TAURUS
Notice how your knowing is shifting,
becoming more nuanced, articulate, assured.
Notice the sensation of settling in with who you truly are and how
what is asked of you changes and becomes easier to give
when you stop trying to please
and commit to your determination to live.

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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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Hello, Taurus. Welcome to Pisces Season. As I am tuning in with your chart, I am remembering the power of Pisces for your sign. And this is a really powerful time of year for you. This is a really powerful energy for you. Pisces in the Taurus solar chart describes where the world opens up and where you can reach into your networks, into your connections, into the unknown, into your hoped for, dreamed for, idealized, what could possibly be, future. In the place of the future, there are hopes and fantasies, there are dreams and wishes, there are certainly plenty of doubts and fears. But this is a season that is opening up that space for you, and I think is inviting you to dream and imagine what could be. I think that you have some new dreams that have been in a state of emergence for a while now, at least since last May, June. There's been something seeping in, creeping into the corners of your imagination. It may feel more like quality and sensation, or fantasy, than actual plans at this point, But there are ideas there about what it — I mean, I'm doing air quotes around the word “it” — what it could be like, and what is it? It is your life. And your life includes a whole lot of things, right? Your life is enormous. And so what are the areas of your life that have been taking a lot of your concentration and focus? Where do you feel a sense of expansion and growth and new opportunities on the horizon? These are the focal points for Pisces Season.

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Before we get into Pisces Season in the flow of days, I want to bring in the last week of Aquarius Season — there were a lot of big shifts that came in that week. And this feels like a major shift in momentum and speed, January, the first week or two of February. Even though with the beginning of the, of the new year, there definitely, I think was a sense of newness that came in with the astrology charts, there was also a lot of stuckness, there was a lot of slowness. And for you it feels like the stuckness and slowness was really a time that was asking you to remain and linger with some ideas with some sensations or qualities of being and feel your way through. And this for me has a sensation of where do we go from here? And what do we need in order to get where we want to go? I feel like you're asking yourself in the beginning of the year, some big questions about what's important to you in your life and how you want to make space for what these things, people, places are. There feels like there was also some pretty remarkable shift, the last week of Aquarius Season that comes in in the relational field. But what it actually feels like in your chart is that it gives you information about how you want to proceed. So some circumstance, some events, some state of development in a particular relationship, or relationships in general, is a motivating factor in some way for you to conceive of yourself or your present circumstances slightly differently. And I think that as we move into Pisces Season, you have some strong ideas about how you want to be and particularly when it comes to your communication, and what you are sharing with others or what needs to be shared or what needs to be agreed upon or acknowledged, or the ways that you need to take care of yourself. These are our highlights of importance. And when you take care of yourself, when you give space for these agreements, these communications, etc., it takes care of the relationship. But it does feel like there's a pretty significant point of evolutionary development for you right now, that has you shifting your focus from orienting on the relationship or the other person as the point of kind of like primary, you know, concern like, oh, what does this person need, or what is our relationship need or something like that, I feel like you're shifting and you're putting the focus on yourself first. And I think that this is a good thing, that this is you really looking at your own accountability, at your own capacity and your own needs for support with the awareness that this is going to be ultimately more helpful for the relationship and for the people who you're relating with, then if you put the cart before the horse, as they say — if you put your focus on the relationship before you check in with your own needs, or where you're coming from, or something like that.

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Um, okay, the last thing that I want to say as we move into Pisces Season is just that it really does feel to me like something is starting to land for you in terms of a personal philosophy, and an understanding for yourself about the kind of person you are becoming. Who you are is going to change your whole life. You're different now than you were 10 years ago, 10 years from now you're going to have new, you know, new and improved ideas about who you are and who you're becoming. But there's something particular that's happening right now, that I think is really important to notice. Because you are emerging into a new space in a lot of ways and I've certainly talked about this in a lot of your horoscopes for the last years. This was a main theme in your 2022 year ahead reading — who you are is really changing right now. And something is happening as we move into Pisces Season, that is clarifying some very important piece around your personal philosophies, your belief systems, your orientation, your worldview. This might be you healing from some trauma, this might be you recognizing a new strength or capacity. This might be you integrating ideas that you've come across conceptually, you know that you've read about or heard astrologers talking about or you've talked about or something. And I mean, do you have this experience? I feel this all the time as an astrologer. Like I'll say things and I'm like, "That is a great idea," right and then working with it — actually being it, embodying it is totally different. Because the material realm, the bodily realm includes so much of the past, right? We are built from the past, literally, our cells carry genetic DNA memory of centuries ago. So we can have great ideas about who we're going to be next week, but it's going to take a while for our psyches and our bodies to catch up with those ideas. And it feels like you are catching up with something as we move into Pisces Season and there's something that is landing for you. And this is giving you strength and courage and also a particular kind of magnetism and attractiveness that's helping you gain support to move forward in this new way.

