August 15, 2025 • 33 mins
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Learning astrology can feel super complicated and overwhelming—but it really doesn’t have to be. Over the years, through my own journey and teaching hundreds of students, I’ve seen that there are five clear levels of learning astrology. Once you know where you are on the path, it becomes so much easier to know your next step.
In this episode of the Quietmind Astrology Podcast, I walk you through these five levels—from the “Insta Astrologer,” who scrolls TikTok memes, to the experienced astrologer who can read any chart on the spot with accuracy and insight. You’ll hear how I personally moved from Western astrology into Vedic astrology, why I follow the sidereal system, and how my mentors helped me turn confusion into clarity. I’ll also share how you can use your own chart (and charts of people close to you) to deepen your skills and start moving toward giving accurate, embodied, and inspiring readings.
I’ve created a free assessment at quietmindastrology.com/levels so you can see exactly what level you’re at right now and what your next step is. And if you’re ready for the full in-depth training, check out the Become Your Own Astrologer workshop at quietmindastrology.com/workshop.
Highlights:
- Level one is what I call the Insta astrologer. You might see funny memes on Instagram or TikTok and know your sun sign, but that’s just scratching the surface. It’s like having an iPhone and only using it to check the weather.
- When you get to level two, you become the astrology friend. You’re the one people go to when Mercury goes retrograde or an eclipse happens, and you can explain what’s going on in the sky.
- Level three is the hobby astrologer. You’re reading books, pulling up charts, maybe even doing free readings, but you don’t always feel confident yet. This is where imposter syndrome often shows up.
- Level four is the astrology practitioner. You’re reading charts regularly, maybe asking for donations, and people are giving you honest feedback that helps you grow.
- Level five is the experienced astrologer: accurate, embodied, intuitive, observant, and uplifting. You can look at any chart like you’d read a book, and you know how to find the potential in every placement.
By the end of this episode, you’ll know which level you’re at, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to move forward with a clear path. Whether you just want to understand your own chart better or you feel called to give readings for others, this framework will guide you.
Check out the links below to get your free chart, assessment, and the Become Your Own Astrologer workshop for the full step-by-step process.
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Keywords: nakshatras, grahas (planets), rashi (zodiac signs), bhavas (houses), jyotish (astrology), yoga (planetary combinations), doshas (afflictions), kundali (birth chart), transits, retrograde, aspects, dasha system, remedies, mantras, shani, chani, chandra, mangala, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
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Learning astrology can be super complicated and overwhelming,
but it really doesn't have to be.
So I've assessed what I've seen in myself and in the clients
I've worked with, people I've trained to be astrologers, that
there's 5 levels that you can beat and your path.
And I created a free assessment for you to see what level you're
at and what your next steps are at Quiet Mind
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astrology.com/levels. And I go deeper into this in the
Become Your Own Astrology Workshop is now available on my
site. So it's Quiet My
astrology.com/workshop as you can get the full in depth deep
dive into the five levels. But in this episode, I'm going
to talk about what those 5 levels are, help you see where
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you're at on your path. So maybe you're like about half
of the people I work with. You don't want to be in
astrologer, you just want to know for yourself and you want
to go deeper and understanding your own chart and maybe people
close to you, that's totally fine.
Or maybe you want to eventually give readings or do your own
sort of astrology work as well. So we'll see where you're at
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along your path with all of that.
And for me personally, I just started to do it for myself.
Like I just wanted to know my own chart.
I wanted to know what the hell is going on during Mercury
retrograde? How do we work with this?
Why is this happening? What does all this mean?
And I was following western astrology at 1st and the more I
started asking about the actual transits and seeing OK, the sun
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is in this sign today in westernastrology.
Let's look at it. And I realized I couldn't see it
with a telescope and you can't see it with a stargazing app
because that's not where it actually is.
So if you actually look with a stargazing app or a telescope
where the planets are in the moment, that is what Vedic
astrology is using. So I began switching over to
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Vedic astrology around 2011 whenI found my mentor.
And without my guidance and my teachers and my mentors, I would
not be here for sure. So that's why I love to share
and give this stuff back. And this is basically stuff I
wish I had found years ago when I was learning.
So in Vedic astrology, we are aligning with the actual
astronomy of what's happening. And as you're learning, you may
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be at one of these 5 levels along the way, starting with
level 1. That's what I call the Insta
astrologer. So this is the person who's on
Instagram and social media and just scrolling through TikTok or
whatever and you see funny stuff.
And you might know in Western astrology, this is your sun sign
and you might relate a lot with some of the stuff you see.
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And it's funny, it's cute, it's interesting, and that's kind of
it. So there's a real risk here of
being very superficial with astrology, which is like just
scratching the surface, just thetip of the iceberg of what's
possible. It's like if you have a an
iPhone and you only use it to check the weather, right?
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That's kind of like this level of astrology of if you're just
going on social media and you'reseeing occasional astrology
post, it's like you have an iPhone that can do almost
anything on a computer and you're just using it for one
thing that's kind of superficial, like the weather.
So if you want to go deeper thanthat, then you've got to start
to follow a path of what you're learning and not just random
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stuff. And that's how you move on from
level 1 here. The insta astrologer is you have
a path. Maybe you follow this podcast or
a teacher you like or a book or there's some sort of step by
step guidance. And I give this and they become
your own astrologer workshop, Quiet Mind,
astrology.com/workshop. But it's basically like, what do
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you do in what order? So learning about the signs is
great, but how they all relate the elements and what the
planets represent and what the houses represent and when you
include aspects and dashas and transits and all this stuff,
there's so many layers to it that you could just follow it on
a superficial level and get somesort of entertainment and
information out of it. But if you want to go deeper,
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then there needs to be a path that you follow to learn.
And then you start to go into level 2, which is what I call
the astrology friend. And if you're following this
podcast, many of you follow thisfor many years.
So I appreciate that. Thank you.
And that's more of this level where you kind of know what's
going on, you're paying attention to it, you're
following some sort of guidance.And again, I appreciate that if
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you find my episodes helpful. But when things go down and
people are like, Oh, my God, what is happening with the
planets? You're the person that knows.
And they can come to you and askand you'll know, oh, yeah, that
we just had the eclipse or Mercury's retrograde or these
kind of things. I hear this a lot from
listeners. Like, people come to you with
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their astrology questions and you have the answers because
you're keeping up on it. And it's particularly with the
transits. But again, when it comes down to
deeper stuff like in a birth chart and you pull up a birth
chart, this is how I felt many years ago when I was learning.
It's like you don't even really know where to begin or what to
talk about or what to say. It seems like there's a lot
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there. Again, you know there's a lot
there, but you don't really knowwhere to begin.
So it's going to become overwhelming.
And you can be getting a lot of information and inputs, but not
quite sure where it all fits together or how to apply it to
A1 chart at your chart. So this is the next step then to
start applying what you're learning to real charts,
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starting with your own and then with people close to you that
you know, and then eventually with strangers.
And then we start to move up these levels of skill.
But that's the first thing. If you haven't done this yet,
get your free birth chart on my site.
