Zodiac Degrees Podcast

Caution. Hidden inner life or literal hiding. An instinct for self-preservation. Intelligent avoidance of calamity. Emotionally fragile yet creatively powerful. Shyness, insecurity, timidness, lack of confidence, reserved, self-debasing. An inability to act, stuck in a dreamlike inactivity. Protection from aggressive or violent social elements. Evading victimization, bullying. Defensiveness. Hiding out, staying safe, staying in. A distaste or indifference to competition and greed. A refusal to get caught up in the rat race. Projecting fear out onto an environment, whether accurately or exaggerated. A need for refuge.  Setting conditions for participation or choosing to forgo involvement in certain areas of life involving risk and bravery. Truancy. Self-pity and cowardice. Feeling small, feeling like a target. Someone withdrawn into a rich, ambitious, imaginative inner world or private life. One drawn to relieve fellow sufferers. Someone who is harmless and good natured, but is emotionally touchy and skittish. A sensitive antennae for hostile advances.

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Birth and growth. The spark of life. The urge to actualize one's birth potential. Small, fragile beginnings. The process of germination. Pregnancy or the inception of a new idea. Determination of living substance to press forward indefinitely. Personal realization. Self-possession and self-integrity not yet developed but on its way. Gathering of or encapsulation of all life values and experience. Self-actualization and ego-expansion through conquest. Creating positive karma. Development that is slow and progressive. A seed: it may be an idea, relationship, process, a job or something else. Small, fragile beginnings of something of value that has the opportunity to develop, but will need nurturing, attention, fertilization, care and hope to truly flourish. Frustration or impatience with a slow start. A process with no shortcuts, something that will go at its own pace and in their own time. Pushing something through haste and indiscretion that is not ready yet, which will require patience to fully develop. Pioneering, a burst of energy, lightning strikes, jumpiness or nervousness: passion, energy, chutzpah. Inborn courage, strength and power. Emotional conviction that softens the hard logic of science. Someone or something that is underestimated but is poised to win or succeed. A strong inner compass. The tension of a creative drive to travel, discover, and blaze a trail versus falling into solipsistic preoccupations. Developing a cause or agenda through the trust of a core circle of supporters, allies, or family. Deep investment in a personal mission, cold detachment from any unsupportive people or forces. Personal, private, individual cheerfulness and happiness.

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Damage to a sacred space. A structure with a strong foundation that is undergoing bombardment. Beauty versus brute force. A need to protect meaningful objects and places from people with a destructive mentality without a sense of vision or pride. Values, ideology, or belief system under siege, which will either be destroyed entirely or persist through the hard work of repair and healing. The disruptive consequences of war. Principals that are shaken or shattered. Energy and effort wasted through conflict or violence. Shattered faith, hope and trust. Fearfulness  Religious conflict, ultra-conservatism, an embattled ideological position. A sense of safety and security demolished. Seeking sanctuary. A gift for creating or performing in sublime architecture. Commemoration of difficult historical moments through sacred antiques. A vacillating individual wrestling with the winds of fate, who may either fall away into negation or seize power and rebuild their legacy. Someone who has been weakened or traumatized who need to reorient and persevere. A need for persistent hard work and confidence rather than inconsequential and jerky efforts. Culture, art and traditions subjected to war and hardship that will either survive or fall to dust.

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The strength of youth and the knowledge of old age. Growing up. Learned helplessness and impetuous trial and error developing into wise, mature responses. Emotional instincts giving way to intellectual thought processes. The pretensions of the young and their attendant failures. Shedding or clinging to the illusions of youth. Understanding the world better and how to get things done despite material or physical disadvantages. Lacking essential skills or information, and yet conjuring magic in spite of that. Working without hands, walking without feet. Youthful folly or blundering, being unprofitably busy, procrastination, unemployment. Impotence enforced by societal forces like poverty, ableism, gender, or racial oppression. The need to take responsibility for your decisions and the impetus to grow and learn. 

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Giving direction to the restless, unbound universe. A sharp shooter finding the target through the winds and waves of an ocean storm. A romantic, quarrelsome swashbuckler. The power to stir and to impress one's own rhythm upon the world.  Someone who is visionary yet practical, with precise aim. The ability to size up situations quickly and accurately. Indomitable and resourceful with a naïve delight in everyday problems and events. One who is impetuous, outrageous, irrepressible, in a perpetual adolescent rebellion. Pointless irritability and nervous self-exhaustion. Someone bored with pedestrian every day life, drawn toward passionate conflict, aggressive action, combat, and intense debate. Called by adventure and the unknown. War, conflict, civilization, and human crisis seeming rather small in the face of much larger natural forces. Dramas that seem large or important that don't actually have depth and permanence, a tempest in a teapot, momentary emotional distress despite long term foundational stability. The powerful but beautiful storms of nature versus the often gory and hysterical crises of a civilization which progresses through war. Getting irritated with small things and having to figure out how to calm down and rest. Being, stirred up or excited, nervous or reactive when it is important to stay anchored and grounded. Going through severe trials in order to find what is really true, permanent, and stable amidst chaotic activity. A need to quiet emotions and modulate one’s breath amidst any outer or inner crisis or disturbance. 

