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Hi, welcome to New World Rising, where we explore the
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extraordinary shifts and changes happening right now on the planet
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and what it means for your life. I'm your host,
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Randi Botnick. And today we begin with the question, what
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if the way forward on this planet isn't just about
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changing what's happening around us? What if it begins with
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changing what's happening within us? So in my channeling, I
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hear a lot about this lately. The guides keep telling
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me that our spiritual growth and awakening aren't just personal journeys.
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They're an important part of the big shift that's taking
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place here on the planet. And as we deepen our
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understanding about ourselves, our connection to one another, our earth
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and even the cosmos, we begin to move beyond the
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fear and the heaviness that we've been living in, and
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we open ourselves to a different way of being. So today,
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I'm delighted to welcome our guest Indra Rinsler to explore
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why personal awakening is a collective responsibility, what that really means,
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and and how we can become part of the positive
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changes unfolding in our world. Indra Risler.
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Hi, Indra.
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Hi, Mandy.
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Thanks for having me.
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You're welcome. So glad you're here. And I want to
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just introduce you by saying that Indra is an author,
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Vedic astrologer, and spiritual guide who has spent more than
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50 years exploring the question of who we really are,
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beneath our identity stories and conditioning. His work helps people
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wake up to who they really are, not who they
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think they are, and learn to live more fully in
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the present moment. Drawing on Vedic astrology, the Enneagram, spiritual practice,
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and decades of lived experience, Indra offers practical ways to
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observe our patterns, release what no longer serves us and
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become more conscious participants in our own lives. And he's
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also the author of Indra's Net, A Seeker's Guide to
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the Human Experience, which is a book for anyone interested
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in awakening, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the deeper meaning of being human.
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So welcome. I'm really interested in talking about this idea
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of consciousness and awakening and especially through the lens of
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Vedic astrology. And so here's my really brief understanding about
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the difference between Vedic astrology and what I would call
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like regular astrology.
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Western astrology.
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Western astrology, thank you. Is that Vedic focuses heavily on
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the moon, the mind, karma and dharma, and it views...
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the astrological chart of a person as a roadmap of
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past life, karma and destiny, but that Western astrology focuses
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on the sun, individual identity and personal growth. Is that
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about right in your mind?
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That's you know, the, the, the, if you ask a
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hundred astrologers, you're probably get a hundred different answers. So yeah,
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Those are good answers, you know.
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Tell me yours. Tell me yours. You know, is it
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too big of a question even?
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Well, no, it's not too big of a question. I
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think that most astrologers think of it as either focusing
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on mundane questions or spiritual questions. And while you can
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easily work, and there are people that work with spiritual
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questions with Western astrology. The fact is, and you can
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do mundane with Vedic, the fact is that generally Vedic
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is a snapshot that is more spiritually oriented because India
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is more spiritually oriented. Vedic astrology is the astrology of India.
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And Western astrology is a bit more mundane focused. And
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I like to say that who we are at church,
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who we are on vacation, who we are with our parents,
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who we are with our partners and with our kids
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and family are different aspects of ourselves, different outfits, different beverages,
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a different vocabulary. different goals. And so the astrology charts
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are just snapshots of these different aspects of ourselves.
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Got it. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. And I
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want to talk about the bigger picture here too, because
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I know that you can use astrology for, like you said,
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you know, individualistic, but also for the worldview as well.
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Like I've heard that countries and you know different parts
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of the planet have their own astrology is that accurate
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well yeah.
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They they if you can figure out a beginning time
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then you can cast a chart for it and and
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there are many astrologers that that uh work with the
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um galactic conditions the the the stories of of uh
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our country there's a uh and it's not my specialty
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but there's a uh, is it Uranus 84 years or
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something that that's coming around that's important for the United
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States and, and, uh, maybe it's a conjunct. And, and
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so people make a, a, a, um, I'm going to
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say a big deal. They, they, they, that's the kind
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of astrology that they are interested in, um, uh, promoting
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and advocating. I myself, uh, that all kind of gives
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me a headache. And what I have done is it
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took me, I started with astrology when I started on
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the spiritual path, like 1971, so 55 years ago. And
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it took me about 35 years to get my own
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viewpoint and the way that I want to do astrology.
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And I'm mostly interested in finding the particular strengths and
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weaknesses of particular planets for people as a method to
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highlight where we have to work. The strong planets are
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skills and abilities. There's no good or bad in any
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of it, okay? Nobody is doomed. Uh, but we, but
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we do have challenges. So the strong planets are skills
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and abilities and the weak planets are obsessions and compulsions. They,
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they are, are, uh, where we compensate in our behavior
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because we feel, um, weak mercury. We have trouble communicating. We, we,
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we ramble, uh, we bite our tongue. We don't say
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what we feel. And, uh, this is, this is a
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challenge that the personality, uh, expresses and, uh, By merely
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understanding this position, I feel that the healing already starts. That,
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you know, you're in a relationship and just tell me
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what it is you're not liking because I can deal
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with it when you tell me what it is. If
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you don't tell me what it is, then I can't
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move forward. So we start healing as soon as we
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know what it is. Maybe not at 15, but by 40s.
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you know, easily that this knowledge, it gives us an
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incredible boost in our understanding. And then our releasing starts,
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we start releasing these stories.
