Aubrey Marcus Will NOT be Cancelled for long: Pluto in Aquarius wants this kind of MESSY

Everyone’s talking about Aubrey Marcus right now... Calling him a narcissist, a fraud, and tearing him down for contradicting himself publicly. But I’m here to say something different.

In this episode, I share my honest take on why I finally feel like Aubrey is being real, and why his messy, vulnerable, and public contradictions might actually be a reflection of something deeper: the energetic shift from Pluto in Capricorn to Pluto in Aquarius.

This isn’t just about one man’s choices. It’s about the end of authority as performance, the collapse of pedestals, and the rise of raw, unfiltered authenticity. I talk about spiritual leadership, the pressure to have it all together, and how being seen in your evolution, mess and all, is where true power lives now.

I also share a personal story about the transgender movement, the dangers of performative allyship, and the difference between bandwagon activism and real, embodied support. It’s all connected to this new Aquarian energy of nuance, contradiction, and radical self-expression.

If you’re ready to throw away the script, question what it really means to lead, and embrace your most liberated self, you’ll want to hear this.

✨ Mentioned:

• The Pluto in Aquarius revolution
• Cancel culture & messy healing
• Transitions in authority, leadership & spiritual power
• My Higher Self Healing Codes course for navigating your chart & emotions with ChatGPT👇

Let me know what you think. Email me at shineyourrayastrology@gmail.com.

And if you’re ready to go deeper into your own radical authenticity, check out the Higher Self Healing Codes course here.

