The 18.6-Year Lunar Standstill Cycle + The Marriage of Heaven & Earth w/ Gemini Brett
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🎬 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
- 00:00 – 02:15 → Setting the Stage: March Astrology Overview – Amanda recaps recent podcast discussions on March's astrological significance and introduces the theme of this episode.
- 02:16 – 05:26 → Introducing the Lunar Standstill: Why It Matters Now – An overview of the lunar standstill, why it’s a key topic right now, and how it connects to broader astrological themes.
- 05:27 – 06:47 → Bridging Astronomy and Astrology – How astrology and astronomy were historically intertwined and why it’s important to reconnect them today.
- 06:48 – 10:04 → Astrology and Astronomy Reunite: A New Partnership – Amanda announces a groundbreaking partnership with High Point Scientific, bridging astrology with modern astronomy tools.
- 10:05 – 12:31 → The Science Behind Astrology: Correspondences and Planetary Influence – Brett explains how astronomy provides measurable evidence for astrological influences on Earth.
- 12:32 – 20:47 → The Lunar Standstill Cycle: Nodes and Their Impact – A deep dive into the 18.6-year lunar standstill cycle, the role of lunar nodes, and their movement through the zodiac.
- 20:48 – 26:19 → Why Now? The 2024-2025 Lunar Maximums – Understanding why this moment is pivotal as the North Node reaches 0° Aries, intensifying planetary energies.
- 26:20 – 35:49 → The Tropical Zodiac: Earth's Zodiac Explained – A detailed explanation of why the tropical zodiac is astronomically valid and how it aligns with Earth’s cardinal directions.
- 35:50 – 48:30 → The Sun’s Journey and the Solstice Cycle – How the Sun’s movement through the zodiac is tied to Earth’s tilt, the changing seasons, and solstices.
- 48:31 – 51:18 → Lunar Maximums and Their Real-World Impact – How the lunar standstill cycle affects climate, tides, and natural patterns, with measurable scientific evidence.
- 51:19 – 54:45 → Scientific Proof: Measurable Effects of the Lunar Standstill – Research studies showing how the lunar cycle influences El Niño, climate shifts, and tidal extremes.
- 54:46 – 1:06:36 → How the Lunar Standstill Affects Us Personally – Discussion on how this cycle influences human emotions, physiology, and personal experiences.
- 1:06:37 – 1:09:02 → Out of Bounds Moons: Extreme Lunar Influence – Explanation of out-of-bounds moons and their heightened effects during lunar maximums.
- 1:09:03 – 1:10:39 → The Importance of Watching the Sky – Amanda shares her journey in understanding celestial mechanics and how learning through observation enhances astrological understanding.
- 1:10:40 – End → Sacred Sites and the Lunar Standstill – Brett discusses ancient stone circles built to track the lunar standstill and what they reveal about our connection to the cosmos.
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Transcript:
00:00:00:03 – 00:00:25:24
Amanda
All right everybody. So this episode today is going to be continuing a conversation that we've been having here on the podcast. It started I mean it probably started last year, but I'm just going to go back a little bit in time because we had Rebecca Gordon on several weeks ago, kind of giving a big overview of the astrology of March and why it's such a significant moment.
00:00:26:01 – 00:00:56:07
Amanda
Then we had Natasha Alter, Natasha Alter came on and talked about the dance that Saturn and Neptune are doing this entire year, but a significant part of it is really amping up here in March. So we talked about that. Then we had Caitlin Castiel on. We have Caitlin talk about why this March Equinox that we are about to have is an extraordinarily important Equinox moment.
00:00:56:07 – 00:01:19:23
Amanda
They always are. But this one is even more supercharged than usual. She also brought in the Galactic center, and this alignment that we have with the Galactic Center on a daily basis, that now science is proving that opens up our capacity to receive information from other dimensional realms. Okay. So we talked about the Equinox is a portal for that.
00:01:20:02 – 00:01:52:02
Amanda
We also talked about this daily galactic center alignment as a portal for that. Caitlin also brought up this idea of the lunar standstill and how the lunar standstill is also contributing to this moment in time where we are experiencing extremes, extremes, highs, lows. Just an intensification of the energetic field, right? Gemini Brett is here to continue that piece of these threads that we've been weaving together.
00:01:52:02 – 00:02:12:23
Amanda
So we are going to be doing a very deep dive on the lunar standstill. What that is why it matters why it's significant, especially right now. And of course, what you can do with this information, with all of the guests we've had on, we've been focusing on not only the what, but who cares? Like what does this mean for us?
00:02:12:24 – 00:02:36:10
Amanda
How can we use this information to actually ride these waves with some level of skill, with some level of awareness, maybe even some level of grace? I don't know. So, Brett, it is so great to have you back. I cannot believe how long it's been since we've had you on this podcast and welcome. I'm so happy that you're here.
00:02:36:12 – 00:03:06:06
Gemini Brett
I'm so happy I'm here too. And, Astrology Hub itself linked to this cycle, by the way, because we're currently what they call lunar maximums. My first teachers who were Daniel DeMaria and Caitlin Costello, they prefer not to go with these terms. Lunar maximums and lunar minimums that most of the astronomers use today, but rather the outer standstill and the inner standstill.
00:03:06:08 – 00:03:41:17
Gemini Brett
But when we were in the inner standstill of the cycle, that's the North Node reaching zero degrees tropical Libra. And that was November 11th, 2015. And then the outer or the lunar maximums are when the North Node reaches zero degrees tropical areas. And that was January 11th, 2025. So to my understanding, astrology was born in 2015, right?
00:03:41:19 – 00:04:05:20
Amanda
Yes. And I that we were doing our first event in around that November. We had our first summit. So we officially started in that summer of 2015. But I think probably things were really starting to get going that fall. So what I want to say is this episode is perfect for any of you who love bridging the science.
00:04:05:22 – 00:04:57:04
Amanda
You love bridging the astronomy with your astrological curiosity. You want to know the like tangible. How can we show that these these cycles are correlated? How? How do they impact life here on Earth in tangible, measurable ways? So if you're like that, this is going to be the episode for you. And hopefully you already know Gemini Brett, who is one of the leaders, I would say in the field of astrology, in bringing astronomy into the conversation, really closing the gap between astrology and astronomy, which if you've been hanging out with us for a while, you know that astrology in astronomy used to be married very happily married for centuries, and is only really in sort
00:04:57:04 – 00:05:27:08
Amanda
of recent history that they have become divorced and sort of, not the happiest divorce, not the most harmonious divorce. And so I am very keen on bridging the gap. Brett is very keen on bridging the the gap. And one of the things that's perfect for this episode is that I get to announce one of our newest sponsors of the show, which is High Point Scientific.
00:05:27:10 – 00:06:06:13
Amanda
They are an astronomy company focused on astronomical gear like telescopes, like gear that you might need for astro photography, all those amazing things. And we are their first ever astrology partner. Astrology? Yeah. So this is a huge deal. And for any of you who are looking for telescopes, you're looking for astrophotography gear, please use the links in the show notes, because then we're going to be showing them that, look, hey, astrology is interested in legitimate, astronomy as well.
00:06:06:18 – 00:06:18:15
Amanda
We're we're interested in doing those things. So I would love for this partnership to be extraordinarily successful for them. And then they'll be blown away. And then maybe at some point, we can get married again.
00:06:18:17 – 00:06:48:13
Gemini Brett
Yeah. I've come to really feel that astronomy and astrology are different things, but that in a way, they're two sides of one coin. I mean, actually what we call astrology these days, what has been called correspondences back in the day and where astrology would be, the Rainbow Bridge or the sacred science, or the high art between astronomy and correspondences.
00:06:48:15 – 00:07:32:14
Gemini Brett
So astronomy being the measurable heavenly happenings, right? The things we can put a ruler to. And many of us went and saw Jupiter Conjoins Saturn on December 21st, 2020, and they were very close, and you could see it in the sky with your eyes. But how did that dance you versus how did that dance me? And then we go to the natal chart and see where that is and where we are in our life cycle activations and all those things in that beautiful sacred science, at least as I would say, of, astrology, which kind of bridges us between that measurable side of the heavenly happenings, the astronomy and the immeasurable correspondences.
00:07:32:16 – 00:07:58:02
Gemini Brett
Right. So just like with sound, right, or let me say, noise. Okay. So for me, noise is something that vibrates the medium. It can be measured, right. There's an amplitude. There's frequency in these things. Right. But harmony would be the sacred science that connects us between that measurable noise and sound, which I define as the immeasurable quality of noise.
00:07:58:02 – 00:08:30:00
Gemini Brett
Right. So here's this music. It might call you in. It might inspire me to run away at light speed. Right. Because you are you and I am me. Right. And that's where we have in the sacred science tradition called the quad Trivium. These different, as I call them, like bridges between the measurable quantity and the immeasurable quality. So for me, astronomy itself, like, you know, why did we start keeping the days and really tracking the sun and the moon?
00:08:30:02 – 00:08:57:05
Gemini Brett
Probably because the nomads wanted to know when to go right and how to get there, which is following the stars and the like. Once we were agricultural. I mean, you can go all the way back to how seeds works in days, right? More than 2000 years ago, that beautiful work that talks about, you know, planting and harvesting, according to which stars are rising before the sun in the morning.
00:08:57:05 – 00:09:23:10
Gemini Brett
And of course, we have traditions like that from all of the cultures, you know, and that's astronomy. But once you start watching that intently, something's bound to happen to you. Unless you're, like, doing really well with those rigid walls of a paradigm that tells you there's no such thing as correspondences. And how could stars so far away have anything to do with the human experience?
00:09:23:10 – 00:09:57:13
Gemini Brett
And, you know, Jupiter doesn't have any gravitational pull on you. Like there's an argument that's made by rationalists, which is that somebody's standing in the room where you were delivered, has more of a gravitational enough force on you than Jupiter did in that moment, at least according to, Newtonian physics. That being said, we measure where the planets are in the signs, not from the surface of the Earth, where we live and breathe and can witness these heavenly happenings.
00:09:57:13 – 00:10:33:19
Gemini Brett
But from the center of the earth, right. That place where all earthlings are one. And in that sense, the charts telling us about our experience of Earth's experience of the heavens. And if there is no scientist in the world who is going to deny that Jupiter has an extreme energetic effect on Earth? And I would suggest, therefore, on all Earthlings now, where we are on the surface of Earth, of course, matters, and that shows up in astrology in the houses.
00:10:33:21 – 00:11:19:18
Gemini Brett
So right now it's day time. The sun is above the ground, but in other places on earth, in the same moment, the sun is below. And as I investigate, like very real, tangible materialistic ways that the measurable heavenly happenings clearly have energetic participation with me personally and with all beings. I like to start with day and night because I, you know, whether you're like, alpha alert, day time person or you're working the so-called graveyard shift, we have different experiences at 3 p.m. than we do at 3 a.m. or at noon and midnight, and that's undeniable.
00:11:19:18 – 00:11:51:22
Gemini Brett
And we can get into the ancient systems of, I don't know, like the Oregon calendar and such, or like during the day. But like, everybody knows that daytime and nighttime hit the different right. And that's astronomy. And the earth is spinning. So the sun rises and reaches and rests and roots and we go through different energetic experiences. And there's much available scientific measurement to show you that your hormones during the course of day and night and etc., etc. like nobody needs to argue about that.