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Alright, Pisces Season we're getting into it now. In the first couple of days of Pisces Season, I'll be offering a workshop, this is on February 21st. This is the Embodied Astrology regular monthly seasonal workshop — this month we're working with Pisces. My focus will be on Pisces, bodily or somatic association with the endocrine system. The endocrine system has to do with your glands and glandular function. Glands secrete hormones, and hormones are the chemical messengers of your body. They make everything work. Your hormones get into your bloodstream, they work with your nervous system. They regulate all of your bodily cycles: your sleep cycle, your metabolic cycle, your sex, drive, your aging process, etc. Hormones also have a huge influence on how we feel emotionally, and cognitively and how we are able to perceive the world. There are a lot of meditation practices that work with particular kinds of glandular activation in order to open up new realms of perception. And that will be the focus for the Pisces Season workshop, we'll be looking at the endocrine system function and working with some simple practices to help ourselves both balance and regulate our our glands and endocrine bodies, but also to gain a sense of awareness and some kind of agency in our more subtle bodies. And our subtle bodies are our energy bodies, our intuitive bodies, our psychic or spirit bodies. So this is where we're going to be working. And I think that you might really enjoy this workshop. For you, again, Pisces holds this place in your chart that has to do with the future, and your dreams and wishes for the future.

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Now, at this point, you may have come across one of the bazillions of people talking about how on a neurological level, we can set ourselves up for certain kinds of experiences. And we are also set up for certain kinds of experiences because of the attitudes, behaviors, perceptive patterns, etc, that we are entrained with, that our cultures and societies enforce — on and on. In order to dream into the future, we have to be able to dream, right, and one of the major things that stops us from dreaming and stops us from imagining is fear, and stress. And in 2022, there's a lot of reasons to be stressed out and fearful. Now, without even talking about the circumstances of the world, I'm going to just continue to talk about how we can work with ourselves to stay in a space of possibility, potentiality, imaginative, open mindedness. And I think that you really want this for yourself right now because I think that you are dreaming some new dreams for your life. You are wanting to put into practice these life philosophies that you have been feeling inspired by that you are motivated by that you are saying yes to. And the more that you can work with yourself in your subtle body state, to open up to these ways of being, then the more supported you will be in your material life to realize them. So please come to the workshop, if you can. The live event is on February 21st. The recording will be available through March 20th. I think that it would be a great support for you.

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As we move into the last week of February, now we are in Pisces Season. And this last week of February emphasizes this feeling of directionality and path for you. It emphasizes the philosophy, the guiding principles. It feels to me like you are fortifying some important ideas about who you are, and who you want to be. A lot of you are doing really beautiful work right now — really necessary work right now — around your relationships, and how your sense of self, and particularly your sense of self-worth, are huge factors in your relationships. The capacity that you have to love yourself, in all of your human messiness, and all of your imperfections, is of pantamount importance right now. And the capacity that you have to act with clarity, and integrity and to move in the direction of building the futures that you want, has everything to do with how you're going to come into relationships right now, because it feels to me like there is a tone of seriousness in your chart. And this doesn't mean you're not feeling playful, I think that you are that, you know, your imaginative future needs you to be playful. But there's also a sense of seriousness in the feeling that I'm getting that you don't want to waste more of your time and energy in, especially in relational dynamics that are bullshit, where you are getting messed with by other people or you are messing with other people, or people aren't communicating clearly, or people are caught up in a mess and misusing their own power, or whatever. You know, there are so much relationship drama out there that we can involve ourselves in. I feel like you don't really want to be involved in it. And this is coming in everywhere, because your life is relational. So this is about how you're working with people. This is about your professional sphere. This is about how you make money. This is about the friends that you choose. This is about the partners and the lovers that you have. This is about how you parent. This is about how you relate with your parents. This is about how you relate with the world in general. I feel like you want to be solid in yourself. You don't want to be wishy-washy. You don't want to be vulnerable to your own insecurity, in ways that let other people manipulate you, or take advantage of you, or that have you going into spaces where you are manipulating and taking advantage of other people because you are feeling insecure, I think you are done with these patterns. And in the last week of February, it feels really clear that you are moving on. I feel you really connecting to your guiding principles, to your highest vision for the world and for who you can be. And I feel you really embodying those qualities.

