Practical Mystic Astrology #1 with S.J. Anderson

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Welcome to synchronicity. We have a guest this week. How about that? And not just the guest, but a regular guest. We're gonna have S.J. Anderson on an astrologer. He's been on, I don't know, a couple of months ago, maybe a little bit more, big fan of S.J. And you will be too, if you haven't heard him. You'll hear in this episode why, dude is on the path, man, like he gets it. He's fucking understanding this. He brings a wonderfully rejuvenating, masculine power, stoic, but deeply rich and love and compassion and the divine feminine too. And like, that's what we need in this world. We need men and women balancing the energies within themselves, finding a modality that works for them.

In this case, it's astrology for S.J. And really bringing that into the world to help people give them some perspective and some control over their lives and their thoughts and their minds, which is essential. Like we have to do that now and we will do it. So we're gonna make these regular things. I think we're probably gonna do it every 28 days and focus on the lunar cycle. So stay tuned for that. And I'll probably be doing some other astrology based stuff just because it's fucking cool and it works. And we talk a little bit about why it works and some of why I think it works and it has to do with imagination, but it has to do with stable, imaginal acts.

And astrology has been around for a very long time and the influence of the planets has been a felt and experience thing in this reality for millennia. Millennia, so if not forever. So it's a pretty powerful tool that can be used. So big thanks to everyone who is sending in their imaginal acts and really sharing a part of themselves. I've gotten a tremendous amount of feedback. That's a silly thing to say. I've gotten a tremendous amount of feedback from the podcasts I did with Ramine on Rainbow Brainskill and Corey on The Astral Hustle. I also have another one coming out soon with Jessica Anne, the art of humanity.

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Thanks for coming on. We're just gonna cut with the formalities and everything. 'Cause I think we're gonna do this somewhat regularly. I was also pointing out to a friend last night that we need to start doing everything on the lunar cycle because it's literally like, I've known this for a while, but the moon, I know that people used to use the moon as our calendar and then we switch to the solar and there's a whole patriarchal thing embedded in that. But it's just, I've noticed that if you start things on new moons and use the moon as kind of like a quarterly guide to what's more, it's just very good.

So we're gonna do this pretty regularly. But why don't we, why don't you explain what we're doing here? I know we, I just hit you up like two days ago to talk about this, but what's your vision for what we're doing here with these stocks?

Yeah, so I mean, there's different ways this is done like in the astrology community, people will talk about the astrology and different increments of time. So one common way, like you're saying is people will say, "Here's my illumination," and that would be the new moon. Here's my lunation analysis for the next 30 days until the next new moon or 28 days. And they talk about all of the aspects the moon makes and analyze it and then that people will either sell that to their clients, like this is other astrologer. I won't mention names just that way. But you know, and so people can buy like a workshop and analyze that, that lunation cycle.

Others do like maybe a more weekly check-in and they base it on dates, for example. So there's popular podcast where it's the first of the month that will release a astrology for June or astrology for July, it seemed to be tied to, like I said, like you were saying, the lunation cycle, but it's more about the solar calendar that we're all embedded in. I think that there's other astrologers that will come on podcasts and say, "Here's like a six months ahead," or the yearly forecast, so kind of their regularity is a little less, so there's all kinds of ways you can do it. I mean, when people talk about astrology, I think that most of the best astrologers I've heard try to just talk about things in terms of humanity, let's say, something that anybody could find useless as opposed to nerding out on astrology.

Yes.

Because we could do that, I could do that, and get highly technical, but most people probably don't understand that. So my vision is just to kind of talk about energies, talk about collective energies, talk about things that are happening, maybe personal anecdotes, and try to keep the astrology technical side, at least introduce it, but keep it to a minimum. And that way people can enjoy the dialogue, no matter what level knowledge they are with astrology.

Well, and I mean, I'm so happy you said all that. I confirm, so I get you up, dude. I mean, the thing is for me, I now understand far more about astrology than I did since the last time we spoke. I remember every astrologer I would speak to, I was like, I like it, I get that there's something to it, but I don't understand it. Now, I've gotten sucked into the vortex and looking at my chart, understand my natal, understand the signs, learning the graphics for the signs, I'm in the vortex. But what I like about what you're saying is is there is this universal power of astrology that you don't have to understand the technicals to like, you don't have to go and look and see Jupiter or Saturn and intuitively know what that means.

But if someone explains to you that these planets have these effects and you notice that this period had been going on, like for me, the easiest thing, and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to this, was a clip season, right? From the beginning of July to the beginning of August, was the craziest fucking time of my entire life. My birthday happened to be in the middle of the air. But dude, when I say, I mean, I don't even know how to describe it. I just, there's no words for describing the calamity and enlightening aspects all embedded into this turbulent period. And I knew a clip season was coming and I said to my wife, like, oh, watch out a clip season, I was just kind of like, joke, I didn't know.

Holy shit, so we all have these and are under the influence of these planets and just movements of the cosmos all of the time. And I think that is what appeals to me most about it. And that's why I just knew in our conversation before that this is how you approach it. And I see your tweets and I see, yeah, I mean, it's like anything in the world. Astrology could be anything to anyone and it is. But if you kind of really get to the mysticism of it, right, the mysticism of astrology, oh my God, it's the best. So with that said, where do we start, man? What's going on, why are the planets doing this to us?

Well, I think we can start just where you started because that is, I think, what at least most people or a lot of us are dealing with is we're on the other side of some of the most difficult astrology that we've had in some time. I mean, this summer was quite difficult for most, I mean, more difficult for certain places, in astrology we say placements. And this is would be planets in a sign. And so not to get too technical, but those who had cardinal placements and maybe even more specifically cancer and Capricorn, planets in those two signs or in Libra and Ares might have had a quite difficult time.

