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Transcript:
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:28:14
Unknown
September is going to be interesting. There is a lot going on. There’s so much dynamic change with the inner planets, while the outer planets are either slowing down or retrograde, but it feels like this is what’s going on. Each one of us can only manage our own reality. We cannot control what the rest of the collective is doing, but we do have impact on the collective by our choices.
00:00:28:14 – 00:00:55:16
Unknown
It is our job, our duty, our responsibility to each play, our role. This is the act locally, part of the thing cosmically. We can see where we’re doing that in our own lives. Where are we through force or suppression, not addressing things that need to be addressed at the core? The other thing that I think is really important is establishing community.
00:00:55:18 – 00:00:59:10
Unknown
Be joyful. That’s it.
00:00:59:10 – 00:01:18:20
Unknown
Well. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Astrology Hub podcast. We are here for our September forecast with the great Rick Merlin Levine. And he was talking before we went live. And he said that September is going to be interesting.
00:01:18:20 – 00:01:25:22
Unknown
I’m trying to do my best Rick impression and that we don’t know what’s going to happen, but a lot’s going to happen.
00:01:25:24 – 00:01:30:24
Unknown
So we have a lot to talk about, and I can’t wait to dive in with all of you before we do that.
00:01:30:24 – 00:01:52:21
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00:02:08:11 – 00:02:10:23
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You or your staff or whomever it is that does it at finding new talent and people. It’s really it’s so important that that just those of us who have been around for oh, give this is going to sound awful forever, you know, are not the only good astrologers on the planet. And it’s really refreshing and important to hear the the new voices, the young voices, the people that we didn’t know are awesome but have been being awesome for just as many years as we may have been.
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Unknown
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00:02:47:10 – 00:03:01:17
Unknown
Thank you Rick. I always think we’re going to get to the end of the line like we’ve got to we have had to have exhausted all the great options, but they just keep turning up. It’s like the many headed hydra that every time you cut one off, you know, two are there.
00:03:01:19 – 00:03:09:08
Unknown
Exactly. All right, you guys. So let’s dive into September Rick. Let’s start with that big picture. Well, first of all we have to comment on your shirt.
00:03:09:08 – 00:03:17:08
Unknown
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00:03:17:14 – 00:03:33:03
Unknown
And he said, well, sell it for me. So eventually we’ll figure out a way to get this on our website, go check out the shop. Maybe by the time we air this we’ve been able to figure it out. But and this was a gift from Mira at Backstage astrology. And so yeah, thank you for that gift. It’s amazing.
00:03:33:03 – 00:03:43:03
Unknown
Okay. All right. So let’s talk about September. Let’s start with the big picture. If you had to just give an overarching read on the month energetically. What’s it all about?
00:03:43:03 – 00:04:03:01
Unknown
There’s a lot going on in September. I mean August was kind of like like a more of the same. And there was some potential for some light for some, some positive stuff in the midst of so much heaviness and confusion and darkness.
00:04:03:03 – 00:04:36:16
Unknown
And, you know, the outer planets are still pretty much retrograde. We pick up Uranus as the last of the outer planets to turn retrograde. And so we have now, working from the farthest outer planets, we have Eris and Pluto and Neptune and, Uranus, which turns retrograde on September 5th and Saturn retrograde. But Saturn retrogrades back into Pisces on September 1st, actually just moments after midnight Pacific time.
00:04:36:18 – 00:05:00:07
Unknown
So we’re getting this double retrograde energy of that. We’re back with Saturn in Pisces. Neptune will back up into Pisces to, Uranus, which is at one and a half degrees, of Gemini turns retrograde. It’ll back up into, into Taurus, of course. And so we’re in this deep whirlwind of things moving backward at the same time.
00:05:00:09 – 00:05:28:03
Unknown
The inner planets are flying. I’ve not seen a month in a while where there’s so many sign changes because Mercury. We begin the month with, Mercury at the end of Leo. But on the second Mercury moves it. 2nd of September, Mercury moves into Virgo, and Mercury is moving so fast that by September 18th, it moves into Libra.
00:05:28:05 – 00:05:54:12
Unknown
And by the end of the month, it’s just about ready to move into, in in into, Scorpio. Mercury actually, enters Scorpio on October 7th. So the inner planets are flying on top of that, Venus moves into Virgo on the 19th, Mars moves into Scorpio on the 22nd. All of the inner planets are changing signs.
00:05:54:14 – 00:06:26:04
Unknown
And of course, the sun moves into Libra, on the 22nd, which is the cardinal sign, which means that’s the autumnal equinox. There’s so much dynamic change with the, inner planets. While the outer planets are either slowing down or, or retrograde. And then there’s one additional thing about the outer planets, and that is, you know, we’ve been talking about the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction, which got really close in August.
00:06:26:09 – 00:06:32:18
Unknown
And now it begins to separate a bit as Saturn is retrograde back into Pisces
00:06:32:18 – 00:06:39:04
Unknown
and Saturn and Neptune will turn direct and they will become perfected in their conjunction in February.
00:06:39:04 – 00:07:07:00
Unknown
But here’s the other thing is that the bigger picture has that Neptune at the midpoint, halfway between Uranus and Pluto that are making their trine. And and I think last month we talked a lot about how I felt that July and August were kind of being pulled by this attractor in July of 2026.
00:07:07:02 – 00:07:44:14
Unknown
Well, that attractor in July of 2026 is partly set up by the exact Uranus Pluto trine Uranus in Gemini Trines Pluto in Aquarius air to air. Now for the month of September, Uranus and Pluto get within seven minutes of being exactly trine, and they not only hold that seven minutes of trine from September 16th through the 22nd, that’s like almost a whole week.
