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Welcome to the podcast ‘It All Comes Back To Astrology!’ A humorous empowerment pod made of 2 friends having cosmic conversations, that yes - always come back to Astrology.
Welcome back to the podcast.
It All Comes Back to Astrology.
I'm your host, Abbie Brasch.
And I'm your host, Linzy Coffey.
And today we got, I don't know, an
episode that I'm excited about all
about timing and astrology.
I feel like I'm making this episode for
like my younger self who always
felt like they're never on time.
And like they were always behind.
And so astrology has helped me so much to
be like, no,
everything's perfectly on time.
So making this episode for my younger
self and no one else.
Hell yeah.
Baby Abbie, let's go.
So yeah, there's this improv theater
concept, make today the day or today's
the day that something changes when
you're going in an
improv scene and you're
like, where's this going?
What's happening?
Sometimes you're just like having a
conversation and you're like, okay, we
have five minutes on stage.
Something needs to happen.
Um, one of my teachers at IO told me, um,
today's the day that something changes
between you and this
person, your team partner.
And so you can like make a strong
statement of like, Oh, uh, you know, I
don't love you anymore.
No, that's not a good one.
That's not a good one.
I mean, that is the day that things.
Yeah.
It's like, instead of just having a scene
where you're just kind of like,
Oh, every day life, it's
like, well, this is good.
Well, continuing the cycle, continuing
the loop, continuing that mundane.
Yeah.
Instead it's like today is the day in
this person's life
that everything changes.
It's just like setting the stakes higher.
It's like, yeah, it's an
excellent concept for all
life.
Yeah.
And it's, it's like, I don't know.
I found it to be helpful.
I just liked that concept a lot of like
today's the day felt very like
Carpe Diem esque.
And I think it's a
really fun concept for improv.
And it, it's, it immediately sounds
hopeful to me because it's so grounded
in the present and it's so like, it's
just like giving honor
to the present moment.
Yeah.
And that's like what improv is all about
is like being fully present.
Just like finding ways to make whatever
that, like you had said, whatever the
cycle that's been going on for a long
time, like that change.
Um, and sometimes it's just fun to find
that, or I like being a little bit of a
gremlin and being like, okay, how can I
totally like shock this person by saying
like, Oh, I'm in love with your brother
or something like that.
Yeah.
Like in the gremlin.
Yeah.
As long as you know, you're yes, and in
your scene partner,
but, um, I don't know.
I love talking about
improv and theater and stuff.
And, and so you had done
some improv, Linzy, right?
Yeah.
I did improv as a kid at the Denver at
the DCPA when they had like a bunch of
classes, I would do summer classes.
And I think it really informed how I
socialized as a child.
And it was a lot of like, if it was a lot
of social skills, but I think everybody
could benefit from improv because I don't
know how to describe it.
I don't know.
I just think it was just
really helpful for me to grow up.
And like, well, like just learn how to
interact with others, be in the present
moment, play games, be like an
imaginative self that is
so helpful to have through
your whole life.
Yes.
I mean, the first concept of improv, yes.
And of like building on the world that
you're creating with someone and adding
your own ideas into the world and like
all the ideas are valid.
It just like blew my mind when I started
doing improv like three years ago, I was
like, Oh my God.
Yeah.
Conditioning that life has forced me to
like harden and close up and like, yeah.
Share ideas and not bring my ideas to, to
the table and not let people see me
and feel hostile around other people.
It's like improv is like, no, like open
up and let people see
you and you see them.
So,
so the yes and concept is when somebody
brings an idea to the scene, first of
all, you welcome it by
yes, you go along with it.
Anytime you say no, you're like shutting
down and you're cutting off growth.
It's like the snipping of the scissors.
And so the yes.
And is like, you say yes.
And, and you contribute
your own elements to the scene.
Your yes.
And this is just allowing everyone to
have their own independence and safe
space of creation while also contributing
and not like cutting off growth.
It's just, yeah, it's a
really good way to see life.
I think that's really well said.
We have officially trapped whoever's
listening into thinking we're going to
talk about astrology, but we're just
trying to get into the cult of theater.
No, but why, why we brought this up
besides the fact that I love how
improv has been so helpful for my life
and for Linzy's life.
So the concept of like timing in life, I
feel like the whole like make today the
day, like make something change is so
great in improv, but like it doesn't
work in real life.
But so I'm about to go back
on everything I just said.
Okay.
Sorry.
Wait, wait.
No, no, no.
Like it's, it's, this is
the moment things turn.
This is like the alchemy moment.
This is the break.
This is the, you can't have it every day
because we're humans and
we're living our lives.
Like, or can we, I guess, can we make
every day the day something changes?
How drastic is the change?
I guess.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
I think with astrology, it's like, okay,
when is today the day?
Astrology can help you point out, well,
is today the day or
is today the day to do
something else?