And because it just wasn't the eclipses, it was that Saturn is in Capricorn and Mars was in cancer. And so those are the two malefic planets that we at least our term of malefic planets traditionally and they're planets that can bring difficulty. Those joined the party during a clip season and played a really significant role. And so it was this added tension that came in the most people's lives. I mean, I had a rough time. And I think it's a good thing to point out is that just a rough time doesn't mean bad results. It doesn't mean anything like that. It just means that we have this kind of pressure attention that comes with life, right?

We were people in collision with other people. That's what life is. We're incarnated in a physical body and this density, this dense form. And I don't think there's any way of escaping this part of our imaginal reality of our existence that there's this physicality and that necessitates tension. And there's a function to it as well, right? I mean, that's an important thing we don't wanna overlook because I think when you get in, we were talking a little bit about the imaginal stuff is there's a tendency to get like, oh, well, that's the real reality. This is an after effects of what's not as important which is a misapprehension.

We're here for a reason. As best as I can tell, that reason is for us to get familiar with the concept of imagination and creating our reality from that level. And the luxury we get here and sometimes it feels like a curse is there's this slow dimension of time that only moves forward for us in physical reality. So if we imagine some horrible shit, it doesn't immediately happen like it would in our imaginal reality if we didn't have bodies. So we look at that as a frustrating thing if we want something and we imagine it and it doesn't happen, but it's actually like, it's a nice little system for learning how this shit works and physicality is made to bring us into this world to understand that there's impacts and everything.

And I also really like what you said, quote unquote negative stuff, right? Tension. I mean, what I would describe the eclipse period like for me was a nose dye. Like I'm in a plane and I am just straight nose diving it and it looks like imminent crash is definitely gonna happen. There's no way it's not gonna happen. Weirdly, I'm pleasantly calm through like very challenging, objectively challenging circumstances. Dad had a heart attack, infant was in the hospital, relationship issues, just like crazy shit. But what ended up happening right at the end of the eclipse is that it was just an aerial stunt.

I was just fucking doing a barrel roll and fucking doing a nose dive and pulling out of it. And it's like if you understand internally and can use something like astrologies modality to understand externally what's going on, you don't get caught up. It's like if you pull an inauspicious etching drawing, you know, pictograph and you read through the thing, at first it's gonna be like, you're fucked, you're fucked. All these things are bad, all these bad. But if you keep reading and understand to the end, they're usually like, this is actually one of the most auspicious things if you know how to navigate it.

So it's important that you said like, it's not a bad thing that's happening and it was just this tension which can create diamonds under pressure, right? So yeah, totally do.

Yeah, and it can form character. It's like, let's say I realized the next week could be rough. How do I respond to that with my thoughts and with my vision, my internal vision? And you know, I think there is something to be said, there's a nobility and something like courage and toughness and walking into something calmly and practicing like one's ability to stay centered with their, I think of it as a divine spark. And my cosmology, my spiritual kind of worldview, I do think there's divinity and divine energies and we can center with that as we go into anything, right? And so I think that, yeah, what you said, there's that.

And then on the other hand, there's what you said that knowing that when we're in difficult times, if there is planetary alignments that may be contributing to that, there is a sense of relief, I find, not only because you know that there's these other contributing factors, but two, they're going to end. And you can map where it went that will end. I mean, like for a lot of us when Mars left cancer and entered Leo, that was a big relief, you know? And then that second eclipse finished, I think it was the lunar eclipse second, when that finished, and then the sun moved out into Leo. And I mean, the energy's kind of settled.

I think a lot of us have felt that.

It was insane. It was insane. You know, like people can hear this and they'll be like, yeah, well, you know, it was like, you look at astrology, so you knew it was happening. Here's the thing, I at that point don't, I didn't conceptually and intellectually understand astrology enough to prime myself for an energetic shift, but I can tell you. So here's my astrological sense, but yeah, there was a definite shift. Here's what I told this to my friend, Juliana. And she had, you know, astrologers react differently to this depending on their conception of themselves and just their entire world cosmology.

Stable, imaginal acts create reality. Astrology is one of the most stable, imaginal acts because it's one of the most ancient tools for understanding ourselves and the world out there. However, everything in this world, including karma, anything is malleable. You can step outside of it. Karma, people think of it as this endless cycle that can't be broken, but everyone, you can break karma. That's the point of it almost, is you break these kind of karmic debts. So you can always step out of this stuff. Astrology is just your blueprint, right? My conception of what astrology is, is it literally is you playing out you, however, just like if you take some LSD, it's a placebo, but it's a stable, imaginal act placebo.

So that's just definitely gonna work over and over again. Astrology seems to be one of the most stable, imaginal acts that I have encountered in terms of its efficiency and accuracy for being a blueprint for what's going on. And I think what we're talking about proves that. We may have some knowledge that there's something going on astrologically and there should be a shift, but that's the only one aspect of understanding something. When you feel it and all of a sudden you're just like, "Whoa, what the hell is that?" Or if that happens and then you go and look after and say, "Oh, that happened?"

Like that's powerful stuff that I think, if people knew really what the fuck is going on with this stuff, like, man, it's just one of the best tools I've ever found in life. It's so cool, man, it's so cool.

Yeah, and I think the one thing I wanted to say too, and that you're talking about here, is that if we set all the techniques of divination aside, set all religious belief systems or spiritual systems, set all that aside, we still have to have tools for life, right? Every person is confronted with challenges and has to figure out how they're going to manage in life, right? And I think that I like to think about someone's problems and my problems or what I'm going through, just with that hat on only sometimes. I mean, I'm not saying for me actually, I'm quite embedded in divination and spirituality.

