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Ep 83: Navigating Life's Journey with Astrological Guidance with Yvonne Irene
Have you ever wondered how the stars could guide your life purpose and career? Join us for a transformative conversation with Yvonne Irene, a renowned intuitive and spiritual astrologer. Growing up in a Latino household with strong Catholic roots, Yvonne found her passion for astrology under the influence of the legendary Walter Mercado. Today, she uses her deep knowledge of astrological charts to help clients uncover their life paths and align their careers with their true selves. Yvonne's enthusiasm and commitment to making astrology accessible will keep you captivated from start to finish.
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Ever had a secret fascination with taboo subjects like astrology, true crime, or the paranormal? You're not alone. In this episode, we get personal about our clandestine interests and how we navigated a strict Catholic upbringing to embrace them. Yvonne shares powerful stories of how astrology has provided profound insights into people's lives, including an astonishing reading of an inheritance from a birth chart. We also reflect on our personal transformations—from aspiring religious figures to embracing our true, intuitive selves.
Unlock the mysteries of your own astrological chart and discover the profound impact of the 'big three': the ascendant, the sun, and the moon. Yvonne breaks down these crucial components and explains why knowing your birth time is essential for a deeper understanding of your chart. Through engaging personal anecdotes, we illustrate the life-changing journey from skepticism to appreciation of astrology's transformative power. As the episode wraps up, we express our heartfelt gratitude for Yvonne's wisdom and eagerly anticipate more enlightening discussions in the future.
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Speaker 2:I'm so excited for this. You have no freaking idea. I'm so excited. How are you?
Speaker 1:Good, I'm so excited too. I looked at your chart and I was like damn, she's got some poppin' transits happening.
Speaker 2:So a few minutes ago, when I was trying to get on here and I went to Instagram and I was trying to alert you like I'm trying technology not being my friend right now, trying to alert you like I'm trying technology's not being my friend right now and I saw that and I was like, oh snap, and I don't know. I was instantly excited. So I would love for you to just introduce yourself briefly, tell my audience what it is you do and how you're helping the world, what your expertise is. I've been following your content and I watched that live one day with you in that. I don't remember who it was, but just hearing you speak about astrology, I was just like there's so much. I need to fucking know so much. So I can't wait for you to share all of your infinite wisdom with my beautiful audience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 1:So my name is Yvonne Irene and I'm an intuitive and spiritual astrologer.
Speaker 1:Astrology has been such a big passion of mine since I was a child and I'm so grateful to be in a space now where I can share it with others as an adult, because I find that it's such a beautiful ancient wisdom.
Speaker 1:It helps people understand themselves so much at a soul level, and that's what most of my clients are drawn to me for. It's a lot of people who want to learn more around purpose, around career and how to really follow and align their lives with their charts. So that's mainly what I help folks with, and I'm so excited because I'm making a transition as well to getting into more teaching with astrology, because that's something I've been asked so much and it's one of my biggest passions to share and teach with folks and really get to share this wisdom, because I think astrology is truly for everyone and I love breaking it down and making it simple. Where someone who is a beginner can feel I'm very comfortable here, I can understand, and someone who's more advanced can still feel like, whoa, I'm still getting my mind blown, I'm still learning, and I think that's the beauty with astrology that you can just be met at whatever level you're at. So I really appreciate that and getting to share with folks.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. I think this is like an indicator of when I'm just in pure alignment. But like I'm over here, I'm listening to you and this all just feels so kismet, because I know we've been talking for quite some time back and forth. We've shared like a lot of personal stuff at this point, you know, and it just feels like I'm supposed to be right here listening to this this moment and I felt like my eyes watering up and I'm like she's just, I'm gonna learn so much and, um, I'm excited. I think it's just coming out in the form of like little happy tears. But as you were saying that and talking about how you've kind of always been into astrology, I'm super curious. Like, is that something that your parents were into? Like, were you around people that taught you that? Like, how did you even get curious about that?
Speaker 1:So no one in my family is really interested in astrology. I grew up in a Latino household. Both my parents are immigrants, my mother's from Mexico and my father is from Honduras, so there's a lot of heavy roots in Catholicism that are involved there. So there's not a very positive view around spirituality and things like astrology in that space because it's seen, you know, a little more negatively from that perspective. So that's something that you know it wasn't a family thing. I actually stumbled across it on the television.
