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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Speaker 2: Leslie McGuirk back with us. Astrologer, author, an advisor to
Speaker 2: global corporate leaders and medical professionals. Leslie started the Astrology
Speaker 2: Wisdom Academy to help make astrology more user friendly and
Speaker 2: to share her knowledge with others. Her website is linked
Speaker 2: up at coastecoastdam dot com and e latest book is
Speaker 2: called The Power of Mercury. Leslie, welcome back. How have
Speaker 2: you been?
Speaker 3: I've been great, And George, it's a privilege to talk
Speaker 3: to you as.
Speaker 2: Always looking forward to this. Astrology is so fascinating. How
Speaker 2: did you get involved in this?
Speaker 3: My mother took me to an astrologer when I was nineteen,
Speaker 3: which back then was quite a rare thing to do.
Speaker 3: It was not part of the vernacular where I grew
Speaker 3: up in Bronxville, New York, to go to an astrologer.
Speaker 3: So this woman lived in Granwich Village in New York City.
Speaker 3: She knew everything about me, She knew what my talents
Speaker 3: were and what struggles I had had, and she basically
Speaker 3: gave me very strict instructions on how to live my life.
Speaker 3: And when I left there, I decided nothing else was working,
Speaker 3: so I would try everything that she said.
Speaker 1: And I also.
Speaker 3: Started to study astrology by voraciously reading any book I
Speaker 3: could find about the topic. And over the years, every
Speaker 3: single thing that she said to me came true everything,
Speaker 3: and she knew what my potential was. And that's what
Speaker 3: a good astrologer should do. They should be able to
Speaker 3: help guide you so that you have the best possible life.
Speaker 3: And I'm just paying it forward now doing it for
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 2: Is astrology primarily leslie for the future or the presence?
Speaker 3: I think it's for both. I don't believe in fortune telling.
Speaker 3: That's not what I do at all. What I do
Speaker 3: is look at at the wiring system of a person,
Speaker 3: and then I try to help people figure out the
Speaker 3: best way to operate their lives given that system. So
Speaker 3: pretend that everyone has a car, right and you're the car,
Speaker 3: and you have an owner's manual in your car glove compartment.
Speaker 3: That is exactly what an astrology chart is. It's just
Speaker 3: an owner's manual. Does it predict the future? It can
Speaker 3: in a way, because if I see that you're a
Speaker 3: diesel engine, but you put gas in your car, I
Speaker 3: can predict you're going to break down. Or if I
Speaker 3: see that you're a Ferrari and you decide to keep
Speaker 3: it in the garage, I'm going to predict you're going
Speaker 3: to be unhappy. So in that sense, astrology can be
Speaker 3: somewhat predictive. But the most important thing I tell all
Speaker 3: of my clients is that you are in the driver's seat.
Speaker 3: You have total control over whatever any astrologer tells you,
Speaker 3: and the best astrologers are going to empower you and
Speaker 3: realize that you're perfectly designed as the type of car
Speaker 3: that you are. And if you're a Ferrari, be the
Speaker 3: best Ferrari possible. If you're a cheap be the best jeep.
Speaker 3: And what we do, what I do and what I
Speaker 3: teach my students how to do in my astrology Wisdom
Speaker 3: Academy is we look at the human as a car.
Speaker 3: So we check out the four tires, and we check
Speaker 3: out under the hood, and we figure out how to
Speaker 3: give you a tune up, and it's like getting a
Speaker 3: tune up for your soul. And then we help direct
Speaker 3: you figure out how to get to where you want
Speaker 3: to go and when you do what is part of
Speaker 3: your soul's purpose, the universe conspires to help you out
Speaker 3: because then you're in alignment with the highest version of
Speaker 3: what you could possibly be.
Speaker 2: Your book is called The Power of Mercury Understanding Mercury Retrograde.
Speaker 2: Retrograde is one a planet appears to be spinning backwards right, yes.
