In this episode, Kelly sits down with master astrologer Marvin Wilkerson to dive deep into the astrological events shaping October. They explore the powerful Libra New Moon and the transformative Libra Eclipse, discussing the energies at play and what we can expect in the weeks to come. Marvin shares his insights on how this eclipse will uniquely impact each zodiac sign and how we can best navigate the cosmic shifts this month.
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Marv. How are we doing, Kelly.
Marvin?
I just had about a thirty minute just life conversation and that was. This is why I always say to you guys, go get your chart reading and have the soul discussion that comes with that, because it is such a difference to even what we get to do on this podcast because we only have a certain amount of time. We're kind of going over the broad strokes of certain energies and it's just so much more specific when you can break it down how it's going to manifest in your life, which is kind of what we just did, which was fun. It was good for me. I learned a lot always, but today we were just saying, I said to you, I feel like everyone is really going through it, and you said yes, including me, And I said, oddly, I have felt somewhat normal because we went from a Pisce's eclipse into this Libra eclipse, and this is a lot of the energy that I have in my chart, So I think it kind of feels normal to me, But what is it feeling like for everyone else? Marv.
Well, as I looked at this, typically I described planets, and everything is energy right, everything has a modality, and everything has an element. There's language for all of those things. So when I looked at this Pisces, and I was trying to figure it out because it happens in my sixth house of work, habits and routines and health, and so I was trying to understand it from what I was experiencing. And what I experienced was I had a homeowner's policy that was canceled because they said I had trees hanging over the house and all of that. So I spent three thousand dollars getting tree limbs cut down and trying to make sure the roof looked good. And they were saying, well, they looked at it back in February and it looked like it was holding water, so they're canceling it. The broker I was dealing with was about worthless as anything, because there was a lack of communication for two weeks. And I wouldn't say full blown panic at all, but I would say it was very nerve racking to think that my homeowner's policy is being canceled. If it's canceled then you got to worry about anybody else picking it up, raising the rate through the roof because you were canceled. So all of this came together for me, and I realized that in working with people, everybody's had just a little bit of topsy turvy feeling and even being victimized by circumstances and situations. And that's really how I felt victimized talking to a broker that wasn't even a broker, that wasn't communicating with me properly and spread out something that I got done in one day for two weeks. So I was trying to work with this, and so when I was looking at it, when you're looking at pisces, this is a mutable sign changing in flexibility. It's water, so you're dealing with water emotions. When you're dealing with the moon the lunary clips, we're dealing with emotions. We're dealing with security, we're dealing with consistency. So when you put those things together, everybody has been challenged to look at where they are attached to emotional security of status quo things staying, you know, without change. And so the thing about this particular eclipse is that it came before the solar eclipse, and anytime you got a lunary clipse, it represents change. What do you have to change in your personality that's going to help you include the power of a solar eclipse which is going to change you for positive self expression.
Okay.
So everybody's been challenged their security and their emotions to look at what they rely on as stability. Okay, And so my stability was shaken.
Because I'm losing my.
Homeowner's insurance, I could lose my mortgage, I can lose my home. I mean, all kinds of things can run through your mind that you've got to start putting a check on and say, wait, hold on, just take it one step at a time. So really, you know how I always say walk to talk as I mean, you know, my challenge was to stay in the moment and just get the job done.
Yeah, one step and when you're in a.
Battle is going to take it takes two weeks to play out, and then I get the job done on the very last day it could be done. Well, then you go, man, what relief? Give me an extra drink as a celebration. But let's take this a step onto the macro CAUSM and just look at what happened in Ashville with this hurricane. See, this is another thing that I had to go through. Sharon and I met in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. We were just there on vacation for four days a month and a half ago. It is now wiped off the mountain.
Yes, it's fascinating.
It's amazing how many times it pops into my the devastation and the feeling of loss of that initial you know, this is where I met her twenty seven years ago. I mean, how would I have known that meant so much to me? And now this loss keeps just popping in, and I think about all the people and what they're going through. I mean, you know, yours truly her friend is wiped out in Ashville. So I mean, you know, it's affected a heck of a lot of people on so many different levels. So my personal level thing went on, my macrocosmic level thing went on. And this is what everybody's kind of been experiencing with that Pisces Luterar eclipse. Our security has been.
Showing us where we are feeling like our security is and that becoming a little unstable.
So when we get into the leap clips. Now Libra. The power of Libra is being able to connect with people, being able to connect with others, and to creating that harmony in our life. So it's I mean, Libra is about relationships. It's an air sign and the sons involved. So now we have the power to use our intellect and our and our understanding by getting the mirroring effect from other people that we're going through or that we're experienced, or the relationships that we're experiencing, it helps us find and connect to us more authentically.