Speaker 1:Surprisingly, in Latin America there's this news program that runs through the US and a lot of Spanish speaking countries and it's called Primera Impacto and it's a news program and on the news program it was my favorite thing to watch Very weird for a child to say, but my favorite part was this astrologer and his name was Walter Mercado and he would come on and he would do the daily astrology reports for all the zodiac signs and it was like he was doing the weather report on the news. But with astrology and the moment when I found out all right, being born on May 8th means I'm a Taurus I would just sit there and be like my God, walter, let me know what's happening for my day. And then when I learned, you know my father's an Aries, my mom is an Aquarius, my brother is a Leo, I was like, oh my God, I need to know what's happening for them too. And that's how it really started for me.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. So I didn't expect. I didn't expect that, cause I feel like, typically I guess it could be one of two ways. It's like that preacher daughter's effect either you were around all of it or you like rebelled and got serious about it because it was habit. Um, as you were speaking something, something came through for me because you know you saying and I know hispanic, my dad's had hispanic um puerto rican, and so, like they are big on um, some people just are like it's the devil's work pretty much um and one thing that I see said sometimes and I want to know what, how you feel about this is astrology isn't real.
Speaker 2:That, for some reason, like I don't understand astrology enough to have that much of an opinion, but I'm like I think it's pretty evident that it's real and it just makes sense to me how it could be, because we're this is all one divine, whatever the fuck is going on out here, right, um? But with that being said, did you get any resistance whenever you started dabbling in this and learning more? And did they try to like push?
Speaker 2:you said catholicism is really big here down south it's, uh, christ, like just christianity, right, and so I definitely get a lot of diversity. But I would love to hear from, like the Hispanic side and then just the Well, the organized religion side, like what was that experience like? Did you get looked? Did you get more people talking like I'm sure you were misunderstood and not going the right route, or something. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. And for me, you know I was always interested in very taboo subjects since I was a child Like I was interested in astrology, I loved watching true crime, I was obsessed with cold case files. I loved like hearing about ghost stories and like the paranormal stuff. My goal as a child was to become the next um Ed and Lorraine Warren and I wanted to find a husband where we could go do paranormal investigations and whatnot. But I kept that very secret and under wraps because I knew very deeply about Catholicism. Ironically enough, from ages six to 10, I was very Catholic and my actual career that I wanted to pursue was to be a nun and I have an aunt who's a nun and lives in Italy and I kept all of that really under wraps. I became like an expert at programming the remote control to play on another like children's channel so I could watch my cold case files and my other shows and then just flip back like the moment that I hear someone's coming. So I kept that very much under wraps for most of my life until adulthood, because I also then fell through the whole piece where there were some people who were like oh, you know, that is, you know, like the devil's work. Well, that's not something that we should be dabbling in. And then I also got the pushback from people who were like, well, you know, astrology isn't real. And a lot of that pushback was coming from the aspect of horoscopes the ones that you read in the magazines and people be like those are bullshit, they don't align with me. And as I learned more, I told them you know, that's because that's aligned only with the sun sign and we are so much more than our sun sign. We have all of the signs in the zodiac, so we have all 12 signs, we have all the planets and it's all just interacting differently and uniquely. So of course, you know, it's not going to encompass all the themes for everyone who's born under Taurus or, like for you, you know, for everyone who's born under Aries. They're not going to all have the same experience. We're all such unique individuals and that's something that I always share with folks.
Speaker 1:And for me it's the moment where people are skeptical, where I tell them all right, give me your birth time, give me your birth info, and I just plug it into my phone and I look at their charts and these are people who I read cold. I meet them for the first time. I don't look at their chart ahead of time because I'm getting the information right there in the moment, in real time, and I am picking up on things that you know I would have no way of knowing. There was an instance where I was in Bali and I was reading a woman's chart in the car and all the girls there were like, oh my God, can you read our charts? And I was like, yeah, and I remember just taking screen grabs because the internet connection was not the best.
