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Navigating the upcoming Mars retrograde will require fortitude and resolve. While the journey may be treacherous, the reward on the other side is a greater sense of self-confidence, worth, and direction.
Mars retrogrades roughly every two years for a period of 8-11 weeks. As an inner planet, its influence on our daily lives is significant. Mars is associated with energy, drive, passion, and ambition. However, during its retrograde phase, this fiery energy can manifest in more challenging ways, triggering our fight-or-flight response.
The upcoming Mars retrograde, from December 6, 2024, to February 23, 2025, presents an opportunity for deep healing and transformation. By addressing our pain, frustration, and worry, we can contribute to the collective healing process. This retrograde period can also accelerate our cellular and DNA evolution, leading to greater clarity, wisdom, and experience.
During this time, we may encounter testing moments, both personally and interpersonally. By practicing empathy, setting boundaries, and offering support, we can navigate these challenges with grace.
The retrograde begins in Leo, a sign associated with ego, creativity, and self-expression. We may experience fluctuations in self-esteem and a decrease in vitality. It's essential to prioritize self-care, engage in creative activities, and practice self-compassion.
As Mars moves into Cancer, a more introspective and sensitive sign, we may become emotionally vulnerable and prone to overthinking. This is a time for introspection, healing past wounds, and developing our emotional intelligence.
By the time Mars stations direct on February 23, 2025, we will have undergone significant personal growth. The challenges of the retrograde will have paved the way for a more conscious and fulfilling future.
As we navigate this transformative period, let us embrace the opportunity to heal, grow, and evolve. By approaching the retrograde with patience, trust, and a willingness to learn, we can emerge stronger and more aligned with our higher selves.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi everyone, it's a Mata riger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Today we have a special episode and a really important episode.
We're going to talk about Mars retrograde. You've heard me
mention this in the past few weeks, but I wanted
to do a deep dive. Give you a roadmap so
you can navigate. We can all navigate this energy with
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some grace, some patience and trust because it's going to
take a little bit of fortitude and resolve on all
of our parts. But what will come out of this
through the experience and on the other side as we
move into twenty twenty five, is a greater sense of
self confidence, self worth, strength, clarity and direction forward. So
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the other side of this is pretty darn brilliant. The
way through it is gonna get a little treacherous, So
let's dive in. Mars retrogrades just like all of the
other planets, but it retrogrades about every two or so years,
so it doesn't happen too often, but it happens often enough.
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Every two years will do for me. And when it retrogrades,
it retrogrades for about eight to eleven weeks, so it's
a good chunk of time. What is Mars. Mars is
an inner planet, which means we feel it a little
bit more intensely in the day. Today we've got outer
planets like Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Urinus, Pluto, and they move slower,
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so they connect with us throughout our lifetime. From an
evolutionary and soul level, life level perspective, the inner plant, Curry,
Venus and Mars interact with us on the daily. And
then have the Sun and Moon, which are actually not planets,
but in astrology we'd call them planets. So you got
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the Sun and the Moon and then Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Mars is fiery. It represents and personifies drive, courage, ambition, fight, anger, aggression, sex, desire, passion, enthusiasm, courage.
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Think of all of those fiery words and attributes that
give you your umph, your get up and go, or
your hot headedness, your reactionary behavior, your I'm furious about
this or oh my gosh, I'm delighted about this. It's
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it's all of that passion. So it's emotional and fiery.
There's creativity, and when Mars energy is funneled, it is
pure positive potential. When it is funneled well and wisely
and directed through the body and into the heart. That's
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where the juice is. But we're human. We are having
a human experience here, and we've got people, We've got emotions,
we've got bills to pay, children, to take care of, people,
to break up with, whatever is on your plate. We
have life that happens, and Mars is Oftentimes that energy
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is what triggers our fight or flight and that is
one of the things as we shift and evolve and
move into fifth dimensional energy or hope to evolve in
that direction, we are healing old PTSD as a species,
as humanity around fight or flight, where it is survival
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of the fittest. So think of this Mars retrograde if
you want to think about it for from a higher perspective,
from a fifth dimensional perspective, think about the phase from
December sixth, twenty twenty four to February twenty third of
twenty twenty five. That's the span. Think of this phase
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as I'm not just healing my own pain and anger
and frustration and fear and doubt and worry and suffering.
I am healing myself in order to gift that to
the collective so we can heal trauma and fight or
flight energy PTSD in our cells, in our DNA, And
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for me, that's what says, Okay, girlfriend, you can do
this like this is for something bigger. Through this, we
will be brighter, smarter, clearer, healthier, wiser, more experienced, more directed.
And I want you all to remember that and guess what.
You're going to forget it twenty five times between now
and February twenty third, and you're going to say I quit,
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I give up. Everybody's against me. I can't do it.
I'm so angry. Life is unfair. I mean, all of
it is going to come out for each one of us.
So guess what. We don't have to do this alone.
We get to do it together. So one of the
things I want to suggest to everyone before I get
started and dive into the specifics and some of the
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road mapping is between December sixth and February twenty third.
And if you need to write this down on your
calendar and put some reminders in do it. You may
have your testing moments, your fears and frustrations come up,
but when you notice them in other people, because you will,
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where can you be supportive? Where can you set a
boundary or not enable. Where can you reach out and say, hey,
how can I be of service to you today? So
remember that you don't have to do this alone. We're
not doing this alone. We get to move through this
together and we're all experiencing the same transit. So don't
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feel alone and connect with other people. Or shoot, if
you're talking to a friend and they don't know anything
about astrology, be like, oh, you're having a bad day,
it's just Mars, and they'll just look at you sideways
and you'll be like, just don't worry about it. It's Mars.