Maybe a friend or spouse or someone close to you also want
to look at that birth chart. And you can start to apply
things that you're learning about the planet, science,
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houses, nakshatras. And I recommend you stay on
track with one system or if you're going to jump around
between systems that you kind ofknow that they are distinct,
like in Western astrology, they don't have the nakshatras or the
dashas. And there are different meanings
to some things. A lot of it is similar.
So if you're coming from Western, it's not a big leap.
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But if you are learning multiplethings, then you're going to
start to get mixed results with things.
And they're actually some Vedic astrologers and all astrology,
but in Vedic astrology as well, that you think, well, they're
Vedic, they must be using all the same system because that's
the Vedic astrology. But there's actually people who
sort of made their own system and said, no, actually we're
going to do it this way and we're going to make up this new
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system. And me personally, I would
rather stick to the tradition that's thousands of years old
and proven and the same that I learned from my mentor and he
learned from his teacher and so on in this long lineage of
teachers, rather than say, actually, no, I think I'm the
one who's now going to correct this thousand year old system
that's been using and proven forused and proven for many years.
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So I would be skeptical of that,of anyone who's made-up a new
system. And maybe they have a lot of
proof and research to back it up.
But again, I have not seen that.So I stick with the standard
sidereal Vedic system that most Vedic astrologers use because it
works. So follow a proven path, start
using it on real charts. So you can do this now and we do
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this further on in the workshop.So if you find this fun, you
might like the more of that in the workshop.
So I want you to guess what is the element of this sign in this
meme? So he says I'm a total go with
the flow kind of person as long as the flow is scheduled well in
advance and there are no mid flow changes whatsoever.
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So what kind of sign and what what elements, what energy
doesn't want to have too much disruption and changing their
life and they don't really want to go with the flow.
Well, the four elements, earth, air, water, fire, that's
definitely not water and that's definitely not air and it's not
fire. It is the earth element.
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And that consists of the three signs Taurus, Virgo and
Capricorn. So if you have Taurus, Virgo or
Capricorn as your rising sun, moon or three or more placements
there, this might really resonate with you.
You might relate to this. I can relate to it.
But you know, we all have multiple things in our charts.
So just one thing is not always going to encompass your whole
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experience as a human. So This is why we can play with
memes and they're fun, but they can become superficial and we
can learn about astrology like this and it can be fun and
interesting. But again, we need to apply it
to real life for it to really work.
So that's where we can look at areal life chart.
And this is what Kimberly, a graduate of the Beta Astrology
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mentorship that Ioffer is what she said and she found really
helpful because she felt overwhelmed and things weren't
resonating until she started working with me.
And we use step by step processes with real charts and
things started to click. So it wasn't just random stuff,
but it's more of a path. So let's use some real charts.
So as you're listening, who can you think of that has some of
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these earth sign qualities? It's grounded, responsible,
practical, and like maybe a Taurus or Virgo or Capricorn.
If you happen to know any publicfigures and particularly
somebody in government who has these qualities, regardless of
your political opinions, we can all agree that Barack Obama has
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a pretty grounded earthy presence.
I think that's fair to say, regardless of anyone's political
opinions. And you can see in his own birth
chart, he has Capricorn rising. Saturn's in Capricorn even more.
That's very strong Saturn, earthy energy.
Jupiter's there as well in Capricorn.
So that brings even more of thisemphasis because 3 placements,
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Ascendant, Saturn and Jupiter all in Capricorn and Capricorn
is one of the biggest indicatorsfor anything to do with
government. When we saw the big effects of
the government happening in 2020with Saturn and Capricorn,
that's all very strong government influence.
Saturn and Capricorn, he has this in his birth chart.
So he has a very strong government drive in the sense of
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self. So this is ideally kind of
person who's going to do very well in politics with Saturn and
Capricorn in the 1st house. Now, if anyone you know or you
have that placement and you're not into politics, it's going to
express through other ways like being practical, grounded, maybe
even materialistic to its extreme and focused on stability
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and security. So working in like law
enforcement, security law, government related roles or
adjacent roles make a lot of sense as well.
Any sort of admin, Capricorn rising, people tend to like to
know what the rules are and helpenforce those rules and make
sure that everyone's on track. And he said as a quote.
So as we're learning from real charts, this is how we move into
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Level 3 as an astrologer is to look at quotes, look at real
life people, how they live this energy.
And he has many quotes, but thisis 1 where he says the virtues
we need most right now are self-discipline over
self-interest, work over comfort, and character over
celebrity. That was in 2009.
And again, very much Capricorn grounded Saturn kind of
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energies. So that's how we start to build
a relationship with these energies rather than just as a
concept conceptually or in our minds.
And then we start to move into Level 3 of the hobby astrology,
where you are using books and interpretations and maybe even
AI now and you're learning from these things, but you don't have
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it embodied and experienced. So you read it in a book and you
might just believe that is the way it is.
Or even much more challenging now as you might type it into AI
and it gives you the results andyou don't know that it's wrong.
And I'm testing these things a lot and it's constantly wrong.
And but I only know that from experience.
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So you got to be careful with AItools, especially like books are
going to be more reliable because they've gone through
this whole vetting process. Blogs kind of in the middle.
A lot of AI is getting its information from blogs and books
and forums. So it gets really jumbled up in
there. Sometimes it's really just a
fancy auto complete. It's not actually using logic
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and reason like humans do. So just be careful with AI.
That can really lead you astray.And you want to make sure that
you're learning from experience and embodiment.
And that mainly comes from looking at real charts, starting
with your own people close to you and in public figures that
you know very well. And I'm using public figures
because we all know them to a large degree.
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And we don't all know, you know,just normal people that I can
normally do readings for who arenot always in the public eye.
So you have these abilities to look up things and you know what
to look for, but you might not know what's exactly right, But,
you know, you're also just scratching the surface.
And there is much more. And this is where I was for
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quite a while once I started to know what I was looking at in
the chart, but now not quite know for sure what to say or I
would need to look it up and I would feel a bit overwhelmed.
When I started to do readings oflike I started doing them for
free many years ago. It's like I just wanted
experience. So I would do a bunch of
research before each reading. And when you're at this phase,
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that's OK, it makes sense. That's part of it.
For your own chart, you might doa bunch of research, looking
through a bunch of books and resources.
In my mentorship program, I giveyou a spreadsheet that's
basically like all the best stuff from all the best books
I've read all in one place. So you can just easily go
through that and find OK, son inthe 5th house in Taurus, in
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Kritika, Nakshatra means this and you can put it all together.
But in this phase, you're kind of relying on that because you
haven't seen it enough, you haven't practiced it enough yet.
So you might start to feel like an imposter and have the
imposter syndrome or insecurity.Very normal.
You don't have the full confidence yet.
You're still like looking at external things.
It's not embodied and experiential yet.
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And as AI, artificial intelligence increases and
influence in the world, there's a greater and greater need for
EI, embodied and experiential intelligence.