Speaker 1:And there was one girl and the immediate thing, when I looked at her chart, I was like, okay, I know that sometimes when people have son in the eighth house, it means that they could get an inheritance from the father. And that was what my intuition was telling me for her. And it was like she got an inheritance from the father and I was like I think her father passed away, she gained an inheritance. And I was like that's kind of awkward to bring up as I'm screenshotting her chart and that's the first thing I'm getting. And you know, then later on she's sharing about how she's trying to figure out what she wants to do for a living because she's been living off the inheritance her father left for her and I told her that after and I was like oh my God, I saw that from your chart. And she's like how could you know this? Because you know, I'm meeting her right there in that moment and it's just what I'm picking up with, what I know from astrology and what my intuition is guiding me towards girl.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, first off, we have, like it's making sense why we were so gravitated and we keep in touch um so many similarities like the true crimes. I remember watching those and I remember being obsessed with them, um, and I would do little things like hide stuff like our thing was music that, like anything other than gospel, was the devil's music.
Speaker 2:Like you know, like our grandparents were like rewinding shit backwards to try to see what the messages were. Um, and the fact that you said, like you, in my early years I was church girl, church girl. I'm there every Wednesday, every Sunday I'm on my knees at the altar and it it served me for sure during that time. But I thought I wanted. I was like I want to be one of the first women preachers. You said you wanted to be a nun.
Speaker 2:I love it and look at, look at us now. Like you are one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever met and you're so authentic and helping people in the world and I just love it. And your little story about the inheritance, just from reading the chart. I love that you're intuitive too, because you've got like having the astrology side and then having the intuitive side too, like I have a friend who I host a retreat with um it's next month actually and she also is an astrologer and intuitive psychic medium and so like she's got all these tools and I think it's really cool how you're using them and they're coming together and I can't wait to hear more.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I love that. And you know, I got the chance to look at your chart ahead of time too, and what I thought was so cool and I realized this is why I vibed with you so much is you have so much Aries energy. You have your sun in Aries, you have your Venus in Aries and you have your Mercury in Aries. I have my Mercury in Aries too. So I love communicating with other folks who are have the same Mercury sign, because when you have the same Mercury sign as someone, you really connect with each other. You really connect with each other, you really vibe because you communicate on the same level.
Speaker 1:And for me, it's very like fast-paced, it's being very blunt, it's being very honest, it's not holding things back and not being cookie cutter.
Speaker 1:And for me, you know I've had to be very sensitive with my friends who are, for example, water, mercury, science, because they're a little more sensitive and you know it hurts their feelings a little bit more when I'm more blunt.
Speaker 1:But when I find people who are like the fire mercuries, then I'm like oh my gosh, we are vibing because we're connecting, we're going fast, we're being like brutally honest and the fact that these three planets are in your eighth house, it makes so much sense why you were also drawn to true crime and whatnot, because this is the house of the occult. This is the house of like the deep inner knowings, like the taboo topics and what we really kind of like hide and keep hidden. It also points towards the need for like deeper intimacy as well, cause this is the house of like sex, death, taxes, the occult, the taboo. So anyone who I meet who has a lot of eighth house energy, I immediately I'm like that's why I'm drawn to them, because they have that energy and it's a very big thing for me, cause I have a lot of that energy as well. I have a stacked eighth house too. So when I meet people with that energy, I'm just like all right, I see why we're vibing.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to hear her. Like what, what you saw in the chart. But I have to ask real quick before, like, we progress too much. Can you explain astrology? You were talking about how you could explain astrology to like a brand new person, right? Can you explain astrology to my audience and, honestly, for myself, I understand it fully. Before we begin. Yeah, yeah of course.
Speaker 1:So astrology is such a beautiful tool and, like I said, for anyone out there who says anything like I don't like Geminis or I don't like Libras um, watch out, because you have that in your chart. It is there somewhere. You may not have a planet there, but we all have all 12 zodiac signs in our chart, and the way that an astrology chart is functioning is it looks like a pizza, basically, and it's cut into 12 slices and every single one of those slices is called a house and that represents an area of life and in that house we have a zodiac sign. So that's why it's so important to know what time you were born, because your first house is always known as your rising or your ascendant, and this is what kicks off your chart. And if you don't know your birth time, you won't have that information and, unfortunately, with that, you miss out on some of the deeper insights that could happen with the chart.