It's not you. It's Mars. And I'm not talking about
spiritual bypassing. I'm just making a joke so you can
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lighten the mood. Because guess what. Laughter is a medicine. Laughter, joy, fun, ease.
Those things will heal and help you create an easier
transition through this. So here are the specifics. On December sixth,
Mars will retrograde at six degrees of leo, So we
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have six degrees of leo that Mars is going to
back through from six degrees to zero degrees of leo,
and that occurs between December sixth and January sixth, and
then on January sixth, as we're in early twenty twenty five,
MARS will back up into cancer from twenty nine degrees
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of cancer through backing up all the way through seventeen
degrees of cancer. So it's the first six degrees of
LEO and then it backs all the way through cancer
till it hits seventeen degrees. Find this in your natal chart.
Figure out what house or houses MARS is retrograding in,
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because that will help you better understand what you're dealing
with and you will recognize what lessons may be coming
up for you and creating anger, frustration, fear, lack of
energy or enthusiasm, and where you feel your lethargy or
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your lack of vitality. That way, you can give yourself
some grace and you'll know where to ask for help.
Or you can also say, oh, no wonder, I'm struggling
professionally because oh great, it's in my tenth house of
career or no wonder, I feel so depleted creatively, I'm
not having fun, I'm not enjoying myself, I don't feel
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passionate about anything. I just feel depressed and block. Oh
it might be in your fifth House of creativity. And
if you don't know your natal chart, there will be
a link in the show notes, so you can pull
a free natal chart and you put in your birth information.
And in order to do that, you need the time
you were born obviously, the date you're born, the location
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you're born. And if you don't know the time you
were born, because there are a lot of people out
there who don't know that, you can do unknown time
and time and you'll get an approximation. But you may
not be able to get your house system. But get
your natal chart and figure out what degrees and what
house is Mars is retrograding in, and that way you
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can say, Okay, Mars is retrograde in my second house.
What is the second house about? Oh? The second house
is about self worth, how we value ourselves, our own
personal values and money, the material world. Okay, shoot, no
wonder I'm having a ton of financial fear, or I'm
feeling that I am not worthy or valuable, or I'm
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feeling underappreciated. Oh shoot, if Mars is in my freaking
second house, and by the way, that's where mine is.
My retrograde is in my second house. So I'm like whoooo.
That sounds like a lot of fun. But I'm here
for it and I'm here for all of you. So
we'll start with LEO energy and then we'll move into
cancer energy. So from December sixth until January sixth, Mars
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will retrograde in LEO. Think about LEO energy. Leo is
rule the sun. It is a fire sign, as is Mars.
Mars is fiery. Leo is fiery, so there's passion and creativity.
LEO is about the healthy development of ego more than anything.
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LEO is about shining its light, generosity and the healthy
development of ego. What does the healthy development of ego mean?
The ego is always guiding and directing us, And the
question is is my ego directing me from a place
of fear or a place of love? And most of
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us throughout this life, the ego is like saying, I
want what I want, and I want it now, and
I'm desperate for it and I need it or else
I'm doomed. Like that's kind of the energy that the
ego creates. And it's not doing it on purpose to
keep us down. It's just trying to give us what
we want. But it's in this misguided way and a
huge pathway for all of us in this life time
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is interconnecting our ego with our higher consciousness. We need
the ego, it gets a bad rap, and Leo is
the sign of the ego. It's ruled by the Sun,
for goodness sakes, and who's the center of the solar system.
Look at me? Look at me, I ai the Sun Leo.
And I say that with a lot of love, because
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you've got a smile. Leo's are the great performers. They
love attention, they love being seen. And it's funny because
they're kind of reserved and closed off and sometimes aloof
and hard to get to know. But think of the
Leos in your life, or if you are a Leo,
think of those attributes. Those are the attributes that are
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going to be a bit strained, diminished, turned inwards, so
they are repressed. And that repression when Mars is retrograde,
that assertion and drive and energy, especially in the sign
of Leo, it's going to do a number on our
self confidence because Leo is about again this healthy expression
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of ourselves, creative, spontaneous self expression. So we're gonna feel
a diminished and depleted vitality. The sun is about vitality,
so that is your physical vitality. You may feel exhausted
or run down, and it is imperative through this to
remember to honor your body, honor what you're feeling, but
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also practice discernment on are you just pulling the covers
over your head and have you done that for three
days in a row, or can you pull the covers
over your head and sleep in an extra twenty minutes
and then get up and show up for life. So
finding some balance is important while listening to yourself and
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your needs. But there is a real tendency to beat
up on ourselves with Mars retrograde in Leo. Really that
inner self critic will be off the chain, like you're
not enough, you're not doing enough, You're not worthy, you're
not special, you're not unique, you don't have unique talents.
God is mad at you. You know, nobody loves you all.
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I mean, I am just coming up with the wildest rhetoric,
but that's the rhetoric that will be playing. And I'll
tell you what, instead of always hearing that in your head,
feel where it shows up in your body, Like it's
just this sense of your heart shutting down, and I
want everybody to notice, especially with mars retrograde in Leo,
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when you feel tightness in your chest, like when whether
your shoulders are hurting so it's in the shoulder area,
or you feel tension in your chest. And a really
great practice, and I've shared this before but I love
to do it, is to take the palm of my
hand and place it on my sternum and just rub
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in circles on my sternum because it activates my heart chakra.
And when I do it, I naturally roll my shoulders
back and lift my chin up, so I'm opening the
area between my heart chakra and my throat chakra. I'm
literally rolling my shoulders back, which helps me with my posture.