The concept of make today the day is like
really awesome in like theater.
And I think that's a good thing to kind
of keep in mind in your regular life of
like, when you want to make changes.
But something I like about astrology is
that it shows us that every day might
be the day to make every single change
that you want to make.
If like make today the days, like your
mantra for your whole life, it's like,
that sounds exhausting and it does yet
give a little bit of grindset vibes.
So.
I love that.
That should be a hashtag.
People say grindset.
That's all they do.
Yeah.
I didn't make that up in an ironic way.
Or in an, they're being serious.
I think they're serious.
If you use grindset comment and let us
know if you're
serious or if you're joking.
That has to be a joke, but obviously it's
like your mindset is grinding.
Okay.
Clever props.
Now I'm scared that I
didn't use that correctly.
Yeah.
The grindset of every
day's gotta be the day.
I'm curious, Linzy,
what it's kind of like.
Yeah.
Your relationship with
like time and timing in life.
I feel now looking back like,
Oh my God, I'm a late bloomer.
I didn't do all these
things I was supposed to do.
Cause I didn't know I was supposed to be
reaching certain milestones at certain
ages and this birthday means this and
sweet 16 means this and turning 18 means
this, I was just living
life like a blind bat.
I was just like, whatever I'm 18.
I don't really know what that means.
I just know that this
is like how I'm living.
And now my mindset with social media and
like being hyper aware of what I'm
supposed to be doing can feel crippling.
And so it feels like at least ignorance
is bliss when you're young, but when
you're older, there's just this pressure
that can become paralyzing.
If I feel like I'm off
schedule with my peers.
See, this is what I think like you and
your younger self, I think that's how
it should be, you know, like no one told
me I was a late bloomer.
I'm like, good.
Everyone told me I was a late bloomer.
Really?
See that's heavy.
The pressure.
See, I think you were doing it right by
just doing your thing and not caring.
Cause there isn't
really so hard later on.
And I think I didn't, I think I actually
to play devil's advocate.
I think I did miss certain milestones.
It would have been helpful to have a
little bit of a guidance, like a little
bit of an astrology direction.
I would have helped full to
have a little bit of structure.
Like, this is what you do
on your sweet 16, Linzy.
Really?
I'm serious.
Like something that's
like, that's so interesting.
Because I'm like, no, you're doing it
right by just like not caring.
It's like, yeah, it's a balance.
I wonder, I don't know.
I guess you're the one on the inside
experiencing or feeling feeling.
It hit me harder later on.
Cause I was like, why
didn't anyone tell me?
I don't know.
It's just, I guess you feel like you've
missed, but maybe that's too much
sharing for the pod for you.
I mean, like, how do you feel about me
being like, what milestones
did you think you missed?
Any.
Many.
But yeah, let's continue.
This just becomes like therapy.
I mean, it kind of is for
both of us a little bit.
Yeah.
I, that makes me sad that you felt that.
Oh, well, I mean, like, oh,
I missed things, you know.
Well, the problem is now, the problem is
like now that I'm so
hyper aware of timing.
I'm like, my God, I
don't want to continue.
I want to make sure I'm doing what I'm
quote unquote supposed to be doing.
So I guess what's your, what's your
relationship with time and how do you
feel about it now versus
then versus with astrology?
Well, I always felt
like I was a late bloomer.
I was always told Abbie, you're not
supposed to be playing outside with
the neighbors anymore.
You're supposed to be like a teenager.
Especially for little
girls are still little girls.
Like you forget how young you are.
I did that too.
I was like playing outside, playing with
my stuffed animals and my
things were way long time.
Yeah.
I was like, who gave a shit about that?
I was like, let me
create a sticker world.
That's my life.
Oh, I wish we had each other in, in high
school and middle school.
And that would have been fun.
Cause yeah, I like, I had a couple of
close friends, Rachel and Victoria,
my closest friends growing up.
And I felt like I could be myself around
them, but like, you know, in school,
I'm like, Oh, I'm
supposed to be like this.
I don't have boobs yet,
but that never happened.
Um, no.
Okay.
We can cut that out.
No, that's kind of iconic.
Is it, it does like, I really do think
when you like start developing changes,
a lot of your, how you perceive self and
others or how others are reacting to you.
Yeah.
I was told a lot like that was immature.
And I mean, maybe by just a couple of
people, but I always felt behind in this
like as a kid, but also especially into
adulthood, like, you know, you're
going through college and you
feel like, Oh, I'm on track.
I'm going somewhere.
And then everyone goes their own ways.
And I'm like, Oh, was I, should I have
moved to LA and done the whole film
thing, cause I went to film school.
But then after five years, I switched and
started doing massage instead.
And I've always like, you know, felt like
I wasn't on time and I needed to hurry
up and get things done.
Why couldn't I get things done?
Why wasn't I motivated to do this?