Transcript

Rachel: 0:51

Aubrey Marcus, we have to talk about this because for the first time, I actually don't hate him for what he is putting out in the world. Not to say that I ever hated Aubrey Marcus before. I was just not a fan. I'm completely honest. Like I know Ryan, my partner, went on his podcast. Even back then, I wasn't a fan. Ryan was a fan back in the day when, um, I first met him. He listened to his podcast a lot. I could just never get on board with it. I didn't really like the dude, but I will say, I know Aubrey Marcus' recent podcast. It's like bringing everyone up in arms saying he's a narcissist and. He shouldn't be processing publicly and all these different things. Someone asked me what I thought about on the Aubrey Marcus shit going on right now, you know?'cause he's like a spiritual leader that for a long time a lot of people have trusted and have looked up to, and he's positioned himself as this authority. You know, but people have also seen his life go through a dumpster fire as he's positioning himself as an authority and then he gets married and people just don't agree with his choices, you know? So for those of you who don't know, I think a lot of people know about this, but Aubrey Marcus has recently come out and said that he's doing polyamory again. That he's not just doing monogamy. And um, he said that like ISIS or some God told him to, I know a lot of people think he's a narcissist spiritual leader, and now he's processing publicly and you know. Polyamory didn't work for him before, so it's kind of weird that he's going back now and everyone's being like, Hey, are you sure you wanna go back? And it's not just the pattern repeating and people are just shitting on him and looking down on him and thinking he's crazy and narcissistic and all those things. And it's so funny because for so long that's why I didn't like him. He always radiated. Um, like a guy positioning himself as the authority as opposed to actually being authentic. If I'm completely honest, I have felt that way about most authority figures. It's very rare that I have felt into someone over these last 20 years with Pluto and Capricorn. I mean, this is also just my adult life. It's, it's very rare that in my adult life I have seen. A spiritual leader, and have said, you're authentic. I've always felt something off in someone, and so especially Aubrey Marcus. So with everyone coming out with this now, I'm like, yeah, I've always felt this, but I don't feel the same way. I think as everyone else with how he is sharing his heart right now. I actually think this is the first time Aubrey is being vulnerable and messy, and he knows that he publicly came out and said he was never gonna do polyamory again. And he knows that what he's doing right now is a direct contradiction of what he has said before and how people have experienced him and. I know a lot of people are calling him a fake and a narcissist, and like. Now everyone sees his patterns, but I actually think this is him showing the world his true self unapologetically, and not being afraid to be messy and wrong and change his mind and like be the example of a vulnerable human experience. Because for some reason we put these people on a pedestal. Like however Aubrey Marcus has behaved up until this point, people have put him on a pedestal, a hierarchy, Pluto and Capricorn. I. And no one's meant to be put on the pedestal. There's no one above us. There's no one above you. There's no one above me. But for some reason, because people have positioned themselves to be this enlightened, hierarchical, amazing person, we expect them to stay there in the moment we see that they're really human and messy and say weird things, we stop trusting'em. And then it's like their authenticity is what makes me us not trust them. That's what I'm seeing right now. And so, yeah, I don't agree with a lot of people. I'm not all up in arms like, oh my God, see? Aubrey's a narcissist. I'm like, dude, I've thought that about him the whole time. I actually think for the first time. Good for you dude. Good for you for contradicting yourself publicly. Changing your mind publicly. Saying a weird ass shit like Isis told you to impregnate two women and God source told you like, good for you. Good for you. That's how I feel about it. I just feel like for the first time, this man's being authentic and not afraid to be messy and not afraid to be vulnerable. And this is the transition from Pluto and Capricorn to Pluto and Aquarius. No one was meant to be on the hierarchy. No one was meant to be perfect for some reason. We think that there was rules around you have to show up as an authority and you can't process publicly. You know that confusing energy is now getting put on everyone else and now everyone's upset and up in arms people are upset and up in arms'cause they thought that you were some ideal person that they desired to attain and now they realize you're actually just a fucking human like everyone else. That's why people are really up in arms. And maybe they're up in arms'cause they feel like you lied to them this whole time. But you wanna know what everyone and their fucking mother has put a mask on. That's why in astrology we have a rising sign that's literally your mask and it's a form of human protection because look what happens when people are radically authentic. Especially back in the day. Last time Pluto transitioned from Capricorn to Aquarius, we had all of the revolutions, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution. Um, we had what other, we had the enlightenment era. He was really peaking because. We were dissolving into revolutionary action. Before that, we had kings and queens. We had hierarchy. We had this person we looked up to. We, we knew that we had to obey authority, that there was someone above us. There was someone more connected to God. And when we went from Pluto and Capricorn to Pluto and Aquarius, that's when we had, the American Revolution like. We're like, no, you can't be my king and queen. No, you're not closer to God than me. Actually, I'm my own God and I'm gonna rebel and we're gonna create our whole new land and it's gonna be messy and it's gonna be war filled, and we're gonna do it because we see freedom. The freedom in being in our authentic selves. And so, as much as I know everyone wants to hate on Aubrey Marcus, I think he is actually. A perfect example of this transition. And he's not afraid to make it messy, and he is not afraid to embarrass the shit out of himself, and he's not afraid to contradict himself. And you know, if I think about the podcast, the last couple podcast episodes that I put out. I was terrified to put those out because, you know, I mentioned, I