00:11:51:24 – 00:12:02:22
Gemini Brett
But I think we don't consider like, well, that's just clear evidence that astronomical cycles have energetic influence on human beings. Agree?
00:12:02:24 – 00:12:05:02
Amanda
Yes, absolutely.
00:12:05:04 – 00:12:32:17
Gemini Brett
Well, the next place we might go is the tides. Okay. So let me just like rewind and I think I'll show more about why and what it is. But just know that the lunar standstill cycle, it's about the transit of the zodiac by the lunar nodes. Okay, so the lunar nodes are where the moon's path intersects with the sun's path, right?
00:12:32:19 – 00:13:02:17
Gemini Brett
What is the sun's path? It's the ecliptic. It's the heart of the zodiac. And really, that's Earth's path, right? Because Earth orbits the sun and describes a plane. But from Earth, we witness that plane by witnessing the sun traveling through our sky. Right. Because the sun is on that plane. Now, I like to call that the circle of spirit, because that's where the sun lives.
00:13:02:17 – 00:13:23:10
Gemini Brett
And I think of Earth as matter. And so the ecliptic is about matter and spirit. And of course, those, you know, scientists of our day and age don't want to go there. And that's okay. But the ecliptic is no doubt like the heart of the zodiac. If we extend that towards infinity in every direction, we will find the constellations of the zodiac.
00:13:23:10 – 00:13:55:20
Gemini Brett
They embrace the ecliptic plane, and therefore the sun is always traveling through one of those 12 star groups from our point of view. Right. But also, how are you ever going to know what stars the sun is aligned with? You go blind trying. And I really feel like astrologers don't start to consider that truth, because we spend so much time looking at the sky on a chart instead of looking at the sky in the sky and then point, you're like, oh wait, the sun is crazy bright, right?
00:13:55:20 – 00:14:13:00
Gemini Brett
So you can see the stars rising before the sun, and that will tell you the constellation that they're coming. The sun's used to be in, and you can see the stars that are setting right after the sun once it gets dark enough. And like, that's where the sun is going next. And you can kind of dream into that a little bit.
00:14:13:00 – 00:14:42:16
Gemini Brett
But this is why all of the original Zodiacs were a lunar, because you can actually follow the moon right through the stars. Several systems of lunar mansions, right? In India, that's called nakshatras. In the Babylonian system. And you look at the, moola pin as like the proto zodiac, but they were looking at 18 or 17 or some say, 19 star groups that describe the path of the moon as it was called.
00:14:42:18 – 00:15:18:06
Gemini Brett
I mean, look, planting and sowing with the phases of the moon is really powerful. We actually see some positive results from doing so the biodynamic farming, etc.. Like you better honor the cycles of earth and sun. First and foremost, right? If you like things like life, because whether you're a nomadic people, if you want to know when to go, because every time of year the berries are ripe over there, or the herd of elk come over there at this time of year, that's a solar thing, right?
00:15:18:06 – 00:15:46:18
Gemini Brett
Or if you're agricultural, I mean, first and foremost, that's a solar thing. Yeah, there's probably 12 signs because there's about 12 nations in a year. But I mean, you've been with the, you know, Astrology Hub inner circle, obviously from the beginning, and you've been following lunar cycles for long enough to know that it's really weird and tricky. There's actually 12.37 nations point per year and.
00:15:46:20 – 00:15:49:08
Amanda
12 astrologers in a year, and sometimes we need 13.
00:15:49:14 – 00:16:14:21
Gemini Brett
Exactly right. And it's kind of like 12.5 each year. If you want, you start tuning into it, or 12 and a third. And so keeping like lunisolar or solar lunar time, like many calendar systems, like the Hebrew, which comes from the Babylonian, from the Akkadian, the Chinese solar lunar calendar, for example, they have a system of interstellar months, kind of like leap months.
00:16:14:21 – 00:16:34:16
Gemini Brett
And, that's going to take us in a whole other direction. And we'll be talking about that for an hour. But it's a really beautiful place to go. And actually, it's a wonderful thing to invoke, too, because, as you know, here, we've recently shifted from, A year of a dragon to a year of a snake or serpent.
00:16:34:18 – 00:16:56:24
Gemini Brett
And for the astrologically inclined, that sounds like eclipses and it sounds like nodes. And I'll show you why the north and south Node are called the dragon's head and the dragon's tail, or the head of the serpent in the tail of the serpent as well, because it really has to do with the moon snaking above and below the path of the sun.
00:16:57:01 – 00:17:36:07
Gemini Brett
So let's go there. The ecliptic is the sun's path, but for the most part, because our solar system is relatively flat, the planets travel that path too. Now, Professor Pluto actually diverges by like 17 degrees from the sun's path during the course of his, like, 250 year ish cycle. And it's one of the many reasons why the white coats demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status in 2005.
00:17:36:09 – 00:18:04:24
Gemini Brett
But the rest of the planets stay close to the moon every month. Every month. Snakes. Every draconic month, which is the moon's month with the nodes. So think of the period of like moon at North Node, back to the moon at North Node. That's about 27 days. The moon will snake above and below the path of the sun every month and diverged by about five degrees north and south.
00:18:05:01 – 00:18:30:01
Gemini Brett
And, you know, I'm going to get back to that because as for people who are watching this, I'll show you some cool images and animations that I built around that. But the important truth of the lunar standstill cycle is that we're following the intersection points of the circle of silver and gold, which for me is the moon's path and the sun's path.
00:18:30:03 – 00:19:19:17
Gemini Brett
And we're tracking those lunar nodes as they move around the zodiac. The lunar nodes tend to retrograde their way around the zodiac. During a period of 18.5 years. It's actually 18.6 years, but who's counting? And it's actually 18.618 years. And the nerdy that sounds it's intriguing, especially for those of us who study another one of the sacred sciences of old geometry, because the golden number these days, usually described by phi and for is 1.618….., it's, transcendent number like pi is.
00:19:19:19 – 00:19:55:15
Gemini Brett
Right. And so when I hear 18.618, I'm like, ooh, there's something quite golden in that. And something quite silver, because gold would be the sacred metal for the sun and silver that for the moon. Okay. So I'm going to bring you're awareness to some, like scientific papers from modern times telling you the power of the cycle. And then we'll go way, way back and see that ancients around the world were building monuments to track this cycle.
00:19:55:17 – 00:19:59:05
Gemini Brett
And we might get to ask, why does that sound right?
00:19:59:07 – 00:20:11:05
Amanda
It sounds great, but Brett can can and not. But and can we bring it back to this moment in time? Why are we talking about the lunar standstill right now? Is it because we're in one if that's the right way to say it?
00:20:11:07 – 00:20:48:09
Gemini Brett
Yeah. So another wonderful thing about the lunar standstill cycle is these things I'm about to show you. It's all about the tropical zodiac. And many, many, many people, including professional astrologers, will tell you there's no astronomy to the tropical zodiac because the tropical signs are not aligned with the constellations like they once were. And because the 12 star groups that embrace the ecliptic plane, the constellation of Zodiac, those constellations vary significantly in size, so you really can't map them to any zodiac.
00:20:48:10 – 00:21:15:13
Gemini Brett
And you know, there are many different zodiacs. A real star based on the X are tropical, but are based on what? Well, I think I'll show you as we look at the very real and measurable and analyzed, climate effects of this 18.6 year nodal cycle. It's all about tracking the nodes through the tropical zodiac, which I will show you why I call it Earth's zodiac.
00:21:15:18 – 00:21:46:15
Gemini Brett
All right. So in the North Node, every 18.6 years reaches zero degrees tropical Aries. That's the center point of the lunar maximums. So I'll just tell you a few times that's happened in recent history. December 1st, 1987. That's the true North Node, not the mean North Node. If you know the difference of the calculations. I try not to be mean and I try to tell the truth.
00:21:46:17 – 00:22:28:07
Gemini Brett
So Jan December 1st, 1987, 18.6 years later was June 22nd, 2006. And then just recently January 11th, 2025. So that's why we're talking about it now. We know right now there's all of these crossings of this Pisces Aries cusp, right? In fact, many because Mercury and Venus, who have both moved from Pisces into Aries retrograde and moving back into Pisces, where they will go direct and move into Aries again, another kind of longer period.
00:22:28:09 – 00:23:02:11
Gemini Brett
Same thing with Saturn, who later this year of 2025 will move from Pisces after a few years into Aries, but then retrograde and head back to Pisces for some unfinished business. Well, Neptune's been in Pisces since 2012, and it's just now in 2025 and quite soon moving into Aries, but will retrograde head back into Pisces. So there's a lot of energy at this very interesting point where many see, to be the beginning of the zodiac circle, right?
00:23:02:13 – 00:23:28:16
Gemini Brett
Because this interesting geometry puzzle of like, which point in the circumference of a circle is the beginning of the circumference of the circle. Well, if you draw a circle, it's where you started and ended. Yes. But many of us in astrology, look at this zero Aries point of the tropical zodiac to be the beginning and the ending of the beginning of the ending of the beginning of the ending again.
00:23:28:18 – 00:23:59:11
Gemini Brett
There's a very important secret of why that is. Which shouldn't be a secret at all. So let me just say this. Like so many sacred systems of ancient wisdom traditions, the tropical zodiac is directionally aligned. Nobody knows this. It's like the thing I'm most devoted to helping astrologers, remember. And my devotion to bring more of the astronomy back to astrologers.
00:23:59:13 – 00:24:30:05
Gemini Brett
The Earth's North Pole, which literally just defines north as our rotational axis. Right? It's not magnetic. North and south. I'm talking about Santos place, right? Like terrestrial north and south pole. Those are just the point that are rotational axis, you know, passing through, and the North Pole leans north forever and ever, ever or not, towards the crab constellation that changes with precession, but towards zero cancer.
00:24:30:07 – 00:24:59:21
Gemini Brett
And because that does when when the sun ingresses cancer, the sun is shining directly above Earth. Tropic of cancer. Like. Is that not astronomy? Absolutely. When the sun ingresses Capricorn, the sun is shining directly above Earth's Tropic of Capricorn. Okay. And so the Tropic of Capricorn is the point of the ecliptic that Earth's south pole is always leaning towards the zero.
00:24:59:21 – 00:25:27:21
Gemini Brett
Cancer. Tropical cancer right Cardinal directions of Earth. Cardinal cusps are tropical zodiac, not sidereal. This isn't about Ophiuchus. The north pole of Earth is leaning towards the arrow. Cancer. That's the north point. East and west are a little bit more confusing because in any moment east in California, where I am in eastern Hawaii, where you are, they're different, and we have a different rising sign right now.
00:25:27:23 – 00:25:51:01
Gemini Brett
But from the center of the earth where we are all connected, right. That heart of Gaia, there's a global north at Zero Cancer, there's a global South that's zero Capricorn. And therefore there's also a global West at zero Libra. That's why the Libra glyph looks like a setting sun. The ultimate image of the West. Once you see that, you can't go back.
00:25:51:01 – 00:26:20:14
Gemini Brett
So I'm sorry I didn't warn you. And zero Aries. The Pisces areas cusp of the tropical zodiac is due east of the center of Earth, and therefore it works like a global ascendant. That's the mystical key behind the turning of the ages. Why? When we trace that East point zero tropical Aries through the constellations, or perhaps through sidereal signs, we move from the Age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius.