Speaker 3: And everyone gets all upset about mercury retrograde, which is
Speaker 3: one reason I wrote the book, because I don't think
Speaker 3: it's a really good idea to let a rock in
Speaker 3: space upset your life. So I try to teach people
Speaker 3: that there are many, many people on this Earth. I'm
Speaker 3: one of them who was actually born during mercury retrograde,
Speaker 3: and it's very important for people to know if they're
Speaker 3: part of that twenty percent, it's only twenty percent. The
Speaker 3: rest eighty percent we're born when mercury was direct, But
Speaker 3: when you are a mercury retrograde baby, it means that
Speaker 3: when mercury goes retrograde, that's actually your good time, and
Speaker 3: we feel like we can move forward at that time.
Speaker 3: When it goes direct, everyone else is relieved, and then
Speaker 3: we feel as if it's retrograde when everyone else has
Speaker 3: it feeling better. So I have great compassions for other
Speaker 3: mercury retrograde people because we're sort of used to living
Speaker 3: with a little bit more of that frustration. But we're
Speaker 3: also able to deal with it better because we've figured
Speaker 3: out creative ways to live and to utilize the way
Speaker 3: that we're designed. And it can make for much more
Speaker 3: original thinkers too. If you happen to be a mercury
Speaker 3: retrograde baby.
Speaker 2: Now, retrograde, Leslie is an illusion. It's really not spinning backwards.
Speaker 3: Is this exactly exactly? And that is why I don't
Speaker 3: like it when people get all wigged out about mercury retrograde.
Speaker 3: And sometimes I think it's talked about so much that
Speaker 3: people just decide they're going to be miserable and hate
Speaker 3: that those times, and I'm just not a big fan
Speaker 3: of that. I believe again that we have pretty will.
Speaker 3: We're the ones driving the car, and it's just a
Speaker 3: time when if you're in a car, when you can
Speaker 3: go backwards and you can pull out of your garage,
Speaker 3: what a great thing, or you can parallel park. It's
Speaker 3: like nothing is ever really negative, even though it may
Speaker 3: be a little bit uncomfortable. Because we live in a
Speaker 3: very fast paced world, and we all want to go
Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour and just get to where
Speaker 3: we want to go. But sometimes speed is actually a
Speaker 3: symptom of immobility because when you're going so fast all
Speaker 3: the time, you don't actually notice anything that's going slower
Speaker 3: than you, and we tend to be impatient with things
Speaker 3: that are slow. So mercury retrograde babies and during the
Speaker 3: mercury retrograde time. It's actually a beautiful thing that we
Speaker 3: have it because it almost is forcing us to stop
Speaker 3: and have a little bit more of a sense of wonder,
Speaker 3: perhaps a deeper connection to the natural world and the
Speaker 3: natural rhythms. We just can't always go forward. Sometimes going
Speaker 3: backwards is healthy.
Speaker 2: Leslie, What does the sun sign mean?
Speaker 3: So the sun sign is probably, in my opinion, the
Speaker 3: least interesting thing in a natal chart. So a sun
Speaker 3: sign is like saying that you're a four or a
Speaker 3: Mercedes or Ferrari. It just tells me your brand, but
Speaker 3: I have no idea if you're a station wagon, an suv,
Speaker 3: a little convertible. So the sun sign is just like
Speaker 3: your brand. It's a big overview of what you are.
Speaker 3: But to really understand what a person is the two
Speaker 3: things that they need to know more than the Sun
Speaker 3: sign is the moon sign and the mercury sign. And
Speaker 3: the reason for that. Let's start with mercury since I
Speaker 3: did a whole book on it. You can easily look
Speaker 3: up your mercury sign and it will usually be always
Speaker 3: either one sign ahead of your Sun sign or one
Speaker 3: behind because in the sky a mercury planet is always
Speaker 3: very close to the Sun. So the mercury sign will
Speaker 3: tell you how you use words and how you communicate.
Speaker 3: That gives me a much stronger idea of what you're
Speaker 3: like as a person and whether or not I'll get
Speaker 3: along with you, because there really are no communication issues
Speaker 3: out there. It's just that people have different frequencies with
Speaker 3: how they talk. And if you can understand the way
Speaker 3: you're designed with words, it can help you so much
Speaker 3: in relationships. And then with the Moon sign, the reason
Speaker 3: that's so important is that the Moon, which is a
Speaker 3: rock and space that regulates every body of water on
Speaker 3: planet Earth, and we are connected to these planets up there.
