Astrology - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 1/17/23

your car. And I think it's really important to realize that we have free will, we have influences that are with us, but there's a way to make our lives a lot easier if we know what we're dealing with. And that's why I think astrology I call it the

language of compassion. And one of the most beautiful ways to attain peace is to actually understand how to read an astrology chart, because once you see what kind of music you were born with or what the weather is like, aology can give you a type of inner knowing that is very hard to attain in any other way, and it's why I'm so interested in teaching people how to

read charts. I've got another beginner class starting on January thirty, first for four weeks, and I literally feel that it's important for me because there's only one of me out there, so you're important for me to teach people how I do this because it's not something that you can learn from a book, and because I equate it with music. It's like people thinking they can learn how to read

a book and understand how to play the guitar. It's something that you can't learn in those normal, quote unquote normal ways. You have to be able to play it. So because I have this background as an artist and as a writer and illustrator of children's picture books, I think I've figured out a way to make it fun and to make it colorful and easy to understand. Using metaphor, I don't usually talk a lot in astrological language because it just goes in one ear and out the other

for most people. When we take calls next hour and you'll do some readings, what do you want from people? Do you need a birth month and day? I need the birthdate and year for what we're doing now. It doesn't matter where they were born or what time, because I can't get that deep into it, but right just the birthdate and year would be great, and a question,

are you just going to take over from there? Well, if they have a question, usually that's what people start with, So would probably be great if they did have a question. If not, you know, I'm always happy to help in any way I can. Lots of people are my impression, my impression that they're under a lot of stress, anxiety. Some people are depressed. What's going on. Well, we've come to a very very difficult time, and the world as we knew it actually came to an end when we

had the COVID thing happening. And I remember I was on your show before COVID hitting. I said, you know, something's coming down the pike in life as we know it's going to be a lot different. So we're still feeling the side effects of that period, and we are having a hard time settling down into this new reality where everything feels so heightened. Everything feels very angular and sharp. And I think that it's difficult to meditate when you're anxious.

It's hard to think straight when you're depressed. So the key thing for me when people are struggling in this way, the most important thing that can help us is I believe understanding astrology, because once you can understand why you're reacting the way you are, or why the current weather patterns are affecting you the way they are. It can

help you in ways that are impossible to describe. I think about that gentleman who recently took his life, who was the producer with Ellen Stephen twitch Boss his chart and George. He did have two particular things in his chart that indicated some things he had struggled with in terms of his emotions. But the tricky thing is is that when he took his life, the weather pattern on those that particular time was so hard for him that

he probably just popped. I don't think he would have necessarily felt the urge to do what he did if he had understood from an astrological point of view that this was temporary, this was just weather, and it was hitting him in a really hard way. And I think if people can know what's going on, you can settle back into it. It's just like when you're driving your car, or maybe a better example is when you're on an

airplane and you're stuck on the runway. When the captain comes on and tells you what's going on and tries to calm you down. It feels good. You feel better because you're getting some sort of higher view on the situation. But when you're left not knowing, which most people are left not knowing because they don't know how to read astrology, they get very upset and anxious because it is scary.

This world is not easy to comprehend right now. But I think astrology is probably the best way to have peace of mind, and it even helps just in every day to day thing in life. I'll tell you one quick story about something that happened to me a couple of years ago. It was the death of the anniversary have a death of a friend of mine, and I was very upset and I called a girlfriend trying to get comfort because I was really having a hard time, and she said, well, no, this is not a day

to be said. You should be happy that this person died quickly and they didn't suffer, and everything that I felt was completely discounted because in her mind she was trying to get me to switch gears and look on the happy side, but I wasn't in a happy place. This person ended up taking one of my astrology classes, and when she saw the way that I work, the way I deal with emotions. The way my brain works it was very, very different than the way her brain works.

So now our relationship is so much calmer and better because it's not that she's right and I'm wrong. It's just we all have different ways of being. And once you can see it, then you don't get as upset with other people or even with yourself. Because we don't get mad because a porcupine has quills, we don't get mad because a giraffe has a long neck. We accept the way things are designed when we can see it and understand it. And that's what astrology does for people.