Using this Ashville example or this North Carolina example, could some of this eclipse energy like we went through. Are there going through something devastating, tragic, all of the things. But with the Libra eclipse coming in, do you think there will be a lot of focus on how to help each other and like rebuild together things like that?
Oh question? I mean having whole cities wiped out, the camaraderie and I mean, you know, we've been such political tensions for how many months now? Right now, all of a sudden, the only damn thing we care about is each other.
Yeah, survival and alcohol over your head, food, water, What can I.
Do to help you it's no longer about what political party you're in. Right, How simplistic is politics when it comes to survival of the human humanity at that scale, right, it's nothing. It means nothing. Right, So we're going to look for people that care about people, that are going to pitch in and give people hands and be helpful. And then you ask about Pluto, Well, let's think about this for a second. Pluto going back into aquarius. We're getting ready to go into aquarius for almost twenty years now.
Well, this is people helping people, humanitarian, this is.
This is community is much bigger than any politic there ever was. Community is bigger than any government there ever was. So we're coming together as a community, as a people's and we're we're starting to add significant to each other in ways because of this devastation, right, because of Sandy Hook and the devastation of that, Because of all these dramas and traumas that we all experience together. You know, we connect the people all you know, halfway across the planet that go through devastation, we have to stop and look at it, feel it, experience the pain to those people. Why, because we're all connected.
I was just about to say that those are the moments when you go through a collective trauma or something together. Unfortunately, I hate that this is how we learn lessons or have to. But it's like in those moments when you're looking at your neighbor, it isn't necessarily about the differences, but you can see we are going through a similar experience, and so you see the likeness with them, like you find these ways that you're way more connected than you ever would have thought. And it comes from such going through such a hardship together. So as unfortunate as that is, if you can look at those kind of silver linings, I guess or what would you even call it? Growth?
So how would okay, but let's go take that further. How would you look at this devastation as a silver lining? Because that's spiritually what's really it is, right, every death is met with a rebirth. How many times have we said that, you know, for every bad thing that happens, a good thing is right behind it. Yeah, that's Pluto, that's transformation, that's life. And so now we have to look take it to our highest vision and say, well, you know what, they're going to rebuild Chimney Rock. They're going to rebuild Ashville, and they're going to build it bigger, better, and greater than it ever was. But we're still clinging it, holding on to yesterday's And now it's going to be renewed. In a couple of years, it'll be whole, brand new places and they'll be bigger, better, and greater than they were. Yeah, And that's how we have to look at life. Every time we have a tragic event in our own life, you got to say, well, what's good for it? I spent three thousand dollars chopping down limbs and still got canceled. So I had to say what's good about it? Well, I don't have acorns falling on my office roof anymore. I don't have acorns falling on my roofline trying to sleep at night. I don't have trees hanging over my house and worrying about well warmthing blows off and crashes into me. So everything has a silver lining. And what do we got to do. We got to do the pissy thing of letting go, of accepting change, Yeah, of stop looking for security, stop letting fear run your life. So Libra solar eclipse is very very good. Maybe we'll start caring about each other more than we care about these stupid politics.
Yeah, and government because Libra energy, a lot of it is. It's not about just you, it's about other as well. So it's balancing between those two energies.
Right, It's about social equality. Think of that social equality, and then you ascend into the aquarian principle of humanitarian You carry about the planet, the ecosystem people ants. A good aquarian wouldn't tear down an ant, you'ld to build a house on it because that's life. So all life is sanctified, not just humans, all the life. It's all connected. So this is what we're moving into. So right here at the precipice of moving into Aquarius, for the next twenty years, we have a great Libra event, we have a great Pisces event that now we can learn how to move as a collective and thinking about what's best for all of us. Who's the best candidate for all of us, who's the best government for all of us. There are going to be transitions with government, and unfortunately, when you're looking at Pluto, sometimes it's going to bring up the ugliness and you've got to live through it.
Because Pluto is death and rebirth right. So it's going to go die right and find the things that aren't working and destroy them.
We've got to find out what's what I mean, this whole hierarchy of authority and power and all of that, right, that's going to die. And it ain't going to die easily. It's going to fight. I mean, when you have power and control, you are not going to give it up very easily. And that's that was my reason for the quote that I gave you before we got.
On, Well, which one you gave me? Like ten?
The one that the one from Socrates. Contentment is natural wealth. Luxury is artificial poverty.
