The Spirit Daughter Podcast

You called in, and this week I am reading your charts on air. Three questions, three very different charts, and every one of them holds something you will recognize in your own.   Kim wanted to know what a sextile and a trine actually are, and what it means to carry six placements in Capricorn across the ninth and tenth houses. So we start there: a sextile is a gift you unwrap, a trine is a gift you already carry, and a stellium is a lot of power pointed in one direction. Dawn called in from Ann Arbor with no planets in earth and wanted to know what to do about it. A missing element is not a flaw, it is unfinished business, and I show you the three places in your chart to go find it.   Then a caller from Missouri, rebuilding her work and her relationships after motherhood, asked how to tell a true calling to care for others from over functioning. Her Jupiter in Pisces in the eighth house says healer. Her Moon in Capricorn in the sixth house says prove it. I give her four questions to tell the two apart in the moment. Pull up your own chart and listen along. One of these is yours.   Topics Covered: What an aspect actually is, and why the distance between two planets tells you how those parts of you talk The sextile: 60 degrees, an unlocked door, and the opportunity that waits for you to move first The trine: 120 degrees, same element, and the gift you use so easily you forget to count it The shadow side of a trine, and the better question to ask of it What a stellium is, and why six placements in Capricorn point at one summit Capricorn in the ninth and tenth houses: building a body of work and earning authority instead of announcing it Why Capricorn matures in reverse, and the twenties that feel behind before the forties that make sense How to find the placements that support a stellium through sextile and trine What it means to have no planets in an element, and why you still have that element in your chart The two ways a missing element shows up: avoiding it entirely, or overcorrecting into it Where to find your earth anyway: Saturn, the houses ruled by Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, and your second, sixth, and tenth houses Building a missing element on purpose: external structure, one repetition, and finishing one thing Moon in Capricorn in the sixth house, and the emotional home built out of usefulness Jupiter in Pisces in the eighth house: the real healer, and the placement with no natural edges Four questions to tell a true calling from over functioning while it is happening What Leo rising is actually asking for, and why being indispensable is not the same as being seen Releasing the belief that rest has to be earned, and the difference between a routine that holds you and a routine that scores you Resources: Follow Spirit Daughter on Instagram Visit the Spirit Daughter Website Get your Free Natal Chart to find your aspects, your stelliums, and your elements Get my book Spirit Daughter Book a Natal Chart Reading Try the Moment App for free Get the Libra Season Workbook Try the Moment App for free: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moment-by-spirit-daughter/id6739384947   Get the Libra Season Workbook: https://spiritdaughter.com/collections/workbook    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You have already seen the lists telling you what not to do for the next six weeks. This episode is not that. Venus stations retrograde on October 3 at 8 degrees of Scorpio and stations direct on November 13 in Libra, and Venus rules your heart, your self worth, your money, and everything you attract. When it turns inward, you get one of the most healing windows in all of astrology. I walk you through the whole timeline: retrograde in Scorpio during Libra season, the Venus star point on October 23 when it meets the sun and turns from an evening star into a morning star, the move back into Libra on October 25, and Mercury stationing retrograde right in the middle of it. Then I show you what each half is asking of you. Scorpio goes into the shadow, the self sabotage, the Venus wound sitting in your own chart, and the heartbreak you thought you had finished. Libra brings it back to partnership: how you show love, how you receive it, and what you believe you are worthy of attracting. This one comes with practices, including the 40 day list that leaves you with 400 things you love about yourself in your own handwriting. Venus retrograde is not happening to you. It is happening for you. Topics Covered: What a retrograde actually is, and why the backward motion is an optical illusion The full timeline: retrograde October 3 in Scorpio, back into Libra October 25, direct November 13 Why it turns retrograde in Scorpio during Libra season and moves through Libra during Scorpio season Mercury retrograde overlapping from late October, and why the two retrogrades are nothing alike Venus as a planet of manifestation: what you let yourself want, and what you let yourself receive The eight year cycle, and what was happening in your heart in 2018 and in 2010 Why an ex often returns during Venus retrograde, and what it is usually there for Venus retrograde in Scorpio: shadow work, self sabotage, and the heartbreak you thought was finished Your Venus wound in your natal chart becoming impossible to ignore Projecting your own shadow onto your partner during Libra season Why shadow work is about acceptance, not removal, and how self belief grows out of self love The Venus star point on October 23 and the shift from evening star