And if anybody loves good posture, it's Leo. They love
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you know, good regal posture. But to roll your shoulders back,
lift your chin up, and then massage your breastplate your sternum,
activate the heart center, Breathe into your chest cavity, and
think about your heart chakra, not just from the front side,
but from the backside. I think about my heart chakra,
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and I think about my back and my lungs, and
like that's where my angel wings are. So when I
think of the heart chakra, we always kind of come
from the front orientation of our body, and I'm like,
but no, our angel wings are in the back. Like
it's it covers that whole area of the heart and
the lungs and the expansiveness. So maybe when you rub
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your sternum and you self soothe and you say, I
am enough, I am worthy, I'm a divine child of God,
I am seeded from the divine, I am uniquely and
wonderfully made, this is a beautiful time to really go
within and reprogram because this is what's being asked of
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us throughout Mars. Retrograde is a deep, unconscious, subconscious reprogramming.
And that's where I get excited about this. When that
old rhetoric of your not enough, you're not doing enough,
you don't you're not special, you don't have talents, you're
never going to be successful. I mean again, I'm using
the biggest broad strokes I can with some of the
most depleting and diminishing language. But anytime that stuff comes up,
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come to your heart space, massage your sternum, breathe in
and out, create space, create good posture, open up your
heart and to your throat, and reprogram the subconscious. Enough,
I am worthy, my cup runneth over. My divine talents
are shining through organically. The ideal people, places and scenarios
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are showing up to support my path forward, and I
get to support theirs. The other thing that I want
to mention with Mars retrograde and Leo, and this is
the practices or the antidotes. Laughter is one of them.
So wherever you can laugh or dance or express your
creativity just to move your body a little bit, that
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is helpful. And I'll tell you what. In the Northern
Finite hemisphere, it's the dead of winter, so it's the
time we like to hibernate. We go to bed early,
it gets dark early, and we're like, oh, I'm just
not going to go work out tonight, or oh I'm
just going to get bad. I'm not going to go
meet my friends for dinner. If you're feeling that, because
it's already winter, Mars retrograde is going to push down
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on that. So if you are prone to depression, just
be mindful of that. Move your body, whether you go
on a wall or you stand up and do jumping jacks,
or you are finding some way to get your body
moving and shake in just a little bit at a time,
it will be helpful. The other practice that I want
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to share is LEO. When it shines its light, it's
the great performer. And when it leads, leads with its heart,
leads with its generous heart, and shines its light, it
lights up a room, It inspires and entertains other people.
So if you are feeling low and down and depressed,
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you say, who can I reach out to to inspire today?
I may not feel inspired or be inspired, but let
me pick up the phone and love on somebody else.
And it's not acting as if energy. It's getting out
of yourself LEO self, self, self, III, me, me, me,
and into the generosity of the heart. Let me check
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on so and so today. And I know for me,
maybe the best example I have to use this being
in recovery. One of the things that I know is
when I get out of myself and I am of service,
it creates a healing for me. And the motive is
not selfish. It's more let me get out of myself
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and then next thing you know, I am feeling uplifted.
I am feeling like I have been useful or helpful
or productive, and I've gotten out of the voice in
my head and the little snarky minutia that I have
a hard time shutting off. And then I've gotten into
truly wanting to love, on support or connect with another person.
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And the next thing, you know, I feel light, I
feel delighted. So get out of yourself and be of service.
Those are the tricks for Mars retrograde and Leo. Just
remember you may feel depressed, you may feel lethargic, you
may really be beating up on yourself with the voice
in your head. All of it is a fake out
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walk through this reprogram the subconscious. We've got this, and
don't forget it. Don't forget that when you're like, oh shoot,
it's going to be like the fifteenth of the month
and you're going to be hearing the chatter and you're like,
why am I feeling so bad? And I'd be like, ugh,
Mars is retrograde, and Leo, don't forget And it may
not just be that, but I'm giving you the astrological roadmap.
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January sixth. That game changes. January sixth, That game changes,
The game changes and Mars backs up into cancer. All right,
Cancer is a water sign. It is the sign of
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nurture and comfort, wisdom. It's the healer, the mother. It
is protective, it is compassionate and loving. It is highly intuitive.
And then on the flip side, it is controlling, micromanaging, vindictive, manipulative,
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and overly sensitive, wearing its heart on its sleeve. So
when Mars fial Mars moves into cancer, Mars is not
comfortable in cancer, even when it's going direct. Why is
it not comfortable? Well, Mars is a big old ball
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of fire and cancer is like this beautiful running stream
of water. Those two things, you know, Like the big
fireball crashes into the beautiful, lovely stream with the birds chirping.
It's oil and vinegar. So is it going to create
extra sensitivity? Yes? Is it gonna burst open some psychic abilities?
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Oh heck yes, if you work it, it's sure will
it'll really burst open some intuitive abilities. But in order
to do that, you have to recognize where you're taking
things to personally, because it will feel very sensitive. It
will feel like people are forgetting about you, or people
aren't seeing how important you are, or they said something
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and we're rude, and it was all about you. So
again it's I, I me, me me, But it takes
everything personally, and you will feel we will feel sensitive,
sensitive emotionally, we may feel a bit fragile. So going
from this redevelopment of ego, this refining of ego, we're
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gonna feel a bit fragile as mars backs up into
cancer and what can come out of that is a
tremendous amount of passive aggressive behavior. Cause cancer isn't so
direct like I'll cut you, like that's not really cancer.
