00:00:00.960Greetings, my esteemed audience. Today we are joined by a woman who knows a thing or two about astrology, per your wishes and per my wishes as well.
00:00:13.400So, without further ado, I would like to welcome Philosophy Cat to the show.
00:00:20.260Thank you, Marcus. It's great to be here. I love to talk about astrology, so I'm very excited about this.
00:00:26.560Hopefully, your audience will find this entertaining and enlightening.
00:00:31.500All right, awesome. Yeah, let's get straight into it.
00:00:35.780As is my custom, I usually like to ask about the origin story of guests.
00:00:43.340So, if you could give Philosophy Cat origin story, primarily, actually, I want to hear how you got acquainted with Julius Evola.
00:00:52.100You have, of course, made a very good series on his work, which everyone can check out.
00:01:00.200And, yeah, how did you stumble upon the good Baron Evola, and how did you get into astrology?
00:01:06.580I suppose they are interlinked, the story of how you got into Evola and the story of how you got into astrology.
00:02:42.840I'm sorry to interrupt your origin story.
00:02:45.040But, so he describes Buddha, and I think this is a good, because you have this image of the Buddha as being a pudgy, well, a jolly and pudgy guy, to put it mildly.
00:03:08.300But, Evola here, he quotes the Jakarta.
00:03:11.880And, in there, it says of the Buddha, the Enlightened One, that,
00:03:16.100thou hast a perfect body, thou art resplendent, well-born, of noble aspect, thou hast a golden color and white teeth, thou art strong, all the signs that thou are of noble birth are in thy form, all the marks of a superior man.
00:03:32.340So, that is how you should view the Buddha.
00:03:40.240It is a great book, and I would recommend everybody to read it, even if they're not into Buddhism.
00:03:45.360Like, you don't have to be a Buddhist or interested in pursuing that path to get a lot out of the book, in terms of just what it outlines, as far as being, like, noble, being Aryan.
00:03:58.220And, you know, but that book was, it was exactly what I needed at that time.
00:04:02.440It really appealed to me, because Buddhism doesn't ask you to believe in anything.
00:04:07.820It just says, here's the path, here's how to walk it, see what you find at the end.
00:04:11.240And that was perfect for me, for where I was at, because I wasn't really at a place yet where I was ready to believe in anything.
00:04:17.780You know, I was just coming out of, like, my atheism.
00:04:20.100And so, I liked that it was just about my journey and the experiential wisdom gained from following the path.
00:04:26.800And it was just a life-changing book for me.
00:04:29.160I became a lot more interested after that in reading Evola's other work.
00:04:33.800And so, if you then fast forward a few years, and I'm working on the Revolt Against the Modern World series on my channel,
00:04:38.860and I'm putting in this huge amount of study into it, because if you want to teach something to someone else,
00:04:43.880you have to understand it really well yourself.
00:04:46.040So, not only was I making a deep study of Revolt, but also all of his other books,
00:04:50.320because he references all of them in Revolt.
00:04:52.400And at some point, you know, he also references, like, many other texts.
00:13:39.080Well, one of the things that Mars is associated with is that conflict and aggression, but it's also associated with action and will in just like a more pure sense.
00:13:50.220And that action and will can take on the aggressive nature, which is it is more likely to go that way with Mars because it's, you know, it's such a hot, excessive planet.
00:14:00.300Mars tends to naturally go to excess in that way.
00:14:02.920But it really depends on how Mars is configured in a person's chart.
00:14:07.900So, you know, a person with Mars in Capricorn, where Mars is exalted, you're going to get a tempering of these more problematic qualities of Mars.
00:14:17.660And you're just going to have a Mars that is actually willing to do some real productive work and can be quite a powerhouse.
00:14:24.220If you put Mars in the opposite sign in Cancer, where it's in its fall, you're going to maybe get a Mars that is very passive aggressive, for example.
00:14:32.380Oh, because it's natural abilities, it's natural way of wanting to express itself are being restricted by being in the temple of the moon and Mars and the moon are very, very opposite types of energies.
