Ricky Williams on using planetary strength & weakness to deepen self-understanding
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Transcript:
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:26:02
Unknown
Today, I am thrilled to welcome back Ricky Williams. Some of you may know him as a former NFL Heisman Award trophy winner turned astrologer. As I studied astrology more and I learned who the original astrologers were, they weren't watching the site. They were watching the planets is working with whatever planet is activated. Is it a matter of giving that energy a healthy outlet, or is it about not actually indulging it?
00:00:26:05 – 00:00:48:16
Unknown
When we're looking at the power of a planet, we're looking for what is the strongest urge of our unconscious? We don't allow urge to express itself consciously. It's like a magnet, and it triggers experiences in our life that force us to release the urge. If we don't give it that outlet, it's going to find a way to make its presence known in our life.
00:00:48:18 – 00:00:59:24
Unknown
This is looking at the strongest planet, understanding what that urge is, and seeing how that urge is manifested in our lives. I'm telling you, it's it's mind blowing and it's very revealing.
00:00:59:24 – 00:01:29:08
Unknown
Well. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Astrology Hub podcast. Today I am thrilled to welcome back Ricky Williams. You. Some of you may know him as a former NFL Heisman Award trophy winner and he turned astrologer. This is where the story gets so freaking fascinating and amazing. So we're going to talk a little bit about Ricky's background, but we actually did a podcast with Ricky a few weeks ago, and the response has been so overwhelmingly positive.
00:01:29:09 – 00:01:58:24
Unknown
Thank you for all your comments. Thank you for your enthusiasm. It's the same enthusiasm that I felt when Ricky first started talking to me about the strongest planet. I just was like, whoa, this is an amazing, fresh new concept that's that's simple and straightforward. And yet it carries many, many layers and opportunities for us to continue understanding ourselves and in the in the fullest way.
00:01:59:01 – 00:02:25:18
Unknown
So today, we're going to be taking the conversation a little bit further. We're going to be talking not only about the strongest planet. We're also going to touch in on the weakest planet in your chart. We're also going to talk about the importance of decoupling the planets from the signs from the houses. And we're going to talk about the importance of understanding the strength of the aspects in your chart.
00:02:25:23 – 00:02:47:16
Unknown
So we're going to go deeper today. We're also going to spend a little bit of time on some Q&A. There were some great questions that came in from this community under the last podcast episode. So I pulled a few of those. And Ricky Ricky's going to ask some of those questions at the end. For example, what happens when you read that when you relocate, does your strongest planet change?
00:02:47:19 – 00:03:07:24
Unknown
Does your relationship with your strongest planet change? That's one of the questions we'll talk about at the end. Finally, we're going to talk a little bit more about the Leila story. Ricky said that there's a fascinating story about how he actually became involved with Stephen Forest in the Leila app, how it evolved for him into the Ask Leila app.
00:03:08:02 – 00:03:30:23
Unknown
So we're going to talk about all these amazing things, and I can't wait to share this with you. Ricky. Welcome back. I'm so happy that you're here. Yeah. It's great to be back. All right. And for those of you interested in. You already know you're interested in studying and going deeper with the strongest planet concept. We do have Ricky's class on sale now and starting in just a week or two.
00:03:31:00 – 00:04:02:00
Unknown
And you can go to astrology.com/strongest planet to sign up for that class. Inner circle members, you do get to apply your discount to that, so go check it out and we'll talk about that more at the end too. All right so Ricky let's start the conversation here. Why do you feel so passionate about helping astrology students decouple the planets from the signs from the houses, and really start to understand them as unique and individual aspects of the chart?
00:04:02:02 – 00:04:29:10
Unknown
Yeah. So, you know, I've, I've learned about myself, but, I'm a stickler for details. You know, especially about something that, interested interested in studying. Because if you can grasp the details, you can really appreciate exactly what's going. And so, as I said, it's starting. I started studying astrology. The question that I had that drew me to astrology is, where does this stuff come from?
00:04:29:16 – 00:04:54:19
Unknown
And stuff that just made life, you know, sitting back like that. My ninth house, Gemini, was philosophizing and thinking about music and movies and art and all these things that that we deal with in our world. But they must have had an origin somewhere. And I had this question. And then I started studying astrology, and it was the planets, then started to speak to me about where things come from.
00:04:54:21 – 00:05:22:06
Unknown
And as I studied astrology more, and I and I learned who the original astrologers were, is they weren't watching the sides. They were watching the planets. And signs arose because it helped them locate where the planets were now. And I come up with my I call it my own definition of astrology. But I, as I've been reading more, I see that other people have used something similar before.
00:05:22:08 – 00:05:51:02
Unknown
Is I think of astrology as the study of the influence of the celestial objects, also known as the planets, on human affairs. So and the first astrologers, what they did is they went outside and ziggurats these pyramids. And then you watch the planets. You know, when did Venus rise? When did Venus set? You know, and then they wrote down notes about where the planets were, and they looked around the kingdom, and they took notes about what was going on in the kingdom.
00:05:51:04 – 00:06:15:20
Unknown
So for about 1500 years they had copious notes noting where the planets were relative to the position on Earth and what was going on in human affairs. So the origin of of astrology and my perspective is about the planets. That's actually what we are studying. And, well, the way I laid it out for my students is, is astrology is the study of the planets.
00:06:15:20 – 00:06:35:13
Unknown
And if we're studying anything, we have to have measuring devices. And so the measuring device is for us to measure the influence of the planets on human affairs. We call signs, houses and aspects. So to me, the system only works when you have an organized that way that you realize what we're studying is the influence of the planets.
00:06:35:19 – 00:06:59:21
Unknown
Then we use the signs and the houses in the aspects to measure that influence on our lives. And you explain that a little bit more, Ricky, when you say we use the signs, the houses and the aspects to measure the influence of the planets, what does that mean? And can you give us an example? Well, a simple example.
00:06:59:21 – 00:07:28:19
Unknown
In in, because of the procession of the equinoxes, the zodiac is moved forward and astrology really took off. They were essentially aligned. And so if back then, if you went outside right before sunrise and you were watching the sunrise, whatever sign, whatever constellation the the sun was rising in, you knew that's where the sun was. So I mean by literally and even if we think about seasons now, you can think about it to a certain extent.
00:07:28:19 – 00:07:52:03
Unknown
And seasons, we're measuring the quality of time. You know, that there are certain things we can plant. There's certain things we can do in certain seasons that we can't do in other seasons. And so if we're measuring the weather, right, it's what season is it, what month is it? And that gives us a lot of information. Right. And the seasons, the months they come from the relationship of the sun to the Earth.
