Speaker 2:You prevailed. This is a really funny chart. I mean, I know it was really sad for you, but in hindsight I just think it's like so obvious. Like if you had given me all of these charts and asked me which one would have been the yogurt shop, and I didn't know what any of them were I would have been able to figure this out you can't write this shit it's so funny and I I swear no one would believe me if I told them how sad I was that day.
Speaker 1:I was so sad.
Speaker 2:Well, venus, for you, governs the fourth house of happiness and inner fulfillment, and it was with K2, which separates you from things. So it's like I totally believe you that you were super sad.
Speaker 1:Very, oh, I was so not present that day, so we'll leave it with that, should we move on?
Speaker 2:to the next day. Sure, this is going a lot faster than I anticipated. Do you feel like you're getting what you wanted out of this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, saturn was on my ascendant a year and a half ago, so you know that it's a bad astrology joke saturn is not going to be on your ascendant for much longer oh, that's right, because you guys do it according to sign as well, right? You're not just talking about the direct conjunction because yeah, and western has been out for a while for me, but again, I've said this in other episodes. Vedic is astrological, I'm sorry astronomically accurate. Astronomically accurate. So it's accurate. So I totally believe in Vedic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it works Well, thank you. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's my stubbornness and being attached, but I believe in it. Okay. So the next day I want to talk about came in part three, and that was when my stepmom passed away. So what you got for that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we were talking about when you had the Rahu K2 return when you started your project. So in this event you were having a Rahu Ketu opposition, and it's not every single time, but I would say the vast majority of the time. When individuals have a Rahu Ketu opposition, it is a little bit more challenging than the Rahu Ketu return, and Rahu and Ketu can bring up those karmic events and, like you and I have discussed before, like a karmic event means something that changes the course or trajectory of your life, and so it could be a good karmic event like meeting a spouse, getting a dog that changes your life, opening a business, starting a business for the first time, becoming an entrepreneur All of those things are karmic events. Big impact on your life. Your life is never the same afterwards. Now, karmic events can also be having health issues for the first time, or getting into a car accident that changes your life. It could, of course, also have to do with the death or separation of somebody, and so, again, you know, we saw in this other period of time, when you started the project, you had the karmic event of beginning this new project, something for the first time that you've never tried before. And now, when we're looking, you're having this big karmic event where you experienced the horrific tragedy of losing somebody so close to you losing your stepmom and that, of course, is going to change your life and reshape it from what it was.
Speaker 2:And so there are a few different things that we look at in astrology when we're looking at when somebody leaves their body at in astrology, when we're looking at when somebody leaves their body, and two of the houses that I think about first are the Marika houses. In Vedic astrology we have Marika houses, which are the death-inducing houses, and what I found very interesting about your chart around this period is that first of all okay and this may confuse people I'm going to use the word exalted. Just because a planet is exalted doesn't necessarily mean it's always going to bring good results. An exalted planet gives powerful results, whereas a debilitated planet gives weaker results. So that could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on a birth chart, but when a planet gains strength again, it adds strength to that planet, it adds strength to that house. And so for Daniel, his seventh house, which is a Marka house, the ruler was exalted, so it was adding fuel to the energy of a Marka, and then he had an exalted Venus in his second house, venus in his second house. So again, it's adding this fuel and energy to a Marka house, and Venus does govern his fourth house of the mother, and so, even though the fourth house ruler was exalted in a second, someone might see that and think it's a good thing. It actually, you know, contributed to this terrible experience that Daniel went through.
Speaker 2:The other thing that I wanted to point out is that Saturn and Rahu were conjoined for this period and I've been saying this on my own podcast astrology now for a while is that Saturn and Rahu, when they come together, it's not.
Speaker 2:I know a lot of people have this combination, so it doesn't. It's going to influence each chart differently, but when it happens in the night sky, it can cause really big events to occur on an individual level as well as on a personal level, and we have one of these big conjunctions coming up between late March and late May, and I've been telling everyone to be watching out around this period of time because there can be, like assaults and violence. So you know that that's just kind of setting the tone here. Daniel had Saturn and Rahu conjoined on that day that his stepmom passed away and Saturn was also exalted. So the sun was exalted, venus was exalted, saturn was exalted. It's like there's so much of this intense planetary energy and Saturn and Rahu, they you know it's value. It has to do with wind and blowing things away and taking things away, and so I just I do see that being quite an intense period of time, to say the least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, somewhat.