Cancer's like, oh, okay, bless your heart, asshole, excuse my language,
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But that's kind of like it's a little I'm just
being cheeky here, and I love my cancers. I'm a
cancer rising. But literally, I'm just giving you the lay
of the land of how these sneaky behaviors can turn
inward on us and retaliate. So it can be a
bit manipulative. Passive aggressive meaning not wanting to confront stuff
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and then sneaking around and do it in the background
or talking behind someone's back rather than addressing something to
someone's face and saying, hey, you hurt my feelings or
when you did this, I felt this way and talking
to someone face to face. Instead you backdoor it and
you're like, did you know what they did to me? Oh?
I can't believe they did this. It's like water cooler
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talk that goes awry. So your best bet is when
you feel pain, when you feel sensitive, freaking use your
disclaimer and tell on yourself or say, hey, gosh, you
said that, and I don't know what you meant by it,
but man I took it personally. Gosh, I took it personally.
I don't know if I'm just sensitive today or are
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you actually upset with me. It's like, grow some khonas literally,
and as I'm saying this to you all, I am
saying it to myself. Grow some kahonas and be able
to say, Gosh, are you in a mood today? Or like,
did I do something to offend you? Because that was
really blunt or you just totally left me out of that.
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I mean, like, get direct, but not in an ugly way.
More like, let's get this out on the table because
I don't like, I don't want to feel all this
emotional turmoil. And when we feel emotional turmoil, think about this.
If we are co creators of our own realities, either
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conscious or unconscious. Our thoughts are writing the program and
the emotions are the freaking jet fuel. So it's like
having a resentment. You are resenting re feeling the same
thing over and over, and you are re enforcing an
old program or a negative feeling or a fear based
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experience over and over. And that is starting to write
the code internally. That's being interpreted externally. It's deep stuff.
But when you start, at least for me, when I
think about it that way, I am so motivated to
resiliently reprogram the code. Ooh, I'm feeling icky. What is
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this that I'm feeling? Let me look at my side
of the street. Actually, maybe I should call somebody and
get them to help walk me through this, or you
show me what I am not seating in my blind spot.
So this is a wonderful time to seek wise counsel one,
to confront things and nip them in the bud, and
not in an ugly way, just like, hey, let's put
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our cards out on the table. When you said this,
I felt this way. What's going on with you? Did
you mean that? Just clear the air as fast as
you can and you will not only feel batter. You
will also probably realize, gosh, they were having a bad
day that wasn't about me at all. WHOA I take
a lot of things personally or man, I need to
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grow up a little bit. Not everything is about me.
I mean, you may have some massive revelations that can
be super beneficial. The other thing is what we're getting
worked out is our emotional intelligence. Our emotional quotients are
going to be tested, and our emotions are a huge
component of our mind, body, spirit experience. And if we
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are getting an upgrade here, paying attention to how you
feel and where that shows up in your body because
that will help you with your intuition. And this is
a beautiful time to strengthen intuition and to learn to
better listen to your gut, your instincts. So notice where
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you are feeling tension, pain, or there is something physically
going on in your body. Where does the pain go?
Is it gut stuff for you? Is it stomach stuff?
Is it lower back? Is it upper back? Is it
your jaw? Is it headaches? Is it your joints? Where
are your achilles heels? Sensitive places in your body where
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your body accumulates pain, trauma, emotional gunk, fear and tension.
And if you can start to connect some dots, you
can start to create some conscious awareness for healing. And
when you heal things and recognize things in your physical body,
it actually it does a multiple things on a biological
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and physiological scale, but on the quantum field, it starts
to align and get us in better sink. And I
mentioned that during this time our intuition could be heightened.
The reason for that is because cancer is very wise,
knowing and intuitive when it's in its highest form, it's
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just the sign and the energy that provides wise counsel
and wisdom. And that is because cancer is connected with
our psychology. Cancer in the astrological wheel is the lowest
point on the astrological chart, so it's south. You know,
if you did north, south, east west, it is south.
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And that is our psychology. And what my favorite astrologer,
Stephen Forrest, always says about cancer is the question to
ask is what brings me happiness at this time? What
does happiness look like for me? And that may not
sound like it's related to cancer, but it is. It's
like when am I happy? Like what brings me happiness today?
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And that is when we are in tune with what
brings us a sense of happiness. Usually we are in
tune with our psychology. And on the flip side of that,
what doesn't bring me happiness, what makes me unhappy, grumpy
and moody, because cancer is moody, it's watery and moody,
it's emotional. But you want to be able to utilize
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and alcamize your emotions so you can a find greater
happiness through the remainder of this transit while Mars is
in cancer. Because I think on the other side of it,
as Mars stations direct on the twenty third of February,
and that will happen at nine pm Eastern on February
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twenty third, twenty twenty five. And I tell you what,
the astrology gets pretty wild and crazy and exciting after February,
March and April, May and June have really exhilarating astrology.
Some big outer planets are making changes. So it feels
like this Mars retrograde is a divine set up to
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re wire us, rewire old fears, anger, aggression, whether they
are sensitive and internalized and emotional like in cancer, or
they are related to our confidence and our empowerment and
our sense of joy de vive leo. This is a
big transit, and I believe that we will all grow
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tremendously and it's gonna be a little achy, it's gonna
be painful. We will say things and do things that
come out sideways. But the question is how quickly can
you own your side of the street, own your stuff,
use your disclaimers, and get back on your path into
that fifth dimensional heart space. That will open up more trust,
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more love, more connectivity and compassion. And that's what will
open you up not only to enhanced intuition, but living
through higher consciousness, which is really going to be a
theme of twenty twenty five with the numerology and the astrology.
So look at this as a divine setup, navigate it
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a day at a time, and remember we are not alone.
