TRANSCRIPT Huge Sky Astrology Podcast Ep 252 | Podathon Day Three: Pluto in Libra, with Kirstin Vasgaard! (9.4.24)
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April: Howdy Invisible Pal, April right here, and the date right this moment is September 4th, 2024. Welcome to Episode 252 of the Huge Sky Astrology Podcast. And, Day 3 of our fifth Annual Huge Sky Astrology Podathon. What’s a Podathon, you may ask? Nicely, that is the week every year once I deliver you 5 every day episodes, full with the large astrological information of the day.
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And now for right this moment’s episode.
On this week’s particular every day episodes, in fact, I’m overlaying the week’s main astrological information. and sharing an interview with a fellow astrologer, every born in a unique Pluto technology. Right now, I’ll be talking with astrologer Kirstin Vasgaard, a consultant for the Pluto in Libra technology. However first, let’s check out right this moment’s planetary information.
Right now’s Moon Report
It begins with the Moon Report. The Moon continues to be in Virgo because the day begins. It stubs its toe on a sq. facet to Mars at 9 am and that is when the stress that may be created by a Virgo Moon in battle with Mars in Gemini can attain a boil. The Moon winds up in Virgo with a trine to Pluto simply six minutes later, providing an invite to comprise our tempers and undertaking cool detachment. The Moon is then Void-of-Course for a whopping 5 minutes earlier than it enters Libra at 9:11 am. This can be a Void-of-Course Moon that actually is about altering the patterns that you’ve got round stress and anger.
Mars enters Most cancers (Sep. 4, 2024, 12:46 pm)
However the massive information of the day is that Mars enters Most cancers at 12:46 pm Pacific Time. It’ll be on this signal by November third. Most cancers is, truthfully, thought of a tough signal for Mars. Most cancers is the signal of its fall, reverse Capricorn, which is Mars’ signal of exaltation, an indication wherein it has nice power.
The issue with this mix is that Mars desires to maneuver full velocity forward in essentially the most direct route attainable. However Most cancers is an indication that prefers a extra oblique and defensive fashion. Mars can be a planet of battle and battle, and whereas it’s transferring by Most cancers, passive aggression can turn into the mode of assault, with a number of sneaky, undermining, and delicate emotional warfare.
Nonetheless, the signal that Mars is transiting in additionally tells us what we’re keen to battle for. When it’s in Most cancers, we is not going to hesitate to guard our family members, our properties, and the meals and revenue sources that maintain us.
Interview: Pluto in Libra with Kirstin Vasgaard
As you already know, this week, I’m that includes interviews with astrologers from every of the Pluto generations which might be at present practising – Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. I hope that you just’ll hear again to my interview on Monday with Pluto in Leo powerhouse Linea Van Horn and yesterday’s with Pluto in Virgo astrological GP Armand Diaz.
Right now’s interview will likely be of explicit curiosity to you when you had been born as a part of the Pluto in Libra technology. Between October 4, 1971, and August 27, 1984, Pluto did retrograde again into Virgo, between April 16 and July 30, 1972, after which caught its toe into the subsequent signal, Scorpio, between November 5, 1983, and Might 18th, 1984.
These folks correspond roughly to Era X, born roughly between 1965 and 1980, and the Millennial Era, born between 1981 and 1996. This can be a technology that bridged the analog and digital worlds. The elder Pluto in Libra technology had been the final to recollect a time with out private computer systems in each room, with out the web.
The youthful Pluto in Libra people grew up firmly within the digital age. Gen Xers are inclined to worth work-life stability, they usually’re fairly sensible, formed by financial ups and downs they confronted rising up. And so they’re a technology that’s statistically considerably much less prone to marry than earlier generations and have fairly a novel perspective on relationships basically, as I mentioned right this moment with Pluto in Libra astrologer, Kirstin Vasgaard.
Kirstin’s work focuses on supporting highly effective, decided, and inventive people. On their transformational life journey by a self-healing mindset. Utilizing astrological psychology as a basis, her co-creative session course of is supported with wellness instruments, magic, and humor.
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April: Nicely, we’re speaking right this moment to you as a consultant of the Pluto in Libra technology, and also you’re on the useless finish of Libra. Your Pluto’s at 29 levels Libra. What do you consider that? Do you assume it offers…I imply, Pluto’s intense anyway. Do you assume it offers that additional degree of depth that we see with the twenty ninth diploma?
Kirstin: I do. I really feel that the extra I realized about it, the extra it made sense. And it’s at 29º55’ and it went, it ooched again in. And I like this dialog if you invited me, as a result of me, on this 1984 12 months, we’re having that proper now, so the infants born proper now, will likely be that final ooch for this Pluto cycle.
