All Planets Are Direct! What Does That Even Mean?!

A rare time where all of the planets in the sky are direct. How can we use this energy? What needs work? 

This week will give us some good insight. 

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Hello, my name is Jasmine Lee, and I am not your mama's astrologer. Hello, hello. I don't know if you notice, but it is Wednesday. I did not do my weekly podcast vibe on Monday. It is spring break, and for us teachers, that is sacred and holy. And listen, Neptune, the planet of our dreams, was right in the sun on Sunday going into Monday. So did this bitch want to like do her work on Monday? No, she did not. And I think there was a conversation that I got to have with myself on self-care. A conversation that I got to process through about, you know, loyalty, stick to itness, that I have been doing this podcast religiously. And even when I'm sick, and even when I'm not well, and even when my soul hurts, I do it every Monday. And then that Neptune kazimi happened, and there was just this part of me that said, maybe I'm gonna be a rebel and just not do it at all this week. And then today, Wednesday, Saturn is kazimme, which means our planet, our principal's office, our hard worker is in the sun in Aries. And so I woke up this morning and was like, no, no, no, no. You can't go a whole week without making a podcast. So that's how the planets have been moving me this week. And those are the two bigger astrological events of the week. There's a lot of things going on in Aries, which makes us feel busy, which makes us feel energy one way or the other. And uh, you know, tomorrow, Thursday, we're gonna have Venus right next to Chiron. So our love sector being next to what hurts. So to me, I woke up just feeling like I wanted to have a conversation with you guys that maybe isn't a weekly podcast like it usually is, but is also about something really important. And um something that I feel is really important right now in the sky is that every single planet is direct. We talk about Mercury retrograde the most, which is why I did a whole podcast on Mercury retrograde. Feel free to go listen to it if you're curious about Mercury retrograde. When planets go retrograde, it's not always necessarily calamity and horrors and all of that, though I will admit that this Mercury retrograde was pretty um juicy. I'll say that. Um, we are still in Mercury retrograde's shadow, which means wherever Mercury traveled backwards, it stops and then goes forward. So it's traveling forward, moving back over where it had been retrograding. So that's juicy, cool stuff. With all the other planets also direct until May, we have this rare opportunity where nothing is in our way, cosmically speaking. But that can create its own drama too, can't it? Because I feel that we come up with these reasons of why it's not working, of why we can't do that, of why this is that and that is this. And sometimes when all of the roadblocks get lifted up and out of our cosmos, so to speak, there's no more excuses, guys. There's no more, oh, well, Mercury's retrograde, so that's why this isn't working. It's time to do the thing, it's time to sign the contract, it's time to move forward, it's time to take the job, it's time to move in a direction that is leading you somewhere. And that can feel like a high-pressure situation. I think too, me not doing my podcast on Monday was this really interesting feeling I was having where my friends were here visiting, we're on the coast, we're on the ocean, I'm with my kids, I'm with my dad, I'm with all of the people that make me feel relaxed. And I just didn't want to interrupt the energy by working. And that's of course Neptune Kazimi. I was in my dream space, I was in my relaxation place. I've also been sleeping so much and so deeply. Anytime I sit for too long, I've just been falling asleep. And I'm like, oh my God, am I dying? No, I'm not. I'm regenerating for this new energy that's here because now I can feel it. I can feel that there is progress to be made. And sometimes when all the planets are direct, and today, with Saturn being right in the sun, we can really see the work. And for me, it's I don't want to not do my podcast. I love my podcast. This is my work. This is what I want to do forever. What it is instead is what work is worth the work? And I woke up this morning and I was like, this, this podcast, this time, this space that I create for myself and for you and for listeners is what's important. And so I had the desire to get up and do it. And so that is your homework with all of these planets direct. What is your work now? And is it work that you want to do joyfully, or is it work that you are resistant to? And there's information in both of those things. I don't know if you remember when Mary Kondo became like a really big deal and everything was if it sparks joy. And like, listen, I really liked that concept. It was cute. I agree with it. But that lady said, you can only have like 15 books in your house. And then she lost me, and I was like, girl, you know what sparks joy? A hundred books. That's what sparks my joy. So it made me think, you know, I loved that concept. Is it sparking joy? But I didn't like the boundary that that person was putting on my joy. It's kind of the whole problem I have with self-help in general, is