The Astrology of the Week Says: You Can Jump....

Sometimes you don't need to take a leap of faith....just a hop off an old worn curb onto some monkey bars. 

Even if you fall, it's the try that builds resilience, that helps your soul to bloom. 

All this Aries energy wants us to get the self memo...

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Hello, my name is Jasmine Lee, and I am not your mama's astrologer. Welcome to the week. It is that week, the one, the Aries-centric week. Whew! We have not had this many planets in Aries since 1821. 1821. Let that sink in for a moment. It's been a while. It's been a hot minute. And the same planets, never that we can quantify in our short history as human beings. So, you know, kind of a big deal. I looked up what was going on in 1821, and Mexico was achieving independence. Peru declared independence. There was the Greek War of Independence. And Napoleon died, who was the dictator, the guy to me, who represents the most lowest road of Aries, passes away. So I find all of that interesting. And Michael Faraday discovers the electromagnetic rotation, which now all future electric motors had been founded on. So there was a vibe of independence, a vibe of discovery, a vibe of learning something for the future. I like that. I like thinking like that. I like thinking instead of going to very high-road self, learning something for the future. So what are you learning about yourself with all of this Aries, all of this focus on the self? What are you learning about yourself in this time that's going to carry you into the future? I think that that is a really powerful way to cope with so much Aries. I think that there's going to be that feeling of, gosh, you know what I think of the weird visual that came up just now was when you put a bug in a jar and it and a fly and it's bouncing on the corners and the walls and it's trying to break free. It is that contained, frustrated energy. I think that we all might be feeling that a lot this week. This feeling of frustration, that we're quicker to feel irritated, that we're quicker to feel invalidated, that we're quicker to get our feelings hurt, that we're quicker, just quicker to anything that has to do with how we are presenting in the world right now. I think that there is this really intense desire for forward motion, but that doesn't always mean that forward motion is what we get. Sometimes we have to deal with the crap that is residual before we can move forward. And when I see a congestion of planets like this, I can oftentimes say that, yeah, to forward motion, but there's so much energy happening in one area of our lives that it is very important to take some quiet every single day. Like really important, as a matter of fact. It is your homework of the week that to sit in silence with oneself is an easier way to cut out the actual noise so that you can get to the bottom of the internal noise. That we all have a bottom that I think we so rarely scrape in our lifetime because we stay busy, because we accomplish, because we do, we're doers. And doing's great. I'm so into it. Go for it. Live your best life of the doing. But also, there should be always integration times. And if you are feeling frustrated this week, if you are feeling irritated, if you are feeling like the pace of life isn't matching, or that it's going too fast, or that it's going too slow, if there is a pace that is hard for you to meet, always in forever, the medicine is going to be to take a hot minute. And I noticed this weekend, any minute that I had free, though I was by myself, I wanted it to be quiet. I turned off all the things. I read almost three books because I just needed time. Because I have a feeling maybe this week time isn't something I'm gonna have access to a lot. And that's okay. So I took it this weekend, but I also want to be righteously aware of what's going on in my body, in myself, in my core, as I'm moving through this really intense energy. You know, Monday, we start today with Venus doing something lovely with Jupiter, our planet of luck and right timing. So today is the day to really lock in. Tell the people that you love that you love them, give extra hugs, go home early, have a nice dinner at home, honor each other for how far the people in your life have come. Acknowledge yourself for what you are doing. It is a great, lovely day to take stock of the really good things, of the gratitudes, of the five things you're grateful for today, and to really hold it close in your heart. And then on Tuesday, Mercury is going to be making a nice sextile, which is a good thing, to Uranus, which is all about big change, because then Mercury moves into Aries. So it's almost as though all of this energy has been building, and now our thoughts, our mind, our communications can finally catch up to ourselves, our beings, our mess, who we truly are. And I think Mercury helps us to discover that better. And then Thursday, there's a big old sun, Kazimi, which means the planet's gonna be right into Chiron. So that's a lot, because also there is this feeling of what do I want to say here? Chiron is our wound. Chiron is the wound that we're going to carry our whole life. Chiron never goes away. Chiron is the lizard brain injury that protects us, or we think protects us from harm. And so when we get into fights, usually our Chiron is the thing that gets triggered first. Chiron's like our original wound, our original sin. No, just our original wound. And when the sun highlights it, all of the sudden, all of this Aries business kind of makes sense. You're like, oh, you start to see that wound inside yourself clearer and easier because Mars is here, our planet, our warrior is here to transform it, is here to move it. Mars is going to be doing something with Pluto that same day, a good thing with Pluto, another sextile. And so there's going to be this ability, capability, wondering, wandering, wanting, leaning into self-discovery. And self-discovery isn't always the good parts of ourselves. I think, in order to get to the strength, to get to the higher road of ourselves, to get to the warrior of