00:07:52:05 – 00:08:24:03
Unknown
So that's that's already another grounded example is a birthday, right? When we celebrate a birthday or we talk about our age, that's an astronomical, but also an astrological phenomena, right? Is when the sun gets back to the same sign, to the same place it was in the sky that we can recognize that it wasn't our birth. We celebrate, we celebrate, and there's a certain quality of the weather, have the feel of each of the seasons, and we use the name of science to denote that.
00:08:24:05 – 00:08:45:15
Unknown
And to me, that's a form. That's a form of of measurement. And to go a little bit deeper, it's important. And we'll go we'll go into this in class a lot. But one question I start all my classes will be is what is a planet? What is a planet? And there's a bunch of different answers, a bunch of different answers.
00:08:45:15 – 00:09:05:09
Unknown
But to me, if we're measuring something, we have to know what we're measuring. So the definition that I use for a planet is a planet represents. And I get a lot of things, but the one that I use is a planet represents an unconscious urge. So, you know, I'm letting the, you know, I'm letting the hand out of the bag.
00:09:05:09 – 00:09:31:24
Unknown
Here's the secret. Is that this system of astrology and the strongest planet is very much aligned with deep psychology, because we are measuring the influence of unconscious forces. And when I say unconscious forces, I don't mean that we cannot become conscious of them. I mean that their origin, where they live is in the unconscious. And so when we're looking at the power of a planet, this is the strongest planet or the power of the planet.
00:09:32:01 – 00:09:55:18
Unknown
We're looking for what is the strongest urge of our unconscious now? And I think of the work of knowing ourselves. It is really aligning who we think we are with the possibilities and the chart. And as we go through life. Right. Our attention is so drawn to what is outside, you know, what are our parents or what are our friends who what is that?
00:09:55:19 – 00:10:26:04
Unknown
It's that we learn about who we are from other people. Right? Their response to our the expression of our unconscious urges. That's not the same thing as knowing ourselves. You know, when we can have this appreciation for I know my conscious self, but this humility to appreciate, there's a lot of me that I'm still learning, you know. And so this lady is looking, looking at the strongest planet, understanding what that urge is and seeing how that urge is manifested in our lives.
00:10:26:06 – 00:10:51:17
Unknown
I'm telling you, it's it's mind blowing and it's very and it's very revealing. One more piece here about the dynamics is I call that an unconscious urge. And we can meet the urge in multiple ways. And the nature of an urge is the urge is always seeking expression. No. So I'm watching television and I can say my Venus urge, right?
00:10:51:17 – 00:11:11:03
Unknown
My urge to be entertained. Yeah, I'm watching my favorite show and I'm laughing and I start to notice hunger. Yeah, I'll make it better. I'm watching the game. I have Venus and in Aries conjunct Mars. Okay, so I'm watching the game. I it's real life, I am. I start to get hungry. Right? But it's the fourth quarter. There's only 2.5 minutes left.
00:11:11:04 – 00:11:31:23
Unknown
Even though it's going to take ten minutes on the clock. There's only 2.5 minutes left, you know, and and the urge to stay entertained is more powerful, is more dominant at this moment than the urge to nurture myself. Right. So what do I do? I suppress the hunger so that I can stay focused on what I'm doing right as soon as the game is over?
00:11:31:23 – 00:11:50:05
Unknown
I'm not sure why, but I'm gorging on chips and salsa all right. So, so in this story, what urges come up and that we we can become aware of them, but sometimes we don't know what to do with them. We don't have the time. We don't have the area. We don't have the person. We don't have a channel to express it.
00:11:50:09 – 00:12:07:19
Unknown
Or we've been taught that there's something wrong with this urge. And so we push it down. No no no no no, keep trying to come up and we push it down. And it gets to the point where again, the urge just wants expression. And if we don't get that urge expression, it's like, people talk about the law of attraction.
00:12:07:23 – 00:12:44:11
Unknown
This is the law of attraction, all right? Because if the urge doesn't, we don't allow urge to express itself consciously. Right. It's like a magnet, and it triggers experiences in our life that force us to release the urge. An example of this. I was, I'm a football player and not a margie type of guy, but I try to be tall and sweet, you know, cause people like that, and, and, I'm just going through a week, but, you know, my wife and I both having a lot of Mars activations, you know, it's like we couldn't have a conversation without it turning into an argument.
00:12:44:13 – 00:13:04:02
Unknown
So, I woke up one morning and I said, I'm going to meditate. I do my peace mantras, and no matter what. And I'm not going to let anything she says upset me. Well, and I walked downstairs, and the one thing that she could say right then, I just couldn't let it slide. Right. It happened to be the one thing that came out of her mouth.
00:13:04:02 – 00:13:23:19
Unknown
And then we were right back into it, all right. And and after the argument, we looked at our charts and we laughed, you know, we laughed. So because I think the issue with astrology and just life in general is I think people take too much blame and not enough responsibility, you know, meaning it's not our fault, but these are the tools.
00:13:23:19 – 00:13:46:17
Unknown
Our unconscious right, is the tool that we have to create with and we have to work with. So my opinion, and the best thing we can do is get to know our unconscious so that we can express it more. Arxan. So, Ricky, in that example you gave with your wife, ideally eat, both of you maybe could have given that Mars energy a different outlet, right?
00:13:46:17 – 00:14:18:06
Unknown
Like maybe you needed to be punching the punching bags or like doing some other kind of thing where that sort of aggressive energy could come out. Correct? Or is there is, is is working with whatever planet is activated, whether that's your strongest planet or by transit. Is it it is it a matter of giving that energy a healthy outlet or what do you say to people is, or is it about like not actually indulging it on some level?
00:14:18:08 – 00:14:42:06
Unknown
Yeah. So to me I, I'm, I'm not a, not person. No. Another way of saying that I am Jupiter conjunct my son. So I don't think we're here to not do or not be. I think we're here to be, you know, and so I, you know, from an evolutionary perspective, if Mars is active, there's some place in a relationship that it keeps showing up.
00:14:42:09 – 00:15:04:23
Unknown
It means there's something in the relationship. There's some place in the relationship where we need to clear the air, you know, and and then so it's times where you have a fight and it doesn't feel good that you had a fight, but it feels lighter afterwards because something that was stuck inside finally got help right now. So but if you weren't, we don't have the energy, right?