that the boundary that is put on happiness feels attainable or feels like if you just did this one thing, if you just cut out carbs, if you just like wore this wrinkle mask, if you just like let them, if you just, you know, high-five yourself, if you just talk differently to yourself, if you just, there's a million if you just. And I like them. And I read them even. Okay, I don't read them. I listen to them on audible. But always at the end of those books, I circle back to myself because no matter where you are, or no matter where you go, there you are. And that is the point is that no matter how much self-work you do, the notion that you are going to reach some healed version of yourself feels like a ruse. Because the truth is, with tomorrow, Venus and Chiron coming together in Aries, our lover and what hurts in the sign of ourselves coming together. The truth is we will never be healed people. That's not the point of it. That's not why we're here. We're not here to walk around being like, oh my God, I have reached Dharma. I've ascended. I am like the master of my own circumstance. We can have moments of that. We can exist in a mostly healthy place inside of ourselves. That's true. We can be healthier versions of ourselves, absolutely. But can we be healed ultimately and absolutely? What do you think? I don't think so. And and you know, it's not for me to say 100%, because we're all on our own healing journeys. But the more life I live, I'm seeing all of these wrinkles while I'm talking to this here camera, all of the flaws, all of the gray hair, oh my God, there's so much, leads me back to myself, leads me back to my first kiss, leads me back to my first heartbreak, leads me back to how I failed that one time, leads me back to how I succeeded that other time. And to throw one in as being more important than the other feels very important to examine when all the planets are direct. Because if there is an opportunity for mucho forward motion, then where are you going? Where are you going with that? It's like when kids are learning to walk, they never expect that they're always gonna fail. They fall and they get back up and keep toddling on along because that's the prerogative, that's the goal. And I think we're missing something here when we become adults. That as children, the prerogative is so simple. It is just to observe and to learn and to mimic and to become. And we don't put boundaries on that, we don't put time limits on that, we don't put judgment on that when we're kids, because we're just learning. And then we get into grade school, and then learning becomes something different. And that's when, as a teacher, I really start to see the children become products of their circumstance, products of their parents' beliefs, products of the societal belief wagon that just spins us round and round. And I start to see that I can't do that. I start to see that I'm not as good as this person. I start to see the, you know, the give up mechanism that clicks in in all of us. And what can be very confronting about our time when all of the planets are direct is that we see where we give up. We see where, oh, well, if there's not crazy calamity going on in our astrology, if there's not a reason to fail, then we're the reason. We're the reason we're holding ourselves up. We're the reason we're not going forward. It's us, we're the problem. And listen, I'm a big fan of that. I agree. We are always our problem, but and also we are always our solution. And it is how innovative we're willing to get with the process that makes one get rendered more than the other. So I ask my dear friends, without any blockades, without any resistance, without any retrograde to blame it on, what are you doing every day that is keeping you from where you want to be and why? Because there is always a why. Psychosis inside of ourselves is real. We all have limiting beliefs, we all have structures that and systems inside of ourselves that go haywire. And this is kind of one of those weeks where a lot's going on, where there can be a lot of forward movement, there's loads of Aries, but that can also feel extremely triggering to those of us who don't feel like we are succeeding right now. And our own ability to see and understand where we're getting in our own way is what is so clutch right now, is that maybe the forward motion that you feel pressured to access, to move, isn't really what you want to be doing. And that is okay. You know, sometimes we just have to admit that we're not where we wish we were. Sometimes we have to admit that we want something different in order for different to come find us, to even know how to knock on our soul doors. We have to know. We have to get to know ourselves different, without judgment, with extreme neutrality, and with the ability to allow what hurts to be present and accounted for. Because if we aren't aware of what's hurting, or if we aren't aware of our limitations, then we're constantly feeling like failures for the wrong reason. And that's dumb. Like, stop it. Stop doing that. Like, stop going around the merry-go-round thinking it's gonna be different when you never changed the direction. You never even thought to. And you know, that pertains to a lot of limiting beliefs many of us live under all the time. By limiting beliefs, I mean anything. I mean how you were