You can see it's very clear, and then you can sit back and accept things more easily. What can astrology tell you just about everything? Definitely, just about everything. It

can tell you how you were designed. Most importantly, all of us are like cars, and some of us are ferraris, and some of us are toyotas, and some of us are trucks, and we need to understand that however we're designed, we're perfect just the way we are, but there's a high way of doing it or a low way, and we want to do the highest vibrational version of ourselves. So in the astrology chart, you can see how many

of your tires are properly inflated. So those in astrological language are made up of elements, so there's fire, earth, air, and water. Most people are driving around in vehicles that have all four elements, but many of us, including myself, are completely missing an element. So I have absolutely no air in my chart at all, which doesn't mean that I'm an airhead or that I can't breathe. It just means that I'm either an expert in the area of air or I'm out of whack with it, and so

for me, I get incredibly claustrophobic. I've had sinus surgery twice in my life. I now know that this is the element that I need to put into my life with intention in order to stay balanced. So it means being outside a lot where there's lots of air and space, and being in airplanes traveling is really good for me. So it's an important thing to know how you're balanced with those four elements. And the other thing astrology can do is tell you why you were born. It gives

the entire purpose for your existence. And think of how important that is if you're dealing with a young person like the astrologer who saved my life when I was nineteen. She basically, George knew who I was. I didn't even really know. She knew you better than you did exactly, and so I started studying astrology at that moment because I thought, at the deepest, profound level everything she said to me, and I still remember all of her words, I knew that she was right. And she said, Leslie,

you're incredibly creative. What are you doing with your life? At that time, I wasn't doing anything creative because some teachers in high school or grade school had told me I had no talent and I couldn't draw. Well, guess what, the astrologer was right. I now have twenty children's picture books that I've sold all over the world and have been a designer for Takashimaya and Japan. They made over

one five hundred products with my designs on them. And she also told me back then at age nineteen, that my creative work would first be picked up overseas and shure enough, I was selling t shirts out of the back of my car in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and wrote to Glamour magazine and they did a story about me and someone from Takashimaya in Japan called me up and said, we want to make you famous in Japan. So she

was even right about that. And what's super cool is that there's something called an ast cartography map that an astrologer can look at and it tells you the best places in the world to go for love or work, or if you want to write a book. And for me, the line that goes right through Tokyo is the place where you go for fame and fortune. And so I basically went from obscurity in New Hampshire to becoming a

superstar designer in Tokyo. So even to that degree of accuracy, and you know, I have so many stories about how accurate that astro cartography map is. It's incredibly useful to know. I think about someone who's trying to pick out what college they want to go to. There could be a place in the world that's completely perfect for that student, and astrology is just one more tool in the toolbox. It does not tell you how to live your life, and no one should ever allow planets to dictate what

they do. You want to always go with your intuition and your heart and your brain, but you use it as a tool, and it's an incredibly useful thing that I'm so passionate about because it has totally defined my life and how I live, and I've seen it help so many people. I mean, all of the clients that I've got, all the students that I've got. It changes how you look at the world, and to me, that's like one of the most beautiful things that exist on

this planet. And not enough people understand it. You know, most people are just reading their horoscopes and looking at what other astrologers are telling them they need to do for the next couple of months. I don't really enjoy that type of astrology. I'd rather empower the individual and get them to be able to understand how to move forward in life. So I have a very different emphasis than probably most of the astrologers out there. Can astrology

be overused, Yes, absolutely. There are many people who don't make a move with out you know, looking in the paper at what some astrologers said they should do this week. It's too complicated for that to be that accurate. Too, because every single person's astrology chart is so precise. It's just based on the date, time and place of birth. A birth chart for someone born in China on your exact birthday at the exact same time is going to be totally different if you're born in New York City

because the sky in China is totally different. So all of the various different planets all combine to make up this beautiful music that you're born with. But when people just overuse astrology thinking that their sun sign is the thing that's going to determine everything about how they're supposed to move forward, it's just it upsets me because it's not really the real deal of what astrology can be. This is it's an amazing would you call it a science,

I call it an esoteric science. So we have hard science and then we have interpreted things like acupuncture. So acupuncture and astrology are very similar. Back, you know, fifty years ago, people thought acupuncture was crazy. Now it's part of the medical system. So acupuncture is an interpreted science. You could go to twenty acupuncturists and have a different result, So it depends on who's doing it, and the same

is true for astrology. It's an ancient science and it's an interpreted science, so it's definitely as medically accurate as acupuncture can be, which is why I am so interested in working with doctors and why doctors have been the ones finding me. I did not go looking for doctors who wanted to work with me. They found me because either they had a patient or a client who told them about me, and then they experienced what I could

do for them, and then it just grew. And in one of my classes recently, I had four neurologists taking my astrology one O one class, and it's because they understand that the brain and how we work, there's something very electrical about us, and the neurologist is seeing these patterns and realizing that astrology is similar. Listen to more Coast to Coast am every weeknight at one am Eastern and go to Coast to Coast am dot com for more