Episode #24 7/04/13

Our Third Live Episode!

Our Second Live Episode!

Our first live show!

In segment two, Chad starts us off with Alicia Keys' powerful performance of "Girl on Fire" at the MTV Music Awards on September 6, 2012. We then explore the chart of Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, and the phenomenon of One Billion Rising on February 14, 2013. Delia checks in about her personal experience of how transiting Saturn squaring her Sun/MC unfolds the continuing Saturn transit to her Moon/Asc. Jessica offers her experiences of transiting Saturn conjoining her natal Pluto, and transiting Pluto conjoining her Mercury. And finally, Matthew finishes us off by discussing his own current and recent transits.  

We devote the second segment to a discussion of the current US presidential election.  We look at both Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's natal birth charts, and also discuss their current transits, focusing in particular on the transits for the first presidential debate where Obama's muted performance resulted in a turn of the tide for both politicians.  We also discuss the challenge (and ultimately the impossibility) of trying to use archetypal astrology to make any kind of prediction about the future, especially something with as many complexities as a modern political process.  In spite of this we have a little fun, and we each take turns sharing our thoughts about what the astrology might suggest about the outcome of the current election.

I was joined by the full crew again for this episode, with Delia, Chad, and Jessica all present. In honor of the Sun-Saturn conjunction in the sky, we devoted the entire first segment to a discussion of the Saturn archetype. We start off with a bit of metaphysical speculation regarding how Saturn fits into the actual structure of the cosmos, and then lead into a more personal discussion about how each of our own relationships with Saturn have evolved over time.

In the second segment it was just me and Delia, as Chad and Jessica had to go pack for Burningman.  We continued to explore some of the ideas that came up in the first segment, and then brought in some rich correlations that we have been working with recently.  I bring in the example of television personality and survivalist Bear Grylls, and Delia brings in the topical example of Senate candidate Todd Akin and the recent scandal he has been involved in.

It was another fun episode with myself and Delia Shargel. We spent the whole episode devoted to exploring three collective alignments of the current moment. We started with the Mercury-Saturn archetype (square in the sky with the moon during the recording), and discussed some of its key features with suggestions for honoring it. And then we moved into the discussion of the Jupiter-Venus combo (conjunct in the sky) along with the Jupiter Neptune energy (square in the sky), and we focus on the example of painter Thomas Kinkade, who is known for his idyllic images (and who is born with Jupiter conjunct Neptune). We conclude the podcast with a brief conversation on the Uranus-Pluto collective square alignment (which is now becoming exact, and is lining up with the Sun and Mars in the coming weeks).

In Segment 2 Chad leads us in a discussion of the recent tragic story of the shooting in Florida of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. We have a rich discussion of the dominant archetypes represented in the charts and transits of these two men, and then this leads into a broader philosophical conversation with Jessica asking some very probing questions about the nature of being human in an archetypal cosmos.