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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Speaker 2: Carmen Turner shot with us a licensed clinical social worker,
Speaker 2: psychological astrologer, author, teacher. The book we're talking about tonight,
Speaker 2: it's called Phoenixes and Angels. She's been researching astrology, trauma, healing,
Speaker 2: and transformation for the past twenty eight plus years. Carmen
Speaker 2: began her astrological work at the age of sixteen after
Speaker 2: an experience with a glowing ball of light in her doorway.
Speaker 2: We'll have her explain that, and began studying metaphysics and
Speaker 2: the Edgar Casey material at the time. Carmen was born
Speaker 2: with intuitive abilities that she inherited from her maternal grandmother
Speaker 2: and uses these spiritual techniques to better serve clients and
Speaker 2: those who reach out to her for help and assistance. Carmen,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Hi, George, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to this and great book by the way,
Speaker 2: Phoenixes and Angels. I love your cover. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yes, they did a great job on that. I'm like
Speaker 3: I wanted a phoenix and an angel and something just
Speaker 3: very beautiful, so I'm really happy with it.
Speaker 2: So tell us what happened to you at sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, So one night I came back from a basketball
Speaker 3: game and I woke up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3: And I always had to have my door open with
Speaker 3: the nightlight on. You know. I really didn't like the dark.
Speaker 3: And a dreamer, you know, I dreamed things and sleepwalk
Speaker 3: and my parents didn't know what to do. And one
Speaker 3: night I woke up and I saw this glowing ball
Speaker 3: of light in my doorway and it was translucent, kind
Speaker 3: of yellow, wee watery, about the size a little bigger
Speaker 3: than a softball, and it was just floating there. And
Speaker 3: I tried to yell for my mother, and our house
Speaker 3: was pretty small, and I couldn't have no voice. It's
Speaker 3: like I was frozen. I couldn't move, I couldn't say anything.
Speaker 3: All I had control of was my mind, and I
Speaker 3: just laid there and prayed, please don't have it come
Speaker 3: in my room over and over again, because it was
Speaker 3: the fear of the unknown. You know. Now, I would
Speaker 3: probably get up and walk over to this, but at
Speaker 3: the time I thought, I don't know what this is what,
Speaker 3: And it would come and go and just stay right
Speaker 3: in my doorsill. And after hours of watching this ball,
Speaker 3: I finally it's like it released me and I was
Speaker 3: able to yell for my mother and she saw it too.
Speaker 3: So I finally had a witness of some mystical spiritual
Speaker 3: things that I had happened and where they used to
Speaker 3: tell me just your imagination. My mother saw this glowing
Speaker 3: ball as well, and after that I really started researching
Speaker 3: angels and you know, spirit guides and studying all of
Speaker 3: these things to try to explain my experience. You know,
Speaker 3: why did I see this? Why did I feel the
Speaker 3: way I did, and why did I dream things that
Speaker 3: would happen? You know, I did that throughout my life,
Speaker 3: even in high school. I was always open minded of
Speaker 3: these things. And I wasn't raised to believe in these things.
Speaker 3: I just was kind of born this way. And so
Speaker 3: that's kind of what happened with that glowing ball.
Speaker 2: Would you call it an orb?
Speaker 3: Yes, I would call it an orb. You know, as
Speaker 3: I started researching later on, I realized that that's probably
Speaker 3: what it was. In I started search researching acting car
Speaker 3: and spirit guides and angels and you know, and how
Speaker 3: they present themselves. You know, it can be this yellow,
Speaker 3: white light or blue light, and I just read every
Speaker 3: book I could get about angels and orbs and everything,
Speaker 3: and so I started studying everything I could get my
Speaker 3: hands on when I was sixteen, and one of the
Speaker 3: first books I got it was a little bookstore in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Missouri called Mystic Valley, and I went in
Speaker 3: there looking for angel books and I ended up getting
Speaker 3: a little book about Virgo, which is my son's sign.
