016 - Rest: Standing Still in a World That Won’t Slow Down

In this episode of CombustAstrology, we pause.

Recorded under the current transits of June 19, 2026, this episode explores what it means to rest in a culture obsessed with momentum. We reflect on the collective atmosphere, the pressure to keep moving, and the wisdom that comes from standing still long enough to hear yourself think.

I discuss the upcoming themes of Chiron in Taurus, the future South Node in Leo, and the influence of the outer planets as they continue reshaping our relationship with security, identity, creativity, and purpose.

As old narratives around recognition and performance begin to fade, we’re invited to reconnect with what truly matters beneath the noise.

This episode is a reminder that rest IS GROWTH

Take a breath. Stay present. Stand still with yourself.

Transcript

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Welcome back. This is gonna be episode fifteen. I think I'm gonna title it rest. Yeah, I think that sits well with me. Yeah. So I feel so calm. And I thought to myself, why not record? Because I really do feel like I'm in a state of zen. Today is Juneteenth. It is 7:59 a.m. And we are not yet with Chiron and Taurus, but I will say the planets in this current moment. So the sun is currently at 28 degrees of Gemini. Mercury is at 22 degrees of Cancer in this period of time right now. The ascendant of the hour is in Cancer and it is at 17 degrees. Jupiter is at 27 degrees of Cancer. Venus is at 7 degrees of Leo. Moon is at 3, sorry, 28 degrees of Leo. The South Node is 1 degree of Virgo. We have a Libra I see. The descendant is 17 degrees of Capricorn. Pluto is at 5 degrees retrograded. Juno is at 10 degrees retrograded. The north node is in Pisces.

