ARIES
After a long wait and intense not-knowing
there are finally a few forward movements that feel clear.
Resist the urge to rush for a horizon farther than you can yet see.
As the next chapters begin, you need tools and support
that can only come from total surrender and
willingness to rest.

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Hello and welcome to Embodied Astrology. Thank you so much for listening. You're tuned in to your horoscopes for Pisces Season, February 19th through March 20th, 2022. My name is Renee Sills. I'm a consulting astrologer, somatic educator, and artist. I'm interested in exploring astrology as a tool for self-awareness, relational growth, and personal and collective healing.

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Before I get into your horoscope, I want to share some information with you about the future of Embodied Astrology horoscopes. You may have noticed that I did not release horoscopes for Aquarius Season, and I want to extend a thank you to everyone who reached out to me with concern this past month. Thank you so much for your care and for your warm wishes. Folks, I really needed a break. 2022 marks the seventh year of creating Embodied Astrology horoscopes, and I really adore this practice, I have to say, it also takes a lot out of me. If you've been a listener for a while, you probably know that I am definitely not brief in my interpretations, and creating individual 20 or 30 minute podcasts for all 12 signs — sometimes I choose to redo them if I feel like I forgot something — every single month. This is a lot of work.

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Additionally, on January 10th this year, I released your year ahead readings, which are between 90 minutes and two hours for each sign. They go in depth into the major themes I feel coming through for every sign throughout 2022. So by the time I got to Aquarius Season, I was just tapped out on my capacity and I needed to take a pause. During this time, I was able to reflect a bit on my intentions and desires for this work and on the evolving landscapes of technology and social media that have allowed me to share this work with you. I still have a lot of thoughts and a lot of questions, but a few things have become clear, and I will be making some changes in how I distribute my content. And I want you to be aware of these changes so that you can continue to access this work if you want it.

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First and foremost, your horoscopes are not going anywhere. As I said, I really love making them and I'm definitely planning to continue. They will continue to come out monthly with the start of each new Zodiac season and they will continue to be offered for free. Your donations and other forms of support gladly accepted. However, beginning next month with Aries Season, I will no longer be distributing my horoscopes through Spotify or iTunes, and they will only be available from embodiedastrology.com. So if you love your horoscopes, please head over to my website, click the horoscopes tab, and sign up for the free monthly horoscopes membership tier.

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Secondly, I wanted to mention that there have been several recent occurrences of fake accounts on Instagram who have been impersonating me as well as other astrologers, tarot readers, and psychics. And I should say that my Instagram content is distributed across Facebook as well. So these fake accounts copy our pages and they have a lot of the same photos, they use our taglines. But if you look carefully, there are some variations on our names. So for example, the most recent fake account for Embodied Astrology had two Y's at the end of the name. You'll also notice that the posts are usually all from the same date and often don't include all of the content that I will post on my own page. So these accounts then follow my followers. They send private messages offering readings and asking for payment upfront. Please don't fall for these scams. Okay, friends? If you get a message such as this, immediately report and block the account and definitely don't send them any money. This has been a super frustrating and ongoing problem for a while now. And the admin at Instagram has been very unhelpful. They continue to let these accounts proliferate and they refuse to verify my account for reasons that they won't explain.

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So for this reason, and others that I won't get into right now, I also want to let you know that I will be transitioning in the next few months from using Instagram as a primary space for releasing astrology updates and live videos, and I'll be starting to post the content that I create directly to my website. And I'll be hosting live and free events in my virtual community space instead of on Instagram Live. So if you want access to this content, if you want to join me in these live events, that's another reason to head over to embodiedastrology.com and make sure that you are signed up.

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I have varying levels of membership, beginning with a free or by donation tier that will get you access to horoscopes and my regular astrology content and writing. I also host monthly workshops where I offer embodied, creative explorations of current astrology and support for working with your own chart. And finally, there is a beautiful and growing community space and monthly astro teatime meetups where you can learn with others, with us about chart reading, working with transits, and how astrology manifests for all of us differently. All of my levels of membership are offered by sliding scale.