I love the artificial poverty because it's what luxury is what we convince ourselves. This life is all about, right, It's always all this whole structure. This is why we work, This is why you know. It's like whoever has the nicest things has the most wealth. I'm doing air quotes, but that is literally saying that that is artificial and ultimately it's we know this right, It doesn't fully make you happy. That is not going to ever make your soul content. You can get all the things in the world and you'll still need more to fill that hole.
Yeah, I mean, let's go into the twilight zone for just a moment. Think about a tight knit community and somebody coming in and is trying to take over with power and money.
Well, nobody would like it.
Right, And so what's going to happen to the person with power and money trying to take over when you've got a community that it comes together and say not in our community. So community is going to be the single greatest word what we're moving into in the aquarian age.
Thank god, we need it. That's how I feel.
At least you, at least you'll be alive for most of it. My job's done. I think that this is a great time. It's a great time to understand the dichotomies that we've lived in, the correct the belief of lack and disharmony in ourselves. I think that's all so so important. We're trying to balance our life. When I looked at the chart from the eclipse, you know, there was like three Gemini planets, and to me, I was thinking, you know, anytime you're dealing with Geminis, they're just constant thinkers and they don't go deep, but they're constantly thinking. About this this thing and this thing and this thing, and so we've got to get to the place we don't use a bad miitt in mind. We've got to settle on what's really really important. And sometimes you know, responsibilities are hardships, but they're responsible. We've got to learn how to care for each other. The solar eclipse itself, the meaning behind it was breaking down barriers between people by demonstrating the universal nature of human problems. Think of that for a second.
Well, isn't that what we're just describing When you can look at your neighbor and know that you don't have You thought you didn't have much in common, and then all of a sudden you're experiencing the same hardship and you have everything in common because you're going through something similar.
Yes, that sums it up. Nourishing others, spiritual understanding. At your job.
Are you saying me specifically or everyone your specific specifically? Yeah, okay, well that's what we're doing right now, or trying.
You're got the one with the big time platform on the podcast. I just got a big mouth. I like the air reas Full Moon, falling in love through the adventure while discovering yourself.
So that's coming this munch as well.
Yeah, that's the full moon for this month. Airs.
I love that line falling in love through adventure while discovering oneself.
Remember, I mean, you know, this is what you're really doing in libras, discovering.
You, but through also discovering others, or through others, or through connect others through others.
Everybody's a mirror, right, everybody, Every situation's a mirror, I mean, And when you want to take it further, we're where we naturally are and in our life being self dreaming this physical reality, dreaming it so we're dreaming it to experience it from a physical standpoint, so that we can learn to grow and learn to authentically arrive at who we truly are.
That is a very interesting energy to follow this Libra eclipse, like discovering oneself. I don't know, I'm just processing all of that.
That's I like, Yeah, well that's good, that's what you're supposed to do. Process it.
Well, what else do we need to discuss with the eclipse?
Did I read to quote those who have failed to work towards the truth have missed the point of living?
No, but I like that quote a lot.
It comes from Buddha.
Well, of course I do. Then I like Buddha teachings.
You gotta be faster on your feet. Kelly, you could have said, oh, yeah, that's one of my favorite quotes.
Oh right, right, right, right right. I have that one on my mirror, look at it every day. That is a good one, though. I like that say it one more time.
Those who have failed to work towards the truth have missed the point of living those things. Is how I live. I live my quotes. I live one quote at a time. So that's how I tell this brain to shut up. I've been telling several clients through these last two weeks that come in for fear and am anxiety or anything. I tell them, if you hear something in your brain of self talk that tells you that cuts you down or makes you feel less than who you really truly are, I want you to scream inside of your brain, you're such a liar.
You told me in the past to go shut up. You're not.
Yeah, that's what I do. But I mean, you know, just working with clients, I'm just telling them just tell yourself you're such a liar. Yeah, And I do it so that they won't forget it. So, how did you like all that Pluto stuff?
Like sense, I do really like the Pluto stuff, and I think it's really interesting because Pluto moving back into Aquarius feels like the next level to me, and I'm excited about it, I.
Feel because it is.
Yeah, I feel like it makes so much since that we had to go back into Capricorn first, though, like all the things happening on a bigger level, you.
Have to see the ugliest of the power brokers.