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Neptune is at 4 degrees of Aries. The MC is Aries. Saturn is at 13 degrees of Aries. Okay. So oh sorry. Mars is at 20 23 degrees of Taurus. And then Gemini is at three degrees of Uranus is at three degrees of Gemini. Jesus. Alright. Cool. So this is going to be the first timestamp. Welcome. If you skip the intro about the planets, I think I should start doing that. So I don't really have an aim for today's conversation, but I do want to just talk about what we're going into, where we're at, and what we've come out of. And in this moment of time, I really do think that the best thing you can do when it comes to the transit, when it comes to, you know, whatever, is just relaxing. Resting. That's why this is called that. Taking a rest is more than just not doing. And everything is so loud right now. Like when I think of the fact that if I want to watch TV, if I want to watch any sort of entertainment, there's ads. I hop on social media, there's ads. You know, if I want to go somewhere, I know this sounds so silly, but like gas is expensive, food is expensive. And it's the small things that I think that Chiron and Taurus will make us appreciate. Because like everything is not a walk in the park anymore. From the financial perspective, things are a lot more difficult. And if you can afford to survive, that is something to be extremely grateful for. Chiron and Taurus, as we enter it tonight, is gonna remind you that about yourself. I covered the rising signs on YouTube, I covered a little bit on TikTok, but I really do think that. Like that's what really gets you through the day. Just taking in that deep breath and realizing that in this current moment, you were floating on a rock in space with no specified safety. Something could come into our solar system and destroy us. Like I was walking and thinking the idea this morning that maybe this is like the immature like state of masculine or feminine, but I was like, the masculine is so fucking insane, like it's irrational. Because you you typically hear, and even I've said this, that the masculine is rational, and you know, the uh feminine is like creative or it's divine, and I was just like, the masculine is fucking insane because the idea that you can actually control all of this is so silly, and the current state of affairs is the byproduct, no, I would say it's the direct product of attempting to control the feminine in this life, like it's it's actually it's not it's not possible, and the best way for me to explain that is space, we don't know what the fuck is out there, you know, and like barring in mind how this conversation can become religious, we really don't know what's out there. And for me personally, it's not scary because I don't think about it, but it's very existential when I think about the things we won't be able to see in this current lifetime that you and I live. Right? Is it certain that we won't see it? No, but I I the things that I know, like intergalactic travel, um, just wormholes, if it's possible. I don't know that we get to see those type of things because right now the masculine is suffocating humanity, and when I say the masculine, I want this not to be a um a branded conversation or projected conversation about anything besides the idea of control. Because control is the downfall of I'm gonna say peace. And you shouldn't aim to try and stop people from fighting each other, believe it or not. You should aim to be peaceful within yourself so other people can look at you and say, I'd like to live a life like that. Right? I'd I'd like to I'd like to sit, run, eat, and not think too far outside of my field of vision. But the masculine is petrified of what it doesn't know, so it aims to control what it can't understand. And the opposite of that, the feminine desires chaos. The feminine cannot stay consistent. And it's not to say, you know, you can't be the same person today and tomorrow, but it's more so you're you're not even able to do that. Human, you're not able to do that. Whether you are male, female, trans, neither, both, binary, you can't do it. Hopefully, I covered everyone. You can't. Your body will betray you. You know, you don't have that ability. So it comes back to this idea that like, what do we really have but our own sense of peace? What do we really have but our ability to cultivate a space that makes us feel happy, that makes us feel safe. This is the idea that I think Chiron and Taurus will teach us. And that future combined with Jupiter entering Leo, that future combined with the South Node moving through Leo, the North Node moving through Aquarius, and eventually when they conjunct, meaning the North Node conjuncts Pluto and Aquarius, and the South Node conjuncts Jupiter and Leo. It's just, you know, why do you do anything? Uranus had taught us what it means to stay the same and eventually crumble over time. But Chiron won't do that in the same way of forcing you to be crumbled, you know, forcing you to go broke, forcing your hair to fall out. I really don't think it does that. I think it's just shining a light. When Chiron went through Aries for me and my experience, one of the biggest things that I learned having 12th house Aries was, I just don't fucking care. Like, there are so many things that I just look at it and I'm like, internally, my sixth house Libra is like, I want to keep the peace. I want to make sure everyone's heard. I want to make sure that everyone feels understood. But as my 12th house has been getting bombarded since 2016 between Uranus and then Jupiter, Chiron, the North Node, I realize human relationships are warfare. Human interactions are warfare. Being very protective of your peace is warfare. Because what