Speaker 2:I don't mean to take away from Linda. I did want to ask, though was anything significant happening for your work life around that period?
Speaker 1:Yes, sort of. There was a direction that it looked like I was going in and it didn't end up happening. And look, I'll just say, my talents are much more well-suited doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Got it this wasn't anything nefarious.
Speaker 1:It was. You know, in the first episode I talked about my health issues and this job had to do with advocacy, so it was for a position like an advisory position, okay, and that would have altered things for me.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it didn't end up happening and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2:Good, good. The moon was also exalted. So many exalted planets.
Speaker 1:Put a little pepper on that too.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 1:You said exalt. You know, you said exalted Made me think of like salt it's bad dad joke. It's probably something going on in the sky right now, cause you well, let's say you and I are crashing and burning. I think it's more you, I'm just kidding, it's more me.
Speaker 2:It's more me, it's me, I'm trying.
Speaker 1:I'm trying.
Speaker 2:I'm giving it my all. It's not you, it's me. Don't take this away from me. I want to say also, really quickly though, with that Rahu-Ketu opposition this happened when the sun when you were almost having a solar return as well and the sun, ketu and Mercury were transiting so many of your natal planets Rahu, mercury, sun, moon, I mean all of those plants were being eclipsed by K2. They were being combust or burnt up by the sun, and so it's just and you were in your moon, dasha, so there was just something bound to happen with the mother, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a fucked up day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what was I asked to learn from that? If you could use your astrological?
Speaker 2:prowess, you know, wow, I mean with Saturn being exalted. Saturn is your first house ruler of the self, and it also has to do with the 12th house and this is kind of what I was talking about where sometimes exalted planets, they bring energy to something that isn't necessarily a good thing, and so the 12th house ruler was gaining all of this strength and power, and the 12th house has to do with loss and separation and expenses and fears and phobias and like loneliness, isolation, and so there was all of that power happening in the ninth house, and so I'm sure your father was experiencing all those things as well, because the ninth house has to do with the father. So it's a really challenging time for both of you and you know if what's actually really interesting, that just came to me was was sharing grief like some sort of karmic lesson, and sharing grief like sharing emotions, sharing vulnerability, and not only experiencing grief and sadness on your own, but having a shared experience with somebody. There is go ahead.
Speaker 1:Well, if you listen back to the episode, not just you, christina, I mean anyone and everyone. I kind of fucked that one up. The whole shared grief experience. I mean, yeah, I think after the fact there was some shared grief, but I I didn't really stick around in the room with everyone. Yeah, right after it happened, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know like in the coming weeks, was there anything where it felt like the shared grief, like taught you something about somebody or create some sort of intimacy with someone in a new? Way or like how did it influence the relationship with you and your father? I think positive is the wrong word to use it doesn't have to be positive, it's about like experiences and like skill building, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean throughout my 20s. I was feeling very down on myself, and the way that I coped with that was by isolating myself.
Speaker 2:Interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean especially for my family. So I started showing up a lot more after that. So I mean I think that changed things. Yeah, that was the beginning of it still took time for me to to reverse my isolation, but that that was the start of it.
Speaker 2:Do you think you started being more expressive after that? Was there something about that moment that made you feel more like you need to share your art or your poetry or writing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was my speech at her funeral.
Speaker 2:So that kind of kicked things off.
Speaker 1:I mean, I was already performing, right, but what that day showed me was I was always me. I mean, I think I've talked about this on other episodes, but when I would perform, if I was doing music, I almost felt like I was playing a part, but it was still was the part of me. It's like my personality wasn't altered, I was just being myself. But I felt like I wasn't me and I became very comfortable with that because it's like, even in performing music, there was a lot of vulnerability that I would express through songs that I wrote, but it was so uncomfortable for me that I tricked myself into thinking that I was just playing this part and therefore it's like, yeah, I was being vulnerable, but I really wasn't, it wasn't really vulnerability because it wasn't me, but when I spoke at her funeral, I mean, everyone loved Linda, everyone who met her, so there was over 400 people there and I didn't play any part that day.
Speaker 1:I mean I was still me, just like every other performance. But I was also telling myself this is me, like I'm not up here, I'm not going to write anything off, that. I'm saying it's like pass it off, like oh no, she's saying that for you know, to spice things up right now. No, I mean, everything I said was genuine and real and I had no facade to hide behind.
Speaker 2:So what that?