I do assume there’s an added urgency to only these couple of months and an added urgency to any 29-degree Plutos on the market.
April: Yeah, there are particular Pluto passages that all of us undergo at roughly the identical age, and naturally, you’re going by the Pluto sq. now. And I’ll be speaking to a different astrologer with Pluto in Leo and her technology is definitely transferring in direction of the opposition as wild as that sounds.
So, you’re having the sq. and the way are you seeing that transiting Pluto sq. enjoying out in your life and in your enterprise and along with your purchasers and all of that?
Kirstin: As a possibility. And multi-leveled. So with my enterprise, it was very, very clear. I’ve a depth of data I’ve been working with, and I’m very deep into my diploma research, and a pair months in the past, it was virtually like an abrupt cease.
I wanted to actually take it down, break it. Cease it and rebuild. And even with the Libra archetype, discovering that excellent concord, it was simply not in the fitting space. And I couldn’t fairly navigate it. So, I needed to put it down. And typically we’ve got to do this in life. And I feel that’s a extremely good lesson for anybody else experiencing their Pluto sq., to be open to letting go fully or dismantling one thing fully in favor of constructing one thing model new.
It’s an invite, however in my private life, it was very, very apparent by a sequence of occasions. That had been, I virtually need to say, like, lengthy life cycles about loss of life, grief, and transformation. Simply very apparent ones.
April: And you’ve got Pluto within the tenth home, we had been speaking about earlier than. And I ponder when you’re seeing that, are you working with purchasers a lot proper now, or are you simply deeply into your diploma research and don’t actually have sufficient time?
Kirstin: That’s an awesome query. Proper now, I’ve a really mild shopper load as a result of I’m additionally constructing the airplane as I’m flying it, which I’m certain lots of people do. And I needed to truly cease seeing purchasers altogether for essentially the most half. Every e-newsletter I ship out is, “Thanks whereas I’m in renovation part.” I’m accepting purchasers as a result of the airplane is constructed sufficient to the place I’m gonna begin onboarding in a really critical means in 2025.
However the humorous factor is, when you’re doing what the universe desires you to do and also you’re in that alignment and you might be doing the work – as a result of I’m massive on Saturn; you’ve received to do the work – typically the alternatives come to you whether or not you’re prepared or not. And the kind of clientele I’ve been drawing to myself – tenth home themes – are simply, they’re it.
Know what? I constructed it they usually’re coming and it’s working and it’s very thrilling.
April: It’s attention-grabbing throughout that Pluto sq., how in another way folks expertise it. No person comes out of it precisely the identical as they went into it. I do know that.
Kirstin: That’s a extremely great technique to phrase that.
April: And people who find themselves extra at a starting degree right here listening to the podcast, we’re speaking in regards to the facet that occurs in your late 30s typically between transiting Pluto and your natal Pluto. And in Kirstin’s case, within the case of her technology, in fact, Pluto has been on the very finish of Capricorn a couple of totally different instances. It’ll return again there in September by early November. So they’re having the sq..
And I’m speaking to so many individuals of your technology in my observe this 12 months. Some very adrift, as a result of they do really feel the necessity for some transformational change and it’s somewhat bit overwhelming and somewhat bit arduous to determine the place to take that. Typically folks do expertise loss or loss of life of their lives, and it’s a scary factor to speak about and it doesn’t all the time occur both, which is… it’s by no means the place I begin speaking to a shopper on the Pluto sq..
But it surely occurs! You recognize, I misplaced my mom throughout my Pluto sq. and this does occur as a result of the entire key, I feel, basically, and see when you agree with this, Kirstin, is it’s about primary, realizing that we don’t have on a regular basis on this planet. We’re not going to be right here eternally. And confronting that, confronting the entire level of mortality and what it’s that’s vital sufficient to us to need to actually make a push in that path.
Kirstin: Lovely. I feel it’s fantastically mentioned and agreed with the themes of… you actually have archetypal themes. There will likely be a loss of life and a regeneration of types. And naturally, I hear you, you don’t need to open it with actually darkish, mucky issues, however typically folks do deliver darkish, mucky issues to you and want that type of readability and confidence of leaning into these cycles to the place it is a chance and never an ending.
I skilled loss early on in my life, and so I might say that for me when you fall into that class the place you had been confronted with these issues a lot earlier, it is a rebirth of me. I really feel extra me than I ever have in my complete life. Throughout this Pluto sq., I’m releasing the previous in such a really apparent and clear means that I feel possibly what occurs after that is once I get going.