And that just takes time and just takes having a path to
follow and then having a processor giving readings and receiving
feedback. So I lay out my five step
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process in the free workshop. You can go get that Quiet Mind
astrology.com/workshop. But now you start to have a
process and you're applying it and you're getting feedback and
probably doing free readings at 1st and then asking for in
exchange for the free reading just to give you honest
feedback. And if it's actually helpful, be
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honest and say it is. If it's actually not helpful, be
honest and let you know. That's how you grow.
I've definitely learned the hardway when I was starting out like
making mistakes and asking for adirect honest feedback and
hearing, oh, you know, actually this was way off.
And that was way off and it was hard to hear at 1st and
discouraging a bit. But that helped me figure out
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where I was making mistakes and I'm glad I made those mistakes
and got feedback instead of somebody just saying Oh yeah,
everything was good and then me not knowing I was actually
missing the mark. That's how we learn and grow.
So we either get the results we want or the lesson we need.
Anytime we move towards a goal, we have either get the results
you want or the lesson you need.So as you start reading charts
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for yourself and others and you see how it plays out, you're
either accurate or you get information and then you are
more accurate in the future. So it's just a matter of time
and practice. So if you do make mistakes, if
somebody tells you you're off, then just take it as an
opportunity to learn and grow and you will keep growing and
keep unlocking all the gifts of this.
It's like why we do this? Like so we can understand
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ourselves and understand the sense of the cosmic clock that's
playing out here and the timing of things.
And it's really fascinating and interesting to see different
personalities and different parts of ourselves and
archetypes and ourselves that wecan bring out, gifts that we can
bring out so we can thrive in our four aims of life, health,
wealth, relationships, and purpose.
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So here I recommend having a path to follow, a way to give
readings, a way to get feedback.You start doing them for free or
at least for yourself as practice, but ideally with
someone else, and then find a path or a mentor or community to
help you grow. That's all what I include in my
mentorship program. That's why I created it because
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I wish I had that kind of support when I was learning.
I had amazing support and amazing teacher, but there was a
lot of things I saw that I couldhave found more, even more
helpful. And that's all the stuff that I
include in my mentorship program.
So if you move into that now, you start to move into level 4,
which is the astrology practitioner.
This is where you can read charts and you can read your
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friends charts. You can read your own charts,
you can even read some public figures or people, even people
you don't know. Like you start to get some good
accuracy there. You can even be up to like 80%
accurate with things like planetsigns and houses.
But you know, there's still a lot to unlock with like
nakshatras and aspects and dashas and subdashas and all
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these kind of things. So you start to go deeper into
that. But it's just a matter of time.
So you're learning every week, you're growing, but the main
challenge here is you're just not fully experienced yet.
It's not fully embodied yet. We have a really good foundation
and you just need consistent reps and honest feedback from
clients, community and a mentor who can see where you're at and
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see where to grow next. Mentors are the best way to
learn any skill. It just accelerates the learning
process immensely and helps you avoid years of mistakes that
they made and they've seen otherpeople make.
So if you don't have a mentor you're working with and check
out the free workshop, that's where I'm basically your mentor
for 90 minutes and I guide you through how to do a lot of cool
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stuff with your chart. But the next step here from
astrology practitioner level 4 to move on to level 5 is you
start doing things consistently.So you have at least one reading
a week. You do deep research, you find
insights, your own insights. You start asking for a donation
or a low rate for your readings.So now there's a energetic
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exchange happening where people are saying, OK, this is valuable
to me. I'm going to invest in receiving
information from you. So there's a higher level of
responsibility and energetic exchange for you to step up and
bring out your gifts and bring out your skills as an astrologer
to help that person. There's an important things to
learn in this phase, like holding space energetically and
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emotionally. What happens if people bring
very challenging life stuff to you?
Because this is all possible. In astrology, we look at
everything. Birth, death, marriage, divorce,
children, all of it. It's all in the birth chart.
Money, income, expenses, debts, lawsuits, all this kind of
stuff. Getting property, housing,
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relationship stuff. Everything is in the birth
chart. So we can cover a lot.
So over time, you just need to see a lot of things and get a
lot of practice to be prepared for.
Ideally. The last stage is you can just
pull up any chart on the spot and read it like you would read
a book, like you know the English language.
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So you don't need to have another book, a dictionary open
to read any book you can pick upon the shelf because you know
English. When you know how to read
astrology, you can pull up any chart on the spot and start
reading it like you would read abook and you can see all the
things in there, the dasha's aspects, everything, the
nakshatras, and you have all that.
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But that's again, just takes time and practice.
But if you're following a provenpath, you're getting feedback,
you're practicing regularly, youhave a mentor you can work with,
a community that gives you honest feedback as well.
Then it's just a matter of time before this is super embodied.
You feel super confident, you can have your own business doing
this if you wanted to. You can offer it as a additional
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service to other things you do. A lot of people that I teach in
my mentorship program are like therapist or counselors, or
they're doing this as a side thing in addition to their main
thing, and they add in these other skills and astrology is
now one of the tools that they have to add to their skills.
Some people go on and do podcasts and just focus on
readings and just focus on astrology as well.
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That's a little more rare. People just focus on astrology.
Usually they're integrating withother things, but that's when
you move into level 5. But here at level 4, again,
you're you're able to read charts, but you just need to
practice and to gain experience and make sure you're following a
proven path that works. So here's an example from
somebody who's graduated from the mentorship, Kimberly, and
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what that might sound like when she gives a reading so.
You have a love of thoughts. You're quite creative, yeah.
Yeah, you do like I do like, yes.
Things like that and make. Everything.
Yeah, yes, yes. And I'm very creative,
especially with your imagination.
You have a competitive nature, but in a loving way.
Yes, a fun competitive streak. And yes, you've got strong
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feelings. You've got a love of beauty, so
you like beautiful things, youthand younger people.
So you're actually really good with younger people?
Which is so very true because atmy work I am like their.
Mothers. Yeah, yeah, they're older, but
they. Yes, yes, yeah.
So they get you, Yeah, you can be an advisor to children.
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So, so you get the idea, right? So what Kimberly's doing there
is like basically reading the snapshot predictions that I give
in my mentorship program and that she's gathered through her
own research as well and experience and she's getting
amazing feedback. 100% yes. It resonates.
This is true. This is me and it's really good.
And there's even another level of depth that can be developed
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over time to make it even more personal, right?
Because there was a lot of information there, but and it
was great. There's nothing wrong with that
at all. But just to say like you can
become even more of a dialogue and conversation and more
refined and ways of expressing, well, you know, you can be like
a mother to your people you workwith and you can assist them.
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And we can go a little deeper and unpack that and go a little
deeper just into that. And she actually does in this
reading. But this part of the reading is
a good little example of something I see a lot of people
at this level where you have a lot of information and you can
read a lot and it could be like rapid fire of like you have a
BCDEFG and the person is like totally resonating, but just a
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lot of information. So this is where there's a lot
of space for the the person to digest is just the one little
improvement or a thing we can learn from that reading.
But I would say like otherwise 99% like that was an amazing
little section of a reading thatKimberly gave.