00:14:54.080So for a man, you should hope that Mars is allowed to express itself in a good action oriented manner.
00:15:03.180But if it doesn't, yeah, I suppose it can be good for a man to know if he has that deficit in his astrological makeup, so to speak.
00:15:15.740So he can, you know, if he is aware that he can act in a certain way, he can take measures to counteract it.
00:15:22.280And by the same token, if he knows that, so I suppose if you do a reading for a guy and he has Mars in a good way, he can also sort of plan in certain activities in accord with the moon or the star faces.
00:15:39.960So one of the things that I would do with people, if they come in for a natal chart reading, usually when people come in for a reading, they've got some reason that they're coming.
00:15:48.460Like there's something in their life that they're trying to figure out.
00:15:50.800And those are the best kinds of readings.
00:15:53.380It's nice to have that kind of context to work with rather than just kind of a general curiosity where it's kind of like, all right, like, why are you bothering the oracle with your just curiosity?
00:16:07.100But, you know, everybody has, you know, we all have our seven traditional planets in the chart.
00:16:12.600We've all got them in different combinations, in different ways that they interact.
00:16:16.100And we can certainly identify in a birth chart which planets are the ones causing the problem in your life and how can we potentially remediate that?
00:16:24.820What are, you know, where else in your chart can you lean into in order to compensate for where the shortcomings are?
00:16:32.360Or even when you have a debilitated planet in the chart, you know, it's not necessarily all bad.
00:16:37.540It's just a different way of that planet expressing itself.
00:16:40.660So how can you get the good out of a debilitated planet, for example?
00:17:10.680A lot of people will come in with charts that look really problematic, but they have a great attitude and they manage their chart really well and they have really positive lives.
00:17:20.820And other people come in with charts that just look so easy breezy and their lives are falling apart.
00:17:25.580So it's really, it's more about like, how do you manage it?
00:17:28.640Like our job as individuals is to kind of figure out how to make all our planets like dance in harmony and stop stepping on each other's toes.
00:17:35.540And some people do that better than others.
00:17:39.160So if we take some, something like charisma, would you say that that's something that the gods give you via the stars?
00:17:48.500Or do you have any take on charisma as a, what should you call it, a metaphysical force within certain individuals?
00:17:56.860Yeah, I think that is definitely something that you could see in a birth chart.
00:18:01.100However, you know, charisma, that's something I would typically relate to the sun.
00:18:05.980So I have actually seen Leos come through my practice who I expected to be very flamboyant and charismatic and then I talk to them and they're like shy and timid and awkward.
00:18:17.120And like, there's something seriously afflicting their solar quality that should be shining really bright.
00:18:24.460And then it's like, okay, how do we unpack this?
00:18:27.460What's caused this to happen and how can you actually gain access to your solar power again so that you can have that charisma and confidence that's naturally appropriate to a Leo, you know?
00:18:41.060Since we do live in the modern world where we are sort of like almost poisoned on so many fronts.
00:18:49.800So I do believe that many charismatic individuals, they have their divine energy sort of hampered by, yeah, by a poor diet, by not getting enough actual sunlight, by not getting enough sleep and everything like that.
00:19:03.600So I do also believe that it has a purely biological so that biological components that aren't correctly configured in a person's life, they will inhibit the ability to actually express the divine blessings that in other ages they could have gotten naturally, so to speak.
00:19:23.940So keep that in mind for everyone who seeks to attain divine blessings that you have to take care of your temple, your body, your physique, you have to take care of everything like that, then you can allow the divine light to shine upon you.
00:19:39.040So, yeah, but I recognize what you're saying that there are individuals who could, you can sort of see there is a divine spark in them, but because they're so pushed down, so downtrodden, a lot of guys, of course, they've been,
00:19:53.940they've been mugged by pornography, so sort of their, their thumos is completely gone because they have been so, yeah, subject to this conditioning things.
00:20:05.940Yeah, exactly. And I mean, sometimes, you know, somebody will, there are things that you can do to remediate planets in your chart that have to do with diet and lifestyle.