Like that is it. And, and I feel everybody could have that to a sure diploma, however I feel it’s the loss of life of the whole lot up till this second. And for me, that features a number of unhappiness and problem. And when that’s wiped away, I really feel type of this openness arising, tying into my research, astrological psychology, and what meaning in a unique type of lens, how that’s affected my life, how that’s going to have an effect on my shopper’s life as a result of then I can function a unifying middle to assist information and assist shine mild. I feel all of us as astrologers do this to a sure diploma.
April: Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I feel with Pluto doing something actually vital within the chart, particularly if it transits an angle of the chart… I do know Pluto transiting the Ascendant will be extremely highly effective.
Kirstin: Oh, so tough! I’ve two kids. My 2012 child did her Pluto transit as a youth, and that occurred to correspond with the divorce of her dad and mom and transferring throughout the nation.
I all the time get excited once I see massive planets go over the Ascendant. I don’t know if pleasure is the fitting phrase. I typically say, come again to me in a pair years, it’ll make sense then! You recognize, what do you inform anyone that’s about to by Saturn or Pluto or one of many extra heavy planets going throughout?
As a result of it’s an ending. It may be good. I’m an optimist.
April: The deal is with something associated to Pluto, I feel it tends to strip away what’s not viable.
Kirstin: Completely. Sure, issues do get, you already know, we do a reset. Sure components of life we’ve got to acknowledge are usually not going to go on the identical as they did. However on the identical time, transferring ahead, we’re much more in contact, as you’re saying, with who and what we actually are.
With the reality. With the reality of our essence, of our being, and, going, circling again to your point out of the, “now we all know this restricted time of mortality,” it may be very abrupt, like chilly water. Regardless of the place you might be in your non secular journey, it’s intense. It’s vital as a result of I really feel the adjustments that we make now are setting the tone.
So I encourage my pals, I encourage my purchasers, I encourage myself. To look past that, if we’re going to make use of this as a possibility as a result of we do have this restricted time, what a present.
April: Inform me in regards to the Pluto in Libra technology. What do you assume that you’re bringing to the sector of astrology? What makes you totally different than a Pluto in Leo or a Pluto in Virgo?
Kirstin: Fabulous. I considered this and there’s a, there’s a few factors. Therapeutic generational trauma. Now we’re doing this as a technology with our personal private lives, however I feel that type of is bleeding into therapeutic generational points with the sector of astrology. I really feel prefer it’s a really, very thrilling time to be an astrologer.
I really feel we’re simply now cracking open on some new frontier prospects, and a part of that’s with my technology saying what was not likely harmonious or in alignment about how we had been doing issues or how data was being disseminated and the way can we make them extra equitable.
April: Sure, and I ponder, I imply, I’ve no statistics to again this up, however I simply get this sense that yours was the primary technology the place it was quite common on your dad and mom to divorce.
Kirstin: Completely. In my clientele, an enormous concentrate on relationships and the imbalance thereof. I’ve so many consumers divorcing, however this time we’re doing it totally different as a result of we got here from this technology of very bitter divorces. I actually have been divorced six years in the past. It was co-parenting, amicable, we’re a staff.
This has by no means been achieved. We’re on new enjoying discipline and I might really feel that that’s strongly a Libra Pluto technology idea along with the idea of mild parenting. And that ties in too with the stability of relationships. I don’t know the precise date when that time period began being trended round, however I really feel prefer it’s positively the place we’re going. Okay, our dad and mom did this, our dad and mom did that. We’re going to come back higher into alignment with this. And for the primary time, how thrilling. Our youngsters are Pluto in Capricorn children. However the Pluto in Libra folks, we’re the primary technology solidly, and I’m simply talking from my worldview, we’re mild parenting, we’re telling our youngsters we love them, that we’re happy with them.
Now, above us did… began that, and thanks for that earlier technology, our dad and mom, my dad and mom. However the kind of justice of all types, environmental, social.
April: Yeah, these are my observations of the Pluto in Libra cohort, particularly the equity and the equality and actually being vocal about social points.
And taking that because the norm, and the factor I like about Pluto in Libra, and as you mentioned, earlier generations began that transfer in direction of somewhat gentler fashion of parenting. However Pluto in Libra, and Libra being the signal of exaltation for Saturn, signifies that there’s nonetheless accountability, there are nonetheless guidelines, there are nonetheless issues that you just emphasize as being vital. But it surely’s the fashion of emphasizing it, I suppose.
