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A thirst quenching podcast for the girls, gays, theys, & astrology baes where we talk about anything & EVERYTHING through an astrological lens.
Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of Tea From The Galaxy, a thirst quenching podcast for the girls, gays, theys, and astrology baes where we talk about anything and everything through an astrological lens. So happy Aries season guys. I have a nice gift for you guys and that is a dedicated episode to you. Aries specifically Aries Rising's.
Serena:I brought on one of my favorites and best astrologers that I personally know, Chad the Maverick on all social media platforms. That's where you can find him. That is how I found him years ago. We connected through social media. I love his content.
Serena:I love who he is as an astrologer. I love what he's doing in the astrology community and all the work that he puts out too. Today's episode, we really broke down what it means to be an Aries and Aries rising, what it feels like, his perspective on life being an Aries rising. Whether you are an Aries or Aries rising yourself or you're watching for someone who you know who's an Aries and Aries Rising, think this was a very informative episode. We also touch upon at the end of the episode a little bit of what is coming towards the Aries Rising's as well with the future transits.
Serena:I think you guys will love this episode as much as I loved making it. And, let's just jump right into it. Well, first, I fell in love with your content. I fell in love with who you are as an astrologer. And then we met up, what, a couple years ago out in It's so interesting because we did we recorded a little video together and that's when I told you I just had the idea of wanting to eventually do a podcast.
Chad the Maverick:You did say that. Right? I love stuff like this girl. But yes, you did say that that day. Yeah, that's crazy.
Serena:Right? Now we're here. A couple questions I like asking everyone so whoever's listening can, you know, get to know you a little bit better. You can answer all of them or none of them, whatever you feel comfortable with. What is your age, your big three, your pronouns, and your sexual identity?
Chad the Maverick:Got you. So I am 29 years old. Sagittarius son, Moon. I go by hehim or just him for short. No, fine.
Chad the Maverick:The other part to it. And I'm straight, but I'm very just open to in terms of like a lot of my friends are queer just in general. Like, I'm very like
Serena:We love an ally.
Chad the Maverick:You feel me? It's also like love I those are like the coolest people that I've met in a lot of cases so like it's just it's all love for real for real to me
Serena:I love that I love that so something that I say on this podcast usually at the beginning is this is a podcast for the girls, gays, phase and astrology bays. So you are the astrology bae that we're bringing on.
Chad the Maverick:I will take it.
Serena:Yes. This is basically a whole episode dedicated to Aries energy in honor of Aries season. So let's talk a little bit about you and how you got into astrology.
Chad the Maverick:Ironically, like, I've been writing a lot more content. I'm writing courses and stuff like that in the process. And I was writing about the moon or thinking about the moon, really. I was kind of like, was the moon my first love for real? Like, when I really think about it, like, was that like I don't know.
Chad the Maverick:Was this morning I thought about it. I was like, was it? Because I was like thinking back and I'm like, I just remember, like, so being just so drawn. Especially when the moon was like full. Yes.
Chad the Maverick:And just like staring outside, like my head against like the the window shield, staring at stars or the street lights and just being like, oh, that's so cool. Then like going by, driving through a wooded area, and seeing the moon just open up and I'd just be like, Woah. That's something that a lot of people experience, but to me it just drew me in a lot. But I also had a really strong love for science. I very into I just wanna know how the world works.
Chad the Maverick:True. I was just like, what's going on with this? The science that I was really into was in space because I just was in love with the solar system. I was like, this is just a system, and I need to know how this works. And I looked at it from a very science point kind of first.
Chad the Maverick:The biggest thing that I remember specifically in the growing up, I got in trouble for doing some Aries type behavior. And so I'm going through and I'm cleaning and dusting off a bookshelf in my house. I hated it. I was like, whenever I'm doing this. And I found the secret language of birthdays book.
Chad the Maverick:And I remember just opening it up and then re immersing myself in this concept that I'm like, why does this book know me better than the people that live around me right now? Like, why does this book give me a resonance that I've heard semblances of people, but never came together in a way that I was like, Oh, I feel seen. Yeah. So I'm halfway crying my eyes on the dusty stuff I was just trying to get through. And later on, it just circled back to me.
Chad the Maverick:The biggest thing I like to talk about is I wrote an article in an elementary school about Pluto because I was pissed off, but they said it wasn't a planet. And I remember like fever
Serena:Astrologer things. No,
Chad the Maverick:feverishly. I was like I had to be like 10. I was just like, I was pissed. I was like top tier mad. I remember like it getting on the front page because they're just like, this person's poured his heart out.
Chad the Maverick:Oh just the weird stuff that synchronizes over time, you know? I'll say that that's like the first parts that got me into wanting to know it from a spiritual perspective.
Serena:That's so interesting. That's so interesting that you even had that book in your house.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah, for sure.
Serena:That sounds so fated to me. You were meant to just stumble upon that.
Chad the Maverick:Was writing about Aries and I said something about Aries are courageous because they stumble into things and they have to be brave. I'm thinking about it. Happens It and all right, let's give it a shot. I think that's a strong resonance there. But yeah, definitely stumbled upon as many things in my life.
Chad the Maverick:It's a beautiful thing though. Love it.
Serena:Being an Aries Rising, I guess you having a fire sun and a fire moon, it supports that Aries rising as well. It's all flowing. But how do you feel like being an Aries rising makes you different? Or what's your perspective on life? I guess having an Aries Rising that you're like, oh, this is what makes me an Aries Rising makes me different than people around me.
Chad the Maverick:I would say one thing to just be transparent about is that I think the Aries Rising was the hardest part for me to accept for what it like was at first. I was very much like, I'm a double sash. I like the Aries Rising, but I was like. I didn't understand the Aries energetic because I was living it so hard that it was very difficult to. Kind of have a mirror back to, like, what people were seeing in me, right?
Chad the Maverick:I follow my heart the best I can. I guess the first part to it. I'm very I'm a chill person, but I care about like justice. I care about like my friends. I care about people who are just dealing with things that sometimes other people don't have to deal about.
Chad the Maverick:So I've always kind of just been so much alike. If anything goes wrong, I'm not the first one to step up, but I will be the loudest to step up. This is subconscious. I want to point this out. It's like there's no conscious part of me that's like, I have to step up for this person because it's just like it's a very like, yo, this is my friend.
Serena:It's like an innate feeling.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. You met me, you know, I'm a tall guy. So it's like it's easier to kind of get away with being an Aries rising because of that in certain senses. Right. But real part that stuck to me was that like, I have a very personality forward kind of vibe that I never get to experience.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah, the hardest part of being in Aries Rising is that it's like, I don't know what other people perceive of me. I just know that they feel something. Yeah. No matter how it goes, I don't what it looks like. I'm like, I will make you feel something.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. And that's just me trying to be honest about my energetic. A lot of times I have Saturn and Aries too. So it's like, I don't mind playing a background. I don't mind being like I don't have to be the forefront.
Chad the Maverick:I never I like to be the forefront when I can. If I'm the lead or something, I am the main character. What's up? But I don't need to be the main character in every instance, but we have to win. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:That's I'm saying.
Serena:A competitiveness of Aries for sure.
Chad the Maverick:Right. It's not just about me, but whoever is on my side, have to go win.