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for me, I don't need to be useful to think, like if I have a money problem, the issue is how am I going to get to the bank and make the deposit? Or how can I make sure this transfer went through? I mean, there is practical skills that don't depend on divination that are relevant for me to solve certain problems. And I don't think that can be understated because if someone comes to me and says, hey, what do the astrology say about my marriage or this physical problem I have, I'll probably say, go to the specialist that can help you deal with your knee, ligament problem. The astrology might speak to that somewhat, but there's tangible action in the physical reality that you need to do, or I would suggest you could do, as an astrologer or not, just as a human being.

And so I guess it's important for me to stay grounded in things independent of the divination. But what's so cool is that when you bring the divination into it, you have even more information about this flow of reality so that those choices can be better made. Those things that both physical choices.

Yes.

So that's one thing. The other thing I think is the collective imaginable. I think it's quite important. And I don't know how much you've thought about this, but I mean, we are living in a shared brain, whether that's the internet or even just the way language, like we share a language. So we have the same words, the same signifiers for words. You know, pre-internet, we all read the same newspapers, we saw the same three channels at night, you know, the Cronkites and the rat, the ratters. Now we have the internet, so we have the same memes and the same tweets, and you know, so there is this collective imaginal that I think can be a challenge when you're trying to work on your individual development, because you have to confront these energies that are pressuring you and that are kind of interfacing with your own vision, right?

And so I just think that can be difficult for people and I just wanna encourage people, like, you know, at least for me, I mean, I hope to find my own authenticity in spite of that and just acknowledge that these collective energies are part of this process.

No, yes, yes. I have thought about this an incredible amount, my friend, because it is something that, experientially in this world is, not arguably is the most important aspect of it, right? The relationships we have, whether it's to a person and an event, a circumstance nature, it's irrelevant. I mean, that's what this is. My conception of what's going on at this point is, while there is this collective, it's undeniable, we don't detach from this, we don't understate the importance of being compassionate and bearing witness and understanding this is an external reality, but my real understanding of what's going on at this point is that the collective that we share is this sense of I am, right?

This is, I've gotten pretty deep into, like, biblical interpretation of how this stuff works, not from a historical or parable tale, but these figures in the Bible, Old and New Testament, being psychological states that one moves through until the ultimate realization, which, you know, they're described differently in each book, but in the New Testament, and then someone who grew up Jewish, this is not something that I grew up with, but it's known as awakening to yourself inside of your own school as God. You're still a you, but you're God. That's called Jesus Christ, right? That's the awakening to the consciousness that is going on.

Now, what this does in terms of the us versus them paradigm or external versus internal or duality versus unity is you start to see the world as still a valid thing. You're SJ, like, I recognize people out there, but I also see it fundamentally as a projection of me, not me, Noah, even though kind of, but me as God, right? And when you do that, you're constantly getting this feedback loop of where you need to be because we all know the best version of ourselves. What you described as the most authentic is, we know what that is, like we can sense it. We might not have the clearest picture of the clarity of exactly what it looks like, but we know what it is in our minds.

What you start doing with this stuff, this imaginal stuff is you summon forth all of, you summon forth that version of yourself. And what it feels like often, I've been describing this to people, is it feels like you're dying. That part of you is literally just falling when it's dying and it can feel like actual death. It can also feel like you're gonna die. Like you're gonna get hit by a car, you're gonna plane is gonna crash or whatever it is. And you're just dropping these versions of yourself so you can be the best version of yourself because then you're much more effective for you, for what you're doing in the world, for the people around you.

And as I see it, the reason this seems to be happening to a fair number of people who are waking up and then stabilizing it. A lot of people wake up and then they go back down 'cause this world beats you back down. But that's in their own minds too, that's threshold guardians that they set up. But the reason this is happening is this has to happen. If we want this world to continue and it will, because this is somewhat predetermined, but if we want this to not to be a living hell for everyone objectively, we have to be the best versions of ourselves. We have to be able to be non-reactive, thoughtful, wise, compassionate people to move into the reality of this world where it's like, all right, we're good for the next few thousand years at least, like we got millions, maybe billions of years before the sun fizzles out in linear time, like we're good, like we have time if we get our shit together.

So to me, it's really changed the dynamic of difficult external situations because I recognize it as truthfully and not in like an egotistical or selfish way, but it's something that's coming out or playing out, even if it's in my own head or outside, that is trying to get me to deal with this fundamental fact that this is my story, this is your story, literally everything. We are co-dreaming this. The way I use the analogy is when you dream at night and you're in a place and there's all these different people and like there's these faces, like you're like, how did I make up someone's a unique face?

Like, I don't know how did I just imagine, those are people, it's just like this world, but it's an undisciplined and unfocused imaginal act, whereas it's a dream, it's just happening, you have to pull these things out and plug them into this world to make sense of them, but that's what this is too. Those people are real, they're leaves on the tree, but we're also the root of the tree, all of us. And when you wake up to it, it's just like, it's a weird switch that happens that you stop seeing other people as things to hinder you or even like on the reverse, like when you love something, you recognize it's because you love some aspect of yourself and it's not like this weird selfish game you play.

It can sound like that, but it really is like a recognition, a deep recognition that everyone is the same and we're all doing this story game for ourselves. And the best way to prove it again, like is by using what you described, you find the thing you need, you identify an issue and then you take the practical steps that those just naturally unfold. And a big part of this, I'll say the last thing is that you deny the world of this, of your senses. Like you basically, if you do something where you imagine a scenario where you're the best version of yourself and then you open your eyes and you're not because you perceive it with your senses, you don't feel it internally, you gotta deny that shit.

And it's a very tough thing because it cuts against the rational and analytical mind doesn't like that. It's like, no, like, and that's not 'cause they're dicks, it's because they're trying to protect you. It's like this literally puts every fucking thing in your life on your plate and it's all your responsibility and the rational and logical mind is like, I already got enough shit to deal with. Like, please don't make me the creator of everything. But man, like when it fucking happens, dude, and you fucking know you did it and know how you did it is very powerful. And then again, like to tie it into astrology, man, this is happening for everyone.