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Powerful opposing energies creating a stalemate. Stuck. Struggle. Over laden with daily labors. Fighting until the end. Sustained effort, straining, hurting oneself with over-exertion, creating unnecessary difficulties. Misdirection of effort. Futility. Meeting with resistance, making no progress. Salmon swimming upstream. An inability to go with the flow, going against the forces of nature, contrariness. Unpopularity or a fall from previous popularity, an ability to resist the flattery of fair-weather friends.  Caught in a Sisyphus like routine with no reflection on its purpose. Working without achievement. Seeming to work in vain, while having the patience to accomplish something big after a long life of no outwardly visible progress or gains.  A split between using power & strength versus using reason & intelligence. The conflicting compulsions of necessity and desire, or a struggle between physical realities and higher inspirations. Trying to put one's passions at the service of the spiritual will. The failure of shallow thinking or easy solutions to solve deeply entrenched problems.  Stubbornness, refusal to acknowledge blind spots. Polarizing issues, information wars, arguments over ideals that lead to battles and war. A holy war, crusades, inquisitions, battling evil forces, projecting onto your adversary, inner conflict. Controlling those around with rational or brute force rather than with inner enlightenment or knowledge. Great power and strength to deal with heavy karma or fate. Someone who can withstand the hardest tests.

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The shelter of depth, commitment, reciprocity, and interdependence in community relationships. Enlisting the service of others, helpfulness. Individual fulfillment through common enterprises, a foundation of goodwill. Construction, cooperation, shared goals, joint efforts, a higher purpose, collective experiences, collective memories. The contributions of many accomplishing difficult projects. Achievement of great things by a group. Light is the task where many share the toil. Assigning everyone a suitable job. Togetherness, participation, and working in concert versus disillusion, retreat into solitude and contemplation outside the confines of complex and faulty group dynamics. Lending neighbors a hand, hard labor for the common good. Generosity made possible by collective human and material resources. The rewards of a stable society where all individuals are valued, versus the shaky uncertainties and dangers of a society where some are excluded, undermined or persecuted. Real estate, building houses, or social structures. Denying or granting assistance, feast or famine. Ascetics and the homeless or unhoused versus valued, well-resourced citizens or insiders. Learning how to ask for and how to give support. 

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A fine, delicate, dignified person. One who is independent and self-sustained, who rejects common relationships and family structures. A deep and contemplative, inward looking individual, who seeks to be surrounded by nature or other peaceful and quiet living conditions conducive to thinking and meditation. A great affinity, love, and understanding of nature. An original, independent, uncompromising, brilliant thinker, who is not swayed by others expectations. Someone who is too self-focused, who is emotionally isolated and withdrawn- closed-down to potentially fruitful or enlivening relationships. Someone afraid to take social or emotional risks. An old, judgmental, disapproving, moralistic, close-minded individual. A quiet intelligence communicating a lot with little to no words, versus frigid silence. 

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Mind over matter. Awkward first steps, initial unsure progress, getting your sea legs. Impaired movement, injury, handicap, infirmity, limited or restricted mobility. A sense of being bound by tangible or invisible forces- imprisonment, detention, illness, or social limitations. Quiet intelligence and powerful talent found in a sickly or otherwise disempowered person beset by pressures and demands. An innate ability to achieve glory and success despite suffering or banishment. Finding a higher level of freedom and possibilities through ideas, social connection, art, or science despite physical or material limitations inevitably found in our mortal coil. A new day, a transformed world revealed in fresh light or a different perspective.  Innovation, experimentation, self discovery versus dependence and challenging living conditions. Possibilities emerging out of dark, troublesome times. Sensitivity and weakness facing the mean, cruel world. A drive to overcome persecution or bigotry. Conquering versus being conquered by ignorance. An unexpected turn of events or uncovered evidence inexorably changing the situation or reality at hand. A shift of mind or heart. Awakening to new potentials or new disappointments, and needing to adjust old expectations and prejudices. Emerging from depression finding hope and energy. Radical life changes, being reborn, taking your first wobbly steps in your new life chapter. A need to let go of the past. A soaring independent inner purpose despite outer circumstances. A melancholic person resigned to suffer in silence experiencing a breakthrough that improves their life. Empathetically and compassionately understanding we all have limitations and must compare notes and work together. Free your mind and your ass will follow. 

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A big tent containing an exciting event. A charismatic genius strategist organizing a large crowd around a common cause. An energetic, well staged display of skill and showmanship- whether oratory, athletic, aesthetic, or otherwise. An exciting and daring performance or event. A circus, a spectacle, an electric performance. Dramatically offering your perspective or skills to a large audience. The risk of presenting oneself to a community. Stepping into the limelight and causing a stir. Delusions of Grandeur, an arrogant preacher. Someone who is contentious, quarrelsome, fond of chaos or conflict. Getting a rise out of people, working a crowd, winning over hearts and minds. An arena, a church, or another venue where people gather based on shared goals or beliefs. An inspirational, evangelical, or ecstatic event. Hysteria, manipulation, and exploitation of a mob mentality. A master of ceremony, show-runner, stage manager, or military officer who has a special instinct and talent for leading successfully executed events. A con-man or a propagandist. Letting passion get the better of you, unbridled frenzy. Reckless, out of control catastrophes. Unruly, extreme behavior. A need for a structure to wild visions and emotions. 

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