Serena:Yeah. Well, that's one of the things that I love about Aries. I always say Aries energy. I don't have any Aries placements in my chart. So that's why I definitely wanted to bring you on to kind of so we could talk about more about the energy because I can observe the energy all day, but I don't know what it feels to encompass it.
Serena:You know? But Probably
Chad the Maverick:it'll give you some some gems in there.
Serena:Yeah. For sure.
Chad the Maverick:For sure.
Serena:Anytime I see people who have prominent Aries energy in their chart, especially in the rising and the moon sign, something I always noticed was their resilience. Like you guys And maybe because I'm so water dominated, sometimes my emotions can really water me down. I feel like people with prominent Aries energy in their chart, they're very much like even if they're going through something, they're very headfirst. You know, the ram, like moving with things headfirst and that, like what you said, that need to win. And it's not even like in any type of like cocky type of way.
Serena:It's just my need for like to come in first to win, to rise to the top and to be better weighs more than kind of what I'm feeling in this moment.
Chad the Maverick:Yes. And I think that that's actually a very good explanation because that's a part that I don't understand about cancer energy.
Serena:Yeah, that's the square.
Chad the Maverick:That's the part. And it's ironic because I have a bunch of people with cancer energy just in my life. But it's funny because, like you said, we have to react to it so we don't get to emote to it. Y'all will emote first and react to it. But the thing that people don't know where Aries is not well known for is when that thing that they were brave about hits them three weeks later.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. And then they're like, oh my god, I did do that. I should be scared. And that's the weirdest thing about being Aries. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Like, two months later, you'd be like, oh, shoot. Like, I did that. That's terrifying. It's, like, a very weird maybe that's just me if you're Aries and you're watching this. Please drop something.
Chad the Maverick:So I know it's not just me, but maybe this is me.
Serena:I've witnessed some, especially Aries moons in my life, deal with that too. I always do you know that meme shadow of a girl and she's standing in front of a burning building and it's like I may have overreacted like but she's like calm she's just looking at the fire like that I kind of think that's Aries energy sometimes because you guys just have to feel it. But as soon as you feel it, you deal with it, you move on. But the realization of what just happened maybe two, three, four weeks ago then comes and it's like, oh shit, I did do that or I did just go through that. It's I did react that way.
Chad the Maverick:Or even sometimes the Aries Rising specifically, it's like, I typically am coming 95% of the time from a really heart led, good place with just life things in general. Yeah. But I can see how it can get misconstrued as well.
Serena:I was just going say that's very a very much misunderstood aspect about Aries energy where it can be interpreted as being very selfish or me, me, me type of energy. But what's slept on about Aries is that they do move from a very heartfelt, passionate energy in their body. And that is actually the motivator for their actions ruled by Mars.
Chad the Maverick:It's crazy because I think about it and I'm like, I know those time frames in my life where I am either uninspired or a little bitter. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm uninspired or I just actually analyze and know chips stacked against me in some instance. And I'll just be like, I almost get more upset at the pre fight of what I think has to be me going up the ladder or fighting up to be seen or known or respected in a lot of cases. Right?
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. So it's like, do I have to fight the fight? Then knowing the instances too where it's just like you're already everything. You're already all you need to be.
Serena:And
Chad the Maverick:not in a spiritual woo woo way. It's just like a no. Literally, you are here. You are present. And I think that's a gift to Aries is that we're very present.
Serena:Yeah. Was just going to say too. You kind of know how to put yourself first versus more maybe compared to other signs that are always thinking about other things or other situations or other scenarios, or even your sister sign Libra, which they struggle with that. They're always thinking of and outweighing everyone else's opinions. And that's like the Aries Libra axis as well.
Serena:But what's your Venus and Mars sign, too?
Chad the Maverick:Venus is in Scorpio if no one could tell. And my Mars is in Virgo if no one could tell.
Serena:I knew one of them was in Scorpio, but I forgot which one.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. My Venus is in Scorpio, which it adds its own layer. I think the Aries problem is that it's like, again, I can't feel whatever I exude.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:So, if I'm if I'm going out somewhere and I'm feeling specifically magnetizing and I'm walking through and I got my fit on,
Serena:I got
Chad the Maverick:that shit on, you know what I'm saying? I know that there's like a a magnetism of it. Yeah. But I just don't know what that's like on the other side. Like, you know what I'm saying?
Chad the Maverick:So it's like a
Serena:I completely get it, especially being a Scorpio Rising. So we're both Martian rules. I always get, Oh, you're so mysterious or intimidating. And I genuinely don't feel like that. I feel like Or the resting bitch face.
Serena:I honestly don't know that I have a resting bitch face until people tell me. I mean, I'm not looking at myself in a mirror all day, every day. Yeah, that's the rising sign. So if whoever's listening, like if you're trying to understand, it's literally the lens. I say they are the goggles that you wear to navigate life.
Serena:Like you are not looking at the goggles, you're looking through the goggles. So sometimes you can't feel or understand how people are interpreting you. Do you get people telling you when they first meet you that you're intimidating or people who don't know you?
Chad the Maverick:Yo, people I think actually I have a handful to say about this, to be honest with you. I think this is an interesting fact, right? Where I'm like I can come off to people as intimidated if I'm quiet. If I'm like can sometimes I'm introvert. So truthfully, I will sit I would go out places.
Chad the Maverick:I would just post up and sit somewhere, order me a little something and just zone out for a little bit to just be in my own bubble amongst things that are around. And then people just come up and be like, yo, are you upset? Or maybe some lady might come through and be like, are you here by yourself? And just kind of like, yep. Yeah, I'm here by myself.
Chad the Maverick:Why? And I'm very just, it takes me a second to kinda like people again, especially because we and I think we have this issue because we're also astrologers. So we're like, these things connect here. This is Yeah. Connecting here.
Chad the Maverick:And people are like, what's up? Oh, I have to come back to real people time. Hello.
Serena:Literally. People don't understand that. As astrologers, our brains are constantly making connections and clocking patterns constantly. And one of my best guy friends has an Aries Rising. And it's so funny because being a Scorpio Rising and an Aries Rising when we're together and we used to work together, that's how we met.
Serena:We're just very intimidating, like as a group. But as soon as we open our mouths, it is a completely different energy. So that's why I'm always like, once you get to know me, like it is, I'm so different. But how he walks, like, I could tell why he is very intimidating because he has like a stern face, and he just walks very confidently too. And that's a big thing with Aries energy too, like, confidence.
Serena:Even if you don't feel it, you ex you guys exude confidence.
Chad the Maverick:So That's the confusing part, though. Yeah. The the confusing part is, like, I could be actually, like, angst that you get about stuff. Yeah. And it's like, I might I mean, it's I'd be like Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Right? But then, like, on the other side, I'm like, I got this stuff. Like, it's so Literally. Like, kind of to add to that, I think the Aries Rising relationship that I've had also changed in the last couple years before the start of my gym journey, I would say. The post toxic body whatever that happens to people because media and we hate that.
Chad the Maverick:But I think just as kinda a grown man stepping into it in terms of, I just need to be better, I need to feel better. There was a time frame where I was just hit a slump and I was just like, Yo, I gotta do something different. And just in terms of me getting into my fire, was like, yo, I got to get a different relationship to the gym, a different relationship to my health and my body and etcetera. Because I got so used to just running a rampant that I was like, oh, shoot, this is the other side I'm running my body rampant. Like, that's been a larger part to that.