Speaker 1:showed me was that I could move people being me. It's just like I talked about in that episode where I introduced this theme of a happy face, and that's the way that everyone remembered Linda after. So it was a different experience for me, because I've always been comfortable talking in front of large groups of people or performing, but this was a time when it's like, oh no, this is real, this is real life right now, and I think it's still one of those things that opened the door for me to have a podcast years later to write the Mirror of Time home series.
Speaker 1:It was that day. I can pinpoint it. It's like this is the first time I've been remotely vulnerable as myself.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:So I definitely walked away from that experience feeling like something had shifted and changed for me and that something powerful had happened. Wow.
Speaker 2:Incredible, totally interesting and it totally makes sense, just based off of the transits we talked about. So thank you so much for sharing that so fascinating.
Speaker 1:And in typical Jewish fashion, from what I understand like I could be wrong, but Jews tend to bury the deceased within two to three days, I think.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So it's not like this was something that happened months later, years later. Yeah, we took forever to bury my dad, so I think that the transits other than the moon, the transits were probably pretty similar since this took place two days after she passed away.
Speaker 2:Yep, there were some planetary differences you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're okay, okay yep, because the funeral was two days after yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, there would only be a few differences. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, that's the story with that, and maybe at some point I'll be able to talk about this without feeling like I have to rely on humor to cover up for the uncomfortable feelings that come up with expressing my emotions, because some of you may have seen that in the mirror of time home series. I don't know why I keep plugging it, but oftentimes when I would speak of uncomfortable things, I would follow it up with an unnecessary joke that really hit because some of that shit was funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know how you helped me record my segment, yeah, so I tried to do that segment by myself before sharing it with you and I sent it to my contractor, emily, to listen to it first. And she's like, yeah, it was really awkward that you laughed after like every single traumatic thing. She's like it was kind of weird. I was like, okay, that's great feedback, but anyway, it never lands with me weird, like your laughter, like it makes sense to me, like it's great to remember that the outer world may not find that normal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Can I just share one thing about you really quick.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:Because I think that this podcast needs a little more fun right now.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 1:Christine's one of my closest friends. One of the great things about Christine and one of the things that annoys the shit out of me about her. It's like it's already starting, sort of. It's like it's already starting, sort of. But whenever she has something that's funny, that she wants to share with me, she can't make it through. She starts talking it's like and then and, and then I have a joke.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna try not to laugh she could never make it through like it's very endearing, but I'm like I don't know if it's funny or not, because you're not making it through the sentence well, it's always really funny when I finally tell you and you don't think it's funny well, it may have been funny it could have been funny if I delivered it, but I couldn't.
Speaker 1:Okay, so now that we've, talked about the series thing and followed up with some humor because of course you know now you guys know my MO there, Ready to talk about the next event.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, my God, so funny.
Speaker 1:So I chose this one because it's very unconventional. There are many other events that I could have picked from the fourth episode in the Mere of Time home series. Got to keep plugging it. So the event that I chose to elaborate on for the Mere of Time generations was the day when I failed my driving test on my 16th birthday. So what you got, Star lady.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first of all, this event happened years before your stepmom passed away, right?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So what I think is so interesting about this is that Jupiter was almost in the exact same degree of both of these events, even though they happened years apart. When your stepmom passed away, jupiter was at 20 degrees of gemini, and when you failed your first license test, jupiter was at 18 degrees of gemini. It's just interesting because it was like several years. It wasn't even close yeah, it's 12.
Speaker 1:She passed away 12 years after that and her, which makes sense yeah, her and my dad got married about a month after I failed my driving test, so jupiter would have pretty much been at the same position then, right I mean that is so fascinating that they got married when jupiter was in gemini.
Speaker 2:She passed away when jupiter was in gemini yeah that's so fascinating. Yeah, gemini is a tough sign, like there's a tough nakshatra, ardra can be really hard. That's where jupiter was. Ardra is the storm god. So in vedic astrology we have the signs and then we have the nakshatras, and there are 27 nakshatras and um each nakshatra.
Speaker 1:You can edit that. Oh, I'm leaving that one.
Speaker 2:Jeez Each nakshatra. Why is?
Speaker 1:this happening Nakshatra.