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The New Moon on March 2nd, is a New Moon that is asking you to spend some time with your vision for the future. This would be a great New Moon for you to make a vision board. Vision boarding can be kind of corny, depends on your perspective. Some people think it's real cheesy, I tend to think it's pretty magical as practice, you know, to go through a bunch of magazines or something like that and cut out images or phrases that feel inspiring for you that are something you're trying to adopt into your life right now. You might want to write out a plan, you might want to meditate and envision, but it feels like this is a New Moon that is really asking you to indulge fantasy and imagination with the question of what could possibly be? And the question I want to ask you, and I am asking you this question with so much consciousness and honor and respect for the devastation and the brutality that is in the world right now. Okay, I'm not trying to bypass that. But the question that I want to ask you right now is, what if it all worked out? What if it was good? What if it was good? What does it feel like in your body when you entertain the idea that maybe it could be good? What comes up in your mind? What are the defenses? What are the opportunities? What are your hopes? What is the body state? Spend some time there. Notice what emerges and what arises. I think that if you let yourself rest with that question, you'll connect with some pretty beautiful and nourishing ideas and images that can help sustain you over the coming time. But you might also see very clearly what patterns and ways of being and ideas keep you from it being good. I'm not saying you're keeping you only, there's, you know, all the circumstantial, conditional, all the external, all the isms, all the institutional crap. But there's also, it feels like, there's something that wants to get sorted out in your subtle body right now, around what you believe could be possible for yourself and what you're even willing to make space for. This feels like a powerful New Moon for you to ask that question.

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On the day of the New Moon on March 2nd, which is a Wednesday at 5:30pm, Embodied Astrology is hosting a really amazing teacher, very powerful guide, Dr. g (Claudelle Glasgow), who is a somatic therapist, and death doula, and spiritual counselor and guide, and they will be offering a Yoga Nidra practice called Ancestral Whispers. This is an opportunity to have space held for you to imagine. And I don't know about you, but for me, my imaginative space does a different thing when someone else is holding a container for me. I reach different spaces, I come to different insight, I can travel to different places. So maybe you're like that too. Dr. g is an amazing facilitator, they're going to be bringing a lot of different practices into the space. The main practice being a Yoga Nidra practice, which is the practice of dreaming while awake and accessing deeper brain waves that help you go underneath the constant chatter of your frontal lobe, right, like the part of your brain that has a million things to do and think about and it helps you get into the place where vision can happen, where dream can happen and where you can access guidance from the subtle realms, from the ancestors, from the dream realms, from the spirit realms, etc. I think that this could be a really supportive, really nourishing space for you, especially when it comes to this  New Moon and what's coming through in Pisces Season, which is the need for you to dream into your future. So if you want more information on Dr. g's workshop or on my workshop in February, check the show notes or embodiedastrology.com in the workshop section.

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This New Moon is powerful. And in the charts, it sets up a kind of portal feeling. In the next couple of days, the four or five days following the New Moon, there is a lot of energetic shift. In your chart, this feels like you moving through some kind of major threshold, it feels like you're moving through a barrier of some kind. And the barrier that you're moving through is an ideological barrier. And so when I was asking you when, around the New Moon, to tune in with your fantasy and your imagination, what if it could be good? What comes up when you ask yourself that question? Are there ideas about why it can't be good, or why it can't be good for you, you know that that emerge there? I bet there are. It feels like this, that you have some kind of ideological barrier that you're trying to get past and in the first week of March, you're pushing against it. And this could have to do with your belief systems, it definitely could have to do with your past experiences, I'm sure you've had plenty of experiences that have given you very clear information about why it can't be good or won't be good. And maybe especially not for you or something like that. It feels like you're doing some healing work around this time, that you are working very deeply with the parts of your being that are both very sensitive and relational and receptive. And also the parts of your being that are outward moving, that are active that are asserting themselves in the world. And I feel you coming into a new space. And as we get into the second week, week of March, as the moon starts to grow in its waxing crescent phase, I feel like you have the internal space for a different kind of imagination.