Chad the Maverick:And since I've kind of stepped into the gym and like, I I finished my first successful bulk season apparently. So, you know, we out here.
Serena:Hell yeah.
Chad the Maverick:But now that that's also happened, I have more of a presence. Yeah. Like two people, I want to say. Because it's like, I've always been tall, and I was like, Hey, what's up? Or like, I make room and it's like, Oh, this is that.
Chad the Maverick:So I've been getting used to that. Because I got used to kind of being like, oh, I can chill. It's just like, no, bro. You are the size of a football player in the NFL. Chill out.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. Right.
Serena:Did this gym journey start during your Saturn return?
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. Like, I think it was, like, at the very tail end of the, like, last degree of Pisces at the least. Like, you know
Serena:what I mean? It was Yeah. Right
Chad the Maverick:And I had to just move. Like, as soon as, like, Neptune went up to Aries, I just stopped drinking and locked in to the spirit. It was like I just stopped going out to do stupid stuff and I was like, I need to be a temple. It just happened. I think I'm just surprised by how fast I was just like, I made a decision.
Chad the Maverick:I was like, yeah, I'm not gonna do this. Then it just
Serena:What's the degrees of your Aries rising?
Chad the Maverick:My rising sign is 18. 18 degrees.
Serena:Oh, okay. And then your Saturn is zero. So you're literally right in the middle of your Saturn return right now. So if anyone's listening and you're an Aries rising and you were born between the years of '96 and '98 or might be the beginning of '99, I know in the in between, in the '98, Saturn did go into Taurus and then it retrograded. Yeah, because I have a Saturn in Taurus and I'm born '98, but it retrograded back.
Serena:So so then you have a Saturn in your first house, which is interesting and I feel like tampers with the Aries Rising energy, right? Like it brings more structure or boundaries or kind of helps ground you a little bit versus like do you feel like if you didn't have Saturn in your first house you would be like way more impulsive or even angry or like reckless? Sure absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Serena:Especially with that Sag moon.
Chad the Maverick:Between I would say between my Saturn and Aries being there and my Capricorn stellium.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Without those, like, two things to, like, limit the amount of extra I I know I can be or have been or, like, just I I think what's also kinda happened with the Saturn and Aries specifically is, like, collecting other people's actions. And I'm gonna explain this as best as I can. It's collecting other people's actions and experiences and then choosing if you want to live through that experience yourself and see what that's like or not. Right? Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Because there's a lot of one thing I will say in terms of my growing up or upbringing, right, is that, like, I always either got respect from the higher ups or the higher ups hated me. There's, like, never there's nothing in between. Right? But when I would be in, like, different programs and talk to, like, some of the, you know, like older dudes and they would, like, give me advice, a lot of other people kind of hit their Aries moment in a negative way and how much that impacted them. Right?
Chad the Maverick:So, like, I do my best to, like, notice stuff early Yeah. And try to knock it out for what it is. So even if I have, like, a trait by myself that I get reflected back two or three times from different people, then I'm like, Oh, I'm an asshole right now. Am the problem. I think a lot of the Aries slander happens to do from people that piss them off.
Chad the Maverick:Like, typically, maybe it's so angry after I was trying to play with their feelings. I don't know why they get like this.
Serena:It's like.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. What was the reason? Yeah. What was the reason?
Serena:And this is probably another reason why people get intimidated by Aries because it's like comes from like a low key jealousy of people not being able to think for themselves or which is something that I also look up to Aries for about too because they're always thinking for themselves. I feel like not a lot of times people can really get in their head maybe for a moment, maybe for a little bit, but that was the resilience snaps back and they're like, no, actually, this is what I want to do. And I want to do this how I want to do it. And I'm going to do it like like this way.
Chad the Maverick:Today, it takes a bit. And I don't think you could be a successful Aries without other people calling you on your shit and also calling you on
Serena:That's your shit needed for Aries.
Chad the Maverick:Need people around me that can do both. If I'm wrong, let me know I'm wrong. If I'm right, let me know I'm in the right direction. If you disagree with something, it's not that I will change exactly what I'm doing, but the feedback from those people is very important to me. I keep friends that I've had for a really long time that have seen me at stage zero to now.
Chad the Maverick:So it's like, I still keep a very common core, I wanna say, to how I've lived life. I think that's a very Aries thing and I'm blessed for that position. More self reliant you get, I say the Aries, when you get more, I'm going to do this all by myself, everything is by myself, the further away people get because they can't relate to the amount that you're trying to put on your back.
Serena:Yeah. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Because it's like, hey, look at me. I'm doing all this stuff. I did this, I did that, and everyone I'm the best. It's like, cool. We're all going this way.
Chad the Maverick:You went that way by yourself. Yeah. Now granted, you can go that way by yourself, become now a person and everyone starts looking to you. They start copying what you're trying to do.
Serena:Yeah. They start trying
Chad the Maverick:to take different pieces. And that's kind of the other side to it. Say imitation is flattery, as an Aries, I don't feel that way, for real. It's like, sure, to a point. I love Tasteful influences.
Chad the Maverick:I love Tasteful pools from references. Yeah. I love tasteful pools from references. But when it's just like a bro, I said that same exact thing to a T in the same storyline arc. I
Serena:hate that too.
Chad the Maverick:As the Aries, as Scorpio rising, that's when we start having these problems. It's like, hold on, hold on.
Serena:Yeah. So going back to what you said, because this is something that I also wanted to bring up because it's something that I noticed is a theme or a life lesson with prominent Aries placements is I always noticed that Aries, there is a period of time in their life where they have to be alone. Although you guys get the rep of being a more extroverted sign, coming back to yourself because you guys can be stubborn in a way of, I want to do things this way, how I want to do it on my own time, because you have that vision and it's an innate feeling. Strongly when Aries feel something so strongly and so passionately, and they don't want to compromise that. They don't want to compromise their vision because they don't want to listen to other people's input.
Serena:Other people can get turned off by it. But using that time to really commit to that vision will bring success, but it's kind of like a lonely road. Does that make sense? Like a lot of times an Aries success is a lonely road there.
Chad the Maverick:There's a time frame in my life where I'm like every time I try to do something right the way that people prescribe, I end up the loser for it. Every time. Like, every time. It's it's actually quite annoying because I want to follow some type of instruction. It feels like whenever I get, just too comfortable in some other system where I try, something is just like, bro, that's not true.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. Then it's back to the drawing board. I think as Aries Rising, I go back to square one more often than people might assume. I have to say that's part of what I'm going through now. Me and my Siren Return as well.
Chad the Maverick:It's the the alone part feels lonely because you're like, does anyone else relate to why I'm so, like, passionate about this thing?
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Right? And there's cases where, like, we meet people, like, such as one another. It's like, Ah, they get it. Cool. An astrologer's journey is lonely as a concept.
Serena:We were talking about this earlier this year when I stopped making podcast episodes and kind of what you said. Like you wish there was a rule book, but I know deep in my heart that any time I I like what you said with that, that any time I try to comply or listen to anybody else's thoughts of how I should live life, it never worked out.
Chad the Maverick:And it's not because it's harmful. And I don't think people are coming from a bad place by any means at all. Just think it's a matter of energetically, it's like, oh, I agree with this part. I really hate this part. But they said if I follow this part through, it'll be fine.