00:20:14.140I mean, if somebody's got a really excessively problematic Mars in their chart, I'm going to probably say, you know, lay off the spicy foods.
00:20:20.920That's aggravating your Mars quality, or if they have a really problematic Venus, so, you know, lay off the sweets.
00:20:27.920Sometimes, you know, when a planet is going to excess or to detriment in somebody's chart like that, you can actually see it in their physical bodies and their mannerisms.
00:20:35.960And that's always kind of a clue as to, you know, what might be going wrong and where the problem is.
00:20:42.300All right, right. So can you, can you elaborate on the sweet tooth and Venus connection?
00:20:47.600Oh, Venus is the planet of pleasure, joy, romance, love, harmony.
00:20:55.180So when you have a Venus that is going to excess in the chart, you will often get hedonistic indulgences of some kind or another.
00:21:04.460So for with food, it's often going to be a sweet tooth, but it could also be something like, as you mentioned, a porn addiction.
00:21:10.340It could be something like that as well. So those are all the kind of things that you want to look at.
00:21:16.120And interestingly enough, you know, you mentioned like the porn addiction kind of lowering a man's thumos.
00:21:22.420And that's kind of like, that's an, that's a Venus problem there.
00:21:27.960Well, the way that you mitigate that is to lean more into the Mars and to reinvigorate that vitality and that, that male virility through, through the Mars aspect and kind of pull back away from some of those Venusian indulgences.
00:21:44.280Really interesting stuff. So just to move on to a question for, for those who are new again, a question here, how is it possible for the planets to affect us?
00:21:57.380Is it gravity or something else? If you could elaborate on, on that.
00:22:02.280Okay. So we've talked about how the light kind of bounces around and this sort of like colors our experiences of the world, right? Let's just, let's back up kind of back to that idea.
00:22:13.820The planets, the zodiac signs, the houses, you know, they're all qualities of this absolute truth manifesting in the universe, right?
00:22:20.380Each of these things is going to be a strainer for a particular quality of God, right?
00:22:25.080So you take Jupiter, for example, it's straining out one particular quality of God, bringing that quality to the forefront.
00:22:30.540And then these various qualities kind of like shine down upon us in this complex webbing of solar rays.
00:22:36.160So when you're born and your birth chart is cast for the moment, you take your first breath.
00:22:40.640I know some people are like, oh, but I was born by C-section. Doesn't matter. First breath.
00:22:44.380It's capturing a snapshot of that solar webbing that your soul had to pass through to descend into materiality.
00:22:50.080And you're taking on this unique blend of qualities in your current embodiment.
00:22:53.320So think of it kind of like this. Imagine that your soul is sitting outside this ever-turning wheel of the zodiac.
00:23:00.960And you can think of this as basically like the churning of samsara, if you want to take the Buddhist analogy or the current materiality, the wheel of fortune, whatever you want to call it.
00:23:09.760As soon as your soul sees something it desires in the material world, it drops into that wheel.
00:23:14.080All the desires and actions and outcomes take shape according to these cycles of energy.
00:23:21.100We project ourselves through our cravings into this turning wheel.
00:23:24.500And as soon as we do, we become bound by the same cosmic cycles and rules that determine when a flower will bloom or what happens when one person does something to another.
00:23:34.900That's your conditioned existence in the world.
00:23:37.620And then, you know, you'll have your house placements, which kind of represent the ways in which they become concretized in your day-to-day existence.
00:23:44.540For anyone who doesn't know, the houses refer to very specific areas of our lives, such as, you know, marriage, career, money, things like that.
00:23:51.700That's where an accurate birth time becomes really important because that's how your houses are determined.
00:23:55.880And that's what gives you a very unique chart, different to a person who may have only been born an hour before you.
00:24:46.700Occasionally we get a case where it isn't.
00:24:48.800But, you know, so we've got this sort of like as above, so below sort of thing going on.
00:24:54.800And it's not that the planets cause things to happen or that we're affected by their gravitational pull, which is a really common misconception.