And it was just after the mentorship with me.
So she had gone from kind of level two or three in her
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experience to up to level 4 within a few months.
And that doesn't have to take years, but it took me years when
I was doing this. I wished I had that kind of
direct path as well, but I had agreat path.
But just what I've discovered with my mentorship is like how
to make it even faster and stillget the same results.
So level 5 is what I would say. These 5 letters, AEIOU.
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Speaking of learning the language, these are the five
vowels and the experience astrologer is accurate,
embodied, intuitive, observant, and uplifting.
So making accurate predictions. So when you say something, it's
proven by research and experience.
You know that what you're sayingis accurate and you're not
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saying the wrong thing. You're giving bad advice because
you know from research like thisis, you know, son and Kritika is
like this and you've seen it so many times and you can say it
with confidence and it's embodied wisdom, It's
experiential and embodied. So you feel it like you can
just, you've seen it enough times to know like that's for
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sure like how this expresses. And if for some reason it
doesn't, then there's probably something canceling it out or
some sort of negative aspect or something.
So, and you can also see those. So that's part of the accuracy.
There's an intuitive part to this when you're reading your
chart, when you're reading friends charts, sometimes you
just get this hint, this hit to say something that is like
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doesn't quite make sense, but you say it and it resonates.
And there's a level of trusting your intuition and listening
within and letting that come through.
And that comes from practices, these embodiment and these
intuitive things. A lot of that comes from having
some sort of spiritual practice in addition to actually just
reading charts. This is like living it.
Like you look at your chart, youknow how to live from it.
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It's you see the gifts in it, you see the challenges, how to
work with those. You're doing practices like
pranayama or mantra or meditation or breath work or
pranayama or yoga or things likethis that are going to help you
sort of become a clearer channelor astrology.
And it kind of blows my mind that there are astrologers who
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don't have any sort of spiritualpractice because this is all
about like channeling that spiritual energy and allowing it
to come through. And the clearer the channel is,
the better that can happen. And part of this is being
observant of yourself and others, noticing your patterns.
Noticing patterns and others, especially patterns and public
figures, are often great people to learn from.
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Stories can teach us a lot. I talked about this recently on
like listening to your life and the intuitions, the
synchronicities, the dreams, theinsights, observing all these
things and learning from them. It's a big part of this path.
And then being uplifting and inspiring because there's so
much potential in any placement in a chart.
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Like we saw Barack Obama has Jupiter in Capricorn.
That's considered debilitated. So does this mean he can't have
any growth in his life and he's always going to feel restricted?
Well, I mean, he's one of the most famous and successful
people in the world. Again, regardless of any
political opinions. He's had a lot of success in his
career and a lot of growth in his life.
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So that's Jupiter in Capricorn, but he's had that growth in
politics and government, which comes with a lot of like people
having negative opinions as well.
So that growth is in some ways constrained by Saturn.
So there are some hardships and obstacles and judgments and
ridicule and stuff that comes with anybody in politics.
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That's also Capricorn bringing that in, but with Jupiter and
Capricorn even more so. So all that to say, an
experienced astrologer can see the uplifting possibility of
Saturn and Capricorn and Jupiterand Capricorn.
It's a lot of Saturn energy overhis growth and expansion.
But if you directed into politics and structures and
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systems and methods and discipline, then it's a gift and
there's a possible positive use of the same energy that's there.
The potential is there. It's got to express somehow and
you can choose to bring out the positive expression.
This is about being uplifting and inspiring and finding the
potential of the chart, not to just be Pollyanna, but just to
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see what is the actual positive potential and focus on that.
And not that the negative potential is not true, it's
true. It is there, but we're just not
going to feed that. Our energy.
So we give our attention and energy to is where energy
continues to flow and build momentum.
So the experience astrologer is living their chart, helping
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others generously and sharing that information.
So the main challenge here is focus.
So now there are so many things you could share, You can teach
about this. You could do a workshop, you
could give readings, you could research this topic or that
topic. There's so many potential things
that can become overwhelming. So it's important to prioritize
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and have a path to follow. And that also includes now the
actual Dharma path of how do youshare this gift with the world?
Is it just free? It's just like something you do
for friends. It's kind of like a hobby, but
you're now experienced in it, soyou have a lot to give.
And I think part of that when you have a lot to give, there's
a sort of karmic debt you could say, or karmic responsibility.
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I would rather say of giving that gift back.
When you've been given so much by your teachers and guides on
any path, astrology or any path,there's a need to give that
back, especially if your karma is to be a teacher of some sort
or guide of some sort. If it's not, then maybe you just
share this in the way that you live and you embody it and you
live it for yourself and you have other things you focus on
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in your Dharma and your path. But if astrology is part of your
Dharma, sharing this is part of your Dharma.
That's what I teach in my Thriveprogram.
It's all about turning the skills that you have into offers
and services that help others, help you learn and grow, help
others learn and grow and give back the gifts that you've been
given. And I think that's an important
part of the process is as you'vereceived so much, if you just
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hold on to it and don't share itor don't express it in some way,
it starts to sort of become stagnant in you.
And either it Withers away and at your fees and you lose it, or
it becomes sort of resentment and backed up.
And it's actually an interestingthing I've observed in myself
and others is when we don't giveand we don't express our
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gratitude, we don't share, our gifts are more likely to shift
into this energy of resentment. Like this energy of like people
maybe want something from us, wedon't want to give it.
It's this tense, tight energy. It's like a closed fist.
But the energy of opening the fist and giving and sharing now
createspace for more to come in and the cycle continues.
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So giving, receiving, giving, receiving.
I think this is one of the laws of the universe.
It's why every fruit has a seed of new life in it.
You get the fruits, you enjoy it, but then the seed goes back
into nature. Ideally, it doesn't usually
happen, but the fruit, the tree is producing just as way more
seeds than it is fruit. So there's plenty more to give
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than will ever become future fruit.
And there's tends to be typically in the world always a
continuous abundance of these things so far.
So there is that need, I think, to give and receive and actually
give even more than you receive.And that's almost impossible now
because we can receive so much information so easily online.
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But we try our best to give a lot.
And then more will come in. And if you want guidance on the
business and Dharma side of things, and the actual specific
logistical stuff of like settingup the website, the marketing
emails, all that kind of stuff that goes into sharing your
Dharma and how it can actually be really fun and fascinating
and interesting and extension ofyour gifts, that's what I teach
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at the Thrive program. Why my astrology.com/thrive if
you want to check that out. So again, experienced astrologer
is accurate, embodied, intuitive, observant, and
uplifting. And if you are doing these
things to your best of your ability and growing a little bit
and working on those, then you're on this path.
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And again, if you want more guidance on this path, there's
much more. In the free workshop.
I guide you through the seven steps to become your own
astrologer and the main things to focus on there, The Who,
what, when, where, why, and how of it.
And also the five steps to give a great reading, which I haven't
shared before outside of my mentorship, but I'm sharing it
now because I've found it so helpful.
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And I just, again, I want to be giving back a lot as well
myself. It's very important to me to
keep giving. So I just give you that process.