Chad the Maverick:You follow it through and it's just like, y'all should've just like It's almost like I'm mad at yourself. Whereas like, I suspect x, y, z. But yeah, I think that the loneliness is a factor that has to also be felt in order to connect with people that you don't know.
Serena:Yeah,
Chad the Maverick:I think that 100%. Most beautiful parts about the work that we do is that like anybody who gets a reading could be anybody. Right? But I treat everyone, like, all the same. That's part of why even, like, my newsletter is called, Under the Stars We Wander because it's like we're all wandering.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Under the stars till we figure things out. Like but it kind of brings in this, capacity that it's like we are all individual.
Serena:Yeah. We
Chad the Maverick:all felt alone. We've all been alone. We haven't been able to define why we feel lonely all the time. And I think that that's part of where it's like Even the people talk, The male loneliness epidemic. It's like, Are men attached or are they in a good relationship to their own Mars?
Chad the Maverick:Are they in a good relationship to their Venus? That could change a lot.
Serena:Yeah. Very true.
Chad the Maverick:We all have things that we have to either balance out or show out with that we have. And sometimes people are so almost concerned with trying to fit their weak spots that they forget to shine. I do this myself. You get what I'm saying? Where it's like being that bright is sometimes what made people lonely in the first place.
Chad the Maverick:So that's part of the strange dichotomy of letting yourself have time and be alone. Because it's like a, wow, I'm really alone. And then you might come outside and be like, oh, everyone's bothering me. Everyone's everyone thinks I'm shining. And it's like, am I really that alone or do I just, like, feel something?
Serena:I think that is such a big Aries energy feeling because you guys have an Aquarius eleventh house, your fire sign, extroverted energy with that Aquarius eleventh house, it's kind of like you could have multiple friend groups or you have a friend here, have a friend there, you have online friends, you belong everywhere. But with the Aries energy, it's like, I belong everywhere, and sometimes I feel like because of that, I belong nowhere. And it's a feeling of constantly fitting in by being yourself, but being yourself is what inspires other people. So it's kind of contradicting.
Chad the Maverick:Yo, so to add to that, I'll even put in the my name and tagline has been Chad the Maverick. And as I think about the Maverick as a concept. It started off as a sad thing, so to speak, but it's and I slowly I've had this name for a very long time in terms of things. I've been nicknames for Maverick for a long time. But it's like think about the Maverick portion of that.
Chad the Maverick:It feels more of my Aries Rising. Sound goes on because it's like, I don't I know I do that. I don't feel that. My my role in the astrology world is in my personal opinion and from like what I gather from it, like very specific. It would be special, but in a way that's not going to like pop up for me until I hone myself.
Chad the Maverick:Right. And I think that that's something that's like through consistency, through showing up for stuff like this, through when people ask me in person. They're like, oh, what are doing? I'm an astrologer. And I get a mixed bag of results.
Chad the Maverick:Sometimes people are like, what does that do? I'm in LA, so people usually know what it is. Again, so strange because you can't feel your energy in correction, you can only feel your energy in other areas if you're actually in competition. If you feel like I have to show up and show out because this is really important to me, I think that's the only time I'm like, oh, I understand. It's very serious
Serena:Would you say you're a really competitive person?
Chad the Maverick:I don't have much of a jealousy streak in terms of stuff as much as if something makes me almost jealous, I'm just inspired to be I'll just be better than you. It's a very different business. It's not like I see something and I'm like, oh, I want that. I'm like, oh, I see what they did there. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:So I think that part is a little different for me specifically, but I will say in terms of competition, like Yeah. Like, it's a
Serena:Yeah. Like, if I'm gonna play, I'm gonna play to win.
Chad the Maverick:I don't play cards with people. I guess that's okay. So I don't play cards with people like, by the way. Uh-huh. Because, like, there's this at least when I was younger, this is before I even, like, fully understood astrology or intuition or anything.
Chad the Maverick:But, like, when I was younger and I played cards with people, I would start off chill or games or in general. I'm starting off chill. I'm having fun. I am laughing. I am goofing.
Chad the Maverick:I will knock over my own peace and whatever. It's goofy fun. That's why I wanna talk crazy. And then someone talk crazy, and I'm like, you sure you wanna do that? This is what I'm trying to say.
Chad the Maverick:My ears are like, are you sure? I'm gonna
Serena:give you one second to reevaluate.
Chad the Maverick:And a famous phrase, I'm like, is this what we're doing today? At that point, you know which way or the other. You know what I'm saying? I'm not gonna hide the other side of Aries where it's very much like, yeah, I'm in your face. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:I'm gonna say what's up. Never took anything too extra in terms of that, it's just a matter of having to step up to what is in charge of you. Aries is the bully's bully. Guess that's It's at its the bully's bully. I think Aries also has a very strong cycle to the concept about being a bully, being bullied.
Chad the Maverick:It's like this vortex of trying to figure it out until you're like, Oh man, I do care what people think. I do wanna know other stuff. I do wanna really connect. Was watching Abbott Elementary not too long ago, and there's this part where these two kids, I guess they were always fighting. Then something happened in the school.
Chad the Maverick:There was this one slight change, The teacher got scared. She's like, No, everyone. You gotta rip apart. You gotta go on the other side. I was like, No, it's okay.
Chad the Maverick:Y'all were messing up things so hard. We ended up hating it. We're friends now. The beef is squashed.
Serena:Why is that such Aries energy?
Chad the Maverick:That's what I was saying.
Serena:It's like they just have to I'm telling you, you guys just have to feel it, fight it out. Sometimes it's a tantrum. Sometimes it looks crazy. Sometimes it's like, I'm gonna say something and then I might regret it. I realized that with Aries emotions, it's like you feel it like a fire throughout your whole body.
Serena:And that is hard to tame or put out. And by putting it out, you have to let it out. I also give the advice for Aries Rising Moons and Mars. Aries and Scorpio, Rising Moon and Mars. Because you're ruled by Mars and Martian energy, that having a good workout routine, like a physical outlet to let those emotions out is so helpful and important.
Serena:It's changed
Chad the Maverick:a lot. I used to be athletic when I was younger, but I haven't been on a team since the high school, so to speak. So it came back to me. I live heavy. I'm not gonna lie.
Chad the Maverick:I'm sorry. I'm like, Oh my God. When I look at my books, was concerned. After looking at the numbers, I said, This makes me feel like a person. I guess it's like I'm in my body a little bit more.
Serena:Yeah, that mind muscle connection.
Chad the Maverick:Time is more realistic than what it is in my head, I think, afterward. I think it's the best way to put it.
Serena:Yeah. It's in numbers for me mentally, emotionally, just getting those emotions out through physically. Some people need a creative and you can have multiple, but like I say Pisces moons, they need a creative outlet. You need something creatively to help emotionally regulate you. Gemini and Virgo moons, they do very well with talk therapy.
Serena:Mercurial people, dominated people do very well in therapy and just talking it out. Aries and Scorpio, we need people ask me someone asked me the other day, they were like, do you do pilates or yoga? I said, no, I'm more of like, I need to punch a bag type of girl.
Chad the Maverick:And I think for me, like, I didn't think I would like lifting genuinely, but then it's just like a I don't think about it as much as I did when I was first nervous about it.
Serena:That's another life lesson I realized for Aries placements too. I feel like they always go through a pipeline. And this is like Aries who have a lot of self reflection, I guess, throughout their life too. But there's a pipeline of being an angry kid or an angry person or going through an angry, frustrated time period pipeline to calm adult or calm grandma or something like that. And it took a lot to get there.