00:07:44:16 – 00:08:34:11
Unknown
But they’re within a quarter of a degree. That’s 15 minutes of orb from September 4th all the way through October 3rd. They’re within one quarter of a degree of being trine. And so we’re feeling this energy again that is not perfecting until next summer. But between there trine and Neptune’s sextile to Pluto, on one side of that trine and its sextile to Uranus on the other side of the trine, and how this how these three planets, the Uranus Pluto trine with Neptune at the middle point, how they’re being basically buzzed this month on and off.
00:08:34:11 – 00:09:11:06
Unknown
Remember how many planets I said are changing signs? We have the sun changing signs into Libra. We have a mercury changing signs twice, we have Mars changing signs, and we have Venus changing signs every time the planet changes signs. It goes from 27, 28, 29 degrees of one sign to zero degrees of the next, and they are then pulling in aspect to Uranus-Pluto, Saturn and Neptune, all at late degrees of, you know, of one sign to 1 or 2 degrees of the next sign, and so that’s why there is so much going on this month.
00:09:11:09 – 00:09:22:11
Unknown
Oh, and then just throw in a couple of eclipses just to stir up the energy. Okay. That’s what we got this month. Oh okay. So Rick
00:09:22:11 – 00:09:38:05
Unknown
we have outer planets going backwards. We have inner planets whirling forward and changing signs. We have Neptune at the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto, with that kind of being a foreshadowing for what’s going to be happening in July of 2026.
00:09:38:07 – 00:09:41:04
Unknown
And then we have eclipses.
00:09:41:04 – 00:10:08:01
Unknown
Would this mean that our personal lives may be going through some dynamic shifts, but that there’s like a foundational undercurrent that’s also shifting and setting the stage for a longer term, new story or new plot and that we’re getting we’re getting like a hint of that in this month about and of sort of things that will be unfolding in July of next year.
00:10:08:01 – 00:10:33:18
Unknown
Yeah. What you’re saying is, is a good summary, except we need to say that that foundation with those outer planets, which will be moving forward all by next, late winter into early spring and by summer. Right now, they’re all moving, right? They’re all retrograde ING. And so it feels like we’re not making any progress. But there’s, you know, it’s like when you have kids, they go through growth spurts.
00:10:33:19 – 00:10:57:05
Unknown
Yeah. You know, and it seems like for weeks, for months nothing happens. Then all of a sudden there’s physical changes or physical. Well, it’s like that’s where we’re at because the outer planets, there’s a lot of noise from the inner planets moving forward and making so much change. But the foundation feels like, are we really making any progress?
00:10:57:05 – 00:11:26:17
Unknown
Foundationally, it feels like we’re slipping backwards. Interesting. Okay, so keep that in mind, everybody. If there’s and I’m going to try to do how this feels. And if I run into a problem, I may regret this, but it feels like this is what’s going on. Running around in circles. It feels like I made it all the way around once, but it feels like things are spinning really fast and it feels like the foundations are actually moving backwards.
00:11:26:17 – 00:11:50:17
Unknown
I mean, we look at the world events and the craziness without going political in any one area, nothing is going right. I don’t care where you are politically, things out there are not. And and there are a lot of people who are suffering from a lot of different directions of the nuts ness. And maybe it’s always like that.
00:11:50:17 – 00:12:15:13
Unknown
And social media is just increasing our feed back again and again and again. But it seems like it’s even more than usual, even in the United States, where there’s so much going on, you know, regardless of how you frame it. You know, we have the United States Army camped out in cities in our own country. This has never happened before.
00:12:15:15 – 00:12:37:06
Unknown
You know, we have stuff that’s going on that is just, you know, off the map. And we have I mean, you know, we could dig deeper into that. We’re not going to hear, but it’s pretty damn crazy there. And it doesn’t look like things are going in the right direction, whatever direction it is you think they should be going in.
00:12:37:08 – 00:12:57:09
Unknown
Okay. Let’s talk about how the eclipses are going to paint this whole, you know, ad color. So we have the first of two eclipses in September. What’s the date. Tell us about that eclipse okay. So the first of the two eclipses are Pisces full moon eclipse. And and first of all I have to say, when is it?
00:12:57:09 – 00:13:27:19
Unknown
Rick. Oh. I’m sorry. And that eclipse is at 11:08 a.m. Pacific time on, on September 7th, so September 7th. Is the first of the two eclipses. And that eclipse the full moon in Pisces, which is very close to the south. It’s very close to the North Node of the moon. And the sun in Virgo is very close to the South Node of the moon.
00:13:27:21 – 00:13:31:23
Unknown
And we have Saturn that’s retrograde back into Pisces
00:13:31:23 – 00:13:33:01
Unknown
Okay.
00:13:33:03 – 00:13:39:02
Unknown
So, Rick, wait, before you go on, what are the actual what’s the actual date of that first eclipse? So
00:13:39:02 – 00:13:45:00
Unknown
the first of the two eclipse is a full moon eclipse. And that September 7th,
00:13:45:00 – 00:13:58:15
Unknown
and it’s actually at 11:08 a.m. Pacific time on September 7th. And the moon is in Pisces, opposite the sun in Virgo. And so that’s the first of the two eclipses.
00:13:58:17 – 00:14:29:07
Unknown
The second eclipse is on September 21st, just after noon at 12:54 p.m. Pacific time. And that eclipse is interesting because it’s at 29 degrees of Pisces. Remember, we just had a new moon, in in August, I think it was on August 22nd, if I’m not mistaken. We had we had a new moon at zero degrees of Virgo, but that wasn’t an eclipse.