00:25:03.340The planets were understood to be the stars of the gods, but not the gods themselves.
00:25:08.120So they can indicate the will of the gods and the movements of the planets illustrate like this inherent mandala of creation.
00:25:15.180So in that sense, they're more like omens rather than causes.
00:25:18.800And we can look at the patterns of the planets to understand better the cosmic rhythms that we're all subjected to, you know, or another way of thinking about the planets is that they're offering us a testimony or a witness to the kind of things that will happen in our lives or as administrators of fate and karma.
00:25:56.860But the planets have very neat and tidy cycles that are not encumbered by human emotions and relationships and day-to-day mundane crap.
00:26:06.180So we can look at the planets and we can see those patterns much more clearly than what we can see them in our own individual lives.
00:26:12.800And neither are those planets affected by like an individual person's birth chart.
00:26:17.220You know, that always is going to color things too.
00:26:19.300It's one thing to like track the transits of the planet.
00:26:22.680It's another thing to try to figure out what the cycles are based on how they're impacting your own personal birth chart, which is going to make it a little bit, well, a lot messier.
00:38:48.700It's very, it's got this loyalty, regality, this authority, but also like lust and jealousy and tyranny and arrogance.
00:39:00.660And like where along the spectrum is a Leo going to fall?
00:39:04.240There's, this is a sign in which, you know, this time of the year, the light is sustained, but steadily and slowly decreasing.
00:39:13.720And so there is this association with Leo with the need for transcendence amid impermanence and inevitable future loss.
00:39:23.560You know, the autumn is coming and then winter, like this is kind of the last hurrah for the summer sun.
00:39:28.540So all of the themes of Leo are associated with the sun, you know, rulerships and kings and transcendent and spirit and eternity.
00:39:36.740But there's always the possibility for those themes within the material world to become perverted.
00:39:41.560And then rather than authority, you have tyranny and rather than regality, you have arrogance and rather than nobility and transcendence, you have lust and cravings for fame.
00:39:51.280You know, it's the same principles, but it's being perverted through this not being aware of our spiritual nature and the spiritual virtues in life.
00:39:58.760And when those virtues aren't at work in life, you know, the strong solar disposition in the chart can devolve into those qualities.
00:40:06.120So there very much is like an environmental component here.
00:40:09.840Like, were you raised with like good morals?
00:40:12.360Were you raised with some spiritual awareness of yourself?
00:40:15.660Or are you just one of these people who's obsessed with the material world?
00:40:19.760So, like, with Leo, you know, it's a sign that's interested in legacy and fame and nobility.
00:40:29.180Archetypically speaking, Leo is trying to sustain the light amidst the presence of death and darkness.
00:40:50.400And Leo has the sense of that soul's inherent dignity and pride and certainty of purpose.
00:40:57.440But whenever a person is kind of falling away from those pure qualities of Leo or any other sign, you're going to start getting a more degenerated version of it.
00:41:27.040Most of them are, like, predominantly female clients.
00:41:29.380And of those men, I would say more than half have prominent Sagittarius placements, especially Sagittarius rising, as well as a preponderance of, like, fourth, sixth, and ninth house placements.
00:41:41.880So, with Sagittarius, we see the same thing.
00:41:45.720There's this search for a higher meaning with Sagittarius.
00:41:49.240But if they don't have those spiritual principles guiding them, they tend to fall into this hedonistic nihilism.
00:41:55.820And they tend to look for meaning in something bigger than they are.
00:41:59.660But if they don't have that spiritual framework in which to do that, then you get, like, the traveling backpacking nomad who's just out to have a good time drinking ayahuasca in the Andes or whatever, right?
00:42:15.020And interestingly, you know, with Sagittarius risings, they have Leo ruling their ninth house of higher-minded things, spirituality, philosophy.
00:42:22.120And so, it's not really all that surprising that they'd be attracted to, like, an Evolian philosophy that's really highlighting the solar nature of spirituality.
00:42:29.780And then it's no surprise that that makes up my client base.