Speaker 3: And I started teaching myself how to do my chart,
Speaker 3: you know, and back in those days in the nineties,
Speaker 3: I had to do it by hands, you know. We
Speaker 3: didn't have computers in these programs to do all the
Speaker 3: math and longitude attitude. So I was drawing my chart
Speaker 3: and I just researched and studied, and my chart explained
Speaker 3: why I was the way I was. The eighth and
Speaker 3: twelve houses. I had a lot of planets in those houses,
Speaker 3: and it talks about spiritual unexplained gifts, dreams, seeing ghosts,
Speaker 3: seeing orbs, having these connections with the spirit world, and
Speaker 3: just these unexplained mystical experiences. I'm like, that's why I'm
Speaker 3: the way I am. It's my strology chart. And that
Speaker 3: became my passion, and I just studied and did everything
Speaker 3: I could do to learn to bring that into counseling.
Speaker 3: And at nineteen I started doing consuls in the Saint Louis,
Speaker 3: Missouri area, and just for free, you know, for fun,
Speaker 3: to help people through graduate school. And then as it grew,
Speaker 3: I developed my business and started doing strology and teaching
Speaker 3: part time. And then I always have had a normal job,
Speaker 3: you know, as a social worker, but I've always done
Speaker 3: a strategy and brought it into what I do to
Speaker 3: help people.
Speaker 2: I stay in Saint Louis half the time. Did you
Speaker 2: know that?
Speaker 3: I saw that on your bio.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: I went to colleg there at font Bond Universe.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I went there to play basketball, matter of fact, and
Speaker 3: then I was a little point guard shooter. I was
Speaker 3: a three point shooter. But then I went to wash You. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I went to wash You to get my master's in
Speaker 3: social work right across the street there, and I grew
Speaker 3: up in Rolla, Missouri. You know, that's not too far
Speaker 3: from Saint Louis's where I grew up. Yeah, it's oh,
Speaker 3: very hot, very hot.
Speaker 2: Now when did your interest in astrology begin?
Speaker 3: Well, it really started, you know after that that orbon
Speaker 3: and when I started trying to find something that could
Speaker 3: explain why I would dream things, why I would, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of be intuitive and know things. I was very
Speaker 3: empassic and just very sensitive to other people's energy. You know.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel if somebody was upset, if someone was,
Speaker 3: you know, mad, I could feel energy. And astrology validated
Speaker 3: why my personality was the way it was. And and
Speaker 3: I just became a obsessed with it, and I you know,
Speaker 3: became a part of my life and and I talk it,
Speaker 3: you know, I live it when I meet people. I've
Speaker 3: always like, what you're fine, Oh, this is why you're
Speaker 3: good at this. You know, I see people's strengths. And
Speaker 3: I really have astrology as a real part of my
Speaker 3: everyday life. You know, I kind of live it. For
Speaker 3: the past twenty eight years, I've been I've been living it.
Speaker 2: So we're going to take some readings with you in
Speaker 2: our last hour. And you don't want questions from people
Speaker 2: just their birth date, right, Yes, that's fine.
Speaker 3: And I can tell a little bit about those sun
Speaker 3: sign and if they know, you know, if they do
Speaker 3: have a question or two, I'm willing to do that.
Speaker 2: George, if you want to sure, we'll have some fun
Speaker 2: and then then I'll take some general questions about astrology
Speaker 2: as well. What is a birth chart? What does that?
