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Hello, welcome to Astrology
Alchemy.

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I'm Sheila Bellagio, your host
for this podcast.

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Alchemy is defined as a
seemingly magical process of

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transformation.

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Spiritual alchemy is the process
of pursuing the gold of your

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true nature.

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By transmuting the unrefined
limiting parts of yourself.

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In this podcast, I'll offer you
inspiring insights from current

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astrology cycles that support
your path of turning your

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personal lead into gold.

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More resources are available at
the website on the edges of

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change.com.

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Hello, and welcome to episode
number 324 of the Astrology

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Alchemy Podcast.

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This is for the week of August
4th, 2025.

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I'm your host and guide, Sheila
Er.

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So here's a phrase from this
week's podcast poem.

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Who wants to know a story's end?

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The big news this week is about
Mars, the Warrior Action taker,

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warriors Archetype.

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Here's an overview.

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Mars enters Libra this week and
it activates a wave of dynamic

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tensions and breakthroughs with
outer planets inviting you to a

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potent review of how you take
action, seek justice, and

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navigate conflict.

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I wanna remind you, I'm trying
out a new form with this podcast

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to give you some reflection
questions to help you in your

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own individual journey with the
planetary archetypes to go

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deeper and to make it your own,
and to give yourself some time

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to reflect and honor how you
navigate the unique currents of

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the astrological energies that
you're sensitive to.

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On Wednesday, August 6th, Mars
enters Libra for six weeks.

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This begins a new cycle focused
on relational assertiveness.

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Mars again is the astrological
archetype of action taking.

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It's the sacred yang.

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Let's go do it.

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Let's go after what we want.

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It's very assertive.

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In its wounded side, it is very
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violent.

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Libra is that Zodiac sign that
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relationship, reciprocity.

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Mars and Libra supports your
capacity to initiate from

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balance, justice and social
artistry, but may also expose

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for you places where you
hesitate to take a stand.

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Sometimes the deep challenge of
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as an energy really has to do
with the wounded side of Libra,

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which is to make nice.

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And to keep the peace at all
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There's a tension here.

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'cause Mars is a very assertive
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And Libra sometimes can say,
well, we can go both ways.

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It could be this.

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What about that?

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We wanna make sure it's okay for
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That's a beautiful energy.

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But when it comes from a
survival strategy, we end up not

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being assertive in a sacred way.

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So this six week period may
challenge your survival

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strategies and relationship
where you make nice or keep the

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peace, or you don't wanna rock
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Particularly when we're in such
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much violence, of so much
suffering, they may say, oh, I

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just, I'm just gonna keep it low
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Tune into Mars and see where you
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Of stewardship of your own and
others' energy.

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Here's a reflection question for
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With this cycle, where are you
being asked to initiate action

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from partnership and not
polarization?

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This is an immense gift to our
world right now because the

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toxic hook to polarize and other
everyone, including your inner

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parts, is very strong.

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Can you take action from
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We continue the journey with
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It's a very strong Mars week,
so, cool.

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Your jets.

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When you get pissed off and
activated, please take some time

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out and take care of yourself,
okay?

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Because conscious Mars is really
powerfully helpful.

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Unconscious Mars is destructive.

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On Friday, August 8th.

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Mars newly in Libra, trines,
Uranus, newly in Gemini.

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Again, this action taker, just
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of partnership relationship
justice activates with Uranus,

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the Maverick archetype.

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This is the one that wants us to
question old status quo,

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stagnant control patterns to
say, blow it up, get free.

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Dig under the fence.

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Let's try something different
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Just recently in the sign of
Gemini, we'll be there for seven

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years.

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So this radical change with our
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capacity to think outside the
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Now, Rine means Mars and Uranus
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heavens from each other.

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That's from Astrology's point of
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It's very harmonious.

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They really support each other.

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And of all the planets that we
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are the most impulsive ones.

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They just wanna get on with it.

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So you have this really deep
support to take action Mars in a

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balanced, fair way, Libra, to
radically shift up your ideas,

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your mindset.

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How you wanna think your
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So Mars trying, Uranus is also
helping this electric impulse

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for change, but there's another
cycle involved here.

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On the same day, August 8th,
Mars is opposite Saturn, which

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is retrograde in Aries right
now.

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There's a very different
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Saturn, the structure maker.

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The responsible one, the overt
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your own boundaries.

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Okay.

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Whenever Saturn's in the play,
there is this invitation to

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adulting to step up, make the
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to do or not mine to do.

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Now Saturn is recently new into
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challenging us to take
responsibility for our absolute

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unique self and way of going and
to listen to ourselves in a good

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way, to take back our own
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outer of humans, institutions,
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It's just, okay, it's up to me.

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Now Saturn is retrograde, which
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backwards in its heaven, and it
brings this inner review of what

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is really mine to do, Saturn and
AVEs, and how do I create

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foundation and structure for my
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individual path.

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Now Mars is opposite Saturn.

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This means they're opposite each
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implies some tension.

