January 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Everyone's complaining about a lack of motivation and drive right now — well you can blame Mars Retrograde for that. It's the rarest and arguably the most noticeable of all the planetary retrogrades. It can deplete our energy levels, especially while in the sign of Cancer. In this episode I provide useful tips for regaining a sense of normalcy during this draining transit. I also discuss what to look out for as Uranus, the planet of unpredictable shocks & changes, stations direct in Taurus.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey, there it's.
I'm Nathaniel Grimm, andwelcome to the latest episode of
Astrology Unbound.
And today we're going todiscuss two things Mars
retrograde, which has not wantedto leave us alone, and also
Uranus stationing direct in afew days.
So Mars retrograde has been thecenterpiece of 2025, in my
opinion.
I do think it has been thesource of most people's
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complaints.
So many people have claimed tobe unmotivated or they haven't
been able to get out of bed orthey've just been feeling very
dysregulated.
This has a lot to do with Marsretrograde, so I might as well
make an episode to help peoplemanage that.
And also, uranus stationingdirect is a big deal.
It's very significant becauseit's almost bittersweet.
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I mean, this is really asend-off.
Uranus will be leaving the signof Taurus as it starts to move
forward.
Eventually it will go intoGemini by the month of July.
It will retrograde back intoTaurus one more time, but this
direct motion of Uranus inTaurus is going to bring Uranus
through, finally, every degreeof Taurus in this 84-year cycle.
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So we'll sort of reflect onwhat Uranus in Taurus has meant
and hopefully that will give youthe tools to make the most of
this final stretch of Uranus inthat sign.
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So let's start off with Marsretrograde, and Mars retrogrades
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every two plus years.
This is something that I'vetalked about in previous
episodes.
But it's not just Mercury thatretrogrades.
Obviously, the other planetsalso retrograde, and it is a
moment.
It's the rarest retrograde andit's definitely the most
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noticeable, in my opinion,because Mars is really our
energy drive, libido, it is ourinner flame.
In a lot of ways.
It is also how we respond tochallenges.
It's how we, you know, compete,it is how we yeah, it's how we
withstand challenges.
It's how we assert ourselves,it's how we get things done.
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So when Mars retrogrades, someof these, well, basically, the
battery power, like our batterypower is depleted a little bit
more.
It's more difficult to respondto challenges without, you know,
becoming overly stressed.
And I do think Mars really hasa lot to do with our stress
management.
So when it retrogrades, we getfrazzled more easily, we find it
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difficult to manage thestresses of life and so many
people retreat or recoil or theyisolate or whatever they have
to do.
They will start to avoidsituations that previously were
not maybe all that stressful.
And in this case it'sretrograding in the sign of
Cancer, which I actually thinkmakes it more difficult, because
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Mars has fallen in the sign ofCancer.
And not only that, but it'ssquaring Chiron for much of this
retrograde Chiron in Arieswhich is creating a frustration,
a sense of woundedness, a senseof kind of being pushed down or
bullied.
Almost Even if you're not beingbullied literally, it can
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almost feel like one is beingbullied by life, by life itself.
So it's a type of Marsretrograde where, you know it
can be kind of agonizing, not tobe too dramatic about it, but I
mean it can be kind ofagonizing and, you know,
harrowing in a way.
So instead of you know going onand on about all the drawbacks,
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I want to be solutions-orientedon this episode.
So just to give you context, italso did retrograde in Leo
initially, by the way, but theretrograde in Cancer has been
going on since January 6th, sothat's about a month.
That happened about a monthinto Mars retrograde.
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So just to review and I'vetalked about Mars retrograde in
Leo, I believe, in previousepisodes, if not, I talked about
it on my sub stack recently,anyway.
So yeah, mars did initiallystation retrograde at six
degrees of Leo on December 6th,but I think that that phase of
the retrograde was I don't know,I just think that was a little
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bit easier to navigate.
It was opposing Pluto, whichdefinitely created a lot of
maybe.
I mean maybe did generate a lotof resentment in people.
But Mars retrograding in a firesign, I think is a little bit
easier to manage, you know.
I mean you know Mars rulesScorpio, which is a water sign.
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But I do think that Mars infire signs is usually preserving
some kind of passion and drive,because the fire elements
naturally is just, you know, alittle bit more outgoing,
extroverted, action-oriented.
But in Cancer this is the signthat's ruled by the moon and
Cancer has an inherentsensitivity to it.
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But I think what makes Marsretrograde in Cancer the most
difficult is it createsirregularities within the body
itself.
I think about Cancer as havingassociations with the lunation
cycle, with natural rhythms,with, you know, hormones.
So when Mars retrogrades incancer, I think a lot of people
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have either been thrown off oftheir typical sleep cycle or
their usual sleep cycle justisn't working for them.
People may find themselves justagitated generally by, you know
, like any.
Again, any notion of like,being out of sync with the
natural rhythms of life can bevery agitating when Mars is in
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this sign.
Also, when Mars retrogrades inCancer, I think it can make
people more passive, aggressive,and you know it can make people
more passive-aggressive and itcan make people a little bit
more petty about certain things,and people will also be
tormented by this idea thattheir typical sources of comfort
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whether it's a home or a familyor so on become oftentimes
sources of stress.
So you layer that on top ofeverything I've already
mentioned about Mars retrogradebeing again a time where stress
management is just not aseffective.
When you layer in the fact thatsuddenly your very own
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foundation or home base is asource of strife, you're dealing
with a situation whereeverything is exhausting you and
it's a vicious cycle, becauseyou're exhausted by the outside
world and as soon as you comehome, you're not really
restoring your energy.
So let's walk through againsome pragmatic steps that you
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can take, because thisretrograde is going to continue
until February 23rd, so we stillhave plenty of time where
you're going to hear otherpeople complaining about this
sort of abstract, inexplicableexhaustion and you can tell them
hey, check out Evan's episode.
He talks about this.
But the Mars retrograde incancer the Mars retrograde in
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Cancer number one is a time toevaluate your sleep cycle, like
I said.
So just take a look at that.
Are you waking up at bizarretimes in the middle of the night
?
Are you finding yourself wayway more tired than usual in the
morning or not tired enoughwhen you go to bed.
Whatever irregularities you'reexperiencing or anomalies you're
experiencing right now, justreflect on those, jot those down
, keep track of your sleeppatterns, especially as it
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aligns with the lunation cycleand the lunation phase, and I
think you will derive a lot ofinsight through this.
So perhaps you've become a lotmore sensitive to, maybe your
sleep has been become disrupted,you know, within a few days
before and after the full moon,for example.
I would take note of that.
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Or maybe you realize that youare, or you traveled recently
and you find yourself not beingable to adjust back to your
usual time zone.
And I want to give an exampleof this because I think it's
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actually illustrating my ownsort of hacking into this Mars
retrograde.