Reach out to people, check in on other people, and
know that we're all walking through this transit together. But
through the other side of it, there is tremendous healing
and growth that is really clearing out some old gunk
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in our genetics, and it is repairing DNA, especially in
the reptilian brain. I think that's what's being worked so
much is our fight or flight reptilian brain that is
pretty antiquated in terms of our reality and experience today,
and for us to ascend that that piece of the brain,
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which is very integral to our experience, it is sometimes
disconnected from our higher states of consciousness. And I feel
like this Mars transit and retrograde is giving us an
upgrade biologically and psycho spiritually. So get into it and
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reach out and share experiences as we all walk through this,
because I'm curious to see what people are struggling with
or where people are having AHA moments, especially in dealing
with fear and pain and suffering and anger, and how
you're alchemizing it, how you're healing it, and where you're
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able to share that healing and your healing journey to
inspire other people. Thank you all for joining me. May
the Force be with you. Take care everyone. Thank you
so much for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions,
do not hesitate to reach out. Email us podcast at
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Hi everyone, it's a Mata riger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Today we have a special episode and a really important episode.
We're going to talk about Mars retrograde. You've heard me
mention this in the past few weeks, but I wanted
to do a deep dive. Give you a roadmap so
you can navigate. We can all navigate this energy with
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some grace, some patience and trust because it's going to
take a little bit of fortitude and resolve on all
of our parts. But what will come out of this
through the experience and on the other side as we
move into twenty twenty five, is a greater sense of
self confidence, self worth, strength, clarity and direction forward. So
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the other side of this is pretty darn brilliant. The
way through it is gonna get a little treacherous, So
let's dive in. Mars retrogrades just like all of the
other planets, but it retrogrades about every two or so years,
so it doesn't happen too often, but it happens often enough.
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Every two years will do for me. And when it retrogrades,
it retrogrades for about eight to eleven weeks, so it's
a good chunk of time. What is Mars. Mars is
an inner planet, which means we feel it a little
bit more intensely in the day. Today we've got outer
planets like Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Urinus, Pluto, and they move slower,
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so they connect with us throughout our lifetime. From an
evolutionary and soul level, life level perspective, the inner plant, Curry,
Venus and Mars interact with us on the daily. And
then have the Sun and Moon, which are actually not planets,
but in astrology we'd call them planets. So you got
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the Sun and the Moon and then Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Mars is fiery. It represents and personifies drive, courage, ambition, fight, anger, aggression, sex, desire, passion, enthusiasm, courage.
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Think of all of those fiery words and attributes that
give you your umph, your get up and go, or
your hot headedness, your reactionary behavior, your I'm furious about
this or oh my gosh, I'm delighted about this. It's
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it's all of that passion. So it's emotional and fiery.
There's creativity, and when Mars energy is funneled, it is
pure positive potential. When it is funneled well and wisely
and directed through the body and into the heart. That's
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where the juice is. But we're human. We are having
a human experience here, and we've got people, We've got emotions,
we've got bills to pay, children, to take care of, people,
to break up with, whatever is on your plate. We
have life that happens, and Mars is Oftentimes that energy
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is what triggers our fight or flight and that is
one of the things as we shift and evolve and
move into fifth dimensional energy or hope to evolve in
that direction, we are healing old PTSD as a species,
as humanity around fight or flight, where it is survival
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of the fittest. So think of this Mars retrograde if
you want to think about it for from a higher perspective,
from a fifth dimensional perspective, think about the phase from
December sixth, twenty twenty four to February twenty third of
twenty twenty five. That's the span. Think of this phase
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as I'm not just healing my own pain and anger
and frustration and fear and doubt and worry and suffering.
I am healing myself in order to gift that to
the collective so we can heal trauma and fight or
flight energy PTSD in our cells, in our DNA, And
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for me, that's what says, Okay, girlfriend, you can do
this like this is for something bigger. Through this, we
will be brighter, smarter, clearer, healthier, wiser, more experienced, more directed.
And I want you all to remember that and guess what.
You're going to forget it twenty five times between now
and February twenty third, and you're going to say I quit,
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I give up. Everybody's against me. I can't do it.
I'm so angry. Life is unfair. I mean, all of
it is going to come out for each one of us.
So guess what. We don't have to do this alone.
We get to do it together. So one of the
things I want to suggest to everyone before I get
started and dive into the specifics and some of the
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road mapping is between December sixth and February twenty third.
And if you need to write this down on your
calendar and put some reminders in do it. You may
have your testing moments, your fears and frustrations come up,
but when you notice them in other people, because you will,
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where can you be supportive? Where can you set a
boundary or not enable. Where can you reach out and say, hey,
how can I be of service to you today? So
remember that you don't have to do this alone. We're
not doing this alone. We get to move through this
together and we're all experiencing the same transit. So don't
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feel alone and connect with other people. Or shoot, if
you're talking to a friend and they don't know anything
about astrology, be like, oh, you're having a bad day,
it's just Mars, and they'll just look at you sideways
and you'll be like, just don't worry about it. It's Mars.
It's not you. It's Mars. And I'm not talking about
spiritual bypassing. I'm just making a joke so you can
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lighten the mood. Because guess what. Laughter is a medicine. Laughter, joy, fun, ease.
Those things will heal and help you create an easier
transition through this. So here are the specifics. On December sixth,
Mars will retrograde at six degrees of leo, So we
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have six degrees of leo that Mars is going to
back through from six degrees to zero degrees of leo,
and that occurs between December sixth and January sixth, and
then on January sixth, as we're in early twenty twenty five,
MARS will back up into cancer from twenty nine degrees
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of cancer through backing up all the way through seventeen
degrees of cancer. So it's the first six degrees of
LEO and then it backs all the way through cancer
till it hits seventeen degrees. Find this in your natal chart.