Why am I not like super successful by 30?
Like it's just, and that's what astrology
has been so helpful for because.
Everyone's on their own
personal timeline at all times.
And so I think it lends maybe this
episode will be a little bit for you too,
because maybe you can help kind of like
look back and see kind of the
bigger picture and stuff, but yeah, it
wasn't literally until like maybe this
year where I'm like,
Oh, everything's on time.
Um, it's like a recent thing I'm
realizing, you know, for a really long
time, I was like, Oh, I need to move.
And it just was not happening.
Like moving cities.
I was in Chicago for 14 years and I was
like, I've been here for too long.
I need to move.
Everyone I know has lived in multiple
places and I've been in one place and I
felt really like insecure about that.
And it was something I really wanted.
But then I finally moved this year to
Seattle and looking back, it's like, oh,
I think two years in Chicago were the
best years out of all 14.
There's people I had to meet there.
Like if I had left when I wanted to
leave, I would have never done improv.
So, I mean, yeah, it's kind of like, Oh,
fate, everything happens for a reason.
But also it just wasn't the right time.
Um, and I just didn't know that at the
time, but if I did know ish, I could have
maybe chilled a bit more, but I was a
little like in 2022, I was like, like,
I'm very kind of stressed about it.
So there's a few different timing
techniques you can use in astrology.
Well, there's like, there's quite a few.
You can definitely deep dive into
different timing techniques.
And this has to do with everybody's
personal chart, right?
So if they, if anybody wants to look up
their timing, they would pull up their
needle chart.
Yeah.
So I'm going to, um, I'm going to link to
different, uh, things in the show notes
and in the video description.
So I'll like to, I'll show you kind of
shots of the websites where
you can find this specifically.
Yeah.
And if you have like astrology software,
like the Channy app, those are always
helpful for seeing your chart, but I'll
have some links to free software.
You can, you can find all this stuff.
Cause I want it to be very digestible for
the people, you know, because it can be
can go on a crazy deep dive like me.
But if you're like, I want to know, but I
don't want to, um, spend hours and
hours and years searching.
Then this is a good place to start.
There's astrology happening
every moment of every day.
Planets are in certain positions in
certain signs and you can interpret
that in certain ways and that can
definitely affect us.
But I think there's sometimes like a
misunderstanding of like everything
that's happening is affecting us on a
super personal level all the time
when it's not necessarily.
Yeah.
And you can get caught up in the drama of
that, which can get a little
dangerous, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why I like using, um, so I study
Hellenistic astrology and there's
some specific timing techniques that are
a bit more on the symbolic side, but
they really can like resonate deeply.
And so, yeah, there's like stuff
happening in the sky.
That's good to pay attention to that.
I'll probably talk about a little bit,
but there's also ones
that are more personal to you.
It's more like, this is
going to, where am I personally?
Yeah.
How is that affecting like me personally?
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to pull up.
Um, I'm going to share my screen.
Yay.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Learning zone.
This is a screenshot from a website.
Sweet.
I'm not going to be a fancy slideshow.
So if you're watching on YouTube, you
will see, um, I'll try to describe
for the non YouTube
watchers, what they're looking at.
Is the progress, the nation cycle.
And so if you're familiar with the moon
phases, those are feel like the
easiest thing to like follow in the sky.
It's literally changing like every day
you can see moon gets full and then
moon gets dark, new moon, full moon.
So we're each born into a moon phase
reach born obviously during sometime
during the moon cycle, but there's also a
symbolic moon cycle that we are in.
Like at all times throughout our life.
That's over a longer 30 year cycle.
Are you familiar with this lens?
No.
So no, go on.
Tell me more.
Yeah, it's going to be exciting.
So it like, I won't get into like the
nitty gritty of behind like the
meaning behind or like how you
calculated, but there is
like an, if you really are
like, I want to know more about the
lunation cycle, there's a great podcast
that I will link in the show notes from
the astrology podcast that does
like a two hour episode on it, but this
is kind of like a little taste of it.
So you're like born into a moon phase.
Right.
And like, that's where you're like,
sorry, can you give an example?
Like, what do you mean by that?
Like I was born, like I'm a full moon
baby versus a new moon baby versus I'm a.
Yeah.
So basically, you know, like if when you
were born, you could fully see the moon,
you're full moon baby, you know, the most
basic easiest to pick up.
The werewolf, the werewolf babies.
Werewolf.
But how do you kind of figure that out in
your astrology chart?
Easiest ways, like if your son and moon
are opposite signs, that's a full moon.
Cool.
And then you can always, you know, like
look it up on the calculator.
And they each kind of find meanings like
this might influence you in this way, or
this might influence you to become a
werewolf, something like that.
Yeah.
The werewolf influenced.
Okay.
I want to be a full moon baby.
That sounds fun.