you aim to protect, someone is trying to erode from. It doesn't matter if you try to be kind, be peaceful, eventually you have to say no. Eventually you have to say stop. I think his name is uh um wait. I think his name is uh No, I I gotta quote him correctly. Um what's his name? Oh, I I I need his name. Let me pause the recording. I legitimately can't find him, but the d like I just want to say this because I don't like trying to quote stuff if I like if I remember, I'm gonna try to find it because that person deserves credit. I don't know if he actually created it, but it's this um it's this black guy that went really famous on Twitter because he was counterculture to like a lot of things that is believed in American black culture. And I watched him debate someone else, um, it was a woman, and they were talking about love. You know, you scroll on TikTok or Twitter, you end up in the wild west. So for me personally, I enjoy the chaos. I follow everybody because I want everyone's opinion, I want to see how people think. The worst thing that could happen to me is to have an echo chamber of a social media feed. But that's me. Anyway, I think his name ends with white or something, but he said this quote love is the amount you can take. And the the lady that was like hearing this was like super pissed, and I was super pissed because I'm like, what the fuck are you saying? That sounds so dumb. But then he just kept repeating it, and I sat with it and I was like, all right, time to put my thinking cap on, time to think, time to sit here and try to understand another person's perspective before I judge and deem them to be lesser than me. Now, there are some things though, you know, you say that shit, I'm gonna look at you sideways and dismiss you. But as an astrologer, I hear some shit. As an astrologer, I'm sitting with clients that tell me about crazy stuff, whether it's love, death, romance, business, I've heard some very non-orthodox things. And I always try to be respectful about it because having a seventh house, Scorpio, Sun, Chiron, and Mercury, I feel like people come to me and they give confession. And when people share stuff with me, I'm the last node of their deepest, darkest secret. Right? I don't even tell my wife some of the things people tell me for her not to have a guilty conscience if she comes across my clients. So that way, it's HIPAA with this. But I will say the conversations that I have has led me to have much deeper empathy, or at least, if not empathy, the ability to sit with someone that, for instance, like someone telling me about um cheating. For me, that's a sensitive topic because I prided myself on the fact that I've never done it. Before readings, I was like, there's no fucking excuse for cheating. Now, having given readings, I can sit with someone and understand. 2016 live? Are you are you fucking out of here? You did what? What's wrong with it? And still to this day, I can see the side of saying there's no excuse for it. But that's me. To me, there's no excuse for it. But to the situations that I've heard, I understand. So, in that same light, when he said love is a limit of what you can take, I was like, maybe the wording isn't right. So then I switched take and I was like, what about give? What about endure? What about offer? What about like, you know, sacrifice? And I'm like, I understand now, right? Venus morning star, evening star. Morning star is my desires. Evening star is our desires, I'll say. Now, I don't think you gotta actually fully just like give up your identity. That's not what I'm saying. But it's the idea that I'm going to be okay, aka take from my soul's path. I think the most luckiest love you can have is someone that parallels you. But I now understand that love is the capacity, capacity of someone being able to take from you. So with Chiron sitting in Taurus, just like Uranus was in Taurus, that's the opposite of what Venus would be, right? When Uranus was in Taurus, that shit was crazy, whether it was financially, whether it was life not staying the same as a Taurus rising. I'm gonna tell you, I had the most hairstyles in my life through through Uranus and Taurus. I damn near ended my medical career. I ended so many things that I had expected that I was supposed to do, but I had to end it because it wasn't me. It was the dreams and the stability that other people saw. But the reality was life is never gonna be the same as it was pre-COVID. And so Uranus and Taurus was a blessing because I'm ahead of the game by understanding my life is my own. There is no currency that can replace my time, there's no level of wealth because I am that wealth, and as a Taurus rising, that's what you have to know for all of you, Taurus Risings. So now that we, you know, we've we've jumbled up the perfect puzzle piece or like puzzle, and the pieces are everywhere. How do you put it back together? I think that's what Chiron and Taurus is gonna ask you because of the fact that Chiron and Ares was like, fight, stand up, fight for yourself. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you? You're you're not you're not wherever this is in your chart, you're not you're not doing it. Uranus, juper, jupiter, the north node, chiron. Like, what do you what do you what do you want? What are you doing? What's the purpose? Right? And so as we go into north node in Aquarius, and that will eventually square the Chiron. We're gonna go into it a little bit, and then it it will retrograde out, and then you know, next year we'll be in it for the for the two years and some. Why? The first part of the why was like, why do you walk? Why do you breathe? Why do you exist? What is your I am? That why, the root chakra of Aries that we've been going through, this timing couldn't have been better, like it couldn't have been more premeditated, or like it couldn't been made better because now you know it's standing, it's just standing. Saturn in Aries is like, yo, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Look at yourself and be honest, right? Especially now as Saturn is past nine degrees and we're in the sun decant of it, where the initial Saturn in Aries was like, listen, this shit isn't gonna work out until you fix this issue that you're just trying to avoid. And now that the sun's there, the decant of the second decant of Aries, the sun's there. Let's sit in it, let's sunbathe in it. And Saturn's like, you gotta work on this aspect of your pride, of your control, and whatever wherever you have Aries in your chart, Saturn's like, listen, sit with this shit, sunbathe in it before I let you out. And it will, because as we go. Go through the decan of Sag, the last nine degrees of Aries, you'll get the speed up, you'll get the ramp up. But I find it so precious that Saturn is going through Aries in these decants as we enter Chiron and Taurus. Because now it's like, I'm not moving anyway. Shit's taking so much work. It's so hard. So you might as well sit with it and think the first decant of Uranus and Gemini. Think. Think. Think of everything you've done. South Node and Leo entering the last decant of Leo, which is Aries. It's Mars, basically. Think about everything you've done in the past so that you can look at yourself for the future and see how you will individually and uniquely love the future you want to create. North Node, last decant of Aquarius, aka Libra, or Venus. This shit just comes together and it's just beautiful. But you gotta not fight it. I let these transits dictate where I make major life changes. Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe you should just do like stuff on the whim. I still kind of do that, I'm not gonna lie. But I do think that like when it comes to like pivots where I'm like, all right, I'm locked in. I really like to let the transits do it. So I can fully take in everything of where I'm at in the moment. And the word where we want to go with the future of what I just covered, you're standing in the now. Because the past is literally like it's it's done. All that Pisces energy we dealt with last year, the year before, it was asking you to do that change and everything. And it's like if you didn't, you were you were getting dragged through this dirt right now. But if you did, you're you're kind of opening your eyes, you know. Like if you ever made a deep dive swim, or if you've never been that deep, if you've ever just been in the water and you get out of the water, and your eyes need like a moment, especially if you don't have goggles. Your eyes need a moment because when when when water's in your eyes, it's actually so silly how it makes like your eyes feel like coagulated, and it just makes everything feel so like like you feel everything, and you're like your eyes are now open to air, and you're just like, oh, like I gotta blink a couple of times. That's where we're at, you know. You may be out of the water, you may have a towel on you, but you're still adjusting because you can't see properly yet. You think you do, but it's because you've been so used to seeing what was before, you can't see that future in the best way that it could be. And I think this is where I'll say, like, the feminine desiring chaos is going back to that Neptunian Pisces safety net. That shit's gone. It's gone. I really do think that Chiron and Taurus is going to ask you for how long? For how long will you be without the true values your soul desires? Because the why of Aries, so that you could know what I am, has to actually be encased by something. If you keep asking why, and it's never becoming how long, nothing's gonna last. A really great example of this that I think really sets it home is if Aries is action and you work out at the gym, then Taurus is the meal plan. What are you eating? You wanna lose weight? You want to gain weight? How many calories are you taking in versus taking out? How many calories are you burning at the gym? What type of foods are you taking in? I think that leans a little bit more over to Chiron and Gemini about the differences, but you can you can literally transform your body without doing any cardio. That body recomposition, that shit's real. I mean, I've seen like Gemini people do it very flawlessly, but that shit's real. You can also do a shit ton of cardio, and you got skinny fat. And the way you define your body comes into play here because, for instance, everyone's subjective opinion of what's healthy outside of your own body's base homeostatic level does not matter. That includes your physician, that includes the other person you're liking on Instagram, that includes the people commenting on your Twitter post, that that includes any any any reactions or views on your Snapchat, what the scale says. All that matters is the base level that your body can sustain healthy. All the metrics of the median, we all we all lump into it, but really it's it's what your body's like, all right, I can do this. So Chiron is like, hey, for how long? Because if you're overweight, aka your body just cannot support you physically at a homeostatic level. It's gonna be my new favorite word. Then you have to lose weight, or if you're underweight because your body cannot actually do anything, your hair is falling out, then you're gonna have to gain weight. Of course, you know, it's much more complex than that, and I'm not here to do body shaming or body positivity. I'm like, I'm neutral. I gotta be as an astrologer, but I'm I am gonna tell you what it is, and what it definitely isn't, is