raised, I mean how the system is set up for us right now to fail. I mean the absolute shit show that is our government and the world right now. There are many systems that rain down on us: failure, desolution, and holdups and things not working out that I think we can all pull from our history bag a time when things didn't work out in such a way that it created an intense limiting belief inside of us. And so the ask is today, with Saturn being here, Saturn's like, yo, you want to know what your problem is? But you have to say back, yeah, I do. I want to know what my problem is. And Saturn will be like, yo, you've been dirtbagging yourself so long you don't even actually know what you want, and that's the problem. What do you think Saturn would say to you right now if Saturn said, Do you really want to know what the problem is? And I want you to answer that question, do you? Do you really want to know what the problem is? Because if you do, I know you know what the problem is. I don't know you, so I don't know what your problem is. I'm sure there's plenty. But, but I want you, yourself, to sit today and think, what is the thing that is holding me up from my success, from my wealth, from my health, from my happiness, from that place of success? What's holding you up? You have to be able to come up with an answer. And today, particularly today, if you listen to this podcast on Wednesday, the day I post it, is a very potent day to come to that realization of how you are the thing that is holding you up. And what are you doing? What's happening? What happens when you decide not to do the thing? What happens when you decide to stay at the bad job? What happens when you decide to stay in the toxic relationship? What happens when you decide to not get into the very healthy loving relationship to not take the opportunity of an internship somewhere that could lead to something else? Why aren't you taking those? And why are you accepting the other? It's a weird psychological trip we put on ourselves where we just don't think we are valuable enough. And yet, all the people around us that we love, they're valuable enough. They're the ones that should get that thing. They're the people that deserve it more than us. And that's just a fiction. And how amazing it would be if those of us that shit on ourselves the most became the ones that loved ourselves the most, how that could change. And we can't change unless we understand what the problem is. So today, it's a problem day. It's a day to really think about those problems because then tomorrow it's gonna be a little bit of a sensitive day. It's gonna be a day where, you know, what what we love hurts us a little bit. And how are you gonna deal with that? And mostly what I want you to really take from this midweek podcast is with everything direct, with every planet direct, with all your barriers taken away, who's getting in your own way? I bet you know what I'm about to say. Because it's you. It's you, it's me, it's us, it's we. We are all getting in our own ways by having too much of an opinion about things that have nothing to do with us. So stop wishing, wanting, hoping, waiting, and start manifesting, letting go, and creating. Because even if it's something so small, even if it's mastering your daily life and ritual, even if it's going to bed earlier, even if it's establishing a journal practice, even if it's starting to eat a little bit better, going on more walks, you are starting a process. And really, truly, it is about the visualization of process that leads to more process, that then leads to progress, that then leads to growth, that then leads to the shift that we have been waiting for. But if you aren't willing to be in process, if you aren't willing to try the first few steps, those beautiful toddlers that we raise take, that we did ourselves when we were toddlers. If you're too afraid of the stumble, if you're too afraid of the skin knee, if you're too afraid of failure, then you never even get up off the couch. And that's when the true bad endings happen. That's when the true dissonance happens. That's when we start getting sick. That's when we start getting sad. That's when we start getting resentful, is when there isn't anything on the other side of the rainbow to look forward to. And so we must always and forever take accountability for it, bless it, say I'm sorry, and start anew and try taking those new steps, whatever they are. And you know, I bag on self-help sometimes because I think that it holds us up to a standard that feels unattainable, awesome often, or overpromises something in a way that makes us feel like a gimmick, like something got sold to us, and that at the other end, if we aren't healed, if we aren't better, well, then we didn't get our money's worth. And that kind of stuff is crazy. And I teach at an astrology school and I teach about people's charts. And what I notice is some of the people that are more resistant to change are the people that are the most resistant to themselves. They're the ones that don't want to release into what the message of their chart is trying to say. And when that happens, you start to put blinders over your eyes. You start to say, I tried that, I've done that, I've done this, I've done that, I've tried to fix this, I've done this my whole life, and it never works. And that's