Speaker 3: Yes, So the the way I explain it, you know,
Speaker 3: my goal is to explain astrology on a very basic,
Speaker 3: practical level so everyone will understand it. That's kind of
Speaker 3: my mission because a lot of people shy away from
Speaker 3: astrology because they feel like it's complex and it's all
Speaker 3: these symbols and they don't know what it is. So
Speaker 3: a very easy way to explain to the audience what
Speaker 3: your birth chart is is when you're at the on
Speaker 3: Earth the day you're born, when you're looking up at
Speaker 3: the sky on the day, months, year, exact time of birth,
Speaker 3: place of birth. All of the planets are in a
Speaker 3: certain star constellation, which we call the signs, and there's
Speaker 3: twelve zodiac signs in an astrology, So those planets are
Speaker 3: in a certain star constellation and they're a certain area
Speaker 3: of the sky, and astrologers break the sky into twelve sections,
Speaker 3: which we call houses, and so it's like we take
Speaker 3: a picture of the sky and we put it on
Speaker 3: a piece of paper, and that is the map of
Speaker 3: your soul. The birth chart is kind of when your
Speaker 3: soul came into the earth realm, because everything's energy what
Speaker 3: your soul came here to learn. So even twins can
Speaker 3: have a slightly different birth map a birth chart, you know,
Speaker 3: because the moon changes signs every two to three days,
Speaker 3: so sometimes twins will have a very different emotional nature
Speaker 3: depending on the time of birth, you know, how far
Speaker 3: out they were born apart. So yeah, that's what a
Speaker 3: birth chart is and its symbols. You know, when you
Speaker 3: look at it, it's there's twelve houses, they're numbered, and
Speaker 3: those are the areas of the sky and kind of
Speaker 3: in the center of that will is the earth, and
Speaker 3: then we have all the planets that are in a
Speaker 3: in one of the star constellations. And so that unique
Speaker 3: map is your your birth chart. And that's why it's
Speaker 3: so important that we have the time of birth as
Speaker 3: accurate as we can and the place, not just your
Speaker 3: date and year to really do an in depth reading
Speaker 3: and analysis, right, you really need that to do a
Speaker 3: psychological accountsling session. But I can do basic energy just
Speaker 3: on sun sign alone, you know, I can do that.
Speaker 2: That's what we'll do with our calls. Yes, yes, Now,
Speaker 2: generally when you talk about twelve astrological houses. What does
Speaker 2: that mean?
Speaker 3: Yes, So the way as strologers we break it up
Speaker 3: is that each each area of the sky represents an
Speaker 3: area of life. So on that piece of paper, you
Speaker 3: know when we you know, take a picture of sky,
Speaker 3: put it on there, it looks like a wheel, and
Speaker 3: each area life is rolled by one of the twelve
Speaker 3: zodiac signs. And it's really easy when you start realizing
Speaker 3: that each sign goes in order, you know, one to twelve.
Speaker 3: So the first house is rolled by aries. It's a
Speaker 3: fire sign. So the first house is all about your identity, yourself,
Speaker 3: your appearance. You know. The rising sign starts the first
Speaker 3: house cust that's how people perceive you. That's how they
Speaker 3: think you are, right, that rising sign. And then the
Speaker 3: second house is money, finance, security, what you value. The
Speaker 3: third house is communication, siblings, short journeys, publishing, radio, writing.
Speaker 3: Fourth houses home and family. It's your childhood, your roots,
Speaker 3: your parents, your future home. The fifth house is your
Speaker 3: self expression, your creativity. You know, how you show people
Speaker 3: who you are. You know a lot of talented, you know,
Speaker 3: artistic people have this house planets. The sixth houses health,
Speaker 3: so we can see a lot about your health, your routine,
Speaker 3: your diet with the sixth house. The seventh house is
Speaker 3: the house of marriage and partnership. So we look at
Speaker 3: the seventh house to see, you know, what kind of marriage,
Speaker 3: what kind of partners are you going to draw? What
Speaker 3: kind of karmic issues well you have in relationships. The
Speaker 3: Ape House, which is in my books famous as an angels,
Speaker 3: is what I've researched a lot. And this is the
Speaker 3: house of death. This is the house of rebirth, healing, regeneration, change.
