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Speaker 1: with you, Leslie mc leslie. One of the many things
Speaker 1: we like about you is you're very positive about your
Speaker 1: outlook of astrology. Yes, and I'm also very very emphatic
Speaker 1: about the fact that it's not fortune telling. It's just
Speaker 1: I'm no different than a diagnostic person who looks at
Speaker 1: your car. And I think it's really important to realize
Speaker 1: that we have free will, we have influences that are
Speaker 1: with us, but there's a way to make our lives
Speaker 1: a lot easier if we know what we're dealing with.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think astrology I call it the
Speaker 1: language of compassion. And one of the most beautiful ways
Speaker 1: to attain peace is to actually understand how to read
Speaker 1: an astrology chart, because once you see what kind of
Speaker 1: music you were born with or what the weather is like,
Speaker 1: aology can give you a type of inner knowing that
Speaker 1: is very hard to attain in any other way, and
Speaker 1: it's why I'm so interested in teaching people how to
Speaker 1: read charts. I've got another beginner class starting on January thirty,
Speaker 1: first for four weeks, and I literally feel that it's
Speaker 1: important for me because there's only one of me out there,
Speaker 1: so you're important for me to teach people how I
Speaker 1: do this because it's not something that you can learn
Speaker 1: from a book, and because I equate it with music.
Speaker 1: It's like people thinking they can learn how to read
Speaker 1: a book and understand how to play the guitar. It's
Speaker 1: something that you can't learn in those normal, quote unquote
Speaker 1: normal ways. You have to be able to play it.
Speaker 1: So because I have this background as an artist and
Speaker 1: as a writer and illustrator of children's picture books, I
Speaker 1: think I've figured out a way to make it fun
Speaker 1: and to make it colorful and easy to understand. Using metaphor,
Speaker 1: I don't usually talk a lot in astrological language because
Speaker 1: it just goes in one ear and out the other
Speaker 1: for most people. When we take calls next hour and
Speaker 1: you'll do some readings, what do you want from people?
Speaker 1: Do you need a birth month and day? I need
Speaker 1: the birthdate and year for what we're doing now. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where they were born or what time, because
Speaker 1: I can't get that deep into it, but right just
Speaker 1: the birthdate and year would be great, and a question,
Speaker 1: are you just going to take over from there? Well,
Speaker 1: if they have a question, usually that's what people start with,
Speaker 1: So would probably be great if they did have a question.
Speaker 1: If not, you know, I'm always happy to help in
Speaker 1: any way I can. Lots of people are my impression,
Speaker 1: my impression that they're under a lot of stress, anxiety.
Speaker 1: Some people are depressed. What's going on. Well, we've come
Speaker 1: to a very very difficult time, and the world as
Speaker 1: we knew it actually came to an end when we
Speaker 1: had the COVID thing happening. And I remember I was
Speaker 1: on your show before COVID hitting. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: something's coming down the pike in life as we know
Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot different. So we're still
Speaker 1: feeling the side effects of that period, and we are
Speaker 1: having a hard time settling down into this new reality
Speaker 1: where everything feels so heightened. Everything feels very angular and sharp.
Speaker 1: And I think that it's difficult to meditate when you're anxious.
Speaker 1: It's hard to think straight when you're depressed. So the
Speaker 1: key thing for me when people are struggling in this way,
Speaker 1: the most important thing that can help us is I
Speaker 1: believe understanding astrology, because once you can understand why you're
Speaker 1: reacting the way you are, or why the current weather
Speaker 1: patterns are affecting you the way they are. It can
Speaker 1: help you in ways that are impossible to describe. I
Speaker 1: think about that gentleman who recently took his life, who
Speaker 1: was the producer with Ellen Stephen twitch Boss his chart
Speaker 1: and George. He did have two particular things in his
Speaker 1: chart that indicated some things he had struggled with in
Speaker 1: terms of his emotions. But the tricky thing is is
Speaker 1: that when he took his life, the weather pattern on
Speaker 1: those that particular time was so hard for him that
Speaker 1: he probably just popped. I don't think he would have
Speaker 1: necessarily felt the urge to do what he did if
Speaker 1: he had understood from an astrological point of view that
Speaker 1: this was temporary, this was just weather, and it was
Speaker 1: hitting him in a really hard way. And I think
Speaker 1: if people can know what's going on, you can settle
Speaker 1: back into it. It's just like when you're driving your car,
Speaker 1: or maybe a better example is when you're on an
Speaker 1: airplane and you're stuck on the runway. When the captain
Speaker 1: comes on and tells you what's going on and tries
Speaker 1: to calm you down. It feels good. You feel better
Speaker 1: because you're getting some sort of higher view on the situation.