I mean, I have Mars retrogradenatally, so I'm at a bit of an
advantage here, but I feel likeas a cancer rising.
I've definitely still, you know,I've been bearing the brunt, I
think, of this Mars retrogradein some ways.
But you know, I was travelingto Minneapolis early in the
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month, which is on central time,and I'm usually in LA, which is
on Pacific time, and when Icame back to California I was
still feeling like I was oncentral time, meaning two hours
ahead.
But instead of adjusting to myusual sleep pattern, I started
actually going to bed reallyearly Pacific time, so for me
early like 10pm, which would bemidnight central time, and then,
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you know, I started waking upthe next morning at like 7 am
and then suddenly I locked intoa rhythm that I usually don't
seek out because I'm more of anight owl.
So I mean, I'm like filmingthis podcast at 11 pm Pacific
time.
So I'm kind of vile hittingthat example right now.
But for the most part, the pastweek or so, I have been going to
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bed fairly early, waking upfairly early, and through that
I've been able to not onlyrestore my energy and maintain
it, but I've also like gone tothe gym five days in a row this
past week, which is very rarefor me.
I usually only go like threetimes a week.
So that's been a reallypositive change.
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And I feel like the Marsretrograde in Cancer has been
forcing me to reflect on mypatterns, my rhythms, my sleep,
because even though the 12thhouse and Pisces oftentimes is
associated with sleep, you haveto realize that Cancer is a
moon-rolled sign and the moon isvery much dictating our sleep
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patterns, our behaviors, ouremotions, yes, but it really
does speak to the ebb and flowof our lives.
So just re-evaluate yourrhythms generally, just see if
there's a different pattern thatyou can hook into.
Now another aspect, anothersolution to this Mars retrograde
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is to really avoid people whoare sensitive to criticism,
people who are generally petty,people who are
passive-aggressive.
Avoid those types of peoplebecause you will probably get
easily caught up in that energyduring this time and, honestly,
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in certain cases you might bethe person who's doing that.
But you know you just reallywant to avoid, you know, giving
energy to those types of peoplein that situation.
You know, because what you'regoing to see with Mars
retrograding, cancer is, youknow, people who typically are
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more avoidant or typically arenon-confrontational will find
these kind of insidious ways tokind of to again like attack
someone else, you know to kindof get their, you know to assert
their dominance, but in sort ofa bizarre, again passive,
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aggressive way, and that caneasily get under your skin and
create this sort of death by athousand cuts situation where
you just are constantly havingto deal with somebody's nagging
or somebody's complaints orsomeone's subtle sort of
aggression and that can easilyget inside your head.
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So try to avoid those behaviorsyourself and also avoid people
who typically demonstrate thosepatterns.
Another solution is to, like youknow, put especially well, put
a significant amount of energyinto making your home a
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sanctuary.
So, potentially, some of youare dealing with family conflict
while Mars is retrogradingCancer.
If that's the case, just try tocome up with solutions for that
.
Just try to come up withsolutions for that.
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Whatever that looks likeSetting boundaries with someone
in your family, creating a space, just experiencing a lot of
stress in your home environment.
Just reflect on like what thosesources of stress might be.
But most of the time, theanswer is to like declutter.
So if you're sitting in yourbedroom and there's this piles
of clothes all over the place,that would be an opportunity to
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know put those clothes away,fold them up and experience more
of a placid, peaceful feeling.
If you are on your phone toomuch tracking the news and doom
scrolling inside of inside yourhouse, like you want to maybe
stop doing that.
You want to basically create aspace in your home where certain
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maybe distractions or stimuliare not allowed.
So maybe you have a.
Maybe you have a if you canafford this.
Maybe you have a room in yourhouse where you don't have any
electronics.
You don't bring your phone in,you don't really plug anything
in, don't have a wi-fi router inthere, you don't have any
distractions.
Make sure you have a placewhere your sanity and just
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peacefulness are honored.
And again, just be very mindfulabout anyone in your family who
might be causing some discordright now and maybe take care to
avoid them a little bit moreoften or to finally confront the
issue and if you have aroommate who you're at odds with
, again set a boundary with themor just find ways to be away
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from them more often.
And so, yeah, I think thatthose are like the three main
solutions that I would applyhere.
But also just keep track ofwhich house of your birth chart
is ruled by cancer.
I mean, that's where Mars isretrograde.
So that area of life is alsowhere you want to de-stress,
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stress and, generally speaking,people with placements between
17 and 29 degrees of thecardinal signs are the most
deeply affected by thisretrograde.
But really everybody isaffected.
And again, if you have Marsretrograde natally in your birth
chart, then this shouldn't bequite as challenging of a time.
But I guess there's one otheraspect to this retrograde I want
to mention and that is thesquare to Chiron in
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juxtaposition with Venus goinginto Aries in a few days, and I
think that this is going tohighlight any aspects of
relationships where this sort ofphysical intimacy is lacking,
because with Venus being inAries for pretty much all of
February, you know, venus inAries typically goes after what
it desires.
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In a relationship, venus inAries oftentimes wants to create
a romantic relationship wherethere is a lot of physical
intimacy.
But with Mars dispositing thisVenus in Aries, because Mars
rules Aries, you know, with Marsretrograding, cancer squaring
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Chiron in Aries, there can be alack of drive, a lack of libido
right now and there can be alack of general mojo, and this
can, especially before theretrograde of Venus in Aries.
This can kind of give peoplesecond thoughts about, maybe,
their relationship or they mightthink, oh, was I better off
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with this other person wherethere was more excitement, where
there was more passion?
If you're in a relationship andyou are dealing with this other
person where there was moreexcitement, where there was more
passion, if you're in arelationship and you are dealing
with this Mars retrograde, youhave to make sure that you are
continuously kind of kindlingthat sense of passion and
excitement and intimacy.
And, again, if you're like andif, again, if you are struggling
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with those things.
There's different solutions tothat which I think go beyond the
realm of this podcast, but oneof the solutions, astrologically
, could be again to reevaluateyour sleep cycle, because your
sleep cycle is off kilter rightnow.
You might be again, again goingto bed especially awake and
then waking up especiallyexhausted, or whatever the case
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is, and I think that optimizingthe sleep cycle is one of the
keys to restoring, you know,just to getting back to.
It's about getting back to abaseline where you have the
energy in the morning to, let'ssay, go to the gym or exercise
and then you're getting theblood flowing and then you're
getting yourself in a positionwhere you know it's really easy
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to capture that passion.
And I, you know, I think withall the Pisces transits as well,
right now, you know, somepeople might feel like they're a
little bit more lost in theirdreamland or their imagination
and they're less like even intheir body, but I do think that
for those of you who are inrelationships, it's very
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important to make sure that youare preserving that sense of a
spark or a flame in therelationship.