00:14:29:09 – 00:14:54:00
Unknown
This new moon at 29 degrees of Virgo. Two new moons in a row in the same sign. Because one was at zero and one was at 29. Is interesting. So we’re kind of in this major eclipse season. But before we talk about these eclipses specifically, I have to say that I am not as crazy an eclipse freak as many people are.
00:14:54:06 – 00:15:20:18
Unknown
Not that they are unimportant, but I think that we astrologers sometimes put more weight and maybe making them more sensational than they are. Often eclipses are important because they’re a bit of like a time warp. There are a bit of, you know, the nodal axis to me is like wormholes that take things from the past and bring them into the future, or things from the future, retro causally into the present.
00:15:20:20 – 00:15:36:02
Unknown
So there is strangeness that happens. But sometimes I think we astrologers tend to make things more sensational. I mean, it’s a new moon and a full moon, but it’s kind of like a new moon on steroids and a full moon on steroids. If you will.
00:15:36:02 – 00:15:43:12
Unknown
Yes. Okay. And just to clarify, because I think before you said it’s at 29 degrees of Pisces, you mean 29 degrees of Virgo.
00:15:43:15 – 00:16:16:06
Unknown
I absolutely, absolutely mean 29 degrees of Virgo. Okay. And and the reason why I said Pisces is because I’m thinking in my mind that Saturn, which had moved into Aries on September 1st, turns retrograde. And by both eclipses, the Saturn is back at the last degrees of Pisces. And so and so. Saturn is in Pisces, but the new moon eclipse is certainly in Virgo.
00:16:16:06 – 00:16:39:01
Unknown
Thank you for correcting that. Okay, so there’ll be opposing the Saturn. Yes. Opposing Saturn okay okay. All right. So you’re not as sensationalist about eclipses. And if you had to give us a taste of this energy of these two eclipses, what would you say that it is. Well, a first of all,
00:16:39:01 – 00:16:42:15
Unknown
an eclipse, like a full moon or a new moon.
00:16:42:18 – 00:17:21:09
Unknown
We look and see what’s going on with the moon, and, and it turns out that at the full moon eclipse on September 7th, the moon, is quincunx seeing Venus. And so this is not a comfortable, an eclipse. The moon is also coming into training Jupiter, so there is some hopefulness around it. And remember, full moon eclipses, a basically often has to do with letting something go from the past.
00:17:21:11 – 00:18:04:02
Unknown
And, and hopefully this is not letting go of hope because it is coming into a trine with, with Jupiter. But I think this is relatively, an uncommon and uncomfortable, eclipse. And I think, though, that the other thing with both of these eclipses is that pattern between Uranus trine Pluto with Neptune at the midpoint. During both of these eclipses are the saving grace and that is that there’s something deeper that’s stirring, that is almost like where it where it’s it’s like there’s it’s almost like like, like a cancer in remission.
00:18:04:07 – 00:18:44:15
Unknown
There’s something happening that is going on that is allowing for a potential healing. But whether that healing actually occurs or not is yet to be determined, and it’s yet to be determined by what we do. We, meaning you and me and every damn other person on the planet. It’s what we are doing now. By actually acting locally, even if we’re thinking cosmically, that will help to manifest where this unfolds over the weeks ahead and even over the months ahead through next summer, as we talked about earlier.
00:18:44:17 – 00:19:18:11
Unknown
But I don’t see this the Pisces full moon eclipse as being that potent. Although there are astrologer astrologers who will say every eclipse is is is potent. This eclipse also is, conjunct. Well, the eclipsed moon is opposing Mercury, but the sun is close to its conjunction to Mercury. And I think that’s important. There’s a lot of, cesky squares that are just to me, adding the sense of discomfort of this eclipse.
00:19:18:13 – 00:19:52:24
Unknown
But I would not put this eclipse as potent or as powerful as the Virgo new moon eclipse on the 21st, which I think is off the charts. Why? Well, because it it occurs at 29 degrees of Pisces. Here I go again. It’s a 29 degrees of Virgo opposing Saturn at 28.5 degrees of Pisces. It’s within. It’s within.
00:19:53:01 – 00:20:17:00
Unknown
It’s about a half a degree. In opposition to Saturn. So this new moon eclipse in Virgo is opposite Saturn in Pisces, but Saturn is only temporarily backed up into into Pisces because it’s really heading back toward its conjunction with Neptune in Aries. Now,
00:20:17:00 – 00:20:26:05
Unknown
The new moon at 29 degrees of Virgo is like minus one degree of Libra.
00:20:26:05 – 00:20:41:18
Unknown
It’s just it. I mean, in other words, the moon is two hours away from being at zero degrees of Libra. The sun is one day, one day from going at to zero degrees of Libra.
00:20:41:20 – 00:21:21:20
Unknown
Now, when the moon and the sun hours after and a day after, go from that 29 degrees of Virgo into Libra, they’re going to trine. Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini and oppose, Neptune, which is still in Aries. So it’s going to complete this grand Trine, right? That becomes the predominant pattern that will be with us all the way through next July.
00:21:21:22 – 00:22:01:01
Unknown
And so this eclipse feeds into this grand air trine, even though it’s at 29 degrees of Virgo. It’s like pregnant with this Grand Trine in air. And as such, I think there’s a lot of potential here. And you add to that the fact that at the time of the eclipse, Mars is at 29 degrees of Libra, almost almost zero degrees of Scorpio, and when it goes into Scorpio, it will be squaring Pluto and it will be quincunx.