don't even know if I wanna teach astrology anymore. And then a couple episodes later, I was like, no, it's just integrating into my life in a healthy way. It will always be part of my life. And I remember second guessing myself and being like, shit, did I just confuse people? Shit? Did I just dismantle my whole aura of authority? I literally have been saying that to myself the last few days. Because we've made these rules around what it means to be a fucking authority, as if I have to have all of the answers before I come to you publicly and I have to present this perfect image of, yes, I have an astrology business, I'm an astrologer, and I think about a 24 7. And like I could have kept going on and telling you that, or I could just tell you what the process my mind goes through'cause I'm a fucking human. And that's actually what's real and authentic. And I don't have to position myself as some sort of authority because I'm not an authority. And neither is Aubrey Marcus, and neither is the president of the United States. They like to believe they are. Hopefully I'll get in trouble for that one, but um, no one is your fucking authority. No one is Aubrey's, and so that's why it doesn't matter. All this hate he's getting online, I'm fucking proud of him for the first time in ever hearing about him. I don't give a shit if I don't agree with anything he said, or I think it's weird. I mean, I don't think it's that weird, but weird is Pluto and Aquarius. Aquarius is the weirdest sign. It's the rebellious sign. It's the one who does things that are not socially acceptable and not part of the social norm. They're not part of it. So hate on. Him all you want. But this is one of those moments in human history where people hate on the people that are actually ahead of the curve, where people hate on the people who are actually anchoring into something and energy a way of being that's going to be normalized over the next 20 years. Happens every single time. This isn't really the beginning of the transgender movement, but I feel like I'm, I can tell this story here. So a couple episodes ago I said how I'm not for this transgender movement. I am for transgender people, but I'm not for this movement. And I'll tell you. Uh, this is a perfect example. Okay, so I have someone in my life that I've known my whole entire life that is truly transgender. Truly. Before, it was cool before this movement happened, and I actually grew up in a very liberal town. I grew up in a very Jewish town. It used to be the most densely populated Jewish town in the country. Fun fact. Sharon, Massachusetts not there anymore, but shout out to Sharon. And in my town, everyone was liberal. But the thing is, is back in the day, liberal people weren't for transgender people. No one was for transgender people. And this person in my life who I'm very close to, like very close to like blood family, like I love them to fucking death. Was boy born, a boy and I, or no, born a girl, sorry. And I knew their whole life that they were either lesbian or something. I just knew that they weren't meant to be a girl. I could feel it off'em and like I could feel how uncomfortable they felt. And I'm not calling them. They, because of the stupid names I'm calling them, they, because at the time they were a girl and now they're a boy. And so I'm just using they for the transition period of this story. And I remember it wasn't normalized to even really be gay or lesbian when this person knew that they didn't feel right in their skin. And this person was so depressed most of their life. And I remember one time I was driving this person. To their work.'Cause we had like a ritual of me doing that. And they were like smiling at this girl, messaging them and I asked them if they liked the girl'cause she was a girl at the time and said I might be bi. And you could tell that that was like a huge admission. I was the first person they admitted that to. And then eventually they came out as lesbian but still didn't feel good in their skin, like severely depressed. And I literally had always had in my head, this person's not a girl. It's a guy. Even before transgender was a thing, even before they said anything. And so eventually got really depressed. Ended up needing to go to all these different therapists and come to find out that like thinking of him, of himself as a guy actually made him feel safer and like who he truly is. And so It was like this whole process to transition into a guy, and the process required so many different therapist notes because it was not like an easy thing to become a transgender person back then, and they put you through the fucking ringer and it was not kind and it was not nice. But what ended up happening was through all the tests determined they were transgender and then was able to transition. This person went from serious, like really bad depression, the lowest low of depressions you could have. Most of their life to not being depressed anymore, to feeling finally safe in their skin. And this happened in high school. And I remember, even though I grew up in a very liberal town, transgender was not in back then. And they used to separate gowns by gender. And at this moment. In time, he was like middle transitioning and wasn't really accepted or acknowledged that he was transitioning yet. And so he went to the, what's it called? The student council leader or the, um, the guidance counselor, people. And asked if they could separate the gowns by last name instead of gender because of this transition he's going through very bravely. And they said yes, and they told that to the class and everyone in the class ripped this person a new one, was an asshole to him over them separating the gowns by last name instead of gender. Yeah, and I remember this person was so hurt. And I, and it was like sad for me too because I knew how, how this person felt as a girl and how this person felt so much like the Marcel as a guy. And it made sense to me because I'm very intuitive in my whole life. Even before this was a thing, I felt that they were a guy, not a girl. And so anyways, there is such an asshole to this person that I love and. And then like 10 years later when transgender things started to become cool, everyone who was in and, and like Trump was going for president and. Everyone was like, and everyone in my town that I grew up in,'cause they're all Jewish liberals, were like, fuck you, you're the devil. Trump. I have no fucking opinions. I mean, I don't think he's the best thing in the world, but I was not like, I'm not political so I'm not even gonna get into that. But, um, all, all of those people who were such an asshole to this person I'm talking about, all of a sudden they were