Otherwise, I actually thinkthis Venus and Aries transit
could be really you know, reallytough for people in
relationships.
So I just want to add that in.
So I think that, in addition toagain tracking the house of
your chart where you have canceror where the sign of cancer is
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on the cusp, using a whole signhouse system, in addition to
tracking that domain of lifewhere the retrograde is taking
effect, apply these othersolutions Optimize sleep cycles,
even revisit your sleeppatterns.
Maybe this is the time when youstart sleeping at times you
almost never have slept at inyour life.
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Maybe you start going to bedway earlier all of a sudden.
So again, optimize sleep cycles.
Avoid petty behaviors on eitherside of an equation.
Make sure that you have asanctuary of some kind in your
home or familiar place.
Minimize conflict with familyand keep track of your libido in
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a relationship if you're in one, because for a lot of people
the libido might be depleted atthis time and that would, of
course, be a source of stress inand of itself.
But I think the bottom linethere is, as long as you have a
solid sleep cycle and a solidsense of foundation.
As long as you have a solidsleep cycle and a solid sense of
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foundation, then you're goingto be able to meet any of the
challenges out there in theworld or in a relationship and
so on.
So hopefully that was a usefulexercise and now we're going to
go into Uranus, stationingdirect in Taurus.
So Uranus stationing directhere this is not unfamiliar
territory.
Again, we've had Uranus andTaurus since 2018.
Technically, it ingressedinitially May 15th 2018.
And Uranus, similar to Mars andCancer, is not comfortable in
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the sign of Taurus.
It is also fallen in Taurus and, you know, coming out of the
retrograde.
It actually is an opportunityto work with this planet's sort
of energy in a more savvy way.
Despite the fact that itdoesn't like Taurus.
I think by now we should befairly accustomed to it, and it
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kind of reminds me of theYouTube video I just posted
about February 2025, which wastitled Making Peace with Chaos,
and I think that we just have todo that with Uranus and Taurus.
Taurus is a fixed earth sign.
It wants stability.
Uranus doesn't give us that.
It completely upturns that andupends it.
But with Taurus being values,we've maybe learned to value the
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unpredictable in life.
We've learned to embrace thatand see how unpredictable
episodes have actually openeddoors to our evolution or our
acceleration forward.
Our acceleration forward.
You know, I think about Uranusopposing my moon in 2020.
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You know, in 2019, when Uranusopposed my moon, I moved across
the country and in an unexpectedway and even though I was sort
of ripped out of my life in NewYork which was a fairly
palatable experience my time inLA has introduced me to
astrology and entrepreneurshipand new connections, new
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relationships and all of theseamazing things.
But leading into thattransition, I think I was fairly
perturbed by it becauseinitially I was even months
before I left New York.
I was like, well, this is myforever place.
And then we had a pandemic anda lockdown and you know, um, and
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then all of a sudden myex-girlfriend gets into a
business school in LA and I justall of these things line up and
I just take a chance on it.
You know I'm living out hereand you know I find LA to be
oftentimes a bit of a headscratcher because I'm not really
sure sometimes, like why orwhat the appeal is.
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And then there's other timeswhere I'm like, wow, you know,
this is a really sacred place,and so, even if I'm vacillating
between those two opinions, it'sstill undeniable that LA has
introduced me to so many, again,incredible opportunities.
So, through that experience andmany other experiences, I've
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learned how to just see suddenchanges as the universe's way of
working in my favor and theuniverse's way of forcing me to
just get acquainted withsomething new and helping me get
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out of a stagnant situation.
So I think we've all had tograpple with that in our own
ways since 2018.
And in this case, you want tolook at the Taurus ruled house
that's in your birth chart andyou know, just look to that as
and reflect on that.
Like, how have I experiencedinstability in the area that's
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ruled by Taurus?
Or, sorry, the house that'sruled by Taurus in my chart?
And you know, let's take stockof those new sort of vistas that
were suddenly revealed to us.
Let's take stock of andappreciate the sudden doorways
that were opened.
So I think that's that exercisein gratitude can even help us
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manage this transit.
But when Uranus stations directit's, by the way, stationing
direct on January 30th we will,because, again, this is the
final, really one of the finalpassages of Uranus and Taurus in
this cycle, we can make it workfor us, even if we do continue
to experience some unexpectedevents.
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I think, as Uranus goes throughthis last decan of Taurus, we
can just hopefully use this as avehicle for acceleration,
evolution, liberation, autonomyand just radical reinvention.
Maybe, maybe you've beenhesitant to radically reinvent
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something in your life for thepast seven years that Uranus has
been here, and now you'refinally ready after much
reflection, and Uranus is goingto enter Gemini in July and it's
going to be very comfortablethere in Gemini, because Uranus
is the higher octave of Mercuryand Mercury rules Gemini.
So that's going to be a nicetransition.
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But before that, as Uranuscloses out this transit in
Taurus, I would recommend thatyou just also do sort of a full
inventory of what your valueswere back in 2018.
And you know, go into yourphone, go to your photo album,
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try to find photos from late Mayof 2018 or early June of 2018.
And even if you have a photo onMay 15th of 2018, even better.
You know, go back to that time,get acquainted with that time,
get acquainted with that versionof you again and just take
stock of everything that youheld dear at that time, held
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dearly to yourself Did you valuemoney in a different way?
Did you value a relationship ina different way?
Did you value Mother Nature,music in a different way?
And just trace the changes uptill now and ideally you know by
this time, or in doing thatexercise, you feel confident
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that your values have been kindof upgraded or clarified and, um
, you know just firmly, kind ofgrasp what those values are now
and live those values out asUranus finishes this transit
through Taurus.
Now, the last decan of Taurus isa Capricorn decan, by the way,
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and the Capricorn decan has alot to do with governments,
institutions, you know,structures, rules, laws,
regulations.
So, with Uranus moving directin Taurus, a lot of regulations
and legacies are beingdismantled, and you can see that
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through the lens of the Trumpadministration and, whether you
voted for him or not, it's justobjectively true that he is
upending a lot of traditionthat's associated with the
presidency, sort of break apartthese legacy institutions and
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trying to almost play thisunpredictable wildcard,
disruptive role.
And everybody's kind ofchecking the news each day to
see what lifetime of changes hasgone on in the last 24 hours.
So I think we are all makingpeace with chaos through the
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lens of the federal governmentand the US.
But, you know, uranus movingdirect in Taurus, which is a
sign associated with money andvalues, can also give you a
really interesting way to maybemake money, to generate income,
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to add more flexibility to yourwork, your work style, to your
job description.
You know, I think that there'senough tools out there, through
the lens of AI or social mediaor other platforms, to untether
you from the typical corporateworkplace so juxtaposed with
Venus and Aries, a sign ofentrepreneurs or other platforms
to untether you from thetypical corporate workplace, so
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juxtaposed with Venus and Aries,a sign of entrepreneurs.