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I often say to people that an
opposition between two planets

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is like a tug of war.

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It's a back and forth journey,
give and take.

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So here's Mars and Libra.

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I wanna stand up and take action
on fairness and balance.

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Here's Saturn in Aries saying,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

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I need an inner structure.

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I need to know the rules of the
game for me to figure out what

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it is mine to do, what's not
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So this brings, this challenge
and friction to question some

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old limitations or internalized
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And remember, we've got this
double energy on this particular

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day we have Mars, the action
taker in you and the world

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activate evading with the
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Come on, make some radical
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sort of stopped in a appropriate
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It's kind of cranky energy and
it really, these two cycles,

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it's a signature that invites a
bold but measured realignment.

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In how you assert your will,
that's Mars in relationships or

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group dynamics.

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So it's this, growth producing
tension that says, I know where

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I need to go or where our group
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radically different, but I need
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mature about it.

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It's not just about me, and it's
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follower get outta my way.

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It's like, whoa, how do I become
a leader of change?

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So just notice how that might be
stirring.

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Here's a reflection question on
these two cycles.

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What outdated rule or internal
authority needs to shift so you

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can act with more freedom?

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And remember that liberation
starts as an inside job.

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So many of us are so distressed.

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And activated and reactive to
the immense, horrific suffering

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that's going on in the world
with dominator, white

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supremacist control, patriarchal
patterns, and in our anger or

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rage, we can be self-destructive
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So it's also, whoa.

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What's my own inner outdated
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I need to shift so that I can
act with more freedom, not just

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for myself, but for all beings?

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Okay.

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The Mars journey continues on
Saturday, August 9th.

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Mars and Libra is now opposite
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Also, retrograde.

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Refer back to many podcasts
about Saturn and Neptune right

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next to each other.

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So this cycle of Mars opposite
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possible confusion or
disillusionment about what

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direction to take or how to use
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'cause Neptune is this
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archetype.

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I've talked to you about how
it's a dissolving function.

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It takes us into altered states.

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Very positively.

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It's vision, it's prayer, it's
ceremony, it's union with,

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something larger than our ego.

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Equally, its challenge can be
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States that are unhealthy,
addiction, hopelessness,

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despair, mental health issues,
giving up, why bother feeling

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invisibilized, feeling just g
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It's all there in the spectrum
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So it's really also this time of
having the courage Mars to

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activate your intuition, not
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Let your intuition guide your
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This cycle invites surrendering
ego control and softening

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combative tendencies.

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Mars represents the part of
ourselves that is our individual

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personal will.

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And when we get stressed, when
we get fearful, when we get

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anxious, we fight.

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That's a very, I mean, there's
many core reactions, but fight

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is one of them.

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And Neptune is this dissolving,
softening much larger collective

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perspective, transpersonal
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So it's also like, you know,
what are you fighting about that

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you don't need to fight about?

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How can you really tune into
your intuition and let it guide

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you what move, what action to
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Same day on Saturday, August
9th, we have a full moon at 17

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degrees of Aquarius at 12:55 AM
Pacific Daylight time.

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So here's this monthly time of
the balance between the sun and

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the moon.

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The sun, the solar conscious
self radiating its light from

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Leo, the fire sign of
creativity, sovereignty, and

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willing to be seen opposite,
balancing the moon, the instinct

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of nurturer archetype full in
the energy of Aquarius.

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And the core conversation
between Leon Aquarius is the

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individual self-expression
visibility.

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Here I am in balance with the
collective evolutionary

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transformation, Aquarius.

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It's a you we conversation.

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Be who you are.

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Stand in your own sovereignty,
but don't fall into the wounded

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patterns of narcissism.

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Recognize.

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Your individual creative beauty
and power is also there to

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contribute to the greatest good
of all, which is Aquarius.

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So this Aquarius Full Moon
shines a light on your place in

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the collective.

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It highlights themes of vision,
innovation, and emotional

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detachment.

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Aqua, this is a time for you
reflect on how your personal

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expression supports.

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Or sabotages larger social
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It's really important for those
of us who live in the United

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States to recognize that we
co-created the situation we

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have.

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And again, there's, it's playing
out this clash between the old

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patriarchal, dominating,
overbearing, over control energy

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is universal in our world.

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And this evolution where this
old way of being and this old

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narrative is dying in its death
rows, and yet it's taking a lot,

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it's taking many out in its
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But we need to recognize any of
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United States living here
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We co-created this.

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And so this question I'm
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What personal truths are you
ready to contribute in service

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to the greater whole?

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What's your piece in revolution?

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Evolution in whatever way you
feel called to make a

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difference.

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It's not so much about we are
right, they're right, they're

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right, we're wrong.

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You know, those kinds of things,
but rather recognizing you have

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a creative spark, you have a
unique voice, and it needs to

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come to the table in service to
the greater good.

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Notice what's stirring with you
under this full moon.

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Okay, one more Mars cycle.

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Sunday, August 10th.

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Mars in Libra.