Serena:I worked for this piece type of thing. That's something that I always recognize with Aries.
Chad the Maverick:That is a very strong quote that rings with me because it's like a I think it's just a matter of me understanding the dysfunction that I wasn't raised in on purpose. I don't think there was ever to to give the kudos to, like, my family and everything else. I don't think people inherently try to do anything wrong as much as things were wrong for so long. Nobody noticed more. You know what
Serena:saying? Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Referencing it because I think a lot of people who are born after the '90s, like in the 2000s and stuff like that, I think they miss a lot of context into why things became politically correct. Yeah. Mhmm. Because growing up, there was nothing correct about anything, right? And being a black woman.
Serena:Yeah, it's like people's norms. Like when you're especially before the social media age, when however you grew up, wherever you grew up and whatever you were doing and how you were raised and even further, our parents' generation too, it's kind of like we're in a bubble. We only know what we know. And what is normal is normal, even if it's dysfunctional. You wouldn't even know because that's the norm.
Serena:Why would I know anything else?
Chad the Maverick:And then I go out into the real world and I was like, Oh, people can't play tit for tat like this? Thought that's what everyone does. It's like, No. Yeah. Like, there's like a very Yeah.
Serena:A 100%.
Chad the Maverick:A very different understanding. It's also beautiful to step out that bubble. I think as an Aries in anything in your big three, like, you have to fight out of your circumstance one way or another. Like, it's like
Serena:a Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:It's not easy. It's like it's an actual fight. Like, you have to, like Yeah. Some people's feelings. And the the people's feelings that you can hurt him, it might not even be about you.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. That's the part that sucks too. You know, it's just like, oh, like, this isn't about me. This is about something another thing. But is it Aries business to always do that?
Chad the Maverick:Not unless they're told. Not unless they're getting to that. But it's something to keep in mind, though, I would say.
Serena:It a fight. I feel like the Aries, prominent Aries placements, Aries Rising's, life is a fight. And I even saying that in such a negative way, like, Aries Rising is the worst rising sign. I don't think that at all. But I think you guys encompass a natural warrior type of energy protective to type of energy and just the head first type of energy that is if you want a certain life or you want to actually reach a point of contentment and happiness and success, that is a fight.
Serena:It is fighting to get your spot. It is fighting to get your way. It is kind of stepping on some people's toes and saying sorry, but doing what you have to do. I think that's something that Aries need to learn if Aries are scared of whether their parents' approval, especially if they have, let's say, lot of if they're an Aries Rising with a lot of cancer placements in that fourth house or an Aries Rising with a lot of Libra placements opposing their Aries Rising, they might struggle with these two energies, like needing to fight and pave their own way. Also, but what about my parents?
Serena:What about my friends? What about my partner? What about where I'm living? You have to put yourself first. That's just an Aries way of life or you're just not going to be happy.
Serena:You're not going to be fulfilled. Like, you know, free will is everything. Like you could you could choose, however, but if you want to live out a happy the happy side of Aries, the most content side of Aries, it's kind of doing what you wanna do at the end of the day.
Chad the Maverick:It's doing what you wanna do and disciplining yourself on what you want to do. That's the part that I think people miss. Right?
Serena:And I
Chad the Maverick:think that's also my saturn, like leaning in a little bit, but it's like, oh, I love doing a stripe. Cool. Show up. What? Even if you don't want to show up, like, show up.
Serena:I think it's interesting that you said right when your son of return was happening, that's when you got in the gym and you felt more of a connection to your body.
Chad the Maverick:To be honest, I got very outside of myself from taking care of the world at large of anybody on media from going viral. Being an astrologer, you are moonlighting as a therapist. Yes. Half the time. Whether you're doing that or not, you're talking about something so core and soul and central to people.
Chad the Maverick:Mhmm. That, like, I think I started holding on to stuff.
Serena:Interesting. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:So I think I started and I didn't used to do that. It was it was, like, why it's, a new thing. It was, like, kinda, like, I started holding on to stuff and, like, feeling the weight of things and seeing the weight of things outside. And then I was like, I am seeing the weight of things in me. I gotta do something different.
Chad the Maverick:Mhmm. And it just like it it just makes me feel better to go, like, you know, compete and move. I used to have the joke where I'm like, give me two weeks to get in shape and I can do anything. And it's like, yeah, why aren't you just in shape to do it in the first place? It's like, oh,
Serena:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh,
Chad the Maverick:shit. That's some Saturn. Yeah.
Serena:Uh-huh.
Chad the Maverick:Speak to the Saturn. You use whole sign. Correct?
Serena:Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Okay. So in whole sign, yes, I am 100% a Saturn in the first house. I have a hard time.
Serena:Well, I use both whole sign and Placidus, but for predictive astrology, I I use whole sign.
Chad the Maverick:I agree. That's I think we talked about this before, actually. Yeah. So I use I use the whole sign of predictive stuff if it's quick or, a collective thing. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:But what I do is try my Placidus. So I have Saturn in the twelfth Saturn in the first, that zero degrees Aries point. And a lot of it has to do with I think I've just been building this version of me that is, to be so honest and transparent, like, ancient, but very future, but very, like Mhmm. You know, I I can place the fact that I have a specialty of something, but I think it's just because I've spent so much time in my chart. I think it's because I've spent so much time having conversations about destiny and soul and following the signs and stuff.
Chad the Maverick:I don't know what that leads to. I don't wanna act like I'm holier than that because I'm like, I know I have a special miss. Look at everyone. Lean into what that looks like for you. I think that's what people get scared about.
Chad the Maverick:I'm not a 100,000,000 subscribed astrologer, so why do I need to be one? If it happens, cool. But at the same time, I would rather have real conversation with people that I rock with.
Serena:Right? There's a
Chad the Maverick:time where I was more confused and concerned about, I want the whole of you to the world to see me and da da da da. Then I got a few Karens that try to mess up my day.
Serena:Or even something that, and I don't know if you feel like this about, like being an astrologer with a social media presence and how social media has shifted over the past couple of years. I've, so I used to, yeah, I used to want want that point
Chad the Maverick:it out.
Serena:A lot. I think it's interesting because in whole signs, your Pluto entered your Aquarius eleventh house. So I feel like. You're definitely going to go through that to like shifting your social media presence and shifting groups of people that you befriend and walk into and stuff like that. Yeah, I definitely see that happening for you.
Chad the Maverick:He's reading me for Phil for real time, everyone. Genuinely, I think that like what's really been stinging with me in my head and stinging with me is correct. Where I'm like, nah, bro, everything's really a cycle of something. Everything's really happened before. Because everything has happened before, that means all the worst thoughts you have in your head have happened in some type of capacity and all the greatest thoughts you have in your head have happened in some kind of capacity.
Chad the Maverick:But how are you resonating to it? I think just the idea of what astrology, I think, has helped fuel me towards is just me being like, I am Aries Rising. Right? If some shit go down around, like, my my my people, I don't show up.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:What is the point of being an Aries Rising?
Serena:Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Right? If I learn all of this shit about astrology and how to connect to this and I talk to all these people from all these walks of life, and I've been seeing from I've been in spots that make no sense per my demographic. If I were to look at the random spot where I came from, where I've been in some random situation, I'm like, that still make no sense. But it's because I also chose that. There is, to be honest, a sense of survivor's guilt that comes from it, for sure.