It sounds like I'm sounding like too much
for me, but I'm always like, wow.
I found out someone's a full moon baby.
Like my husband has like, like three of
his out of his like six family
members are full moon.
Oh really?
Oh my gosh.
And when I tell them that, they're like,
Oh, I didn't realize
that that's kind of cool.
So it's kind of a good entrance into
astrology is just knowing what moon sign,
not moon sign, yeah, but like what moon
phase you were born under.
So there's eight phases of the moon that
happened over like 30 days ish.
And there's a bigger cycle going on
symbolically that started when we were
born that is happening over 30 years.
So you're in a specific moon phase for
like a couple of years.
And so it's a much bigger picture on
things, but it can be so helpful to kind
of understand where you are in the
greater phases of your life.
And so what I've got pulled up here on my
slideshow is it's from AstroSeek.
So this is like a free calculator and
we'll have this linked in the show notes,
but you can find out what progress
lunation cycle you're in by clicking on
this section of the website,
putting in your birth info.
You can calculate it on your own, but
that's a lot more time consuming.
So easier to just be
like, where am I right now?
Or you can choose what year too.
So it'll kind of tell you where you are.
So I'll kind of like go through what the
different phases mean.
A book that I really love that I've
gotten a lot of information on this from
is by Demetra George called
Astrology and the Authentic Self.
It's like my, kind of like my Bible.
Yeah.
I love that book.
And so she talks a lot about moon phases
and that's something, you
know, as a cancer moon,
I love the moon phases.
So it got me really into it, but the new
moon, you know, the dark moon,
when it's like dark in the
sky, you can't see anything.
That's the new moon when
the moon is like reborn.
That's the start of the cycle.
And so the new moon represents new
beginnings, planting seeds, few
words from Demetra George's book.
She says, incarnate, emerge and project.
Being in a new moon phase is about
starting new things.
And it's kind of like
the seeds planted, right?
If we're thinking of like a plant's life
cycle, comparing to like
the life cycle of a plant.
Yeah.
It's like the seeds in
the ground is germinating.
It's growing roots, but we haven't seen
the plant yet, but it started.
You know, even if we can't see what's
happening on the surface,
there's stuff going on underneath.
So the new moon phase is
really like, it's dark.
We don't know.
We don't see, we think we put our
intentions out there.
We're starting new stuff,
but we haven't necessarily like
seen the results yet.
So that's what like a new
moon phase can feel like.
You see a lot of things online.
Like this is the moon where you want to
start something for that month.
If you're going to start something.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Same.
A lot of like spell work
and witchy things like that.
Putting your intentions in like out to
the world, like the new moon is usually
good place to start because
that's where it's starting over.
And so then after the new
moon is the crescent moon.
And that's like, if you compare that to
the cycle of the plant, it's like
the seed is like starting to sprout and
it's like pushing through the earth,
but it's like really small and it's like
pushing against gravity.
And so the crescent moon can be a lot to
do with like struggle.
It can be a lot about like you're putting
in the work, you're trying.
You're doing the reps.
Yeah.
The, the words are
overcome, focus, move forward.
So it's like, okay, which of these seeds
that I planted are actually
germinating, which do I want to put my
energy into and how am I being like
met up with challenges, but
yeah, pushing forward with it.
So that can be like some
crescent crescent vibes.
I'm not looking forward to that phase.
I'm in a new moon phase
now, but we'll talk about that.
And then the first
quarter is like the next phase.
So the, we're starting to see the moon
get a little bit bigger
towards that like 90 degrees.
And that's when things
are like gaining momentum.
Um, the plant's getting bigger, you know,
but it's not at full bloom yet.
And so it's a really about like building,
growing, like establishing
structures and foundation so that it can
support like the bigger mission or
the higher goal.
So the words for that are
like, decide, act, build.
This feels like a really safe container.
Like we're, it's just feels like so
natural and feels good to see time
like this in the natural world.
Time to grow.
Yeah.
And it's like, it's funny.
I don't know if like you noticed this in
life, like some, sometimes I'll like
really feel the moon phases and the day
to day, like sometimes I'm like, Oh my
God, the full moon, I'm like so wired.
And other times I feel a little more
disconnected, but sometimes during the
full moon, Dakota plays really well in
soccer or he's like,
soccer was so intense
today when he was a full moon, everyone's
out, letting their testosterone out.
Well, that's what's so cool is when you,
as an aside, like, like women's periods,
syncing up with different parts of the
moon cycle is fascinating to me.
I think now people are trying to work out
based on their cycle, which is also kind
of can be seen like the moon and like,
it's so fascinating to start layering
the natural world and then women's
natural cycles is just so cool to me.
Yeah.
It's like how we like mark time.
Yeah.
We can talk about the calendar too, how
the calendar marks, like calendar
was really marking the feminine cycle.
Don't learn about.
