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Well, hello, my cosmic witchypoo, how are you?
I am great, my elf, and what are you doing today?
Well, we're actually recording on a weekend, which is not typically normal for us, so it's not right. I mean, we kind of have our recording days, and so my answer to you will be quite different than what it would be if it were during the week. And I just have to tell everybody because what I'm about to tell you, I'm afraid I may have wasted part of my day giving the pre talk that Brendon and I just had about this episode. So I'm a little concerned, but I spent a good part of my day yesterday
at a friend's house here in Santa Fe. They rehabbed an old adobe home and it's gorgeous, by the way, and they have it on the market. So I had volunteered like I always do, because you know, I'm always at home and myself to do like fun things like this. But so I hoed myself to not just clear the property, but to work on the energy of the property, like just their energy, how it feels, how they approach it. So I opened up a new box a black urmaline and oh my mind, it is per tea. Oh it's
so purty. So I go over there with my little box of like turmaline and this. You didn't ask for details, but I'm going to give details anyway. This and I'll tell Verry why I'm concerned about all the time I spent. This is like an over two acre lot. So I'm doing the I start with the outside, I do my clockwise around the property. I'm like doing my little woo woo protection and stuff. I'm also going around giving gratitude
to the trees, to the lizards. And weirdly, this house has has like a septic has septic, and so the leech field, by the way, he felt amazing. It was very strange. I've never walked on a septic and they're like, this feels.
Great, it's finalized.
Yeah, yeah, it's take I'm walking on poo. So so I do that. I also do the the inside of the house and then they tell me that it also had them remove their cords attached to it, because you know, when you rehab a house, it's.
All they're trying to Yeah, they're trying to sell it.
They're trying to sell it, so they need to take their energy out, the good, the bad, all of it. It's not theirs, like I told my said, on paper, it's yours, but spiritually need to make it not yours. You need to make it open for somebody else kind of thing. So they told me this is so crazy that the woman who staged the house, she also lives in the houses when she stages them. M right, No, don't until I find out, until I have more facts.
But my point to in my issue to them was Okay, well that means she's going in and out so it won't remain this the whole time. So I'm going to figure something out in order to do that. So I'm just going to tell everybody what I did because it was really fucking cool and never done it before. I was like, what needs to happen? And it wasn't like a it wasn't like a conscious thing. It's just like I pose the question, which like what I need to do to keep this house? You know, whoever walks in
our out keeps the sparkling, keeps the clean right. So it's the coolest thing. So those who like to practice this type, write this shit down, get you note pad out. So I ended up building I say, I whoever did tell me to do this made these really awesome selenite columns on either side of every door, right, and there's a lot of doors that went in and out of this house, and not only and also in the top,
so like had like the entry away like a door. Right, So created effectively a door without a physical door frame. And here's what it did, and it was spectacular. It sprayed selenite missed onto those that enter in those who exit. It was amazing.
So I want to make sure that we're clear for our audience who can't see your visuals here, Oh can't see my hands that these are energetic selenite hours.
Oh that's fair, right, did not build it?
That's true because it does because it does flake off, so we can look you know what.
That is such a good point. But here was my concern after our pre talk, because you're the one who reminds me of what the hell's going on in the stars, and you're like, oh, retrograde. I'm like, ah, crap, that doesn't go through all this when nobody's supposed to do in contracts or one side won't be happy. And then y'all you're going to find out that that is the least of our worries or we have to contend with
is like the next several hours apparently. So anyway, I wanted to share how I may have allegedly wasted by day yesterday. Now that was five minutes in.
Every is welcome, not at all, not at all. So as we know, mercury went retrograde like ten days ago. Yeah, I wrote that, and and well mercury retrograde is all in you know, the the lexicon that oh, you know, it's a bad thing, but market retrograde is very useful, especially you know this summer's run a little hot for people energetically, people have been really busy and moving around a lot and trying to get a lot done and kind of scrambling, and so mercury retrograde is a reprieve
cosmically speaking, from run round with your hair on fire, right, it says, slow your roll, slow down, take a look at what you're doing, check it twice, be mindful, be intentional, review things that you haven't looked at in a while, to make sure that you can have the outcomes you want, that you can have the future experiences you want. Follow up on those things that are niggling in the back
of your head. Details. Hey, don't forget about this, Hey pay attention to this that you're just not getting to, because these are this is your cosmic invitation to do that. It's like you get a hall pass to say no to obligations, maybe socially, maybe professionally, whatever you have going on, to dive into some details, specifically communications that perhaps aren't clean, that perhaps are a little complicated or could be misinterpreted. Does that make sense?