00:26:20:16 – 00:26:39:00
Gemini Brett
And that, of course, is a very long conversation. We could have another time, if you'd like, right? But it's also why we say like when the sun reaches zero, Aries. This is the beginning of the astrological year. And by the way, astronomers, due to. They just don't call it zero. Aries.
00:26:39:02 – 00:27:05:16
Amanda
Okay, everybody, eventually we're going to have a way for you to do this. But if there's some way for you to dog ear what Brett just shared with us about the tropical zodiac and what it's based on and why it is astronomically based, please do it. Because I don't know about you, but I've definitely gotten into conversations I was recently.
00:27:05:16 – 00:27:30:22
Amanda
I've had a field trip with my daughter. There were astronomers there and telescopes. It was awesome. However, I met an astronomer who once I told her what I do for work. She just annihilated me. I mean, she took me on and on and on about how astrology is so and how to astrologers not even know that their zodiac is all out of whack and blah blah blah.
00:27:30:24 – 00:28:02:22
Amanda
Had I been able to reiterate and of course I wished Gemini Brett was with me, but he wasn't. Had I been able to articulate what Brett just shared? I think a bridge would have formed between me and this woman who she just automatically despised me. So maybe there was no chance for a bridge, but it doesn't matter. I would have at least felt like, okay, I was able to speak to this very common rebuttal about why astrology is a bunch of B.S., so thank you for that.
00:28:02:22 – 00:28:23:05
Amanda
And I just it was such a such a beautiful, perfect explanation. I've probably heard you say this 20 times, but I don't know about all of you. I need to hear it at least that many times before I can really absorb it. But if you're listening on the podcast, Brett was also using a visual to describe what he was saying.
00:28:23:07 – 00:28:32:18
Amanda
So you might want to head over to YouTube. If you're if you're invested in this conversation, you might want to head over to YouTube so you can see the visual of what he was just describing, because it definitely helped me.
00:28:32:20 – 00:28:49:22
Gemini Brett
That visual, by the way, is called an armillary sphere that I'm holding in my hand here. I had to take this one apart and put it back together to make it more accurate. And it's still not quite precise. If you look up armillary sphere, you can find a lot of things that you could purchase and put in your home.
00:28:49:22 – 00:28:59:21
Gemini Brett
And they looked pretty cool and they're all wrong. And it's really sad to me. It's like I have not been able to find one that is accurate. Yeah.
00:28:59:23 – 00:29:02:23
Amanda
Right. This great business idea for you.
00:29:03:00 – 00:29:06:18
Gemini Brett
Yeah. I don't know how many armillary spheres I'm going to be selling.
00:29:06:18 – 00:29:08:19
Amanda
I'm going to want one.
00:29:08:19 – 00:29:27:15
Gemini Brett
So but at the same time, I have thought about it and it's something if anyone is a metal worker especially, or a woodworker, I love to speak with you about it because I like creating some of these old and beautiful devices that really help us understand more about the marriage of heaven and earth is something I'm very cold towards.
00:29:27:21 – 00:29:53:23
Gemini Brett
So. But let me just show you in this armillary sphere what you see is the equator, okay? And that's the the plane. If our daily spin. Right. You also see some other parallels, as we call them, or significant bands of earthly latitude, equator being zero latitude, right. And going north from there. This is the Tropic of Cancer, right?
00:29:53:23 – 00:30:18:00
Gemini Brett
Which is like 23.5 degrees north of the equator, where the Tropic of Capricorn is 23.5 degrees south of the equator, 23.5 degrees, because that's the tilt angle of Earth in our day and age. That what tilt the tilt between the equator, which is the plane of the day and the ecliptic, which is the plane of the year. Right.
00:30:18:00 – 00:30:48:16
Gemini Brett
Earth's rotational plane is tilted in respect to our orbital plane. And that's the reason for the seasons. And over great periods of time, 40,000 years plus, that angular distance between the two does change slightly in our day and age. It's like 23.5 degrees, which, by the way, speaking of golden numbers, for those of you who are familiar with the Fibonacci sequence one, one, two, three, five, you get the two three, five, so the 23.5 degrees.
00:30:48:18 – 00:31:10:21
Gemini Brett
That being said, it's actually closer to 23.4. But if you honor that, then you have to realize that the complementary angle is 66.6 and nobody wants to say that shit. But that is the latitude of the Arctic Circle, which is also here on this armillary sphere and south of the equator, the Antarctic Circle. Right.
00:31:10:23 – 00:31:20:23
Amanda
So basically the tropical zodiac is directional. Yeah. It's based on the Earth's true north.
00:31:21:00 – 00:31:23:24
Gemini Brett
Leaning towards zero cancer.
00:31:24:04 – 00:31:31:02
Amanda
Leaning towards zero cancer. Earth, true South, leaning towards the of Capricorn.
00:31:31:04 – 00:31:31:21
Gemini Brett
Yep.
00:31:31:23 – 00:31:41:03
Amanda
And then from the center of the Earth, the east and west points, which are the which is Libra, zero degrees Libra and zero the.
00:31:41:04 – 00:31:57:05
Gemini Brett
West and zero Aries is east, is east, which by the way, is supposed to go up to Ocala and watch the stars rise in the middle of the night. Yes. And you'll see that the stars, when you're looking east, trace patterns that look like a ram's horns.
00:31:57:07 – 00:31:58:02
Amanda
You show me that.
00:31:58:08 – 00:32:15:18
Gemini Brett
Know that it's. It's a real eye. First saw that on Haleakala, which is obviously a very appropriate place to have that experience. The closer you get to the equator, the easier it is to see that, 38 degrees north of the equator, I have to tilt my head 38 degrees to really see that shape. So yeah, that's it.
00:32:15:18 – 00:32:53:16
Gemini Brett
And then let me show you a few other things that really will help you, like, feel into this. Right. So the tropical zodiac is on one level all about the tropics. So what is that? That's Greek for turn around. What turns around? Well, every year the sun does twice. All right. So the sun's on the path of the ecliptic, the plane of the year, the orbital path I, and only the tropical zodiac is looking at the relationship between these two planes.
00:32:53:16 – 00:33:25:16
Gemini Brett
The plane of the year, the ecliptic or the orbital plane, or even we can call that signs and the plane of the day, which is about moving the planets through the houses and and the ecliptic passes over the equator. And I use that term purposefully and zero Aries and say East Point. Okay. And then it gets most north at the Tropic of Cancer.
00:33:25:18 – 00:34:00:18
Gemini Brett
Okay. Well, why is that Tropic Coast turnaround so what is solstice? Solstice means the sun stops. Stops and what? Well, every year the sun will move from Capricorn Solstice. Or I'd like to call it South Death, because that's when the sun is at its southern bounds. Okay. And the southern bounds are the tropic of Capricorn. So every year the sun journeys south just like migratory birds.
00:34:00:20 – 00:34:41:01
Gemini Brett
All right. It's caused me to honor a friend I want to bring over here. As I say that it reaches its southern extreme. The Tropic of Capricorn, where the sun stops its southern journey. It turns around tropic goes, and then slowly begins to head north for six months, crossing the equator at zero Aries, Aries, Equinox, equator, and then continuing north through Aries, Taurus, and Gemini until it reaches the northern extreme, which is zero cancer.
00:34:41:03 – 00:34:48:12
Gemini Brett
At the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic Tropic coasts turn around and then the sun heads south.
00:34:48:14 – 00:34:50:08
Amanda
Do you call it a North Star? Yes.
00:34:50:10 – 00:35:10:11
Gemini Brett
I do call it a North disc, but it doesn't quite have the ring. It just like I now call immature. I prefer to say Aries Equinox, East Equinox, because that's when the sun is due east of the center of Earth, and that has a nice ring to it. West Point ox that's the sun at zero. Libra. Not as much, right?
00:35:10:11 – 00:35:38:10
Amanda
Because you're helping to put it in the language so we can remember it. And then once we remember it, we can start to actually feel these things and and feel them in our bodies. But because the language is so dis, it's so, disconnected from like the language we use every day, it's hard to draw these connections. I don't know about all of you, but it's it's hard for me, especially because we're just we're here on Earth.
00:35:38:10 – 00:35:50:11
Amanda
We don't see these things happening the way we would if we had a different vantage point and if we could look from outside in. So it it's sometimes feels like fish describing water, you know what I'm saying?
00:35:50:13 – 00:35:51:08
Gemini Brett
Absolutely.
00:35:51:10 – 00:35:54:12
Amanda
But I love that you're reading it into the language. It's it's good and helpful.
00:35:54:12 – 00:36:02:15
Gemini Brett
Right. And what are the ways that we typically differentiate one solstice and the other. We'll summer solstice and winter solstice.
00:36:02:17 – 00:36:03:08
Amanda
Right.
00:36:03:10 – 00:36:35:16
Gemini Brett
But act locally. Think globally. My summer solstice is Australia's winter solstice right. And so then we'll say June solstice and December solstice. But why do I need a coin? These and Gregorian or Julian calendar language? Why not speak the language in which I train? And so it's Cancer Solstice and Capricorn Solstice. Well, really importantly that does not mean constellation or crab in constellation or sea goat.
00:36:35:18 – 00:37:12:08
Gemini Brett
But doesn't it mean crab, which I'll get back to. And goat. So let's talk about the goat. All right. Why is it Winter solstice for me when the sun's in zero? Capricorn. Because the sun is furthest from me. Like, literally. And I should say, me. I live in California. I'm in the northern hemisphere, right? So the southern balance of the suns annual journey, or the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun is furthest from me at that time, and therefore it's lowest in my sky during midday.
00:37:12:14 – 00:37:41:07
Gemini Brett
For the whole year. And then slowly, the sun, day by day, as the days grow longer from the longest night, is going to climb that mountain just like a goat. And for those of you who live Down under and that summer solstice for you, the sun and zero Capricorn, because it's closest to you, just think about like when you're walking towards a building, it appears to get taller and the sun's walking towards you.
00:37:41:08 – 00:38:04:18
Gemini Brett
If you live in the southern hemisphere and it's coming to the Tropic of Capricorn closest to you, right? And so it's higher in your sky. Will goats need to climb down to. And what's even further than down the bottom of the sea? Do you know there's goats, the crabs called yeti crabs that live as far beneath sea level as the peak of Mount Everest is above.
00:38:04:20 – 00:38:05:09
Amanda
Wow.
00:38:05:15 – 00:38:07:03
Gemini Brett
And that's a fun one.
00:38:07:05 – 00:38:08:03
Amanda
Daddy. Crabs.
00:38:08:04 – 00:38:40:10
Gemini Brett
Many crabs on the sand down there. Like these thermal vents at the very bottom of the ocean. Right. Okay, well, I'm going to show you this beautiful image from cam, the land we now call Egypt. This is Hootie, who many of you will know is, fath Earth. Both. There are total hot thought. By the way, is the pronunciation for this being who kept the days and brought us astrology and brought his language and number and much, much more.
00:38:40:10 – 00:39:03:02
Gemini Brett
And many of you will have seen, represented by the ibis bird. Well, I might be an important part of that, but some say this is because the ibis bird has a beak that shapes somewhat like a crescent moon. But there was another. Another, you might say, God, but they didn't. Of the moon. That's Konsa, right?
00:39:03:02 – 00:39:37:05
Gemini Brett
For the for a thought, it's the moon and sun. Because astronomy, astrology, all of the things that happen through these correspondences. Okay, well, many don't know that thought was also symbolized by baboon. Okay. So why that to for me, I was burned because that's a migratory bird, right. So what happens in Egypt is this bird of the Nile flies south for the winter time, just like the sun.