I do think there's a route forall of us to pursue
entrepreneurship at this point.
And, yeah, I think that alsoUranus and Taurus could show us
how technology is moving tooquickly and we want to kind of
reground our values and, youknow, place more of an emphasis
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on nature or, you know,unplugging.
So I'm not saying it's allabout just honoring the
relentless or worshiping therelentless pursuit of, you know,
advancement of technology.
In fact, I think that one ofthe themes of this Aquarian
season is the drawbacks oftechnology.
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You know, we've seen howtechnology can lead to all kinds
of disasters and I think thatwill be a theme generally
throughout Pluto and Aquarius is, you know, the deployment of
technology and then the rollingback of that technology in the
aftermath of a tragedy caused bythat technology.
Some of that regulation orrollback might involve
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surveillance though,unfortunately, or privacy
invasions.
So we want to be mindful ofthat during Uranus' final
transit in Taurus.
What value do you ascribe topersonal privacy versus
convenience versus, etc.
Right, like whatever balancingact you're trying to strike, you
know focus on that answer, beable to answer those questions.
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You know we're answering thosequestions in the through the
lens of tiktok right now, youknow.
Do you value free a free likefree speech, and a marketplace
where ideas can be exchangedfreely?
Or do you value that over andabove any national security
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risks that the platform may pose?
Or do you feel like we shouldbe walling off or putting a
firewall on certain realms ofthe internet or certain apps?
Or putting a firewall oncertain realms of the internet
or certain apps, regardless ofwhatever benefits they may
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espouse, or tout?
So those are serious questionsto be answering while Uranus is
directing Taurus.
Are your personal valueshermetically sealed at this
point, or are they not?
You know they might not bebecause the values that you
uphold may ebb and flow astechnologies are rapidly
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introduced.
Maybe it raises differentethical concerns, like if
someone is, you know, humiliatedon a social media platform and
that leads to some sort ofmacabre outcome.
You know what?
Does that mean?
That we should have socialmedia platforms just free range,
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uninhibited, available toeveryone in every way?
Like you know, I'm not here toanswer that question for you,
but you should be able to answerthat question over time.
Should we allow AI to gobble upall kinds of jobs, even the jobs
that maybe were more, you know,just rote or just you know, I
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guess, like certain, like is itokay for AI to replace jobs that
you know maybe were reallydangerous or challenging in a or
I guess, mundane, like you know?
And should we allow, should weembrace that?
You know?
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Is that going to free people upto do more creative work, or
whatever?
I think we all have seriousdilemmas on our hands here.
We have to think about howtechnology is going to fit into
our lives.
Otherwise, we're going to haveto wait to figure out how we fit
into their like to AI's visionof the world.
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Right, so that's just somethingto think about, but I really
think, ideally, you should beusing this transit through
Taurus to apply innovativeapproaches towards monetization
of something.
I think that if you really useAI in a savvy way, you can
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automate such a broad range oftasks that you might not need an
employer anymore to design yourworkday for you.
It's like, as long as you havea passion and an expertise and
the ability to communicate thatexpertise to a digital audience,
you can be your own brand.
I mean, that is already thecase, but I think it's becoming
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increasingly clear that we'reentering an era where someone's
personal brand matters and saysa lot about their corporation,
to a point where we're all kindof generating or creating value,
and garnering value or currencyor whatever through our own
efforts.
Anyways, uranus moving direct.
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Obviously we'll have many otherassociations broadly at the
societal scale, likecryptocurrencies will be in the
news quite often.
There could be some seismicactivity, especially around the
full moon, february 12th, and soon.
But again, those are somespecific themes I wanted to
highlight for today.
Those are some specific themesI wanted to highlight for today.
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So, anyways, hopefully thisepisode has been crisp for you
and useful.
I like to keep it short andsweet.
Right now I am still,technically, on the road.
So I've been on the road for amonth now, pretty much, and just
trying to make sense of all thecrazy stuff that's been
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happening in LA.
And, um, you know, I'm luckythat my house is, you know,
unscathed at this time.
It's raining in LA right now.
So I think, so far so good.
But I am concerned about theair quality.
The water quality I'vementioned that on my previous
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podcast.
You know, I think again, thereis a bit of a risk of seismic
activity in the middle ofFebruary.
La is going to come back, justlike a lot of cities have
through tragic moments and, um,you know, I'm hopeful that I
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still have a role to play inthat city and you know I have a,
a future there.
I think that'd be nice.
But, um, yeah, anyways, I, um,you know, I thank you for your
patience.
Also, I did not record anepisode last weekend, although I
had a good reason for that.
I was on actually a podcast, ornot even a podcast.
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It was a weekly Sunday nightshow that Robert Phoenix does On
his YouTube channel.
I was with Robert, the Leo Kingand Symbolic Studies Mario and
Symbolic Studies Mario, so itwas four of us and David and I
were both live from his studioin Orange County and that was a
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good time.
That was the second time in thelast few months that Robert,
david and I have done a showtogether and this time it was
with Symbolic Studies, whoseaccount on TikTok I've been
following for a long time,actually for many years, whose
account on TikTok I've beenfollowing for a long time,
actually for many years.
So that was really cool to see.
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You know, all four of usmeeting and sort of opining
about.
You know everything that'scoming with.
You know well, just everythingthat's happening with the
Sun-Pluto conjunction we hadrecently.
But anyways, you know,definitely stick around.
I really do.
You know, for future episodes.
I appreciate you.
You know subscribing andfollowing this show and you know
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submitting a five-star ratingor you know whatever.
I think it's a podcast I dowant to continue to invest in
and you know I think we passed55,000 downloads all time since
the podcast started last June,which I think is a great, great
number.
I don't know how many actuallistens, probably a lot more,
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but you know that's a.
That's a really solid number ofdownloads, especially given the
breaks we've taken in betweenseason one and two.
So, yeah, I'm trying to make apodcast that is equal parts
pragmatic and honest.
So, yeah, hopefully thisepisode carried on that
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tradition.
And, anyways, be sure tosubscribe to my newsletter and
also check out and download my2025 horoscopes.
I am Evan Nathaniel Grimm.
Thank you so much.
And you know, remember MarsRetrograde continues until
February 23rd.
So, you know, apply the methodsI mentioned and I think
February should be pretty goodfor you.
Hey, there it's.
I'm Nathaniel Grimm, andwelcome to the latest episode of
Astrology Unbound.
And today we're going todiscuss two things Mars
retrograde, which has not wantedto leave us alone, and also
Uranus stationing direct in afew days.
So Mars retrograde has been thecenterpiece of 2025, in my
opinion.
I do think it has been thesource of most people's
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complaints.