Like, we're just like, all the time, all
the time, all the time.
All been buried, but timing was
originally around these natural phases.
This is just getting us back
to the roots really, when we're
talking about this is so cool.
Okay.
I'm so glad that you're liking it.
Cause it's like, just such a great way to
start with astrology.
It can be so overwhelming,
all the different things.
And so you just start with the moon
phases, look up in the sky.
You can see, you don't
have to look in your app.
You can look up in the sky
and see what that one's doing.
Abbie, it's so real because it's like when
you, when you and I are sitting
down looking at this right
now, it's like, okay, cool.
I'm learning about it, but
I know it's a real effects.
Like there's real
statistics about the full moon.
Like hospital rooms get crazy during the
full moon or like this going
wiry when it's the full moon.
And it's like, there's a real connection.
There's real effects.
It's as real as it gets.
I had in my improv level one student
showcase on the full moon in Gemini.
Oh my God.
It was such a good show.
It was such a good show.
And I was like, in Gemini in my 11th
house of like friendship.
I was like, not every show is, is great.
I'll tell you that
some shows are really bad.
So it's a good show.
It's like, hell yeah.
So that was the first quarter.
So we did new moon
crescent first quarter.
And then like, this is
before the full moon.
It's like, we're almost there.
That's the gibbous moon.
And that's the words for that are like,
evaluate, analyze and perfect.
So it's like, you're have the momentum,
you built the structure.
You're the plant is like growing about to
blossom and it's like, okay, what
needs to change so that I can have that
bigger dream or vision that started
in the new moon, what
isn't really quite working?
What do I need to
like tweak a little bit?
What am I thinking?
I'm thinking of like house or something
and you're like
getting to the end phases.
It's almost done, but you're like, Oh, I
thought this like color would look
really good in this room when I like
imagined this and I'm like, Oh wait, I
think I actually, I want to do this color
instead on this wall.
That's kind of the
vibe of like gibbous moon.
There's a lot more like energy.
It's almost a full moon.
It's like, you're getting excited and
amped up for the thing, but then
um, some things might need to be tweaked.
And then we have the full moon, which is
all about realization, fullness,
manifestation,
culminate, illuminate, fulfill.
It's also has a lot to do with like how
you're relating in the world,
like with other people.
So a lot of times full moon people,
according to Demetra, George's book,
a lot of times here to like work with
other people, have relationships
with other people.
I mean, we all are right.
We're all like, they were born doing
that, but that's part of it.
They were born for it.
Yeah.
Like you're, it's really
like everything is seen, right?
It's like the fullness of like the
realization of the thing that
you started at the new moon.
This is the moment where it's
like the thing has happened.
The thing has reached fullness.
I would be so curious to know if this
would layer on top of
the karmic lifetimes.
And I would be, and I would wonder if a
full moon baby, a full moon baby is in
like a really pivotal full circle karmic
lifetime, this life, like this life is
like a real showcase of many lifetimes.
Lens.
That's exactly what it is.
The moon phase you're born under.
Demetra George's book.
I feel that.
And I feel that.
So deeply really.
That's what he says.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, it represents like the moon
phase you're born under represents
where you are in the greater cycle of
lifetimes, you know, if you believe
in reincarnation, which I do, but it's
like where, where you are in the
greater scheme of
like multiple lifetimes.
That makes, that just
naturally makes so much sense.
That's so crazy.
And that's like the first thing I talk
about when I do like a
chart reading with someone and like talk
about the moon phase they're born
under and what that can mean for them and
how that theme can kind of show up.
In your life, how you kind of like
embodied that, that
moon phase within you.
Wow.
This is a gemstone of astrology that
doesn't get, this is
the advanced astrology
stuff, but it's also the most
basic, you know what I mean?
It's like advanced, but it's also, it's
not, you know, it's also just like look
outside and you can see.
But isn't that the beauty of like the
most intelligent things
are, can be simplified
in such a beautiful way, like E equals MC
squared or whatever.
It's like, you can have the most complex
topics and the true intelligence
is just in the simplicity of it.
I have no idea what E
equals MC squared means.
So maybe, maybe it's simple and I just
don't know what it is.
Okay.
Let's move on.
It's not, no, I totally agree though.
It's Einstein.
It's like, oh, it's an Einstein theory.
Okay.
We're going to have to cut all this out.
Yeah.
I only know about astrology and magic.
Okay.
Well, it's just an example, like
something that can be so
complex, like the earth is
so complex, all of life is so complex.
And yet it's so simple, like a blade of
grass is, can be so complex and like
photosynthesis is wild and it's just like
the most simple stroke of nature.
And you're just like, what?
I think you're spot on with that.
Yeah, I totally agree.
So after the full moon, everything's kind
of manifested however it has.
Next is the disseminating moon.
I don't know.
I had trouble saying that disseminating
moon and that's when the moon
starting to decrease in light.