Chad the Maverick:I'm not gonna put that past nobody. There is that I I think that that has been something I have been working on even through exercise. There's a very, oh, you got past this? You made it out of where you're from? It's like, yeah.
Chad the Maverick:It's like not everyone else has. It's a matter of fact, most people haven't. And that's not a bad thing. Everyone's coming from such a different spot. As astrologers and we can sense that as astrologers, but like we want to be able to have the average Joe or the average Jane be able to like discern better in the world so they can like choose what's right for them versus what they think they're worth.
Serena:What's your north node? What's your north nodes in? What
Chad the Maverick:signs? Libra.
Serena:Your north node is in Libra? So you have Saturn and your south node in Aries. Wow, that's interesting. Just like speaking to you and like knowing you as a person, like you encompass like so much wisdom that feels like obviously throughout your lifetime, but it almost feels like you've brought in from past lifetimes, age old wisdom about you. I don't know if you felt like when you were a kid, if you felt very much older than you were.
Serena:That could also be a Saturn in your first house too thing. But you got that Sagittarius sun and moon. You're giving profit. You're giving I think you've turned Ls into lessons. I think that is a good quality about you that is slept on because a lot of people, they don't like a lot of people can fall into a really bad hole, a bad cycle.
Serena:Also being astrologers, too, we feel this this need to not save, but to help and bring, like, knowledge to people of awareness that things don't have to be this way. You choose kind of your life. You choose your perspective. And there's other things happening around us that we can't see. That is a bigger picture of how things are playing out right now.
Chad the Maverick:I appreciate the feedback in terms of that as well, just because like But you pointed out something very specific where it's like turning the Ls into the lessons that go through. I am and prior to me being an astrologer, I actually came out to LA for music initially. Music and photography. That's initially what I came out here for. Now I do astrology and video.
Chad the Maverick:I don't know how things whatever. So, Keep it free. Right? For life.
Serena:I love life. I love how that turned Yeah. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:So ironically, like, just, like, getting into that part, like, I'm from and grew up very much, like, in the world of hip hop in terms of the ethos of hip hop lives, like, in me. I met the and Aries, matter of fact. I met the first person who started hip hop. His name's DJ Cool Herc. I met him around the same time, I think, like, Goddess of the Astrology.
Chad the Maverick:I think it's it's kinda, like, led a similar journey, but I remember meeting this man. He's about six five point eight. I remember just his giant hands coming and just shaking and just raking my hand. Then I was just like, hi, mister Cool Herc. Thanks for stopping the pop.
Chad the Maverick:He was like, I started this shit. I was like, I'm sorry. I was like, it was probably the angriest man I ever met. And the reason why is because he was just like, yo. I started this hip hop.
Chad the Maverick:Through and through Aries. And I was like, oh, I see.
Serena:I love that. He's an Aries.
Chad the Maverick:I I figured to throw that in there. Was also but, you know, even then it's like, Aries started a hip hop thing. It is about competition terms of, like, how can we get better. I don't like winning and then the gloating though. I think even it was kinda instilled in me.
Chad the Maverick:Maybe just some of North Node and Libra coming through honestly. But it's like a, yeah, I won. But circling back and then being like, and it's kinda like
Serena:That can definitely be an underdeveloped side of Aries.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. For sure. Yeah.
Serena:Absolutely. Like, the cockiness of I'm first. I won. You suck.
Chad the Maverick:It's for sure a process. And I think that that's just, like, part of it too to where it's, like, it's the vitality. It's what makes you feel alive.
Serena:Yeah. You know
Chad the Maverick:what I'm And again, I'm a massage naturally, so I'm usually chill and I'm very go with the flow. And then I'll be playing this fighting game I play. I'm playing it super casual. And then I really learn the game, and I'm like, oh, I understand this. And then I play the game again, and then the people that taught me how to properly play, I started seeing the people that are BS ing.
Chad the Maverick:They won off a BS ing, and next thing you know, I'm like, Oh, this can't happen. Yeah. And that's when I'm like, Disputed.
Serena:Home and then. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Competition. I was like, Wait. Why? Because it's like, Well then learn what you're doing. That's my mark Learn for what you're doing.
Chad the Maverick:Mhmm. And we can come talk.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:And it's back and forth, you know?
Serena:Think what you said, is very Aries is what makes you feel alive and doing what makes you feel alive. I think you and Aries Rising's view life as, what's the point if I'm not passionate about it? And I think that is that's the basis of it. If I can describe Aries Rising Energy in just one sentence, it would literally be that. Yeah.
Serena:What's the point of me doing this if I'm not passionate about it?
Chad the Maverick:So the last thing y'all want to be around is an uninspired Aries Rising.
Serena:Yes. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:We don't even know why we're pissed. Like, ah. Like, it's it's awful. Like, you know? And that's that also can lead to the loneliness factor too.
Serena:Yeah. How can
Chad the Maverick:I get so like, ah? And then it's like, alright. When's last time you took a break? Have you had a Yeah. There's other things that we could do.
Chad the Maverick:So I think that that's the
Serena:Yeah. They get cranky. But
Chad the Maverick:you gotta know what to do with that crankiness. Yeah. I think that's the dumb part. This is something I think I mentioned to you a long time ago, but I remember when I was trying to get inspired to do content in the first place, because it's not natural to me. It's really not.
Chad the Maverick:I have my thing now, but it's still not a natural process. But it's like, I remember just following only specifically the astrology accounts that would piss me off. They weren't necessarily all bad nor all bad information. Seeing their content and then feeling like it was always missing something made me so mad I had to do something about it.
Serena:Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:It was just like, I could either sit here, be mad, comment on stuff, wait for somebody to come in, or I can become the answer to my own problem. That's only exist to me.
Serena:I think that is such a combination of your Aries rising and your Virgo Mars. Like your Aries rise, like the Virgo Mars is like, what are we doing here? This needs to be this way. Maybe if they tweak that, it would be a little better. Then your Aries Rising is like, yeah.
Serena:I'm going take those flaws and I'm going to create my own thing and then be the best at it.
Chad the Maverick:That's honestly how my content, I think, at this point exists. It's not perfected to the means of what my brand thinks it should be, but that's part of the point. It's never going to be this. That's true.
Serena:I love your content, honestly. I see your Virgo Mars pop up pop out and how clean and crisp your content is. And when you say that it doesn't even come naturally, I'm like, you wouldn't even know it doesn't even come naturally to you. Something that I wanted to talk about with you as this Aries rising and then you've given like a little bit of advice to the Aries Rising's too, because there's some heavy hitters happening. Like 2026, all the outer planets are moving into or are already in a different sign.
Serena:So what do you think for Aries Risings and suns, too, that Saturn and Neptune together in Aries is going to look and feel like for the Aries Rising and Suns.
Chad the Maverick:Got you. Want to say that with Saturn and Neptune there, it's one of those circumstances to where it's like, I think if you're not working towards something that truly resonates to the heat that you're able to, like, emit.
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Like, if people aren't there feeling you be passionate about the thing, I think the universe will pluck you out of it and just make you start on your own or pluck you out of it. And maybe you have to, like, oh, there's a new position all of a sudden. And now here's the role. And now you have to go fill it in. Like, maybe you think you need a second.