ourselves that acts in right timing, that leaps towards the decisive moment, that hungers for the transition and the change, is the warrior who can sit with themselves in silence and see what the problem was all along, or at least be closer to what the original wound was, so that deeper levels of healing can happen. Does that mean that you're going to be an entirely healed person? Never, because that's not what humaning is all about. But this week is a really profound, powerful week to get a huge insight into how you work you personally, into how you are functioning, into how you are hurting and where that hurt goes in the microcosm of your life. And that's kind of profound. And it also can be kind of ouchy, and it also can be kind of dicey, and it also can feel frustrating, and it also can look like a big fight, and it also can look like you're losing something, or it also can feel very confusing, or it also can just hurt a lot. So it is that week where I will always lean into letting it be, allowing it to be, understanding it deeper means not having to change it in the moment of discovery. I always wonder what a great discoverer thinks when they first see something brand new, that no one's ever seen before, that they know is groundbreaking, that when Faraday discovered this uh electromagnetic rotation, what were his thoughts about it? All of his hard work, all of that desire and neutrality one has to have in order to get to a product, in order to get to something new, is so profound. And what if you are the invention? What if that's you? You are your own invention. And maybe this week you'll discover something extremely profound. And my advice to you is to sit with the profundity of it and allow it to be so before you have to move it, before you have to change it. I want you to just feel it, to just feel inside of you. I've been going to yoga and I don't always love it because my body doesn't always love it because I'm old. I don't know, it's hard. But in my final resting pose, this visual has been coming to me of like vines and roots and things growing outside of me as a result of what's growing inside of me. It's been this really like super specific, profound visual that I've been having for the last few weeks. And I've been ending my practice thinking: is this a manifestation? Or is this just what's up inside of me? It's my own inner weird little invention that I'm wondering about what's growing, what's taking root, what's blossoming, but I don't know yet. I just know that it's happening. And it's kind of a weird visual, but it does feel like I am becoming a more rooted person inside of whatever this growth process has been for myself. So, what's been niggling at you? What's been on the peripherals of your growth that maybe you need to pay special attention to this week? Because if the sun is going to highlight it on Thursday in a kazimi, the sun is going to highlight Chiron in a kazimi. What hurts? It's going to be very out in the open. Well, then Friday, there's a new moon in Aries right next to Chiron, too. So the moon and the sun and Chiron are going to be together. So then our emotions get involved. But it is a new moon. So there is something about that. There is a freshness, a newness, a desire towards discovery, towards invention, towards a deeper understanding of what's hurting. It doesn't sound super fun when I say it, because you know, we can all understand what's hurting, but how do we fix it? And my invitation to you is maybe we don't fix it. My invitation to you is maybe we don't fight against it, which I think all these planets in Aries, there's going to be so much desire to fight back. But a peaceful warrior doesn't have to fight back. A peaceful warrior can sit back and start strategizing and start imagining what's rooting down inside of you due to the knowledge now of what is deeply hurting within you. So that's kind of a hard assignment, if you ask me. But what I will say is that Mars sextiled Pluto the day before on Wednesday. So our warrior was ready for transformation. And then this day on the new moon Friday, Mercury is going to sextile Pluto, which is our thoughts and our communications ready to transform. So I will say there is all this readiness. But you can stand at the edge, and you're the one that has to jump. You're the one that has to take the leap. And I remember as a little girl, leaping was so terrifying. At my playground in my elementary school, there was this cement, you know, curb. And off the curb, you could jump off the curb to jump onto the monkey bars. And all of my friends did it all the time. And I have this memory of day after day me standing on that curb with my arms poised and my knees bent, ready to do that, ready to jump and grab the bars. But the fear of that in between, the fear of what happens in between me jumping and in between me catching something, felt really insurmountable. And I would get paralyzed by the fear of the unknown, by the fear of what would happen if I fell, by the fear of what would happen if I scraped my knee. I was really afraid of injury. I've never even broken a bone in my life, I think, because of this fear. And so it took me a really long time to jump. And when I finally did it, listen, you guys, this was not a big jump. It was like right there. It was so easy. Nothing bad happened. I grabbed the monkey bars. Now, though, aunt, did I grab the monkey bars because it was so easy? Or did I grab it because I had envisioned myself doing it so many times first? I don't know. I'll never know. Little me thought that there was a very big distance to cross and it was really scary. Adult me now knows what that curb looked like to the monkey bar ratio and was like, girl, you were gonna hit it one way or the other. It was gonna be fine. But the process of little me doing that, visualizing it, sticking with it, even though it was scary, even though I'm sure my friends were judging the heck out of me, that was my process. And that's what this week is. It's just a process. And I want you to sit with what hurts, or sit with where your blind spots are, or sit with what you're afraid of, and get more