00:15:04:23 – 00:15:25:17
Unknown
We're not. It's not the right time to be able to clear the air. Then having an outlet and knowing what are my potential outlets, what are my Mars outlets? My favorite Mars outlets? It can be helpful, but I think the first, if it was number one, right. It's time. Especially in Mars time. Right. It's time to face something that we've been afraid to face in the past.
00:15:25:22 – 00:15:43:09
Unknown
That's why we have the activation of Mars, right? Time to to fight or defend our now. And so if I'm working when someone in Mars is active, I'm saying think in your life or there's something that you haven't had the energy to do, right? Or even a to afraid to do, and then this might be a time to try it.
00:15:43:11 – 00:16:14:05
Unknown
Yeah. So especially with Mars, you know, you got to find a place to put it the. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we're, we're talking about the planet as the underlying urge and how this can often be unconscious, but it's something that needs to come to the surface. And if it doesn't, it's going to if we don't give it the outlet, it's going to find a way to make its presence known in our life.
00:16:14:07 – 00:16:45:01
Unknown
Yeah, essentially. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I would say all the experiences where something happens, where, where did that where did that come from? Why did that happen? Yeah. Look at your chart. You will see a transit and a progression activating the urge that was allowed to be expressed through the experience. Okay. So you know the thing was that another way to think about the the planetary strength is a word I like to use is an aptitude.
00:16:45:03 – 00:17:01:22
Unknown
And an aptitude is a potential, a potential skill that can be developed. So when I'm being proactive in the way I use planetary strength is the strongest planets. Those are the skills that that if we develop, will allow us to have the greatest influence or impact.
00:17:01:22 – 00:17:16:13
Unknown
And I think the, you know, one of the biggest ways in the world, right, is that people spend so much time trying to do something that they're not considered, and and understanding what someone strong is.
00:17:16:13 – 00:17:24:01
Unknown
Planet is giving you information about what you are most fit to develop, because it's where the most power is, the most influence,
00:17:24:01 – 00:17:39:04
Unknown
I love that so much, Ricky. All right. For those of you who haven't looked yet at what your strongest planet is, you can get that via the Lila app. And Ricky's team has offered us a generous 30 day.
00:17:39:06 – 00:18:01:23
Unknown
I'm sorry I saying that right. Yeah, that's 30 days. Yeah, 30 day trial. So for the astrology app community, for the podcast listeners, for the YouTube audience, a 30 day trial free of the Lila app. So you can go to Astrology hub.com/lila to activate that 30 days. You have to go to that link in order to get it activated.
00:18:02:00 – 00:18:10:22
Unknown
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00:18:10:24 – 00:18:35:07
Unknown
Okay. So we were talking about the strongest planet, but let's also talk about the weakest planet because you're saying the strongest planet is where we have our greatest influence or impact. What? We're set to developed our biggest aptitude toward something. So that is extraordinarily important information. Right. But then there's also the weakest planet, which is I'd love for you to talk about it.
00:18:35:09 – 00:19:00:04
Unknown
And I'd love to tell a little story, because it also illustrates the importance of decoupling the planets from the signs from the houses. And so, for example, with Ricky's system, I was able to find out that my strongest planet is Neptune, closely followed by the moon, which was a total mind blowing moment because I always thought of myself as Saturnian.
00:19:00:08 – 00:19:27:05
Unknown
So this literally is like permission granted. And when you talk about an urge, Ricky, I've had this urge to write this book that I'm going to be publishing in a few months, and it's so Neptunian. I mean, there's so many stories I tell in this book that are very otherworldly. I mean, psychic, I mean, even the cover itself, it's it's, a digital illustration of me on a beach with the ocean and the water and the stars.
00:19:27:05 – 00:19:54:22
Unknown
I mean, it's and it's like there's glowy stars, and it looks so ethereal. Really. So that's that's one thing, but then you ran my weakest planet, and my weakest planet is Uranus, which actually is not very surprising. I've actually never felt a very deep connection with Uranus. But then it was Jupiter and then Mercury. The one that was hard for me to wrap my head around was Mercury, because I do what I do.
00:19:55:01 – 00:20:16:13
Unknown
Like I writing a book. I love my journals and my writing and my and I have a Gemini moon, and I've always felt very connected with the Gemini part. But then you said, but Amanda, your third strongest sign is Gemini, so that makes sense. So even though even though. Wait, I'm sorry, Mercury, I see this all wrong. Yeah.
00:20:16:14 – 00:20:39:12
Unknown
No, you got it. You're right. Okay. Even though Mercury is my third weakest planet, Gemini is my third strongest sign. So can you break this down for us? Yeah. What does it mean? First of all, what does it mean to have a weakest planet? Does that mean you're deficient in that area? That's one. Okay, because I was kind of sad to see Jupiter so low on my list.
00:20:39:14 – 00:21:08:07
Unknown
And then two. What would that mean? You can use me as an example if I have a third strongest sign of Gemini, but the third weakest planet of Mercury. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it definitely is. It does sound confusing. And I think the my, my word for this is nuance. And I think one of the reasons it's so confusing is because we're having to undo the conventional astrological emphasis on signs.
00:21:08:12 – 00:21:37:21
Unknown
But if we go to the origin, the only reason we have signs is because we needed to be able to locate where the planets were. Right? And even if we're talking about someone's sign, it's because the sun is there, right? There's there's something enlivening, activating, giving energy to write the sign. So in in specificity here, if the planets are representing unconscious urges, the signs represent motivations or attitudes.
00:21:37:24 – 00:22:06:12
Unknown
Those are the key words that I use just to specify what the sign is. And and also something that's obvious to me as I studied more astrology, but it seems to not be so obvious to other people. It's even in our language. We say a planet rules a sign, a planet rules a sign. And the way I translate that in my mind is that the energy of the sign comes from the planet.
00:22:06:14 – 00:22:32:22
Unknown
The energy of the sign comes from the planet, and then I, I apologize if I'm repeating myself, but the easy example is we can think of the signs up there, but it's is we can also think of the signs is representing what month reborn. Right. Seasons times of the year, you know and if we think of which time two times of the year we did a survey which two times are the most beautiful times of year, right?
00:22:32:24 – 00:22:57:10
Unknown
Right. In my personal survey, what I found is most people say the middle of spring there. We also call it tourist season. And the first month of fall. Leaves are changing, color starting to cool down. It's beautiful outside. All right. And I imagine you know where astrology was discovered. People just observing nature and noticing, wow, this time of year I feel Venus is present.
