If you’re open to a good laugh and a good cry, be sure to press play on this episode.

We close out Season 2 of the I Don’t Believe in Astrology Podcast with Carla Johnson. Carla is a brilliant, educated, and dedicated visionary and scientist, wielding a wicked sense of humor. Carla has always had a fascination and deep appreciation for the earth, spending her early years traversing the creeks of Minnesota for agate, crystals, and wildlife. Carla turned her earthy fascinations into the focus of her career as a geologist and entrepreneur, leading tech and environmental projects and businesses including the first virtual mapping of Earth! Did we mention she has her Sun, Moon, and Rising- her Big Three- all in Earth signs? You can’t make this stuff up.

As evidenced by her Astrological chart, Carla speaks on the ability to stay grounded and never give up, even in the face of resistance. Debra and Carla put the climate crisis into focus as Carla shares her firsthand experience with a traumatic event caused by climate change. The story shifts when Carla shares about how there are angels on Earth, even in the most difficult moments, and how maintaining that perspective is key to traversing our current crises.  

Before delving into this powerful conversation about climate change, be ready for a lot of laughs as Carla and Debra reminisce about how they met and their parallel experiences as “frontier women in business.”

This is an episode you won’t want to miss as two friends connect with laughter, tears, and thoughtful conversation about how earthly (Geology) and cosmic (Astrology) sciences can help us understand and find peace in the natural rhythms of our own personal stories as well as our page in the story of Earth.

Key Highlights From The Episode

• The ways that Carla’s Astrological influences have showed up prominently throughout her life
• How to not be deterred when the level of appreciation does not match your level of effort, or when life throws a major curveball
• Where we would be in ten years if each person on Earth planted one tree
• How both Earth and the cosmos can provide a peaceful perspective
• How we forget that people are beautiful and there are angels amongst us

Timestamps

[01:53] When Debra met Carla and gave her a reading

[03:15] Carla’s academic and professional background

[04:12] A highlight of Carla’s career partnering with NASA

[04:37] The karma and connection of appreciation and effort of being a visionary in Carla’s experience 

[05:27] Carla’s experience as the only woman in her undergraduate program

[05:51] Carla and Debra reflect on being frontier women in business 

[06:43] Debra’s vision of the future back in the 1980s

[07:36] How Carla’s potent Astrological markers have affected her 

[09:20] When Carla knew she was in love with the earth and was devoted to the environment

[10:35] Lessons about aiming for your goals and not giving up

[14:10] A musing about fate and destiny

[14:53] What Carla feels about where we are in our climate change period

[16:50] Carla explains how we are “ruining our own party”

[17:45] The one solution to combat climate change

[18:42] An interesting fact about the evolution of humans from amoebas 

[20:08] The increase of anxiety in children and the potential correlation between the decrease in oxygen

[21:20] Humankind is in an era of change as noted by Astrological cycles

[21:45] Something that helps keep Carla’s hope alive

[23:42] Carla’s takeaway about Earth’s path forward

[24:26] Debra’s reframe of the fear surrounding climate change

[24:55] The Astrological connection to Earth’s story

[26:31] The thing we all need to do right now

[27:40] Carla’s firsthand experience of climate change 

[33:40] The miracle Carla experienced during a traumatic experience

[37:03] The story about what will happen on planet Earth in the name of humanitarianism