00:22:01:01 – 00:22:30:00
Unknown
Seeing the Saturn and Neptune and Uranus, there’s so much dynamic energy here. Because. Because here’s the list. Venus at two degrees of Virgo has just changed signs. The sun and moon at 29 degrees of Virgo are just ready to change signs. Mars at 29 degrees of Libra is just ready to change signs. Pluto at one degree of Aquarius is just change.
00:22:30:00 – 00:22:57:00
Unknown
Signs in is in the new sign. Saturn at 28 degrees 28.5 degrees of Pisces has just changed signs and is going to go back, changing again into Aries Neptune at zero degrees of Aries, and Uranus at one degree of Gemini. Every one of these planets is making an aspect with every one other of these planets, including Trines, sextile, quincunx and squares.
00:22:57:05 – 00:23:21:18
Unknown
Yikes! It’s lions and tigers and bears. Oh my. Wow. So what does that feel like for us? Overwhelming. Overwhelming. And what? What is going to be the resonant energy out of that here? Again, it depends on what we do it. This is confusing. It’s it’s overwhelming. It’s too much information. It’s stuff that’s being settled. It’s things happening out of the blue.
00:23:21:24 – 00:23:51:10
Unknown
It’s Mars close. Mars is coming into a square with Pluto. One of the important aspects of the month. The Mars squares Pluto exact on the 24th, just a few days after the eclipse. You know, Mars, Pluto. Energies are not easy energies. They go back to, I mean, the the whole, you know, Israel, Palestine, Gaza. That energy has been largely Mars, Pluto from 1948, onward.
00:23:51:12 – 00:24:41:04
Unknown
But certainly in the past couple of years, the Mars, Pluto, squares, conjunctions and oppositions, semi squares and cesky squares have all been seminal. And what happens on that? Not always positive, but those squares don’t always happen when there’s an eclipse that is within a degree or two of a grand trine with Uranus and Pluto. And remember, on the, on, the day of the eclipse and the eclipse itself, is on the is on the 21st on that day, Uranus and Pluto are seven minutes of arc from being exactly Trine, even though that Trine is beginning to separate.
00:24:41:10 – 00:25:16:08
Unknown
And by a week later, on October 1st, that seven minutes of orb has widened to a quarter of a degree or 15 minutes of orb. Still crazy tight. But that eclipse is basically moving through that point, making that Grand trine, with how tight that Uranus Pluto is. And, you know, and because Neptune and Saturn are also in this mix, there’s this sense of social change, deep, powerful social change that maybe is happening outside of the normal realms of change.
00:25:16:14 – 00:25:46:09
Unknown
You know, whether that’s social media, whether it’s action on the streets, whether it’s, I don’t know, I can’t call it. I’m just saying that this is crazy, profound, powerful dynamic. The fact that it’s opposing Saturn is certainly, bumping up against power, authority, government. You know, there’s that sense of, you know, we feel like we feel like forces are aligned against us and stopping us from what we want to do.
00:25:46:11 – 00:26:12:05
Unknown
There’s this this sense of, you know, imposition. Saturn making boundaries from the outside, not only on the sun, but on the moon. Also, you know, there’s this feeling of being lost or neglected or, Saturn moon. It’s like it’s it’s like while we’re at home where no, home isn’t home anymore. We’re not at home when we’re at home.
00:26:12:07 – 00:26:43:02
Unknown
I sometimes think of Saturn Moon as the snake outgrowing its skin, which seems like a really cool thing evolutionarily, because what happens? The snake sheds its skin. That’s a cool thing. But the snake can’t breathe because the skin is so constricting. And if the snake takes a deep breath, what happens? The skin rips. And that’s what’s happening here, is there?
00:26:43:02 – 00:27:15:14
Unknown
It’s like we can’t emotionally fit in the moon, emotionally fit into the structure, the Saturn, the skin that’s imposed around us. And so when that skin rips, what happens? Well, many things can happen. First of all, the, medical doctors can come in and stitch that skin even tighter. Yikes. You know, what can happen is that we’re told we can’t take a deep breath anymore, because if we do, everything is going to rip
00:27:15:14 – 00:27:21:03
Unknown
or what happens is that the skin actually does begin to rip.
00:27:21:03 – 00:27:45:00
Unknown
It might hurt and fall off. And what does that leave? It leaves baby, but bare, tender, vulnerable skin that then needs to figure out how it’s going to make its way in this world without that protection of of the skin of the army, of the police, of dad, of the rules, of the law.
00:27:45:00 – 00:27:55:12
Unknown
And that’s, of course, at the same time that eclipse is also training Pluto, deep evolutionary transformation, death and rebirth, not necessarily physical death.
00:27:55:14 – 00:28:32:15
Unknown
Again, not even physical death. I mean, I whenever I think of Pluto death, rebirth, I always think of William Blake, who wanted on his gravestone. It didn’t happen, but he wanted William Blake, born 1757, died many times since. Wow. And so? So this eclipse is training Pluto and it’s also trining Uranus, the revolutionary radical breakthrough planet. While Uranus is harmonizing and getting as close to training Pluto as it’s going to get until next July.
00:28:32:17 – 00:29:01:14
Unknown
Oh, wow. You know, Rick, earlier when you were talking about kids and the growth spurts and how it can seem like nothing’s happening, and then all of a sudden they shoot up a few inches and there, you know, they come home and they’re they’re like a different person. I always noticed that that what preceded that often was an illness or some sort of injury like that, something uncomfortable and painful temporarily that preceded this, like, whoa, what what just happened?