You know what's going on at the end of the year? You know this weird kind of miraculous divine timing. It's like so bugged out, but let's get back to these strategies that do, man, like, what's going on in this lunar cycle? And of course, respond to anything that piques your interest.

Yeah, sure, I just wanna say we can jump in 'cause it relates to some of the bigger alignments coming up but, you know, self-talk. And maybe this is another way of saying it, I've just found it to be so important, like taking full and total responsibility of what's happening in my brain, the images that I entertain and the words that I, that are running through my head. And that has to be cleaned up. I mean, there's no, there's actually, for me, there's just no excuse, like, and it's a constant, and has to be a constant stream of basically what I would say is loving thoughts to myself and to everybody else.

That's true.

No excuses.

No excuses.

Yeah, no excuses. I mean, because, or actually, it could just be the, I wanna hurt, I wanna feel hurt. If I wanna feel hurt, sure, just don't even think about what's going on in my head and get angry and hate people and send hateful message to myself, you know. But, but I don't want that. I wanna feel happy, loving, you know, I wanna be as useful as possible to myself and others. And so that's really ground zero for me. It's between my ears, you know, my internal vision of the future, of the past, of the present, all has to be very, very, very, very clean. And so just to transition, I mean, the astrology over the next month, there's actually a week and late at the end of August and at the beginning of September.

Mars is going to be what we call in the heart of the sun. And that's an old ancient astrological term, but it simply means that Mars and the sun will be in the same degree of the zodiac or within one degree of each other in the zodiac. So we won't be able to see Mars. Mars will be in the underworld. And, but when it gets so close to the sun, and it'll be, I think, about a week, I can get to a specific time up, but it's August 30th to, I think, September 6th, something like this, it's a purification through fire. You know, it's a, it's kind of a re-christening, a baptism for the next two-year cycle of Mars, Mars is two-year cycle with the sun.

But it's a really good opportunity to purify our actions and take actions. Really, I've seen this, when this transit has happened for people in the past, they've done things like stand up to difficult people in their lives, make this big decisions that have been really difficult that they've needed to make to protect themselves. You know, and so much of cleaning the inside, like cleaning what's in between the ears, sometimes that does translate into communicating to other people, to saying no, to cleaning out maybe negative influence, right?

It almost always does. If you do what you're saying, dude, that discipline is something I did not understand. I was averse to meditation. I mean, this stuff makes me meditate now. Do people don't understand that that's how you change, that's how you wake up, that's how you wake up. If your thoughts, what you're describing, if you have that clarity of what you want, then combine it with these practices of pursuing desires and selecting that vision of reality in this world, because this shit is like almost foolproof, you have the sword in the chalice. I don't know what the fuck I got that from, but essentially, you have the mystical tools to then go forth and literally start affecting change in the world in a wonderful way, and in a way that's beneficial not only for the world out there, but your internal and everyone else's, dude.

And this is powerful shit, continue, not to continue.

Yeah, no, that's fine. But I mean, this is, there's an energetic opportunity here, about August 30th to about September 5th, where this can open up for people, right? And so what actions have maybe even wanting to take? Do you need to take, sometimes you don't even have to contemplate the astrology. I remember looking back at my chart and there were some big things that happened, choices I made that have coincided with this transit, which is Mars getting purified by the sun. And so it might just, it's probably just unfolding in people's lives, whether they know it or not, but knowing that this window is open, maybe it can give people confidence, can help them take that step and understand why, what is changing for them, why that might be happening, and then give them the ability to say yes to that and step into it with courage and confidence.

Mars is a planet of action. It's the planet, it can be often be, you know, I don't wanna say violent, but there is that tension that comes with Mars. There is that pushing against other people, right? And so how we deal with anger, I think could also come up. How we deal with difficult emotions. Can we sit with it? Can we be with, yeah. Okay, go ahead yet, but can we be with--

Can you just take my chart? Yeah, this is, we were talking about Mars is important. Continue, I just don't want you to have a strike.

No, no, no, that's fine, no, no, please. But I mean, yeah, it's how can we be with difficult emotion? I think is one of the most important things for us to come to terms with. We're all triggered. I mean, every day I get triggered and I'm not gonna take it out on someone, I'm not gonna kind of be with the energy and then engage in a way that's fair, healthy, and loving. And it might be assertive even, but I'll tell you what the exact degree this is happening in the sky is--

And I'll tell you that Mars and the sun are both in cancer in my ninth house, those mercury and, you know, ninth house. Dude, listen, 20 views, like I very rarely will pick dates from my imaginal acts, but I've been honing it on September 3rd, really, and I don't know why. And now you're telling me, like, there's this period. I'm like, oh, okay, now I gotta know why.

And what, so if that even gets even better because so the 30th through the fifth is when Mars will be in the heart of the sun, but this is actually a unique Mars purification year because on the second and the third mercury will be right there with Mars and the sun. And so I think I tweeted this out yesterday, but it's that this will have an occult slant to it. And it's gonna be in 10 degrees of Virgo. Those three planets will be together all being purified by the sun. The material, which is the occult, the communicative, even the markets or business, but if we want to just keep it more about the internal dance, this is a real powerful time, yeah.

To take action with the unseen realms, maybe to communicate with things that yourself and these imaginal realms, but mercury being there is highly special. And that's gonna be on the third and the morning, actually, about 10 o'clock on the third, but there's about a 24 hour window where Mars will be in that same one degree range with the sun.

What is the ninth house?

So yeah, the ninth house is the house of, a lot of people say travel. I like to think about it as the house of religion is I think maybe the most common signification. So you might say religion or spirituality. It's the house of worship. It's where our beliefs about maybe the gods, our cosmology, our kind of metaphysical understanding. That's all in the ninth house.

What planet, do planets rule houses? How does that work?