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You know, I've found that to be true in my
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own healing practice. I've got to say, because two things,
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I have found that when I speak the words of
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what I'm seeing for a person, just like what you're saying,
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that I can identify the problem or the core issue
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that it already starts changing the energy around it. And
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I've also noticed that most of my clients come to
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me by their mid-40s, mid-40s, early 50s, because that is
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the time when people have enough maturity across the board
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to really look into themselves from an objective place where
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they can separate themselves out enough from family and that
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they're able to really look into themselves and choose to
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make the changes that are still uncomfortable for them. And
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so it's interesting that you talk about this kind of healing,
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these things of what's uncomfortable versus what are your strengths,
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as being part of a way to kind of wake
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up the consciousness of the person. And because I think
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of that as well, like people often talk to me
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about my work as being very spiritual. And it's a
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funny thing because I don't think of it as spiritual.
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as much as energetic. But then here we are talking
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about healing and self-realization as being a very definite part
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of spirituality and consciousness. What do you think of that?
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Well, I think the key here is that I find
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that I put my thumb right smack dab in the
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middle of the most painful and attached places for people.
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And they welcome it because there is no judgment there.
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And when there's judgment, then I think you're in the us-them,
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you're in the mundane, you're in the physical plane. But
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when you get into it as a, you know, here,
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my arm is around you, let's look at it from
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a distance, you know, let's look at it objectively from
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a distance together. then you're getting into the spiritual realm
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because it doesn't feel personal. It's personal to them, but
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it isn't personal in the sense that they feel objectified
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and they feel threatened and they feel... Right? I'm sure
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that's the way that you do it.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. I love the way you're saying that because...
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I never really thought about it quite that way, that
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it's spiritual when we're in it together, when it becomes
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a joint mission or it becomes sort of an issue
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of humanity itself rather than pointedly at one person. I
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love that. And for sure, there's no judgment because all
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of that is actually true, that there's nobody who doesn't
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have wounding and fear, and there's no reason to judge it.
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There's just the desire to make it obvious so that
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we can move through it.
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Yes, I ended up, you know, 1,600 clients within, I
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don't know, 500 readings. I ended up starting my readings
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to say that the reading is essence to essence, from
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higher self to higher self. We're going to talk about personality.
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because that's where the problems are. That's the stickiness, but
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we're not talking from personality or to personality that there
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is no good or bad. There is no right or wrong.
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If we could have done better, we would have done better.
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So we get the judgment out of there and we
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get the objectivity in there. And there's no, there's no
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need for shame. There's no need for, uh, you know,
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for people to take it, uh, uh, There's no shame
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that we're projecting onto anything. There's no projections. There's just
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the ability to be able to tune into where the
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problems are because as soon as we said, as soon
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as we start navigating through these problems, the healing starts.
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Right. And I've loved that about astrology when I can
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see myself from a perspective of the.
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The powers that are working through me at any given time,
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the planets and what they're bringing to me and how
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they're interacting in my chart has made a lot of
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sense to me regarding, oh, I see my personality or
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I see my challenges here very much. And the thing
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that I've liked about Vedic astrology specifically is the way
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it's different. I've seen it as it can show... Like, oh,
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at 19 years old, specifically, something happened in your life.
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What was it that happened that made a major change
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for you? And that's really interesting, too. And you begin
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to see yourself, or I have begun to see myself,
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as being much more part of the cosmos and interconnected
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to all of those, you know, powers and magnetisms that
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than I would ever have thought of because, of course,
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as human beings, we're kind of stuck in this physical shell,
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and we feel so disconnected. And these practices, these astrology practices,
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have shown me, like, I can see the grid of
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how everything is so tied into everything else.
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Well, yeah. Yes, wonderfully said. I think that, of course, again,
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this is available to all astrologers, but all astrologers don't
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do this, and I don't do it this way. And
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I have difficulties because a lot of astrology is disempowering,
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that I know and you don't know, and you're stuck because...
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Pluto square, this is that, this is this, and you're
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stuck and there's no, there's no way out. They're not
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even really explained as a, they're sort of told rather
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than explained. And I like to explain, I don't want
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to tell anybody anything, but, but I see this and
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then it's like, well, what does it mean? Well, here's
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what it means. And I think what you're referring to
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is that as you get bigger, as you get more
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galactic in your thinking, then you don't take it so
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personally as that I'm stuck as a being and I'm
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stuck in the personality and that's who I am. But
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you see it as a galactic plan that some charts
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are challenging. I can't, you know, I have to be
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honest with people to say it's a challenging chart. You know,
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there are challenges in most everybody's chart. But I mean,
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there's some charts that are just downright challenging. But the
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idea is, well, why? The why is because, whether you
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want to call it karma or past history or circumstance,
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is that we get some particular conditions that we have trouble...
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Let's go back to a weak mercury that we have
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trouble communicating. So we get a mercury that's weak. And
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maybe this is our challenge for this life. And it's
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where we need to learn. And I say... Maybe that's
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because last time we made fun of people who were
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like that. So what, so what is, what does spirit do?
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It puts us in this situation. It puts us in that,
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in that prison garb, you know, puts us into that
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challenging position so that we can learn and see the
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other side. And, and I don't, uh, you know, I
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kind of believe in, in reincarnation and that, there is a,
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you know, if it happened, you know, we take this
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position so we get the karma of this other position,
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but it may not be true. It doesn't have to
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be based on that, but it is a nice way to,
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it's a nice bow to put on these situations because
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it becomes more objective rather than subjective. Right, right.
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Oh yeah, and I absolutely believe in reincarnation and this
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karmic wheel and you know, just exactly what you were saying.
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And I, I also believe that, um, you know, we
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don't often pick very, very easy lives because in very,
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very easy lives, we don't learn much, but challenging lives