So many people have claimed tobe unmotivated or they haven't
been able to get out of bed orthey've just been feeling very
dysregulated.
This has a lot to do with Marsretrograde, so I might as well
make an episode to help peoplemanage that.
And also, uranus stationingdirect is a big deal.
It's very significant becauseit's almost bittersweet.
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I mean, this is really asend-off.
Uranus will be leaving the signof Taurus as it starts to move
forward.
Eventually it will go intoGemini by the month of July.
It will retrograde back intoTaurus one more time, but this
direct motion of Uranus inTaurus is going to bring Uranus
through, finally, every degreeof Taurus in this 84-year cycle.
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So we'll sort of reflect onwhat Uranus in Taurus has meant
and hopefully that will give youthe tools to make the most of
this final stretch of Uranus inthat sign.
But before I dive in,definitely check out my
newsletter, my substack.
That is where you can getaccess to my opinions and my
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take on every new and full moon,the retrogrades, and also, by
becoming a paid substacksubscriber, you do get 30% off
all my courses and videosthrough my website and you do
get access to the 2025 webinar,the astrology of 2025 webinar,
which is still up, and much morecontent.
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So definitely check that out.
And also, it's not too late todownload my 2025 horoscopes,
which also cover every new andfull moon for the year ahead,
again, retrograde dates, keytrends and so on, and thank you
to the 10,000 of you who havedownloaded the video so far.
I would definitely recommendstill getting a copy, if you
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have not yet, for your sun, moonand rising signs, because we've
only had one, you know, fullmoon this year, I mean we still
have, you know, many, many morenew and full moons to you know
be preparing for.
So if you want to stay ahead ofthe curve, definitely download
those videos.
So let's start off with Marsretrograde, and Mars retrogrades
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every two plus years.
This is something that I'vetalked about in previous
episodes.
But it's not just Mercury thatretrogrades.
Obviously, the other planetsalso retrograde, and it is a
moment.
It's the rarest retrograde andit's definitely the most
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noticeable, in my opinion,because Mars is really our
energy drive, libido, it is ourinner flame.
In a lot of ways.
It is also how we respond tochallenges.
It's how we, you know, compete,it is how we yeah, it's how we
withstand challenges.
It's how we assert ourselves,it's how we get things done.
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So when Mars retrogrades, someof these, well, basically, the
battery power, like our batterypower is depleted a little bit
more.
It's more difficult to respondto challenges without, you know,
becoming overly stressed.
And I do think Mars really hasa lot to do with our stress
management.
So when it retrogrades, we getfrazzled more easily, we find it
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difficult to manage thestresses of life and so many
people retreat or recoil or theyisolate or whatever they have
to do.
They will start to avoidsituations that previously were
not maybe all that stressful.
And in this case it'sretrograding in the sign of
Cancer, which I actually thinkmakes it more difficult, because
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Mars has fallen in the sign ofCancer.
And not only that, but it'ssquaring Chiron for much of this
retrograde Chiron in Arieswhich is creating a frustration,
a sense of woundedness, a senseof kind of being pushed down or
bullied.
Almost Even if you're not beingbullied literally, it can
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almost feel like one is beingbullied by life, by life itself.
So it's a type of Marsretrograde where, you know it
can be kind of agonizing, not tobe too dramatic about it, but I
mean it can be kind ofagonizing and, you know,
harrowing in a way.
So instead of you know going onand on about all the drawbacks,
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I want to be solutions-orientedon this episode.
So just to give you context, italso did retrograde in Leo
initially, by the way, but theretrograde in Cancer has been
going on since January 6th, sothat's about a month.
That happened about a monthinto Mars retrograde.
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So just to review and I'vetalked about Mars retrograde in
Leo, I believe, in previousepisodes, if not, I talked about
it on my sub stack recently,anyway.
So yeah, mars did initiallystation retrograde at six
degrees of Leo on December 6th,but I think that that phase of
the retrograde was I don't know,I just think that was a little
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bit easier to navigate.
It was opposing Pluto, whichdefinitely created a lot of
maybe.
I mean maybe did generate a lotof resentment in people.
But Mars retrograding in a firesign, I think is a little bit
easier to manage, you know.
I mean you know Mars rulesScorpio, which is a water sign.
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But I do think that Mars infire signs is usually preserving
some kind of passion and drive,because the fire elements
naturally is just, you know, alittle bit more outgoing,
extroverted, action-oriented.
But in Cancer this is the signthat's ruled by the moon and
Cancer has an inherentsensitivity to it.
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But I think what makes Marsretrograde in Cancer the most
difficult is it createsirregularities within the body
itself.
I think about Cancer as havingassociations with the lunation
cycle, with natural rhythms,with, you know, hormones.
So when Mars retrogrades incancer, I think a lot of people
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have either been thrown off oftheir typical sleep cycle or
their usual sleep cycle justisn't working for them.
People may find themselves justagitated generally by, you know
, like any.
Again, any notion of like,being out of sync with the
natural rhythms of life can bevery agitating when Mars is in
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this sign.
Also, when Mars retrogrades inCancer, I think it can make
people more passive, aggressive,and you know it can make people
more passive-aggressive and itcan make people a little bit
more petty about certain things,and people will also be
tormented by this idea thattheir typical sources of comfort
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whether it's a home or a familyor so on become oftentimes
sources of stress.
So you layer that on top ofeverything I've already
mentioned about Mars retrogradebeing again a time where stress
management is just not aseffective.
When you layer in the fact thatsuddenly your very own
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foundation or home base is asource of strife, you're dealing
with a situation whereeverything is exhausting you and
it's a vicious cycle, becauseyou're exhausted by the outside
world and as soon as you comehome, you're not really
restoring your energy.
So let's walk through againsome pragmatic steps that you
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can take, because thisretrograde is going to continue
until February 23rd, so we stillhave plenty of time where
you're going to hear otherpeople complaining about this
sort of abstract, inexplicableexhaustion and you can tell them
hey, check out Evan's episode.
He talks about this.
But the Mars retrograde incancer the Mars retrograde in
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Cancer number one is a time toevaluate your sleep cycle, like
I said.
So just take a look at that.
Are you waking up at bizarretimes in the middle of the night
?
Are you finding yourself wayway more tired than usual in the
morning or not tired enoughwhen you go to bed.
Whatever irregularities you'reexperiencing or anomalies you're
experiencing right now, justreflect on those, jot those down
, keep track of your sleeppatterns, especially as it
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aligns with the lunation cycleand the lunation phase, and I
think you will derive a lot ofinsight through this.
So perhaps you've become a lotmore sensitive to, maybe your
sleep has been become disrupted,you know, within a few days
before and after the full moon,for example.
I would take note of that.
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Or maybe you realize that youare, or you traveled recently
and you find yourself not beingable to adjust back to your
usual time zone.
