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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing hot Seat. In this EPP, I

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Speaker 1: fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS,

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday, so enjoy this shorter style episode of Fearlessly

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Speaker 1: Failing Hot Seat. Welcome back to the hot Seat. What

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Speaker 1: is your name? My friend?

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Speaker 2: Hello, my name's Natasha Webber, otherwise known as Astrotash.

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Speaker 1: I know I wanted to call you Astrotash. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you first got pitched of this podcast a year

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Speaker 1: or two ago. I kept in the briefings. I'd be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to have astrotash, and then like, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's not a real nut. You can't keep calling it that.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, and some people do, you know, it's so fine.

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Speaker 2: It took me a little while. In fact, I'm still

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Speaker 2: confused myself, So I now call myself Natasha Weber aka Astrotash.

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Speaker 1: That's the way CEO.

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Speaker 2: But it's a massive mouthful, and ideally i'd have one name,

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Speaker 2: but it's just worked out that way well.

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Speaker 1: To celebrate your book, I am going to ask some

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Speaker 1: hopefully amazing astrology questions, but I have to say, do

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Speaker 1: you have a favorite planet?

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Speaker 2: A favorite planet would definitely be Jupiter, the planet of more,

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Speaker 2: the planet of abundance, the planet of luck and happiness

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Speaker 2: and joy and blessings, our cosmic guardian angel, our fairy

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Speaker 2: god godmother in the sky. I love Jupiter. Also happens

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Speaker 2: to be my chart ruler given that I'm a sag

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Speaker 2: rising as you are too lower. So yes, I love Jupiter. Look,

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Speaker 2: I have to be I have to be a good

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Speaker 2: astrologer and also give the downside because every planet, every

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Speaker 2: sign has a light and shadow side to it, so

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Speaker 2: Jupiter's shadow and we we all get to choose how

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Speaker 2: we express our planetary energies in the chart. So with

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Speaker 2: Jupiter you can go a little overboard. You know, it

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Speaker 2: can mean that you become more indulgent. It's prone to exaggeration,

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Speaker 2: even like quite literally indulging in too much rich food

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Speaker 2: So we also always have to remember to maintain balance.

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Speaker 2: When Jupiter is strong in the chart or in the sky.

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Speaker 1: I love it. And did you say earlier we're in

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Speaker 1: a Jupiter retrograde right now or is that just for me?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, no, we are. So Jupiter is retrograding through

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Speaker 2: the sky right now through Gemini. So this can make

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Speaker 2: us feel a bit down on our luck. But Jupiter's

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Speaker 2: retrograde is not really as challenging as Mercury's retrograde or

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Speaker 2: Mars retrograde for sure. So it gives us the opportunity,

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Speaker 2: especially in Gemini, to reflect on our narratives and those

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Speaker 1: I love it. Do you have a favorite element? I

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Speaker 1: know you talk in the book about you know, the elements.

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Speaker 1: Is there an element that resonates with you most?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I love a fire sign. Get yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I just I'm a Gemini, so I'm an air sign.

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Speaker 2: And air signs really get caught up in their own

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Speaker 2: heads and overthink everything. But a fire sign is It's inspirational,

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Speaker 2: it's driven, fire burns bright, and I'm all about fires,

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Speaker 2: about passion, and I'm all about passion. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: my catch cry that without life, without passion, isn't worth living.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a key element, pardon the pun, in

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Speaker 2: If we're pursuing our passion, we're on track. So fire

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Speaker 2: for that reason, I fully agree with you one thousand percent.

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Speaker 2: Like without passion, Like, yeah, what's the point, you know exactly,

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Speaker 2: We're just doing the do writing.

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Speaker 1: A book that you've poured seven years and potentially even

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Speaker 1: more into. What was the hardest part about writing a book?

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Speaker 2: Woh, there were lots of challenges along the way. The

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Speaker 2: hardest part of writing the book, I think would have

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Speaker 2: to be the self doubt, the self doubt and putting

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Speaker 2: yourself out there. Particularly as an astrologer. I do aim

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Speaker 2: to honor, obviously the fundamentals of astrology and the zodiac signs,

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Speaker 2: but there are a lot of areas of the book

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Speaker 2: and also all right, I'm going to get more specific

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Speaker 2: if you've gotten to that, Lola, but it is. It's

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Speaker 2: a cusp sign does exist. Do you want me to

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Speaker 1: It, yeah, go for it. So all right, So a.