Speaker 3: We all know that the Moon does that with the tides,
Speaker 3: but all the other planets also have an influence on us.
Speaker 3: But the Moon is all about emotions. Now, why is
Speaker 3: the moon connected to emotions. It's because emotions actually are water.
Speaker 3: Think about tears that roll down your face. When we
Speaker 3: look at someone's moon sign, which could be any of
Speaker 3: the twelve zodiac signs, it's going to tell me how
Speaker 3: you deal with emotions. If you have your moon and
Speaker 3: a water sign, you're going to be much more emotional
Speaker 3: than someone who has their moon and fire. So what
Speaker 3: does fire do. It evaporates water. So this information tells
Speaker 3: you much more about what the person is really like,
Speaker 3: much more so than any sun sign could ever tell you.
Speaker 2: Is that like the rising sign.
Speaker 3: That's totally different. The rising sign is like saying that
Speaker 3: you are a log cabin or a colonial architecture type
Speaker 3: house or Danish Modern or mid century modern house. It
Speaker 3: just tells me what your exterior looks like, how you
Speaker 3: present to the world. So, for example, in my case,
Speaker 3: I have Leo as my rising sign. So when I'm
Speaker 3: on a stage or anything that I'm doing in public,
Speaker 3: this lion comes out. You know, this entertainer, But I'm
Speaker 3: a cancer, George. Cancers are shy and retiring. Think of
Speaker 3: what a does it hides under? You know, it's a
Speaker 3: little hole and protects itself only if it's threatened. And
Speaker 3: that cancer sign is definitely who I am, but not
Speaker 3: what I appear to be. When I'm out in the world.
Speaker 3: I appear much more as a lion as a leo.
Speaker 2: What are most people want to know? Leslie when they
Speaker 2: want to reading from you?
Speaker 3: A lot of times people have very specific things that
Speaker 3: they're dealing with that are very troubling, and a lot
Speaker 3: of times I get referred by doctors that I've been
Speaker 3: working with for years who have noticed that I have
Speaker 3: a very high accuracy rate at helping people with things
Speaker 3: that they can't figure out. So I deal a lot
Speaker 3: with people with health issues, but it could be anything.
Speaker 3: Just the other day, I had a reading with a
Speaker 3: woman who had had this long history of weight problems.
Speaker 3: I think she was about two hundred pounds overweight, and
Speaker 3: she just couldn't figure out why all the years of
Speaker 3: therapy and everything she's ever tried, nothing seemed to work.
Speaker 3: And so what I find is that astrology will give
Speaker 3: me the information to figure out the root cause of
Speaker 3: any problem. And this is something that no doctor or
Speaker 3: anyone could ever find because astrology holds this mystical secret
Speaker 3: of the reason why we are the way we are.
Speaker 3: So in this woman's case, I saw that she had
Speaker 3: a very traumatic childhood and she agreed that she had,
Speaker 3: and I just didn't give up. And that's one thing
Speaker 3: I'm very tenacious. I know the astrology chart in her
Speaker 3: lives are the people may not realize things, but the
Speaker 3: chart will always tell me what the answer is. And
Speaker 3: so I didn't give up talking about this childhood that
Speaker 3: she had had. And finally she had a memory because
Speaker 3: I just was so unrelenting, it popped in to her
Speaker 3: mind and she said, well, my gosh, when I was little,
Speaker 3: my parents used to force me to eat all the time,
Speaker 3: and if I didn't eat, they would literally sit there
Speaker 3: and shove the food down her throat. And she was
Speaker 3: so traumatized by food, and she had completely blocked this
Speaker 3: memory out. And I said, this is the root cause,
Speaker 3: this is why you have the weight problem now at
Speaker 3: age seventy George. She had suffered with this for so long,
Speaker 3: and she had never put the two things together that
Speaker 3: what had happened to her as a young child was
Speaker 3: actually deeply embedded in her body. And we have a
Speaker 3: very strong indication of this type of thing happening to
Speaker 3: people if it occurs around age five. Age five is key.