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Leading up to that time you are pushing through some kind of wall. And then we, when we get to the other side, you are having a new kind of idea enter into your field. New images, new sensations, new dreams, old dreams getting bigger, getting more filled out, there's a feeling here of opportunity opening for you. And opportunity is a big theme throughout the month of March, you've got a lot of opportunities coming in actually, March and April, lots of opportunities coming in. And these are opportunities that come in from the world out there. When I talked to the beginning of the horoscope about how Pisces holds this kind of peripheral space for you of what could be possible out there in the world, in the friend of your friend of your friend, right? Oh, I know somebody that knows somebody who has this perfect job for you, this kind of thing. I know somebody that knows somebody who would be your perfect, you know, new lover, something like that it's like, this is this is my sense, is that as we get into the second week, week of March, you've got a lot of opportunity starting to open up new friends coming in, new contacts, new avenues within your pre-existing connections, project opportunities, invitations, there is space that is opening up for you.

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Now you want to be available to this space. And you want to be available to it from a grounded and secure place within yourself. Right? And so if you kind of track back to what I was talking about before, was talking about relationships, and the need that you have at this time to shift into a new way of relating that is more secure, right, that is not giving opening to drama. And as we get into this opportunity phase for you, this big opportunity window, it's really important that you do not indulge the drama. And if you are in a visionary space or an imaginative space with other people, that you are in that space with accountability and groundedness, that you're not tripping out and that you're not with people who are tripping out — because you want to grow right now. You want to actually move into these possibilities that are opening for you. And you have to know which are the right opportunities. And that means that you have to be attuned in your inner body and in your sensitivity, so that you know, when you're responding to someone from a place of insecurity, insensitivity, distraction, disassociation, you don't want to be there, right? You want to feel a whole body yes, when you say yes. And if you're not sure, then you, you want to have the wherewithal to kind of put it on pause for a minute and give yourself some time to feel into whether or not this is actually the right opportunity for you.

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Another thing that I want to say about mid-March, is that money and resource concerns are coming up around this time. It feels like you're in a phase right now where resources come and go, right? Like easy come, easy, go with the money, it flows in, it flows out. This is a time for you to just trust that, I think, I am getting that you don't want to be in scarcity patterns. And that scarcity patterning is part of what, in the past, has been a factor in making decisions that have led to relationship drama. Okay, like, oh, no, what if they leave me? What if I never get this opportunity again? What if that, you know, it's like, there's, there's enough, there is enough, you don't want to entertain scarcity mindsets, okay? Especially in mid-March, moving into the beginning of April, those things come up, resource yourself in the ways that you know how to do and, and try and breathe through it. There are lots of opportunities coming for you, you do not need to take the first one. And you definitely don't need to take any that for any reason you have a little like inner 'no' about or uncertainty. Give yourself time, say yes to the ones that are right for you.

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There's a Full Moon on March 18th in Virgo, in your fellow earth sign, Virgo holds a really exciting place in your chart. And this is the place of pleasure. This is the place of enjoyment of self-expression, of self-actualization, of romantic energy, of creative energy. And this Full Moon feels like it is really bringing a lot of energy into your body, into your spirit. I feel like there's maybe some social elements that are important around this time, like these relationships that are, you're like, “Ooh, maybe they're gonna be good,” right? Like, maybe they're not gonna be drama. I feel like there's support for you with this Full Moon. And I certainly hope that there is, it definitely feels like a Full Moon that has a lot of energy with it. And this energy for you, and your chart wants to get expressed through some kind of creative or performative, or intentionally dramatic kind of activity, like karaoke, or something like that, you know, go be super dramatic and headbang or something, but then leave the relationship drama, get it all out on stage, that kind of thing.

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I think this is a Full Moon that wants you to release some energy, it has a high energy vibration in your chart. And mostly it feels really good. And I think it could also be a Full Moon that brings in a lot of ideas for you. And when it comes to visioning the future this, this definitely feels like you got a lot of ideas coming in all of March, you are an idea factory. New ideas coming in, coming and coming in. With two days left of Pisces Season bringing us to the vernal equinox on March 20th, there's kind of just more of the same. But I do want to say that there continues to be an amplification in your chart of the realm of ideas and the realm of possibilities in the future. And that it's really important for you to be clear about your priorities and to be paying attention to your inner body, to your emotional body, your energetic body and your deeper patterning. And notice, you know, when does scarcity patterning come up? When does drama patterning come up? You want to move past, through and away from those ways of being and into this new space.

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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.