00:39:37:07 – 00:40:07:08
Gemini Brett
All right. So for me, the ibis is depicting the annual happening of RA of the sun. Well, the baboon daily, because troops of baboon every morning will literally compete for high ground. So the winner will first receive the rays of the rising sun. Right. Sun's rising. That's the beginning. End of the sun's journey through the houses every day.
00:40:07:10 – 00:40:37:08
Gemini Brett
Right. Sun through the signs. Migration. Ibis birds. Sun through the houses. Celebrating that in the morning. The baboon. Right. And this is where we get in this tradition in the calendar, in the Western tradition, Jeff, who to you would really be seen as Hermes or as Mercury? Okay. So the sun every year is kind of making this wave, and it's journeying to its southern extreme.
00:40:37:08 – 00:41:08:24
Gemini Brett
The Tropic of Capricorn stopping and turning around, which is what solstice means. Standstill of the sun. And then it crosses the equator at equinox, or East Chronos gets to its northern extreme north. This cancer solstice stops and turns around and starts heading south for six months, crossing the equator southward at zero Libra West equinox. Right now that's every year for the sun.
00:41:08:24 – 00:41:33:16
Gemini Brett
It takes Jupiter 12 years to make that journey. Who makes that journey most quickly? And the answer is the moon, right? So if you start seeing the truth of the directional zodiac, which the tropical zodiac is, you just get to see that there's the moon is orbiting the Earth. It's a model we use, by the way. Really, the Earth and the moon are dancing with one another as together they orbit the sun.
00:41:33:18 – 00:41:54:09
Gemini Brett
Friend of mine, Paul, shows that as the kind of father daughter dance, which, of course, I love more. Now than I used to. Right? Because the moon is, like, smaller than the Earth. And so there's a way where the Earth can swing in the moon around. But the model that we're taught in school that the Earth orbited by the moon while orbiting the sun will work especially for this.
00:41:54:09 – 00:42:29:04
Gemini Brett
Just look at the moon going around the Earth and getting to the North Pole. Lean couple weeks later to the South Pole. Lean like that's just the moon moving from cancer to Capricorn. Okay, but the moon is not tied to the sun's path to the ecliptic plane. And if my arm here, for those of you who are watching this video, is the ecliptic, or the sun's path, or the heart of the zodiac, every month the moon snakes above and below and diverges by about five degrees.
00:42:29:06 – 00:43:10:12
Gemini Brett
Okay. And that's happening every month forever. But there are times where that snaking motion, or maybe that feels like a tidal motion are most interesting. And they would be when the lunar nodes reach the equinox points. So whether that's the North Node at zero, Libra, which last happened on 11, 11, 2015, or the North Node at zero Aries, which just happened on January 11th, 2025.
00:43:10:14 – 00:43:40:02
Gemini Brett
Those are respectively North Node at zero, Libra, the lunar minimums, and North Node at zero Aries. The lunar maximums. So what's minimum and what's maximum? I want to get to some of these like a little relief from all the astronomy talk. It just can be to overwhelm me. And let me just share with you some like actual measurable events on Earth about this thing.
00:43:40:04 – 00:44:11:16
Amanda
As Brett, bring this up, I just want to mention that we wanted Brett to do an in-depth Lunar Standstill episode because it's it's really coloring the experiences we're all having here in this moment in time. And we're going to be spending two hours with five astrologers, including Brett, on Tuesday, March 18th, talking about how to work with all this convergence of energies that we're experiencing right now.
00:44:11:16 – 00:44:40:05
Amanda
We're going to be talking about the different qualities that we can cultivate within ourselves to really effectively work and ride these waves. And so it'll be Gemini, Brett, Caitlin, Crystal, Natasha, Alter, Ari, Moshe Wolf, and Nora Rochelle. So these five beautiful, incredible souls, brilliant astrologers, we will be in discussion. We want this to be an intimate conversation with all of you.
00:44:40:11 – 00:45:08:19
Amanda
You are all invited. It is a give as you wish event so you can donate as much as you want as nothing if you want. It's a give as you wish and so it's open to everybody. Invite your friends, anybody who's going through it, anybody who's like, what the what is going on? Anybody who is really wanting to step into this next phase of life with as much awareness as possible, everybody's invited.
00:45:08:19 – 00:45:29:24
Amanda
It's going to be an incredible conversation and it'll be a lot more English. So today is going to be like the most technical we're going to get. We're going to way peel it back from here and really be speaking English and really be translating. Okay. So what does all this mean? What does it all mean and how do we work with it most effectively?
00:45:30:03 – 00:46:02:00
Amanda
What are the opportunities available to all of us right now? The more awareness and intentionality we bring to our lives? And as far as I can tell, in talking to all of these amazing astrologers, there's a huge opportunity right now. There's also a very big if you're not aware, if you're not bringing intentionality into your every single day reality, this is the time where you can get swept up into a lot of other kinds of currents that you might not want to be swept up in.
00:46:02:06 – 00:46:19:13
Amanda
So we're going to help you stay focused. All right. Go to astrology, have.com/change astrology have.com/change. The event is called navigating change. And it's all about aligning with the the wisdom the cosmic wisdom to like I said, surf the waves.
00:46:19:15 – 00:46:27:13
Gemini Brett
Yeah. And there's change which can be tricky. And there's rate of change.
00:46:27:15 – 00:46:28:18
Amanda
Right?
00:46:28:20 – 00:46:37:19
Gemini Brett
Right. Which is something we don't consider enough, I think. Right. For the physicists, it's the difference between velocity and acceleration. Right.
00:46:37:21 – 00:46:52:20
Amanda
And amount of change everybody's having to absorb all at once. That actually I agree, maybe we should have called it navigating accelerated change. But that's the tricky part. It's like it's happening so fast you can barely get your breath. You can't really hold on to anything. So.
00:46:53:00 – 00:47:17:14
Gemini Brett
Right. And importantly, it won't stay that way. And it's supposed to be this way. And sometimes it's really helpful knowing that. Right. And that's one of the reasons why following these rhythms can be very helpful. There's ways where it can actually be the furthest thing from helpful and actually cause even more fear and worry and the like. Right.
00:47:17:16 – 00:47:57:15
Gemini Brett
But an important thing to know right now, just energetically, is that this time is meant to be massively tidal. And by that I mean big waves, right? And big peaks and big, troughs. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, like the surfers wait for that and they run out there and you know, so this is, this is one of the things that we go to if we want to prove astrology or let me say it in this way, that astronomical cycles influence our energetic experiences.
00:47:57:15 – 00:48:31:00
Gemini Brett
Earthlings. Again, I like to start with night and day. But we often will speak to the tides, right? And we'll say things like, well, you know, Earth is 70% water and, so am I. Now, every month, we have two periods of the highest high tides. They call them the spring tide or the king tides. And that is when the moon is conjunct the sun new moon, or when the moon is opposite the sun.
00:48:31:02 – 00:48:54:07
Gemini Brett
Full moon. Right now, not every full moon is created equally in regards to tides. Some of that depends on how far the moon is from the Earth. That's a difference cycle that I'm not going to speak so much about today. Okay, but also in between New and full Moon, whether it's the waxing half moon or the waning half moon.
00:48:54:09 – 00:49:14:09
Gemini Brett
Amanda, of course you know that in Hawaii these are both called the these. Right? The early stages of the phases. That's when we get the neap tides. So that's the lowest high tides and the highest low tides. And let me call like this the least high tides and the least low of the low tides during the month. Right.
00:49:14:09 – 00:49:42:04
Gemini Brett
So new moon and full moon peak tides, now the highest high tides of the year will be the new in the full moons in cancer in Capricorn. And by the way, that's not sodium. Well, that's another thing about Ophiuchus though. I love that constellation. This is about Earth Zodiac, the tropical zodiac, which hopefully I'm showing you is very much an astronomical or I like to say, an Earth astronomical thing.
00:49:42:06 – 00:50:13:05
Gemini Brett
Okay, so if you're, you know, tied to the Gregorian thing, then basically December and June when the sun's in Capricorn and cancer, respectively, regardless of whether you're in northern or southern hemisphere, you get your seasonally highest high noon and full moons and lowest low noon full moon tides of the year. Okay, but what about the 18.6 year cycle?
00:50:13:05 – 00:50:48:19
Gemini Brett
So I just wanted to show you some actual measurable thing. You know, the lunar nodes, one funny thing here is like, I'm often looking for astrological information, and I'll have to kind of weed my way through a bunch of astronomy papers about Jupiter or whatever, which I also love with the lunar nodes. It is so hard to find astronomical papers because astrology is getting so high on lunar nodes in the last hundred years that like you search lunar nodes online and you get all this astrology, mostly evolutionary astrology stuff, right?
00:50:48:21 – 00:51:19:00
Gemini Brett
And interestingly, at this lunar standstill time, the astrologers you just mentioned that will be in council winds coming up like our emotional wolf nervous shall or Natasha olds are like these are evolutionary astrologers, very nodal based astrologers. Right. So anyway, I'm having a hard time finding astronomy papers on the nodes. Like, I haven't yet cracked the code of why the nodes move retrograde, and it's really.
00:51:19:02 – 00:51:48:10
Gemini Brett
It annoys me, but I'll get there eventually. So. But I don't want to show this. This one's from, the Journal of Geophysical Research and Oceans. And here's the headline. The Global Influences of the 18.61 year nodal cycle and 8.85 year cycle of lunar perigee on high tidal levels. Okay, so the tides, that perigee situation that's actually astrologically about Lilith.
00:51:48:12 – 00:52:15:11
Gemini Brett
And it's the close moon, the supermoon and the far moon, the micro moon. And that's a tail for another time. But just know that we have measurable events on Earth where we have the highest high tides and the lowest low tides. Every 18.61 years as the North Node transits around the zodiac, when the North Node reaches zero Aries, and when the North Node reaches zero Libra.
00:52:15:11 – 00:52:46:08
Gemini Brett
We're in the peaks of this cycle. We're in that now. And so I'll just say this way the year of 2024 and year of 2025 is meant to be massively tidal. So if you're feeling overwhelmed in that regard, you're doing it right and hopefully just knowing that will help you surf instead of being pulled into the undertow. Okay, here's one, from each hero Yasuda.
00:52:46:12 – 00:53:07:24
Gemini Brett
I'm not sure what the period it's from nature impact of the astronomical lunar 18.6 year tidal cycle on El Nino. All right, now, I haven't yet found one for the Santa Ana winds, but I bet you it's there. And if we knew that because the North Node is now at zero Aries, the Santa Anas are going to be more extreme.
00:53:08:01 – 00:53:39:07
Gemini Brett
I don't know, maybe we would have the reservoirs filled. Moving on. I just missed one. So here's European Geosciences Union, the model, the climatic response to the 18.6 year lunar nodal cycle and its role in decadal temperature trends. Okay, so this surface temperatures of Earth with this 18.61 year cycle. So if you're feeling hot and cold, you're supposed to like.
00:53:39:09 – 00:54:07:05
Gemini Brett
All right. So here's one from the Ecological Society of America. Regulation of salt marsh mosquito populations by the 18.6 year old lunar nodal cycle okay. People have actually tracked pandemics to this. Because mosquitoes and other bugs. All right. That would be kind of a different image than the one we all recently knew about. But that's going to come up, too.