00:29:01:20 – 00:29:36:16
Unknown
And it sounds like that’s what you’re describing here as well. And, and often what you’re describing is the body trying to adjust to it, trying to hold the status quo. That would be Saturn here holding the status quo. And there’s a purpose to it. I mean, we can get all excited about Uranus and Pluto in the future and whatever, but when we think about the future these days, you know, I mean, I said this going back a couple of years ago, you know, that the future was basically, you know, I a r et and E-i-e-i-o.
00:29:36:18 – 00:29:57:16
Unknown
And the R and the R is augmented reality computer engaging us in widening our the, you know, augmented reality, you know, whether they’re visual implants or, you know, it’s the interface between biology and silicon, gallium or whatever is being used, you know, in computer realms
00:29:57:16 – 00:30:14:17
Unknown
are I everyone knows and AI, whether it’s, you know, artificial reality, I’m sorry, artificial intelligence or whether that’s, as some people are calling it, augmented intelligence or alchemical intelligence.
00:30:14:19 – 00:30:42:12
Unknown
We know it has problems, not just in dumbing down our natural biological processes, but also in its terrible environmental impact that maybe we’ll figure out. But we know right now in American cities, there are neighborhoods and areas that are without water because the water supply is being diverted to cool the power plants of these huge server farms.
00:30:42:12 – 00:31:16:15
Unknown
I mean, Memphis, Tennessee is a good example. If you want, you know, to Google something. But not only that, but also the draw on electricity and the air pollution, the environmental impact of 1AI search is way beyond what we might think. I mean, orders of magnitude beyond just using a computer or turning on a light. And so but but going back to this we have the future are augmented reality AI or a C which is artificial super intelligence.
00:31:16:17 – 00:31:49:09
Unknown
And then we have ET, which is lurking out there with disclosure and all kinds of other things. And by the way, augmented reality also includes so much that’s happening right now in the realms of what I call dis incarnate consciousness, whether you call it survival of death. I know you recently had Suzanne, these men on your show, who I had the privilege of, of, also of meeting, that was set up by my assistant Gail.
00:31:49:11 – 00:32:19:00
Unknown
And and so but that’s also a piece of this because it’s also pushing our level of intelligence out there. You know, in a way, it includes that ETS don’t have to be aliens from Arcturus or the Pleiades, although they may be. It’s also anything that’s not earthbound. And so all of this disenchanted consciousness, this it’s been around for generations, maybe since the dawning of time.
00:32:19:02 – 00:32:47:14
Unknown
Whether it’s in reincarnation or past life therapies or an ancestor guide, spirit guides, all of these kinds of things. But this is so much now part of what’s going on. It’s another piece of this. So we have a I r e t, which is any consciousness that is not earthbound physical form. And then we have E-i-e-i-o, which is basically one way or another.
00:32:47:15 – 00:33:16:12
Unknown
We all live on McDonald’s farm, and the geese and the ducks and the bulls and the lions and the tigers and the bears, all have to figure out how to get along together. And that’s the E-i-e-i-o part of my formula. So, yeah. Where is this going to go? You know, there’s a lot of reason to be afraid of what’s around the corner, but there’s more reasons to be afraid of repeating what we’ve done in the past forever.
00:33:16:14 – 00:33:38:15
Unknown
Wow. Okay. So spending a little time I think that can be at the personal level. That can be at the collective level. But are there patterns you’re repeating that you would rather not carry into this new phase of life that we are all on the, on the precipice of? And if there are it seems like this is the time to clean those things up to
00:33:38:15 – 00:33:38:22
Unknown
start.
00:33:39:01 – 00:33:57:11
Unknown
Not not if, not if there are, there are, there are, there are. I don’t care who you are or I am or we are. If there aren’t, then you’re not paying attention. There we go. All right. So cleaning up some of those older patterns
00:33:57:11 – 00:34:02:19
Unknown
starting to make different choices, getting underneath why you’re doing those things in the first place.
00:34:02:21 – 00:34:28:10
Unknown
Each one of us can only manage our own reality. We cannot control what the rest of the collective is doing, but we do have impact on the collective by our choices as individuals. So staying focused on those things that you that are in your within your realm. Yeah. Buckminster Fuller coined the word synergy to mean that one plus one does not equal to that one plus one is greater than two.
00:34:28:15 – 00:34:57:15
Unknown
In other words, synergy is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You and I and every person watching or listening or viewing this is one of those parts, right? And the whole is greater than all of us. And yet it is our job, our duty, our responsibility to each play, our role. This is the act.
00:34:57:17 – 00:35:20:24
Unknown
This is the act locally, part of the thing cosmically. Because when everyone is acting locally, with care, with love, with compassion, with kindness, with understanding, with wanting to expand our awareness rather than just fearfully suppress someone else’s, then all the other problems will cure themselves.
00:35:20:24 – 00:35:31:13
Unknown
You can’t have top down, you know, authoritative fascist rulership if everyone is taking care of everyone.
00:35:31:15 – 00:35:39:09
Unknown
Well you don’t, you certainly don’t need it. You can’t have it. There’s no place for it. That’s right. You don’t need it. It goes away. Right. Okay.
00:35:39:09 – 00:35:54:05
Unknown
So we started with a more global perspective of the month. You gave us the outer planets, the inner planets, the eclipses. Then we started to go into some more specifics. Can you just and but it was a little bit all over the place because we did it that way.