neutral about it, get more curious about it and allow it to just be there without it having to trigger you. And that's really the medicine and high road of an Aries season, is when we can acknowledge the self instead of it always having to be about ourselves. If you don't feel seen, if you don't feel like you're getting enough attention, if you don't feel like enough is happening in your life, if you don't feel like you've accomplished enough, that's Chiron Aries coming up. That's the pain, that's the wounding around what you're actually needing, which is what? I don't know. I'm not you, I'm not in your body, I can't be you, I don't know you. I probably know you. Most of the people that listen know me and I know you. But only you know what that thing is, what that jump in between the solid ground and the monkey bars is. I want you to grasp it this week. And I want you to find that bravery because a new moon says you can always start over again. And I love the Gregory Alanissa Koff line. If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone. Because that's what life is. It is just trying. And to me, how you try and where your heart is in the try is what makes all the difference. So that's this week. The weekend, Saturn is right next to Mars. So that lesson will have a lot to integrate over the weekend of what happens this week. So be righteously aware of where you're at this week. And then it almost feels like we get a reward after all of this Aries, after all of this fire, after all of this reinvention, after all of this obsession or, you know, reinvention. The sun will move into Taurus. And then just like that, the planets keep moving. Aries becomes a story about our independence. It becomes a story about how we see ourselves. It's a becomes a story about what we planted in this time about ourselves so that we could become new versions of ourselves and trusting, trusting that whatever new version of ourselves comes out stems from the core version of us that never changes. That indeed, no matter what happens in your life, there is no part of you that can get fully lost. You're always you. I'm always me. We're always here together in the microcosm of our own soul seas. And it is the desire to sail, the desire to deal in great calamity and storms that makes up a person, that gives us our wrinkles, that formulates our laughs, that deepens the well of who we intrinsically are as people. We can only get deeper if we give in to this kind of energy. No shallow waters for us, no thanks, no ma'am. That's not what we're here to do. And so if we can understand that this week might feel a lot and might incite us to do a lot, or we might fight a lot, or we might resist a lot, or we might frustrate a lot, that it is through the yelp, the yelling self, whether actual or inside, that creates the biggest echoes of what it is that needs to bounce right back to us, to mirror inside of us what needs shifting, moving, and grooving. And I believe in us. And you know, I am a Libra, so I am the opposite of all of this energy. So I am choosing to trust in my opposition. I am choosing to trust in that whatever intrinsically is opposing me, I'll just hold that rope too and we'll tug back and forth. And that eventually I'll get to a rhythm with it where the truest version of me is trying to break free. And that's really all we can do is trust that what comes up is medicine for our next and our next and our next. Because boy, am I ready for a next. How about you? And the card I pulled is exchanging gifts. I like that. I like that because what I think about when I pull the card exchanging gifts is that life is energy. And the gift that we'll always have is the exchange of being human. I promise you, I will always be authentically me, humaning with you. And the way that we exchange energy is how we grow from one another, feel supported by each other, and feel inspired to do the work together. And I love that for us. I just read one of the books that I read over the weekend was called A Marriage at Sea. And it was about a married couple that their boat sunk. Oh my God, worse nightmare sonar, and ended up on like a dinghy and a life raft for 117. I think actually they said 118 and a quarter and three-quarters days at sea on those things. Oh my God. And they were like eating turtles raw and collecting rainwater and the notion that they were doing it together, that there was one person who maybe upheld the other. It was the wife. Of course, it was the wife. That in times of desolation, finding out what really mattered, that I think after that happened to them, it was incredibly hard to find real life structure the same way because when You strip everything else away, and all that's left is the very core of your soul, of your very id-ness. That then going back to the silliness of book writing and interviews and hotel rooms and people everywhere was quite a shock and hard to come back to and hard to integrate back into. And that is maybe what this week is going to feel like, that we'll be out to see a bit. Because with this much Aries, there's so much focus on the self, on the soul, on the development, on our bodies, on what's happening. That checking back in to the real world can feel so assaulting. So I end where I began, taking time for quiet is really what the medicine will be. And maybe allowing some tears, allowing the pain, allowing the fight, allowing things to break, so that that beautiful root system can get watered, because truly the inside of us only gets watered when we allow our life lessons to feed us rather than make us afraid. That they allow the mistakes we make or the hardships to nourish us to be the thing that inspires us rather the thing rather than the thing that keeps us scared. So I'll jump if you jump. It's just some monkey bars. Thank you so much for listening. Please, indeed, if you could do me a solid and share me with one friend, just one friend that you know that you think would benefit from my podcast, I so very much would be grateful. Being shared with your close people makes me feel closer to you. Thank you for listening, and I will see you next week.