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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to your astrological Energy with psychological astrologer, licensed clinical
social worker and author Karmen Turner's Shot. Each episode, Carmen
guides you through the planetary cycles, energies, and spiritual insights
shaping your week. Get grounded, get inspired, and align with
the energies of the stars. This is your astrological energy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hi everyone, Welcome to your astrological energy. I'm your host,
Carmen Turner's Shot, and this is a show about astrology, energy,
and spirituality, and I would even say mental health. I'm
a licensed clinical social worker and I've been doing astrology
as a tool of self awareness since i was sixteen
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years old, So back in nineteen ninety three, I started
teaching myself how to do charts by hand, and astrology
became my passion. It became a big part of my life,
and I've been doing consultations and teaching classes and helping
people see how astrology is such a powerful tool of
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healing and resilience and transformation. And that's why I do
this show, so I can share the astrological energies with
all of you and teach the basics about how astrology
really is and should be an evidence based tool that
we use in therapy and counseling, and that's what I
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do with astrology, and that's how I try to bring
it into my life. And it's so important for me
to bring awareness and open up minds about the power
of astrology because it really is energy. And my newest book,
Your Astrological Energy, just came out in August, and it's
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really a basic guy that anyone can pick up and
read and understand about the planets and the houses, and
the signs and the transits and what it all means.
So if you're interested, you can get Your Astrological Energy
on Barnes and Noble, Amazon, where all books are sold.
If you're interested in a signed author copy, and you've
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been listening to the podcast and you enjoy what I
talk about, would love to have you reach out to
me through my website Carmen turnershot dot com and you
can contact me through the contact page, and I have
a way that you could purchase the book directly from me,
an author copy, and I'll sign it and I'll mail
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it to you. If you're in the United States, I
can mail that to you and I hope that you'll
check it out. So this week. Wow, guys, I got
to tell you last week during the eclipse, and everything
was very powerful, and I mean it has been a
heck of of a ride for me. I don't know
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about you, guys, but I've had several people friends, previous
co workers, family clients reaching out, just really struggling last week.
And as we know, a lot happened in the world
last week. You know, we had talked about on the
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show that Saturn and Neptune had gone into aries at
zero degrees aries and have been in Aries now for
a while, and how intense that is. And you know,
Aries is the god of war. Aries is about conflict
and at times battle, and we can see that this
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kind of played out in the real world. Which it's
interesting how the transits and these astrological energies affect our
everyday lives and such amazing ways. I was reading something
online this week that all three world leaders that are
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involved in this conflict in Iran all were born on
an eclipse, which is pretty interesting. You just can't make
this up. And so it just validated again how accurate
and powerful astrology is and helping us understand our everyday
life and the things that happen in the world, so
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pretty amazing, and that eclipse full moon happened in the
sign of Pisces, and we are also still in Pisce season. Okay,
so the sun is in Pisces. We also have the
triple whammy where mercury, the plan of communication is still retrograde,
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and guess what, it's retrograde in Pisces. And so we
have this intuitive, emotional, escapist, overwhelming energy that is affecting
us right now. So many people have called me saying
what is going on? You know, They're like, everything is
crazy at work and I can't seem to get a
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break to rest, and things are messing up, there's miscommunication
or I'm just really really busy, you know. For me,
I do telehealth, and I literally this is pretty funny story.
I say. It's a mercury retrograde thing, you know how
I talk about how mercury retrograde. It happens four times
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a year at last about four to six weeks, and
usually things that happened in the previous retrogrades often come
back and repeat themselves or exper up again or come
to fruition. It's a good time to get things done
and finish old projects. But not start new things, and
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so literally a year to the date, last March twenty
twenty five, I left the the Air Force. I had
worked for the Air Force for twenty five years as
a social worker, and I decided to do an early retirement,
even though I'm too young to draw it yet, but
I did my time, so to speak. And I had
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been a military spouse for twenty seven years too. My
husband was in the Air Force, and followed him around
all over the place and had to change my career
a lot. So did a lot of moving and a
lot of upheaval, lived in Germany a couple of times,
just all over the world, and finally settled down and
got my routine back closer to home. But the big
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thing was that was a big, huge change for me,
and it happened during a retrograde, a Mercury retrograde. And
when I left, I decided to get on some telehealth
platforms and get my you know, start getting my certifications
with insurance and all that so I could do mental
health counseling. And what happened was I joined a head Way,
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an agency online that does billing and things like that,
and got my profile there and I have not got
any clients for the past year, so I thought, Okay,
I'm just not meant to do that. So I've been
focusing on other things and I, you know, have a
psychology today profile, you know, did all the things you're
supposed to do. Never once had a client since last
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March until last week during the eclipse. I now have
ten clients. So everything started coming in and new booky,
new book you, new booking. I'm like, what is going on?