to morning star Why the descent always ends in a rise Venus retrograde in Libra: how you show love, how you receive it, and what you attract Attracting from your wounds versus attracting from your worth Being partner number one to yourself, and using that as the blueprint for everyone else What to do: review your commitments, have the conversation you have been avoiding, reconnect with a friend, return to a creative project, forgive What to wait on: new relationships, impulsive decisions about your appearance or your money, and assuming a returning ex means reconciliation The 40 day practice: 10 things you love about yourself every day, 400 by the end Giving yourself your own love language The letter you write and never send Going outside to watch Venus move from an evening star to a morning star Journaling Prompts: What was happening in my love life and my money in the autumn of 2018? What is still unfinished from then? Where am I giving more than I am receiving, and when did I decide that was normal? What do I actually find beautiful, before anyone told me what to like? What am I still holding from a heartbreak that has not finished moving through me? What is my love language, and how am I failing to give it to myself? What did I agree to when I was a different person that I would not agree to now? If I believed I was worth it, what would I ask for this week? What pleasure did I give up, and why? Who do I need to have one honest conversation with before this ends? Ten things I love about myself, today. Timestamps: [00:02] Welcome, and why this is not a list of what you cannot do [02:02] The full timeline: October 3, back into Libra October 25, direct November 13 [03:21] What a retrograde actually is, and everything Venus rules [04:38] Venus as a planet of manifestation [05:45] Why Venus retrograde and Mercury retrograde are nothing alike [07:32] The cycle: every eighteen months, and the eight year pattern [08:36] Journal this: who was I then, and how have I evolved [09:18] Venus retrograde in Scorpio, and why it does not stay on the surface [10:44] The patterns and the codependency that keep showing up [11:14] Realizing where you have been sabotaging yourself [12:04] Your own Venus placement becoming impossible to ignore [14:07] Finding the courage and the support to face it [15:04] Accepting your shadows, and how self belief grows out of self love [17:13] Projecting your shadow onto your partner [17:30] The heartbreak you distracted yourself from [19:27] Why retrograde motion is an optical illusion [20:37] The dance with the sun: evening star to morning star [21:35] Being seen in the morning light [22:52] Venus retrograde in Libra: partnership and worth [24:09] How you show love, and why people rarely give it to themselves [26:14] Feeling safe in a new partnership [27:49] Every partnership, not only the romantic ones [29:29] Being partner number one to yourself [30:20] What to do: review your commitments [31:34] The conversation you have been putting off [32:54] The creative project you set down [34:36] What to wait on [35:39] Money, resources, and big decisions [36:31] When an ex returns, and what it is really there for [37:26] The 40 day practice: ten things you love about yourself [38:04] Why you write it by hand [39:32] The letter you write and never send [40:36] Go outside and watch Venus move [41:19] Journaling prompts and the house your Venus sits in [42:21] It is not happening to you, it is happening for you Resources: Enroll in The Call It In Method before enrollment closes September 30 Listen to the Train Your Brain for Abundance masterclass Follow Spirit Daughter on Instagram Visit the Spirit Daughter Website Get your Free Natal Chart to find your Venus Get my book Spirit Daughter Book a Natal Chart Reading Try the Moment App for free Get the Libra Season Workbook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You have set intentions before. On a New Moon. On the first day of the year. On a night when something in you decided things were going to be different. And then two weeks later you could not remember what you wrote. So this episode is not about how to set an intention. It is about why. Why this one practice sits at the center of everything I teach, when it takes ninety seconds and nobody is checking your work. The answer is not that the universe is waiting to take your order. It is that your brain is listening. An intention is not a wish you send out. It is an instruction you send in. Before I was an astrologer I was a neuroscientist, and in this one I hand you the science. Your brain filters what you notice, predicts what is coming, and rewires itself through repetition, and an intention is the one lever you have on all three. I break down why you cannot do a goal, what the research on implementation intentions actually found, and why dopamine spikes in the pursuit and not the arrival. Then I give you the four steps you can do tonight, and I show you the sequence the sky is walking us through: release on the Full Moon in Aries September 26, review through Venus retrograde starting October 3, plant on the New Moon in Libra October 10. Write one sentence tonight. That is the whole practice. Topics Covered: Why your intentions keep fading by week two The real question: not how to set an intention, but why it works Intention versus goal, and why you cannot do a goal How an intention lives in today while a goal lives in someday Why an intention changes what you notice, what you choose, and what you are willing to do Filtering: the reticular activating system