Zodiac Degrees Podcast

Passive income, landlord, upper or middle management, executive, or salesperson. Self disciplined and controlling of others. Seizing power through force of reason or provocative ideas. Realizing a course of action. Someone in uniform or a position of authority. Bald or clean cut. Streamlined, sophisticated style. Arguments, convincing others, hard-won agreement. Direct, intense communication. Pushing forward a necessary decision versus being pushy, overbearing, and macho. Harsh criticism, sarcasm, derailing misguided thoughts or policies. Intelligent, industrious, successful head of the household. Generous if not too reserved, critical, and hard working. Best work done humbly and unseen, yet ideally remains intellectually independent with opinions unswayed by others. Well deserved and carefully spent wealth. Someone focused on trade or business, or workers rights. A shrewd, insistent leader or a sadistic, petty tyrant. 

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Someone who doesn’t know when to stop, for better or worse. Someone always at conflict: fighting, battling, defending. Guarding and cherishing sweet things and people. Protecting the poor and oppressed. Compulsive involvement and interference, whether it be injurious and violent, unnecessarily helpful, or simply pointless meddling. Unsatisfied with an inner life; an inability to live and let live. Futile actions busy with illusions; wasted energy. The need to lay down one’s weapon: peaceful solutions, swords into plowshares, thou shall not kill. Memories, lessons, and experiences of past battles. Raging nostalgia. Grudges. Recollections of forgotten bravery or valor. Remnants and souvenirs that awaken a potent, long dormant feeling. The surviving influence of history and prior achievement. Aging, maturity, realized destiny. A holy sword. Will power, personal power and self confidence versus the ridiculous pretense of epic merit. A consecrated individual acting on behalf of a collective. A radical person compelled to obtain begrudging support from a conservative group. One who is treacherous, unsympathetic, even sadistic, with no insight on gradations of value.

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Atlas holding up the globe, the need to navigate, explore, venture through a confusing multiplicity of inner or outer voices. The difficulty of discerning one voice or direction from the bombardment of everyday information. Separating signal from noise, sense from nonsense. Widespread aspirations, immoderate ambitions, complex ideas, distraction from focused achievement. Ordering intelligences, skills, capacities. An idiot wandering astray, empty chatter, all talk no action versus a brilliant intellect with a methodical, mathematical understanding. An active, buzzing, beehive. Noise, energy, frenetic motion. Lively chaotic apartments, flats or housing complexes. Concentration and silence awakened by playful fruitful groups.  An aviary filled with all types of twittering birds. False sense of freedom. Yearning for limitlessness despite heavy bonds and boundaries. Metal smelters working with clay, porcelain, or glass making structures out of unformed earth. 

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Mutually beneficial, rewarding relationships, a power couple. Someone skilled at cultivating close friendships, who attains ambitions through sharing wealth and abundance. Happy marriages, marrying twice, or great pains involving divorce or death of a spouse. An intimate partnership bringing out the best in an individual. Leveling up socially or professionally due to a strong connection with someone. Personal evolution: learning to articulate, express, or manifest latent desires. Extraordinary mathematical abilities that are in danger of being overlooked or uncultivated. The spark or flame or passion that lifts one to push forward to new experiences and accomplishments. Creativity, inspiration, yearning. Naive yet full of potential. Awkward first steps, gaining the ability to stand on your own feet, learning to walk before you can run. Discomfort with independence. Feeling like a fish out of water, or out of one’s depth, and needing instinct, faith, and self confidence to survive. Needing or expecting recognition. Overly reliant on attention and validation from others. In thrall of an idealized partner. Trapped in an intense situation, emotional addictions. A sparkling, radiant individual humbled by understanding their role within a hierarchy. Mermaid stories.

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A changing of the guards, a fight for change. Invisible trends: air pressure, weather systems, cultural zeitgeist. Environmental conditions, the temperature of the room, the sentiment in the air, sensibility of an age, opinion polls. Broad, abstract insight. Cartography, data science, nautical engineering. Multi faceted or multi valent scenarios. Indications, insight, signals, clues. Anticipation or intuition of the next collective move. New generations clashing with narratives of kinship and historically based group identity. Fighting with parents or older ideas. Causal progression, cyclical processes. Measurement, instruction, advice. Fear of change versus anchorless victim to every fashion and fad. Planning, coordination, public service. Prophetic reorganization of communities or collective in advance of necessary changes. Rebellion, revolution, anarchy. Vengeful, vindictive, violent outbursts. Crisis of succession. Human solidarity facing factional loyalties. The ceaseless march of time, trampling our small wishes and perspectives.

