Hello, you're here with T Matthew and we are the Bing Zang Zoom Podcast. Can you dig it? So today's episode is going to be about something that we have all experienced unless you're a baby. Um, and it is intuition. Right, So if you're a fan of astrology, UM, let's kind of get into what the definitions are here so people are clear if you're if you're a woman in her twenties, Yeah, that's such a thing.
That's such a thing right now, Like I don't I don't know. I mean like astrology has always been around, but like that's such a thing for young girls right now to be into astrology. That is accurate. But so astrology is by definition it's the type of divination that it involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the
Sun, the moon, and the planets. Another way you can look at astrology is the study of movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world. Right, So, if things have been going haywire for you as a late and there's really no reason why, and you're looking for some type of excuse, some reason to something to help explain all the things that have been going haywire. Well, it
could be that Mercury is in retrograde now. In the astrology, Mercury is known as the planet of communication. According to ABC news dot Com, Mercury is known as the planet of communication, intelligence, media, and technology in our day to day live So when this planet goes into retrograde, some believe it has major effects on their routine, like a late train messing up a
schedule, or an email bouncing back for no reason. So have any of those things happened to you lately, Matthew, anything that seem to That's all my life. My life is never straightforward. So I mean, like I can tell you, you know, all kinds of things. I just I'm very much a person that has bad luck. But I want to ask before we go on too far into this, when we're talking about astrology and everything, do you believe in astrology? Do you think that that our signs do
got part of our personalities and things like that. To a degree, I do believe it. I'm just a very late loom or as it as it were, but I do believe in it. I don't believe that these things are set in stone, though, I think that there's plenty that you can do to change them and to you know, adapt, as we human beings do so very well. Yeah, personally, I think that I'm not necessarily like, oh, it's a spiritual thing and at this time of year when
mercuries and retrograde, it affects us or things like that. But what I do believe is that being born during a certain time can affect your personality, whether it be gravitational pulls on the earth, or whether it be things like, oh, if you're born in winter, the first season that you experience is cold and things are dead and things like that around you, opposed to if you're born in summer, where when it's hot and there are you know,
flowers. I think the first things that you experience in the world, maybe gravitational polls due to stars and stuff like that, can affect your personality to a certain degree. But I don't really believe in the oh, well this time of year you have bad luck, or this month is a good month for you to invest, and things like that. That doesn't really do much for me. Yeah, I can see a point there. So basically, people have their frame of reference, they have things that they go through
and you know it might be different from another person. And where that's concerned, it is perfectly understandable. You know, the science behind it makes sense. You can say, hey, look this person. When if we are kept away from the sun for extended periods of time, for example, it does things to us. We get stick more often, you know. So there's certain things that our bodies just naturally require, and if we don't have those things, or we have too little of them, then we turn out
a certain way, and vice versa. We have plenty of them, then you know, there's an abundance. It's just like I have and have not right, right, you have an abundance of the things that you need to survive or you don't, right, and so that can have a huge impact on a person's life as well. Now getting into something that you know is along these lines, it's intuition, right. So again, via definition, intuition is the ability to understand something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning.
Right. Let's say that you are walking somewhere and you're like, hmmm, I don't think that I don't think that this is the scene that I need to be in right now, or I don't think that this is the area I need to be in right now. Something's fishy here, or you know, you're you're you have some insight into it. There is some understanding that hey, one plus one equals two. There's thirty dudes standing on a corner with you know, bad motives over and all over their faces. I probably
shouldn't be here. Let me walk away from this situation. Do you believe in intuition? Is that something that? Yeah, I mean I don't think that. I think people do, you know, argue intuitions a thing? But I don't really see how any argument against intuition can work, because really, what intuition is, if we look at it logically, is like you said, it's a subconscious realization about something right, which is all based on
our previous experiences. If you grew up in a tough neighborhood, you're more keen to realize that something's not right without necessarily having to point out this is wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong. You just see somebody and you're like, I get a funny feeling from them. Then if you want to break it down and you're like, oh, they got their hands in their pocket. It could be a knife, they're following a little too close to me,
whatever, whatever. But your initial instinct, your initial intuition was something was wrong before you even consciously got to think about it, right, And so I think all of us have different instincts. All of us have different intuitions based on where we grew up, based on the things that we've experienced in our lives, which is why people talk about woman's intuition. Well, for the most part, women have to be more on guard in their lives
than men do. So yeah, it makes sense that women have better intuition than men on the average. Right, So, yeah, I mean I think that intuition is very much a thing. But I think certain people have better, certain people have different certain people have worse, certain people have all of it. You know, it depends on how you grow up, right, going back to that frame of reference, and then speaking of instincts, so you have you know, you have intuition, which is not a an
immediate reaction. It has some type of thoughts, some type of h you know, background to it um and then you have the instinct. And the instinct can be you know, something falls right now, and then you immediately just you just instinctively go to catch it, or you instinctively do something that you know saves a life without a thought, you just jump into it, right. And so when you have intuition, intuition a lot of times it seems like it's what gets you out of trouble, right, it's like,
uh, this is right, let me back away. Instinct sometimes can get you into shoble. It can. It can instinct though, Like again, I still feel like it follows that same format. Like you said, something falls, you instinctively go to grab it. Why because in the past you've seen things fallen break. Right. If something doesn't fall in break, if you've never seen anything fallen break before, you're not going to instinctively go to