It's mercury retrograde. I just had to laugh and in action.
I have been so busy this week catching up and
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getting everything organized and just feeling out of swords because
it is just such an intense energy that's been going
on at least in my life this week, and many
people's lives have reached out to me and they really
need support. So I've been talking on the phone with
a lot of people, messaging iaman texting, a lot of
people from my past pop back up to check on me.
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How are you? I miss you? You know, So all
of those patterns and energies of mercury retrograde have been
replaying in my life during this retrograde, and I just
wanted to share with you guys, and you know, would
love to hear your stories of how these energies are
affecting you as well to confirm my research. If you
want to reach out, you know, please you can go
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to my website Carmen turnershot dot com and message me.
I'd love to hear from you and if you have
any topics you would like for me to cover on
the show, I would also love to do that. There
are times that I will have guests and highlight different
books and things like that. But one thing you'll know
for sure is that every week you will get an
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update on the energies and the astrological forecast that is
affecting us for every week, and so for the week
of March eight through fifteen is what we're going to
discuss today. A little bit, you know, just gave you
a little rundown that the sun is still in Pisces.
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Mercury is still retrograde, messing with communication, but also making
us busy and getting us motivated to get all the
old stuff we've been procrastinating done and reinvigorating all of
the things that we started in the past. During the
last retrograde. A lot of those things come back in
our life to reassess redo figure out, and it's pretty
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amazing to me. It's a science. It really is, like
you just can't make this stuff up, is what I've
been saying to everyone lately. So this week some of
the main things that I want to focus on is
that Venus, the planet of communication, is going to conjunct Saturn,
the planet of karma, responsibility, commitment. It's going to conjunct
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Saturn on March eighth, and it's going to create a
deeper focus in our relationships and it could bring a
lot of lessons up that have to do with commitment
and security and trust and all of those things that
we value in a relationship. Those more serious practical matters
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are going to be at the forefront of our mind
this week. And another major thing that's pretty cool is
on March eighth. In astrology, we talk about water element right,
we have fire, air, earth, and water, and in a
birth chart, whenever there's transits, we call it our aspects
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that are going on in the sky, we call them aspects.
So it's like, what's going on. You know, Venus is
conjunct Saturn. That means Venus is almost one eclipsing Saturn.
In the sky on March eight. So their energies are one,
and that's what we call you know, the transits and
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the different energy is going on. And so a trine
is when there is positive energy going on between three
planets or three asteroids things like that, we call it
a grand trine. When a grand trine happens, that means
that it has to happen in the same element, so
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that would be either water, fire, air, or water. And
on March eight, we have a grand trine that is
happening in the water signs and that is uh. And
there always has to be a planet involved for a
trying to happen, right, And what we have when there's
a grand trine is there's many different things involved. So
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what we have is on March eight, Jupiter in Cancer
and the moon is in Scorpio, and Mercury, Sun and
Pisces are creating a grand tr that means they are
all aspecting each other. And when you look at if
you take a picture of the sky on March eight
and you put it on a piece of paper, and
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let's say someone's born on March eight, rite a new baby,
we would we would see that blue trine in the
center of the birthwhell and that would be and would
show us that grand trine happening between those planets on
that day, that that baby is born on March eight.
And a grand trine is pretty powerful when it happens,
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because it happens in all of the of the water signs,
and if there's a fire trying, it would happen in
all the fire signs. So it's gonna it's gonna bring
a lot of intuition, and I tell you what, a
lot of emotions and a sense of release and and
letting go of old patterns and reevaluating things and could
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even make us slow down a little bit and and
want to be more introspective and we may feel just
more this this pause we made want to withdraw from
the world this week and just kind of have some
peace and harmony in and that's solitude. So I say, guys,
this is a this is a really intense month astrologically,
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and this week again, you know, just focus on self
care and make sure you're taking breaks and that you're
getting rest, and that you're also prioritizing work life balance,
because I find that that's the common theme with my clients,
with my astrology clients, with my friends and family and colleagues,
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is that they're having a hard time. They're so committed
to work and so busy at work. They're like, but
I can't take off, I can't be sick, I can't rest,
I can't do this, I can't do that because there's
a there's a struggle with all of us that we're
feeling with the energies of balancing our work life, balance
our home, our work, our health, our sleep, our routine.