00:35:54:05 – 00:36:19:04
Unknown
I asked you to do it that way. Can you just walk us through chronologically? We’ve already you’ve already explained the energies, but going chronologically, what are those highlight dates that we need to pay attention to? Just the big ones? Well, I think September 1st, then we have September. We have, Saturn moving back into, in, into Pisces, and we have Mars making a square and a half with Uranus.
00:36:19:09 – 00:36:40:22
Unknown
I think that even on the first of the month, we’re already, you know, we’re energized. Stuff is stuff is going on. On the second Mercury moves into Virgo out of, Leo, maybe we become less loud and more kind of thinking about wanting to figure out what is most useful. And we’re actually through the first part of the month.
00:36:40:22 – 00:37:14:21
Unknown
We’re in Virgo territory. People don’t. People often misunderstand Virgo because they think of it as critical. Careful. And and yet Virgo is actually the binary function of the cosmos. Mercury is the place where yes or no happens. That’s why Virgos tend to be critical, because the Virgo you see, the word virgin in in ancient societies did not mean someone who did not have sex.
00:37:14:23 – 00:37:48:10
Unknown
It meant a woman who was not owned by a man. And so the two main classes of virgins were the temple priestesses and the prostitutes. They were considered Virgos, virgins because they could say no. And so this ability for yes no actually in the body happens in the colon. This is why astrologically, Virgo rules the digestive system in the colon, in the stomach, everything is broken down.
00:37:48:15 – 00:38:12:21
Unknown
What happens in the colon is that as the slurry slurry, is that the right word? As the gunk, as the stuff moves through the colon, in the walls of the colon, the cells say, that’s okay, let it through. That’s good. Let’s assimilate it. This is good. Oh, that’s not that shit. Send it down the road. Pluto takes care of excrement.
00:38:12:21 – 00:38:36:18
Unknown
Excrement. And so in the body, it’s the Virgo function. In the in the colon that says yes or no. This is why Virgo is critical. That’s okay, that’s okay. That’s not okay. That’s not okay. That’s okay. What’s wrong with this picture? Virgo. So we have it the beginning of we have the sun all month or till the 20th until the first day of 22nd, until the autumn equinox.
00:38:36:22 – 00:39:15:22
Unknown
In the Northern Hemisphere, we have the sun in Virgo, but we also have mercury moving through Virgo for much of the month, and it enters Virgo on September 2nd. And Mercury is really flying. But Venus enters Virgo on September 19th, and then Mercury leaves Virgo right around there too. On the 17th, 17th, 18th it enters Libra. So the beginning of the month is about focus and and into that we have around the third and fourth, kind of like this first buzz of over amping.
00:39:15:24 – 00:39:46:08
Unknown
We have Mars squaring Jupiter and some other planets, making half squares, Mercury making half squares, to Mars and Jupiter and I think are on the third and the fourth. We just get a bit over overwhelmed. And around that same period of time, Uranus makes its retrograde station on the fifth, Uranus turns retrograde. So there’s a bit of a turning point there that feeds into, the, lunar eclipse on the, seventh, the the the full moon eclipse that we talked about.
00:39:46:10 – 00:40:12:12
Unknown
But following that eclipse, there’s several days of discomforting energy. They’re squares and a half and half squares that a lot of a lot of astrologers might not, you know, register, but the seventh, eighth, ninth, even to the 10th, by the 11th, 12th, though, we begin to get a wave of of more comfort. The sun and Mercury make sextile with Jupiter.
00:40:12:12 – 00:40:41:00
Unknown
The energy flows a bit more, moving toward the middle of the month. Although we have a blip or on a blip, a blip, I was going to say a blip or a blip on the fifth when Mars, moving toward the end of, of Aries of Libra, makes an opposition with Eris and Chiron, and that occurs on the 1516 17th right in there.
00:40:41:02 – 00:41:07:02
Unknown
And so I think we can have a little bit of, complications, that, that occur at that point in time, 15th, 16th, 17th by the 18th, we have Mercury moving into Libra. And when Mercury moves into Libra, it hits that point that the new moon eclipse will hit as the 29 degrees Virgo moves into zero degrees of Libra.
00:41:07:04 – 00:41:38:16
Unknown
Well, that same thing happens on the 18th. And on the 17th 18th, when Mercury moves into, Mercury moves from Virgo into Libra. It opposes Saturn, it opposes Neptune. It makes that grand trine communication Mercury with Uranus and, Pluto. That all happens on the 18th. I think we get some respite right along that period of time.
00:41:38:18 – 00:42:10:06
Unknown
On the 20th, we I think the 19th and 20th are a bit complicated. We have some kind of quincunx, irritating energy that kicks in, leading up to, the sun’s opposition to Saturn, followed by the, the new moon eclipse that all happens on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, when the sun is now making that same grand trine, the moon made prior.
00:42:10:08 – 00:42:45:01
Unknown
And so we’re moving back and forth between these. Complicated. Yeah. Irritating. Annoying. This isn’t working to. Wow. Maybe we have some flow here, and I don’t think there’s a winner here one way or another. I think a lot of the month has to do with that. Holding back the the illness or the discomfort from trying to prevent the skin from splitting or growing an inch and a half in a week to something happens and then some, you know, and then the growth occurs.
00:42:45:03 – 00:43:13:00
Unknown
And then we get by the time we hit the 24th, with Mars now having moved into, Mars having moved into Scorpio, and Mars actually leaves Aries and enters, Scorpio on the 22nd, right in that mix of everything else. And then Mars is going to form that square with, with Pluto on the 24th and its own quincunx.