Speaker 1: But when you're left not knowing, which most people are
Speaker 1: left not knowing because they don't know how to read astrology,
Speaker 1: they get very upset and anxious because it is scary.
Speaker 1: This world is not easy to comprehend right now. But
Speaker 1: I think astrology is probably the best way to have
Speaker 1: peace of mind, and it even helps just in every
Speaker 1: day to day thing in life. I'll tell you one
Speaker 1: quick story about something that happened to me a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. It was the death of the anniversary
Speaker 1: have a death of a friend of mine, and I
Speaker 1: was very upset and I called a girlfriend trying to
Speaker 1: get comfort because I was really having a hard time,
Speaker 1: and she said, well, no, this is not a day
Speaker 1: to be said. You should be happy that this person
Speaker 1: died quickly and they didn't suffer, and everything that I
Speaker 1: felt was completely discounted because in her mind she was
Speaker 1: trying to get me to switch gears and look on
Speaker 1: the happy side, but I wasn't in a happy place.
Speaker 1: This person ended up taking one of my astrology classes,
Speaker 1: and when she saw the way that I work, the
Speaker 1: way I deal with emotions. The way my brain works
Speaker 1: it was very, very different than the way her brain works.
Speaker 1: So now our relationship is so much calmer and better
Speaker 1: because it's not that she's right and I'm wrong. It's
Speaker 1: just we all have different ways of being. And once
Speaker 1: you can see it, then you don't get as upset
Speaker 1: with other people or even with yourself. Because we don't
Speaker 1: get mad because a porcupine has quills, we don't get
Speaker 1: mad because a giraffe has a long neck. We accept
Speaker 1: the way things are designed when we can see it
Speaker 1: and understand it. And that's what astrology does for people.
Speaker 1: You can see it's very clear, and then you can
Speaker 1: sit back and accept things more easily. What can astrology
Speaker 1: tell you just about everything? Definitely, just about everything. It
Speaker 1: can tell you how you were designed. Most importantly, all
Speaker 1: of us are like cars, and some of us are ferraris,
Speaker 1: and some of us are toyotas, and some of us
Speaker 1: are trucks, and we need to understand that however we're designed,
Speaker 1: we're perfect just the way we are, but there's a
Speaker 1: high way of doing it or a low way, and
Speaker 1: we want to do the highest vibrational version of ourselves.
Speaker 1: So in the astrology chart, you can see how many
Speaker 1: of your tires are properly inflated. So those in astrological
Speaker 1: language are made up of elements, so there's fire, earth, air,
Speaker 1: and water. Most people are driving around in vehicles that
Speaker 1: have all four elements, but many of us, including myself,
Speaker 1: are completely missing an element. So I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: air in my chart at all, which doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I'm an airhead or that I can't breathe. It just
Speaker 1: means that I'm either an expert in the area of
Speaker 1: air or I'm out of whack with it, and so
Speaker 1: for me, I get incredibly claustrophobic. I've had sinus surgery
Speaker 1: twice in my life. I now know that this is
Speaker 1: the element that I need to put into my life
Speaker 1: with intention in order to stay balanced. So it means
Speaker 1: being outside a lot where there's lots of air and space,
Speaker 1: and being in airplanes traveling is really good for me.
Speaker 1: So it's an important thing to know how you're balanced
Speaker 1: with those four elements. And the other thing astrology can
Speaker 1: do is tell you why you were born. It gives
Speaker 1: the entire purpose for your existence. And think of how
Speaker 1: important that is if you're dealing with a young person
Speaker 1: like the astrologer who saved my life when I was nineteen.
Speaker 1: She basically, George knew who I was. I didn't even
Speaker 1: really know. She knew you better than you did exactly,
Speaker 1: and so I started studying astrology at that moment because
Speaker 1: I thought, at the deepest, profound level everything she said
Speaker 1: to me, and I still remember all of her words,
Speaker 1: I knew that she was right. And she said, Leslie,
Speaker 1: you're incredibly creative. What are you doing with your life?