00:22:57:12 – 00:23:31:11
Unknown
Yeah. I notice myself saying how beautiful, how nice it is out. I'm in a good mood, feeling more cheery. There's flowers, the beautiful colors of the leaves changing the. Yeah. So this idea that that the planets are the are the raw urges and the signs to me represent we can call them human expressions of the signs. Because when you go deeper and you say, okay, Mercury Rose, Virgo and Gemini, these are two different expressions of Mercury.
00:23:31:13 – 00:23:57:17
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. So so in both similar to you, Gemini is my second strongest sign and Mercury is my second weakest planet. Yeah. And another example that blows people's mind because I was professional football player, won all these awards and such is that my weakest planet is the sun where we are weakest planet is the sun, right? And here's the thing.
00:23:57:17 – 00:24:26:20
Unknown
Because the planets represent unconscious urges that that they live in the unconscious. Right. It's they're not as obvious always as a sign because the sign is an attitude or an expression. Right? That we can feel the unconscious urge expressing through. So it might be easier to locate the sign energy, right? Especially if you're not attuned to it. But what gives the sign influence in someone's life, again, is that there's a planet expressing through it.
00:24:26:22 – 00:25:00:03
Unknown
So someone has a lot of planets, you know, two, three planets or in their angles in Gemini. Right. That the need to express Gemini ness into the world become strong. But the urge that's expressing it is going to come from the planets. But and you know, when we were talking earlier, you said with Mercury, but I take all these notes that to me when I say it is, you know, and I'm kind of making this up, but we would say a strong mercury might not need to take notes.
00:25:00:05 – 00:25:23:07
Unknown
Oh. Right. But if Gemini is strong, if Gemini is strong and Mercury isn't right, that in order to catch up to Gemini, I have to take notes now. Oh my gosh, that's so true. Yes, I love that. Yeah. And I also again in my life, Mercury is weak, Gemini is strong, is curiosity. But my ability to find the words to express what I want to say.
00:25:23:07 – 00:25:47:04
Unknown
It took me a while. I had a I had a situation and this and it made sense. Okay. And not only is my is my, Mercury the weak, the second weakest, but also has a lot of hard aspects. And I was writing an email about something to my astrology teacher, Steven Force, and it was one of those I don't have a day I had I had to write it and delete it like five times.
00:25:47:06 – 00:26:07:20
Unknown
And finally, in tears, you know, I went to my wife was Mercury is her strongest planet. I went to my wife and I said, can you I'll send you what I did. Can you fix this? And send the email to Steve? Yeah. This intense frustration with so many ideas and so many thoughts, but such difficulty in trying to express it that way.
00:26:07:22 – 00:26:31:18
Unknown
Man, now and I think we all have different upbringings, and I think understanding planetary strength and going back in our upbringing, we can recognize six now is right for me. And my Mars is much stronger in seven. And I when I was a kid at that Gemini was there. I was curious, I was intelligent, but there was so much push for me, not in intelligence but towards sports.
00:26:31:22 – 00:26:37:24
Unknown
And as I was pushed more towards sports, there was less expectation for me to be intelligent.
00:26:37:24 – 00:26:58:13
Unknown
Yes. What? Yes. Okay. So, Ricky, does it mean that I mean, can we interpret that? So if my weakest is Uranus and then Jupiter, does that mean that like the aspects of Uranus or the aspects of Jupiter are less present to my life, or they're just harder for me?
00:26:58:13 – 00:27:16:11
Unknown
Like, what does it actually mean? Perfect. So the first thing is we you know, I saw a lot of the comments and we've gotten a lot of emails from people starting to get on the app. And the question we got the most probably was about the weakest planet. So and we decided, how are we going to roll out the system?
00:27:16:11 – 00:27:45:24
Unknown
We thought, do we roll it all out at the same time? And we said no, because people will then focus on the weakest planet and not really appreciate that, might not appreciate what we're trying to do. So we we started with the strongest planet and then we I've been able to add more context is I think the, the most powerful use of the strongest planet is it's giving us information because what we are made for is directly related to what we are made of.
00:27:46:01 – 00:28:09:15
Unknown
Okay. And when I say made up, I'm talking about planetary strength aptitudes there. And the comment I made before the biggest waste is people trying to do things that they're not suited for them. Oh man Mike, my story is a is a great a great example of this great, great example. So when we talk about weak and strong, the first thing to note it's relative strength.
00:28:09:17 – 00:28:26:11
Unknown
Yeah. Because we we only have so much energy. And it's going to be distributed differently in each of us. Right. We're all made of the same things, but some people have more of this and some people have more of that. Right. You can see on a football team, right. The big fat guys, their job is to block right, to get in the way.
00:28:26:15 – 00:28:49:10
Unknown
And the skinny guys that can run fast, right? Those are the receivers and the smart guy, right? That's the quarterback. Right? And each of us have different skills, different aptitudes that we bring to the whole in. If everyone is trying to be to do what everyone else is doing, it's not very effective and it's not very efficient. The dumb the first thing is the stronger plan.
00:28:49:10 – 00:29:14:10
Unknown
It's because yes, we start with the strongest planet, but the deeper significance is the appreciation of astrological and more specifically planetary strength. Then and there is a comment about planetary strength has been around for a while, but to me, no one's ever defined or I've never seen define. What does planetary strength even mean? What does astrological strength even mean?
00:29:14:12 – 00:29:43:01
Unknown
Hey, to me, it's the end. It's the the power of something to influence our lives. So if someone has Mars dominant is the most powerful, influential experiences in that person's life are going to be Mars, you know. So paramedics, firefighters, athletes. Right? Actors. Right. People that have to show up, they have to bring the energy consistently and ideally get rewarded for it.
00:29:43:03 – 00:30:05:21
Unknown
Oh yeah, we have to protect our borders. We have people that need to be able to operate in an emergency. Yeah, we've always had that as part of humanity. And even if we bring it to our body, if we were talking about medical astrology, our immune system or our ability to fight disease. Hey, one of the things that I've seen, especially in men's charts that have really strong Mars, is you see a lot of scars.
00:30:05:23 – 00:30:29:11
Unknown
This is scars illustrate stories of surgeries. So when someone is talking about the most meaningful events of their life, right, you're going to see that it's planetary energy. The signs give details, but they don't have the umph. They just have the flavor. The umph comes from the pilots. And anyone who's looked at the strongest planets and thought about it, it starts to become obvious.