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Rines, Pluto retrograde in
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Plu.

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The farthest planet in our solar
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Remember, like many astrologers,
it is not a dwarf planet.

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It's a very, it's small but
mighty as a transpersonal ally.

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It's the transformer.

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It's the systemic change maker.

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Remember, I see Pluto as the
archetypal energy in us, in the

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world that says, get into the
basement and clean up your old

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boxes.

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Look at what's festering.

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Look at what's dying.

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Look at what hasn't been
metabolized and alchemized.

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'cause until you do that, you
can't have true evolution.

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You can't really be in sacred
power because you are still

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unmetabolized, and we're always
unmetabolized.

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But Pluto really demands a truth
telling down to the bones.

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Cut the bs.

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So here comes Mars.

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The action taker again, trining
120 degrees away from Pluto in

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the heavens.

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Harmonious powerful cycle to
help you make deep systemic

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changes.

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This cycle is like a deep, well
of empowered, will, and focused

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intention that becomes available
to you.

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This is an alchemical aspect,
catalyzing you to act with

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courage and integrity.

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Especially in transforming
relationship patterns or social

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structures.

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That's the Libra part that Mars
is in, because again, Pluto and

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Aquarius, Aquarius is a sign
that wants, evolution and it's

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very connected to.

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Universal truths and egalitarian
mission.

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It's like, how does everybody
get free?

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How does everybody get to be
liberated?

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So Mars in this very personal
planet, meaning our own

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individual will, asking about
balance and justice and fairness

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and relationships aligning with
this larger collective

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transformation evolution call.

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A reflection question for this
cycle.

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Where are you ready to act with
deeper purpose and

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transformative power?

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And last but not least, coming
attractions.

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The next week on Monday, mercury
goes Direct.

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in Leo after being retrograde
for three weeks.

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So it, I'll speak more about
this in next week's podcast, but

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it happens pretty early on
Monday.

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So I wanna give you a heads up.

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It marks a time of mental
clarity returning after a

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profound review phase.

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Maybe you found that to be, so
maybe not.

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New insights may emerge about
how to express your voice and

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creativity with heart-centered
leadership.

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So I just wanna plant that seed.

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It's already happening.

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Most of my listeners are.

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Very, very sensitive to these
archetypal planetary cycles.

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So you're probably already
feeling Mercury about to go

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forward in its orbit
symbolically.

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So just want to acknowledge it
and acknowledge you.

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Thank you so much for listening
and I hope you are with me in

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this experiment of the new
format with the reflection

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questions.

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I I welcome any kind of feedback
email.

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You let me know how it's going
for you, but I wanna help you go

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deeper with some of these cycles
and really let you own it in

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your own way through reflection.

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So the poem that came to offer
for this week's cycles with this

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Mars action taking courage.

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Let's balance things out in
alignment with four big outer

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planets, Saturn.

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Uranus, Neptune and Pluto really
helps you question your status

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quo and how you've always done
things.

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It's called What if This Road by
Sheena Puke.

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What if this road that has held
no surprises these many years

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decided not to go home after
all?

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What if it could turn left or
right?

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With no more ado than a kite
tail.

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What if its tarry skin?

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Were like a long, subtle bolt of
cloth that is shaken and rolled

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out and takes a new shape from
the contours beneath and, and if

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it chose to lay itself down in a
new way around a blind corner.

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Across hills.

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You must climb without knowing
what's on the other side.

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Who would not hanker to be going
at all Risks.

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Who wants to know a story's end
or where a road will go?

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What if this road by Sheena Pgh?

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So notice.

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Your attunement with Mars'
challenge to you this week and

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the full Moon.

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What if this old road goes a
different way?

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What if you are willing to know
a different ending to your story

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and to sort of set forth and
say, let's try it differently.

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Let's explore balance and.

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Relationship that is an
attunement, not just with me,

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but all my beloveds with the
world.

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How can you be a champion of
justice and fairness now in a

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way that's congruent for you?

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Thanks as always for your
listening to this podcast.

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I so appreciate your support.

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And you're telling others about
it, your reviews, and I wanna

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highlight for you, I'm very
excited to open up enrollment

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once more in my signature course
Transformation Journey roadmap.

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It's a very powerful journey,
self-guided of reclaiming your

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own intuitive, powerful wisdom
by.

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Addressing your inner saboteurs
and all the conditioning

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patterns we all have that make
ourselves small and invisible.

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So if you're not already on my
email list, go to my website on

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the edges of change.com, sign up
for the email list, and also go

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there for information on when
I'm opening the Transformation

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Journey Roadmap course.

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Once more, it will come with a
free workshop.

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To invite you into exploring the
roadmap.

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That'll be on Saturday, August
16th, so check it out.

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Thanks so much.

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I.

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You have been listening to the
Astrology Alchemy Podcast with

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your host, Sheila Lange.

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Resources are available at the
website on the edges of

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change.com.

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Thank you for listening.

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Bless your alchemical journey to
embrace the gold of your true

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nature.