00:54:07:07 – 00:54:12:07
Gemini Brett
But I just want to rewind a bunch of slides and show you some pretty amazing places on Earth.
00:54:12:09 – 00:54:46:02
Amanda
Okay, so what you're showing us, Brett, just let me make sure we're all tracking with you. You're showing us impacts of the these maximums and minimums of the lunar nodes and the impact that those have measurable tangibly on things like our climate, on things like the tides, on things here on Earth. This is this is measurable. This isn't like we're just making something up.
00:54:46:04 – 00:55:04:22
Amanda
And what you're what you're saying is that because we are also 70% water, it's probably having impact on our internal tides. It's probably having impact on our own, physiology. But then also the, the ripple effects into all the aspects of our lives.
00:55:04:24 – 00:55:30:05
Gemini Brett
Absolutely. And, whether this is affecting us because we're made of water as well, it's a little bit harder to say whether or not the moon is completely pulling on all like the liquid in me. I'm sure it is. You know, a wonderful thing to remember is that while the sun has much more of a gravitational pull, the moon has more of a tidal pull because tides are about gravity, too.
00:55:30:07 – 00:55:53:01
Gemini Brett
But it's the difference in the gravity between the near side and the far side. Okay. And the near side and the far side of Earth, from the moon's perspective, have a much greater difference than from the sun's perspective, because the sun is so, so far away. So the moon actually has like twice as much tidal effect on us, and sun does.
00:55:53:01 – 00:56:18:11
Gemini Brett
But the tides are about the moon and the sun, right. And so brings us really into, from my point of view, Earth, moon and sun or cross, crescent and circle or matter, soul and spirit. So absolutely. Yes. Like in those papers, we're seeing that there's measurable effects of where the north nodes are. And then the lunar nodes are in the zodiac.
00:56:18:13 – 00:56:19:17
Amanda
Wow.
00:56:19:19 – 00:56:22:10
Gemini Brett
And I love that. Yeah. Right.
00:56:22:12 – 00:56:27:16
Amanda
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You were about to show something else, some something that was, moving.
00:56:27:18 – 00:56:57:06
Gemini Brett
Let me do that. All right. We're going to go through kind of a quick image of many of the slides I put together while teaching these things for my School of Earth astrology. Now, y'all know I call it that. Okay, so we're gonna look at this wave. Speaking of waves, you are here to get a clicker. So why so much dragon tails with the eclipses?
00:56:57:06 – 00:57:22:06
Gemini Brett
Dragons eating the sun or dragons eating the moon? Why so much serpent stuff? Because, as I said before, or every month, the moon snakes above and below the path of the sun. And the crossing points are the lunar nodes. Have you ever seen this? The manner that, glyph that we use these days to depict the South lunar node, Rahu is actually found in the hood of King Cobra.
00:57:22:08 – 00:57:35:00
Amanda
Oh my God, that's a myth. Okay, now, now, if you're if you're an astro geek and you're listening, you got to go over to YouTube just for this one visual. That's amazing.
00:57:35:02 – 00:57:42:19
Gemini Brett
Especially for this visual, which is, look, you can see the lunar nodes and every slithering snake. Right?
00:57:42:21 – 00:57:51:04
Amanda
God, I know that these the lunar node. Of course, all the glyphs have such deep meaning. I just never unpacked that one.
00:57:51:06 – 00:58:15:16
Gemini Brett
And what's this snaking? It's the moon snaking above and below the path of the sun. Or to be more global, north and south of the sun. And so every month or really draconic month, the moon will move south of the sun's path and peak at. It's what it's called southern bending. And then it will cross the sun's path at the North Node.
00:58:15:18 – 00:58:38:19
Gemini Brett
And about a week later it will reach its extreme north, about five degrees north of the sun's path of the northern bending. And then it crosses back into this southern place. This is called celestial latitude, by the way, north or south of the ecliptic of the sun's path. And it's like this every month. This is why most new moons are no moons and there's no eclipse.
00:58:38:19 – 00:59:03:15
Gemini Brett
Because where depending on where you're looking from on Earth, the moon's either above the sun or below the sun, right? The sun needs to be near a lunar node as it is two seasons each year for us to experience shadowplay, right? Because then when the moon meets the sun, the moon is right in front of the sun and we experience a solar eclipse, right?
00:59:03:15 – 00:59:29:14
Gemini Brett
Or the full moon is on the ecliptic plane. And that's where the Earth's shadow is always projected, exactly opposite of where the sun is. Okay, now that's snaking. You just saw of moon north and south of the Earth. I call that one of the two could do systems of Earth astrology. The caduceus being the staff, we often see Hermes holding right of the two serpents intertwined.
00:59:29:16 – 00:59:57:13
Gemini Brett
The other stuff is that of the solar serpent. And we've been speaking about this the whole time. Every year the sun will get to its northern extreme. The tropic of Cancer, where it stops and turns around and goes to its southern extreme. Right now, this is a different snaking. This is a snaking in what's called declination an, which is a measurement north or south of Earth's equator.
00:59:57:15 – 01:00:24:10
Gemini Brett
The plane of day. Okay. And you can see, for those of you who are watching on video, this snaking this sine wave graph down there at the bottom that's declination right says zero Aries and zero Libra. That's like the x axis. That's zero declination, that's on the equator. And then zero cancer's at the northern peak of the wave and zero Capricorns at the southern peak of the wave.
01:00:24:12 – 01:00:56:08
Gemini Brett
Right. So what happens when the sun's at its southern peak? Goat. Well, then there's just really importantly, when the sun ingresses into tropical Capricorn, the sun in that moment shines directly above Earth's Tropic of Capricorn. You know, like how astronomical is that? Is elegant. Beautiful. I mean, I'd say a symbol that can be offensive until we get this.
01:00:56:08 – 01:01:21:04
Gemini Brett
And it's hard to get. It's like science stuff. It's not what we came to astrology for you anyway. So the goat's going to climb the mountain. I want to show this to you on a astro map I've circled. For those of you watching in video, this Capricorn sun on Earth. Tropic of Capricorn. All right. And I'm going to in this year of 2024 that's depicted.
01:01:21:06 – 01:01:47:04
Gemini Brett
That happened. The sun was directly above like Madagascar, but the Earth spins right in during the course of that day. The sun will illuminate from directly above every location on Earth. Tropic of Capricorn. Right. But even as we're moving through the days there and now, the sun's at like two degrees. Capricorn. It's very slowly heading north. It had to stop, right?
01:01:47:08 – 01:02:10:11
Gemini Brett
Put it in reverse and slowly pick up speed in the other direction. Right. But as I move through days now you're just going to see pretty quickly the sun heading north. It's going to cross the equator as the sun goes into Aries. Taurus is further north of the equator. Gemini is most north of the equator because that will take us to the northern extremes.
01:02:10:11 – 01:02:38:19
Gemini Brett
Zero cancer, where the sun stops and starts heading south for six months. Six months, I should say. Hey to the sun through six signs right in the southern extremes here. Oh, Capricorn. Sun heads north again. Like this is a very elegant and beautiful thing. And also you can see like the snake in the screen here too, right. So there's a solar serpent as well.
01:02:38:19 – 01:03:03:13
Gemini Brett
Of course, when the sun gets to zero cancer for northern hemisphere places, that's the height of the light sun. Say the glory of the king, right? The highest sun and therefore the shortest shadow of the year. And then what happens? The sun gets lower. The midday sun every day is going to be lower in the sky until it's at its lowest.
01:03:03:13 – 01:03:29:07
Gemini Brett
And winter solstice climb again. Well, that's the Gemini glyph. The sun goes up for six months and down for six months. Okay, I want to show you the cancer glyph and talk about the crabs. But first, let me show you this. This is an out of bounds moon that's depicted on the screen. For those of you who are still listening, I'll try to describe this, in words that will do the trick.
01:03:29:10 – 01:03:51:01
Gemini Brett
Okay, what is an out of bounds moon or an out of bounds Mercury or Venus or whatever? The answer is a planet that has gone beyond the bounds of the sun. What are the bounds of the sun? The Tropic of Capricorn, the southern bounds and cancer of the northern.
01:03:51:06 – 01:03:53:11
Amanda
23.5 degrees.
01:03:53:13 – 01:04:28:08
Gemini Brett
Exactly of declination or terrestrial latitude. Okay, so I'm showing right now a map where we can see the Tropic of Cancer is very close to Cuba, right near Havana. Okay. That's like just the Tropic of Capricorn runs just north of Cuba. Right. But I'm showing a moon. Who in this moment, which was January 11th, 2025, a Gemini moon like Amanda's Gemini moon, or on my own, or today we're recording this on a different day than you receive it.
01:04:28:08 – 01:04:59:04
Gemini Brett
But the moon's in Gemini and out of bounds, right? So out of bounds either means south of the Tropic of Capricorn, where the sun can never dream to go, or north of the Tropic of Cancer, or the sun can never dream to go. All right. And in the moment that I'm showing which was January 11th, 2025 10:57 p.m. in Orlando, Florida, the moon was like directly above Orlando, right?
01:04:59:04 – 01:05:28:07
Gemini Brett
It had an altitude. This means of like 90 degrees. The convention of altitude. The horizon is zero degrees and 90. The zenith is right above our heads. So in Hawaii, where Amanda lives, the moon can zenith off and and does a couple times a month. Actually, the sun zenith twice a year. All this Lahaina noon a day without shadows because the midday sun is right above our heads, right?
01:05:28:09 – 01:05:54:09
Gemini Brett
The moon can break out of the bounds and even be directly overhead in places that the sun can never be. The overhead sun only ever happens if you live in the tropics, because the sun is bound between the Tropic of Capricorn and Cancer. Orlando's Florida is not in the tropics. It's about five degrees north of the Tropic of Cancer, oh five degrees.
01:05:54:09 – 01:06:37:24
Gemini Brett
That same distance of the moon snakes north and south of the sun's path every month. But there are particular months that are quite interesting. And they're when the North Node is at zero. Aries. Or like in the chart that I'm showing here. 2957 Pisces okay. Because what happens then is if the northern crossing is, that, first degree of Aries, then the place where the moon peaks to its northern extreme above the sun's path is going to be at zero cancer.
01:06:38:01 – 01:07:13:13
Gemini Brett
And that's already the point of the zodiac that is most North, do you see? So we're taking most north and we're adding another five degrees to it. This is why North Node at zero Aries is the lunar maximums. When the north nodes have zero Aries, the south nodes at zero Libra. That means the southern bending is at zero Capricorn, which is already the point of the zodiac that is most south of Earth's equator, the Tropic of Capricorn.
01:07:13:13 – 01:07:50:01
Gemini Brett
And so at this time, when the North Node is at zero Aries, then we have our southern extremes as well. Okay, that's what the lunar maximums mean. Now why did I choose Orlando? Because I believe, the Spaceship Earth had Epcot Center at Disney World might just be some kind of Masonic ritualistic device built to honor this amazing overhead moon thing that happens for a period of time every 18.6 years.
01:07:50:03 – 01:08:13:08
Gemini Brett
But then again, Gemini Brett is also a Scorpio. Joe. So maybe that's not true. This was a pretty cool place of scientific discovery for me when I was a kid, and I went once upon a time, and it's based upon the great and beautiful sacred geometrical work of Buckminster Fuller, great humanitarian and forward thinker, and they call it Spaceship Earth.