00:30:29:13 – 00:30:49:10
Unknown
Yeah, more people do trip up is when there is this place here where the sign might be very strong, but the planet is not. The sign is strong because maybe it's on the Midheaven and there's two planets in that sign. So there's a lot of energy radiating. So a good example is if you think about the sun, okay.
00:30:49:12 – 00:31:12:05
Unknown
Talking to someone about the sun, the sun is our need to shine, to radiate, to have an influence, to make an impact on sun. And the sun radiates. Okay. And then we're around someone that's radiating. If we really had an instrument to measure, we would measure that the energy that's being radiated is different, right? Some people radiate kindness, some people radiate abruptness, right?
00:31:12:05 – 00:31:35:09
Unknown
Some people radiate care. Being careful. I like my teacher, Stephen Sun, and then Capricorn, the strongest planet conjunct Jupiter. Then, like sitting in front of him in class. You know, he's talking about one aspect, right? He's going to go slow and he might spend 35 minutes talking about one aspect and then you're enthralled the whole time. Oh, it's like wow, right.
00:31:35:15 – 00:31:57:18
Unknown
As you can feel is 75 plus years of wisdom radiating through his everything he says. Yup. So. And I think the sun is the most radiant, radiant planet. But if we go outside, we can see all of the planets. Pretty. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Ricky, let's talk about this because people are going to want to go and find their weakest planet now.
00:31:57:20 – 00:32:16:15
Unknown
So there's a difference between the apps. There's the Lila app. And with the Lila app you can you can calculate your strongest planet and you get the hierarchy right. Get it. Can you get that? Oh, well, we're working on them. We're working on putting the hierarchy of all the planets. We're going to put a bar graph in to show all the planets.
00:32:16:19 – 00:32:37:10
Unknown
Okay. But but right now, if you go to my chart, you can see your strongest planet. And if you go to connections and into other people's charts, you can enter friends, family, kids or whatever. And you can see that are strongest, right? Okay. And then to get the weakest planet currently you need ask Lila, which is a little bit different than Lila.
00:32:37:10 – 00:32:39:22
Unknown
Correct? It is. Yeah. Okay.
00:32:39:22 – 00:32:51:11
Unknown
You just for that one. You just go on in the App Store, the store, the app store, and you look for the Lila. Okay? Okay, great. All right. And there's no, there's no, like, free trial of that. Or is there more?
00:32:51:11 – 00:33:15:20
Unknown
Ask Lila. There's not a free trial, but I built in free. Like, how long can I ask? I think five questions a day. And I made the part where you can see all of your planets strength and how it's how it's calculated. That's the cool part. You can see all of that for free. Okay. And just if you're paying attention, if you go to ask Lila and tap the settings button, it'll say Astro stats.
00:33:15:22 – 00:33:20:08
Unknown
Tap on that button, you you'll see your chart, and then you'll be able to check out your strength.
00:33:20:08 – 00:33:45:12
Unknown
And to take it even further, for those of us who want to calculate our strongest sign, our strongest house, our strongest aspect, you've actually created a whole nother app that we can get access to, and you're going to give access to the students of your class that you're teaching with. That's correct. Yeah. You know, so to I know it's confusing such an incident.
00:33:45:14 – 00:34:05:12
Unknown
I'm such a Gemini. So, I'll, I'll just I'll just go through the story real quick and it'll make it'll make sense and hopefully it'll be entertaining because it's in story. But so, my wife and I, in linear, we started we weren't married at this point, but we started going to Steven's classes together. It's like something there's like the thing that we did and we'd love to do.
00:34:05:14 – 00:34:28:21
Unknown
And, you know, I've been studying astrology for about 12 years at this point, but I'd never done a deep dive into Synastry. And so me and my girlfriend at the time, we went to San Diego to take this industry class with Steve and it was probably the third day of the class, and our minds were just blown because I just come out of the divorce, you know, and I'm starting to date a new person.
00:34:28:21 – 00:34:48:07
Unknown
So I was right on the brink of a marriage that didn't work. And something that might work now. So I was very keen to relationship dynamics and to sitting in the class and just listening to his system and breaking it down. It's like our minds were blown and we don't know anything about apps. We weren't. I was a football player.
00:34:48:07 – 00:35:12:05
Unknown
She's a corporate attorney. But on day three, we looked at each other and we said, we gotta find a way to get this information out into the world. Yeah. And we started thinking about it. We said maybe an app, but we just kept thinking about it. We came back for the fourth day of the class, and in Steven's classes on the last day, he puts his hand in a hat and he pulls out a name, and then he gives an example reading to display everything he taught.
00:35:12:07 – 00:35:30:21
Unknown
And it was funny. It was my 40th birthday and he pulled my name out of the hat. And so he spent the whole last day breaking down the synastry between me and Lana. Me and my girlfriend at the time. And after that we were like, we have to do this because there are so many insights that I knew.
00:35:30:21 – 00:35:54:13
Unknown
But I was seeing that Steve and this was right on top of. And it helped me appreciate why this bond with Sonia was so powerful in ways that I couldn't have comprehended. And again, just getting out of a relationship and getting into one, I was like, wow, people need people need this. So when Lila started, it was it was a essentially a dating app.
00:35:54:15 – 00:36:18:04
Unknown
Now, now that was the initial idea. And as we started to build it, a couple of things happened. One, at that time, people were tired of dating apps. And two, we realize, you know, people are using astrology more to to find out what's wrong with the other person and not really trying to understand themselves first. And so we pivoted and we said, we're going to make this about self-discovery first, though.
00:36:18:06 – 00:36:42:11
Unknown
And so we directed all of our attention really to building out my chart section, including all the planets and, you know, The Layover there is in the app. We have a lot of good advice in the My Chart section about relationships, you know, and it's funny, we we met up at my place in the mountains. So, Steve, to start writing the content and Steve said, I'll take the sun, moon in the ascendant and you take Mars and Venus.
00:36:42:13 – 00:37:05:11
Unknown
And I was like, oh, yeah, that's fair. I was like, halfway through Venus. And he was done, you know, like, I'll just finish it, you know? So I was humble, you know, because he's like, oh, he's a machine. So and so we started going back and forth and then actually after class and sending emails to Steve and said, would you be open to working on this idea with us?
00:37:05:11 – 00:37:22:14
Unknown
And Steven said, yeah, I'd be open to it. And then we let him know what we were thinking. He said, let's do it, let's do it. And he wrote all the content except for the Venus in Relationship section. He wrote, you wrote all the content. And so it's it's in a way, it's our ode to to our teacher, right.