Figure out what house or houses MARS is retrograding in,
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because that will help you better understand what you're dealing
with and you will recognize what lessons may be coming
up for you and creating anger, frustration, fear, lack of
energy or enthusiasm, and where you feel your lethargy or
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your lack of vitality. That way, you can give yourself
some grace and you'll know where to ask for help.
Or you can also say, oh, no wonder, I'm struggling
professionally because oh great, it's in my tenth house of
career or no wonder, I feel so depleted creatively, I'm
not having fun, I'm not enjoying myself, I don't feel
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passionate about anything. I just feel depressed and block. Oh
it might be in your fifth House of creativity. And
if you don't know your natal chart, there will be
a link in the show notes, so you can pull
a free natal chart and you put in your birth information.
And in order to do that, you need the time
you were born obviously, the date you're born, the location
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you're born. And if you don't know the time you
were born, because there are a lot of people out
there who don't know that, you can do unknown time
and time and you'll get an approximation. But you may
not be able to get your house system. But get
your natal chart and figure out what degrees and what
house is Mars is retrograding in, and that way you
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can say, Okay, Mars is retrograde in my second house.
What is the second house about? Oh? The second house
is about self worth, how we value ourselves, our own
personal values and money, the material world. Okay, shoot, no
wonder I'm having a ton of financial fear, or I'm
feeling that I am not worthy or valuable, or I'm
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feeling underappreciated. Oh shoot, if Mars is in my freaking
second house, and by the way, that's where mine is.
My retrograde is in my second house. So I'm like whoooo.
That sounds like a lot of fun. But I'm here
for it and I'm here for all of you. So
we'll start with LEO energy and then we'll move into
cancer energy. So from December sixth until January sixth, Mars
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will retrograde in LEO. Think about LEO energy. Leo is
rule the sun. It is a fire sign, as is Mars.
Mars is fiery. Leo is fiery, so there's passion and creativity.
LEO is about the healthy development of ego more than anything.
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LEO is about shining its light, generosity and the healthy
development of ego. What does the healthy development of ego mean?
The ego is always guiding and directing us, And the
question is is my ego directing me from a place
of fear or a place of love? And most of
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us throughout this life, the ego is like saying, I
want what I want, and I want it now, and
I'm desperate for it and I need it or else
I'm doomed. Like that's kind of the energy that the
ego creates. And it's not doing it on purpose to
keep us down. It's just trying to give us what
we want. But it's in this misguided way and a
huge pathway for all of us in this life time
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is interconnecting our ego with our higher consciousness. We need
the ego, it gets a bad rap, and Leo is
the sign of the ego. It's ruled by the Sun,
for goodness sakes, and who's the center of the solar system.
Look at me? Look at me, I ai the Sun Leo.
And I say that with a lot of love, because
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you've got a smile. Leo's are the great performers. They
love attention, they love being seen. And it's funny because
they're kind of reserved and closed off and sometimes aloof
and hard to get to know. But think of the
Leos in your life, or if you are a Leo,
think of those attributes. Those are the attributes that are
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going to be a bit strained, diminished, turned inwards, so
they are repressed. And that repression when Mars is retrograde,
that assertion and drive and energy, especially in the sign
of Leo, it's going to do a number on our
self confidence because Leo is about again this healthy expression
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of ourselves, creative, spontaneous self expression. So we're gonna feel
a diminished and depleted vitality. The sun is about vitality,
so that is your physical vitality. You may feel exhausted
or run down, and it is imperative through this to
remember to honor your body, honor what you're feeling, but
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also practice discernment on are you just pulling the covers
over your head and have you done that for three
days in a row, or can you pull the covers
over your head and sleep in an extra twenty minutes
and then get up and show up for life. So
finding some balance is important while listening to yourself and
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your needs. But there is a real tendency to beat
up on ourselves with Mars retrograde in Leo. Really that
inner self critic will be off the chain, like you're
not enough, you're not doing enough, You're not worthy, you're
not special, you're not unique, you don't have unique talents.
God is mad at you. You know, nobody loves you all.
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I mean, I am just coming up with the wildest rhetoric,
but that's the rhetoric that will be playing. And I'll
tell you what, instead of always hearing that in your head,
feel where it shows up in your body, Like it's
just this sense of your heart shutting down, and I
want everybody to notice, especially with mars retrograde in Leo,
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when you feel tightness in your chest, like when whether
your shoulders are hurting so it's in the shoulder area,
or you feel tension in your chest. And a really
great practice, and I've shared this before but I love
to do it, is to take the palm of my
hand and place it on my sternum and just rub
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in circles on my sternum because it activates my heart chakra.
And when I do it, I naturally roll my shoulders
back and lift my chin up, so I'm opening the
area between my heart chakra and my throat chakra. I'm
literally rolling my shoulders back, which helps me with my posture.
And if anybody loves good posture, it's Leo. They love
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you know, good regal posture. But to roll your shoulders back,
lift your chin up, and then massage your breastplate your sternum,
activate the heart center, Breathe into your chest cavity, and
think about your heart chakra, not just from the front side,
but from the backside. I think about my heart chakra,
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and I think about my back and my lungs, and
like that's where my angel wings are. So when I
think of the heart chakra, we always kind of come
from the front orientation of our body, and I'm like,
but no, our angel wings are in the back. Like
it's it covers that whole area of the heart and
the lungs and the expansiveness. So maybe when you rub
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your sternum and you self soothe and you say, I
am enough, I am worthy, I'm a divine child of God,
I am seeded from the divine, I am uniquely and
wonderfully made, this is a beautiful time to really go
within and reprogram because this is what's being asked of
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us throughout Mars. Retrograde is a deep, unconscious, subconscious reprogramming.