Speaker 1:If that is the case for anyone, what I recommend doing is reaching out to the hospital that you were born to at and just seeing if they have the birth records, checking your birth certificate. You know, last resort, like, ask parents, but sometimes, you know, it's such an intense experience they may not remember or it may not be documented for them. So definitely check with your birth certificate, check with the hospital you were born at and, last resort, I recommend working with an astrologer who specializes in birth chart rectification, and what they do is they will basically ask you a bunch of questions have you share all of these different life events that happened? And they will try to basically reconstruct your birth chart and find a birth time for you. And that is a specialization that some folks have and they work with and that's something to look at as well. So super important to know your birth time for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So before I went to the gym this morning, I thought I knew my time, but I went up in my closet and, like the older you get, you got your little stash spots for important documents and whatnot. I don't have a safe yet, but I need to get one and so I pull out my little accordion holder and I'm like all right, and it's so bizarre. It was honestly kind of interesting just to go back and find out like, if you don't know, it's really cool to think about that, I think. But that was perfect. That makes a lot of sense to me. I've tried to understand it before and I haven't. Like when you start talking about houses and I'm like what, why are there 12 houses? Like I only got one, I thought so okay, well, where do you want to go from here? Do you want to? All I can see in my mind is like I don't know if you did this when you were younger, but you're talking about, uh, the horoscopes for me it was, uh, magazines.
Speaker 2:I would look in the back of the magazine and I always resonated with them and I was that kid. That was like people would look at me and be like that's such bullshit, like that's so stupid, why are you wasting your time? And I'm like, yeah, and I never, but I never knew what any of it meant.
Speaker 1:So okay, that was me too. I would go around. I remember buying this book at the Scholastic book fair about sleepovers and the only reason I wanted it was because there was a section on astrology and it broke down everyone's birthdays and then it gave kind of like just a little background information around, like what each zodiac sign went. And I would go around and I would ask people like when's your birthday? And I'd be like, oh, that means you're a Libra and this is what that means. But again, with those horoscopes that we see in the magazines, it's all based off just our sun signs.
Speaker 1:And for people who are starting out, I recommend really getting to understand and know your big three, and your big three is your rising or ascendant. That's why it's so critical to know your birth time, because that will really help you understand, because your ascendant is how you filter the world, how you see the world and how others perceive you. So, for you and your chart, you're a Virgo ascendant and people who are Virgo ascendants, they're very organized, they can be very detail oriented, very meticulous as well, and they're also the ones who you know they're working on their checklist, they're getting things done, they're very like, motivated. So that's a really great place to start to understand your ascendant, because that's how you filtered the world, like I said, and also how others perceive you. Then we have our sun, which most folks already know, because that's where you know the season is of, where we're born, and our sun represents as well our identity. It represents where we're meant to shine, how we shine, and it shows those kinds of characteristics and traits. So for you, being an Aries sun, that means that you're here to shine and be independent. You're here to go first, to initiate, to start things, to take action.
Speaker 1:Aries energy is very action oriented, so they're the ones who are going out there and they are starting things. They're the ones who get an idea of like, I got to take action on it, got to get moving. That's very Aries. And then the next is the moon, and our moon represents our inner world. It also represents how we feel emotionally, especially what makes us feel emotionally safe and secure.
Speaker 1:And for you, your moon is in the sign of Aquarius. So what I noticed with people who have Aquarius moons is they can be a little more comfortable because Aquarius is an air sign, so it's thinking about your feelings and processing them on a mental space before it gets down to the emotional, and sometimes the emotional can be a little harder than the thinking and the talking about it and saying I'm feeling this and this is how I think I feel because of this situation, rather than someone like myself, for example, who's a Pisces moon, who's like I, am feeling hurt because you said X, y and Z and it hurt my feelings and it triggered this wound. So it's quite a difference. But those are the three places I highly recommend for folks who are starting to begin, because it really helps you understand that big part of yourself, like how others see you, the ascendant, how you see yourself and how you're meant to shine with the sun and with the moon. It gives that deeper insight to your own emotional world.
Speaker 2:This is all so good, is so accurate accurate as fuck. Like that's so crazy to me that you can look at, look at something like that and literally every every bit of that resonated. That is bizarre to me. So, like, how are with having this? Because this is a skill set, it's a gift, um, and it's something that you've been crafting it sounds like over a lifetime. How does this help the people that you work with?