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Last but not least, I just want to thank you again. Whether you're new to this space, or if you've been tuning in with me for a while now, thank you so much. It feels really risky and vulnerable to be pulling back from social media since it's been such an important space of connection for me, and also a space where this practice has grown a lot. But it's clear to me that I'm not aligned with the priorities of these platforms and their owners, and the space that I want to hold with you is ultimately a lot more relational and interactive than these platforms can support. So thank you so much for listening. Thank you for signing up. Thank you for sharing with your friends and networks. And thank you so much for your support. I hope to see you in the near future at one of the Embodied Astrology virtual events.

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Okay, on to your horoscope. Please remember as you listen that my intention as an astrologer is always to see and support your greatest well-being and potential. Sun sign horoscopes are general readings. If as you listen, something doesn't land for you, it's not for you. Please feel free to always take what works, leave the rest. Make the meaning that is most meaningful for you. I also want to remind you that you can find written transcripts of these horoscopes at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscopes section.

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Aries, hello, welcome to Pisces Season. Pisces is the sign that comes before Aries. This is the season that comes before yours. And so you can think about this time as the time of completion and the end of a cycle and a period of contemplation, integration, and release before you start a new cycle, which will be starting with the vernal equinox in the beginning of Aries Season on March 20th. During Pisces Season with the Sun moving through this part of your chart, you are encouraged to take rest, to engage with ideas of integrating and releasing. This is an imagine a time — imaginative time for you. This is a time that supports dreaming, fantasy life, being kind of whimsical. Also, if you are tired, if you're feeling fatigue, if you need rest, to give yourself those kinds of spaces when and where you can.

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Before I get into Pisces Season and the flow of days in Pisces Season, I want to backtrack a little bit and bring in the last week or so of Aquarius Season. There was a lot that was happening in the couple of days as we lead up to the current season. And I, I think that it's important to get us up to speed there. So beginning in mid-February, there is a remarkable shift of astrological energy. The beginning of the year, January and the first two weeks of February, have a concentrated quality of slow down and stuckness in some ways, a lot of people feeling fairly tired, a lot of sensations of blockages or uncertainty, fogginess, distractedness, etc. As we get into the end of February, things really start to shift: mentally, emotionally, energetically. There is much more of a movement forward at this point, and it's going to bring us through April and into May. And especially for Aries, you want to use this period of time because it is certainly an opportunity window for you to be doing some planning and also enacting, taking specific actions towards future goals, ideas that you have about current projects, where you want them to go, and also what you're setting yourself up for in the long run, in the big picture. And that can be on multiple levels: relationships, work, life purpose, your health, creative projects, etc.

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As we lead up to Pisces Season, I feel like you are having a sense of opening in your life a little bit. It feels like some burdens maybe are either getting relieved for you or you have more clarity on how you need to work with the challenges that you're currently facing. Especially when it comes to the future and what you're doing with your life or what you're doing with important projects or relationships, and a sense of how can you move forward, it feels like by the end of February, you do have a little bit more momentum, you have some more clarity. And I think you're feeling potentially a little more hopeful than you might have felt in the recent past. It also feels to me like when it comes to your self awareness and what your priorities are, there's something remarkable that's shifting, and you have increasing clarity around what you want to be investing your time, energy, and attention into. You might also have increasing clarity about what is valuable about you. And this is a big theme for you right now. It has been a theme for the last couple of years, beginning late last year and through the current year and into 2023, this is going to continue to be a major theme for you. What do you have to offer? And what do you have that you innately possess? And what are you cultivating in yourself that is of value in the world, that is of value to you and of value in the world?