Yeah, so there's debates and as an astrologer, when I speak about it, I'm very, very kind and deferential to others and their beliefs because I can't say one opinion is right or wrong. For me, I don't use, yeah, for me, I use houses. Actually, that's one of the most important things for my astrology is how the signs are less important. I think there's a lot of what I would call synology out there where for so many people, astrology is just about on the torus or everything's about the signs. And that's the, they give like maybe 50%, 60%, 70% of their astrologic practice of defaults to the significations of the signs.

It's overweighted in my opinion. For me, I place much more heavyweight on the planets. The planets are the essential feature of my astrology. And I think of, I would hope for any astrology. And you look at ancient texts. I mean, the planets become the central feature. Those are the, it's the root. It's even the root of the significations of the signs because we assign planets to the 12 signs. And often, in few read ancient texts, like Aries means martial things. And so it's all filtered back through the planets. So for my astrology, planets take primacy and then houses, if we're dealing with natal astrology and even mundane astrology, houses are very, very important.

But just to say, yeah, the night house is, I'd say religion. There is another ancient, I'm not sure what to call it. There's a, it's called the planetary joys where certain houses are assigned to certain planets. So the sun, yeah, the sun is said to joy in the night house. That's where it celebrates its joy. And the moon, yeah, the moon joys in the third house, which is the house opposite. And so you have the house of maybe solar religious, the solar religious feature, the masculine part of our religiosity, which might be more of how we build temples or organize societies around belief system. Yes.

Maybe more of a manifestation of the world, whereas the third house can be more of feminine type, earthy spirituality, earthy spirituality. But that spiritual feature of the ninth third house axis, I would say is for me, one of the most striking features. And it's nine, three, right? September third, nine, three. Yeah, there we go. There's a lot of shit going on, man. I'm telling you, is shit is getting weird. I think what happened for me, if I was gonna explain kind of why everything just clicked is I was describing this to someone. I haven't spoken about this yet, but for most of my life, I grew up with women, had my mom and my sister, and usually like a living babysitter for most of my life, so I moved to where my dad was, 15.

I have always been in relationships since the age of 15 with women, for the most part, just always came from the feminine aspects of myself, both not like a feminine in life, but mystically, spiritually drawn to the divine feminine, really embracing just kind of that energy. And I think what happened with this imaginal stuff is, is I got a dose of directed masculine energy, the thing that impregnates the thing that the feminine brings into the world. And for some reason, it has just balanced the parts of people for me that needed to be balanced for me to understand this shit. So when you're talking about like solar return and the night house and the joy, and I see cancer or Mars and the sun are right there, like I'm just like, oh, I fucking, I get it now, like I really get this shit and understand like that if you use these as kind of, you know, you can get something done, like if you're like exercising or something and you wanna push yourself to the limit, sometimes you can do it even when things aren't primed to do it.

You just push yourself willpower and it works. But sometimes it's just effortless. Everything inspires to help you do it and kind of getting in tune with that flow with this shit is just so fucking amazing, man.

Yeah, it's so amazing. And that's a key, I mean, that idea of being in flow, I've seen it over and over again, is being in flow. And then it's even big decisions and even telling people know in ways that might seem scary, just as a natural flow, you know, there's just a natural flow to that. You know, the right moment emerges. Actually, maybe they ask you or bring it up first and then the conversation is easier than one would think. And it just, it's, and this week going to this idea, I think there is an important role that fate plays in our lives. It's some of this stuff just feels faded. And you talked about karma earlier.

You know, there's different levels of karma in the Hindu system. They have like some that are more inevitable, that are kind of not changeable. Maybe that are more like, there's just more energy from past lives to certain karma that's just much harder to break away from. But a lot of karma is in the realm of our ability to work with it in this life according to their system. But, but sometimes these, these changes just feel so faded that it really, there's nothing that can be added to something that's unfolding by worrying or stressing. There's no, there's just that, that's not going to help. You know, yeah.

And yeah, so there's like nothing that can be done. It's just, this is what's going to happen. It's just, am I going to poison the well? Or the question is, how much will I poison the well with my fear, with my anxiety? As an S optional, that's optional.

Yes, and this is important. And I think when we start talking about faded or free will or destiny, people get tripped up a lot, intellectually and conceptually. I think what this means is, again, going back to this idea that this is your story that you're writing, you can change any aspect of your future. But if you don't understand specifically how to do it and the consequences of doing that, you may just be fighting against yourself, right? And that's the important thing here. It's not that the trick I use for this stuff is when I tell people are really like rocking this who they are shit. If I say God, if I say universe, if I say Buddha, if I say Krishna, if I say anything, divine feminine, divine masculine, and you think of anything outside of you, it hasn't clicked yet, it hasn't clicked yet.

It's not that those things don't exist, but what we're doing there is we're pulling it from within ourselves, projecting it outward, and saying, oh my God, I love that. And that's totally great, and it works, and it's amazing, and you should use that stuff. But once you finally, when someone says God would go, that's me, not in like an egotistical, I'm gonna fucking dominate and be a shithead type of way, but does you recognize that, man, you can just get in, you're in the flow. You stay there if you want to, and you recognize that when we're talking about things that are faded, what I really think is faded for everyone when they really get it.

And everyone I know is pretty much gonna get this shit in this life, which is incredible, which is so people don't even understand how incredible it is. This is not a very common occurrence that so many people are getting this shit. But when people really get this, man, like you just, you wake up, and you fucking understand that this is how the world is, and you are constantly in control of your life. It seems like that's not true. The feedback we get from this world indicates that that is not the case, but it is true, and man, it's the most beautiful and wonderful thing because you finally become the person you, that little like, people know the conscience, the little voice in their head.

Well, there's a version of you that's not just a little voice in your head, it's the full version, you step into it, and that's literally what this stuff enables, and it's just a beautiful thing, man. It's just like, it's a trip to be alive in physical form when this shit is happening, 'cause it's so cool.