It so makes sense that I'm want to share you sobretty knows I'm doing homework as we'renda talking. So I just made a sticky note. Oh I have never showed you my sticky note pad. So it has my name on the bottom and it has a black panther on it, and so on my sticky note it says slow your role. And then I put comm because I know what that means communication, and I am now putting it. It's on my desk. So thank you, and again those who get your dope, pat out everybody. Slow your role. Yes it
makes sense because I now have that message. Thank you.
And remember mercury is the god of communications, of messages, of contracts and so much more. But that's this is and the retrograde started in the house of Virgo. And you know, Virgo is the sign of service. It's the sign of It represents the testines in the body, So be mindful of what you're eating during this time.
Really, I didn't know that. Yeah, I thought I knew all this. I did not know that. I didn't know the sign of intestine.
If you if you literally look at the glyph, it's it's like an M with an E on the bottom, and the e like is supposed to represent literally the twisting of the intestines.
No way, Well, I'm drinking KM y'all suggest.
Great for digestion, but it does have some alcohol in it sometimes, so watch for that.
But to say, if you're three and weigh twenty two pounds.
So my point is mercury and it's so Virgo is all about body awareness. So if there have been things that you wanted to tend to physically, whether it's like, hey, I need to schedule my annual or my annual appointment, or hey, I wanted to start a new eating regiment or a new workout regiment or something like that, this is a really good time to get back to those intentions. You know, we're great about setting those intentions at the beginning of the year, but let's face it, it's August.
Some of those things have fallen off the schedule. That was a good time too.
People need to follow my new year's resolutions. And it's all about sarcasm, So like where can I interject sarcasm and more places in my life? That does not take the stars to tell you. It's just come naturally.
It just constantially. So again, but this is a body focus. As this mercury GRoWES retrograde, so so there are things during this time that says, what do I owe people. What are some things that I said I'd commit to people and that I haven't followed through it. I haven't been able to follow through on. Now's a good time to follow through. It'll just feel better. I'll just feel better.
So okay, So okay, we're we're to break though. Sorry, Okay, nope, go ahead, Okay, take a quickie because this isn't the only thing happening, y'all. So buckle up and we're going to take a quickie. And Brenda's going to finish her thought after the quick break that I totally ruely interrupted. But we'll be right back, everybody. Welcome back, everybody here, we are. Bren's going to school us on the cosmos.
But I just wanted to say that I hope I've given you some ways to embrace mercury retrograde instead of the you know, fear mongering that gets done in the social media that says it's a bad things. Yeah, and again, for the people who want to sell their newly renovated home, what my invitation would be, it's it is a tough time to initiate that things because it's time to review and rewrite and you know, rejuvenate like this is these are the things that you want to do during this time.
But also think about the people who've tried to buy so many houses and couldn't get it complete. So now is the time to see, hey, let's review what we need in a house so and get really clear about the buyer we want and if you're looking for a house, the details that, let's let's maybe we need to renegotiate with our set within ourselves of what we want to
have in a home. So it's not it's not a time that you can't buy homes at all, but it is a time where you would want to have the contract double checked just to make sure everything's exactly what you think it is.
So that's yea.
So the reason we took this the August fourteenth episode is because it's just a really intense day cosmically, and so this comes out on the fourteenth, and we want to give you a heads up so hopefully y'all will listen to this on the fourteenth that by the time you get this, the moon will have squared Venus. And
this is so the moon is our emotional world. Venus is what we value and love and relationships, So this is you know, a couple of days before a couple of days after the moon is a fast moving planet, so there is that, but there could be an intensity to how you're navigating your relationship, even how you are thinking about yourself of how you want to be in relationship you know, not even so much about the other person, but really put uesus as an opportunity to say, how
am I doing in this relationship? Am I showing up? Am I giving it a shot? Or am I just focused on what I'm not getting? Like? How am I showing up in this relationship?
Are those the only relationships that we should assess or should we be looking at? Or relationships with whomever, family, friends, work, anything like? Or is it just in a personal.
Like that all all relationships. It doesn't have to be specific to a love relationship.
I'm asking for a friend, so yes, in here with me and she was wondering doesn't mean dogs and to her everything does.
Absolutely All I cares about is treat But really question, like, take this cosmic energy and use it to your benefit? That says, how am I assessing? How I am showing up in all my relationships? What are the ones I'm moving towards? And what are the ones I'm I'm moving away from, And how can I be more authentic or intentional or more exact in my communications so that I have a better chance of getting what I want? Like, that's what's really helpful.
That's great again, y'all get your note pads out. I'm not talking about this, whether they are sticky notes that you designed yourself, or whether it is just a regular It could be one of those big old like notepads that you just to have a school whatever. Just get something out right, shit down nice.
So that's the first thing that happens early on the fourteenth, at three twenty seven am, and then at time Eastern time. This is eastern. Yes, thank you sick you would want to know. So next eleven twenty one am Eastern time, we have Mars, right, the planet of initiation, the planet of you know, it can be anything from being ambitious to aggressive, right, it can be all in that spectrum.