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What you have and what you're cultivating that is of value to you, these are sensations of you satisfying yourself, you knowing who you are, who you want to be, again, what your priorities are, having more clarity around preferences, but also your value systems, what is truly important to you. And alongside that, there is a continuous development that, of course, you're going to be in for your entire life, but currently this has quite a focus on it, this development of yourself in some way. You are cultivating yourself. And what you're cultivating could include natural skills and talents, particular areas of interests, or ways of being, energies, attitudes, perspectives that you feel like — and you definitely feel because you have examples and evidence in the world — that you feel like this is bringing value into the world. And when you are like this, or when you do these things, or when you cultivate these skills, or when you give these gifts, you then receive nourishment, you receive the things that you need, whether you need affection and attention, whether you need money, other kinds of resources, etc. This is a period of time when the feeling of engaging with the idea of what is worth something, but also feeling your own worth and feeling the ways that you can draw in and magnetize and grow what is important to you, these are strong sensations currently. They're strong needs, they're questions, and you are also engaged in this work, you're doing this work. And this is the feeling that I have as we enter into Pisces Season. This sense of increasing optimism, some kind of new-ish orientation on how you might be moving forward with important projects, people, places, things, and a growing sense of your evolving value systems and how you value yourself and what you value in the world and what you want to increase.

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Alright, Pisces Season begins and I would love to invite you to come to the Embodied Astrology Pisces Season workshop. This is a live event on February 21st that will be recorded, and the recording will be available for purchase until the end of Pisces Season, March 20th. In this workshop, I'm going to be focusing on the association of Pisces to the endocrine system. You might be familiar with the endocrine system, this is your hormonal system. And your hormones have everything to do with your body's functionality, with the regulation of your metabolism, with all of the important cycles and organ processes of your body. But also very importantly, your endocrine really affects your mood and perception and your ability to perceive. And when we tune into certain chemical messengers in the body and the glands that produce those hormones, we can enhance certain states of perception or receptivity. So I'm going to be working with this in the Pisces Season workshop and I think that you might find it really beneficial. Because where Pisces is in your chart has a lot to do with what I would call an endocrine state. And the endocrine glands in the body secrete a very small amount of hormone. Just a drop of a particular chemical moving through your bloodstream can change your entire disposition. It can radically alter your experience of life in that particular moment. And you know this feeling if you've ever been scared or startled really suddenly, how your body can flood with stress hormones. Or if you've fallen in love, you might know the feeling of, you know, suddenly being transported into some state of reality where you don't need to eat or sleep and everything looks shimmery or something like that. That's hormones, you know, that's, that's your body responding to chemical messages. And you are really sensitive, Aries, to this state. And Aries doesn't always believe in its own sensitivity. Your sign archetype has a very kind of indestructible, headstrong nature to it. And you know, Aries as an archetype is the child of the zodiac. It's like, I can do anything, you know, I'm indestructible. And yet you are a human being, you are sensitive to your environment. And you may be actually more sensitive than some, simply because you don't realize all the time how sensitive you are, and that creates its own kind of sensitivity. And to bring awareness into environmental sensitivity, into your inner body state right now I think would be really helpful for you.

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There's a lot of planetary activity in Pisces that will continue to be a major highlight for the upcoming astrology in March and April. And this is going to transition into a period of time between May and October this year that continues to heighten your sensitivity. So I really want to invite you to get curious in Pisces Season about the ways that your state shifts. This is a big theme for Pisces Season for Aries: shifting states. You are finishing one cycle, you are moving into the next. You are solidifying in some ways your, your sense of self. And in this new solidity that I think you're starting to experience, there's also a lot of release, and they're happening at the same time. And so the more comfortable you can get with being in a liminal space right now, being in a space of relative unknown, there are things that are happening all around you, you're conscious of many of them, but how things are going to work out, you don't know. And it's important for you to give yourself as much comfort and support as you can in this unknown, because there's also a lot of emphasis in your charts on the future, and what you are trying to build and what you are working towards, and the questions that you have about all of the, all of the details that are going into that, particularly when it comes to your life purpose, the, the work or ways of being that you are crafting, the quality of your life that you really want to embody while you're here, and what that then means for the world around you, for the people around you. I feel like this is taking a lot of your focus right now, you're putting a lot of work in to being here on this planet and making something out of your life and somehow working with the conditions that you're in and the circumstances that you're navigating to turn it into something.