00:43:13:02 – 00:43:24:05
Unknown
And again, mixed blessing. But boy, things are it’s just things are being focused and it’s not comfortable, but it’s not all uncomfortable.
00:43:24:05 – 00:43:33:19
Unknown
Rick, what would you say to us to keep in mind for the whole month if there was something, something that we could keep in mind? There’s something. Two things.
00:43:33:19 – 00:43:53:08
Unknown
Number one, there’s the concept of the, of the the iron fist in the velvet glove, and that sometimes we go to the iron fist at a fear to hold the position, to make sure something doesn’t happen or to make sure something does happen.
00:43:53:10 – 00:44:27:19
Unknown
And yet, being aware of the value of the velvet glove of the passivity. And I don’t mean denial. I don’t mean going along with things that are not okay. But I think a lot of this is about when do we swing into action. I think that the biggest danger of August and September, but September in particular, is overreacting and blowing our chance of actually having the highest level of impact.
00:44:27:21 – 00:44:54:12
Unknown
On the other hand, the second biggest danger is not acting at all and just allowing things to slide, you know, into the future. You know, there’s that thing of the the idea that a frog throat thrown into cold water will gradually. Oh, by the way, this is not true, but it’s something that everyone knows about. But then if you put a frog in cold water and gradually warm it up, the frog becomes lethargic and will boil to death.
00:44:54:18 – 00:45:17:04
Unknown
Where if you throw a frog into boiling water, it’ll struggle to get out. The danger here is letting this water just get hotter and hotter until we all boil to death. On the other hand, I think it’s that balancing of the iron fist and the velvet glove that that’s, that’s one thing that I think is, is really important.
00:45:17:06 – 00:45:51:07
Unknown
The other thing that I think is really important is establishing community, because it’s with the connection with others that we make that actually gives us the strength to allow our disillusionment to turn into action rather than into discouragement. Because discouragement kind of means there’s nothing I can do. Why bother doing it? Whereas I can be disillusioned and still be encouraged to take action?
00:45:51:09 – 00:46:14:09
Unknown
You know, there’s the Hopi prophecy that says, you know, we’ve been talking about this is totally my paraphrase. We’ve been talking for years about a time when the rivers will run fast in times of great change. Well, these times are now here. And he and he or they who hold on to the edge will be torn in half.
00:46:14:11 – 00:46:52:00
Unknown
Push away from the edge into the center, where the waters are flowing rapidly. Look around and see who is there. Keep your head above water, but who you see is your new family. This is your community. Be joyful. That’s it. I mean, it’s it’s these are crazy times and no one knows what’s around the bend. But we all know how to create community, and we all know that it’s that community that we create that will create larger communities, that will create elected officials.
00:46:52:00 – 00:47:17:14
Unknown
And even regardless of what your politics are, the fact of the matter is that we have to figure out a way to make ground up work rather than top down. That’s that’s what that’s the order of business. And that’s the potential that the astrology shows here. But it’s a potential that is not going to happen because trines often will take the course of least resistance.
00:47:17:16 – 00:47:22:21
Unknown
And so it’s the potential. But we have to act locally.
00:47:22:21 – 00:47:43:15
Unknown
Truth. Okay. I love that you brought it to that bigger picture perspective of what this time period is about in general. Astrologically, this groundswell of collective, governing, for lack of a better word, and, and really governing its self-realization that then
00:47:43:15 – 00:47:51:19
Unknown
realizes that our leaders have to be part of our own self-realization process.
00:47:51:22 – 00:48:19:12
Unknown
Yeah. Rather than a suppression or burying or denial of something through force. Yes. Okay. Love that. And again I’m going to bring it back to the individual here. We can see where we’re doing that in our own lives. Where are we through force or suppression. Not addressing things that need to be addressed at the core so that we can actually make a fundamental shift here.
00:48:19:14 – 00:48:42:16
Unknown
And I have to I agree with you, and I have to say that this is not about red versus blue or political ideologies. Right? Because it doesn’t. Well, I want to say it doesn’t matter what you believe in, but it does. But but separate from that, it it doesn’t matter how far off the spectrum you are one way or another.
00:48:42:22 – 00:49:08:16
Unknown
There are issues of suppression and denial that are still going on. And and so it doesn’t matter how enlightened one of us may feel. And I say one of us, I don’t mean you versus me. I mean the everyone versus every single individual. It doesn’t matter how righteous or how sure you are, you have it right. You don’t, and neither do I.
00:49:08:18 – 00:49:37:09
Unknown
And that’s what we all need to confront here is is something that moves us into a larger perspective. And again, that’s what this ongoing er grand trine air fire fight with, with Saturn and Neptune moving into the Aries point here. That’s what that’s what the potential is represented is being represented here. And it’s a matter of do we have the courage, the fire, the heart, the cure?
00:49:37:10 – 00:49:43:09
Unknown
Do we have the courage to actually step into that role and do something about it?
00:49:43:09 – 00:49:52:02
Unknown
It’s it’s like an acknowledgment of the limitations of our own individual perspective. But then also a
00:49:52:02 – 00:50:11:11
Unknown
a realization that that that’s also necessary. Our our perspective is both necessary and limited. And there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s actually by design and by acknowledging that we can honor each other’s perspectives and also realize we don’t have all the answers, and that by working together, we will be able to see a bigger picture.
00:50:11:13 – 00:50:31:08
Unknown
Yeah. Together. Yeah. And I have to say, looking up in that really fast changing river and seeing you, Rick, and seeing all of you out there makes me really happy. It does make me feel super joyful. And the fact that astrology is becoming more and more something that people are turning to for guidance. And I agree with you completely.