And I want to give an exampleof this because I think it's
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actually illustrating my ownsort of hacking into this Mars
retrograde.
I mean, I have Mars retrogradenatally, so I'm at a bit of an
advantage here, but I feel likeas a cancer rising.
I've definitely still, you know,I've been bearing the brunt, I
think, of this Mars retrogradein some ways.
But you know, I was travelingto Minneapolis early in the
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month, which is on central time,and I'm usually in LA, which is
on Pacific time, and when Icame back to California I was
still feeling like I was oncentral time, meaning two hours
ahead.
But instead of adjusting to myusual sleep pattern, I started
actually going to bed reallyearly Pacific time, so for me
early like 10pm, which would bemidnight central time, and then,
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you know, I started waking upthe next morning at like 7 am
and then suddenly I locked intoa rhythm that I usually don't
seek out because I'm more of anight owl.
So I mean, I'm like filmingthis podcast at 11 pm Pacific
time.
So I'm kind of vile hittingthat example right now.
But for the most part, the pastweek or so, I have been going to
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bed fairly early, waking upfairly early, and through that
I've been able to not onlyrestore my energy and maintain
it, but I've also like gone tothe gym five days in a row this
past week, which is very rarefor me.
I usually only go like threetimes a week.
So that's been a reallypositive change.
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And I feel like the Marsretrograde in Cancer has been
forcing me to reflect on mypatterns, my rhythms, my sleep,
because even though the 12thhouse and Pisces oftentimes is
associated with sleep, you haveto realize that Cancer is a
moon-rolled sign and the moon isvery much dictating our sleep
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patterns, our behaviors, ouremotions, yes, but it really
does speak to the ebb and flowof our lives.
So just re-evaluate yourrhythms generally, just see if
there's a different pattern thatyou can hook into.
Now another aspect, anothersolution to this Mars retrograde
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is to really avoid people whoare sensitive to criticism,
people who are generally petty,people who are
passive-aggressive.
Avoid those types of peoplebecause you will probably get
easily caught up in that energyduring this time and, honestly,
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in certain cases you might bethe person who's doing that.
But you know you just reallywant to avoid, you know, giving
energy to those types of peoplein that situation.
You know, because what you'regoing to see with Mars
retrograding, cancer is, youknow, people who typically are
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more avoidant or typically arenon-confrontational will find
these kind of insidious ways tokind of to again like attack
someone else, you know to kindof get their, you know to assert
their dominance, but in sort ofa bizarre, again passive,
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aggressive way, and that caneasily get under your skin and
create this sort of death by athousand cuts situation where
you just are constantly havingto deal with somebody's nagging
or somebody's complaints orsomeone's subtle sort of
aggression and that can easilyget inside your head.
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So try to avoid those behaviorsyourself and also avoid people
who typically demonstrate thosepatterns.
Another solution is to, like youknow, put especially well, put
a significant amount of energyinto making your home a
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sanctuary.
So, potentially, some of youare dealing with family conflict
while Mars is retrogradingCancer.
If that's the case, just try tocome up with solutions for that
.
Just try to come up withsolutions for that.
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Whatever that looks likeSetting boundaries with someone
in your family, creating a space, just experiencing a lot of
stress in your home environment.
Just reflect on like what thosesources of stress might be.
But most of the time, theanswer is to like declutter.
So if you're sitting in yourbedroom and there's this piles
of clothes all over the place,that would be an opportunity to
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know put those clothes away,fold them up and experience more
of a placid, peaceful feeling.
If you are on your phone toomuch tracking the news and doom
scrolling inside of inside yourhouse, like you want to maybe
stop doing that.
You want to basically create aspace in your home where certain
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maybe distractions or stimuliare not allowed.
So maybe you have a.
Maybe you have a if you canafford this.
Maybe you have a room in yourhouse where you don't have any
electronics.
You don't bring your phone in,you don't really plug anything
in, don't have a wi-fi router inthere, you don't have any
distractions.
Make sure you have a placewhere your sanity and just
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peacefulness are honored.
And again, just be very mindfulabout anyone in your family who
might be causing some discordright now and maybe take care to
avoid them a little bit moreoften or to finally confront the
issue and if you have aroommate who you're at odds with
, again set a boundary with themor just find ways to be away
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from them more often.
And so, yeah, I think thatthose are like the three main
solutions that I would applyhere.
But also just keep track ofwhich house of your birth chart
is ruled by cancer.
I mean, that's where Mars isretrograde.
So that area of life is alsowhere you want to de-stress,
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stress and, generally speaking,people with placements between
17 and 29 degrees of thecardinal signs are the most
deeply affected by thisretrograde.
But really everybody isaffected.
And again, if you have Marsretrograde natally in your birth
chart, then this shouldn't bequite as challenging of a time.
But I guess there's one otheraspect to this retrograde I want
to mention and that is thesquare to Chiron in
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juxtaposition with Venus goinginto Aries in a few days, and I
think that this is going tohighlight any aspects of
relationships where this sort ofphysical intimacy is lacking,
because with Venus being inAries for pretty much all of
February, you know, venus inAries typically goes after what
it desires.
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In a relationship, venus inAries oftentimes wants to create
a romantic relationship wherethere is a lot of physical
intimacy.
But with Mars dispositing thisVenus in Aries, because Mars
rules Aries, you know, with Marsretrograding, cancer squaring
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Chiron in Aries, there can be alack of drive, a lack of libido
right now and there can be alack of general mojo, and this
can, especially before theretrograde of Venus in Aries.
This can kind of give peoplesecond thoughts about, maybe,
their relationship or they mightthink, oh, was I better off
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with this other person wherethere was more excitement, where
there was more passion?
If you're in a relationship andyou are dealing with this other
person where there was moreexcitement, where there was more
passion, if you're in arelationship and you are dealing
with this Mars retrograde, youhave to make sure that you are
continuously kind of kindlingthat sense of passion and
excitement and intimacy.
And, again, if you're like andif, again, if you are struggling
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with those things.
There's different solutions tothat which I think go beyond the
realm of this podcast, but oneof the solutions, astrologically
, could be again to reevaluateyour sleep cycle, because your
sleep cycle is off kilter rightnow.
You might be again, again goingto bed especially awake and
then waking up especiallyexhausted, or whatever the case
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is, and I think that optimizingthe sleep cycle is one of the
keys to restoring, you know,just to getting back to.
It's about getting back to abaseline where you have the
energy in the morning to, let'ssay, go to the gym or exercise
and then you're getting theblood flowing and then you're
getting yourself in a positionwhere you know it's really easy
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to capture that passion.
And I, you know, I think withall the Pisces transits as well,
right now, you know, somepeople might feel like they're a
little bit more lost in theirdreamland or their imagination
and they're less like even intheir body, but I do think that
for those of you who are inrelationships, it's very
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important to make sure that youare preserving that sense of a
spark or a flame in therelationship.