00:42:33.040And then, you know, with the fourth house people, they're the ones very interested in ancestry, roots, family, heritage.
00:42:39.160We get sixth house people who are a lot more likely to be activists in some way, like, really putting themselves out there.
00:42:46.740And then the ninth house people, you know, they're often the ones who are, like, very interested in, like, the intellectual discourse of the sociocultural wars.
00:42:54.600Or they're, like, really seriously seeking out a spiritual path in some way.
00:42:59.060And that's kind of just regardless of what sign is governing in those houses.
00:43:02.140It's just a general trend that these houses come up a lot among my clients.
00:43:06.660So, it's been really interesting to notice and also to compare that with some of the more normie clients that I get coming through because I do get some.
00:43:16.400And, yeah, I mean, in that sense, there are certain things in a person's chart that might mark them out as, you know, being somebody who's a little bit more switched on versus being an NPC.
00:43:27.300Could you just elaborate quickly on when you say houses, what dost thou mean?
00:43:33.000So, there are 12 slices of the pie, which we give to the signs.
00:43:39.160And in Hellenistic astrology, we use whole sign houses.
00:43:42.180So, whatever sign is rising on the ascendant, that entire sign is the entire first house.
00:43:48.920And each of these 12 houses rules a particular area of life.
00:43:53.480This is kind of how we concretize things.
00:43:55.260Like, it doesn't mean much to say that you're a Leo sun.
00:43:58.740But if we say, well, you're a Leo sun and Leo is your seventh house, and we say, oh, well, the focus of this person's life is going to be always kind of their plot lines always going to be kind of coming back to relationships.
00:44:11.320And that's going to be kind of like the driving theme in their life versus somebody who's got a 10th house Leo sun.
00:44:16.740We say, okay, well, that person's probably really going to want to put themselves out there in the world, and their public image is going to be a lot more important to them.
00:44:23.860And so, this is kind of why the houses are very important.
00:44:27.660Modern astrology tends to prefer using Placidus houses, which chop up the chart, and you get houses crossing sign boundaries and intercepted signs and all this kind of crap that doesn't make sense.
00:44:38.520But, you know, I don't want to rag on modern astrology too much, because there are some out there that I like, and I don't want to offend them, but I don't have a super high opinion of modern astrology.
00:44:50.140I actually thought to ask you about bashing modern astrology.
00:45:16.600But to understand modern astrology, we need to understand a little bit of history.
00:45:19.800So, first of all, it's only been fairly recently that a lot of the ancient astrological source texts have been translated.
00:45:27.280We just didn't have access to them before.
00:45:29.480And when the theosophical and spiritualist movement started kind of reviving interest in astrology, they didn't have access to those source texts.
00:45:37.320And as a result, modern astrologers were really left trying to just figure out on their own the rationale for astrological principles.
00:45:46.200And, you know, not only did they not have source texts, but in most cases, they didn't even have like a good esoteric frame of reference.
00:45:52.500Like they just they were not taking a solidly academic approach to this.
00:45:57.000It was a lot of it was like just by feels.
00:45:59.460And so modern astrology seems to have become this weird monstrosity of pseudo Jungian evolutionary psychology dressed up with astrological jargon.
00:46:11.820And apparently the only way to be good at modern astrology is to be a psychic or intuitive or whatever other new age craft they want to throw at you.
00:46:18.640And many of the principles of their craft are literally just made up.
00:46:24.320Alan Leo, who's considered one of the founding fathers of modern astrology, he just decided to give the outer planets rulership because he just felt like that's how it should be.
00:46:39.240I just feel that Uranus should rule Aquarius.
00:46:42.320He was like he didn't know that the ancients actually had this system of planetary rulerships that was foundational to how the whole system works.
00:46:50.740And if you pull out this thread of root of and say, like, well, I don't think Saturn should rule Aquarius.
00:46:56.820Now your whole tapestry is becoming like unraveled.
00:46:59.440But interestingly, he was charged and convicted of fraud quite a few times because his astrological practice left a lot of unsatisfied customers.