Yeah, and that's what we're seeing, isn't it. It's it's just like ever where you turn, you cannot not see it. And as fed up as we are, I think that that's the point that we have to shield that fed up so that we start to make changes. And it's coming on every level. It's like I'm seeing it in our government. Obviously, we're seeing it with celebrities with like the Diddy stuff all of that. But then I think it's interesting because I even got served an article today saying something about Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and all this research that's been done, and now they're saying that some of the facts that were given were false. They were falsified. And it's just interesting because I think even on a level of trusting doctors and science, like we're being pushed to really use our discernment and also like inform ourselves versus blindly trusting things and just like giving away our power to things that we don't necessarily know to be true. And I think that's a really interesting thing moving into this age of Aquarius, where it's going to be like us relying on each other versus these massive authorities or authority figures or things like that.
That's mineto we're so called authority figures.
So called authorities exactly. That's a good way to put it. Well, should we go through what the eclipse means for every I know everyone likes to hear about what it's going to mean for them, and so we kind of talked about this a little bit before. This is based on a solar chart, which I know I've explained to you guys before, but without knowing your rising sign, this is kind of a different reading. So without your birth time, we can't know your rising sign, and so this will be based on people's son signs, right, Marv Right, Kelly, Okay, give it to us for libras.
The key for you is personal development. Start getting self recognition is essential for your own self esteem and growth. So learning to deal with others is going to be very, very important for your self knowledge, self confidence, self enrichment, to building characters. I mean, how beautiful is that? I don't care what chart it comes from. Burgo, your main focus is going to be develop of material values and attitudes. Financial perspectives will come into focus, pride and personal possessions and assets, desires to increase your income and resource. For Leo, it's about intellectual and communication needs going to be strongly emphasized. Learning and teaching by expressing ideas, knowledge, having great conversations with others, and writing. For Jim and I, oh, I mis cancer.
I'm like, come on, Marv has cancer.
And sing it to establish sort of a home life that confers personal status and security, home improvement, enhancing family relationships and a possible move. Gemini the need to express oneself creatively, affectionately, with love, romance, relationships, Children have play and fun.
Not that I need to tell a Gemini live them.
But I do need to tell you to take a little more risk than you're used to. Okay, Taris you're aware of your need to serve others. Yes, you've got to serve others. I know this is not typically what you like, but the state of your health, your employment congestions, and your job relationships could really become a factor in your learning how to serve people. It helps you to keep yourself healthy, wealthy, and wise. For areas your focus on the needs for human interaction. Love it, love it, love it one on one basis. Maybe the general public the laws working to form meaningful relationships. And oh, by the way, enemies could come out of the woodwork, so.
Be on work for them, okay, or advices, Since stimulation of physical realities as well as spiritual realities are important, maybe you'll get an inheritance, Maybe there's resources of others.
Maybe your wife will get a bigger job, or how about your husband gets a better job and a bigger contract. And I mean that's very spiritual, evolutionary and psychic development in Quarius, developing your abstract thoughts, think about what might be, what could be, what's a better society, what's a better way for us all to live? What's a better way for us to let live and live and let live with spiritual practices that we each individually like to have, giving structure and ethical to personal beliefs. Everybody's got a belief of their own, so it doesn't make it right or wrong. There are no rights and wrongs. There's a thousand paths to God. Capricorn, career advancement status are the main themes. Concern with recognition and position, looking for concrete evidence of success. Show me the money.
That sounds very typical of Capricorn all the time, though, doesn't.
It well, I'd like to think we hide it most of the time.
No jigsap, we know we see Capricorn.
Examining one's personal role as a member of society. Sagittarius by George, we are going to allow you to be part of the human race. So group interests are pretty darn important and the priority over your own selfish goals ouch becoming a member of the day of the play. A member of the play, you don't get to be on the marquis all time. And for Scorpio, psychological development and spiritual growth, come on, give it up. Scorpio increasingly aware of interdependency that exists between the physical and spiritual natures of us. All gods in charge.
Is that tough for Scorpio.
That's tough for Scorpio. What do you mean the power and control time?
I was kidding, No, I know. Oh well, if you've been feeling wild and crazy with this eclipse energy, like I said before, it is always really helpful to just understand how it can be impacting you because it is here for your your good, your growth, your development, So learn how to work with it and not be so you know, kind of doomsday or taken out by certain energies like this is all here for good. So if you want a book a reading, or people want a book a reading with you, Marv, where would they find you, They.
Would find me at astromarv dot.
Com, astromarv dot com. And then I'll put that and then your email is Marvin at astromarv dot com. So we will put all of that in the description of this podcast. And then Marv, you'll be back with us next month to tell us a little more about what's going to be happening in November. So that will be interesting.
Oh jolly in Mudville's election brook out.
All right, Well, thanks mar for being with us, and thank you guys for listening.
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