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Especially the last week of February and moving into the first couple of days of March, now we're definitely in Pisces Season, there's a lot of emphasis on, what are you building in your life? What are you trying to craft? What are you trying to cultivate, and why? And in this state, it is super helpful for you to not rush ahead. Of course, you want to know what your aim is, what your intentions are, what is motivating you. You might have certain goals in mind. In order to get to those goals, you have to be present with where you are. In the, in the moment of presence with where you are, this is where a lot of the shift is happening for you currently. Because you are in a major state of change right now. And you haven't yet left your old ways of being. You are working towards the future right now. This feels very clear in your chart, it feels really strong. You have ideas about where you want to go. You also have a lot of questions about where and how you're going to get there, and who's going to be there with you. For you to work in the ways that are most supportive to your current intentions, you have to work intuitively, you have to work in a way that is emergent, and present. And this is really important, especially in Pisces Season, and when we get into Aries Season this will be, this will continue to be a super important theme for you.

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And the sense that I'm getting here is that your method of protocol is shifting. And this is across all areas of your life. I include however you see your work, your career, your vocation, why you're here, your life purpose. I include your relationships, I include your motivations, I include your social aspirations, and kind of bigger picture ideas about what you can bring and do to any group of people that you might be a part of, any organizations that you might be interacting with, the world at large, etc. You are shifting your method, you are shifting your protocol, your ways of working are changing, but you have not entered into the new space just yet. In the current moment, you're in a really, I would say tender and vulnerable space. And you don't want to get spooked. You don't want to get freaked out. And so you need to move slow and you need to move with a lot of presence with yourself so that what doesn't happen is that you try something new in an impulsive way, maybe it doesn't go the way that you want it to, then you get freaked out and you're like, I better just do it the old way. I'm going to draw upon what I already know how to do. And then you're getting a little regressive, you're going back into the old programming, the old pattern, the old protocol. In whatever way this makes sense to you, and again, I want you to think about specific projects you're working on, particular aspirations that you have right now, specific relationships or ways of being in relationship, your motivation, why you — what you think is important and why you think it's important. You are changing, but you are in the change, you are not to the other side. There's still a lot of attachment that you have to the old ways of being, to the old value systems, to the old protocol, to the old method. You don't — you know that you don't want to continue doing it that way but you still are figuring out this new way. Throughout Pisces Season, you're gonna probably feel a little swimmy, a little displaced, maybe kind of awkward. And this is happening while you are getting fresh ideas, while there is new space opening up, while there are invitations being made for you to do things new ways. And you don't want to get spooked in that space. You want to remain present, curious, sensitive. Right? And, and feel into your shifting state and how you respond and react in the moment. And pay particular attention to the stimulation and triggers that are arising in your life that feel in your body or feel in your psyche or mind, like, you want to, oh no, like reach for the old thing. Right? That's where we're, we're trying to really invite some shift in.

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Now the New Moon on March 2nd is a great time to be giving a lot of energy and awareness into this shifting state of being. This is a New Moon in Pisces. Again, Pisces rules your solar 12th house, this is the place in the chart that is very ungrounded, it's very dispersed, very dreamy, really connected to your psychic body, to your intuitive body, and your sensitivity. This New Moon might be a time when, first of all, you really need some rest. So if you get into the last couple days of February and you are feeling really tired, my friend, please rest. Please rest. You might need to sleep like 18 hours a day, and if you can swing it, do it. This is a great time for you to let yourself off the hook. If you're feeling distracted, if you're feeling "unproductive" that's fine. This is a New Moon that wants you to dissolve a little bit, to disperse a little bit. Now you can use this New Moon energy when you help yourself dissolve. What helps you dissolve? Meditation. Right, that's one, that's one way where in a really healthy, grounding, integrating way, we can move in some ways kind of out of ourselves. We can work with breath awareness, body awareness, awareness of conscious mind thoughts, and really look for the empty space, right, follow the rhythm of your breath. Allow yourself to expand beyond the thoughts that are passing through your head right now, into the realm of sensitivity and sensation. Another way that you could do this, getting in large bodies of water or taking a bath, right, letting your, letting your whole body float, be held suspended in space. Any kind of creative practice, especially if you're a person who likes to make music, who likes to sing, who likes to dance, the feeling of losing yourself in something bigger than you is very satisfying at this time. And if you can give yourself opportunities to feel that in ways that are — that don't have you taking substances to do it, because that's certainly another way that you can access this state is getting high or something like that. But the reason why I would say maybe don't follow those avenues around this New Moon is because I want you to remember what is coming through. There is a lot of wisdom in liminal states for you right now, there's a lot of wisdom in your dream space, in your intuition. And in order for you to get that wisdom, you have to slow down and you have to give yourself that open, expansive, non-directed space. And when you let yourself float in that space, you get lots of information, lots of guidance, right? And this is the guidance that you want because you're trying to figure things out right now. Where are you going? What's the next step? Work, projects, relationships, life in general. Your inner guide has some messages for you. And they are asking you to get quiet so that you can receive them.