The five steps to give great readings is in the free
workshop, but you can do it for yourself.
You can do it for others. Again, I started just for
myself. I only wanted to learn to
understand my own chart, my own self and organically became
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something else where again, I had so much to share.
I just wanted to keep sharing it.
And it's so fascinating and so cool and so interesting to talk
about it with your friends. So if you don't have your own
chart or your friends charts, get your charts.
Quiet Mind astrology.com. You can get your charts, you can
check out the free workshop. You can do this free assessment
as well and see what level you're at.
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Maybe just listening, you kind of got a sense of what level
you're at, but you can check that out of the site and check
out the workbook that comes withthe workshop.
They become your own astrologer workshop.
There's a really cool workbook, all new for this year, where I
just added and updated everything.
So added to every page, updated every page.
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Lots of cool exercises and insights in there.
Lots of great stuff to work through and there's a space for
you to work on your next steps from what you learned today so
you can check that out. The seven steps to become your
own astrologer at Quiet Mind astrology.com/workshop.
If you enjoyed the podcast, leave a comment and share with a
friend and hope you have a greatrest of your day and look
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forward to sharing more with younext time on the Quiet Mind
Astrology Podcast.
Learning astrology can be super complicated and overwhelming,
but it really doesn't have to be.
So I've assessed what I've seen in myself and in the clients
I've worked with, people I've trained to be astrologers, that
there's 5 levels that you can beat and your path.
And I created a free assessment for you to see what level you're
at and what your next steps are at Quiet Mind
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astrology.com/levels. And I go deeper into this in the
Become Your Own Astrology Workshop is now available on my
site. So it's Quiet My
astrology.com/workshop as you can get the full in depth deep
dive into the five levels. But in this episode, I'm going
to talk about what those 5 levels are, help you see where
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you're at on your path. So maybe you're like about half
of the people I work with. You don't want to be in
astrologer, you just want to know for yourself and you want
to go deeper and understanding your own chart and maybe people
close to you, that's totally fine.
Or maybe you want to eventually give readings or do your own
sort of astrology work as well. So we'll see where you're at
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along your path with all of that.
And for me personally, I just started to do it for myself.
Like I just wanted to know my own chart.
I wanted to know what the hell is going on during Mercury
retrograde? How do we work with this?
Why is this happening? What does all this mean?
And I was following western astrology at 1st and the more I
started asking about the actual transits and seeing OK, the sun
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is in this sign today in westernastrology.
Let's look at it. And I realized I couldn't see it
with a telescope and you can't see it with a stargazing app
because that's not where it actually is.
So if you actually look with a stargazing app or a telescope
where the planets are in the moment, that is what Vedic
astrology is using. So I began switching over to
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Vedic astrology around 2011 whenI found my mentor.
And without my guidance and my teachers and my mentors, I would
not be here for sure. So that's why I love to share
and give this stuff back. And this is basically stuff I
wish I had found years ago when I was learning.
So in Vedic astrology, we are aligning with the actual
astronomy of what's happening. And as you're learning, you may
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be at one of these 5 levels along the way, starting with
level 1. That's what I call the Insta
astrologer. So this is the person who's on
Instagram and social media and just scrolling through TikTok or
whatever and you see funny stuff.
And you might know in Western astrology, this is your sun sign
and you might relate a lot with some of the stuff you see.
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And it's funny, it's cute, it's interesting, and that's kind of
it. So there's a real risk here of
being very superficial with astrology, which is like just
scratching the surface, just thetip of the iceberg of what's
possible. It's like if you have a an
iPhone and you only use it to check the weather, right?
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That's kind of like this level of astrology of if you're just
going on social media and you'reseeing occasional astrology
post, it's like you have an iPhone that can do almost
anything on a computer and you're just using it for one
thing that's kind of superficial, like the weather.
So if you want to go deeper thanthat, then you've got to start
to follow a path of what you're learning and not just random
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stuff. And that's how you move on from
level 1 here. The insta astrologer is you have
a path. Maybe you follow this podcast or
a teacher you like or a book or there's some sort of step by
step guidance. And I give this and they become
your own astrologer workshop, Quiet Mind,
astrology.com/workshop. But it's basically like, what do
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you do in what order? So learning about the signs is
great, but how they all relate the elements and what the
planets represent and what the houses represent and when you
include aspects and dashas and transits and all this stuff,
there's so many layers to it that you could just follow it on
a superficial level and get somesort of entertainment and
information out of it. But if you want to go deeper,
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then there needs to be a path that you follow to learn.
And then you start to go into level 2, which is what I call
the astrology friend. And if you're following this
podcast, many of you follow thisfor many years.
So I appreciate that. Thank you.
And that's more of this level where you kind of know what's
going on, you're paying attention to it, you're
following some sort of guidance.And again, I appreciate that if
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you find my episodes helpful. But when things go down and
people are like, Oh, my God, what is happening with the
planets? You're the person that knows.
And they can come to you and askand you'll know, oh, yeah, that
we just had the eclipse or Mercury's retrograde or these
kind of things. I hear this a lot from
listeners. Like, people come to you with
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their astrology questions and you have the answers because
you're keeping up on it. And it's particularly with the
transits. But again, when it comes down to
deeper stuff like in a birth chart and you pull up a birth
chart, this is how I felt many years ago when I was learning.
It's like you don't even really know where to begin or what to
talk about or what to say. It seems like there's a lot
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there. Again, you know there's a lot
there, but you don't really knowwhere to begin.
So it's going to become overwhelming.
And you can be getting a lot of information and inputs, but not
quite sure where it all fits together or how to apply it to
A1 chart at your chart. So this is the next step then to
start applying what you're learning to real charts,
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starting with your own and then with people close to you that
you know, and then eventually with strangers.
And then we start to move up these levels of skill.
But that's the first thing. If you haven't done this yet,
get your free birth chart on my site.
Maybe a friend or spouse or someone close to you also want
to look at that birth chart. And you can start to apply
things that you're learning about the planet, science,
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houses, nakshatras. And I recommend you stay on
track with one system or if you're going to jump around
between systems that you kind ofknow that they are distinct,
like in Western astrology, they don't have the nakshatras or the
dashas. And there are different meanings
to some things. A lot of it is similar.
So if you're coming from Western, it's not a big leap.
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But if you are learning multiplethings, then you're going to
start to get mixed results with things.
And they're actually some Vedic astrologers and all astrology,
but in Vedic astrology as well, that you think, well, they're
Vedic, they must be using all the same system because that's
the Vedic astrology. But there's actually people who
sort of made their own system and said, no, actually we're
going to do it this way and we're going to make up this new
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system. And me personally, I would
rather stick to the tradition that's thousands of years old
and proven and the same that I learned from my mentor and he
learned from his teacher and so on in this long lineage of
teachers, rather than say, actually, no, I think I'm the
one who's now going to correct this thousand year old system
that's been using and proven forused and proven for many years.
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So I would be skeptical of that,of anyone who's made-up a new
system. And maybe they have a lot of
proof and research to back it up.