Speaker 2:So we have the 12 zodiac signs and then we have the 27 nakshatras, and each nakshatra has its own deity, its own planetary ruler and its own story, its own planetary ruler and its own story giving its significance. And so that's why you can have two friends with the moon in Aries and they act totally different, because there are three different nakshatras in Aries. Or someone could have the moon in Gemini and there are three different nakshatras in Gemini. So it really does help us zoom in and and specify just how an individual is going to operate and, most importantly, different life events that an individual is going to experience. It's so incredibly fascinating how nakshatras are associated, different life events. And so, again, Ardra, like we were talking about, is this nakshatra that is challenging and it is, um, a nakshatra associated with, like, uh, demo, demolition and challenging events. And I do want to say that, by the time, um, that the nakshatra was different for your license exam and when your step-mom passed away, both you know, gemini, excuse me, jupiter was in Gemini. Both times different nashatras.
Speaker 2:Anyway, carrying on from that, so when I think about vehicles in Vedic astrology, I think about the fourth house. The fourth house has to do with home, land, real estate and it also has to do with things like fixed assets or bigger assets like a boat or a vehicle, and so when we get a new car or we sell our car or we have a car wreck you know anything that involves a vehicle it's going to have some sort of association to the fourth. And so, on this day for Daniel, he had a stellium in the fourth house, and a stellium is a combination of three or more planets, so Rahu, mars, venus, saturn and Mercury were all sitting in his fourth house, bringing such a complicated energy I mean, it's just confusing, like it's just an overwhelming energy. How did you, how did you, end up feeling what happened?
Speaker 1:I got a hundred percent, except for not looking over my shoulder when I was turning right into an intersecting bike lane that's it yeah, that was it. Just wait, you got over my shoulder and you looked over. You didn't look over your shoulder well, that's what the said, and wow so I I use that word very strong, she just was not very nice about it.
Speaker 2:She she wanted you to fail she want.
Speaker 1:She was so joy, you know I hate that.
Speaker 2:It's okay, I'm not over it.
Speaker 2:I can tell you're not over it you know what's fascinating two weeks later, so you ended up getting it yeah, my past was fine I met the 17 year old boy in the rock gym recently and he like imprinted on me and my partner and he was like following us around and like wanting to be friends with us and it was really funny and endearing. He was like a great kid and like, towards the end of our session, we're like all right, bye. And he's like all right, you know, I'm just gonna wait for my dad to come pick me up and I was like oh, you're not driving yet. And he's like I just failed my driver's test and I asked him how he failed and he failed by turning right, but in the left lane.
Speaker 2:It's like instead said no I mean you've been driving with multiple lanes going in one direction yeah like imagine a road where there are three lanes and they're all going in one way. It's not like he was driving in the opposite way, but he was two lanes over and he turned right instead of getting into like the shoulder lane to turn. And then I kind of looked at him. He was like yeah, he said yeah, she said it's more common than you think. That's like the number one reason why people fail.
Speaker 1:And I was like really, look, I'm not the arbiter of these things, but I think that should be a fail if you turn right from the left lane, I mean because I mean you gotta go across those lanes and you should be looking over your shoulder if you do that if you're in like an 18 wheeler, it's okay I don't think it's okay if you do it with an eight.
Speaker 2:Well, oh yeah, because you gotta, you have to because of the wide turn yeah, you're right so maybe he had seen something like that, and so I'm trying to be graceful watching lethal weapon one too many times so funny? Hey, why are all of these your birthday month, like almost I?
Speaker 1:don't do well with birthdays.
Speaker 2:Maybe not.
Speaker 1:I'm lying. No well, except for the yoga, yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's only two of the five, which is still a high percentage.
Speaker 1:So what would you say? The lesson was for me to learn on that day.
Speaker 2:Well, what I think is interesting is actually there is this notion of like a hidden enemy, and so there I mean, that person probably did have something against you for some reason, like the, the test person, saturn was actually sitting directly on your venus, and so it was like the delay, like venus governed your fourth house. So, ven, venus has to do with like cars and real estate and all that Like we've been talking about the mother and her happiness, and so on that day, saturn was literally sitting directly on Venus and so it caused a delay and a hindrance. Does that make sense? Yeah, to the degree Pluto was aspecting Mars. To the degree as well, pluto was at 23 degrees and Mars was at 23 degrees, and that you know. Pluto is like power, so it's like a power struggle. We can get to the lesson in a second. I'm just pointing out some other things I'm noticing.
Speaker 1:I mean it's funny that you bring up the power struggle because I even wrote about this in the piece. That's what it felt like to me.