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Now, lucky for you, on March 2nd there is another Embodied Astrology event. This one with a guest facilitator, Dr. g (Claudelle Glasgow). And Claudelle is a meditation teacher. They are a somatic therapist. They're a death doula. They are a spiritual guide. And they will be offering a perfect practice for you. This is a Yoga Nidra practice, and it is literally what I have just been talking about. Yoga Nidra is a practice of wakeful dreaming. And so Claudelle will facilitate an experience that allows you to move into deeper brainwave states, out of the conscious mind or out of the front mind, and into some more expansive, intuitive, symbolic territory. And there's an invitation in this session to connect with ancestors, to connect with guides, guardians, etc. This will be super helpful for you, because I feel like this is what you're looking for right now and this is what you're needing. And I don't know about you, but for me, I always feel like somebody else holding space for me allows me to go into those places, often more easily than if I try and do it myself. Again, I don't know about you. For me, when I try and sit and meditate on my own. It's one thing that can be kind of distracted. When somebody is giving me a container, it helps me to relax. It really feels like this could be helpful for you. So that event is on March 2nd, that's a Wednesday, that's the day of the New Moon at 5:30pm Pacific. The recording, I believe will be available for one week. So check it out, you can get more information about either of the workshops I mentioned at embodiedastrology.com in the workshop section or in the shownotes.

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Now, this New Moon opens up a lot of space for you, Aries. And over the course of the next four or five days, there is a really profound shift of your energy. And it feels like this is where a lot of this change that I'm talking about is happening and you become conscious of some of the patterning that is the old patterning. You become really conscious of, of where it's located, how it functions. And you become conscious of how to transform it. And then you shift into a new state. And I think by the time we get into the second week of March, you are feeling significantly, palpably, like, different than you are feeling when we enter the season on, on February 19th. So notice this transition, I think that the New Moon in March and the couple of days around it, they feel like a portal in your chart, they feel like a major threshold of transformation. And it feels like on the other side of it, you are really getting some helpful ideas and strategies about how you want to move forward. Again, many areas of your life that you're moving forward with, they have to do with specific projects you're working on, they have to do with communication styles, they have to do with your self worth and self beliefs, they have to do with your relationships, they have to do with your motivation and your aims. And they also have to do with ideas of your future in general and what you want to be bringing into the spaces and the places where you are connecting with other people.

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Alright, so you're getting some strategies. This, the second week of March, I'm feeling like you've got a lot of new ideas coming in, and you are still in this liminal space. Okay, so we're continuing with a very similar theme. It's like, you know that feeling of when you get, when your leg falls asleep or something, when you haven't moved one of your limbs for a while, and then you start to move and your body is waking up but to move feels excruciating. And like, you don't know if you have enough strength in your leg to actually put weight into it or something like that. I have that kind of feeling for you in Pisces Season. And the feeling that I have is that new life energy is coming into you, new awareness of your strength, new capacity, but it is unpracticed and you therefore are kind of awkward and a little murky and not totally sure how you're going to do it, and that is so okay. And you just want to be generous with yourself. Stay open minded. Stay curious, stay inquisitive. Don't beat up on yourself if you're feeling confused, or you don't know how to do something right, or if something feels unpracticed and then you're like, "I should have done it like this." Just take a note, this is how you're going to do it next time, you don't need to beat up on yourself. Okay?