01:08:13:08 – 01:08:38:24
Gemini Brett
But it's silver, and I think it's spaceship moon. And on that date that I showed on January 11th, 2025, the moon was exactly above this place in that man. All right. And I actually am now inclined to investigate other places that are like 28.5 degrees from the equator, because in these lunar extremes and the moon will directly overhead.
01:08:38:24 – 01:09:03:17
Gemini Brett
And by the way, the tea that I'm drinking and I'm always drinking is from Yunnan province in China, which is in that band and where t like there are many traditions where there bring the tea out as they age and under full moons and such. That would actually be in the 18.6 year cycle. Opportunities to like age the cakes under the beautiful overhead moon.
01:09:03:19 – 01:09:29:14
Amanda
Hey Brett, so I've heard you say a few things that in terms of like translating this for us in terms, I mean, this has been it's been epic, actually. Like the visuals that you've created, the way that you're describing this. And if if you're still here and you've been a little bit lost at moments, I want to I want to stand as a example of what's possible.
01:09:29:14 – 01:09:44:11
Amanda
Not that I'm getting every single thing that Brett says, but I have to say that it has been years of listening to Brett, and I'm finally tracking a lot of what you said, but it's taken a long time.
01:09:44:13 – 01:10:14:00
Gemini Brett
So yeah, it's amazing to have witnessed, your wish to hear these things because, you know, is this astrology is an interesting question. And your commitment to seeing it through, even though this gets confusing and over technical. And yeah, it's like that. It's also like dealing with astrological things. It takes us a while, it takes us some practice, you know.
01:10:14:00 – 01:10:19:18
Gemini Brett
So I appreciate that. Oh, well, as a guy, I'm better at teaching in the line and still.
01:10:19:20 – 01:10:21:04
Amanda
Practicing that a lot.
01:10:21:06 – 01:10:40:11
Gemini Brett
So let me take you now to this really amazing place in Scotland. I have not yet been. It's been a very important place, in the tradition of my first teacher, who is Daniel, John, Mario kind of just happened there during the lunar maximums and when the moon was entering Capricorn, which is when in many regards, his sight is very much turned on.
01:10:40:11 – 01:11:16:23
Gemini Brett
A lot of people have made quest to this sacred series of stone circles there in ish Scotland. During these lunar extremes, sense and it's happening now. So the stones are set, with a background of beautiful hillsides that they call Sleeping Beauty, because it looks like a goddess laying on her back. And what happens is, during these lunar extremes, the moon will walk the land.
01:11:17:00 – 01:11:38:23
Gemini Brett
Now I'm starting the image that you're seeing on the screen from Boulder, Colorado. It's just has something to do with the slideshow and places we didn't go. But anyway, in Boulder, in all northern hemisphere locations, the sun is lowest in the sky at midday when the sun's at the Tropic of Capricorn. That's the furthest it gets from Boulder.
01:11:38:23 – 01:12:03:10
Gemini Brett
So lowest in the sky, right? Well, boulders at 40 degrees north just makes the math easy. I went to school there for a bit. There's a road called baseline that's on the 40th parallel, 40 degrees north of the equator. It's pretty cool. Well, of course it's not the only place 40 north of the equator. Somewhere in Nevada and California and the Philippines.
01:12:03:10 – 01:12:32:17
Gemini Brett
And we're going all the way over here to Spain. All right. So the same latitude right there, same distance north of the equator. Right. I live 38 degrees north of the equator in the Bay area of California. I have the same sky as Athens, Greece, but I'm experiencing what they see ten hours later. Okay, so anyway, Scotland's not experiencing the same sky as Boulder, Colorado or as Spain because it is crazy far north right?
01:12:32:19 – 01:13:04:22
Gemini Brett
So especially Carlin ish. It's at like the very northern peak of the Scottish Isles in the Upper Hebrides. So the islands up there, okay. It's at a latitude of. I'll wait until this slide shows because it's real far anyway. It's much, much further than the Tropic of Capricorn. So the Capricorn solstice or the South, the sun is even lower in the Scottish sky than it is in the skies of Spain.
01:13:04:23 – 01:13:37:06
Gemini Brett
That makes sense. It's like literally further away and it's lower in the sky. And that's why the seasons are more extreme for locations that are further from the equator, right. Amanda's in Hawaii. She's just picking avocados off trees all year long. It's not like that in Scotland. Right? Okay, well, not only is like the sun lower in the sky, but the moon every month when it reaches Capricorn gets lower in the Scottish sky than it does in the Spanish sky.
01:13:37:08 – 01:14:17:09
Gemini Brett
And especially when the north node's at zero. Aries. Because in the southern bending, where the moon gets most south, it's another five degrees south of the Tropic of Capricorn. And it's so far south that in, Scotland, in colon ish, the moon then just walks on Sleeping Beauty. It just walks the land. And there's all these beautiful poetic prophecies about, like speaking with Daniel, Jamari about this is awesome because he's met all sorts of magical folk there who speak about, like, the powers and the magic of these things.
01:14:17:11 – 01:14:41:21
Gemini Brett
Okay, well, I want to encourage all of you to really witness the height of the sun at midday throughout the course of the year. And by the way, if you're looking at a chart like on your phone app or whenever there's just the sun on the Midheaven sign on the MC degree, I really also want to encourage you to have a sky practice with sunrise and sunset.
01:14:41:23 – 01:15:06:11
Gemini Brett
Amanda and I are both very fortunate. We're living in places right now where we get to see the sunset every day that the clouds allow. And I'm showing some pictures on the screen here from my own house of in the middle frame. An equinox sunset where the sun sets due west. Okay, but in the top frame, this sun's in cancer, right?
01:15:06:11 – 01:15:31:14
Gemini Brett
When the sun both rises most north of east and sets most north of west. So where we live, we have these, like, the eucalyptus goalposts. The sun only sets in between those two eucalyptus trees. Summer solstice or cancer Solstice or North Star. It's fun fact in our house I have to go into Cohen's room. Who was born with the sun and cancer?
01:15:31:14 – 01:15:51:20
Gemini Brett
If I want to get a photo of that because he's the only one with a window looking in that direction. Okay, in the bottom of this image, you'll see in the very left why I call that hill solstice hell. And the sun is illuminating the place. I called the burning tree. Right? Because out of the longest night the sun is reborn.
01:15:52:01 – 01:16:27:10
Gemini Brett
Sing a Christmas song if you'd like. And so the sun illuminates the burning tree on Solstice Hill. Only in one moment each year. Which is the south or the sun? Ingress in Capricorn, the place that's most south, right? Well, every year, whether you're watching sunsets or sunrise, you'll see that the sun is dancing north and south of the cardinal direction, either east on the ascendant, cider west on the descending side, and this is the motion of the crab.
01:16:27:12 – 01:16:51:02
Gemini Brett
And at solstice the sun will stop and turn around. And like a crab who walks sideways, living at what the title places where the ocean walks sideways. You get to see that crab like motion. Now why did I talk about the goat climbing the mountain? Why am I talking about this crab like motion of this standstill of the sun each year?
01:16:51:04 – 01:17:17:14
Gemini Brett
Because. Because I am suggesting that these archetypes were not about the constellations. I believe these dots were connected, the stars, and with lines that drew these pictures that looked kind of like a crab and kind of like a goat, because that's what the sun does at these seasonal turnings.
01:17:17:16 – 01:17:32:14
Amanda
But then you, you think it's the other way around. Not that you think it's based on the sun and the sun's movement more than we made pictures in the sky. And then we've got the zodiac from there.
01:17:32:16 – 01:18:13:10
Gemini Brett
Right. So most, astrological historians will tell us that the original Zodiacs were about the constellations, and they were. And as I shared six hours ago, now, that was the moon following the moon through the stars. Because you can't follow the sun through the stars practically right when the 12 sign zodiac came forward. Because, for example, in the Mula pen, which is like the Old Babylonian codes, where we find the signs on the path of the moon, or the constellations and the path of the moon.
01:18:13:12 – 01:18:40:22
Gemini Brett
They were also measuring the length of shadow of a stick throughout the year, that is tropical. And nobody talks about that that I hear in the astrological circles. They were also talking about the realm of the heavens, that is, and Leo versus Onew versus Enki. And by the way, I don't know if I'm ahead of the game here, but you can edit it out.
01:18:40:22 – 01:19:07:23
Gemini Brett
I will be showing up and Astrology Hubs inner circle again this year, for the Sagittarius lunation at the end of the calendar year. And, I will be talking about that and bringing folks into declination in a very different way and the power of planetary parallels and much more. Okay. But this is also in this oldest record from the Chaldean astrologers from Babylon.
01:19:08:03 – 01:19:30:10
Gemini Brett
And Leo was a god in the air. And so it's stuff that's really high in the air and key of the earth, stuff that's really low. Okay, well, that's also tropical. All right. So like it wasn't all sidereal. And as far as I'm concerned, yeah. Like the archetype of the goat was all about the one that climbs the mountain and then comes back down.
01:19:30:10 – 01:19:52:23
Gemini Brett
The archetype of the crab was all about this, back and forth, sideways, like the motion that you can experience the sun do on your horizon every year. Or you can see the moon do it every month. So if you get followed the moon, you're like, wait a second. I swear the moon rose over there a couple days ago.
01:19:52:23 – 01:20:19:01
Gemini Brett
Now it's way over there. Like what? And it's because the moon is moving through the signs, in the signs of houses on the horizons. Because the tropical zodiac is a directional device, the moon can rise and set in places that are further south than the most southern sun. That's the Capricorn sun ever can, and rise and set further north than the most northern sun.
01:20:19:01 – 01:20:41:07
Gemini Brett
That's the cancer sun ever can. Because the moon's path is not tied to the sun's path, the moon can add five degrees in either direction by the way, in the horizons that can stretch much more depending on where on Earth you're looking from. Okay. And so we get this crab like motion of the moon, where the moon is the one that we say keeps her house in the sign of cancer.
01:20:41:09 – 01:21:10:11
Gemini Brett
And so we should see it from the moon, perhaps even more so. And we have many places on Earth, including here in the land that I live now called the United States. Right. Like this. This is chimney Rock, and, Colorado, where we see archeological evidence of construction, in 18.6 year periods. Now, that's a little too precise.
01:21:10:13 – 01:21:28:07
Gemini Brett
But it seeming in this 18.5 year period where they would be constructing on these sacred sites of the kivas. Why? Because only every 18.5 years is the moon far enough north to rise between the two rocks of the chimney.
01:21:28:09 – 01:21:50:08
Amanda
Okay, so Brett, this is a comment I made with Caitlin. This wasn't just for fun. The thing making these these monuments with exact mathematical precision based on this movement of the sky and the moon and the sun. Why? Like what's what's the point?
01:21:50:10 – 01:22:23:08
Gemini Brett
Well, we've been talking about it this whole time, but I'm going to. Before I answer that question, I'm going to take us to a few other ancient sites just to show you that in chimney Rock, like, that's not the only place. And I was so glad to hear Caitlin was speaking about this, too. Here's another site that's, in this is near, Columbus, Ohio, called Newark Earthworks that had alignments to all of these extreme north and south risings and settings of the moon over the 18.6 year cycle.
01:22:23:10 – 01:22:52:24
Gemini Brett
This one preserved, unlike most of these mounds, because it's now a golf course, called Mound Builders golf course, I have been there. Interestingly, above the clubhouse you'll find the Freemason logo. But anyway, that maybe brings me back to Epcot Center. I don't mean to do that. There are other sites like, Well, I've seen some, I believe in Hawaii.