00:50:31:08 – 00:51:07:20
Unknown
And in doing that, we have to also remember to keep our perspective open enough to realize that not everyone is as privileged to be able to get their head above water. That there’s a lot of people who do not have the privilege that we have to spend time thinking about cosmic things when they’re just simply trying to figure out how to get enough water so that they don’t, or their children don’t die by sunrise the following day, which also goes to the responsibility to do what we’re doing.
00:51:07:20 – 00:51:39:09
Unknown
I mean, it’s both a privilege and a responsibility to be able to be having these conversations, to share these conversations, to think about these things. But then, as you always say, to actually act on these things, not just talk about these things, actually making the changes in our lives. Yeah. Rick, thank you so much. I want to bring us back to something we talked about in the very, very beginning, which was when you said that we’re good at finding legendary astrologers in the making and Ricky Williams, do you know him that the NFL.
00:51:39:09 – 00:51:59:01
Unknown
I’ve met him. I don’t know him well, but I know I know him. I know who he is. I know of the work that he’s doing with Steven Forrest and. Sure, sure. Yes. Okay. Anyway, so he’s he’s an awesome instructor. Lovely. What a lovely guy. Lovely guy. NFL football player, Heisman Trophy award winner turned astrologer. And he’s just he’s brilliant and he’s so fun to listen to.
00:51:59:01 – 00:52:23:00
Unknown
Tells great stories. Anyways, he’s teaching a class with us and registration is open right now and it’s on your strongest planet, not your ruling planet, your strongest planet based on the aspects it makes, the proximity to the angles, the strength of the house. There’s like three parts of this calculation. It’s really fascinating. I’ve been blown away by it, and our community has to just starting to play with this.
00:52:23:00 – 00:52:44:10
Unknown
They have it in the Lila app, which is his app. Our community actually gets a longer free trial of his Lila app. The software, so you can check the show notes for that. But then also, if you want to dive into this topic and really learn about it, learn the history, learn the calculations, learn what it means to have X, Y, or Z as your strongest planet.
00:52:44:10 – 00:53:02:10
Unknown
Like according to this, my strongest planet is Neptune, which I’ve always thought of myself as a Saturnian person. So this has been like one of those mindblowing moments. Kind of like when you were talking to me about the Capricorn archetype years ago in Chicago and giving me a new dimensions to it, just going, oh my God. Well, all that makes so much sense.
00:53:02:12 – 00:53:21:09
Unknown
I’ve had a similar experience with considering Neptune as my strongest planet, not Saturn. Interesting, yes. So, if you want to check that out, go to the show notes. We’re going to have the links there. And class starts next week, I believe. Oh yeah. So go check that out. And I know you have some upcoming events as well.
00:53:21:15 – 00:53:42:00
Unknown
Yeah. Before we go, I just wanted to mention two things in passing. We’re getting up to a full enrollment on my annual, initiation into astrology retreat in the south end of Goa, India. Not going to spend a lot of time talking about it, but there’s a complete day by day activities list that Heaven and Earth workshops.
00:53:42:04 – 00:54:03:03
Unknown
Just click on workshops. And there’s I think we have about five places open. We have about 25 people in it already. It’s every year I teach this or lead this. It’s an amazing, amazing event. I won’t say more about it if you’ve never been to India, this is probably the safest and easiest place in India to exist.
00:54:03:03 – 00:54:26:14
Unknown
I call, this area of India. Go. I call it India Light like light or Miller light, you know, but but but that’s November 20th through December 2nd. It’s a 12 day, workshop at an are you Vedic healing spa? Just, like a three minute walk from a magical, swimmable beach on the Arabian Sea. That’s one.
00:54:26:16 – 00:55:02:20
Unknown
Secondly, I want to mention that I will be participating, giving three lectures and, panel discussion and, on a, ten day or, maybe it’s a 12 day. I might be cruise in the Aegean. That’s leaving from Athens. And this is, next March, around March 20th, I think, is the date. And, you can find out more about it and even register for it at Mystery School at see all one word mystery [email protected].
00:55:03:00 – 00:55:26:24
Unknown
And if you do find this fascinating, there is some of the, some really cool other teachers there, some other astrologers, some people who are working in disclosure and UFOs and, and, and other, ascension related kind of topics. If you do sign up for it, just make sure that you tell them that you learned about it from me so that I get credit for your being there.
00:55:27:00 – 00:55:44:17
Unknown
Just part of what the deal is. Anyhow. I’m really looking forward to it. The stops are amazing. Greek islands and a couple of stops in Turkey. All on the Aegean Sea in a luxury cruise. I love the idea of a mystery school at sea. Mystery school etsy.com.
00:55:44:17 – 00:55:51:04
Unknown
Amazing. Okay, so yes, to to live events to check out Ricky Williams Strongest Planet.
00:55:51:04 – 00:56:17:15
Unknown
I believe it’s astrology webcomic, strongest planet, so you can check it out there. And or if that doesn’t work, go check the show notes. Okay. Thank you everybody. Rick. You’re amazing. That was so much fun. I just I always walk away from these feeling like, okay, I got it. I know what’s happening. I can, I can I can plan accordingly and think, you know, think with all these things in mind to keep them in mind as I navigate my life.
00:56:17:15 – 00:56:31:07
Unknown
So I hope all of you feel that way as well. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you, as always, for making astrology a part of your life. Will definitely catch you on the next episode. Take care everybody!