Speaker 1:oh my gosh, that is such a good question Because I feel like when people are feeling pulled to get an astrology reading, I always share with clients. There's a reason for it, there's a pull, there's something that's happening and I usually see it in the chart, especially when I'm doing, for example, a transit reading. A transit reading, what it does is it looks at what's going on with the astrological weather and I tend to look at it for a client from the point that they book to a year ahead and we can see what big energies are happening and how it's impacting their charts specifically. And in those cases I have people who come in because they want to seek clarity, they want to seek guidance as well. There are some people who, I've noticed, have really felt that astrology has helped them understand themselves more and also given them a permission slip to fully be themselves. I have one friend who is a Scorpio moon and when oh, apology, she's a Scorpio Mercury, that was it. She's a Scorpio Mercury. When oh, apology, she's a Scorpio Mercury. That was it. She's a Scorpio Mercury.
Speaker 1:And what she shared with me after the reading is you know, she, at work, does not like the water cooler, chit chats, it's not her thing.
Speaker 1:She doesn't like small talk and she can also communicate in a way that is very blunt as well too, cause Scorpio can be very blunt, straight to the point. And I told her you know, for you, when it comes to communication, you want to have really in-depth, deep conversations, like you want to go in super deep down into the depths of people. Those little water cooler small talks like hey girl, how's the weather? Um, and whatnot. It's not going to be satisfying for her. And the moment that she found that out, she said, oh my gosh, I feel so much better because she used to work in an office setting with that kind of example and she always felt bad because she didn't like doing the water cooler talk. She didn't feel very connected to folks and she wanted to go in deep. But folks just wanted to keep things superficial. And that gave her that full blown permission slip to realize like, okay, so I need to find people who I can have really deep conversations, go into taboo topics and really just go deep with people.
Speaker 2:And that gave her that permission slip, which she didn't feel that she had at work, because of how you know, society and culture dictates this is what a work experience is like for everyone in the nine-to-five world oh man, I resonate with that client so much because there are, there are moments and human design has helped me tremendously too um, with that permission slip, because if you're conditioned to think and I was conditioned to think this, like even still to this day, especially down south like it is a thing to chit, chat, to gossip, like somehow that's bonding and like likable I guess, and so I'm very reserved and I like to hang out by myself and I don't want the small talk like if it, like I would be more okay with sitting in complete silence and then, and like let's just enjoy each other's company than to sit and talk shit or complain, or like I'm there for the the I want the soul to soul conversation, like everything else is kind of background noise. So that makes so much sense and I love how you said that it's ultimately a permission slip, because we are like you know, there's a lot of pressure. I mean you've, you've got like the triple whammy. You had religious pressure. There's pressure being, I mean, hispanic colored, anything right, and then you've got being a female, and then the taboo oh, that's like a bunch, a bunch of different things. So there's this pressure to like, conform and be this perfect little cookie cutter person. And then, when you're not, it can.
Speaker 2:I think that's what onset so many healing and spiritual journeys. It's like, well, what's wrong with me? Like because people make you feel like there's something wrong with you. And then hearing all this is it's so refreshing and reassuring that you know what. Maybe I'm not fucked up, maybe I'm just I'm. I'm I'm just peculiar, like I'm unique and it is. It is reassuring, so I love that. That's why people come to you. I guess the stars align.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely, and I think that's one of the beauties of astrology that it's all unique to you and your own chart. I remember putting out like an astrology quiz on my Instagram once and I asked people like how common do you think it is for someone else to have the same sun, moon and rising sign as you? And a lot of people did not guess that one correct, but it's. There's like a one in 3 million chance and that's just having those same three placements, and then it gets even more small when you think about how the planets are placed, what's happening as well. And your chart is so unique, so that just shows just people having three similar placements to you is such a rare occurrence. And the fact that your chart is just unique and it is your own, it just shows even more how unique you are as an individual and how everyone has a different purpose and different piece. And that's where I noticed a lot of people also love to come in because they love to get support around finding their purpose and getting more in alignment, and I feel that that's the beauty of a birth chart. It really helps you live your life in alignment with the path that your soul chose. I truly believe that we all selected the birth charts that we have, the journeys that we're experiencing, and that's why I do more spiritual and intuitive astrology and mix those two together, because I really do believe that we choose and it's also up to us, with our free will. When we're having a really good transit, for example, are we going to make the most of that transit or are we just going to sit there and be in our victim or not do anything because we're scared, we're uncomfortable, we feel like, oh, I can't do this, because what you had shared earlier about how folks felt, that's exactly how I felt.