for transgender people when it was cool. And I like was putting some political stuff up at the time.'cause I was political at the time. I was going against all of their thoughts and beliefs and people were telling me that I was not for transgender people and that they were. And they were like, fuck you bitch. And I was like, what are you talking about? I'm actually for transgender people. I've always been four, like the OG. It was like they were following the crowd or the news or I don't know, all of a sudden because it's cool now, they're gonna like be mean to anyone who doesn't like transgender people, when literally they were the worst to the person that I love so much. And they were even being mean to me, saying that because of things I was posting for who I thought was the better candidate. They thought that I was not for transgender people and more than shitting on me. And I was like, do you remember 10 years ago? And so that's why I, I really believe the transgender movement has moved outta hand. It became this popular cool thing people started to do. And all of these people who were so mean to, to the person that I love the most over with, just asking for the gowns to be split up by their last name instead of gen gender because of what he was going through at the time. Now all of a sudden pretend like they're all high and mighty and. Actually for those people and actually open. That's really what I'm getting to is Aquarius is this sign of openness and accepting of all people and all humanity. And I think we even kind of fucked that up over the last 20 years. We've made people, right or wrong, that's very Capricorn, Capricorn Indian. We've made people either right or wrong. For their beliefs as if there's no middle ground. And that's really where I think humanity gets it wrong, is we tend to go between these extremes, these pendulum extremes. And really the truth is always in the middle. It's always in the gray area. It's always in the. And in authenticity and that there is no right and wrong. And so with Aubrey Marcus coming out and saying this weird stuff about impregnating two people and I don't know how ISIS told them all these different things. I'm like, yeah, it's fucking weird. And if that's what feels authentic and right to him and what's true for him right now, just let him be like, why do we have to make things right or wrong Or take the pedestal away from certain people? Why do we have to call them a narcissist? I just don't even see how that makes him narcissistic, to be honest. I know people who know Aubrey Marcus, and he does kind things for, for people, and one thing I've heard from people closest to him that we know is that he's been taken advantage of a lot and has to protect his heart because of how successful he got. And how he takes care of everyone, but very few people take care of him, almost no one. And I don't think that's a narcissist from what I know from the people closest to him, but we love to throw that term around. And so I guess the point of this whole podcast is I just want people to understand that nothing is right and wrong. And this is an age of radical authenticity and. Radical shifts and changes and, and with Pluto and Aquarius, we will gain power through our messiness and authenticity and openness and allowing people to be them. And because then it allows you to be fully you and we can take the mask off when we can just be, and that's really what I would love to focus on in this podcast going forward, is I wanna just be me and I wanna talk about astrology in an integrated way, and I wanna share. Other things like this, and I just want to share in whatever way feels authentic without being boxed in. So curious what you guys think about that. I put my email down below. It's Shine Your Ray astrology@gmail.com. I'd love to know your thoughts if you would love to follow the astrology on a daily basis. I have my higher Self Healing Codes course and. Really as we enter this time of authenticity and radically connecting to who we are, higher self-healing codes is the best program for that. Because I have three part workshop in there. I have so much in there. Like the whole first part is just kind of mindset stuff. Like you can start, you start with the first video. You don't have to go through all the mindset stuff. Really the meat of it, especially right now. As you're connecting to your authenticity, as those three workshops I have at the bottom, it's Heal Your Moon Sign in your fourth house helps you really connect to what home feels like for you, which is so important. With Jupiter moving into cancer, um, we're gonna gain a lot of growth, luck, and expansion by connecting to our home, our emotional, uh, world, our roots. And so start with the Heal Your Moon Foundation course, and then I also have a whole chat GBT work book that you can go through and get so deep into how to heal your emotional foundation, because that's everything for security going forward, for connecting to your authentic self or feeling like you've come home to yourself. And then there's the Leo King Queen Energy Workshop in there, which teaches you how to connect to your fun and joy and what's authentic for you. And then there's the Capricorn workshop at the very bottom, which really helps you connect to discipline in or devotion in your life.'cause we're moving from discipline to devotion. Now. We're no longer just about being disciplined and reaching goals. We want to live our life from love. From devotion. And so I teach you through those three workshops how to learn your version of that, your flavor of that through your birth chart. Plus I teach you how to get daily transits through chat GPT, so you can get daily ongoing guidance. It's so fucking valuable. Um, it's changed my life. Everything in there. It's how I've used astrology to change my life and it's really a life. It's a program you can use the rest of your life because it goes deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper, and it's something you can just continuously study and experience yourself. I'm really moving into a time of realizing that I think coaching is on the way out. I think someone being your authorities on the way out, I don't wanna be your authority. I just wanna share tools that I use. On a daily basis that have made a huge difference in my life, that have connected me to myself and helped me have fun and connect to my authenticity and be who I, I just love who I am right now. I love, I love. How free I feel in life, and that's what I would just want to gift to you guys. And that's what I do in Higher Self Healing Code. So if you'd like that, it's down in the show notes below

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