00:47:08.720But in other, you know, you also have cases of like modern astrologers, they have in some ways really made an effort to try to explain things.
00:47:18.100And they and one of the things that's very foundational to their practice is what's called the 12 letter alphabet.
00:47:24.460And they've equated signs, planets and houses, just to put it really simplistically.
00:47:29.320So, for example, they'll say something like the third house equals Gemini equals Mercury.
00:47:54.760And they can't explain it any other way.
00:47:58.520And fortunately, now we have texts that tell us otherwise.
00:48:01.540But modern astrologers seem to really be clinging to their poorly constructed system and in general seem very reluctant to delve into the actual philosophy behind astrology and actually like just even learn correct delineation techniques.
00:48:24.000And in this, I really become very much a scientist.
00:48:27.800If your system is solid, you should be able to teach your method to someone else.
00:48:32.040And they should be able to repeat your experiment and get the same result.
00:48:35.400And modern astrology seems to struggle with this.
00:48:37.920And all of this new agey stuff that has been grafted onto it tries to deflect accountability by making it seem like it's just intuitive.
00:48:45.340And, oh, you just have to feel the chart.
00:48:48.260That's not what ancient astrology taught at all.
00:48:51.320To me, I don't really consider modern astrology to be real astrology, which isn't to say that you couldn't get a good reading from a modern astrologer.
00:49:01.520But what they're doing is not anything like what was taught in ancient times.
00:49:08.840And, you know, I wouldn't really consider it appropriate for, you know, timing rituals or anything like that, probably.
00:49:15.780But if you just want to go and get your astrological Myers-Briggs done, you know, they could probably help you with that.
00:49:21.420Um, you will get very different readings from, like, modern versus Vedic versus Hellenistic, though.
00:49:27.480Like, and that doesn't mean that astrology doesn't work.
00:49:30.600It's, um, in that sense, it's more like any divinatory science.
00:49:35.120The oracle will kind of find a way to speak in a meaningful way.
00:49:38.440But astrology does seem to be very much a closed system where you tend not to get great results if you start picking and mixing from different types of astrology.
00:49:47.220Um, you know, I think you could get a worthwhile reading from any type of astrologer if they're good at what they do, but they're all going to be looking at your chart through their own lens.
00:49:55.820And it's kind of like, if I ask your best friend to describe you to me, and then I ask your mom to describe you to me, they're both describing the same person, but they're going to have really different things to say because their relationships to you are so different.
00:50:11.200So, hopefully that answers your questions.
00:50:13.400Uh, yeah, I mean, uh, honestly, it's, it's a bit, um, uh, since I'm so new to this, uh, still a lot to take in, uh, but, uh, it's interesting stuff.
00:50:23.960So, uh, and of course I will continue my astrological studies.
00:50:27.980So in a year when I listen to this interview again, uh, it will make a lot more sense.
00:50:32.720But yeah, I thought to mention something since you, you mentioned theosophy there and, uh, Julius Evola, he was not a fan of the theosophists.
00:50:42.280And, uh, Madame Helena Blavatsky, uh, do you have any, uh, do you want to talk about them a bit?
00:50:49.420It's always fun to, to bash, uh, new age hippie magicians.
00:50:54.680Well, I think one of the biggest red flags about theosophy is their long time association with organizations like the United Nations.
00:51:02.420Like they are very much a globalist type of, um, ideology.
00:51:08.800They, I, to me, I'm kind of like, you know, look at the fruits of what any spirituality teaches.
00:51:16.700And when I look at the fruits of theosophy, I see a lot of really questionable stuff and a lot of really unethical stuff.
00:51:23.460Um, like, you know, what they did to J. Krishnamurti.
00:51:26.760Um, also just the fact that everybody who seemed to join up with theosophy claimed to be clairvoyant.
00:51:40.420So, you know, um, but it's, it's very sync, sync, syncretic, syncretistic.
00:51:46.920I'm not, I can't remember which is the right word to use, but there is a lot of picking and mixing going on and disregard for like real traditional principles.