Speaker 2:I mean Pluto was literally right, opposed from Mars, to the degree.
Speaker 1:So this was someone I had never met before, and I'm usually a very nice person when I meet someone for the first time, I mean I'm usually nice anyways, unless you've royally pissed me off.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And really pushed my buttons. I'm a very kind person.
Speaker 2:Totally 100%. But when you get your buttons pushed, that's a different story. Yeah, and with that.
Speaker 1:I was going to be on my best behavior with the person doing the driving test.
Speaker 1:I would not go into that being a jerk. No, I would do nothing to risk not getting my license Totally. So what that all felt like to me and the thing that I did right about was it felt like this was someone who had no power in their life or felt like they had no power, and this made this person feel powerful. That was like the feeling I got from it is this was a power trip, because the glee on her face when she told me that I got an automatic fail dude, it wasn't. You know, it was this thing of. I have the power to take this away from you gross so that's what the lesson was around.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure what you did with that or how you what's the word that I'm looking for Like assimilated that or how you integrated the experience, but there's something around like people who are abusing power and your relationship to those individuals and how you like handle the experiences in the face of someone abusing power, or well, I don't know if this was the takeaway for me at the time, but it's looking back on many events where I've had to face delays yeah, for sure, and as I'm 38 now and looking back on all these events, I see that it's built character and strength because it's really instilled a sense of patience in me and that just because something doesn't happen right away doesn't mean that it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1:So even to link it to the podcast and the series, I have this feeling like this podcast should be bigger than it is and I still had this feeling that if I pursued this course with this season, that the audience would drop off. But it was my overall patience that allowed me to do it, because I said, you know what, I could really lose a good chunk of the audience. But I do have faith that if I stick with this it's all going to pay off in the end. So there will be those momentary setbacks, but it's about the totality, it's not just about the nine months that I've done this season. It's the totality.
Speaker 1:So it's really slow and steady wins the race. And I think that even with that placement in Vedic because that would have been in Taurus at the time correct.
Speaker 1:All of those planets would have been in Taurus Right, and one of the main things for Taurus is slow and steady wins the race Totally. So I think that that's what it really taught me. Again, it's not the way I saw things that day, and it's interesting that you brought up my stepmom passing away almost to the degree of Jupiter 12 years later, because that day felt like someone had died.
Speaker 2:Well, and it was shocking.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And so. Uranus was at four degrees of Aquarius, which was right on your ascendant. So your ascendant in the Vedic system is at four degrees of Aquarius and on this day Uranus was right on your ascendant in the Vedic system is at four degrees of Aquarius and on this day Uranus was right on your ascendant degree. So it's that sudden shocking jolting effect of just like what happened.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was a big surprise Because my mom took me to get my license and when I called my dad or he, no, I'm sorry he called on like when my mom and I were driving home, of course I was sitting in the passenger seat, because I'm not going to drive with my mom, you know, like if I don't have my license which doesn't make sense now I'm saying it out loud because I would have to drive back with her anyways but of course you know, I put the seat back, just crushed, like laying there there, like I didn't get my license. So when he called to congratulate me, he didn't believe me. When I told him that I didn't get it, he's like no, again, you're just because I.
Speaker 1:This is some of the stuff I would do sometimes totally I would say you know, I play something really drab and it's like nope, just kidding, I got it yeah, yeah, yeah but he didn't believe me.
Speaker 1:And then finally I say mom tell him, yeah, but he didn't believe me. And then finally I say mom tell him, and she's like he didn't get it. So it was very shocking because I was a really good driver I still am. But it's one of those things where even you know not to toot my own horn, but people who drive with me say I feel comfortable driving with you I've heard this so many times where it's like I don't need to worry about anything If you're driving you've got it, we're with everyone.
Speaker 1:I say everyone, but lots of people. You drive with them. You don't think you're going to make it out alive, but this is something that you know. I pride myself on being a good driver, having the natural instinct to be, you know not make a right turn from a left lane or any of those things.
Speaker 2:Right, like he was 17.
Speaker 1:He made a mistake. It's a good thing no one else was there, because I probably would have killed them or they would have t-boned him.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:But it didn't happen. So he learned, hopefully. So, yes, that was very shocking, because I went in there with the expectation that I was going to walk away with my license. There was no question in my mind that I was not getting my license that day, because I feel like with a lot of people.