grab it because you're like, oh, what does it matter. But when you've seen things fallen break, you know oh that's gonna break, you instinctively go to grab it. So I still feel like even instincts are based on previous knowledge that's been programmed into us. There is one aspect right of astrology, that more than others, kind of makes me believe in it and feel as though that there's some truth to it, okay, And that is as
it pertains to the moon. Right. So we are human beings. We're made mostly of water, and we know that the moon affects water has a pole, you know, the moon comes up and the sea level rises,
right. We know that there's a low tide, high tide. And so when we have something like a full moon, and we have this correlation that, oh, people go crazy and as a full moon, and and this is that I feel like there is some thing that is not necessarily pinpointed, but something that happens to us that when there's a full moon that people are affected by. I definitely see what you're saying there, and I can't argue
with that. Like, let me just be straight up. I'm like, I have no idea that that makes Like I was talking about earlier gravitational pools and stuff like that, that's the moon right there, right, So like I'm not necessarily saying I agree with that or I don't. I'm saying I
don't have any evidence to disprove it. But what I will say though, is going back to like the history of the full moon, right, I Mean we talk about you know, werewolves and things like that, you know, but really what it is is that during the full moon, you can see the most. So when would armies want to invade other villages and stuff when they could see to go in and attack places? Right, Oh, they're still going to be sleeping, but we can see because the moon's up
right. You know, if you're going to mug somebody, Yeah, you want it to be dark, but you also need to see if you're going to try to run away. Right, So if it's in a place where there's no street lights but the moon is shining, perfect example, right, and then you know there's also a false sense of security at the same time, Oh, I could do what I want because it's brighter out even though
it's night. Right, So there's these double size did knife there where it's like more people are willing to take risks, but also more bad people are doing things, you know, during the full moon. So I think there's also a historical sort of natural predatory element that happens during the during the full moon as well that makes people act differently, and so play devil's advocate for a second. Right, Let's say that you do believe in astrology and you're
someone who follows it to a tea. You know, let's say that a person is born in a certain month, born a certain time, and they have certain things that, according to astrological logic, says that, hey, you're predisposed to being this person or acting a certain way or having trouble with this, so that how do you then move forward with these right things? Well, astrology has kind of become almost a pseudo religion to a lot of people, where you know, they're like, you know, the Bible says
that I have to act this way or that way or this way. Oh well, the stars right now, my horoscope says I'm acting this way, that way, or this way, and the problem quickly becomes in the same way that when you're talking about religion where it's free will versus fate and things like that, you know God's plan and you know though these types of things is it's a very similar thing with astrology if you are the type of person that says, oh, well, right now, you know, I'm a
libra, so that's just the way I'm not a libra, but you know, hypothetically, right, I'm a libra, so that's the way I act. Or oh well, mercuries and retrograde, so I'm automatically allowed to be a jerk because everything's screw it up. Right. When you start to rely on these things to make excuses for you, that's when it becomes a problem. But if you if you are a person where you're like, yeah,
I understand that I'm a cancer and cancers are emotional. I understand that that's a problem that I have, and I look at that and try to figure out ways around it. Great. But if you're like, well, I'm a cancer and I'm emotional, so I get to be a jerk all the time and just blame it on the fact that I'm a water signing I'm emotional, right, then that's a bit of a problem. Yeah, yeah,
i'd say. You know, like I said before, I feel as though when people take control of the situation and say and just use the astrology as a guide like it's supposed to be, like it's and and same thing with the Bible, use it as a guy. So many times people will say or whatever it is, whatever religion you know that you that you practice and so on, use it as a guy. You know, sometimes people take things way too literally, or they turn it into something that it isn't necessarily
meant to be, and or they justify certain things. It's been people who have justified murder based upon what they read and the Bible and so on, so the Crusades and whatnot. Yeah, precisely. So at the end of the day, if you take it as a guide and you say it to yourself, well, hey, um, I know I am a libra or I'm a virtigal or this is that because I don't want libers to get mad at us. Example is quite a bad But that's just the first one that
pumped into my head. I think you did anything. It's a random choice. Sorry, sorry, But if we say, hey, I'm predisposed to this, but I can make changes to make it better for myself, to make life better for myself, then we're using that as a guide and ultimately we're going with the flow. If mercury is in retrograde, that's the best thing to do, according to the astrology, is to go with the flow,
because otherwise you drive yourself crazy. Sure. I mean it's a similar thing to like looking at your genetics to a certain extent, right where you're like, oh, I have I'm naturally I have a ability to have high blood pressure or whatever because of my family roots where you don't just go, well, I'm gonna have high blood pressure. That's just the way it is. No, you say, oh, okay, I'm naturally disposed to that, so let me try to be careful with high sodium foods or whatever.
Right. But then at the same time, you're like, you can have your teat mills where you have your high sodium foods or whatever. Like you said, that's a guide on this is something that could happen. So these are the precautions I need to take, not just well, I'm gonna have high blood pressure, so fuck it, I'm gonna eat whatever I want and just and when I have high blood pressure, I say that's because I'm naturally predisposed to it, like my parents. You know whatever. Yeah, that's
not enough. Right, Well, that's pretty much to Rundown. I feel like we got to it. Got to it quick. Gets you some air, so I know what's side and there. What's the weather looking like. It's it's not too bad. It's just very very humid because it's been raining. And then today's like the first day it's not raining, so it's just like crazy humid out but it's it's fine. Well, you know why, it's raining right because this has been another edition of the Being Zing Zoom podcast.
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