That energy that's super intense and moving forward. Is right next to or conjoint the planet Jupiter, which is the largest planet. It's super expansive. It expands the energy of whatever it's next to. So you've got Jupiter, the expansive says I'm going.
To amplify it.
I'm going to amplify whatever next.
Next to next to.
You know this very direct Mars, and it's in the sign of Gemini, and Gemini is all about expression, right, and so in communication write chat chat chat chat chat. So watch your mouth is what I want to say during.
Okay, that's my next note that I'm writing down to everybody knows, which is and that should have been my first one. I'm literally writing it down. Uh WITCHI pooh, So I'm gonna. I'm just gonna it's w p W dot p w says Sez, watch your mouth, y'all. I promise I'm writing this down. I go prove it. Poo as watch your mouth and roll and watch your.
Mouth, because really, when we have marketing retrograde, it can it can cloud our communication anyhow. And that and when you put this fiery in this of Mars next to the expander Jupiter, you're not really sure what's going to come out right sometimes, so you just have to take just one extra breath before you express, just one extra breath. Is this the best way to communicate this? Is this going to be worth whatever comes out on the other side? Yes,
my alph is raising her hand. Yes, there's a question.
On the audience. That's a question. Okay, here's my question, and what I watch this is all about how we are to deal with ourselves. Let me ask a question. What happens if you're in a switch and what you're talking about? So other people are not watching their mouth, they're not slowing their role. What do we do?
Then you just giggle and go I love how in tune you are with the cosmos.
Okay, I'm going to write that down. There's my response. I love how in tune you are.
Because of course, our first impression is going to be like, are you kidding me? This is so intense, you're just being a jerk. Blah blah blah blah blah. Right, we re resist what comes at us when it's really strong and it doesn't feel supportive or it seems study or they're running over you or whatever it feels like. But you can pause and breathe and go, oh, they're cooking under the same sky, in the same cosmos. I am. I can take a breath here, nice nicely played, my alpha.
You have beautiful penmanship. Thanks, So you don't have to take it personally when it's coming at you. And she just has put her three post it notes in a connection and lifted them up on the screen like a scroll, like a sacred scroll.
It is, it is my sacred scroll for August fucking fourteen.
So again, we don't have to take this when things come at us feels aggressive, we don't have to take it personally. And we can also not contribute to the intensity and piling on if these things seem closer like they're on the bubble. So you know what, this can wait till next week. Just give yourself the hall pass, you know, just give yourself.
Your bed man. It's a choice, it's a choice. Go to the spa calling stick. I'm calling in cosmo illness.
Got a cosmic hangover. So then we have one more one more situation aspect in the sky, and that's at one thirty pm Eastern time when the moon comes back into play and is an opposite that activated Mars. Right. So again, remember the moves is our fastest moving planet, right, and so it's it's literally slid in opposite in the sky of Mars. And so what happens when planets are opposite is they want to reach a compromise they want to. So if Mars is in Gemini, so then it's in
such Terius. Sorry, just took me a minute to spare. Which is the way well said, cherious is fire, So this is so we got fire and air. So again we have to watch it. And now compare to Mars, the moon energy is emotional, so it's more subtle. It's
it's just more subtle energy than the fire of Mars. Right, and so we're going to We're just going to have it be really just be really aware that you've got these elements happening and you may have to do some cosmic cleanup from what happened in the morning when Mars was next to Jupiter.
Right. I was just going to ask, is this a whole Jekyll and Hyde day? Yeah, it could be, you know, it's like it could be really aware whether it's you or if it's somebody in your orbit hunt. It was totally intended.
Yes, it's nice, nicely played, nicely played, my help, So just be aware because you can have that that regret you can have and it could be like I'm I wish I would have said that kind of situation too. You could have like, oh, I wish I would have said this in that situation.
You can still those days.
Well, you know, it happens, But give yourself the grace that says, I now have more information, I'm more clear about how I feel about this, and I wasn't able to communicate it in the moment. Would you have that conversation with me? Could you could you listen to me? Would you be open to revisiting this like these are these are things, and especially in mercury retrograde, it's absolutely appropriate to call for a do over like that's what That's what the retrograde gives us. I got to take
another look. Can we try it again?
And golf? We called it a mull again? But what else?
Nice? Nice?
All right?
The time take a break.
I think we should take a break on Mulligan. We're not getting it right now. Mulligan will be right back for a home for a hole in one. All right, y'all, hold on nice, but keep your notebooks out. Okay, everybody, we are moving off of the Mulligan to do over, and we are moving into whatever the hell we'ren is going to talk about.
You go, so our last aspect I want to talk about for the fourteenth for August fourteenth. Is happens at eight fourteen pm Eastern time when Mercury, the planet that is retrograde, goes slides back into Leo. Right, we know that it's leaving Virgo that has been in and it's moving backwards. Yes, my ELF's home state, her sunside, her sun sig.