So we've reached the fullness and now
we're starting to moon starting to
get appear to be smaller to us.
And so that could be a lot about we're
harvesting fruit from the plant.
All the work that we put in, it came to
fruition and now we're kind of getting
all the like good stuff, maybe some not
so good stuff to put on what it is.
But like, that's when you're just getting
a lot of stuff, but it is yeah, about
either sharing your message of like maybe
what you have realized, but yeah,
picking the ripened fruit, enjoying the
fruit, enjoying the fruits of your labor.
Kind of thing like we're enjoying, we're
sharing kind of reminds me of like,
yeah, like the harvest season in the
fall, like before, you know, everything
starts to kind of die, it's like end of
the summer, it's like you're harvesting
all the good, good, good.
And so the words for that are distribute,
disseminate, convey.
You're embodying the
things from the full moon.
So yeah, it's a lot about
like sharing, conveying messages.
So the last quarter, so you've embodied
and you've like, you know, lived out
of this thing, you shared your message.
And it's similar to the first quarter in
that like, we are, it's about like
reevaluating, making
changes and revising.
So maybe you're seeing
like, oh, what worked?
What didn't work?
What do I need to change?
It's a lot about adjustment and seeing
what's no longer working and kind of
looking towards the future.
So you might start to have those like
visions about, okay, what do I want to do
next cycle, you know, like you're
starting to think maybe about the seeds
you want to plant for the new moon, but
you're still very much in like the
the results from the like full moon and
from the seed that you planted right
in the beginning.
And then the last moon phase is the
balsamic moon phase.
I got it right here.
My girlfriend's tattooed
this balsamic moon on me.
Oh, I didn't know that
that's what that was.
That's so cool.
Balsamic moon and rosemary.
So the balsamic moon is
right before the new moon.
It's the dark moon.
It's about distilling, transforming and
envisioning for the future.
So there's a lot of like death, letting
go, decomposing, really preparing for
what's next, you know, like in like kind
of a releasing, letting go kind of way.
You're fertilizing the soil
to prepare for the new growth.
So yeah, if the last quarter is more
about decay, the
fruits, you know, fruit's gone
off the tree plant is losing its lease.
I make that pretty.
Fruit's gone, Linz.
It's a cycle about
completion with the balsamic moon.
It's about resolving,
completing the past, making peace.
So they kind of say, I mean, this is more
like if you're born nadily with a
balsamic moon, but a lot of times you're
like meeting people from, they say like
from past lives and trying to like
resolve those disagreements and or, you
know, issues from the past.
So it can be very like karmic lifetime.
But when you're in like a progressed
balsamic phase, there's a lot of like
ending, letting go, like
getting ready for what's next.
And then you come back to the new moon.
So you plant the seeds.
I feel like it's like you plant a bunch
of seeds and you're like, I don't know
which ones or like the, the, the, I don't
know which one, which one's going to come
up, which ones are going to sprout.
But like the soils is tended to all the
lessons that I've learned from all the
cycles are like going to
prepare me for the next one.
So just to be clear, you can be born
under one of these moons, which has
meaning and what we're talking about now,
the progressive lunation cycle is that
as we travel through life, we're
progressing through all of these phases
multiple times throughout life, which
connects the timing of our lives.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So if you're born under new moon, that's
when your progressive moon starts, but
it's instead of over, you know, like
however many days it's over 30 years.
So it's a much longer cycle.
This is where you'd calculate it.
If you're watching on YouTube, you can
see just a screenshot from AstroSeek.
But there'll be links so
you can check it out yourself.
Let me click.
Okay.
So these are mine.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is, so this is an
example of what you'll see.
If you put like the start years, like
your birth year, it'll show when
each moon phase happened and there are
ways of calculating it on your own,
but I don't even, yeah.
We recommend it.
Yeah.
If you're like an
astrologer, you can do that.
Um, so yeah, these are like my moon
phases and I just kind of wanted to like
talk a little bit about them.
Reflect a little bit.
So I underlined the ones
I was most interested in.
So in July of 2010, I
was in a full moon phase.
It's giving like I peaked in high school,
but I didn't peak in high school.
That's what's so annoying.
No.
It's a full moon.
It's just like, that was a
time of full moon clarity.
Does that mean you peaked?
Your next peak is where?
2040?
You have time.
I'm working my way there.
I just remember I knew I was like, I'm
going to film school.
I'm going to be, I want to be
a Hollywood cinematographer.
Oh, I had to have that sense of direction
in high school though.
That's the gift.
That's the gift.
It's a gift and a little bit of a curse.
Again, it's high school.
It's like you have so much direction and
I feel like I knew what I was doing.
And like, I knew my direction and I was
having a lot of like really good
I mean, it wasn't all great, but this was
like end of high school and college for
me.