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Speaker 2: Cusp sign is when you're born on the dates between

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Speaker 2: and then Taurus comes next on this date. But these

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Speaker 2: So mathematically, technically, the Sun cannot be in two signs,

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Speaker 2: The Sun is not an exact point. It's a disc

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Speaker 2: takes twelve hours. So if you were born in that

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Speaker 2: I do believe that the sign that is in your

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Speaker 2: But astrology is just not kind of I mean, it

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Speaker 2: to consider that in the whole equation. So yes, I

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Speaker 2: do absolutely believe that cusp signs exist, and I explain

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Speaker 2: then I explore what each CUSP signs personality traits are like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can't even remember your original question because I went

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Speaker 1: I love a tangent. I love it. I have one

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Speaker 1: more question for you on this hot seat, and that

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Speaker 1: is what has been your biggest pinch me moment about

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Speaker 1: this book? Because I know it's such a part of you.

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Speaker 1: It's a baby for you, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like it really feels like you're birthing something into the world.

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Speaker 1: I would agree having written books. But what's been your

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Speaker 2: I think you know, seeing it in real life, seeing

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Speaker 2: it actually birthed into material form, and touching it. It's

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Speaker 2: very Tauryan, isn't it. I do have Mercury, and Mercury

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Speaker 2: of you know, material, touching, feeling. So yes, that moment

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Speaker 2: the very first time, it was surreal. It felt surreal.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know whether to laugh, I didn't know whether

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Speaker 2: to cry. But the fact that I could see a

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Speaker 2: product of my own thought processes, my own inspirations, my

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Speaker 2: own passion, my own dedication, and my God, all those

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Speaker 2: many many I almost want to cry when I think

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Speaker 2: about it, those many, many, many many hours where I

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Speaker 2: last few months. It was three months where I said

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Speaker 2: to my darling boyfriend, it was so understanding beautiful cancerrium

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Speaker 2: that he is. I can't I can't say you, I

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Speaker 2: I needed to do that to be completely immersed in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the only way to get that last three

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Speaker 1: months done. My friend, I have to ask, did you

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Speaker 1: do you remember being sent your advanced author copy. Often

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Speaker 1: they'll send either just a box of books to you

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Speaker 1: before it's going to be on shelves, or one physical copy.

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Speaker 1: I like that moment. I always remember that exact moment,

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Speaker 1: and it feels different for each book, and so I'm

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Speaker 1: just I'm so curious. Is that what we're talking about

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, that first time. It's like for the first

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Speaker 2: a birthing process, it's a creative birth. Is birthing process.

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Speaker 2: But what is funny is that the book actually went

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Speaker 2: to the wrong house, so Penguin sent it and I

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Speaker 2: didn't receive it for ages, and I'm like, well, where

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Speaker 2: is my book? And you know how desperate you are

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Speaker 2: to kind of realize on it, and it ended up

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Speaker 2: and so I think I've got I've received something that

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Speaker 2: and that was all lovely.

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Speaker 1: Ha ha oh. I love that. I'm so proud of you

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Speaker 1: with this book. I know how i'd remember from last

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Speaker 1: time we spoke, like how much you were already in

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Speaker 1: it then, So congratulations feet. I cannot wait to see

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Speaker 1: what is next for you, and thank you for always

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Speaker 1: making the time to jump on this pod. I really

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Speaker 1: do feel like I've made a true friend in you.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you. I love our

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what comes next to you.

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Speaker 1: I know this book is going to fly, So I'm

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Speaker 1: really proud of you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. My God,

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Speaker 2: my gratitude to you is so immense. And you know

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Speaker 2: our charts aligned. I can see that, so no surprise them. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's my privilege. Thank you so much, Lola, Thank you

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Speaker 2: my friend. You are absolutely wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Bye. Love,