Speaker 1:They have that fear of oh my God, I'm going to fail, I'm not going to get it. I'm like I got my day planned for after this because I am walking away with my license Totally. So I was very shocked when I didn't get it.
Speaker 2:I was just Jeez Tragedy, but you got it. All is well that ends well. Like you said slow and steady wins the race.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and of course I went to get yogurt two weeks later when I got my license. So all right, are you ready to move on to the next?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the final one.
Speaker 1:The final one.
Speaker 2:All right. So so the final one that I chose was the day I said goodbye to my child at home, and that's from part five. Oh wow, daniel, I just realized something really weird what's that? You remember how I was talking about with your um, stepmom passing away, how Venus was exalted, and it was in the second house, which has to do with like it's a mark, a house of death and passing. And the fourth house has to do with like home, land, real estate, and the mother venus was exalted on this day also really and instead of having the rahu k2 opposition, you were having a rahu k2 return, very interesting.
Speaker 2:So I mean it was, it was like the death of home, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, it didn't burn down. See, I respond with humor when I'm uncomfortable because those feelings are coming. Like man, I'm still kind of sad about that.
Speaker 2:It's like a big event for you. That's what I'm trying to say, because for some people it's not. It doesn't hit them the way that it hits everybody else, but for you I can see that it was a very, very personal, challenging thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean look, I don't have to expand upon that one. Everyone's heard me talk about it at length. Yeah, it was rough, so I guess the astrology was saying the death of home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty yeah. And the other thing that I'm finding interesting is that Jupiter and Venus were in the exact same degree and Saturn and Mercury were in the exact same degree, and so the Jupiter and Venus were in your second house, which, as we have established, it's like a market house. It's Pisces Pisces has to do with the end of a cycle and conclusions but then these other planets, uranus and saturn, at five degrees, that's within. Again, we established earlier that your ascendant is four degrees of aquarius, and so saturn and mercury were like almost exactly on your ascendant degree. And saturn, obviously it can be the restrictions and it can be the maturation of something, and mercury, for you, is the planet of transformation. All of us have a different eighth house ruler, but for you, mercury is going to represent deaths and rebirths and transformations, and it was sitting right on your first house, and so it really was a huge cataclysmic conclusion for you.
Speaker 2:So much to the point where I wrote an entire series about it wow, and it's really interesting too that it's happening around that rahu k2 return. So it inspired that big creative work, you know I think I can die now.
Speaker 1:I think I've accomplished everything I need to accomplish really well, that was one of the things that was really weird about the release of this series, because my original intention was to begin releasing it in the summer of 2023. They ended up the release in the first episode until February of 2024, and I had this feeling, this feeling throughout that process of waiting still, that if I die after this series is completed, you know, shortly after, I feel like I will have left all I needed to leave. This could be the story. I don't want to say it's my legacy.
Speaker 1:I like to think that I got a little more in me, but if I were to leave as long as this thing was completed, then I would hope that it would be something that could change a few hearts and minds along the way, but not in a way to get people to see things the way that I see things, but for them to question their own relationship with home and what home means to them. And yes, was I a little grandiose in my thinking? Yeah, I don't think this was my magnus opus opus, but I still have that feeling where, if I were to depart the earth today, at least I left this behind and it will be there for eternity in the cloud. So that's what I have to offer the world is how to look at your roots differently.
Speaker 2:That I've done what I've come here to do at your roots differently, that I've done what I've come here to do. It's so beautiful that for all of the other charts you asked me what you were intended to learn, and for this one it's like you knew exactly what it was, and it's something that, because you're looking at the astrology in real time and thinking about things in real time, it seems that you've been able to really understand what purpose moving out of your childhood home served.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that, with the work that I do, it gives me a very unique perspective on what home means, that goes beyond the four walls. And with that I think we maybe even talked about this in one of the two talking episodes we did about it, where I made the choice to not really touch on past life stuff because I wanted to solely focus on this life. But the application is applicable. You know, you can take something from one place and apply it in another place, and that's what I did see this as like with the lesson. It's my unique perspective. But also, I think you use that word karmic, but not in a bad way or good way. But this is that moment where I could rise to the occasion and put myself out there in a way that I haven't before.
Speaker 1:And now here's what's interesting my family still doesn't know about this. Now it's on them for not listening to the podcast, but I still haven't brought myself to share it with them. There's something, although, no, it's not true I did send it to my dad. I'm pretty confident he hasn't listened yet. Granted, he has a lot going on right now because I think he would have mentioned it to me, but I also wanted him to listen to it first because I wanted to get his take on it before I sent it to my mom. It really, ultimately, was a story about a mother and her son.