00:37:22:14 – 00:37:43:01
Unknown
In this type of astrology that we found. So useful. And because when he and I were learning astrology together, we were living and we said a lot of people doing astrology or studying it, but we don't see a lot of people living. And so we created Lila as a tool to help people live astrology. It's like we don't tell people what this means, right?
00:37:43:01 – 00:38:03:10
Unknown
We clue them in to what it could mean, right? What what things are being stirred, what questions are showing up in their lives so they can adjust their attitude to make a stronger response to what's showing up. All right. So so Lila is like. And from the beginning it's like 97% Steve. You know, my my little drop in.
00:38:03:15 – 00:38:21:18
Unknown
And I've had a lot of guidance and to telling Steve what I want him to write, you know, like we have a moon section and I always start, you know, the horoscopes are based on the sun, but the sun is in a sign for a whole month. It seems like the quickest moving object is the moon, and it changes every couple of days.
00:38:21:18 – 00:38:44:20
Unknown
That horoscope should be based on a moon. So essentially, we created a daily like moon tracker to help people find their patterns. You know, I have a friend every time the moon goes through cancer, right? She has horrible days. You know, she she's an Aquarius. So all the things that she hasn't been allowing yourself to keep rising, all the things she hasn't been allowing yourself to feel when the moon hits cancer.
00:38:44:20 – 00:39:07:11
Unknown
Right. They all come, they all dump on her, you know, and she was able to find that pattern by tracking, by tracking the moon cycle. So I've had input into the structure of it. But all of the content and the techniques are coming from are coming from Steve and he's a Capricorn, you know, Saturn conjunct the Midheaven and it's solid, solid wisdom.
00:39:07:16 – 00:39:33:02
Unknown
You know, that I think will stand the test of time. And as we are building this, you know, I started connecting with the the developers and I realized the developers don't know anything about astrology. Nothing. Yeah. And I don't know anything about code as like, you know that that's that's inefficient and it's getting really expensive. So I said, I'm just going to see if I can learn a little bit of code so I can communicate more efficient.
00:39:33:04 – 00:39:50:18
Unknown
And so I started learning a little bit of code and I fell in love with it. You know. So I started learning more and more. And then I realized I can start to create my own thing. Right. It's not going to be production level to get out to people, but I'm an astrologer and I'd love to create my own custom tool for astrology.
00:39:50:20 – 00:40:10:17
Unknown
And so I started I created my own like app that I use for readings, and then I started thinking the future is really an AI. And so I got curious and I was curious, can you teach, hey, I to do astrology. I started playing with it and I was like, I think you can. So I said, I'm just going to build, AI astrology.
00:40:10:19 – 00:40:34:18
Unknown
Yeah. One more piece of the of the story here is the app that I built for myself. I put it up on the App store and app and Apple rejected it. And they said, this is spam, meaning we're not allowing any more astrology apps because there's too many on the App Store already. So I was pissed, you know, and I just said, after a couple of months of being pissed, I said, okay, I'm just going to create something different.
00:40:34:21 – 00:41:09:17
Unknown
And so I created Ask Lila, which is astrology, but it's AI based. So Lila is a pure evolutionary astrology app, right? It like sticks, right? Placidus house system. You know, Stevens words literally. That's beautiful. And and ask Lila. There is evolutionary astrology. Plus what I do strong is planet planetary strength. And I so ask Lila is an AI app, you know, and one of Steven's techniques that made it over then I'm most excited about that.
00:41:09:17 – 00:41:41:23
Unknown
Made it over into Ask Lila is a South Node story generator. Oops. Steven has a South Node technique and he he's masterful. He turns the South Node configuration, the sign house, the ruler sign house, and aspects into a past life metaphoric story. He's such a good storyteller. And so he came over for a couple of days, and I tried to pull all the wisdom out of his head and put it into the AI, and the stories are pretty interesting.
00:41:42:00 – 00:42:13:17
Unknown
No. So if you go in the South Node storyteller and you can click what gender you want to be in a past life, you can click where you were and it'll take your south Node configuration and spit out a story now. And I also added the composite South Node storytelling. So if you're if you're curious about the deeper underlying patterns between you and a kid and a partner and a friend, a parent, you can put them in and you can and it'll it'll generate a South Node story about the, the composite chart.
00:42:13:19 – 00:42:35:13
Unknown
Amazing. Wow. Okay, so but this one's not yet. It's available on iPhones, but not Android yet. Correct? Yeah, exactly. Because I'm an Android part person, I'm like, I want this now, but we have to wait until 2026. So yeah. Yeah, no, no gratification. But it's coming, right? Yeah. But it's also available on iPads and Mac. Mac computer okay.
00:42:35:14 – 00:42:56:17
Unknown
Okay. Great. All right. So if you have any Apple devices you should be able to get this app on them okay. Yeah that's great. It's brand new and it's created by me. And yeah, it's it's fun because, you know, every day I look at it, I give people the opportunity to thumbs up or thumbs down the responses so that I can keep tweaking them and making them better.
00:42:56:19 – 00:43:14:10
Unknown
Yeah. Because because, you know, it's it's tricky, but it's fun because I don't know the questions that people are going to ask. Right. And I've I've created it to answer as many questions as I can. But as people send questions and they thumbs down and say it didn't answer my question, then I just go in on the back end and keep correcting.
00:43:14:12 – 00:43:44:08
Unknown
So it's a fun process, and everyone that's on it now really is helping me, helping me build it. Wonderful. You are so cool, I can't wait. Okay, you're story football player astrologer now coder slash app developer and teacher. I mean, this is. This is really beautiful. Okay, 1111.. Just one piece here about planetary strength. Time is when we're looking at it.
00:43:44:08 – 00:44:06:21
Unknown
This two points that I have that I think are so important to make here. The first one is based on planetary strength okay. That a chart does not describe a person. It describes a person's life, how that person orients to that life. That's up to them. But but a lot of times we'll say this doesn't seem like this person.
00:44:06:24 – 00:44:34:20
Unknown
My mom strongest planet is this. It doesn't seem like it. Now is again, if you look at their life, not the person. If you look at the life, you'll see the evidence of the strong of the strongest planet. That's an important distinction, I think, because so much of astrology is just applied to personality, to getting people, to describing people, not helping them make a stronger response to the experiences that are actually showing up in their lives.