and how your brain decides what gets through What happens when your filter has been set for years to notice what is missing Predicting: why your brain is not a camera, it is a prediction machine Wiring: neuroplasticity and why repetition is the whole mechanism Specificity and the research on implementation intentions Dopamine spikes in the anticipation and the pursuit, not the arrival Why the intentions that work are the ones you can feel in your chest The Full Moon in Aries on September 26 at three degrees, and what to release Venus stationing retrograde October 3 through November 13 and your relationship with worth The New Moon in Libra on October 10 at seventeen degrees as your intention setting window Step one: name the state, not the outcome Step two: attach a when and a where Step three: feel it for sixty seconds Step four: repeat it for thirty days, and what to do when you miss a day Why small and repeated beats big and rare every time Writing it by hand, in the same place, so you can watch what changes The Call It In Method, starting October 1, with enrollment closing September 30 Why you are already setting intentions, and most of them are old ones Timestamps: The OMNY file for this episode has a single continuous time marker, so section timestamps are not available. Topics Covered follows the order of the episode. Resources: Enroll in The Call It In Method, my twelve week manifestation program starting October 1. Enrollment closes September 30 Watch the free Train Your Brain for Abundance masterclass replay Follow Spirit Daughter on Instagram Visit the Spirit Daughter Website Get your Free Natal Chart Get my book Spirit Daughter Book a Natal Chart Reading Try the Moment App for free Get the Libra Season Workbook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gabby Bernstein has written eleven books, was named a thought leader by Oprah, and has been teaching spiritual principles for twenty years. She is also the reason Spirit Daughter exists. I read her first book over a decade ago, and it cracked something open in me that eventually became this whole life. So having her in the room to read her chart is a full circle moment I still cannot quite believe. Gabby is Sagittarius rising with Neptune in Sagittarius sitting in the twelfth house, which is why people feel the room expand the second she walks on a stage. Then there is Scorpio, three placements of it, including her sun in the tenth house. Sagittarius is wide. Scorpio goes to the depths of the psyche and refuses to come back up until it understands what it found. That combination is her entire body of work. We also get into her Chiron in Taurus in the fourth house, the worth wound underneath the woman who hires help and then quietly does the job herself, and the Chiron return that starts for her this June. Gabby gets honest about things she does not always say out loud. Addiction in her early twenties and sobriety at twenty five. Losing a pregnancy at six months and the kitten who arrived to heal her. Channeling every one of her books, including the one she is writing right now with no outline, chapter by chapter, as it is given to her. And the piece I want everyone to hear: your nervous system cannot manifest from hypervigilance. Manifestation is not about getting things. It is about returning to who you really are. Pull up your own chart, find your Chiron, and listen in. Topics Covered: Why Gabby's first book became the spark behind Spirit Daughter Sagittarius rising and why so many teachers carry it Neptune in Sagittarius in the twelfth house and the expansion people feel around her Sun in Scorpio in the tenth house: going deep in public Three Scorpio placements, and Gabby on being hit with a lot of tsunamis South Node in Pisces and North Node in Virgo: the escape she left behind and the teaching she came for The reverse nodal return she is completing, and why it arrives around forty five The low side of the Pisces South Node: escapism, isolation, addiction, and getting sober at twenty five The low side of the Virgo North Node: perfectionism and burnout Channeling all eleven books, and writing the new one with no outline Chiron in Taurus in the fourth house: worth, the body, and the childhood foundation Hiring people and then doing their job anyway, and what that pattern is really about The tarot reading about Tupperware and China plates Internal Family Systems: protector parts, Self energy, and updating a part instead of removing it The Chiron return, what it is, and why it comes only once, just before fifty Why you cannot manifest from a nervous system stuck in fight or flight Manifestation as a return to who you already are Gabby's meditation practice: an hour a day at noon The cemetery tree, her son Ollie, and a faith of your own understanding Libra midheaven with Pluto in Libra: holding opposing truths as her legacy Moon in Aries in the third house: born to communicate from the heart Saturn in Virgo in the ninth house: the soul contract to teach, and the mentors who shaped her The eleventh house stack and why she stays in real relationship with her community Her Jupiter return in 2027 and the launch window it opens Neptune and Saturn in Aries pressing on her moon, and what that means for the writing ahead Timestamps: 00:02 Welcome, and the full circle moment of reading Gabby's chart 01:36 Twenty years of demystifying spiritual principles for the seeker 02:19 How Gabby's first book sparked Spirit Daughter 04:36 The big three: Sagittarius rising, Scorpio sun, Aries moon 05:38 Neptune in Sagittarius in the