And it's so interesting that like my last
quarter was in 2018 because that's when
I started to not like film so much and
think about switching.
Oh, wow.
I didn't realize that until like three
days ago when I was prepping for this.
And I was like, Oh, okay.
It's even more true than
I, than I even thought.
Visually apparent looking at this.
Yeah, it was like 2018 is like when I
actually think September 2018 is when I
got a job at a juice bar
because I remember that.
I remember you calling me and you were
like, you were searching.
You remember?
That's sweet.
I remember because you really wanted to
move around then too, I think.
Yeah, that's when the like moving desires
were really starting to kick in.
And I like started
working at a juice bar.
I got fired from a job,
which was so traumatic.
Firing for my job, working on a
documentary television show.
American greed.
I like shall not be named.
I'm like, why not those?
They fired me for stupid reasons, but I
don't want to get into it, but it's
really traumatic for me because it was
like out of the blue unexpected.
Yeah.
Like felt so it's lost really.
It sucks.
When you're like, your
intentions are there and.
Yeah.
Like it wasn't a good fit for me.
I knew I needed to make a change, but I
was like really unwilling to also like
Uranus moved into my
10th house of career.
Then I got fired, which is a whole other
thing I'm going to talk about another
time, but it's just interesting.
It's like at that point I
was starting to make a change.
I was starting to like see what was and
wasn't working and felt the
need to like make some changes.
And then balsamic phase, which I realized
is on here twice on the screen.
My balsamic phase started
in 2022 and ended this year.
Well, 2022 was when I
was like, I need to move.
I need to get out of here.
I need to make a change.
It's just so crazy.
It was around that time.
Like I got back from my
honeymoon end of March in 2022.
And I was like, I'm moving to London.
Cause we went to
London and I loved London.
And I was just like,
that's where I'm going.
But I knew it was like really hard to
like move without a job there.
It wasn't dream.
Yeah.
It was like a dream that I was really
fixated on for like a few months.
And then I was like, no, I want to move
home to Rhode Island.
And I was really like having
a hard time for like a minute.
It was also my sad and return, but I
didn't realize how much death and decay.
It was like going to happen in my like
day to day kind of life.
But can I mention it's so important to
see it in this way,
because going back to us
riffing off the freaking grind set, like
we need to know that death is a part of
life and it's so
uncomfortable because who wants to die?
Like it's such, but it's natural.
It's natural.
Death is inevitable.
It's natural.
You can't stop it.
You can't grind your way past it.
You can't grind your way over it.
Okay.
It's just, again, this is good to see
because this is the natural world.
This is like natural phases of life.
It's such a visual gift.
I was so annoyed because I
was like, I'm in my twenties.
I'm supposed to be like making it big or
whatever that means.
And it was just so much like change and
trying to figure it out and so much like
decrease in energy.
And I was like trying
to find an increase.
How can I get more energy?
And like I had some energy,
but it just wasn't like, yeah.
Because it's like, oh, this is what I'm
supposed to be doing.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Yep.
It's so easy to just
compare yourself to other people.
And I love that astrology and like the
progressive nation cycle or an example
Oh no, you're right on time for yourself.
And that's something I
want to say to everyone here.
Really comforting.
You're exactly on time.
Okay.
Forget about everyone else around you.
Yeah.
You're exactly where you need to be.
Sounds cliche, but you're on time and
things are going to happen when they're
supposed to happen.
A little PSA, but yeah,
a lot of death and decay.
Well, it's just funny cause like the
balsamic phase is
like endings and I didn't
fully know this until like beginning of
this year, everything was wrapping up so
quickly.
I felt this sense over the past couple of
years of like my time in Chicago was
coming to an end.
I just didn't really know when.
And then all of a sudden I was tying up
all these loose ends.
I really felt like once I took improv and
took the astrology class and met my
wonderful like coworkers and friends that
I had completed that cycle.
It was like, those
things needed to happen.
I needed to meet those people and have
those really special like last
couple of years in Chicago.
And now I'm in a new moon phase and I
feel like a little baby.
I'm like, I don't know.
Everything feels brand new.
Like I had to start my entire massage
practice over and it's scary.
You're in the dark again.
You're in the like literal
and figurative dark again.
Just in the dirt.
And I'm like, I hope this dirt is going
to nourish me enough to get me somewhere.
What did you say?
I'm like, I hope there's
enough magnesium in here.
Cause magnesium is depleted in our soils.
That's good to know.
Another PSA here.
You heard it here first.
Death is a part of life.
There's not enough magnesium in our soil
and you're right on time.
I kind of wish I'd known about the
balsamic phase earlier.
Then I would probably
have not struggled so much.
But that's what I'm saying is like this
piece of astrology is
such a beautiful gem.
It's like such a hidden piece of
astrology that I think
like the people that are
really deep, only the people that are
deep into it, I feel like know about it.