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And that's because of what's going on the sky right now.
So I'm going to take a short break and I
will be back after the commercial break. Thank you for
listening to your astrological energy. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You're listening to your astrological energy. I'm Carmen, licensed, clinical
social worker, author and psychological astrologer. I've written several books
about the eighth and twelfth astrological houses, including Phoenixes and Angels.
If you have planets in the eighth or twelfth or
in Scorpio or Pisces, you may be a phoenix or
an angel. If you hear this show, use code ten
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underscore off and go on my website Carmen Turnershot dot
com and book a consultation with me today.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Hi, this is Carmen Turner's Shot, author and psychological astrologer.
My newest books are Your Astrological Energy and Astrologies Magical
Nodes of the Moon. Both offer powerful insights to help
you understand your emotions and your spiritual journey through astrology.
Discover how your birth chart can help you hell transform
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and become more resilient. Visit my website today at karmenturnershot
dot com and grab your copies on Amazon, Barnes and
Noble and online stores. Welcome back to Your Astrological Energy.
I'm Carmen Turner Shot, and I'm happy to be giving
you the astrology update for the week of March eight
through fifteen, twenty twenty six. And we just were talking
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about the Grand Water Trine happening on March eighth between
the water signs. We were talking about how mercury is
still retrograde in Pisces, and we were talking about the
big eclipse in full Moon and Pisces that happened last
week and how that has been impacting us and still
is impacting us because when there's an eclipse, it creates
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faded destined events. It triggers things, It awakens change in
our life. And I told my little story how I
had a lot of change in my personal and my
work life life last week during this eclipse. So it's normal,
and I hope you're all hanging in there. We we're
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gonna be seeing this play through. It's gonna affect us
for several months. It's not just a one day thing,
so just be aware of that. And it's just a
lot is gonna be going on this week.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
We have.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Mercury is trying Jupiter on March nine, and we also
this encourages optimistic thinking because Mercury is the mind. Mercury
is how we communicate, and Jupiter expands everything. It brings positivity,
it brings optimism, It brings up this bright side of life,
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you know, this abundance into our our thinking. And so
we're gonna be thinking big, probably thinking positive, and I
think that's a wonderful thing. So this is a good
time to reevaluate your plans and try to think more
positive about the future. And you might just want to
be a little bit more social lately than you've been feeling.
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During this retrograde on March nine, A lot of times
when Mercury's retrograde, I don't know about you, but for me,
I get really quiet and even when my best friend
called me from Korea to talk, I just I didn't
really have anything to say. It's like I get really
introverted and kind of feel blocked in a way because
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I'm usually overly talkative. I'm on the phone for hours
at a time of people and love to chat. But man,
when Mercury's retrograde, because it's my chart ruler and I'm
a Virgo, which Mercury rules my sign, I just cannot
even get the words to talk or have small talk
or socialized. It's like I don't want to be on
the phone, I don't want to really interact with a
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lot of people, And as soon as it goes direct,
I'm like back to my normal self again. So it
may be affecting you that way, especially if you're a
Virgo or a Gemini, or if you have a Virgo
Gemini rising in your birth chart. If Mercury is in
Virgo or Gemini in your chart, you could also be
greatly affected. So just want to share that insight with
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you as well. On March thirteen, we have Mars conjunct
the North node. Now this is pretty important because the
North node in the South node are destined karmic placements
of the Moon. It's a calculation that we come up
with based on the Moon's orbit, and the North node
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is our sole mission and our birth chart, and the
South node is our past lives and what we've already
learned and mastered. And so right now the nodes of
the Moon are in Pisces and Virgo. So here we go,
more Pisces, more Pisces energy. And so what that means is,
you know, they've been there since twenty twenty five and
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they're going to be there for it's an eighteen month
trans that the nodes do through each of the of
the zodiac pairs, and so it's those nodes are bringing
up a lot of karmic issues for people, and that
and issues that have to do with the twelfth and
six houses specifically, which is work routine structure, are our
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health and then our ability to withdraw rest, self care,
connect to you know, spirit and just this battle between
rest and work, and those nodes are bringing up a
lot of health issues for people. A lot of my
clients that have these nodes are people booking with me lately,
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or having a lot of a lot of weakness, like
they're feeling low energy, They're feel a little bit depressed, anxious,
they don't feel good, you know, they just don't feel
like they have the energy to do things. And I
am sane and I tell them it's these nodes. And
when Mars conjuncts node, that means that the planet of
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war the planet of aggression, battle passion, drive action, the
warrior energy conjunct that North node. It's going to force
us to take some action regarding our creative and intuitive pursuits.