Otherwise, I actually thinkthis Venus and Aries transit
could be really you know, reallytough for people in
relationships.
So I just want to add that in.
So I think that, in addition toagain tracking the house of
your chart where you have canceror where the sign of cancer is
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on the cusp, using a whole signhouse system, in addition to
tracking that domain of lifewhere the retrograde is taking
effect, apply these othersolutions Optimize sleep cycles,
even revisit your sleeppatterns.
Maybe this is the time when youstart sleeping at times you
almost never have slept at inyour life.
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Maybe you start going to bedway earlier all of a sudden.
So again, optimize sleep cycles.
Avoid petty behaviors on eitherside of an equation.
Make sure that you have asanctuary of some kind in your
home or familiar place.
Minimize conflict with familyand keep track of your libido in
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a relationship if you're in one, because for a lot of people
the libido might be depleted atthis time and that would, of
course, be a source of stress inand of itself.
But I think the bottom linethere is, as long as you have a
solid sleep cycle and a solidsense of foundation.
As long as you have a solidsleep cycle and a solid sense of
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foundation, then you're goingto be able to meet any of the
challenges out there in theworld or in a relationship and
so on.
So hopefully that was a usefulexercise and now we're going to
go into Uranus, stationingdirect in Taurus.
So Uranus stationing directhere this is not unfamiliar
territory.
Again, we've had Uranus andTaurus since 2018.
Technically, it ingressedinitially May 15th 2018.
And Uranus, similar to Mars andCancer, is not comfortable in
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the sign of Taurus.
It is also fallen in Taurus and, you know, coming out of the
retrograde.
It actually is an opportunityto work with this planet's sort
of energy in a more savvy way.
Despite the fact that itdoesn't like Taurus.
I think by now we should befairly accustomed to it, and it
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kind of reminds me of theYouTube video I just posted
about February 2025, which wastitled Making Peace with Chaos,
and I think that we just have todo that with Uranus and Taurus.
Taurus is a fixed earth sign.
It wants stability.
Uranus doesn't give us that.
It completely upturns that andupends it.
But with Taurus being values,we've maybe learned to value the
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unpredictable in life.
We've learned to embrace thatand see how unpredictable
episodes have actually openeddoors to our evolution or our
acceleration forward.
Our acceleration forward.
You know, I think about Uranusopposing my moon in 2020.
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You know, in 2019, when Uranusopposed my moon, I moved across
the country and in an unexpectedway and even though I was sort
of ripped out of my life in NewYork which was a fairly
palatable experience my time inLA has introduced me to
astrology and entrepreneurshipand new connections, new
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relationships and all of theseamazing things.
But leading into thattransition, I think I was fairly
perturbed by it becauseinitially I was even months
before I left New York.
I was like, well, this is myforever place.
And then we had a pandemic anda lockdown and you know, um, and
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then all of a sudden myex-girlfriend gets into a
business school in LA and I justall of these things line up and
I just take a chance on it.
You know I'm living out hereand you know I find LA to be
oftentimes a bit of a headscratcher because I'm not really
sure sometimes, like why orwhat the appeal is.
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And then there's other timeswhere I'm like, wow, you know,
this is a really sacred place,and so, even if I'm vacillating
between those two opinions, it'sstill undeniable that LA has
introduced me to so many, again,incredible opportunities.
So, through that experience andmany other experiences, I've
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learned how to just see suddenchanges as the universe's way of
working in my favor and theuniverse's way of forcing me to
just get acquainted withsomething new and helping me get
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out of a stagnant situation.
So I think we've all had tograpple with that in our own
ways since 2018.
And in this case, you want tolook at the Taurus ruled house
that's in your birth chart andyou know, just look to that as
and reflect on that.
Like, how have I experiencedinstability in the area that's
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ruled by Taurus?
Or, sorry, the house that'sruled by Taurus in my chart?
And you know, let's take stockof those new sort of vistas that
were suddenly revealed to us.
Let's take stock of andappreciate the sudden doorways
that were opened.
So I think that's that exercisein gratitude can even help us
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manage this transit.
But when Uranus stations directit's, by the way, stationing
direct on January 30th we will,because, again, this is the
final, really one of the finalpassages of Uranus and Taurus in
this cycle, we can make it workfor us, even if we do continue
to experience some unexpectedevents.
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I think, as Uranus goes throughthis last decan of Taurus, we
can just hopefully use this as avehicle for acceleration,
evolution, liberation, autonomyand just radical reinvention.
Maybe, maybe you've beenhesitant to radically reinvent
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something in your life for thepast seven years that Uranus has
been here, and now you'refinally ready after much
reflection, and Uranus is goingto enter Gemini in July and it's
going to be very comfortablethere in Gemini, because Uranus
is the higher octave of Mercuryand Mercury rules Gemini.
So that's going to be a nicetransition.
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But before that, as Uranuscloses out this transit in
Taurus, I would recommend thatyou just also do sort of a full
inventory of what your valueswere back in 2018.
And you know, go into yourphone, go to your photo album,
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try to find photos from late Mayof 2018 or early June of 2018.
And even if you have a photo onMay 15th of 2018, even better.
You know, go back to that time,get acquainted with that time,
get acquainted with that versionof you again and just take
stock of everything that youheld dear at that time, held
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dearly to yourself Did you valuemoney in a different way?
Did you value a relationship ina different way?
Did you value Mother Nature,music in a different way?
And just trace the changes uptill now and ideally you know by
this time, or in doing thatexercise, you feel confident
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that your values have been kindof upgraded or clarified and, um
, you know just firmly, kind ofgrasp what those values are now
and live those values out asUranus finishes this transit
through Taurus.
Now, the last decan of Taurus isa Capricorn decan, by the way,
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and the Capricorn decan has alot to do with governments,
institutions, you know,structures, rules, laws,
regulations.
So, with Uranus moving directin Taurus, a lot of regulations
and legacies are beingdismantled, and you can see that
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through the lens of the Trumpadministration and, whether you
voted for him or not, it's justobjectively true that he is
upending a lot of traditionthat's associated with the
presidency, sort of break apartthese legacy institutions and
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trying to almost play thisunpredictable wildcard,
disruptive role.
And everybody's kind ofchecking the news each day to
see what lifetime of changes hasgone on in the last 24 hours.
So I think we are all makingpeace with chaos through the
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lens of the federal governmentand the US.
But, you know, uranus movingdirect in Taurus, which is a
sign associated with money andvalues, can also give you a
really interesting way to maybemake money, to generate income,
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to add more flexibility to yourwork, your work style, to your
job description.