But again, I have not seen that.So I stick with the standard
sidereal Vedic system that most Vedic astrologers use because it
works. So follow a proven path, start
using it on real charts. So you can do this now and we do
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this further on in the workshop.So if you find this fun, you
might like the more of that in the workshop.
So I want you to guess what is the element of this sign in this
meme? So he says I'm a total go with
the flow kind of person as long as the flow is scheduled well in
advance and there are no mid flow changes whatsoever.
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So what kind of sign and what what elements, what energy
doesn't want to have too much disruption and changing their
life and they don't really want to go with the flow.
Well, the four elements, earth, air, water, fire, that's
definitely not water and that's definitely not air and it's not
fire. It is the earth element.
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And that consists of the three signs Taurus, Virgo and
Capricorn. So if you have Taurus, Virgo or
Capricorn as your rising sun, moon or three or more placements
there, this might really resonate with you.
You might relate to this. I can relate to it.
But you know, we all have multiple things in our charts.
So just one thing is not always going to encompass your whole
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experience as a human. So This is why we can play with
memes and they're fun, but they can become superficial and we
can learn about astrology like this and it can be fun and
interesting. But again, we need to apply it
to real life for it to really work.
So that's where we can look at areal life chart.
And this is what Kimberly, a graduate of the Beta Astrology
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mentorship that Ioffer is what she said and she found really
helpful because she felt overwhelmed and things weren't
resonating until she started working with me.
And we use step by step processes with real charts and
things started to click. So it wasn't just random stuff,
but it's more of a path. So let's use some real charts.
So as you're listening, who can you think of that has some of
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these earth sign qualities? It's grounded, responsible,
practical, and like maybe a Taurus or Virgo or Capricorn.
If you happen to know any publicfigures and particularly
somebody in government who has these qualities, regardless of
your political opinions, we can all agree that Barack Obama has
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a pretty grounded earthy presence.
I think that's fair to say, regardless of anyone's political
opinions. And you can see in his own birth
chart, he has Capricorn rising. Saturn's in Capricorn even more.
That's very strong Saturn, earthy energy.
Jupiter's there as well in Capricorn.
So that brings even more of thisemphasis because 3 placements,
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Ascendant, Saturn and Jupiter all in Capricorn and Capricorn
is one of the biggest indicatorsfor anything to do with
government. When we saw the big effects of
the government happening in 2020with Saturn and Capricorn,
that's all very strong government influence.
Saturn and Capricorn, he has this in his birth chart.
So he has a very strong government drive in the sense of
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self. So this is ideally kind of
person who's going to do very well in politics with Saturn and
Capricorn in the 1st house. Now, if anyone you know or you
have that placement and you're not into politics, it's going to
express through other ways like being practical, grounded, maybe
even materialistic to its extreme and focused on stability
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and security. So working in like law
enforcement, security law, government related roles or
adjacent roles make a lot of sense as well.
Any sort of admin, Capricorn rising, people tend to like to
know what the rules are and helpenforce those rules and make
sure that everyone's on track. And he said as a quote.
So as we're learning from real charts, this is how we move into
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Level 3 as an astrologer is to look at quotes, look at real
life people, how they live this energy.
And he has many quotes, but thisis 1 where he says the virtues
we need most right now are self-discipline over
self-interest, work over comfort, and character over
celebrity. That was in 2009.
And again, very much Capricorn grounded Saturn kind of
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energies. So that's how we start to build
a relationship with these energies rather than just as a
concept conceptually or in our minds.
And then we start to move into Level 3 of the hobby astrology,
where you are using books and interpretations and maybe even
AI now and you're learning from these things, but you don't have
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it embodied and experienced. So you read it in a book and you
might just believe that is the way it is.
Or even much more challenging now as you might type it into AI
and it gives you the results andyou don't know that it's wrong.
And I'm testing these things a lot and it's constantly wrong.
And but I only know that from experience.
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So you got to be careful with AItools, especially like books are
going to be more reliable because they've gone through
this whole vetting process. Blogs kind of in the middle.
A lot of AI is getting its information from blogs and books
and forums. So it gets really jumbled up in
there. Sometimes it's really just a
fancy auto complete. It's not actually using logic
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and reason like humans do. So just be careful with AI.
That can really lead you astray.And you want to make sure that
you're learning from experience and embodiment.
And that mainly comes from looking at real charts, starting
with your own people close to you and in public figures that
you know very well. And I'm using public figures
because we all know them to a large degree.
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And we don't all know, you know,just normal people that I can
normally do readings for who arenot always in the public eye.
So you have these abilities to look up things and you know what
to look for, but you might not know what's exactly right, But,
you know, you're also just scratching the surface.
And there is much more. And this is where I was for
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quite a while once I started to know what I was looking at in
the chart, but now not quite know for sure what to say or I
would need to look it up and I would feel a bit overwhelmed.
When I started to do readings oflike I started doing them for
free many years ago. It's like I just wanted
experience. So I would do a bunch of
research before each reading. And when you're at this phase,
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that's OK, it makes sense. That's part of it.
For your own chart, you might doa bunch of research, looking
through a bunch of books and resources.
In my mentorship program, I giveyou a spreadsheet that's
basically like all the best stuff from all the best books
I've read all in one place. So you can just easily go
through that and find OK, son inthe 5th house in Taurus, in
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Kritika, Nakshatra means this and you can put it all together.
But in this phase, you're kind of relying on that because you
haven't seen it enough, you haven't practiced it enough yet.
So you might start to feel like an imposter and have the
imposter syndrome or insecurity.Very normal.
You don't have the full confidence yet.
You're still like looking at external things.
It's not embodied and experiential yet.
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And as AI, artificial intelligence increases and
influence in the world, there's a greater and greater need for
EI, embodied and experiential intelligence.
And that just takes time and just takes having a path to
follow and then having a processor giving readings and receiving
feedback. So I lay out my five step
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process in the free workshop. You can go get that Quiet Mind
astrology.com/workshop. But now you start to have a
process and you're applying it and you're getting feedback and
probably doing free readings at 1st and then asking for in
exchange for the free reading just to give you honest
feedback. And if it's actually helpful, be
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honest and say it is. If it's actually not helpful, be
honest and let you know. That's how you grow.
I've definitely learned the hardway when I was starting out like
making mistakes and asking for adirect honest feedback and
hearing, oh, you know, actually this was way off.
And that was way off and it was hard to hear at 1st and
discouraging a bit. But that helped me figure out
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where I was making mistakes and I'm glad I made those mistakes
and got feedback instead of somebody just saying Oh yeah,
everything was good and then me not knowing I was actually
missing the mark. That's how we learn and grow.
So we either get the results we want or the lesson we need.
Anytime we move towards a goal, we have either get the results
you want or the lesson you need.So as you start reading charts
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for yourself and others and you see how it plays out, you're
either accurate or you get information and then you are
more accurate in the future. So it's just a matter of time
and practice. So if you do make mistakes, if
somebody tells you you're off, then just take it as an
opportunity to learn and grow and you will keep growing and
keep unlocking all the gifts of this.