And I would even so far to say that we
may see this play out in the news of a
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major event that might have to do with water, which
you know, we have a lot of things going on
in the ocean with the Navy ships and the different
things going on in Iran right now. But I think
something big might happen on March thirteen around then, when
Mars conjuncts the North node in Pisces. That's going to
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be a pretty big deal there. Something will play out
and we'll probably see that on the news. And then
you know how that affects us in our own life
is it could enhance our emotions and ourency. To need
that time alone and to face some pretty intense feelings
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can come up. And that's what I'm sensing is going
to happen on March thirteen, and then we have mercury
retrograde is going to conjunct Mars on March fifteen, So
I'm like, wow, how is this going to play out?
So March fifteen, it's going to be an intense, fast paced,
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challenging communication day, guys, So be careful, be compassionate, try
not to take offense, don't get defensive over every little thing.
But we are going to be on high heightened emotional alert.
We may be more reactive, more impulsive. We may just
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say things or act before we think it through because
we're going on our emotions and our gut and that
quick reflex of energy and emotions that comes up fast.
So that is things I see this week that are
pretty big, And I want to share with you guys
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about a class that I'm actually going to be teaching.
If you're interested in learning more about the nodes of
the moon and your destiny and your soul mission and
all of those things, I am teaching a class called
Past lives in astrology and the Moon's nodes, and I'm
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teaching it for the College of Psychic Studies in the
United Kingdom. It's an all virtual course on Zoom. It
will start on March fourteenth, twenty first, and twenty eighth.
It's not too late to sign up if you want to.
I also have another course going coming up called Fallen
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Angels the Twelfth House in Astrology, and that will be
on May tenth, and it'll be from twelve to two pm.
And these classes can be found on my website, Carmen
Turnershop dot com. Would love to have you attend these
courses and learn more if you're interested in learning more
about astrology and if you want to learn more about
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the eighth and twelfth Houses in astrology, if you have
planets in Scorpio and Pisces. I am actually hosting a
workshop and in person retreat at Omega in Ryan Beeck,
New York, and it just went live. If you've never
been to Omega, it's a really really interesting, beautiful campus
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that's in upstate New York, and I'm offering in person
retreat called Phoenixes and Angels The Mysteries of Astrologies eighth
and twelve Houses, and it'll be held September eighteen through
twenty in person, and we will be exploring the eighth
and twelfth Houses and astrology how they can help us heal,
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transform and tap into our psychic gifts. And this is
going to be amazing because I've never hosted an in
person workshop on my research and in my book Phoenixes
and Angels, Mastering the Eighth and Twelfth Astrological Houses, that
book is going to be discussing. I'll be having copies
there for everyone that attends, but would love to have
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you join in person, or if you want to find
out more, you can visit omega dot com and you
can type in my name Carmea Turns shop and find
my workshop and would love to have you sign up
and come out in person to meet me. I also
want to offer that I'm offering consultations sixty minute ninety
minute astrology consults for beginners doing basic birth chart analysis.
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I can do transit charts, solo returns, which is a
birthday chart, and I can do relationship couples counseling, all
kinds of things parents children, help you understand your child
parenting tips. I can use astrology in many ways to
assist you. Would love for you to book with me.
You can book on my website Carmen turnershot dot com.
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And I would love to bring my love of astrology
to your life and help validate some of these energies
that are affecting you and things that even happen in
the past, to kind of make sense of those things.
And because everything can be seen in the birth chart,
it's pretty amazing. Hang in there, guys, have a wonderful week,
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and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You've been listening to your astrological energy with Carmen Turner Shot.
Join Carmen to prepare for the energies impacting you each week.
Carmen has written twelve books and offers consultations. Find out
more on our website, carmenturnershot dot com. Until next time,
stay grounded, stay inspired, and let the energy guide your journey.