01:22:53:01 – 01:23:22:04
Gemini Brett
Yeah, okay. I've made some measurements and Google Earth and stuff that suggests that Stonehenge has these alignments. Of course they would. And it's a very significant shift that's happening in academic circles, which is finally honoring that. Yeah. Of course, the ancients knew more about how the sun and the moon work, because that's what they were doing, and they were more dependent upon it because they couldn't look at an iPhone calendar or something like that.
01:23:22:04 – 01:23:52:17
Gemini Brett
Right. It took decades and decades and decades for researchers in the UK to finally get academia to agree that Stonehenge wasn't just some sacrifice placed by the heathens who nobody knows how they even got the stones there. They came from very, very far away or stacked them in this amazing regard. But like that, they were actually measuring the equinoxes in the solstices so that sun every year.
01:23:52:22 – 01:24:19:21
Gemini Brett
But also it would seem that the lunar standstill cycle was honored there too. Well, why, I don't know. How about tides in surface temperatures in El Ninos and other things that will completely affect your life? Now, Daniel Jamari will often teach like he invokes this image of like Neolithic Woodstock, he calls it. I have people kind of gathering.
01:24:19:21 – 01:24:44:20
Gemini Brett
We do see in many of these sites, you know, like mica from Brazil and shells from Mexico. And like people were coming from all over the world to kind of congregate together in some of these places where there were these alignments in Hawaii, obviously, as you know, a man, they were keeping a moon phase calendar, which is Earth, moon and sun, right.
01:24:44:20 – 01:25:05:16
Gemini Brett
You live on Haleakala and the House of the sun. You're looking at Halloween like, you know, the House of the moon. So not only can you see the sun set every day in the year, but the moon as well. And if you traced where the moon is setting on the West Maui Mountains, as they call them, right? You would literally see over 18.6 years the moon getting to these extremes.
01:25:05:21 – 01:25:30:03
Gemini Brett
You think the Hawaiians weren't aware of that back in the day? Of course they were. Why would they track that? Well, do you think the tides are important to a seafaring culture? Right? Who depends upon the ocean for their livelihood and food, and for when they make the great journey to Tahiti or Samoa, as we call these places today or anywhere else?
01:25:30:07 – 01:25:57:05
Gemini Brett
What about surface temperatures? I mean, the way that the winds are going to work, right? To fill your sails like this is hugely dynamic. And by the way, if you want, we could get even more tidal because I can tell you things like what will happen near January 11th, 2025. Here's the most tidal word in the world. Trump his second inauguration.
01:25:57:07 – 01:26:38:20
Gemini Brett
All right, well, if you go to the other side of this cycle, that was the golden escalator. When Trump first announced his candidacy to see for U.S. president for his first election. I have slides around this. I probably won't show, but if you want, I can speak to you about the there connection between mundane effects in our world that we're experiencing now in 2025, with North Node at this area's Pisces cusp, the East Point, and take it back to North Node at the West Point, the Libra Virgo course right.
01:26:38:20 – 01:26:43:15
Gemini Brett
Which was like November 11th, 2015.
01:26:43:17 – 01:27:10:03
Amanda
Okay. So what you're saying is that the correlations or correspondences are not just things like the actual tide, things like the actual surface temperature, but that there are also effects that happen in our everyday reality that are also quote unquote, tidal or affecting the temperature of our experience. And so you.
01:27:10:03 – 01:27:44:19
Gemini Brett
Socio economic tides, our political tides, our cultural tides, all of these things are connected. And of course, they are. We're astrologers. But if I can show the rationalists this, maybe they would even for a moment say, like that seems kind of real. So, you know, I love it when I get around the like the woman that you described on your boat trip, because they use this straw man argument of your signs aren't even aligned to the stars, and they never can be.
01:27:44:19 – 01:28:03:07
Gemini Brett
And I'm like, well, let me show you what the tropical zodiac is. And I hit them with the Tropic of Capricorn, cancer and Tropic Goes and all of these things we've done and they're like, wait, Like that's actually kind of a thing. If they've listened for that long, many of them will just laugh and run away. Right?
01:28:03:09 – 01:28:29:01
Gemini Brett
Well, then I can show you how the ancients knew this too. And it's sites like chimney Rock and Newark Earthworks and clinicians, Stonehenge and places all around the world. They were not only aligning with Equinox and Solstice, of course they were, because you need to keep the days if you want to survive. But they were also aligning to this 18.6 year cycle of moving and reaching these extremes.
01:28:29:01 – 01:28:56:24
Gemini Brett
Why? Well, how about because it affects the tides and the surface temperature and the mosquito blooms? That probably really, really, really mattered back in the day before repellent. I don't use that stuff, you know, but whatever. But what about like, the tides of the socio economic trends? So if you're in kind of clan life, you might want to know when it's more likely to get invaded.
01:28:57:01 – 01:28:58:07
Amanda
Right?
01:28:58:09 – 01:29:16:02
Gemini Brett
Do you see what I'm saying? And people these days, like, we don't even think about the phases of the moon like, right, where like why you wouldn't travel at noon moon time because you can't see in the night before streetlights. And that's the big light, which is called the moon is in the sky. Do you see what I'm saying?
01:29:16:02 – 01:29:46:17
Gemini Brett
And there might be robbers on the roof or just potholes, right? And so, like, trying to stay human like ants can be one of the great ways is as simple as start looking up and reconnect to the cycles and consider what this would have been in ancient times. So before I get into a list, if we want to go there because that's going to trigger some of us, I want to just say this we are still in the lunar standstill when the North Node reaches zero.
01:29:46:17 – 01:30:09:13
Gemini Brett
Aries. It's really like the year leading into it and the year leading out of it. So 2024 or 2025 every month is the moon, every tropical month, which is 27.3 days as the moon goes to the northern extreme five degrees north of the Tropic of Cancer, in the Moon's case, to the southern extreme five degrees south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
01:30:09:13 – 01:30:36:00
Gemini Brett
In the moon's case, you're going to see the highest, highest moons you've ever seen. You're going to see the moon so low, you're like, wait, what? Now that's like it's not as apparent because of course, we get to see the moon rising and setting. It's it's just as low as you get, visibly. Right. But if you know how to track the midheaven and that's a tail for another time, you'll notice that the moon is in this lower place than the sun can ever be.
01:30:36:00 – 01:31:07:03
Gemini Brett
Like I'm in Northern hemisphere, so when the sun moon's moving into Capricorn, the moon is literally lower in my sky midday than the sun ever can be like. I track shadows throughout the year. The moon is now casting longer shadows than the sun ever can at the Midheaven. And that's an intriguing thing in everybody, like thousands of years ago, who were pioneering our craft, who were following the shadow of the stick in the ground.
01:31:07:05 – 01:31:31:20
Gemini Brett
They certainly would have known us now. Why? Because it's cool to know and it's academic now. So let me just share some examples. When you know. Okay. But I just want to say two final things and we'll get to speak about this. And I won't get so nerdy when we're in our event together. We'll have this document. I'll say, hey, just go look to that if you want to learn some more of the astronomy of the thing.
01:31:31:20 – 01:31:59:13
Gemini Brett
Okay. But the most important thing I can say, which I will certainly say then, is, the alarms are going off, but let's not edit that out. And. Right, like, if things feel scary and crazy, title and you're overwhelmed and it's high highs and low lows, whether it's way inside your house or way outside, like of course, turn the TV off, but also know that it's meant to be title right now.
01:31:59:15 – 01:32:33:13
Gemini Brett
You will weather this. You might to look back to 1987 88. Look back to 2000, six and 2007, I guess would be the best time to describe that and see if that wave has been real in your life, that in the other kind of troughs of the cycle, which also when we're looking at like tidal levels and things like this aren't necessarily troughs, you might have also experienced some interesting kind of super tidal vibes then.
01:32:33:15 – 01:33:07:21
Gemini Brett
And so that was, North Node was in zero Libra in 78, in 1997. And then recently the November 11th, 2015. So the years of really 2014, the node moved into Libra, got zero Libra in November of 2015 through 2016. Okay. And if I compare events now North node zero areas lunar maximum to then North node zero Libra lunar minimum, I think you're going to see that some of these things correspond.
01:33:07:23 – 01:33:23:14
Amanda
Right in 1978. And then I actually think my divorce was finalized in 2015, the year that astrology have started. I think that's when we actually finalized the divorce. And it might have been November. I need to go look back.
01:33:23:16 – 01:33:48:08
Gemini Brett
Right. So what sign is your node in your north in Libra? Right. So you're born in the so-called lunar minimum. So is Koa by the way. Right. So my partner on Earth, who I met through Astrology Hub, worked with astrology, since the beginning. In 2015. She had her son Koa then. All right. So she echoed during her nodal reversal.
01:33:48:10 – 01:34:26:02
Gemini Brett
And our baby Maia was born during her nodal return. Wow. And it's not shocking for honor to be more nodal and Koa as well. Like, his sister arrived at his nodal reversal. Right. Because he like you in North Node zero Libra. Now North Node zero. Aries because they have the nodes at the equinox points. And so they are beings and many of you listening will be as well, who are kind of more tied to the cycle now, by the way, maximum as a minimum, the sign there's a time in the 18.6 year cycle when the moon can't go out of bounds.
01:34:26:02 – 01:34:52:01
Gemini Brett
That was true when you were born, Amanda. For me as well. And there's a time when the moon starts going out of bounds in the 18.6 year cycle. Well, let me give you a couple of dates. August 15th, 2001. The first outbound moon of that 18.6 year cycle. I wonder what happened in September of that year.
01:34:52:07 – 01:35:24:24
Gemini Brett
How about, March 4th, 2020? One or what happened at that time? And the answer is we were all getting locked down. And by the way, we were getting locked down by laws that were put in place in 2001. And speaking of, things are going to get, a little bit, hairy here, friends, I might as well just put this image on this screen as I go into some of the mundane or socio political times and signs of our time.
01:35:24:24 – 01:35:48:12
Gemini Brett
So I'm not going to we don't even have time. We're way over time here. I'm not going to opine on any of this stuff. I hope you won't. I hope you will resist the temptation to just turn this off, because I might be saying words that sound like, oh, or the all right, whatever conspiracy, whatever, and all the things you're being told to think when you hear these triggering words.
01:35:48:14 – 01:36:08:22
Gemini Brett
I just want to share facts from the ways of this cycle. And I would ask you to do within what you will and maybe go take a look. All right. So when astrology, came together and when we met as well, we were in the other side of this cycle. So was your lunar return or sorry, nodal return time.
01:36:08:22 – 01:36:33:02
Gemini Brett
Right. North node zero. Libra. The so-called lunar minimums. There was a blood moon tetrad in the year of 2014 and 2015. Four consecutive blood moons, or total lunar eclipses. There was a lot of talk about Israel at that time. Of course, as there is now, it wasn't just talk in 2014. There was a very significant war between Israel and Gaza.
01:36:33:04 – 01:36:59:05
Gemini Brett
All right. And in 2015, there was a really kind of high point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that's known as the intifada of the individuals. I is right. When the North Node changed. Right. Well, I think Israel and Gaza are on the news now. Absolutely right. 2015, often known as the year of a really significant European migrant crisis. Interesting.
