I loved this conversation with my new friend and colleague Patrick Geary, a coach, astrologer, and healer who has given me such insight through a reading he did for me back in November.

We cover experiences with somatic wisdom in terms of burnout and bodily cycles and Patrick shares his more of his back story.

For those who are beginning with the notion of the planetary bodies influencing us, you might start with the moon cycle. Patrick walks us through the different phases, and I comment on how I've been working with that for the last couple of years as I've entered menopause. Syncing my schedule with my natural energetic cycles really helps me work with my energy instead of against it.

We also go over how to understand the main three parts of our astrology chart including the sun, moon, and ascendant. I am still learning how these work, but so much made sense when Patrick explained them to me during our 1:1 reading.

I was also curious about how the "house" system works, and maybe we will need to do a future podcast on that, because it is also fascinating how cyclically that is manifested.

My favorite quote in this conversation from Patrick is here:

"We cannot always be living at peak performance.

That doesn't make sense and, our culture really doesn't respect the dark moon and it doesn't respect that time to draw in. "

To learn more about Patrick, feel free to check out his website for more gems. I'm also loving his newsletter, which has given me insight in the past few months about how cosmic events may be impacting my energetic cycles. You can easily subscribe to that on Substack.

For a collected list of episodes on astrology with Patrick, check out this Spotify playlist!

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