But then again, I didn't
know about the grind set.
So really, I don't know.
No, I don't think it's talked about as
much, which I'm like, I don't get it
because I'm obsessed
with the moon phases.
Yeah.
I didn't see them.
Yeah.
Just a beautiful
representation of the cycles of life.
Right.
Harriet.
Linz, here are yours.
This is wild that you
underline this balsamic phase.
I'm feeling it.
Can I tell you what I did
last night in this house?
So it is what year is it?
It is 2025.
So I'm nearing the end of the balsamic.
That makes fricking so much sense.
I walked around my house and I was like
thanking my house because I've had a
really hard time since 2023.
I got moved out of my previous house.
I'm in this new space that I
did not want to be here at all.
And it has been nonstop
death and decay since 2023.
I'm not, I'm not even exaggerating.
I am in a situation and I know that I'm
supposed to be here to be cleaning up.
I'm like in a space where I'm like lit.
I'm like physically cleaning up this old
house and I'm emotionally cleaning up
the past and I am like in a figuratively,
like a figurative cleaning up,
alchemizing the past,
thinking about everything.
But it's so final.
And I went around the house last night
and I was like thanking the house for
like allowing me to end,
to like end this phase.
Oh my God.
That's beautiful.
I remember like earlier this year, I was
texting you about this.
Yeah.
And you're like, how much
longer am I in my balsamic phase?
And I was like April 2026.
And you're like, uh,
I do remember that, but I didn't, I
didn't know the depth
of what you were saying.
I didn't know this.
I knew like it was bad, but when you're
in a balsamic phase,
you're just getting through.
Wait, this is so crazy.
And I know I'm going to move.
So this feels, yeah.
2019 was a big year for me.
So third quarter, that was like actually
July 29th specifically.
Like I announced a new
relationship on social media.
That exact day, like that literal exact
day, which is also my dad's birthday.
That's the only reason I know that.
Whoa.
I like on that day, that's so cool.
And that was a big relationship for me,
like a huge deal for me,
a really beautiful, like
a really safe, beautiful relationship
that helped me clean up
the past, but also like
gave me hope for the future.
Did it feel like it was like different
than your other relationships?
It was like me feeling safe again.
Which is kind of cool.
So third quarter, that's like halfway.
That makes sense.
It feels like a halfway mark.
Like I had one foot in the past and I had
one foot in the present relationship.
Like I had one foot, like, you know,
figuring out what
happened in past relationships.
And then this person like
helped bring me across the line.
That's wild.
Okay.
So now I just have to
prepare for April 1st, 2041.
We're in preparation.
April 1st, 2041.
We'll just thank God that I don't have a
ball solid phase for the next 20 years.
Like that is, it's kind of hard, you
know, it's like
beautiful, but it's, I mean, all
the phase I'm sure are
hard in their own ways.
And now I'm like, oh, I'm starting over.
I can like experience all of
them and not be like a child.
Right.
But yeah, my sister at the same, almost
the same date that I started my new moon,
she started her full moon.
Oh, how wild that you
guys are a direct reflection.
Right.
Like the dark and the full light and
you're, you're doing
that dance of opposites.
And she, we have opposites on signs.
It's all in the signs.
It's all in the signs.
So today might be the day, according to
improv, you might be able to make today
but also it might not be in the astrology
can help you understand whether today is
the day or today's not the day.
And you're always on time to where you
are in the moment with the knowledge that
things will change and they will move
forward eventually, maybe in 15 years.
If you're in your program, maybe for
happy and I it's 2041 for our full moon.
Yeah.
Check back with us in 2041.
Um, we're actually going to be launching
this podcast in 2041.
I'm like, Oh yeah, I have time.
What year is it?
I got it like 20 years.
It just is so beautiful because we're
always like, Oh, you
only have your youth,
especially as like women.
Again, I could talk about this forever,
but it's like, you're
only worth something
when you're young and it's like, girl, I
haven't even hit my full moon phase yet.
Think about the matrilineal whales.
How they are the only species.
We have to cut this out.
You know how women go through metaphors
and they're saying like, that's good for
the generation
because you have wise women.
We are valuable as we age and know how to
help the next generation.
And anyway, whales, whales are the same.
So we'll have grandma, grandma whales and
they help multiple generations.
Okay.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Trust, trust where you are.
Trust yourself.
Day could be the day
that changes everything.
If you're in the flow of your life.
Yes.
You can make peace with where you are and
look towards the future.
Yeah.
Just trust yourself.
Trust your timing.
It's all working out on time.
And knowing your timing is helpful.
It's helpful.
Cause you don't have to know.
You can just be in it and be like
struggling like I was, or you can like
know a little bit and be
like, okay, it's going to be okay.
Yeah.
Here's the bowling alley.
Lines, the bumpers.
Yes.
See, this is why you're perfect.
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