You know, I think that there'senough tools out there, through
the lens of AI or social mediaor other platforms, to untether
you from the typical corporateworkplace so juxtaposed with
Venus and Aries, a sign ofentrepreneurs or other platforms
to untether you from thetypical corporate workplace, so
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juxtaposed with Venus and Aries,a sign of entrepreneurs.
I do think there's a route forall of us to pursue
entrepreneurship at this point.
And, yeah, I think that alsoUranus and Taurus could show us
how technology is moving tooquickly and we want to kind of
reground our values and, youknow, place more of an emphasis
(30:25):
on nature or, you know,unplugging.
So I'm not saying it's allabout just honoring the
relentless or worshiping therelentless pursuit of, you know,
advancement of technology.
In fact, I think that one ofthe themes of this Aquarian
season is the drawbacks oftechnology.
(30:47):
You know, we've seen howtechnology can lead to all kinds
of disasters and I think thatwill be a theme generally
throughout Pluto and Aquarius is, you know, the deployment of
technology and then the rollingback of that technology in the
aftermath of a tragedy caused bythat technology.
Some of that regulation orrollback might involve
(31:19):
surveillance though,unfortunately, or privacy
invasions.
So we want to be mindful ofthat during Uranus' final
transit in Taurus.
What value do you ascribe topersonal privacy versus
convenience versus, etc.
Right, like whatever balancingact you're trying to strike, you
know focus on that answer, beable to answer those questions.
(31:41):
You know we're answering thosequestions in the through the
lens of tiktok right now, youknow.
Do you value free a free likefree speech, and a marketplace
where ideas can be exchangedfreely?
Or do you value that over andabove any national security
(32:02):
risks that the platform may pose?
Or do you feel like we shouldbe walling off or putting a
firewall on certain realms ofthe internet or certain apps?
Or putting a firewall oncertain realms of the internet
or certain apps, regardless ofwhatever benefits they may
(32:22):
espouse, or tout?
So those are serious questionsto be answering while Uranus is
directing Taurus.
Are your personal valueshermetically sealed at this
point, or are they not?
You know they might not bebecause the values that you
uphold may ebb and flow astechnologies are rapidly
(32:42):
introduced.
Maybe it raises differentethical concerns, like if
someone is, you know, humiliatedon a social media platform and
that leads to some sort ofmacabre outcome.
You know what?
Does that mean?
That we should have socialmedia platforms just free range,
(33:03):
uninhibited, available toeveryone in every way?
Like you know, I'm not here toanswer that question for you,
but you should be able to answerthat question over time.
Should we allow AI to gobble upall kinds of jobs, even the jobs
that maybe were more, you know,just rote or just you know, I
(33:28):
guess, like certain, like is itokay for AI to replace jobs that
you know maybe were reallydangerous or challenging in a or
I guess, mundane, like you know?
And should we allow, should weembrace that?
You know?
(33:48):
Is that going to free people upto do more creative work, or
whatever?
I think we all have seriousdilemmas on our hands here.
We have to think about howtechnology is going to fit into
our lives.
Otherwise, we're going to haveto wait to figure out how we fit
into their like to AI's visionof the world.
(34:10):
Right, so that's just somethingto think about, but I really
think, ideally, you should beusing this transit through
Taurus to apply innovativeapproaches towards monetization
of something.
I think that if you really useAI in a savvy way, you can
(34:31):
automate such a broad range oftasks that you might not need an
employer anymore to design yourworkday for you.
It's like, as long as you havea passion and an expertise and
the ability to communicate thatexpertise to a digital audience,
you can be your own brand.
I mean, that is already thecase, but I think it's becoming
(34:51):
increasingly clear that we'reentering an era where someone's
personal brand matters and saysa lot about their corporation,
to a point where we're all kindof generating or creating value,
and garnering value or currencyor whatever through our own
efforts.
Anyways, uranus moving direct.
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Obviously we'll have many otherassociations broadly at the
societal scale, likecryptocurrencies will be in the
news quite often.
There could be some seismicactivity, especially around the
full moon, february 12th, and soon.
But again, those are somespecific themes I wanted to
highlight for today.
Those are some specific themesI wanted to highlight for today.
(35:51):
So, anyways, hopefully thisepisode has been crisp for you
and useful.
I like to keep it short andsweet.
Right now I am still,technically, on the road.
So I've been on the road for amonth now, pretty much, and just
trying to make sense of all thecrazy stuff that's been
(36:14):
happening in LA.
And, um, you know, I'm luckythat my house is, you know,
unscathed at this time.
It's raining in LA right now.
So I think, so far so good.
But I am concerned about theair quality.
The water quality I'vementioned that on my previous
(36:35):
podcast.
You know, I think again, thereis a bit of a risk of seismic
activity in the middle ofFebruary.
La is going to come back, justlike a lot of cities have
through tragic moments and, um,you know, I'm hopeful that I
(36:57):
still have a role to play inthat city and you know I have a,
a future there.
I think that'd be nice.
But, um, yeah, anyways, I, um,you know, I thank you for your
patience.
Also, I did not record anepisode last weekend, although I
had a good reason for that.
I was on actually a podcast, ornot even a podcast.
(37:20):
It was a weekly Sunday nightshow that Robert Phoenix does On
his YouTube channel.
I was with Robert, the Leo Kingand Symbolic Studies Mario and
Symbolic Studies Mario, so itwas four of us and David and I
were both live from his studioin Orange County and that was a
(37:41):
good time.
That was the second time in thelast few months that Robert,
david and I have done a showtogether and this time it was
with Symbolic Studies, whoseaccount on TikTok I've been
following for a long time,actually for many years, whose
account on TikTok I've beenfollowing for a long time,
actually for many years.
So that was really cool to see.
(38:01):
You know, all four of usmeeting and sort of opining
about.
You know everything that'scoming with.
You know well, just everythingthat's happening with the
Sun-Pluto conjunction we hadrecently.
But anyways, you know,definitely stick around.
I really do.
You know, for future episodes.
I appreciate you.
You know subscribing andfollowing this show and you know
(38:21):
submitting a five-star ratingor you know whatever.
I think it's a podcast I dowant to continue to invest in
and you know I think we passed55,000 downloads all time since
the podcast started last June,which I think is a great, great
number.
I don't know how many actuallistens, probably a lot more,
(38:43):
but you know that's a.
That's a really solid number ofdownloads, especially given the
breaks we've taken in betweenseason one and two.
So, yeah, I'm trying to make apodcast that is equal parts
pragmatic and honest.
So, yeah, hopefully thisepisode carried on that
(39:07):
tradition.
And, anyways, be sure tosubscribe to my newsletter and
also check out and download my2025 horoscopes.
I am Evan Nathaniel Grimm.
Thank you so much.
And you know, remember MarsRetrograde continues until
February 23rd.
So, you know, apply the methodsI mentioned and I think
February should be pretty goodfor you.
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