Yeah, it's amazing, and we're divine beings, and that's how I, and I think that, at least for my version, there's a huge divine part of ourselves, and it just goes back to what you're saying, it's inside. That's the access point. It's actually in my own generator of divinity that I carry, and that everybody carries. And so, yeah, I think that's kind of ground zero, for at least for me, when I think about living well and tools for life, that's kind of a preliminary truth that has to be digested before really anything can unfold. Before any flowing, let's say, really getting into the flow sustainably can emerge.

It has to, right? Because if you're not, you're attributing, it's like if someone has a profound experience on a psychedelic or a plant medicine. If you attribute it to the plant medicine for the psychedelic, you'll forever be thinking that it's something outside of you. This is the same way that someone might go to church and hear about Jesus Christ and think that there's some dude who has to be the mediator between them and a person who was called Jesus Christ. It's, you're putting it outside of yourself, which what does your life then become? It becomes chaos. You don't understand what's going on.

There's always something else in control. There's always some other aspect of reality that you can't understand or grasp. But if you just start, do it for like a month. Flip it around in your head and see what happens because then you start to understand like, "Oh, I have so much more control over this." And you don't micromanage. You're not like an OCD. Let me plan out every second of every day consciously, but you go to the end result of what you want. The wish field is implied and let it unfold. And when you keep walking into it over and over again, you're like, "Oh my God, like this is it. This is actually how it works."

So yeah, man, it's just a, like I said, I am, as you were just speaking about what you said, church bells are ringing outside. And I mean, it's just like, you know, it's just life is good, life is good.

It's wonderful. You talk about the Jesus, I guess the red letters that have come down to us in the New Testament as it's been presented to us in this lifetime, right? There's the one knock in the door shall be open unto you. Seek and ye shall bind. I think that is just, I found that to be true. Just opening up my insides and saying, "All right, I'm here to seek." What do you know? And the answers do come. Answers do come, okay, well.

Have you heard of this?

I have not. Unless, is there an author to it? Okay, Neville Goddard, no, I have not.

Okay, thank you.

1961, Neville Goddard, okay.

So he was the 20th century mystic. This is the dude that popped me open. This is what specifically happened. So I did a podcast with Mitch Horowitz and my friend Duncan Trussell was like, "Yo, you should do a podcast with Mitch, he's in New York." So I went down there and before I went down there, I listened to his book, The Miracle Club. And it's a really good book, Mitch is awesome. I really am forever in his debt because he changed my life unknowingly, although he probably knew what he's doing at some level. And he talked about this dude, Neville Goddard. He talked about a lot of people and there was a lot about the new thought movement which turned into the New Age movement which basically says consciousness precedes materiality which I'm very much on board with.

So but anyway, he mentioned this dude, Neville Goddard and I was like, all right, this is interesting. Let me, he just spoke about him so reverently. I was like, there's something there. I wanna go check it out. So I went on this thing called Soul Seek, old peer-to-peer file transfer thing from the early 2000s and searched for Neville Goddard. And miraculously, there was like 80 talks recorded from like the 40s to the 70s. He died in 1972. And I download them all and the audio quality is abysmal, dude. It's like painful to listen to it like screeching and like all this stuff. But I was like, let me listen to him.

Let me just hear it 'cause his voice is pleasant. He's this dude from Barbados. He's got this wonderful accent. He's a white dude, but he's from Barbados and it's just like, it's really just the pleasant voice. But half of it is him talking about this imaginal stuff and like how this works. And then the other half is just this biblical stuff of these visions he's had. And it literally is shit like, I saw David and David is Jesus and it will happen to you. And I'm like, what the fuck? But I keep listening to it. I keep listening, keep listening. So he recommends these techniques and I start doing them.

And so that's flashback to, I'm going to see Mitch Horowitz in the city. I've been envisioning my son being born, my wife having a very smooth and fast birth. Our first kid took like 18 hours. So I'm in the city, I go, I'm interviewing Mitch, I'm talking about all this stuff. And I get out of the podcast and I see my mom has texted me that my wife has gone into labor. And I knew as soon as I saw it, like there's no way I'm making this, I'm in the city, this is three hours away. There's no, if I got on a train right now, I'm like, oh, I'm going to miss the birth. So of course, the baby came in like 15 minutes.

It was like the fastest thing, like it was crazy. So that was the first kind of like big thing that like clicked in, but there was a lot of other little things. But one thing that I've always wanted in my life and I'm very upfront about this now, is I wanted a recurring stream of revenue that I didn't actively have to work a lot of time for. So I've been a freelancer. So I have to exchange my time for money and my hourly rate is actually pretty high for that stuff. But still I have to work for other people. I'm like, I don't want to do that. So I started imagining a specific scene that implied I had the money that I needed.

Nothing else, not the way I was going to do it, not anything else. Just this scene that implied I loaded up with sensory vividness and emotional resonance, that's it. And then she started having my friend and money started rolling in primarily from YouTube. Just I was putting up these videos from Neville Goddard and cleaning up the audio and Manly P. Hall, cleaning up the audio, all public domain stuff and money started rolling in and rolling in and rolling in. And then I doubted it, then it went down to zero. They demonetized the channel that I said my, all the way, I'll show you the graph. It's the funniest thing in the world.

But I saw it happen in real time, popped up. Your channel has been demonetized, goes down to zero. I know my imagination is reality. This isn't after, I wouldn't do this to myself. I know what's going on, I'm testing myself. So I do research, there are people with hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers who would take some six weeks on average to get their channel back. I did a few different things to get it, make it look good because it was a real thing I was doing. One day it came back. One day it came back and money started going back up. So then I was like, okay, what the fuck? Now I'm like, this is not a small deal.