Chad the Maverick:You don't have a second. Yeah. You've been doing this other stuff your entire life. Like, why do you need a second now? So I think just in terms of everything, you have to trust what from what you think comes from nowhere isn't coming from nowhere.
Serena:Yeah. Because sat under the first house, transit is not easy. And then especially you, with the Saturn return in your whole sign's first house, that's crazy. Because I describe a Saturn through the first house transit as the feeling is like a mini Saturn return because it's hitting the most personal house in your chart. So it's like you're going through a complete, almost like a maturation of who you are, your identity, your ego.
Serena:It's ego deaths I feel like Average Rising could be going through too.
Chad the Maverick:I think the way that I like to explain it is that knowing when to be the main character and when your moment is. The ancient philosophy to where it's like no matter how much you might even surpass your teacher, you don't shit on them. It's this certain principle to where if you can honor someone's fire in their passion and what they've also given shown to you. You take it for your own and you just honor that for what that also is.
Serena:You can
Chad the Maverick:learn Versus a lot from me, back in the day, I would have popped off about life. Actually, got it. It's for the Saturn and the Neptune part, it's knowing when things are not personal and knowing when things are absolutely personal and then acting off of that. Because some people are aloof. Right?
Chad the Maverick:I'm aloof about things. I will miss a text and be like, I swear I responded to that. I get it.
Serena:I think you having a natal Saturn in your Holstein's first house, I think you're the perfect person to explain this energy for Irish Rising who are going through this because you are born with this energy. So I like something that you said before too about something that you've always done was you were observing of other people, how other people did things, and you did the opposite, or you realized that you learned from other people's mistakes. Now this is how I'm going to go about my life because I've observed everything that I don't wanna be or do. So
Chad the Maverick:And the funny part to that is sometimes I still have got the air of caution and I still did the thing. Right? Like, it's not like it stopped everything, but it gave me at least a real, like, portion of that, oh. We genuinely need to slow down. Think Aries are
Serena:Oh, Aries is definitely gonna feel that over the next I two
Chad the Maverick:hate saying this right now, but I have to. You know what I'm saying? I feel like I'm like, no, we have to because if I kept the same pace that I did when I was on my there's a time where I did was like, I'm just gonna go viral all the time. I just signed it to her, I was just like, I'm doing it. I was like so convoluted and like, I know what the people want that I was like, I don't even want this.
Serena:Yeah. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:And everyone else is copying something that I didn't even resonate to no more. I was like, this isn't mine. Like, we're just gonna honestly, in a sense, getting more staying power by staying true to that more Saturn 12 energy to where it's like people know. I think a long, long time ago, maybe five years, seven years back, whatever the time frame I'm messing up the times. It's fine.
Chad the Maverick:But like, it's just one of those things to where I had a very hard time with the understanding that I was an astrologer. I was a healer or someone who was a spiritualist. Right? Because a lot of the people that of cling to that ideology, typically don't like. Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Typically. I've tried. I've sat with them. Absolutely. Everyone is, like, in that same soul resonance.
Chad the Maverick:Right? Mhmm. I I often have resonated more with people walking to, like, a coffee shop. Or something else than some people who are in our field.
Serena:Yeah. So Saturn through the first house, I think it's definitely like what you said, a lesson for Aries to slow down. Think I described Saturn as a fuck around and find out planet. So wherever Saturn is transiting in your chart, that area of your life, you're going to fuck around and find out. Unfortunately, for the Aries, that is happening in the most personal house in your birth chart and for the sons, to your identity, to your core.
Serena:And I think it's going to be definitely not hard, but maturing. You're going to feel different by 2028. Sobering is definitely especially because Neptune is there too. So Neptune and Saturn together. So I think that does bring a sobering type of energy too.
Serena:But then I'm curious if no or curious to see what's going to happen when Saturn then leaves Aries and then Neptune is just there going through Aries for till when? When is that till 20? Forever. Yeah, literally in another like November or something. So Neptune through the first house.
Serena:I think it's going be very spiritual for the Aries Rising too. And the Aries Suns. About Neptune through the first house transit, this is going to be a thing for Aries Risings for sure until the end of this transit in like about twelve years or whatever. People misinterpreting you and you thinking that you are putting out an energy and a lot of people not understanding that energy. Neptune is very nebulous.
Serena:It's very It's hard to grasp. So when it's going through your first house or Pisces Rising's deal with this too, You think you're putting out with their energy and it's just not. Other people are just not seeing that or you're just not on the same page with that. So, like, getting used to being misunderstood, I would say, is something to get used to, energy to get used to. But I think the perk about being an Aries Rising is like what we said throughout this whole video is you're meant to stand out.
Serena:You're meant to forge your own path, do your own thing. And like what you said, believe that you are the myth that you are. Like, if you have something in your brain, be that because that is an Aries Rising thing. Like, you inspire others by being yourself and you find success by being yourself. So I think but I think that's going to be kind of harsh energy to to deal with for the Aries Rising's.
Chad the Maverick:It's harsh, I think, because it's almost as if this is my personal thought on it from my experience. It's almost as if everything that people told me to temper down is exactly what the world needs. There's this need I feel with this whole transit that's just like, you have this ability to move things forward that people were scared about before, like for the air surge.
Serena:Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Right? Now that the world is halfway broken, there's crazy lists everywhere, everything that people were trying to fight against are in everybody's face. It's kind of like, wow, we wish that those protective crazy people who were talking about this stuff would have done more. Was like, you didn't? Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:You didn't? Do
Serena:you now? Really? And
Chad the Maverick:I think that's the other side to where the warrior, I hate the archetype that gets used for that because I don't think people have a good example of what a warrior is on a common thing. We're looking at warrior from like, you know, we watch a show and dude is fighting with a sword. It's like, oh, he's a wart. It's like, yo, but, like, have you ever thought of the concept that there's a dragon? The thing you ain't never seen before.
Chad the Maverick:Bigger than most houses is just you and a and a tiny sword having to be stupid enough, brave enough, or something else entirely to, like, face against that thing. Mhmm. And I think that, like, a lot of times we get so caught up in archetypes. We're like, we're a Ram. It's like, how many people have met a Ram?
Chad the Maverick:Literally. You know what I mean? It's like that we get so disconnected because of that archetype. How do we relate it to the people that are coming up? Because Generation Alpha loves astrology.
Serena:Yeah. They do.
Chad the Maverick:They love it. They know it. Or they're at least familiar. Because people are teaching them stuff they're growing up. Know what mean?
Serena:People feel understood and seen.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. And I'm just imagining I got told I was like a sad and all that stuff, like younger than most people do, but I'm just imagining like, yo, what if I like knew for a longer time? And then suddenly you're kind of sitting here being like, I wonder how I can express. But I don't think going back would change. Correction.
Chad the Maverick:It would change stuff. I wouldn't change anything.
Serena:Yeah. I think everything lined up how it was meant to always.
Chad the Maverick:For sure. And I think that's the part to where it's like, and even if it didn't, I still got to move forward. That's some Aries Rising.
Serena:That's some Aries It's Rising
Chad the Maverick:like, no, you still got to you still got to do it. You know? Yeah. Mhmm. So I always felt like, you know, I get I used to get inspired.
Chad the Maverick:Like, at the end of superhero movies, I used to cry. Hit me with a good hero overture.
Serena:I love that.