ignoring what you need. You just you just can't. So with the masculine being irrational, Saturn's trying to take care of that, and with the feminine being desiring to jump into this chaos, that's what you gotta fix. Cause that South Node Leo, it wants that chaos, it wants that. Let's spin the block back, let's go do this. But loving yourself is really asking yourself the amount that people can take. That is what I've learned, especially as a Taurus rising, where my physical presence is beneficial to people, but my subconscious is constantly at war balancing other people's problems. I am like, I can't even I can't even begin to describe it because at first I was like worried, I was like, why does this happen? But now I am beyond fucking grateful that I can record readings for people. Because if I had to sit and explain something that I told someone in a reading a week ago, I'd lose my mind. Because my brain has given me such a great gift of forgetting. I I've said this before, I feel like Dumbledore when he takes that staff or his dreams out of his like brain and he puts it into that chalice. That is me with readings. Don't ask me what I said, I will not remember. Matter of fact, last night I was telling my wife about how Chiron's gonna affect her before we were going to bed. She fell asleep on me. I fell asleep. She was like, I remember you saying about this. And I'm like, damn, baby girl, I'm sorry. That's in the ether. It's gone. And I'm so grateful for it because being in the present moment is the gift. It is what I would say could be our free will if we have it. Knowing that right now I'm kind of hungry, I could just end this podcast and go eat instead of worrying about this, this, and this, and this, and this that I gotta do three, four hours from now. Set the schedule, do all that, but forgetting is a gift. Ignorance is bliss because what you don't know, you don't take up brain space to figure out solutions to fix it. Ergo, the masculine being irrational. But during the chaos of what Uranus will bring in Gemini and its complex situations, in the energy of Pluto and Aquarius, Leo, South Node, Jupiter, don't lose yourself because Chiron will keep asking you how long. Don't make it too long, man. You'll suffer. You know, and since we are talking about Venus qualities, if you let yourself suffer, then that's where I'm like, yeah, your hair might fall out. Yeah, you might go broke because you let that Leo chaos, I don't know what's gonna happen, energy of diving into things that you know what happened in the past. There's no reason to go back there. Entertain the idea of unknown possibilities for the future sense of you by doing the things day to day now that give you joy, that give you peace, that give you happiness, slowing down. Right? Your body is the only thing you possess before your thoughts. And as you get older, you lose access to that itself because your body starts to say, All right, bro, I gave you 70 solid years. This is it for me, dog. Deuces, kidney shuts down, you know, and then that's when you gotta figure out how to do it. So, fuck, I said this the other day. My wife is my best friend at this point in my life. Um, not that she wouldn't be in the future or she wasn't in the past, but like right now, in the now, she's my best friend. So I yap to her all the time about my thoughts, and I bring that up. And I and I was just like, fuck, being an adult is really just extreme self-preservation. You gotta wake up, you gotta do your skincare routine, you gotta make sure you you drink your apple cider vinegar, some sort of vitamin thing. Yeah, hopefully you stretch, hopefully you get some sun. God forbid you have like other people you gotta worry about too, like kids or uh disabled ones or whatever. Then you got to do your job or work or entrepreneurship, like nothing's fully like free unless you're just not working. Even if you run a business, you still gotta work. Social media, whatever it is, then you gotta come home, try to grow yourself in some sort of extracurricular activity, feed yourself, take care of yourself again. Maybe you stretch again, maybe you do a skin care, like, but then those are the everyday things, and then you throw on other shit too, like out of nowhere. It's like you gotta do this, you gotta take care of this. And I'm like, adulting is extreme self-preservation. I'm like, I get it now. You don't have time to be doing a bunch of shit as an adult. You were trying to hit that 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. window of fun. So you don't fuck up the bedtime routine of 8 to 10, you know, because if you come home and you don't have dinner by 8, and then you eat, but you you don't do all the things that you should have done during 7, that 8 and 9, you're up, and then you don't get to sleep by 10. So now you miss some of that sleep that you needed from 10 to 12, and then if you if you wake up and work out, it's it's raps. Or if you and unless you have coffee, coffee or energy drinks, that's hard to sustain. So that self-preservation is once again Chiron and Taurus saying how long? Yeah. I had no plan for this conversation, but it seems that it just became Chiron and Taurus, and that must be what Spirit wanted me to talk about. Anyway, I feel like I'm done and I don't want to drag anything on. Thank you for listening. I'll post when I post. I have Chiron going through my first house. So, you know? I think I'm gonna step out, step back off of the timeline and just enjoy creating whenever I feel like it. And that's it. I have a website, feel free to book readings. I'm approved for Klarna. Um, I have TikTok, I have YouTube, and I'm just a regular guy. I really am. So thank you for listening and have a great rest of your day.