Speaker 1:I did everything that was expected of the oldest daughter of an immigrant family. I went to college, I did the master's degree, I was working as a school counselor, I had a really safe and secure job, I had no problems there and I was still miserable and I was not feeling like I was doing my purpose work and that I was in alignment. And it wasn't until I started to revisit my love for astrology and look back at my birth chart that I saw oh my gosh, I am going through some rough transits that are really asking me to get in alignment with my purpose, and it's in my chart that I'm meant to do astrology and I was not doing it as a career. I was just like, oh, it's just like a fun party trick or it's like a fun little hobby that I do. It's not a career, I can't do that.
Speaker 1:And of course, a lot of that came from you know, at the time, growing up, I only saw one person doing astrology and it was Walter Mercado, and I was like, okay, well, I don't want to be on TV. English is my second language. I really struggled with school, especially when it came to writing grammar, because it's not my first language, so I didn't think I could write, because that was the other way that I saw people doing astrology they're writing for magazines, they're writing for horoscopes and I just said, okay, well, there's no way I can do it, so I need to pick a new goal, a new career aspiration. There's no way I can do it, so I need to pick a new goal, a new career aspiration. But again, when I revisited my chart and I saw that and it was just blatantly in my face, it reminded me okay, you have to give it a try and you've come so far from where you've started, and I think that's the beauty of it too, where you really see how you've grown. And I noticed too with a lot of my clients when we don't resonate with our charts, a lot of times it's because we're living out of alignment and also we're growing into our charts, which is the beauty of it. We might not resonate with something in that moment, but maybe as we grow older we do.
Speaker 1:Because I didn't resonate with being a Taurus sun. I said we do. Because I didn't resonate with being a Taurus sun, I said there's no way I'm a Taurus sun. Taurus suns are lazy and stubborn and I would only hear the shadows, because all the zodiac signs, they have a shadow energy which is the lower energy, and there's like the higher octave energy. But it's all the memes that we see. It's all making fun of the shadow traits and I remember just being like that's not me. But then I found out you know Taurus is more about being rounded, being stable, having that perseverance and, as well, having like that interest in sensuality and really being deep in the feminine. And as I got older and I started to embody more of those traits and those characteristics, I really do see myself as a Taurus sun now. So I think that's just an absolute beauty that comes with astrology oh, so, so cool.
Speaker 2:I just like I'm just you probably see me every time like, okay, all right, yeah, this is good stuff. Like I'm, yeah, it all makes sense to me. And I love how you tried to like evade your purpose. So many people do that. Like you have a calling or callings, like they have multiple purposes, like we evolve throughout them, right, and like you try to avoid it and it always comes back and it like gets on your skin and it I I tell my clients, like your desires and things that are meant for you, right, things that you like, it's just your soul wants it, it craves it. It's always going to come back.
Speaker 2:And I think about, like, when I cook pizza and you know how the cheese will start to bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble and after so long it'll pop like that's your desires, will keep resurfacing, they will keep bubbling up like cheese and it'll look delicious and you're like, ah, but I can't have it, it's so far out of reach. And it's just like, oh, just just fucking, just seek alignment. That's been the ongoing theme these past few days alignment, alignment, alignment, find alignment, and this is I just love how it's coming full circle. So, um, is it synchronous is that the word synchronicity? Synchronicity well, yeah, a variation of that. This is just also synchronized. Um, you keep talking about transit, though, and, before we hop off, I wanted to ask, because you said in the Instagram chat, when we were DMing back and forth, that you saw two transits and you got excited about it. For me, what does that mean?
Speaker 1:that mean. So when I do a transit reading, what I do is I take a client's chart and then I look and I see what are the movements of the planet, and right now we are going through a transit of Jupiter and Gemini. So, jupiter, it takes one year to get through a sign and then move on to the next one year to get through a sign and then move on to the next. And what's really special about this one for you is in your birth chart, your Jupiter is in Gemini. So when Jupiter returns to the sign in your birth chart and this only happens every single 12 years this is a beautiful transit. This is one that so many people look forward to.