Speaker 3: If you can live your life up until age five
Speaker 3: without anything major in a traumatic way happening to you,
Speaker 3: you probably will do pretty well. But when things happen
Speaker 3: at age five, it's particularly damaging because a five year
Speaker 3: old does not have a brain that's developed enough to
Speaker 3: explain things. All this person knew with these parents is
Speaker 3: that they're supposed to be taking care of her and
Speaker 3: they love her, and she must be a bad girl
Speaker 3: because she's not able to eat this food and she
Speaker 3: didn't know how to put it all together. So that's
Speaker 3: really important. And it doesn't matter how old you are
Speaker 3: to have an astrology reading. There's always something that can
Speaker 3: be improved or some piece of wisdom that brings clarity
Speaker 3: to your life. I once had a client who was
Speaker 3: in her nineties and she just wanted to get an
Speaker 3: overview of her life. And one of the most amazing
Speaker 3: things that happened in that reading was that I was
Speaker 3: able to look up her mother's chart and explain what
Speaker 3: her mother was like, and it gave her so much
Speaker 3: peace to realize that she wasn't crazy, that her mother
Speaker 3: actually had a really difficult chart, and it just brings peace, always, always,
Speaker 3: it brings an understanding. If you can explain things to people,
Speaker 3: then you can be at peace with it.
Speaker 2: It's dramatic. Now, the subtitle of your book includes Unlocking
Speaker 2: the Secrets of Astrological Communication. What are those secrets?
Speaker 3: The secrets are that we all have a very specific
Speaker 3: style of how we communicate. Some people, for example, if
Speaker 3: you have your Mercury and Sagittarius, what this means is
Speaker 3: that every time you speak, it comes through the energy
Speaker 3: of what Sagittarius is all about. So Sagetarius is half man,
Speaker 3: half horse, with a bow and arrow with fire on
Speaker 3: the end. So when that person speaks, they can be pointed,
Speaker 3: they can be aggressive, they can be spot on, but
Speaker 3: there's nothing shy about the way they speak. One of
Speaker 3: the downsides of a Mercury Sagittarius person, if they're not careful,
Speaker 3: is that they have to watch where they point that
Speaker 3: arrow because some people don't appreciate the directness that they have. Now,
Speaker 3: it's not a bad thing, and it's it's just what
Speaker 3: it is. And I always compare people to dogs, and
Speaker 3: I tell people, look, if you have a basset hound,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get mad at it because it
Speaker 3: cannot perform in a race with a greyhound. It's going
Speaker 3: to lose. You can't yell at it for having short legs.
Speaker 3: We have a way of speaking that person with Mercury
Speaker 3: and Sagittarius. They are sharp, they are direct, but they're
Speaker 3: great if you need to fight for something, and they're funny,
Speaker 3: and it's sometimes really great when you can have words
Speaker 3: that just hit the bullseye. But if you're in a
Speaker 3: relationship with someone who has their Mercury and Pisces, that
Speaker 3: means every time they open up their mouths, it comes
Speaker 3: through the image of what Pisces is, and it's two fish.
Speaker 3: Now fish live in the water, and in the picture
Speaker 3: of pices, one fish is going left and one fish
Speaker 3: is going right. And they have absolutely no weapons. Their
Speaker 3: teeth are very small, they are soft with how they
Speaker 3: used words, and they don't like to fight. And when
Speaker 3: you put a Mercury Pisces person in a relationship with
Speaker 3: a Mercury Sagittarius person, it's not that easy. So what
Speaker 3: I do in the book is I explain what it's
Speaker 3: like for each one individually, and then I do all
Speaker 3: the one hundred and forty four combinations. So you can
Speaker 3: look up your mercury sign and then compare it to
Speaker 3: your husband's or your child, and it brings so much
Speaker 3: peace because then you don't get mad at them because
Speaker 3: they don't communicate the way that you do. That's a
Speaker 3: big secret, and I think knowing your mercury sign can
Speaker 3: do more to change your life than knowing what your
Speaker 3: son's sign is all about.
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