Speaker 3: It's a very powerful house. It's rule by Scorpio, so
Speaker 3: it's rule by Pluto, which is all about cataclysmic change
Speaker 3: of the identity, the emotions, the soul. So there's a
Speaker 3: lot of trauma that comes with a house planets, but
Speaker 3: also healing and people become psychologists, social workers and raking
Speaker 3: masters and astrologers right when you have these house planets,
Speaker 3: and they usually have unexplained spiritual experiences. From my research,
Speaker 3: if you have planets in that eighth house, there and
Speaker 3: then the ninth house is all about foreign travel, foreign culture,
Speaker 3: higher education, higher knowledge, and that tenth house cust is
Speaker 3: your career tust. So the tenth house rules your career.
Speaker 3: The public how successful you are right, your goals, your achievements,
Speaker 3: where you shine at work, what kind of careers are
Speaker 3: good for you. We can see what sign is on
Speaker 3: that tenth house, and that's how we would analyze that.
Speaker 3: And then the eleventh house is friendship groups, humanitarian causes, networking,
Speaker 3: you know, acquaintances. And then the twelfth house is you know,
Speaker 3: my favorite house, and it's the House of Angels. It's
Speaker 3: the house of cosmic consciousness. It's the house of that
Speaker 3: is about connecting to God or a higher power. It's
Speaker 3: all about spirituality and finding amission in life and helping
Speaker 3: other people, serving others. And it's the house of dreams,
Speaker 3: of mysticism, right, all of these spiritual mystical things because
Speaker 3: it's that it's roll by Pisces in the planet Nettune.
Speaker 3: And so those are the kind of the twelve houses.
Speaker 3: In a short little explanation.
Speaker 2: Coming in your bog, phoenixes and angels, which you've explained,
Speaker 2: the eighth house is phoenix's, the twelfth they're angels. But
Speaker 2: why did you single out eighth and twelve?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it all kind of started with my research
Speaker 3: when I had that experience that I couldn't explain. I
Speaker 3: started seeing these patterns, and all of the people that
Speaker 3: I would do astrology charts for and when they had
Speaker 3: planets in the eighth or twelfth house, almost ninety nine
Speaker 3: percent of the time, they would tell me I had
Speaker 3: dreams that happened. I dreamed about my grandmother before she passed,
Speaker 3: or I dreamed my friend's parents divorced and they divorced.
Speaker 3: You know, they would know things through their dreams. Also,
Speaker 3: they also had loss of a loved one at a
Speaker 3: young age, or a friend or a parent, and that
Speaker 3: happened to me. I lost a friend that same year
Speaker 3: I saw that ORB. I lost a friend unexpectedly that
Speaker 3: passed away when I was sixteen, and that really changed
Speaker 3: my life. And so everything that I researched started showing
Speaker 3: in other people and in my own life. And I
Speaker 3: became obsessed with the eighth and twelve houses and realized
Speaker 3: I could use my knowledge to help others understand. You know,
Speaker 3: they're not a victim that they chose to be born
Speaker 3: at this time to go through these very deep, profound experiences,
Speaker 3: and they chose to have these spiritual abilities so they
Speaker 3: could help other people. And once I started counting people
Speaker 3: on the strengths of having planets there. It really helped
Speaker 3: me too. It helped me to help others because you know,
Speaker 3: back in the nineties, and I'll say the old days,
Speaker 3: I could never find any books on the Twelfth House
Speaker 3: or Eighth House that explained my experiences. And so that's
Speaker 3: why I became obsessed with this. And if you even
Speaker 3: look out there now, there's not a lot of books
Speaker 3: about this. My books are one of the few right
Speaker 3: that are about the Twelfth or Eighth House. So I
Speaker 3: really love to help people that have planets here because
Speaker 3: they have similar experiences. They still very alone. They feel
Speaker 3: like they're not from Earth. You know, That's what I
Speaker 3: hear from a lot of Eighth and twelve House people.
Speaker 3: They kind of feel like they were an alien, right,
Speaker 3: like I don't belong here? What am I doing here?