And that's where I get excited about this. When that
old rhetoric of your not enough, you're not doing enough,
you don't you're not special, you don't have talents, you're
never going to be successful. I mean again, I'm using
the biggest broad strokes I can with some of the
most depleting and diminishing language. But anytime that stuff comes up,
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come to your heart space, massage your sternum, breathe in
and out, create space, create good posture, open up your
heart and to your throat, and reprogram the subconscious. Enough,
I am worthy, my cup runneth over. My divine talents
are shining through organically. The ideal people, places and scenarios
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are showing up to support my path forward, and I
get to support theirs. The other thing that I want
to mention with Mars retrograde and Leo, and this is
the practices or the antidotes. Laughter is one of them.
So wherever you can laugh or dance or express your
creativity just to move your body a little bit, that
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is helpful. And I'll tell you what. In the Northern
Finite hemisphere, it's the dead of winter, so it's the
time we like to hibernate. We go to bed early,
it gets dark early, and we're like, oh, I'm just
not going to go work out tonight, or oh I'm
just going to get bad. I'm not going to go
meet my friends for dinner. If you're feeling that, because
it's already winter, Mars retrograde is going to push down
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on that. So if you are prone to depression, just
be mindful of that. Move your body, whether you go
on a wall or you stand up and do jumping jacks,
or you are finding some way to get your body
moving and shake in just a little bit at a time,
it will be helpful. The other practice that I want
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to share is LEO. When it shines its light, it's
the great performer. And when it leads, leads with its heart,
leads with its generous heart, and shines its light, it
lights up a room, It inspires and entertains other people.
So if you are feeling low and down and depressed,
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you say, who can I reach out to to inspire today?
I may not feel inspired or be inspired, but let
me pick up the phone and love on somebody else.
And it's not acting as if energy. It's getting out
of yourself LEO self, self, self, III, me, me, me,
and into the generosity of the heart. Let me check
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on so and so today. And I know for me,
maybe the best example I have to use this being
in recovery. One of the things that I know is
when I get out of myself and I am of service,
it creates a healing for me. And the motive is
not selfish. It's more let me get out of myself
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and then next thing you know, I am feeling uplifted.
I am feeling like I have been useful or helpful
or productive, and I've gotten out of the voice in
my head and the little snarky minutia that I have
a hard time shutting off. And then I've gotten into
truly wanting to love, on support or connect with another person.
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And the next thing, you know, I feel light, I
feel delighted. So get out of yourself and be of service.
Those are the tricks for Mars retrograde and Leo. Just
remember you may feel depressed, you may feel lethargic, you
may really be beating up on yourself with the voice
in your head. All of it is a fake out
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walk through this reprogram the subconscious. We've got this, and
don't forget it. Don't forget that when you're like, oh shoot,
it's going to be like the fifteenth of the month
and you're going to be hearing the chatter and you're like,
why am I feeling so bad? And I'd be like, ugh,
Mars is retrograde, and Leo, don't forget And it may
not just be that, but I'm giving you the astrological roadmap.
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January sixth. That game changes. January sixth, That game changes,
The game changes and Mars backs up into cancer. All right,
Cancer is a water sign. It is the sign of
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nurture and comfort, wisdom. It's the healer, the mother. It
is protective, it is compassionate and loving. It is highly intuitive.
And then on the flip side, it is controlling, micromanaging, vindictive, manipulative,
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and overly sensitive, wearing its heart on its sleeve. So
when Mars fial Mars moves into cancer, Mars is not
comfortable in cancer, even when it's going direct. Why is
it not comfortable? Well, Mars is a big old ball
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of fire and cancer is like this beautiful running stream
of water. Those two things, you know, Like the big
fireball crashes into the beautiful, lovely stream with the birds chirping.
It's oil and vinegar. So is it going to create
extra sensitivity? Yes? Is it gonna burst open some psychic abilities?
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Oh heck yes, if you work it, it's sure will
it'll really burst open some intuitive abilities. But in order
to do that, you have to recognize where you're taking
things to personally, because it will feel very sensitive. It
will feel like people are forgetting about you, or people
aren't seeing how important you are, or they said something
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and we're rude, and it was all about you. So
again it's I, I me, me me, But it takes
everything personally, and you will feel we will feel sensitive,
sensitive emotionally, we may feel a bit fragile. So going
from this redevelopment of ego, this refining of ego, we're
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gonna feel a bit fragile as mars backs up into
cancer and what can come out of that is a
tremendous amount of passive aggressive behavior. Cause cancer isn't so
direct like I'll cut you, like that's not really cancer.
Cancer's like, oh, okay, bless your heart, asshole, excuse my language,
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But that's kind of like it's a little I'm just
being cheeky here, and I love my cancers. I'm a
cancer rising. But literally, I'm just giving you the lay
of the land of how these sneaky behaviors can turn
inward on us and retaliate. So it can be a
bit manipulative. Passive aggressive meaning not wanting to confront stuff
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and then sneaking around and do it in the background
or talking behind someone's back rather than addressing something to
someone's face and saying, hey, you hurt my feelings or
when you did this, I felt this way and talking
to someone face to face. Instead you backdoor it and
you're like, did you know what they did to me? Oh?
I can't believe they did this. It's like water cooler
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talk that goes awry. So your best bet is when
you feel pain, when you feel sensitive, freaking use your
disclaimer and tell on yourself or say, hey, gosh, you
said that, and I don't know what you meant by it,
but man I took it personally. Gosh, I took it personally.
I don't know if I'm just sensitive today or are
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you actually upset with me. It's like, grow some khonas literally,
and as I'm saying this to you all, I am
saying it to myself. Grow some kahonas and be able
to say, Gosh, are you in a mood today? Or like,
did I do something to offend you? Because that was
really blunt or you just totally left me out of that.
