PART I: INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

• Astrology is a conversation with the cosmos – like a Shakespearian play
  • Planets – are the actors playing a role
  • Sign – the role they’re playing, how they are acting
  • Houses – what part of your life is being illuminated
• A birth chart is your road map and shows your growth potential
• Transits—the travel of the planets through different areas of a chart
  • Faster transit like the moon, shows us the ebb and flow of everyday life
  • Slower transit like Saturn tends to be more transformative
• Each house has a theme + are placed at polar opposites
• Lower Half of the Chart is the Nighttime/Internal + Private life
  • 1st Quarter – Self Developmental Stages
    • 1st – Self: Your personality, sets the tone for how you perceive and approach the world, how you start things
    • 2nd – Resources: What resources do you have – talents, skills, money and possessions
    • 3rd – Communicate: How you perceive and receive information, environment
  • 2nd Quarter
    • 4th – Home: physical, legacy, roots, inner home, most private part of your chart
    • 5th – Play: Our abilities to create and birth into the world
    • 6th – Health, Work, Pets – how are we of service in the world
• Top Half of the Chart is Daytime + Public life
  • 3rd Quarter – Challenging you in relationship
    • 7th – Relationships – marriage, partnerships, open enemies (great place to look for issues being reflected back to us for examination)
    • 8th – Relationships behind closed doors, shared resources, sexuality, where deeper transformation happens
    • 9th – Higher education – expanding views, philosophies
  • 4th Quarter –
    • 10th – Your career and reputation
    • 11th – Friends, hopes and dreams, community, network
    • 12th – Unconscious, blind spots, dissolution, becoming one with the collective
• The signs of the Zodiac
  • Aries – Me “Here I am!”
  • Taurus – “What do I have?”
  • Gemini – How do I communicate?
  • Cancer – My home, my roots
  • Leo – What do I create?
  • Virgo – Harvest time, how do we create order
  • Libra – How do we relate 1-1 and compromise?
  • Scorpio – Invites deeper transformation, no fluff
  • Sagittarius – How are you going to widen your perspective?
  • Capricorn – What you want to be known for, your ambition
  • Aquarius – “Where are we going in the future?”
  • Pisces – “What am I sacrificing and letting go to serve the collective?”

The Key Pyramid
Sun sign (our road) – who we are and what we are becoming more deeply 
Rising sign – ascendent (our vehicle) – the first impression others have of you and how you approach life, the packaging of your business 
The Moon – what lunar phase were you born under? What do you need to do for yourself to feel nurtured? What do you tend to lead with emotionally?

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PART II: ACTION STEPS

Join Vanessa and I for a fascinating conversation about the moon cycles. Vanessa explains how to use the energy of the moon to power up your ability to manifest.

About the Guest:

Vanessa Couto and her family emigrated to the U.S. from Brazil when she was 10 years old. She lived in different parts of Brazil and the US. Before settling in Portland, Oregon, she lived in New York City for many years.

It was her love for astrology that she pursed her MA in Counseling Psychology (with an emphasis in Depth Psychology) from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. During her studies, she immersed herself in the works of C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell and others who are now the foundation of her astrological coaching work.

She also has her MA in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from New York University, and BA in Social Communication and Advertising from PUC-MG (a Brazilian University).