Speaker 1: At that time, I wasn't doing anything creative because some
Speaker 1: teachers in high school or grade school had told me
Speaker 1: I had no talent and I couldn't draw. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: the astrologer was right. I now have twenty children's picture
Speaker 1: books that I've sold all over the world and have
Speaker 1: been a designer for Takashimaya and Japan. They made over
Speaker 1: one five hundred products with my designs on them. And
Speaker 1: she also told me back then at age nineteen, that
Speaker 1: my creative work would first be picked up overseas and
Speaker 1: shure enough, I was selling t shirts out of the
Speaker 1: back of my car in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and wrote
Speaker 1: to Glamour magazine and they did a story about me
Speaker 1: and someone from Takashimaya in Japan called me up and said,
Speaker 1: we want to make you famous in Japan. So she
Speaker 1: was even right about that. And what's super cool is
Speaker 1: that there's something called an ast cartography map that an
Speaker 1: astrologer can look at and it tells you the best
Speaker 1: places in the world to go for love or work,
Speaker 1: or if you want to write a book. And for me,
Speaker 1: the line that goes right through Tokyo is the place
Speaker 1: where you go for fame and fortune. And so I
Speaker 1: basically went from obscurity in New Hampshire to becoming a
Speaker 1: superstar designer in Tokyo. So even to that degree of accuracy,
Speaker 1: and you know, I have so many stories about how
Speaker 1: accurate that astro cartography map is. It's incredibly useful to know.
Speaker 1: I think about someone who's trying to pick out what
Speaker 1: college they want to go to. There could be a
Speaker 1: place in the world that's completely perfect for that student,
Speaker 1: and astrology is just one more tool in the toolbox.
Speaker 1: It does not tell you how to live your life,
Speaker 1: and no one should ever allow planets to dictate what
Speaker 1: they do. You want to always go with your intuition
Speaker 1: and your heart and your brain, but you use it
Speaker 1: as a tool, and it's an incredibly useful thing that
Speaker 1: I'm so passionate about because it has totally defined my
Speaker 1: life and how I live, and I've seen it help
Speaker 1: so many people. I mean, all of the clients that
Speaker 1: I've got, all the students that I've got. It changes
Speaker 1: how you look at the world, and to me, that's
Speaker 1: like one of the most beautiful things that exist on
Speaker 1: this planet. And not enough people understand it. You know,
Speaker 1: most people are just reading their horoscopes and looking at
Speaker 1: what other astrologers are telling them they need to do
Speaker 1: for the next couple of months. I don't really enjoy
Speaker 1: that type of astrology. I'd rather empower the individual and
Speaker 1: get them to be able to understand how to move
Speaker 1: forward in life. So I have a very different emphasis
Speaker 1: than probably most of the astrologers out there. Can astrology
Speaker 1: be overused, Yes, absolutely. There are many people who don't
Speaker 1: make a move with out you know, looking in the
Speaker 1: paper at what some astrologers said they should do this week.
Speaker 1: It's too complicated for that to be that accurate. Too,
Speaker 1: because every single person's astrology chart is so precise. It's
Speaker 1: just based on the date, time and place of birth.
Speaker 1: A birth chart for someone born in China on your
Speaker 1: exact birthday at the exact same time is going to
Speaker 1: be totally different if you're born in New York City
Speaker 1: because the sky in China is totally different. So all
Speaker 1: of the various different planets all combine to make up
Speaker 1: this beautiful music that you're born with. But when people
Speaker 1: just overuse astrology thinking that their sun sign is the
Speaker 1: thing that's going to determine everything about how they're supposed
Speaker 1: to move forward, it's just it upsets me because it's
Speaker 1: not really the real deal of what astrology can be.
Speaker 1: This is it's an amazing would you call it a science,
Speaker 1: I call it an esoteric science. So we have hard
Speaker 1: science and then we have interpreted things like acupuncture. So
Speaker 1: acupuncture and astrology are very similar. Back, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: years ago, people thought acupuncture was crazy. Now it's part
Speaker 1: of the medical system. So acupuncture is an interpreted science.
Speaker 1: You could go to twenty acupuncturists and have a different result,
Speaker 1: So it depends on who's doing it, and the same
Speaker 1: is true for astrology. It's an ancient science and it's
Speaker 1: an interpreted science, so it's definitely as medically accurate as
Speaker 1: acupuncture can be, which is why I am so interested
Speaker 1: in working with doctors and why doctors have been the
Speaker 1: ones finding me. I did not go looking for doctors
Speaker 1: who wanted to work with me. They found me because
Speaker 1: either they had a patient or a client who told
Speaker 1: them about me, and then they experienced what I could
Speaker 1: do for them, and then it just grew. And in
Speaker 1: one of my classes recently, I had four neurologists taking
Speaker 1: my astrology one O one class, and it's because they
Speaker 1: understand that the brain and how we work, there's something
Speaker 1: very electrical about us, and the neurologist is seeing these
Speaker 1: patterns and realizing that astrology is similar. Listen to more
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