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The second week of March amplifies a need for rest for you. I want to remind us all, myself included right now, that integration happens when we sleep. We get a lot of information coming in all day long through various channels. It is demanding to be alive. People integrate when they sleep and dream is a really big part of that. During the second week of March, you, it feels like to me, need sleep. And if you're not necessarily needing sleep, then you are needing, again, to let yourself off the hook, to be a little dispersed, to be a little dissolved, be a little floaty, play music, dance, be creative, read poetry, take a bath. This is not a great time for you to try and get a lot done. It is a great time for you to get inspired and to, and to get this bigger strategy laid in. I think that you have a lot of ideas coming in, but again, they are not ideas in their final form. So they need you to be receptive and listening, but not rushing forward to make anything happen just yet.

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Also, in the second week of March and moving into the third week of March, there's something kind of going on for me around your relationships and communications with people. And it doesn't feel like a big deal, but I do want to say that, you included, people are going through a lot right now. And if communication goes in and out and you're not hearing back from people, or if you're feeling really floaty and you're not getting back to people, it's okay. This is, this a period of time when you want to be really generous with space with yourself and with others, and just let yourself and let others kind of come and go a little bit, and don't let yourself get freaked out by space.

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There is a Full Moon on March 18th. This is a Full Moon that wants you to pay attention to your health and your well-being, and really wants you to pay attention to your habits, your rhythms and how you take care of yourself in general, how you take care of your body, how you take care of your life. Now when it comes to the piece that I've been mentioning so far about this need for rest, now this is the counter to that, this is the balance to that. This is a Full Moon that is reminding you that you also need some discipline. And the question of your discipline, my sense is, is that this is part of the repatterning that you're going through. And when I say you also need some discipline, I'm feeling like some of you might have outdated ideas of what it means to be disciplined or what it means to work hard or work well or something like that, that need to get let go. And there might be new rhythms that you want to be practicing. I feel like a lot of you really want to give more time and space for general wellness. And that you want to organize yourself as much as possible in structured ways around that self care. And so if it means that you give yourself time for some kind of health or healing practice, and then, you know, you're going to give yourself 15 minutes on your way to work to stop and sit under your favorite tree or something like that. It's like, how do you think about the structure of your life as the structure that can contain care practices, caring for yourself, caring for what you want to be attending to? I know that for a lot of people, there's never enough time, there are never enough resources. And this is definitely a Full Moon that will amplify those feelings if you are not asking yourself to really look at, where can you make the time and access the resources. And remember that there is a lot of resource in you already. And that definitely one of your major resources right now is how you choose to direct your attention. That's major, right? How you choose to direct your attention.

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That Full Moon basically takes us to the vernal equinox in Aries Season, and there will be more in Aries Season of course, I'm going to talk to you about, but I think that these are the major themes that I want to leave you with. You are in a sensitive state right now, you are in a shifting state. In this state, you have a lot of sensitivities. You really want to care for yourself as best as you can. And the best ways for you to care for yourself right now are ways that allow you to get present with your own experience and your inner experience. Okay? You've got a ton of stuff going on. You got a ton of stuff that you're trying to do. All of those things will benefit when you are present with your inner experience, when you are curious about this shifting state.

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​​Alright, I am going to leave it there. I always recommend tuning in with horoscopes for your Sun and your rising signs. If you don't know your signs, you can get a free chart at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscope section, where you can also find your 2022 year ahead reading, which goes over the major themes of this year with suggestions for creative, embodied and practical support to make the most of your opportunities and work skillfully with your challengers. For support throughout Pisces Season, tune in with the Embodied Astrology workshops and member spaces. And definitely make sure you've signed up for at least my free level of membership to make sure that you get next month's horoscopes delivered directly to your inbox. For those of you who want to learn how to read your own chart and work with astrology, you might be interested in my class series Your Chart is a Body, an introduction to chart reading, where you'll learn to identify, interpret and synthesize the main components of an astrology chart — signs, planets aspects and houses — all through an embodied, somatic lens. These horoscopes and transcripts are offered for free. If this work benefits you, please consider making a one time or recurring donation. Other great ways to support this work include sharing it with your friends and networks, and of course, signing up for one of my membership levels. Until next time, I am wishing you all the best in Pisces Season and beyond.