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Swift runner, thinker, searcher, hunter, equestrian, or driver. Quick study, good timing, active spirit, a sense of rhythm, fast intellect, keen vision of the mind’s eye, sharp memory. Curiosity, acquisition of knowledge, understanding through vicarious experiences, academic inquiry, research, lectures, explanations. Hierarchies of science and academia challenging hierarchies of wealth and peerage. Disconnection from, return to, observation of natural processes. The study of nature’s beauty as an antidote to technological alienation. Revealing the truth to those who may not understand or want to hear it. Smugness and browbeating. Nervous, wiry, rushed actions. Lost birthright or usurped inheritance. Nimble and deft with potential for cunning, cleverness, and thievery. Flight, attempted evasion, jail. Exile, running from the law, excommunication. Sexual adventurers, pursuers, chasers. Exploitation: using and discarding others. Realism leading to unscrupulousness. Skilled at self-justification. Loves the open countryside and the open road. 

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Cultivation, care, nurturing, gentle affection necessary for the growth of plants or people. Attention to small details, physical requirements of life such as food, water, and rest. Hard work and rewards. Agricultural workers or those who labor on maintaining or stewardship of natural beauty. Patient, determined creativity, seeing potential in the long term. Wealth, success, social climbing. Ambition, striving, unscrupulously and cleverly accumulating riches. Merciless exploitation of workers, lack of compassion, seeing others reduced to material value. Responsibility versus superficial attention. Corruption, bribery, fraud, jealousy, slander. Flattery and backstabbing gossip.  Profiting off the poverty and desperation of others versus being charitable and generous. Destructive egoism, solipsism as opposed to the desire to lift others. Rooting out destructive habits in favor of the dedication to achievement of modesty, simplicity, and kindness. 

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Opposites attract. Love, friendship, partnership, marriage, or emotional connection in spite of cultural, linguistic, political, generational, or ethnic differences. A fresh perspective challenging the status-quo through a compassionate, open-hearted appeal. A controversial couple. Warm commitment, creative chemistry, sexual desire, or erotic magnetism trumping tradition, rules, or intellectual constructions. Social standards, judgment or repression and concomitant rebellion or defiance. An individual mediating a conflict between groups. Individual path versus collective expectations. Being the odd one out in an intimate circle. Integrating oneself into a new and different family, community, tribe, or small professional network. Relationships that bring out the best in us, activating unknown talent and potential. Emotionally oriented contemplation and conversation. Kindness and harmony. Appreciating beauty, nature, desiring simple pleasures. Hoarding desirable and beautiful things, being frugal, defensive, miserly. Being bitterly possessive of loved ones. Persephone and Ceres, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet. Pocahontas.

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Listening to inspiration, following one’s own instincts rather than the crowd’s dictates. Meditation, peace, contemplation, dreaming, fantasizing, quiet, silence. Listening to or for an inner voice. Receiving a divine vision and then delivering this personal or new insight to the collective. Shutting out noise or distraction. Creativity overriding rationality. Spending necessary time alone. An elite person with exquisite taste. A leader, a noble, an artist, someone special and elevated. Power coming from an ideal that affects future generations, or unfocused powerlessness and victories that simply dissolve if no greater purpose is at play. Rivalries as either an elegant display of talent or as unnecessary, destructive conflict. Understanding one’s individual power versus throwing one’s weight around without any authority or dignity. Narcissism or arrogance, shutting others out.  

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Magic. Fire. Inner strength, creative power, inspiration. Miracles. Philosophy, mysteries, and truths that transcend life and death. Worship, rituals, candles, incense, sacrifices, sobriety, chastity. Focus, concentration, meditation, passion. The meaning of life. Pursuit of lofty ambitions. Thirst for power. Adventure, restlessness, travel, zealous conquest. Going too far, being too intense, bullies. Cruelty, exploitation, and abuse: directed at self or others. A need to master egoism, jealousy, obsession, and base emotions. Taming the serpent, kundalini. Highest level of success, provided you know where to stop.

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