Speaker 2:Totally.
Speaker 1:So that's like the pinnacle of the sharing. So it's still difficult for me to be that open and vulnerable with my family. It's much easier for me to come out here and talk to a bunch of strangers and, you know, talk about weeping like a little girl when I'm saying goodbye to my home. You know slobbering all over the walls and touching the walls. You know, like Wally, tell me about this and are you going to miss me, like I miss you. See, this is what I do. I respond with humor when I'm feeling uncomfortable. But there are still lessons and hurdles for me beyond just releasing the story Like it is still terrifying the thought of having to talk about this with my family. Totally, I'm very proud of the piece, but I just I don't know. It's very scary. But these people who love me unconditionally, yeah.
Speaker 1:There's this fear of the fuck. Are they going to think when they hear me talking about all this and just being myself? I really should share with my mom it's a big difference, though.
Speaker 2:It's a super big difference to share something from the heart that way to people who didn't live it with you you know, because it's like your mom has her own experience and perspective of everything that happened also, and so it's such a different experience for her to have her experience of everything running parallel to your experience and to hold it and to integrate it and process it that way. And then, of course, she also has certain feelings towards you because you're her child and she hopes and wishes for you to have certain experiences. It's not as complicated for strangers it's like they're just hearing you tell the story, you know. So I think it makes a lot of sense as to why it's different to share with everyone listening than it is the people who experienced it with you, you know.
Speaker 1:And one of the things that's been difficult for me is, yes, there have been a handful of people that have reached out to me and talked about how the series touched them, and it means so much to me when I get those messages, but there's this part of me that still feels like a hurt child for not getting I mean I'm going to use the word more validation, and that's still something I'm struggling with, because I keep telling myself what the fuck is wrong with you, what the fuck is wrong with you.
Speaker 1:Why do you need this validation? Because, even as I was saying before, I feel like I could leave now, like I've done my part. Shouldn't that fucking be enough that I've written this thing that's even had an impact on one person? That should be enough for me. I'd like to think that it is, but I have to really look at the fact that I still want more. And then the question becomes did I do this for all the right reasons? Because if I'm still struggling with not having more people reach out to me, I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think that so much of that is for you to figure out for yourself. I think that's really difficult to like speak to it completely, because it's such a personal thing and it has so much to do with how you experience your own reality and your own creative work and process, you know. But I think that, ultimately, what always comes to mind is, you know like so much of my perspective of the world is shaped by the Bhagavad Gita, and in the Bhagavad Gita, it talks about how, when we have a Dharma, which is a mission, it's something that we are here to do and uphold, because it upholds greater society, for lack of better phrasing, you know, for sake of time and when we have a dharma, it's more important to pay attention to the action than the fruits of action, and so it's not about the reward of anything, it's about the action of performing our Dharma. And so, for me, if I perceive my Dharma as being astrology, it doesn't matter who's listening or what type of validation I get, or what I create or what I do or whatever. What matters is that I do astrology.
Speaker 2:And so, even with parenting, like, people get so caught up and oh my God, how's my kid going to turn out.
Speaker 2:Don't focus on how your kid's going to turn out.
Speaker 2:Focus on how you can show up as the best parent right now, in every action.
Speaker 2:Focus on the present and and the quality of the present, and that's really falling in fluid Dharma, and so I think about that in most situations, and so for you in this, it sounds like that this was a creative work that came from the heart, that you felt like needed to live and survive, and I would just find peace in the fact that you created it and put it together and in the future, who knows what you do with it? You know, it's like you could put it into an online book and compile the audio files and sell it as a book. So it's like there are so many things that you can do from here to like, build and grow it, and that doesn't mean that there aren't other big creative projects in store also. But I think that, like for you in your life with the placement of your Rahu, it's like creating is a huge part of your karma and it's not about the validation. You know, creativity is about the practice and the act of creation.
Speaker 1:I need to be okay with the fact that I grew from the experience and I enjoyed it. I love writing. There is just something so thrilling about how do I take these nonfiction moments and make it exciting. Yeah, and that's thrilling for me. And thank you for the messages. Those who reached out well, that's, it's not me like, let's say, giving an invitation anyone else, but of course, if you want to reach out, I'm not going to say no, because you know I still do crave. I'm working on it, I'm working on it.