It's like why we do this? Like so we can understand
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ourselves and understand the sense of the cosmic clock that's
playing out here and the timing of things.
And it's really fascinating and interesting to see different
personalities and different parts of ourselves and
archetypes and ourselves that wecan bring out, gifts that we can
bring out so we can thrive in our four aims of life, health,
wealth, relationships, and purpose.
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So here I recommend having a path to follow, a way to give
readings, a way to get feedback.You start doing them for free or
at least for yourself as practice, but ideally with
someone else, and then find a path or a mentor or community to
help you grow. That's all what I include in my
mentorship program. That's why I created it because
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I wish I had that kind of support when I was learning.
I had amazing support and amazing teacher, but there was a
lot of things I saw that I couldhave found more, even more
helpful. And that's all the stuff that I
include in my mentorship program.
So if you move into that now, you start to move into level 4,
which is the astrology practitioner.
This is where you can read charts and you can read your
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friends charts. You can read your own charts,
you can even read some public figures or people, even people
you don't know. Like you start to get some good
accuracy there. You can even be up to like 80%
accurate with things like planetsigns and houses.
But you know, there's still a lot to unlock with like
nakshatras and aspects and dashas and subdashas and all
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these kind of things. So you start to go deeper into
that. But it's just a matter of time.
So you're learning every week, you're growing, but the main
challenge here is you're just not fully experienced yet.
It's not fully embodied yet. We have a really good foundation
and you just need consistent reps and honest feedback from
clients, community and a mentor who can see where you're at and
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see where to grow next. Mentors are the best way to
learn any skill. It just accelerates the learning
process immensely and helps you avoid years of mistakes that
they made and they've seen otherpeople make.
So if you don't have a mentor you're working with and check
out the free workshop, that's where I'm basically your mentor
for 90 minutes and I guide you through how to do a lot of cool
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stuff with your chart. But the next step here from
astrology practitioner level 4 to move on to level 5 is you
start doing things consistently.So you have at least one reading
a week. You do deep research, you find
insights, your own insights. You start asking for a donation
or a low rate for your readings.So now there's a energetic
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exchange happening where people are saying, OK, this is valuable
to me. I'm going to invest in receiving
information from you. So there's a higher level of
responsibility and energetic exchange for you to step up and
bring out your gifts and bring out your skills as an astrologer
to help that person. There's an important things to
learn in this phase, like holding space energetically and
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emotionally. What happens if people bring
very challenging life stuff to you?
Because this is all possible. In astrology, we look at
everything. Birth, death, marriage, divorce,
children, all of it. It's all in the birth chart.
Money, income, expenses, debts, lawsuits, all this kind of
stuff. Getting property, housing,
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relationship stuff. Everything is in the birth
chart. So we can cover a lot.
So over time, you just need to see a lot of things and get a
lot of practice to be prepared for.
Ideally. The last stage is you can just
pull up any chart on the spot and read it like you would read
a book, like you know the English language.
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So you don't need to have another book, a dictionary open
to read any book you can pick upon the shelf because you know
English. When you know how to read
astrology, you can pull up any chart on the spot and start
reading it like you would read abook and you can see all the
things in there, the dasha's aspects, everything, the
nakshatras, and you have all that.
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But that's again, just takes time and practice.
But if you're following a provenpath, you're getting feedback,
you're practicing regularly, youhave a mentor you can work with,
a community that gives you honest feedback as well.
Then it's just a matter of time before this is super embodied.
You feel super confident, you can have your own business doing
this if you wanted to. You can offer it as a additional
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service to other things you do. A lot of people that I teach in
my mentorship program are like therapist or counselors, or
they're doing this as a side thing in addition to their main
thing, and they add in these other skills and astrology is
now one of the tools that they have to add to their skills.
Some people go on and do podcasts and just focus on
readings and just focus on astrology as well.
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That's a little more rare. People just focus on astrology.
Usually they're integrating withother things, but that's when
you move into level 5. But here at level 4, again,
you're you're able to read charts, but you just need to
practice and to gain experience and make sure you're following a
proven path that works. So here's an example from
somebody who's graduated from the mentorship, Kimberly, and
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what that might sound like when she gives a reading so.
You have a love of thoughts. You're quite creative, yeah.
Yeah, you do like I do like, yes.
Things like that and make. Everything.
Yeah, yes, yes. And I'm very creative,
especially with your imagination.
You have a competitive nature, but in a loving way.
Yes, a fun competitive streak. And yes, you've got strong
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feelings. You've got a love of beauty, so
you like beautiful things, youthand younger people.
So you're actually really good with younger people?
Which is so very true because atmy work I am like their.
Mothers. Yeah, yeah, they're older, but
they. Yes, yes, yeah.
So they get you, Yeah, you can be an advisor to children.
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So, so you get the idea, right? So what Kimberly's doing there
is like basically reading the snapshot predictions that I give
in my mentorship program and that she's gathered through her
own research as well and experience and she's getting
amazing feedback. 100% yes. It resonates.
This is true. This is me and it's really good.
And there's even another level of depth that can be developed
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over time to make it even more personal, right?
Because there was a lot of information there, but and it
was great. There's nothing wrong with that
at all. But just to say like you can
become even more of a dialogue and conversation and more
refined and ways of expressing, well, you know, you can be like
a mother to your people you workwith and you can assist them.
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And we can go a little deeper and unpack that and go a little
deeper just into that. And she actually does in this
reading. But this part of the reading is
a good little example of something I see a lot of people
at this level where you have a lot of information and you can
read a lot and it could be like rapid fire of like you have a
BCDEFG and the person is like totally resonating, but just a
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lot of information. So this is where there's a lot
of space for the the person to digest is just the one little
improvement or a thing we can learn from that reading.
But I would say like otherwise 99% like that was an amazing
little section of a reading thatKimberly gave.
And it was just after the mentorship with me.
So she had gone from kind of level two or three in her
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experience to up to level 4 within a few months.
And that doesn't have to take years, but it took me years when
I was doing this. I wished I had that kind of
direct path as well, but I had agreat path.
But just what I've discovered with my mentorship is like how
to make it even faster and stillget the same results.
So level 5 is what I would say. These 5 letters, AEIOU.
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Speaking of learning the language, these are the five
vowels and the experience astrologer is accurate,
embodied, intuitive, observant, and uplifting.
So making accurate predictions. So when you say something, it's
proven by research and experience.
You know that what you're sayingis accurate and you're not
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saying the wrong thing. You're giving bad advice because
you know from research like thisis, you know, son and Kritika is
like this and you've seen it so many times and you can say it
with confidence and it's embodied wisdom, It's
experiential and embodied. So you feel it like you can
just, you've seen it enough times to know like that's for
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sure like how this expresses. And if for some reason it
doesn't, then there's probably something canceling it out or
some sort of negative aspect or something.
So, and you can also see those. So that's part of the accuracy.
There's an intuitive part to this when you're reading your
chart, when you're reading friends charts, sometimes you
just get this hint, this hit to say something that is like
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doesn't quite make sense, but you say it and it resonates.