Speaker 1:If you are a Jupiter and Gemini friend like I, highly recommend pulling up your chart, seeing if it's there and seeing what house it's in, because that gives amazing details as to what area of your life you're experiencing expansion in, you're experiencing good luck and you're experiencing experiencing fortune in. This is one of the planets in astrology. That is one of the great benefits. Everyone loves Jupiter because it brings so much expansion, growth, it brings luck, it brings fortune, and what we do in a transit reading is we see what sign the planet is in and we see what house this is in. So, for you, your Gemini sits in the 10th house. This is the house of career, this is the house of calling, this is the house of reputation. So this is the area where you're going to be experiencing deep transformation. There's going to be growth, there's going to be expansion and for you, actually, when Gemini in your chart met with transit Gemini, this was June 10th of this year and Gemini will be in the sign of Jupiter from May 25th of 2024 until June 9th of 2025. And I can't recall the exact date, but I do remember seeing you share something and it must have been either in May or in June about how you were going full-time in your business, and I was like, the moment I saw that, I was like no wonder that happened.
Speaker 1:For her, it was the Jupiter and Gemini transit. She's expanding, her business is moving from just being more like a side hustle to it's her main gig, it's her full-time gig and she's getting all of that beautiful energy from that there. So I thought that was so beautiful when I saw that because, like I said, everyone loves this and for you it's even more amplified because you have your MC there and this is your, your midheaven. This is a career angle in astrology and this is something that is so beautiful to have next to Jupiter because it further amplifies the career. And you also have your Mars in Gemini.
Speaker 1:So, while Jupiter is in this sign, it is time for you to take action towards any dreams, any aspirations, any visions that you have for your business and really go for it, because you are really blessed with this alignment.
Speaker 1:So it was so beautiful to see that with the Jupiter in Gemini for you Cause, like I said, you know this is activating your 10th house of career, of calling, and career is even more amplified for you specifically because you have this angle called your midheaven.
Speaker 1:It's represented in a birth chart by the letters M and C and this is a career angle. So the fact that your Jupiter is right there, next to it, this transit, amplifies career for you even more and really aligning with that purpose, and the fact that you also have Mars in Gemini and Mars is what we take action in. So for you, this is going to be such a beautiful, blessed and divine time to be taking action on anything that you're feeling really pulled towards with career. So, whether it's like I want to do more retreats, I want to put out more group courses, I want to put out more workshops, like whatever it is that you're feeling the need to do, go out there and do that, especially because Gemini is connected to communication, to teaching and to learning. So if there's anything, too, that you've been feeling like I really want to learn this, I really want to invest more time in developing my knowledge in a certain topic, this is also a beautiful time for that, too.
Speaker 2:Okay, my mind is blown, just because everything does make sense, like you were, the dates, the lining, everything, like there are just so many air quotes, coincidences, so many synchronicities. And just what's interesting to me, before we hop off, is that, as you were saying these things, I genuinely have been feeling these things before we even chatted. Like it's so bizarre I think this is where my mind is going with this For listeners it's so bizarre that we have this inner voice, the intuition, this like we are connected, so connected, and if you don't feel connected, it's because you are making it a point to be disconnected. Things like technology, social media, like you're. So your mind is so active that you can't listen to your inner voice.
Speaker 2:But as I've strengthened it and as I become more disconnected, I like I garden a lot, I have plants and, as you can see, I sit outside when I work and I stay super grounded. I don't wear shoes very often. My husband calls me a dirty, damn hippie and um. But, like, as I strengthen this inner voice, everything you're saying are things that I have been thinking about, feeling and I'm like, oh, I need to. I've been going on more adventures, I've been traveling more. I have a book coming out in August, like and all these things that I've been like chipping away at slowly but surely. You know all tortoise-like, instead of trying to, um, get greedy and finish quickly, like it makes so much fucking sense, it's compounding. It just feels like I keep feeling this too, this, this error about me, and I'm like something's about to happen. Like you're doing all the right things, something huge is about is about to happen. I don't know what, don't know when, don't know how, but like I just feel this new era and I'm like I think I know what it is.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm a world.
Speaker 1:So the other thing that I saw cause, like I said, you have the beautiful Jupiter return happening. And then the other thing that you have that's coming up is you're going to be going through a nodal return and in astrology we look at the north node and this is connected to our purpose and it helps us align with this. And when you're going through a nodal return, it's basically asking you to look at everything that's happening for you and see are you in alignment with your purpose? And your North Node is in the sign of Pisces. On September 17th this year and then next year, in March 2025, and this will be until the end of 2026, we're going to be experiencing the collective nodes. They're going to be shifting from Aries and Libra we currently have the North node in Aries and we have the South node in Libra and we're going to be shifting into your North node North node in Pisces, south node in Virgo.