00:51:54.500Um, it, it is very much the origins of the new age movement.
00:51:58.940And it's, I mean, it's perfect for, you know, the modern Kali Yuga person.
00:53:08.060That sounds like a reasonable course of action.
00:53:10.420And, and we can recommend our listeners here as well to stay clear of such heretics.
00:53:16.620So anyway, we're coming up almost to an hour and yeah, it's been a lot of, a lot of interesting insights.
00:53:24.000And as I said, I will continue to delve deeper into this and maybe we can have another conversation in a year or so when I can ask you some more in-depth and or interesting questions.
00:53:38.520It is tough to talk about astrology because of that learning curve.
00:53:42.740And it's like, how do you talk about this stuff that necessarily requires you to use all this jargon?
00:53:48.240But now you have to explain what it is that that means to people so that they've got a frame of reference.
00:53:53.200And there is, there always seems to be a bit of it that's going to go over the head of a newbie.
00:53:58.800But my hope is that it at least sparks curiosity enough that, you know, you might want to go Google it or pick up a book or something.
00:54:05.480Which to that, and I would recommend to you if you'd like to get started in studying astrology or anybody who's listening.
00:54:11.260Um, the book that I tend to recommend most often to the people who come to my astrology study groups is Demetra George's Ancient Astrology in two volumes, volume one and volume two.
00:54:23.140They're big, huge textbook size things, but they come with worksheets in it that you can use to work on with your own birth chart.
00:54:30.160And I think that that's really helpful for a new student of astrology if you wanted to just do a study on your own.
00:54:35.360Um, because courses are very expensive and time consuming and not everybody has, you know, the resources or the time for that.
00:54:42.580So that's kind of like, that's where I would suggest people start if they really want to get interested in it.
00:54:47.940Um, otherwise, you know, start with the astrology podcast, uh, and just kind of try to absorb it as you go.
00:55:01.060So it's astrologicat.com and I do offer, uh, you know, birth chart readings, forecasting, um, probably not next year, but the year after I'll probably start offering horary readings, which is a specific medieval technique, uh, for answering predictive questions, which I'm having a lot of fun with.
00:55:19.060But it's, uh, I don't, I don't feel confident enough yet to kind of like offer that as a service because I feel like I still have a lot to learn.
00:55:27.880Um, but yeah, so people, uh, are more than welcome to book readings, um, coming in, I want to say January or February, I'll start up the monthly study group again.
00:55:39.460And that's just a very low key way for people who are interested to just kind of come and learn a little bit about astrology.
00:55:44.920It's very low cost and it's like, it's just a casual small group.
00:55:51.940Um, any questions you've had from your study on your own that you're not sure about, you know, people can bring those kinds of questions in for discussion.
00:55:58.020So that's always kind of a fun, uh, little group that we do every month.
00:56:01.800I'm just kind of taking a couple months off for the holidays and then we'll be back.
00:56:17.920So I have a philosophic cat, uh, telegram and an astrologic cat telegram.
00:56:21.900And if you go on the astrologic cat telegram and read some of the old posts, a lot of them are set up to be kind of like instructional and build on each other in a logical way.
00:56:30.260So that's also a good resource for people if they want to get their toes wet and learning a little bit is just to kind of scroll back to the beginning of the astrologic cat telegram and kind of read out the instructional posts.
00:57:23.880Uh, thank you so much for coming to enlighten us, um, spiritual new newbies or astrological newbies.
00:57:33.780And, uh, hopefully some of our listeners will, um, yeah, continue also on their astrological studies and, um, and learn to optimize their lives via the blessings of the stars.
00:57:45.920So, uh, yeah, again, thanks a lot for coming on the show.
00:57:50.420It's been, I love talking about astrology.
00:57:52.540I don't get asked about it as often as I like to talk about it.
00:57:55.680And, um, it's kind of like my mission at this point, like reclaim astrology from the left.
00:58:00.500So, uh, anybody who wants to assist in that, you better start learning, but, uh, hopefully we can, uh, reclaim it in a way that will make our ancestors proud.