Like this is not like, you know, okay, well, you know, you get a few little things. I'm like, this is actually how it works. So again, going back to Neville Goddard, the reason I showed you that is he was talking, he talks about how all of this stuff works. And I think if I would have read it before it, I had experienced it. I would have written it off as kind of just like another new age kind of interpretation of how this reality works. But if you use the techniques and prove them, and they're almost all from him, everything that I've done truthfully.

Okay, holy shit, man. It's just the fucking craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. And you nailed the key thing. If you do it lovingly, if you discipline your mind, which is why meditation is so popular for people, I think the thing that people miss with meditation, though, is they get to this place where they're not thinking about things or they're watching their thoughts. But for Westerners, and this is really important, this is like the Christian Abrahamic religion stuff, which is predominantly what this country is, you need the directional, aspirational intention to cut through the state of like, what do I do now?

Which is where most Westerners' minds start to settle in deep meditation. The, and they experience it as being uncomfortable or something wrong, which is inaccurate. It's a misinterpretation of being not attached or not, you know, and the Buddhist idea of desire is gonna create karmic stuff for you. That's not accurate. You should pursue your desires in those states and use these techniques because even if it's not something that you eat or you want, it'll drop off if it's not. But if you do it this way, it will happen. I mean, it's fucking undeniable, it's insane. But I highly recommend, I'm gonna send you a shitload of PDFs and other things related to them because I think this can bind with your just, broad understanding and penetrating understanding of astrology, but also more than that, like, when we spoke the first time, like, dude, like, you understand this shit at a very deep level.

I speak to a lot of people, I'm still gonna, like, 200 or so many people on this podcast, man. Like, you were right fucking there. Like, you're in tune with like, what is happening right now? What is going to happen? And it's like, wake up city time and dude, like, I'm excited for you because I know all of your dreams are about to come true in, like, your wildest dreams, too, and it's just gonna be so fucking cool, man. So, I just want to just--

Thank you, man, I appreciate it. And a lot of them have come true. I feel--

Of course, of course.

I'm closest. I'm just happy as a, I'm a happy clam. I'm a happy little baby dance. Life's just, yeah, I'm such a grateful human being. And, you know, it's, yeah, I don't really know what else to say behind every day I wake up. And I'm just, I start with gratitude, thoughts of gratitude, I mean, as soon as possible. Hopefully, my first thoughts are just a, are a thank you, thank you for being alive because it's just such a beautiful gift. Every moment, every moment.

Isn't it the best?

Yeah, it's the best. I mean, I get to drink this tea. I mean, it tastes so good. And there's just loving people everywhere. And I get to contribute to that loving energy and help people and be helped. And so, and we have this technology now, which is just so amazing that I can share insights that I'm having with a whole community of people, you know, and come talk to people like you. And we're living in a golden age in many, many, many ways.

It is, it is. People think that this is the Kali Yuga because they look out there and they see such calamity. And what we're seeing is an age of humanity crumbling but not to the end result of apocalyptic doom. I mean, it is for that age, but it's a rebirth into a new one. I very much subscribe to Sri Yukteswar's viewpoint that this is the Dwapura Yuga, which is not an age of descending darkness over everything, but actually a slow awakening of a golden age. Just like you said, and we use different tools in different ages, but that would just to be clear. So people understand what these yugas are.

It's like 860,000 years or something. So like, we're, I think, still at the earlier stages. So like, we're good. Like if you wake up to this, like shit is good. And it is not this passive fucking thing where we say, oh, we're in a golden age. There's not horrible things happening. There's not bad shit happening. That is, I do not want that to be lost 'cause a lot of open-hearted people think when you're talking like this, that you're just camel in the sanding it and you're putting your head in the sand and you don't want to pay attention. You bear witness to all that shit. We specifically bear witness so we know when we have the internal and external resources to affect change in this world, where to fucking start.

Like, I mean, that is, don't think that this is some get off in a space vale and certain manifesting cool cars and shit for yourself. That's what you want, by all means. But like you bear witness to the world and understand what the fuck is going on too, but it is a golden age. It really is a golden age. It's hard to understand when people see it out there, but it is, yeah, it's the best.

For sure, for sure. And you know, suffering is where the boot is, the first noble truth or whatever of a Buddhism is that they're suffering, it's real, it exists. And it's part and parcel with the reality. And so I think that that's just a fact. But pain, what are they saying? Pain is inevitable suffering is optional. I know I just contradict to myself there, but I think the point is that we can acknowledge there is inevitable suffering, but how much do we contribute to it is like the optional part. And yeah, meditation for me has been essential. I know I think I talked to you about that before, but without that practice, my ability to successfully navigate goes down, I mean, by a very significant factor.

Let's say I'm 90% operating on a really high level. Meditation stops, I might be down into the 30s, maybe the 20s, you know.

How do you meditate?

So I trained with the Vipassana, the meditators.

Go like in a style?

I'm not going in a style. No, I trained with, I guess the Western Buddhist movement that came out of the 70s and 80s. These guys went to Burma and Thailand and India and came back.

Ah, Ajahn Chah, maybe.

Ajahn Chah is one of the key teachers in the tradition.

Absolutely, absolutely. But you know, guys, yeah, guys like Joseph Goldstein.

Of course, of course. I know these people, I work with someone.

Okay, you do. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, I was at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society for several retreats back in the early aughts and then got involved in my local community in Texas and then basically that for me was just intense training for several, you know, a few years going to many retreats and then it settled into daily practice, you know, and I don't really engage with them anymore as a collective, but I've retained the practice and it's essential to my function. And that's what they told me. But by the way, this guy, Howie Kohn, Howard Kohn, you might know him. He was like, the purpose of these retreats is so you go home and have a practice for the rest of your life.