twelfth house 06:42 Sun in Scorpio in the tenth house: wide versus deep 07:44 Three Scorpio placements and a lot of tsunamis 09:28 The lunar nodes and the reverse nodal return 13:03 Channeling every book, and how the frequency shifts 13:23 Pisces South Node: addiction, and sobriety at twenty five 15:50 Virgo North Node: come down the mountain and teach 17:53 Tupperware and China plates 19:22 Chiron in Taurus in the fourth house and the worth wound 25:24 Internal Family Systems and updating your protector parts 27:48 The Chiron return, and why it happens once 31:38 Why a dysregulated nervous system cannot manifest 33:54 Manifestation is not about getting things 36:38 An hour of meditation a day, and the kitten who came to heal her 39:43 The cemetery tree and a faith of your own understanding 41:19 Libra midheaven and Pluto in Libra: her legacy 42:50 Moon in Aries in the third house 43:41 Saturn in Virgo in the ninth house and the mentors who shaped her 48:29 The eleventh house stack and staying in relationship with her community 50:28 Writing the new book chapter by chapter, with no outline 51:12 The Jupiter return in 2027 and the window it opens 57:23 Neptune and Saturn in Aries on her moon: the next six months 1:02:02 How the title Spirit Daughter came to be 1:04:17 Where to find Gabby Resources: Follow Gabby Bernstein on Instagram Visit Dear Gabby Find Gabby's books, including Self Help, Super Attractor, and The Universe Has Your Back Listen to the Dear Gabby podcast Join the free Train Your Brain for Abundance masterclass Enroll in The Call It In Method before enrollment closes September 30 Follow Spirit Daughter on Instagram Visit the Spirit Daughter Website Get your Free Natal Chart to find your Chiron Get my book Spirit Daughter Book a Natal Chart Reading Try the Moment App for free Get the Libra Season Workbook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You already know your sun sign matters for manifestation. It is your core essence, the center of you, and when your inner sun is out of alignment, nothing else in your life lines up either. What most people do not know is that two other planets in your chart are doing the quiet, deciding work: Venus and Jupiter. Venus is how you attract and how you receive. It is also where your self worth lives, which means you only allow yourself to hold what you feel worthy of. A Venus wound looks like playing small, deflecting compliments, not asking for what you actually want, attracting the safe version instead of the real one, or standing right next to an opportunity and never seeing it. Jupiter is expansion, abundance, and your highest potential, and a Jupiter wound looks like missing the finish line on purpose. It is settling for the smaller version, refusing to hope for the best so you cannot be disappointed, or feeling like you are taking up too much space the moment your vision actually arrives. In this mini episode I show you what each wound looks like, how to read your own Venus and Jupiter signs for the healing, and what happens when the two work against each other, where Venus attracts effortlessly but Jupiter will not let you expand, or Jupiter opens the door and Venus will not let you receive. Pull up your chart, find your Venus sign and your Jupiter sign, and listen in. Venus stations retrograde on October 3, so this is the moment to understand it. Topics Covered: Why your sun sign is the center of your manifestation and has to stay in alignment Venus and Jupiter as your two manifestation planets, and why their signs flavor everything Venus as attraction, receiving, and self worth What a Venus wound looks like: playing small, deflecting, and settling for the safe version Attracting opportunities that do not match your worth How to read your Venus sign and house for the healing, with Venus in Leo and Venus in Libra as examples Jupiter as abundance, expansion, luck, and your highest potential What a Jupiter wound looks like: selling yourself short right at the finish line Refusing to hope for the best so you cannot be disappointed Feeling like you are taking too big a piece of the pie Why your brain treats your biggest vision as unsafe How to read your Jupiter sign for the healing, with Jupiter in Virgo and Jupiter in Aquarius as examples When Venus and Jupiter work against each other, and how to spot it in your chart How your moon, your second house, your eighth house, and your tenth house factor in Venus stationing retrograde on October 3 and what to do with that window Timestamps: 00:03 Why your sun sign is the center of everything you manifest 01:13 Venus and Jupiter, your two manifestation planets 03:21 What a Venus wound looks like: playing small and deflecting 05:14 Venus in Leo and Venus in Libra as examples 06:40 Jupiter, abundance, and the fear of expansion 08:20 Why you stop yourself right before the finish line 08:51 How your brain protects you from your biggest visions 09:59 Healing the Jupiter wound through its sign 11:03 When Venus and Jupiter work against each other 12:25 How your sun, moon, and houses factor in 13:53 Venus retrograde on October 3 and the free abundance masterclass Resources: Join the free Train Your Brain for Abundance masterclass for in depth information on your sun, Venus, and Jupiter signs Get your Free Natal Chart to find your Venus and Jupiter signs Follow Spirit Daughter on Instagram Visit the Spirit Daughter Website Get my book Spirit Daughter Book a Natal Chart Reading Try the Moment App for free Get the Libra Season Workbook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.