00:44:34:22 – 00:44:55:14
Unknown
And, and if something is at birth. Right. And that's the second one, is that a birth chart describes the natal chart at birth. It describes the strength at birth. And if it's at birth, it means the strength that was acquired and the past. And if the planet is the weakness, it doesn't mean that is weak. It just means it hasn't had as much practice as the other planets.
00:44:55:16 – 00:45:18:11
Unknown
It hasn't had as much work, you know, and I think we're all unique and we're all different. And the other thing is strong. Gemini. Right. In order to to meet the promise of all those Gemini planets in my chart, my Mercury has got to get up to snuff there. And so, yes, I'm a coder. I'm teaching, I'm doing all these mercury things right.
00:45:18:11 – 00:45:42:09
Unknown
But I'm doing them in my 40s. Right. So if something doesn't have as much strength, there isn't much speed. It can still get there. It just might take it longer to get there, right? It might take it life experiences to build up those things. And so like I it's important to even think of it like this. Someone has a weak Mercury every time you pick up a book.
00:45:42:11 – 00:46:02:24
Unknown
Now, every time you pick up a book, every time you pay close attention, every time you take the class, right, you're feeding that mercury. The difference is the moment the strong mercury, they sit down, they hear it. They got it right away from the weak mercury. They have to put more effort in to grasp the information and understand it 100%.
00:46:03:01 – 00:46:30:03
Unknown
Yeah. And to come back to aspects. So the basics and it really is basic astrology there is and this system planetary strength comes from two places. It comes from house placement and it comes from aspects. The amount of aspects and how tight the aspects are. Right. So if a planet is strong, it's because it's either or making a lot of aspects and well placed by a house.
00:46:30:05 – 00:47:00:24
Unknown
If a planet is weak, it is either good or not making a lot of aspects. We're not placed strong strongly by house placement. It really is that simple point where it becomes more complex for some people is in the system. We use minor aspects and we use the parallel aspect. So if someone is looking at a chart and they're saying, I don't see any aspects, you know, are they looking at the, the minor aspects, looking at parallels, true minor aspects don't give as much strength as the quote unquote major aspects.
00:47:00:24 – 00:47:30:19
Unknown
But if someone has six semi squares so that's going to show up in someone's life. The. Yeah. Another piece of this. Just to add, just to titillate people a little bit is when I think of aspects is aspects are a measurement of energy. I mean all of the tools is we're measuring energy. And because aspects are about relationships between planets, when we're measuring aspects, we're measuring the energy of a relationship.
00:47:30:21 – 00:47:52:20
Unknown
And, a good example is, you know, you're with someone and they're right on top of you. So there's a quality to that experience based on the person's proximity. You know, they can smell your breath, you could smell theirs. Right. So that's a powerful influence in the in the the name of the conjunction is permanence that it's powerful.
00:47:52:22 – 00:48:16:19
Unknown
And this idea of. Right, someone's right on top of me. Either I really like it, right, or I really don't. The power of proximity to someone is opposing me, right? It's a different feel of a relationship. All right? Someone is taking the opposite perspective than me. It's a different feel. And aspects are measuring the quality of this relationship.
00:48:16:21 – 00:48:53:18
Unknown
So there's an example. Someone who has a lot of oppositions. And our nickname for the opposition is a separation aspect, because two planets have opposite goals, so they tend to move away from each other. So if we're measuring the quality, you look at someone's chart of the strongest aspects. Aspects in their chart are is the opposition you're going to see their life is going to be marked by separations, so that when we talk about astrological energy, it helps us utilize the the millions of keywords that we've learned, because now we can have a weight to those keywords, right?
00:48:53:18 – 00:49:14:08
Unknown
If someone has a very strong Saturn, right, when they talk about safety. All right. It's not the same as when someone has a, a strong Jupiter. Right? That the the need for safety and Saturn is paramount. Right. The need for safety in Jupiter. Right. Slows it down. And so there are some people there rule in the world, right.
00:49:14:11 – 00:49:31:24
Unknown
We need people that go slow and dot the I's and cross the T's and are more careful because there are certain things in the world that need that energy. And there's times where we have to take risks and we have to go for it and throw safety to the wind. Right then. If you have a strong Jupiter, right, you better get good at learning how to do that, right?
00:49:32:01 – 00:50:01:10
Unknown
You better start developing your faith, because life is going to attract situations where you need it. So Ricky, when we bring it to that level, the strongest aspect, the strongest house, that is the bonus calculation tool that you're giving to the students in the class. Correct. Like they'll be able to they'll have a tool. It's a bonus. It's part of the class that will enable them to look at all these additional layers of strength in the chart, correct?
00:50:01:12 – 00:50:29:03
Unknown
Yeah. And also on the and ask Lila if I think I kept her, the planetary string, I kept that free. But I think to look at sign strength, house strength aspect strength, aspect strength is cool because I have a graph that shows the strongest aspect types in the chart. Yeah, no, because we can measure each aspect, we can add up all of the oppositions, all of the squares.
00:50:29:03 – 00:51:04:05
Unknown
And there's a graph that shows which aspect type is strong in the chart. And so whether it's the strongest house, the strongest sign, the strongest planet, the strongest aspect, strength means how important a role it's going to play in the life. And so you could do a reading just on someone's top five strongest aspects in the chart, and you're it's kind of hit home because each of those things, they're helping us measure something right is when I say the sign is measuring something is measuring the quality of the words, the quality of life experiences that are brought to us through the urge.
00:51:04:07 – 00:51:25:00
Unknown
And when we're measuring where the sign tells us that we're measuring where in our life we are going to experience the effect of these things. So that's what I mean when I say measuring where we're measuring the influence or measuring the quality of it, we're measuring the quantity of it, and we're measuring where it's going to show up in our lives so that we are ready to move.
00:51:25:02 – 00:51:54:14
Unknown
I love that, okay. So, Lila, for Strongest Planet, ask Lila for additional computations, including weakest and house and stretch and aspect and sign all of it. Yeah, all of the tasks. And then bonus tool that's like more like a spreadsheet, right? It's not an actual app, a bonus tool for the students in the class. Am I making that up?
00:51:54:16 – 00:52:13:18
Unknown
No, it's it's, it's an app. I mean, that's that's that's my that's. Can anybody get on their phone? You know, I think I'm going I'm going to do it. I have enough time before then is to create a web application so everyone will have access to the beginning through the web. Okay, okay, I got it. I'm sorry.