Speaker 1:So, with that energy shift, it's really asking us, especially with where we have Pisces in our chart. And for you it's in the sixth house. This is the house of work routines, this is the house of health and day-to-day life. So this is a workhouse. It's asking you to really connect deeply with your intuition and get connected, especially because, with the South node in Virgo, that is asking us to let go of perfectionism, to let go of needing to know every single little detail of how things are going to be happening, and really learn to lean in and trust and really get in with our creativity too, cause Pisces is connected to creativity, to expression, and to really follow those intuitive nudges, like how you're saying you know you're going to have like a book, if you want to do like a book tour or like a book launch or something special with that like, follow those nudges of what you're being drawn towards for that and really take that into consideration.
Speaker 1:So for you it's going to be a very beautiful period because you're going to have a lot of that focus that's going to help you realign with the work front and you also have the blessing of Jupiter in the 10th house with work and with the 12th house. That's where you have your um or sorry, not the 12th house, you have the first house in Virgo. This is going to be you coming in and letting go of shadows related to the self and identity. So if there's been like limiting beliefs or something that's been holding you back. This is the time to let that go.
Speaker 2:Oh, I hate that we have to go because this is so freaking good. Just his confirmation of everything I've been experiencing, everything. I've been feeling massive growth. I can just feel my aura expanding lately and thank you for this. This is like such a beautiful gift that you gave me and I go book a session. How can they find you Like? This is amazing, amazing work.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. I'm so glad to hear that. That's my favorite thing about being able to give people readings and just hearing that confirmation for folks and just giving them as well that permission to go for it and to dream. I think that's the real beauty that comes with astrology. So on Instagram I am at I am Yv Irene.
Speaker 1:I've recently rebranded from my old Instagram handle just so I can focus on sharing a little bit more about myself and you know my own story with following my purpose, finding that and really launching the coaching portion of my business to help people also find and align with their purpose and combining it with astrology.
Speaker 1:And I'm also rebranding my website and it's going to be now wwwivonirenecom and that's where you can book an astrology reading with me and I just absolutely love, you know, connecting with folks, getting to share this cosmic wisdom and I share a bunch of free updates on my Instagram page as well, with major transits, what's happening with the month, what's happening with the week and when these big, big shifts are happening, because I feel that it's so beautiful to know this and be able to have access to this wisdom, because it really feels like kind of you know how we look at the weather every day and you see, all right, it's like kind of you know how we look at the weather every day and you see, all right, it's raining. So you know, I got to get my rain boots, got to get my raincoat, have an umbrella out there and you're going out there and you're prepared to work with the energies of what's happening in the cosmos. And that's what I feel astrology does and I absolutely love giving that gift to folks.
Speaker 2:That that makes that made so much sense to me, so much sense. All this makes so much sense. Go check her out. She's amazing. This has been like, like I said, more than I could have asked for. I'm so glad we like got to see each other face to face. I can't wait to get to hug you in person one day. I know it's going to happen, um, and I just I can't thank you enough. Like to take your time out to deal with my bullshit technology, even such a trooper. Um, and I just appreciate your presence and this has made my life better getting to talk to you.
Speaker 1:so thank you oh, thank you so much. That was so amazing to hear and I fully receive and feel the love and I am so grateful we had the chance to get to connect and chat with each other, you know, outside of just messaging on dms and sending voice notes. It's been so nice to get to connect with you face to face and get to have that experience and then also see the chart, because I have people who message me and there are some people I'm just like, oh yeah, like I'll just message back. To be polite, I wonder what it is that makes me want to like share personal details and know more about her. And when I saw your chart I was like it makes sense.
Speaker 2:I see it, it makes sense. That's going to just be the thing, the theme for the day, and make sense. Of course that happened. It makes sense. Well, yvonne, thank you again. I will, we'll definitely be talking and I'll be checking in on you and I'm sending so much love so much love, thank you.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you so much, and thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it. It was so much fun getting to chat with you and share astrology. Yes, it's been amazing. All right, well, I'll catch you later.
Speaker 2:I got to run to the doctor, but this has been amazing, such a great start to my day, and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1:All right, bye, bye.