always very interesting information for me, because I'm like, oh, wow, you're doing all this. Try. And effort is important. I agree. We must be putting efforts into what we're doing. But if all we're doing is putting in effort without the cadence, without the gentle attuning to what is moving as we're doing the work, then we're not really finger pointing on what the real problem was to begin with. If we go on a journey of self-realization without self, without a sense of self, without even a sense of what we're trying to heal in the first place, or at least a desire to touch on what feels really uncomfortable, well, then listen, you're just doing yoga. You're just going on a walk, you're just journaling, you're just cleaning out a drawer. Anything that anybody asks you to do, self-help or otherwise, it's just a thing to do if you aren't ready, willing, and listening to yourself, to your process, to the deep failure inside of yourself, because we all have that. We all have that feeling that we are failing, that feeling of free fall, that feeling of I don't know what to do next. And if we aren't honest and if we aren't willing to be in process, then the process or the homework assignments or the things that I ask you to do or the self-help book you read or the class you start taking really isn't gonna change the state of you. Because the only time we change the state of us is when we're really looking. It's like if you go on a walk and your head's down the whole time and you're not seeing anything, are you really gonna feel that much better? Maybe not. But if you go on a walk of intention, see me, I hate exercising. I hate it. My body carries all of my anger. So whenever I do exercise, I get real angry and it's unpleasant and I know that things are moving, but I resist it because it's unpleasant. So I don't do it that often. But now I go on what I like to call walks of intention. And I'm not like sweating, I'm not going crazy with it. I'm literally going on a walk with the intention to heal my body. And it is the intention and attention that I am putting to nature, that I am putting to the world, that I'm putting to my feet and my knees as I'm walking that helps. That actually makes me feel like I'm getting somewhere. And then I started hot yoga, and you guys, that is just a miserable thing. Oh my God, I hate it half the time. But the other part of the time, the intention that I'm putting behind it is if I can heal my body, I feel like I can fix my business. Not fix, grow. That's a better word, isn't it? I don't need to fix anything. I'm doing this with you every week. Here we are. I'm doing readings, I'm teaching astrology. We're here. I'm in the business. It doesn't necessarily need fixing, but it needs inspiration, it needs wings, it needs motivation. And I view my yoga practice as my gatekeeper to that. That if my body isn't right, then how am I going to deliver the message properly? Because it is my body that is presented in front of you, giving you this. So whatever. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. It's weird. It it draws weird lines that that seemingly don't go together. But I put them together because I know that a healed body helps a healed soul, and that a healed soul helps a healed woman, and a healed woman, whew, that bitch can do wonders. So the card that I pull for us is new life, guys. There's a new life. I love that she's stretching up to that sunshine. There is a new life waiting for us. When we're willing to try again, when we're willing to be in process, when we're willing to go on walks of intention. And what is your intention right now? Saturn wants you to see it, Saturn wants you to recognize it, but it's always you. The power is always. Yours to do with it what you will. And I wish you great power of intention during this time because with all the planets direct, you have an opportunity. We, all of us, have an opportunity to really get somewhere. But if you aren't willing to put in the work, or if you aren't willing to recognize where you're holding yourself up, and if you aren't willing to go on walks of intention, then what are you really doing? And how are you actually going to make progress? The actuality of it lies in your belief in it. The actuality of it lies in your belief in it. I mean, placebo drugs were founded on this notion. Just saying. Thank you so much for listening. Please like, follow, subscribe, send me an email, send me some fan mail. Let me know how you're doing. Let me know what your process is. Let me know where you feel like you're failing, to get some nuggets of insight. And as always, booking a reading is the best way to see how your own personal astrology is lining you up one way or the other, and where we can really attune your energy right now to get you the quickest progress, to get you on the best path, to get you to acknowledge something maybe that you never even knew you needed to acknowledge in the first place. I'm so grateful to be here with you. So grateful that I ended up doing the podcast that I thought I was going to skip out on because I'm on vacation. But really, you guys are my vacation. That this work is the vacation, that this is the dream. And to not do it would have been letting myself down. So not for me and not for you. Have a beautiful rest of your week, and I will see you next week.