00:52:13:18 – 00:52:19:07
Unknown
I hope that's not confusing you guys. If you just ask, ask questions in the comments and we'll make sure that we answer your questions,
00:52:19:07 – 00:52:35:07
Unknown
if for any of you who want to really dive into this with Rickie, understand it inside and out, be able to ask your questions, get access to these bonus materials and and actually really own this content so that you can apply it both to your life.
00:52:35:07 – 00:53:01:20
Unknown
But then also if you do read charts, you can apply it to the people in your life or clients. If you have clients, then you're going to want to join this class. It starts on September 9th. Registration is open so you can go to astrology ABC.com, slash Strongest Planet and sign up now. It'll be every Tuesday in September, starting on September 9th, and then we're going to have a bonus Q&A as a part of this as well.
00:53:02:01 – 00:53:20:04
Unknown
So so we'll be gathering. We always like to make our Q&A is really organized. We'll be gathering all the questions we'll be giving them to Rick in advance so he can go through as many as possible. Also, if you're there live, you'll have an opportunity to ask your questions. So all of this is happening in September and we would love to have you.
00:53:20:09 – 00:53:39:02
Unknown
This is the first time Ricky is teaching on our platform, and we couldn't be more honored and thrilled to have his wisdom and expertise here at Astrology Hub. So hope to see lots of you. A lot of you have already signed up. Can't wait to see more of you! Let's go to the Q&A and I think we have time for just one.
00:53:39:07 – 00:54:21:18
Unknown
So let's talk about that question about relocation. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. That is moving influence the impact of the strongest planet on your life. Okay. So people that know a little bit about astro cartography, your relocation strategy, we know we see the map and then all the lines on the map, and it's this is a beautiful example of planetary strength because that that system, at least the system of showing the lines on the map, is all about planetary strength, you know, because going back to, the, the algorithm for planetary strength, it's based on house placement and it's based on aspects.
00:54:21:20 – 00:54:48:15
Unknown
And when you relocate a chart, the only thing that changes are the house placements. Right? And aspects to angles. So if you if you move to a place or you visit a place on a line, that planet 99.9% of the time is going to be stronger than it was in the natal chart, because it's going to be in an angular house and it's going to be making an ASP a tight aspect to a cost.
00:54:48:17 – 00:55:11:23
Unknown
So what people know about astro cartography or relocation astrology, and if I go to my Venus line, that's the same thing as saying going to a place where my Venus is going to be stronger than it was at the place I was born. And. And if one of the ways to think about planetary strength is this magnetic force that attracts events.
00:55:12:00 – 00:55:33:23
Unknown
So if someone goes to a place where Venus is strong, they're apt to attract more Venus events. But what that means for each individual is going to be different based on what house Venus is placed in and what house Venus rules in the natal chart. So, just a piece about relocation in astrology is it doesn't change the natal chart.
00:55:34:02 – 00:56:01:08
Unknown
It's it's like a temporary transit or a progression. And I say temporary for as long as you're in the place, it's having something. And then we can all tell that there's an energy of places in general, but we can also feel when we go to a certain place that there's a certain energy there for us, and that we did a relocated chart, meaning erase our change our birth place, take the same time, but change our birth place and put it in the place we want to visit.
00:56:01:13 – 00:56:31:20
Unknown
It creates a relocated chart that the math is based off of, and you'll see if you get more detail than this is and ask Lila to. I have a astro cartography section where you can see how the strength actually changes from this place to another place, you know? And that's an interesting detail that this system gives this, because you can start to measure how much more right of a bump or how much of a downturn am I going to experience in this place.
00:56:31:22 – 00:57:03:02
Unknown
And if someone has a super strong Neptune, it's too much, right? They might look for a place where Neptune is muted down a little bit. And if because if they have, if they have work to do. So it allows us to be more use, more useful with astrology when we when we have this measurement system and we apply it to all the different techniques that are already out there, it's so for example, Reiki I have, Jupiter is weak in my in my natal chart, but in Hawaii, I'm on a Jupiter.
00:57:03:04 – 00:57:32:07
Unknown
I'm on a Jupiter line. So would that then be bringing up the strength of Jupiter in my life because it placed myself here 100%? You're going to have more Jupiter experiences there. Then you go to other places. That's the whole point of the astro cartography map. Oh yeah, that's that also. And also I've noticed this. A side piece here is that with astro cartography and with Synastry, I think sometimes we forget that the natal chart is where everything starts.
00:57:32:09 – 00:57:58:08
Unknown
And so if we're looking at Synastry or when we're going to meet someone, it's really going to be indicated by the transits in progressions, because I've noticed going to certain places, like I went to the big Island and I was going through a Saturn activation there, and I noticed that the Big Island was on my Saturn line. So as you'll notice, when you feel drawn to drawn to a place, look at your current transits and progressions and look at your relocated chart.
00:57:58:12 – 00:58:17:05
Unknown
And a lot of times you'll get a sense of why you're being drawn to that place. Because if Saturn is being activated, the universe is saying you need to have more Saturn experiences. You're going to have sounding experiences. And one way to facilitate that is going to do is that you'll be drawn to a Saturn place to give you those experiences.
00:58:17:07 – 00:58:41:13
Unknown
Or I've noticed I'm going through a Saturn activation, and literally people who have Saturn as the strongest planet knocking on my door come coming to visit. Wow. Oh my God is endless. It's fascinating. Ricky, thank you so much for being here. You've been so generous with your time. I hope that all of you are finding this as fascinating and interesting as we are here at Astrology Hub, so it's just so fun to share it with you.
00:58:41:16 – 00:59:12:09
Unknown
Hope to see you all in class! Check the show notes for all the links. Ricky, is there anything else you want to say about the class and what we're going to be covering? Anything that you would recommend people do to be ready for class? Anything else in closing? Well, you know, one thing that I love about the system is it forces you to to gain a greater appreciation, or at least to make a statement about what is the planet, what is the sign, what is an aspect, and how do they work?
00:59:12:11 – 00:59:32:05
Unknown
So that's the beautiful thing is because we again, we read in books, but my urge is to get under the surface, right, to have access to the information that the writers had so I can come up with my own conclusions. And so we'll go through the system. But because we have to look at each of these pieces, it's like a general overview of what is astrology.
00:59:32:07 – 00:59:49:07
Unknown
And people that go through this will have a greater grasp of what they're the tools that they're working with. Whether they use the system or not, they'll have a greater grasp of how it all works. Amazing. Thank you so much. Can't wait for class. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for being a part of our community.
00:59:49:09 – 01:00:06:13
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01:00:06:14 – 01:00:10:10
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Thank you for making astrology a part of your life. We'll see you soon.