Everybody so excited.
This is a really great time. So where you get to take another look at all those aspects of your life that happen in Leo. So you think about reviewing your creative forces. Are you tending to them like a lot of times, you know, brilliant insights we have come from when we're playing, not when we're focused on the problem. When we when we go do something creative, like my elf. You've done so many creative things, from thrown pottery to making jewelry to you know, like you do all kinds of things.
Right, every time I sought to do something spectacular, it never happened. When I was just being in Elf. Is when it all magically like rained down on me.
Yeah, when you're getting creative, Yeah, when.
I was exercising my creativity or even like my you know, meditation, emotion types of things, that's when it's all there. When I overtax my head and try to like be all logical and air signy, it's like, Nope, not happening.
So and this is and the other thing that Leo has is this childlike energy. So that's why I think of playing I know, ip it, I'm just making it up now, just spitballing here. But to be that childlike energy now it can also be this may also be at a chance for you to review. Perhaps there's a child in your life that you're reviewing how to engage. It could be a child who you know has something that you want to be able to support and bring
out more. Could be a child who needs extra support in a special way that you haven't figured out yet. That may be the situation, or you couldn't be asking yourself, are you do you feel about having children? Like? It could even be that kind of aspect that wants to be revisited.
So or if you're find always landing on a childlesscat lady, we're all good.
Exactly. But there is a creative Leos are known for their creative expression, right, and so be thinking about how could I challenge myself to be more creatively expressed my always making literally making faces.
I mean that I am.
The other thing about the Leo energy is that it usually has a bent or a gift for having a very unique expression and bringing that forward. And so there may be some aspect if you don't have strong Leo in your charge. So I'm not speaking necessarily to the Leos who have full access to that, but for the rest of us, if you don't have a strong Leo in your chart, you may challenge yourself that says, how can I step forward and show more of myself? Right as Yeah, just like yeah, just like Luly did.
Are you talking about me Leo?
Yeah?
She's like, this is how you do it. You move in your dance, Mama, you move in your dance. No, I get a hold of my Leo.
She is something else, that's for sure. So these are the invitations. Now, the final thing I want to point to while we're wrapping up our astrology episode here does not happen on the fourteenth. So aren't you glad you get a hall pass? Okay, no more fourteenth aspects.
You can get out from under the vent on the fifteenth and now you can welcome what.
So we have a super blue moon, super blue super a full blue moon on August fourteenth, So on August eighteenth, excuse me, the eighteenth. Enough with the fourteenth eighteen.
We're done with the fourteenth. We've moved on.
Yes, So when a season, a season has four full moons in it, which it doesn't always, but the summer of twenty twenty four has four blue has four full moons. The third of the four full moons is called a blue moon. So that's where the.
Name comes from.
Yeah, I want to go yeah, it's literal, and shit, sadly no, because that would be really cool. This also happens to be the first of four consecutive supermoons. Now, the supermoons happen when the moon is thirteen thousand, six hundred miles closer to the Earth than a normal moon, and it appears fourteen percent larger than the normal moons. So when it's especially when it's coming up over the horizon, you're just like, what's happening. It's O.
When you're in when you're in the high mountains, the high desert mountains, it's going to be like it's huge next door.
Yeah, it's like you can touch it. It's significantly Now, yeah, it's significantly vage talking right, so so, so I just wanted to point out, well, we can talk more about this later, but the the full moon on the eighteenth happens at twenty seven degrees Aquarius, and it is going to awaken this emotional drive with a perspective for the greater collective. And just be aware of the intensity of when the moon is closer to the Earth, it's just
more intense. And it's this extraordinary illumination for your path forward of how you want to bring your light to help the collective. It could be a community effort, it could be a family effort, it could be I don't know how it is something. Maybe it's a small offering you want to sto.
Just give everybody a little hands.
A book club like, whatever you want to do for both, yeah, whatever like bring an offer like or kamala whatever whatever it is that you like. So anyhow, it's going to be big. It's going to be supercharged. And take time to care for what you want to bring forward, which means there are things you have to release as you become emotionally aware. You have to make space for the grace. So what am I going to release? What gets in
the way of me contributing in a larger way. That's what I want you to think about.
I'm practicing everybody's just so you know of everything, Brenda says, and stick he's talking about it now too. So our dogs are very very active today. This is incredible. I love this so much and I like, now have four sticky notes. Suki's asking, Suki kim here you jack ass came here, so she comes, she knows, she knows her name. This is incredible. So everybody get just get buckle up, get ready, and I'm so excited. So Suki, okay with that, I said, just.
Try and take advantage of leveraging this this energy you're cooking in. So that's it. Don't fight it, leverage it, make it work.
You love it.
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