Speaker 1:But this feels like such a good bookend to this series. It feels like a very full circle moment because, like I mentioned earlier, I had you on the first episode of the season and now we're wrapping it up with Christine Rodriguez of Astrology Now podcast. I'm happy with it. Of course, there are things that I wish I would have done a little different, but it happened how it was supposed to happen and I can go to sleep proud of that tonight and wake up tomorrow being like what's the next Mirror of Time series going to be? Who knows what the future has in store. But I can tell you this Season five of the show is going to be a little different. A little bit. It's all building up to something. I'll tell you that. And yes, I have dropped about four hints in the span of this recording. Christine's like. Really, I'm like you got to really be listening.
Speaker 1:It's in some of the things I've said. Let's just say I use the word faith a lot. All right, you know what?
Speaker 1:nope, nope, not gonna make the announcement yet okay, because so let me give everyone just a little teaser, really quick, and then I want to hand it over to christine. To talk about the amazing work she does and how you can work with her, because, look, she knows her shit. She's proved that. To talk about the amazing work she does and how you can work with her, because, look, she knows her shit. She's proved that to you over the countless episodes. Does she remember the name of my podcast in the first episode of the season? No, but she knows her astrology, so that's what matters. No one's perfect.
Speaker 1:So what I've been doing for season five I started recording it I believe it was in November of 2023 or December of 2023. And as we're now in November of 2024, I've asked one question that I haven't asked on the show before, and it is the basis for season five of the show. And if you think I got you to look at home differently, oh, you're in for something with this one, because what's been really, really fun is not telling anyone that I'm interviewing about this question ahead of time and then dropping it on them, and the response I've gotten is oh my God, it's so simple, but I've never thought about that.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:It'll just build from there. So I don't want to drop it yet because I still want to record some episodes for Steve's in five, because it's not completed yet and I still want the element to surprise.
Speaker 2:Amazing.
Speaker 1:With all of that said, how can everyone work with you, christine Rodriguez of Astrology Now podcast in Inner Knowing Yoga?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my website is inner knowingyoga.
Speaker 1:I forgot the dots.
Speaker 2:My Instagram is astrology. Now underscore podcast.
Speaker 1:Awesome.
Speaker 2:And my Patreon, where I do weekly horoscopes, is patreoncom slash astrology now podcast. But I post on astrology now every week on all major platforms, on Spotify and Apple. I don't always offer readings, but sometimes they open up, so check if you're interested or email me at astrology now podcast at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it, she knows her shit.
Speaker 1:Shut up for a second. Sorry, but let me fucking sell you for a minute here.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 1:It's my friend. I'm sorry for saying shut up, that was mean I shouldn't have said that christine knows her shit. Seriously. I've worked with a lot of astrologers and I have a lot of great things to say about many astrologers yeah but christine's in a league of her own. Oh, I'm sorry that. Yeah, that's not to disparage anyone else that I've had on the show or anyone show, but just anyone who I've promoted in the astrology realm. But Christine is in a league of her own.
Speaker 2:So flattering.
Speaker 1:There is something very unique about Vedic astrology, and the astronomical accuracy and to the degree and level of which Christine can make predictions is something that. That's all I have to say, and I know a lot of people that have worked with her and they love her and some that told me how did she call that years out. Christine called it and she, she's good. And yeah, so keep an eye on her for when she opens up more readings, because seriously it's well worth it.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you for being so sweet and so generous. I've had really incredible teachers. I do make mistakes all the time, but I appreciate you being so sweet and supportive.
Speaker 1:I didn't say you were perfect. No, I'm definitely not, but I appreciate you being so sweet and supportive. I didn't say you were perfect.
Speaker 2:No, I'm definitely not, but I do love astrology and I do try to put a lot of energy and effort into my clients. So thank you so much. And Vedic astrology is incredible and it is from India. It's a sister science to Ayurveda and yoga, and so if you're interested in Ayurveda and yoga, like doing yoga postures, the asana Vedic astrology is a sister science to that, and they're all intended to be used together to support the path of self-realization. And so it's not just one tool, it's actually interconnected to all these other tools to support a life of mindfulness and consciousness and meaning. And it is incredibly significant and I feel so fortunate that I've gotten to learn in this lifetime.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for coming on, thank you for being a good friend and, as you know, I like to finish these by saying yay, yay. Yay, thank you Bye.