Chad the Maverick:After someone risked you for the biscuit. And they're like, they put oh, and I'm getting emotional now because it's like a well, it always comes with a perseverance. Yeah. And usually when they hear a story, it starts with conflict. It starts with you sucking at something.
Chad the Maverick:It starts with true love. Yeah. But that's the point. I think a lot of people look at Neo in The Matrix and they're like, Oh, it's the chosen one. That's an analogy for anyone who chooses to be the one.
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. Like, want to be the change and you could be the change. But it does come with some caveats. And I think that's where it gets to the people part of astrology. To where it's like, you know, I think most astrologers have trouble navigating a world that's this corrupt.
Chad the Maverick:Knows corruption is inevitable. But how can we, like, again, like help and and essentially without, like, getting to the savior part of it, like, save the people from themselves, not necessarily from themselves, but from, like, what they're programmed towards that they don't resonate to.
Serena:Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:You know, like, I'm I'm a tall guy who's athletic. Right? If if I'm I met NBA players, am taller than. Like, it's one of those things to where it's like if but am I an NBA player? No.
Chad the Maverick:Mhmm. Like, I'm an astrologer. Why? Because that works for me. Can I do decent in a basketball game?
Chad the Maverick:I would hope so. Haven't in a while. So, hopefully, we we still gotta do hopefully, we still gotta go. But in general, it's just one of those things to where it's like, like, what's your thing? Like, I I love astrology because when I first got onto astrology, ain't nobody else I knew could do that.
Serena:Same. At
Chad the Maverick:all. Nobody. Like, you couldn't nobody could even start to do that. So, like, it was a very, like, kind of thing for me. Right?
Chad the Maverick:I think that's the part that people don't get is that we're saying stuff that everyone can resonate to. But if you hear the terms and think the animal, you're gonna like
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:You know? It's like, oh, you're Pisces. You're two fishes. It's like Yeah. What the fuck does that even mean?
Chad the Maverick:Yeah. Yep. You know, it's like, what did you just say to me? Like, yo, you have like a very spiritual direction and sometimes it feels like you're pulled in all ways. Is that something that resonates to you?
Chad the Maverick:It's like, now I feel seen by this total stranger who has all my chart information in front of them. Yeah. That I, you know, so it's just like a I
Serena:think that's why the Gen Z and Gen Alpha, like, love astrology.
Chad the Maverick:I think about this often, where I'm like, Yo, a lot of men are into astrology. Just in general. It's not a thing that happens naturally for a lot of men in terms of that. But if I was able to be like, do you want to be the ultimate athlete that you could be? Here are the mechanics to do this in a way that doesn't feel condescending or woo woo.
Chad the Maverick:That's a whole different avenue.
Serena:And it's just going to grow more and more. I like, I feel like I see it and especially with the Neptune in Aries, I think a lot more spiritual leaders are going to be in the forefront of the world. Honestly, I think that is a bright side of the Neptune and Aries placement, especially having an Aries rising too. I think that is actually a good route for a lot of Aries Rising's to move in either spirituality, just being more compassionate with yourself, finding more compassion and empathy for yourself, those around you. And yeah, finding success within that too.
Serena:But do you have any more or advice for the Aries Rising's upcoming that you could think of before we wrap up?
Chad the Maverick:I'm about to say. And I'll hit just Aries as a general Aries concept. So if anyone here has anything Aries, hopefully this lands. But I think, like, if I had to really sum up, like, the Aries energetic is that it's like conquering fear makes you fear. But the closer you get to that fear, the easier dreams become.
Chad the Maverick:So I'm going leave that there because that sounded cool. Yes, I
Serena:want to put down a T shirt and sell it to all the Aries. Love that. That was. Yeah. That was a perfect line for the Aries.
Serena:So how can people connect with you? What do you have coming up that you want to share with people or your social medias that you wanna share with everyone?
Chad the Maverick:For sure. So the major thing that I would tell you to go do is follow my newsletter under the stars we wander. Right? Because that's gonna be the main connector. It's on Substack.
Chad the Maverick:It's gonna be the main connector to everything. Usually, I'll put the short form video out there, the long form video out there. So even if you're not on social media like that and you still wanna taste of, what is it here like? What does it sound like? What are the visuals for this?
Chad the Maverick:Like, I also have that there as well for everyone. Mhmm. What I've been working on aside from everything else is I've been actually going to record by tomorrow. By the time y'all see this, it might be out at this point, but I'm just recording evergreen content for the first time.
Serena:Recording what kind of content?
Chad the Maverick:Evergreen. Evergreen content is essentially just stuff that you can go to at any point. A lot of the things that I've done have been current for years. It's always me chasing This might surprise you. Almost every video I've ever put out, I did the same day that it came out.
Serena:It just surprised me, honestly. But I'm most likely to I'm the same way for the most part. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Right. And which is the Mars, Aries, Scorpio rising thing. Like, I just knock it all out. So for the first time, I was like, What if I really sat, kinda used the saturnian part, got comfortable? It really was like, let me just explain the stuff that I feel like I always have to explain, but in a way that is going to not make anyone confused ever again.
Chad the Maverick:So that's kind of my goal is to make this content and give these classes and courses for people to come through, purchase at any point.
Serena:I love that. I
Chad the Maverick:just materials and resources attached to them. Because also on the other side of things, not everyone can afford reading. So I would rather give people X amount of money for you to literally go ahead and learn this yourself in a way that's tangible, etcetera. Because I think there's a large part to accessibility to learn to taking astrology and mastering your world. And I think those are two different things.
Chad the Maverick:So I at least wanna give my, hey. The content that made my life easier, let me give y'all my rendition of this for, like, something that makes sense.
Serena:I love that.
Chad the Maverick:And then I can then do some more cohorts. And there's people that really wanna get nitty gritty. I think I'm willing and ready to, like, really give my expertise to those people. So I will be doing more of those things pulling up. Especially this summer, I have a couple of things I am slowly working on in the background.
Chad the Maverick:But the from the first one that will be up is I'm going to be breaking down the moon magic system. That is not the exact thing that I will be called, but I do wanna explain to people how the moon works because I've been doing that every two weeks. And I'm like, why don't I just really just tell y'all how this goes? And then
Serena:Mhmm.
Chad the Maverick:Then y'all can meet me wherever I know that. So that's the
Serena:I love that. Yeah.
Chad the Maverick:Focus on that. Took a step away from consultation briefly just to kinda, like, bring that forward. I'm excited to see you. It's when it bursts.
Serena:Yes. I'm excited. What are your socials?
Chad the Maverick:Chad, the Maverick is pretty much all across the board. Instagram, please subscribe to my YouTube. I love my YouTube. I have a Yes.
Serena:I love your YouTube.
Chad the Maverick:I freaking love YouTube. So, like, I I my real goal is be, like, if I can get, like I wanna be, on YouTube. Everything else is, like, whatever. Instagram, cool. This if I get YouTube popping, I am so happy.
Chad the Maverick:You know? If you're LA, hit me up. Say what's up. I do in person stuff sometimes. Do events for people.
Chad the Maverick:Do events for companies. Holla at your boy.
Serena:I love it. I love it.
Chad the Maverick:Absolutely. But, yeah, it's a it's a fun time. It's a fun time to do all these things, truly.
Serena:I love it. Well, thank you again for coming on the pod and chatting with you. We had a really great conversation. It was a pleasure. And, yeah, thank you again.