Kirstin: Completely. And yet one more merchandise on relationships of this technology and even clientele, we’re additionally one of many first generations which might be selecting to not be partnered and to not have children. Sure. And that’s lovely too. I feel there’s room for each type of vitality on the market.
It’ll all stability out. And I discover that to be distinctive and thrilling in its personal proper, as a result of as a technology, we’re going, um, I don’t know if that’s going to work. I don’t know if that’s, that’s going to be equitable for everyone.
April: What do you assume the Pluto in Libra technology is doing to or for the sector of astrology? What do you see as your mission as a technology?
Kirstin: We’re making an attempt to make the skilled astrological panorama extra equitable, whether or not that was eradicating gatekeeping by gender or socioeconomical standing. And expertise has helped. We’ve leveled the enjoying discipline and I really feel as a technology of astrologers, we’re actually eager to deliver it to the folks. We’re eager to open it up. To everyone. That feels very Libran. And on the flip aspect, I’m certain there’s a number of conflicting opinions about this. That is simply mine. We’ve virtually turn into responsible of individuals pleasing the purchasers an excessive amount of. We’re somewhat older than the youthful counterparts who’re doing it with out a lot expertise earlier than that.
However, typically the pattern to make the gross sales, it’s not nice. And I encourage us as Libra Pluto astrologers to carry our floor. And to proceed to lean into moral practices deepening our research, educate the general public in a loving and a harmonious means, key phrase right here, collaboration.
April: That’s one thing I completely notice about your technology, how collaborative you might be. And likewise, to hit on the advertising and marketing half, within the Pluto in Leo and the Pluto in Virgo generations, an actual reticence and reluctance to have something to do with advertising and marketing by any means. In consequence, we’ve got a number of astrologers of these generations who’re getting old poor. And I actually have admired the Pluto in Libra’s technology. Libra I see because the signal of {the marketplace}.
Of going out and assembly folks the place they’re and exchanging items and companies.
Kirstin: I like it!
April: When my progressed solar went into Libra, I used to be far more open to that. And thought, nicely, yeah, it’s only a query of getting what you need to the folks that can actually profit from it. And if we take it to that degree, there’s nothing soiled about advertising and marketing, however it might, in fact, be achieved in a really gross means.
Kirstin: Completely.
April:I feel, as you say all the time, it’s the best way you do it, it’s acknowledging the moral concerns. And we see that as your group of astrologers is beginning to transfer into positions of management or participation with the astrology organizations and also you’re seeing far more of an emphasis on what are our ethics and coaching astrologers in that.
Nicely, Kirstin, thanks a lot for taking the time to speak with me in regards to the Pluto in Libra technology. I actually loved listening to your views. Inform us the place folks can discover you on social media, your web site, and something that you’ve got arising.
Kirstin: Completely. I’m accessible for one-on-one astrology teaching packages and group lessons on my web site KirstinVasgaard.co and you could find me on socials @astrologyforselfhealers. I’m on Instagram, Threads, and Fb. Developing, I’m hoping to have a webinar by a self-healing astrological psychology lens celebrating 2025. In order that’s within the works. After which in 2025, I feel I’m going to begin taking the reins of instructing a few of the Huber methodology.
I needed to depart with the query of admiration and Pluto generations as a result of what I’m actually enthusiastic about, and I had talked about earlier, was what is going on now and subsequent. A whole lot of the Libra Pluto folks, we’ve got a number of Pluto in Capricorn infants. I feel that that technology, as a profit from the Libra, it’s going to be actually thrilling as a result of the Pluto in Capricorn technology, the stable basis is just not working and they’re pondering….If it’s not solved and stuck, these children can’t envision a spot the place this isn’t actual: housing inequity, reproductive rights, environmental justice, racial fairness. These children are pondering that is normal, that it’s honest.
April: Sure, Pluto goes by an indication and it raises massive questions. And we regularly don’t see the solutions till Pluto will get to the signal that squares it.
And as you say, there’s the belief that, nicely, that is the way it’s all the time been and that is the way it will all the time be. So. Yeah. Very attention-grabbing.
Kirstin: And so they’re going to repair it.
April: Yeah. We’re going to repair it. Nicely, thanks a lot, Kirstin. And thanks on your time.
Kirstin: Oh, this has been improbable. Thanks.
April: I hope you loved this interview as a lot as I did. I discovered Kirstin to be such a shiny, optimistic spirit, and it was my nice pleasure to get to know her somewhat bit higher.
Wrap-up
Nicely, that’s the whole lot on my present sheet, so I’m going to wrap this one up. Thanks for listening to the Huge Sky Astrology Podcast, and for becoming a member of me for the third episode of this fifth annual Podathon.
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