01:36:59:07 – 01:37:31:18
Gemini Brett
Caitlyn Jenner came out as a trans woman in April of 2015. The Paris Agreement, right, which Donald Trump has just taken the US off of, signed in 2016. Speaking of Trump, who was born literally during a lunar eclipse and shortly after the moon went out of bounds. As I mentioned before, 2025, of course, the second inauguration that happened just after the North Zone passed the East Point 2015, when he first put his name in for nomination for president.
01:37:31:20 – 01:38:03:22
Gemini Brett
You may know that, Trump was an actor, right. Playing the big boss on The Apprentice. He got his Hollywood star January 16th, 2007. You know, the most recent lunar maximum before this one. He was recently found acting pretty bossy in the white House during a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky. Did y'all know that? Sorry, not Vladimir, but Zelensky was also an actor.
01:38:03:24 – 01:38:40:08
Gemini Brett
He won the first season of dancing with the Stars in Ukraine. It was 2006 during our last lunar maximums and, in 2015 during the lunar minimums of the same wave, he was playing the president on TV, right? You can still see this on Netflix. It's called servant of the people, where Zelensky was a school teacher who was, avidly against the corruption in Ukraine and ended up becoming like a riding that into presidency.
01:38:40:10 – 01:39:08:12
Gemini Brett
All right, well, speaking of corruption in Ukraine, right. These are some of the things that we heard, for from Putin is his claims of why he invaded. Now, the things he was saying very publicly was that, Ukraine could not become part of NATO. I mean, NATO, we already have missiles that can destroy Russia like, you know, 40 minutes away as far as the missile flies.
01:39:08:14 – 01:39:39:04
Gemini Brett
Right. And Ukraine's even closer than Romania, Poland, yada yada. But Putin was also speaking about, the corruption of Ukraine and not defying Ukraine. Now you say those things now, and it's just like conspiracy theory and conspiracy theory. We'll go look at some of the headlines from Western press about Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. You're going to see the exact same things.
01:39:39:06 – 01:40:11:12
Gemini Brett
Putin was also speaking about the bioweapons. So this is all been debunked as complete conspiracy theory. But then in a congressional hearing, Victoria Nuland came out and said, yeah, Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact, we are quite concerned, Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. So we are working with the Ukrainians and how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach.
01:40:11:13 – 01:40:23:07
Gemini Brett
Okay. That was well, she was being asked a question by Senator Rubio, who of course, is now Secretary of state. Yes. Well, John Kerry was only 15.
01:40:23:07 – 01:40:25:00
Amanda
She was being asked those questions.
01:40:25:02 – 01:40:50:04
Gemini Brett
And the 2015 is not when she was being asked those questions. But I just want to say that Putin was defending the invasion. However, if you follow that rabbit hole, which you have to wade through, a bunch of this is just under conspiracy theory, yada yada, and get into some of the funding which is being made public now.
01:40:50:06 – 01:41:18:14
Gemini Brett
Right. Thanks to the most hated man in the universe, Elon Musk seems to hold that title. You'll see that a lot of the funding and actually through USA, though it's very difficult to follow was started in some of these Ukrainian biolabs back then also to Wuhan, China. Speaking of Musk, who, will have a very important kind of lunisolar event coming up for him as well.
01:41:18:14 – 01:41:46:21
Gemini Brett
54 year olds do very soon. The Falcon nine, was certified by the National Security Space Launch in 2015, which was allowing SpaceX to contract launch services to the Air Force for any payloads classified under national security. So Musk, who's now on the white House, right, he first got his national security clearance back then. And that's when SpaceX first started getting government contracts.
01:41:46:21 – 01:42:21:21
Gemini Brett
Okay, so Ukraine then and now is a very interesting thing. Like if you know your history or do your research and it can be hard to find these things, Nuland was actually present for the a coup that happened in Kiev in Ukraine in 2014, which took out the democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, then. Right. And this maybe led to Russia's annexation of Crimea, which was in 2014 as well.
01:42:21:23 – 01:42:51:20
Gemini Brett
Right. So there's a lot that was happening in Ukraine back then. And Nuland was present for that. Hunter Biden's, pardon dated back to 2014, I wonder why. Well, one of the reasons might be, I don't know, but this is a fact that he joined Burisma, which is a Ukrainian, energy company, in 2014. Wonder why he felt he was dated back to then.
01:42:51:22 – 01:43:20:01
Gemini Brett
Well, you can find plenty of papers online like this one lad made coronavirus triggers debate. The creation of a chimeric SARS like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain of function research. That was an article from November 16th, 2015. Again, the nodes changed November 11th, 2015, in the Scientist magazine. All right. And if you follow some of that funding, you're going to find some really interesting thing.
01:43:20:01 – 01:43:45:04
Gemini Brett
And there are plenty of papers that will show you 2014 2015 is like very eventful times in, oh, let's just say bio lab research. Okay, now there's 46 labs in the Ukraine. This has come out. Many people will say it hasn't come out. It's very this triggering information we're getting into here. How about the measles? Like that's all in the news right now.
01:43:45:06 – 01:44:20:12
Gemini Brett
And interesting to have Robert F Kennedy Jr at the head of HHS who said some things about vaccines you might expect he would not. But he did say in the statements that I think most people who deem him anti-vax is, surprising. He did speak about the choice. And this was something that was taken away in California in 2015 following an outbreak in Disneyland in December of 2014 that spread to Canada, Mexico, and seven of the United States.
01:44:20:14 – 01:44:46:22
Gemini Brett
That California shortly after, thereafter became the first state to take away personal belief exemptions for children in public and private schools. 2015 the other side of this same cycle, I wonder what will happen now. I could go on and on like that, but I think that's enough, and I appreciate anyone who survived all of that to make it to this.
01:44:46:24 – 01:45:15:01
Gemini Brett
This is why we align our stone circles. It's not only because the tides of the water without. It's because of the tides of the water within. And who knows the hearts of humans, you know what I'm saying? And some will only get really high tide and do much more beautiful and charitable things. Some like it very low tide and bring us into some pretty scary shit.
01:45:15:03 – 01:45:32:08
Gemini Brett
Right? And I think it would be, good for us to track these things personally and culturally. Because again, like, if it's as simple as it's linked to the Santa Ana winds, we'll keep the reservoirs filled.
01:45:32:10 – 01:45:47:11
Amanda
But this is definitely going to take us into a rabbit hole, so we don't need to go there. But as you were showing a lot of the visuals, I was thinking, does this ever make you just feel like we're in some mathematical algorithm?
01:45:47:13 – 01:46:13:05
Gemini Brett
Yeah, well, many things do. And I find the simulation theory, you know, like Musk, who came out before, he's pretty interesting and that he's, I think, pretty adamantly convinced that we're in a simulation and then yet also has this drive to get us to Mars so that the human species can survive in case there's, you know, cataclysmic event here on Earth.
01:46:13:07 – 01:46:46:17
Gemini Brett
It's like, well, why, if, you know, you're in a video game, why do you need to perpetuate the species? And the answer might just be because you got to win the game, even if it's a game. I mean, the simulation theory would be a really wonderful conversation for another time. Maybe it will come up actually in our panel because of Pluto now in Aquarius and Uranus heading into Gemini for their second coming, trine some of the AI and the other, kind of, you know, artificial.
01:46:46:17 – 01:46:57:13
Gemini Brett
And if it is in digital and all those things are going to come up more. And, you know, if I did find out I was in a video game, I would just keep trying to win.
01:46:57:15 – 01:47:01:16
Amanda
Well, it's what's the definition of winning? I think that the makes the.
01:47:01:16 – 01:47:17:21
Gemini Brett
Definition of a game. Yeah. So I have no idea. I will say the whole thought makes me uncomfortable and, but it makes me uncomfortable in the same ways that horary astrology makes me uncomfortable.
01:47:17:23 – 01:47:45:18
Amanda
Yeah, I hear you. Yeah. All right, well, Brett, thank you so much. That was know like, well, epic. Thank you for going into all that detail and for helping us see it and understand it and, and understand why we also may be feeling title, why we also may be feeling these extremes, why that just means you're aligned with a natural cycle, that is, and you're right where you need to be.
01:47:45:20 – 01:48:20:09
Amanda
And we will be discussing lots and lots of ideas for how to stay as anchored in this time as possible, but also as fluid in this time as possible to both stay within yourself, but also flow where you need to and when you need to. So it's it's a tricky dance. I don't think any of us have the answer, but we will certainly be using astrology to help us find the clues and find the insights and find the awareness that we need.
01:48:20:11 – 01:48:51:07
Amanda
So I'm super grateful about that. You're going to be there doing this with us on Tuesday, March 18th. Full panel event two hours. Give as you wish. What you give enables those who can't give. So thank you for those who can. Thank you for those who can't. Thank you for everybody for your interest. Just we're grateful to have the time together and be alive at this amazing moment in time together, and be exploring these mysteries and trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
01:48:51:09 – 01:48:55:12
Amanda
So thank you for all of that, Brett. You're awesome, I love you, thank you.
01:48:55:13 – 01:49:18:03
Gemini Brett
My pleasure. Love you too. I love this community. I will say this is a really wonderful time to make sure that you are communicating, sharing, if things have been heavy, if you're afraid, if you're scared, it's a great time to receive a reading. If astrology speaks to you, you can find me at Gemini Read if you'd like to do that with me.
01:49:18:09 – 01:49:39:13
Gemini Brett
If you're in Astrology Hubs inner circle, make sure you use your, discount code, which you will find in the places that you know how to because you are in the inner circle and, you know, so the socio socioeconomic wave is interesting. I was just looking at the Bitcoin price in 2015. It's hilarious. It's like 200 something bucks.
01:49:39:15 – 01:50:07:04
Gemini Brett
Right. So times are tight and everybody's feeling that astrologers have been feeling that too because I think, you know, obviously eating is a much higher priority than receiving a reading. But we should make sure and I say this to myself as well, that we're still like, receiving council advice. Being heard, having a safe place to express our fears and some of our challenges because they're really meant to be alive right now.
01:50:07:04 – 01:50:28:13
Gemini Brett
So even if it's tight for you right now, I would say this is probably going to be a more important time for you to receive counsel in any way that works for you. Yeah. So it's a really good time for a reading, and you can find me along with a lot of amazing astrologers at Astrology hub.com/connect. Is that right, Amanda?
01:50:28:13 – 01:50:44:20
Gemini Brett
For people to access astrologer, connect, be a really good time for you to share some of your pains and your fears, and to really be heard so you can find me there. And I would be happy to help in any way that I can. Thank you.
01:50:44:22 – 01:50:57:04
Amanda
Yeah. Self-care, taking care of yourself, prioritizing yourself, prioritizing rest, prioritizing. You know, nature, movement, air, sunlight. That's very basic things. Yeah.
01:50:57:06 – 01:51:13:08
Gemini Brett
Yeah. Which, like, could we just don't consider them nearly enough? I don't, and it's always good to be remembered minded. And you know, Astrology Hub I think has created doing this for us. And this is a cycle and this is why we build the stone circles and all that. And the time is now and the stone circles are activated.
01:51:13:08 – 01:51:18:18
Gemini Brett
So am I. So are you. Like that's good. We good to ourselves. Thank you Amanda.
01:51:18:20 – 01:51:29:08
Amanda
All right. Thank you Brant. Thank you everybody for being here. Thank you so much for being a part of our community. Can't wait to see you on Tuesday, March 18th. All the links for everything we've talked about are in the show notes. We'll catch you on the next episode.