And there's a level of trusting your intuition and listening
within and letting that come through.
And that comes from practices, these embodiment and these
intuitive things. A lot of that comes from having
some sort of spiritual practice in addition to actually just
reading charts. This is like living it.
Like you look at your chart, youknow how to live from it.
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It's you see the gifts in it, you see the challenges, how to
work with those. You're doing practices like
pranayama or mantra or meditation or breath work or
pranayama or yoga or things likethis that are going to help you
sort of become a clearer channelor astrology.
And it kind of blows my mind that there are astrologers who
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don't have any sort of spiritualpractice because this is all
about like channeling that spiritual energy and allowing it
to come through. And the clearer the channel is,
the better that can happen. And part of this is being
observant of yourself and others, noticing your patterns.
Noticing patterns and others, especially patterns and public
figures, are often great people to learn from.
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Stories can teach us a lot. I talked about this recently on
like listening to your life and the intuitions, the
synchronicities, the dreams, theinsights, observing all these
things and learning from them. It's a big part of this path.
And then being uplifting and inspiring because there's so
much potential in any placement in a chart.
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Like we saw Barack Obama has Jupiter in Capricorn.
That's considered debilitated. So does this mean he can't have
any growth in his life and he's always going to feel restricted?
Well, I mean, he's one of the most famous and successful
people in the world. Again, regardless of any
political opinions. He's had a lot of success in his
career and a lot of growth in his life.
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So that's Jupiter in Capricorn, but he's had that growth in
politics and government, which comes with a lot of like people
having negative opinions as well.
So that growth is in some ways constrained by Saturn.
So there are some hardships and obstacles and judgments and
ridicule and stuff that comes with anybody in politics.
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That's also Capricorn bringing that in, but with Jupiter and
Capricorn even more so. So all that to say, an
experienced astrologer can see the uplifting possibility of
Saturn and Capricorn and Jupiterand Capricorn.
It's a lot of Saturn energy overhis growth and expansion.
But if you directed into politics and structures and
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systems and methods and discipline, then it's a gift and
there's a possible positive use of the same energy that's there.
The potential is there. It's got to express somehow and
you can choose to bring out the positive expression.
This is about being uplifting and inspiring and finding the
potential of the chart, not to just be Pollyanna, but just to
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see what is the actual positive potential and focus on that.
And not that the negative potential is not true, it's
true. It is there, but we're just not
going to feed that. Our energy.
So we give our attention and energy to is where energy
continues to flow and build momentum.
So the experience astrologer is living their chart, helping
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others generously and sharing that information.
So the main challenge here is focus.
So now there are so many things you could share, You can teach
about this. You could do a workshop, you
could give readings, you could research this topic or that
topic. There's so many potential things
that can become overwhelming. So it's important to prioritize
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and have a path to follow. And that also includes now the
actual Dharma path of how do youshare this gift with the world?
Is it just free? It's just like something you do
for friends. It's kind of like a hobby, but
you're now experienced in it, soyou have a lot to give.
And I think part of that when you have a lot to give, there's
a sort of karmic debt you could say, or karmic responsibility.
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I would rather say of giving that gift back.
When you've been given so much by your teachers and guides on
any path, astrology or any path,there's a need to give that
back, especially if your karma is to be a teacher of some sort
or guide of some sort. If it's not, then maybe you just
share this in the way that you live and you embody it and you
live it for yourself and you have other things you focus on
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in your Dharma and your path. But if astrology is part of your
Dharma, sharing this is part of your Dharma.
That's what I teach in my Thriveprogram.
It's all about turning the skills that you have into offers
and services that help others, help you learn and grow, help
others learn and grow and give back the gifts that you've been
given. And I think that's an important
part of the process is as you'vereceived so much, if you just
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hold on to it and don't share itor don't express it in some way,
it starts to sort of become stagnant in you.
And either it Withers away and at your fees and you lose it, or
it becomes sort of resentment and backed up.
And it's actually an interestingthing I've observed in myself
and others is when we don't giveand we don't express our
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gratitude, we don't share, our gifts are more likely to shift
into this energy of resentment. Like this energy of like people
maybe want something from us, wedon't want to give it.
It's this tense, tight energy. It's like a closed fist.
But the energy of opening the fist and giving and sharing now
createspace for more to come in and the cycle continues.
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So giving, receiving, giving, receiving.
I think this is one of the laws of the universe.
It's why every fruit has a seed of new life in it.
You get the fruits, you enjoy it, but then the seed goes back
into nature. Ideally, it doesn't usually
happen, but the fruit, the tree is producing just as way more
seeds than it is fruit. So there's plenty more to give
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than will ever become future fruit.
And there's tends to be typically in the world always a
continuous abundance of these things so far.
So there is that need, I think, to give and receive and actually
give even more than you receive.And that's almost impossible now
because we can receive so much information so easily online.
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But we try our best to give a lot.
And then more will come in. And if you want guidance on the
business and Dharma side of things, and the actual specific
logistical stuff of like settingup the website, the marketing
emails, all that kind of stuff that goes into sharing your
Dharma and how it can actually be really fun and fascinating
and interesting and extension ofyour gifts, that's what I teach
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at the Thrive program. Why my astrology.com/thrive if
you want to check that out. So again, experienced astrologer
is accurate, embodied, intuitive, observant, and
uplifting. And if you are doing these
things to your best of your ability and growing a little bit
and working on those, then you're on this path.
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And again, if you want more guidance on this path, there's
much more. In the free workshop.
I guide you through the seven steps to become your own
astrologer and the main things to focus on there, The Who,
what, when, where, why, and how of it.
And also the five steps to give a great reading, which I haven't
shared before outside of my mentorship, but I'm sharing it
now because I've found it so helpful.
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And I just, again, I want to be giving back a lot as well
myself. It's very important to me to
keep giving. So I just give you that process.
The five steps to give great readings is in the free
workshop, but you can do it for yourself.
You can do it for others. Again, I started just for
myself. I only wanted to learn to
understand my own chart, my own self and organically became
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something else where again, I had so much to share.
I just wanted to keep sharing it.
And it's so fascinating and so cool and so interesting to talk
about it with your friends. So if you don't have your own
chart or your friends charts, get your charts.
Quiet Mind astrology.com. You can get your charts, you can
check out the free workshop. You can do this free assessment
as well and see what level you're at.
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Maybe just listening, you kind of got a sense of what level
you're at, but you can check that out of the site and check
out the workbook that comes withthe workshop.
They become your own astrologer workshop.
There's a really cool workbook, all new for this year, where I
just added and updated everything.
So added to every page, updated every page.
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Lots of cool exercises and insights in there.
Lots of great stuff to work through and there's a space for
you to work on your next steps from what you learned today so
you can check that out. The seven steps to become your
own astrologer at Quiet Mind astrology.com/workshop.
If you enjoyed the podcast, leave a comment and share with a
friend and hope you have a greatrest of your day and look
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forward to sharing more with younext time on the Quiet Mind
Astrology Podcast.
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