Speaker 3: I feel so different than everyone. And every time I
Speaker 3: hear this with everyone, I need that has these planets
Speaker 3: in these two houses. And so I created Facebook groups
Speaker 3: a long time ago when it was brand new. I
Speaker 3: created an Eighth House Astrology group and a Twelfth House
Speaker 3: Astrology group, and I got people from all over the
Speaker 3: world in these groups, and you know, it's free, they
Speaker 3: help each other, it's like support groups, they post their
Speaker 3: birth charts. I'm the admin, you know, I help them
Speaker 3: and people share and help each other and it's just
Speaker 3: a wonderful community. And I've been building those two groups
Speaker 3: for many years. So a lot of my research comes
Speaker 3: from people sharing their experiences through my strategy groups too.
Speaker 3: So that was a big part of my book, Phoenixes
Speaker 3: and Angels that I shared some client stories in there
Speaker 3: of real things that have happened to them.
Speaker 2: Now, the definition of phoenixes are remarkable individuals. Is that
Speaker 2: what you mean here?
Speaker 3: Yes? To me, a phoenix is it's it's someone that
Speaker 3: has the sun or moon, or three or more planets
Speaker 3: in the ape house, or a lot of scorpio in
Speaker 3: their birth chart, like a Scorpio sun, a Scorpio moon.
Speaker 3: And I call them phoenixes because they go through these
Speaker 3: death and rebirth experiences. What the phoenix does, you know?
Speaker 3: It it can accumulate it, you know, it brings energy in.
Speaker 3: It can get really heavy, you know. And it's like
Speaker 3: on Harry Potter when when the pheasburg blew up, He's like,
Speaker 3: it's about time, right, That's what happens. If they tell
Speaker 3: people they repressed, hold on everything and then they just
Speaker 3: they let it go and they cut ties and they're
Speaker 3: reborn emotionally, mentally, physically, and they have it's like they
Speaker 3: wake up and they feel like they're a whole different person,
Speaker 3: like they don't even know who they are anymore because
Speaker 3: they've changed on a deep level. That's why I call
Speaker 3: them phoenixes, because they rise from the ashes stronger and
Speaker 3: they're one of the most resilient houses is the apaus.
Speaker 3: It's one of the most resilient. So no matter what
Speaker 3: trauma or hard challenges life gives the Apous people and
Speaker 3: I call them phoenixes, they are able to overcome it
Speaker 3: and they become what I call wounded healers. They go
Speaker 3: out in the world and help other people that have
Speaker 3: been through what they've been through, and they it's amazing
Speaker 3: and to hear their stories. And when you see and
Speaker 3: hear what they've been through, they're strong. You know, they
Speaker 3: really are. And that's why you know the mea phoenix
Speaker 3: is powerful, right, a very powerful, strong, healing individual.
Speaker 2: Right now, they're the different houses, the twelve houses all
Speaker 2: go to different people. Or can one individual touch all
Speaker 2: twelve houses.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. So it depends on the date, months, time,
Speaker 3: place your birth where all those planets are going to be.
Speaker 3: So some people may not have any planets in some
Speaker 3: of the houses, right And that's how we know your
Speaker 3: unique personality, because everybody is going to have planets in
Speaker 3: different houses, different signs, And if you don't have a
Speaker 3: planet in a house, it's not a bad thing. I
Speaker 3: always tell people that what we look at then if
Speaker 3: we want to see what sign, what astrological sign falls
Speaker 3: on that house cusp. So we still can analyze a
Speaker 3: house energy twelve house energy. And we also have what's
Speaker 3: called transits, a transit chart, and so what's going on
Speaker 3: in the sky right now, we can put that on
Speaker 3: top of your birth chart, and I can tell you, Okay,
Speaker 3: you've got a Pluto transit in your A house or
Speaker 3: Saturn transit in your twelve house, and you still are
Speaker 3: going to experienced eighth and twelve Houns energy in your
Speaker 3: life even if you're not born with planets there in
Speaker 3: your birth chart.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense, pretty remarkable.
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