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I mean, like, get direct, but not in an ugly way.
More like, let's get this out on the table because
I don't like, I don't want to feel all this
emotional turmoil. And when we feel emotional turmoil, think about this.
If we are co creators of our own realities, either
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conscious or unconscious. Our thoughts are writing the program and
the emotions are the freaking jet fuel. So it's like
having a resentment. You are resenting re feeling the same
thing over and over, and you are re enforcing an
old program or a negative feeling or a fear based
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experience over and over. And that is starting to write
the code internally. That's being interpreted externally. It's deep stuff.
But when you start, at least for me, when I
think about it that way, I am so motivated to
resiliently reprogram the code. Ooh, I'm feeling icky. What is
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this that I'm feeling? Let me look at my side
of the street. Actually, maybe I should call somebody and
get them to help walk me through this, or you
show me what I am not seating in my blind spot.
So this is a wonderful time to seek wise counsel one,
to confront things and nip them in the bud, and
not in an ugly way, just like, hey, let's put
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our cards out on the table. When you said this,
I felt this way. What's going on with you? Did
you mean that? Just clear the air as fast as
you can and you will not only feel batter. You
will also probably realize, gosh, they were having a bad
day that wasn't about me at all. WHOA I take
a lot of things personally or man, I need to
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grow up a little bit. Not everything is about me.
I mean, you may have some massive revelations that can
be super beneficial. The other thing is what we're getting
worked out is our emotional intelligence. Our emotional quotients are
going to be tested, and our emotions are a huge
component of our mind, body, spirit experience. And if we
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are getting an upgrade here, paying attention to how you
feel and where that shows up in your body because
that will help you with your intuition. And this is
a beautiful time to strengthen intuition and to learn to
better listen to your gut, your instincts. So notice where
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you are feeling tension, pain, or there is something physically
going on in your body. Where does the pain go?
Is it gut stuff for you? Is it stomach stuff?
Is it lower back? Is it upper back? Is it
your jaw? Is it headaches? Is it your joints? Where
are your achilles heels? Sensitive places in your body where
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your body accumulates pain, trauma, emotional gunk, fear and tension.
And if you can start to connect some dots, you
can start to create some conscious awareness for healing. And
when you heal things and recognize things in your physical body,
it actually it does a multiple things on a biological
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and physiological scale, but on the quantum field, it starts
to align and get us in better sink. And I
mentioned that during this time our intuition could be heightened.
The reason for that is because cancer is very wise,
knowing and intuitive when it's in its highest form, it's
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just the sign and the energy that provides wise counsel
and wisdom. And that is because cancer is connected with
our psychology. Cancer in the astrological wheel is the lowest
point on the astrological chart, so it's south. You know,
if you did north, south, east west, it is south.
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And that is our psychology. And what my favorite astrologer,
Stephen Forrest, always says about cancer is the question to
ask is what brings me happiness at this time? What
does happiness look like for me? And that may not
sound like it's related to cancer, but it is. It's
like when am I happy? Like what brings me happiness today?
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And that is when we are in tune with what
brings us a sense of happiness. Usually we are in
tune with our psychology. And on the flip side of that,
what doesn't bring me happiness, what makes me unhappy, grumpy
and moody, because cancer is moody, it's watery and moody,
it's emotional. But you want to be able to utilize
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and alcamize your emotions so you can a find greater
happiness through the remainder of this transit while Mars is
in cancer. Because I think on the other side of it,
as Mars stations direct on the twenty third of February,
and that will happen at nine pm Eastern on February
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twenty third, twenty twenty five. And I tell you what,
the astrology gets pretty wild and crazy and exciting after February,
March and April, May and June have really exhilarating astrology.
Some big outer planets are making changes. So it feels
like this Mars retrograde is a divine set up to
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re wire us, rewire old fears, anger, aggression, whether they
are sensitive and internalized and emotional like in cancer, or
they are related to our confidence and our empowerment and
our sense of joy de vive leo. This is a
big transit, and I believe that we will all grow
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tremendously and it's gonna be a little achy, it's gonna
be painful. We will say things and do things that
come out sideways. But the question is how quickly can
you own your side of the street, own your stuff,
use your disclaimers, and get back on your path into
that fifth dimensional heart space. That will open up more trust,
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more love, more connectivity and compassion. And that's what will
open you up not only to enhanced intuition, but living
through higher consciousness, which is really going to be a
theme of twenty twenty five with the numerology and the astrology.
So look at this as a divine setup, navigate it
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a day at a time, and remember we are not alone.
Reach out to people, check in on other people, and
know that we're all walking through this transit together. But
through the other side of it, there is tremendous healing
and growth that is really clearing out some old gunk
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in our genetics, and it is repairing DNA, especially in
the reptilian brain. I think that's what's being worked so
much is our fight or flight reptilian brain that is
pretty antiquated in terms of our reality and experience today,
and for us to ascend that that piece of the brain,
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which is very integral to our experience, it is sometimes
disconnected from our higher states of consciousness. And I feel
like this Mars transit and retrograde is giving us an
upgrade biologically and psycho spiritually. So get into it and
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reach out and share experiences as we all walk through this,
because I'm curious to see what people are struggling with
or where people are having AHA moments, especially in dealing
with fear and pain and suffering and anger, and how
you're alchemizing it, how you're healing it, and where you're
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able to share that healing and your healing journey to
inspire other people. Thank you all for joining me. May
the Force be with you. Take care everyone. Thank you
so much for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions,
do not hesitate to reach out. Email us podcast at
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