And when he said that, and originally I was like a really excited new practitioner, like, know Howie, I'm gonna be right with you, the restaurant doing retreats, but he was right, he was right. You know, it's been more about that daily engagement than about joining like regular retreats for me. I'd love to do a retreat, but--

Retreats are great, but again, going back to the idea of like a lot of people will go on a retreat and then attribute the retreat as the thing that made them feel that way, rather than bringing it into their lives and recognizing your whole life is a retreat. It doesn't mean everything is gonna be like sunny and pleasant, you know, if you're going to a really nice place, but I mean, it can be, but it is. You have to, this is the age of the guru is dying. It will be dead in like six months. It's you, anyone who thinks that they're gonna be getting fishies from someone forever, like that's not how it works.

You are gonna be taught how to fish, you're gonna fish for yourself, then you're gonna teach someone else, and that's literally how this stuff snowballs forward. I do think there's something really powerful with the vipassana stuff. I find the idea of one pointed concentration meditations as well, whether it's the breath or some other thing to be incredibly powerful. I found with the imaginal ax, that's what it is. It's a short compact scene. It's the object of your focus. It disciplines the mind to snap it back and get used to that. And that is kind of the key stabilizer for being able to summon forth like versions of reality that are good.

I will say this about the IMS, the spirit rock, a lot of the Western translations. And I worked with a lot of these people and I don't want it to seem too antagonistic. I think there's a fundamental misapprehension of desire and understanding non-attachment as these teachers were trying to convey them in the West. And this goes for the Hindu and Vedic stuff as well in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. And that is fucking people up. If people understood a lot of these teachers, personal foibles and issues, they would understand better why I'm saying that. And also the root of it is this aversion, which feels like a holy thing to do towards desire.

Desire has almost a negative connotation in this world because it seems like something that's like lusty or like negative or pursuing something, not to everyone, but towards a lot of people who gravitate towards these spiritual aspirational pursuits. When in fact, rather than thinking out of this, by definition, the left hand path, which it may be, is recognizing that like, if you start pursuing what you truly love, and like, you can't fuck that up. And that is what the Buddhist legitimately refer to as the union of emptiness and bliss. That is how you summon forth versions of reality in Maya and Samsara.

That's also how you recognize that Maya is Nirvana, right? Or Samsara is Nirvana, right? Maya is Samadi. Like these things are really embedded within each other. And if you understand that, you can wake up here, and it's not just use these practices as kind of like a mind stabilizer, but then directionally using yourself, your deepest self to really like really fucking do this shit for real. That's, it's been a major insight 'cause I've been around the world behind the scenes and I've seen kind of the schisms between these practices and teachings and then how they're actually applied in the teachers' lives.

And there's no, that's not me shitting on people. It's just trying to convey that recognize where the faults may be in some of these things. But, and obviously you're doing it yourself. You know what the fuck is up?

Well, I've got, I've had some inside baseball with some of the spirit rocks that sit more specifically than I am.

Yeah, oh, I bet we can see we can talk about that.

I know, I mean, I know that for me, I kind of left being a little bit more attracted to like the Ajahn Chah tradition and some of the monasteries that have opened up in the West that I felt they are more of a, they solve the problem of how to integrate the business of spirituality.

The business of spirituality.

And those monks that, I can get you the names of the monasteries, but a lot of they have these monks teaching online, the monks are actually where it's at because they have whole systems in the poly canon for how to deal with the business of spirituality that have been developed over thousands of years. And they adhere to the presets. And I think it makes it a lot easier as a means of transmission when you have these kind of ancient tried and true rule sets whereas Spirit Rock and IMS were, they're coming right in saying, all right, we gotta make some money. And I think they're a little bit more focused on the modern business of spirituality.

Look, they need to keep the doors open. They wanna survive, they wanna feed teachers. I'm not gonna poop through that, but I think there can be problems that are just embedded at the more that the money becomes a motive. I think that the more problems you have, whereas the monks remove that. And so, so anyhow, that's where I left it. But for me, it's the practice. It's the delight that was turned on. I'm forever grateful to those sinners. And I'm so happy that it's like they lit something in me that has not gone away, hasn't been snuffed out. And you know, anyhow, so let me just, there's two other things about the astrology that I wanted to mention.

You bought that in my mind.

Okay, just for listeners, you know, I mean, the big one is this purification of Mars and Mercury, but more rarely Mars, but now with Mercury. This Mercury purification happens about six times a year. They're very powerful moments. The Mars version happens about once every two years. And together, I don't have those numbers. I need to research that and tweet about that. How often Mars, the Sun, and Mercury come together like this. I imagine it's probably not very often. So, I will find out. I need to send out a tweet on that. But so the other two big things that are happening is that this is actually a pretty good period because once we get to labor season and September 20th and the last part of September, it's kind of going to re-trigger to some of the difficult astrology of this summer because Mars will be, let me see when Mars enters Libra.

Mars enters Libra, October 4th, okay? The Sun enters Libra around September 22nd. But once the planets start piling up in Libra, it's just a more difficult relationship to Saturn and Cancer. And that's what this summer, the summer meat grinder was about a Mars Saturn opposition. So starting October 4th, we're gonna get a square with Mars and Saturn. And so I don't think it's gonna be as intense, okay? But because it's not, it doesn't come with eclipses, but that will last until for about six weeks, which is how long it usually takes Mars to go through a sign. And so that's something, I just want people to be aware that this is a good pocket of energy, one of the better pockets of energy through the end of the year.

And then once we get to the end of the year and end of January, there could be some real intensity returning 'cause there's eclipses since coming back with an eclipse on Christmas, the day after Christmas.

Oh, fuck.

Yeah, midnight on the 26th. So it's actually the 25th into that 26th. And those are gonna be, again, some challenging eclipses. You're not gonna have Mars there messing it up, but Saturn and Pluto will be very close to each other. And a lot of astrologers are talking about the Saturn, Pluto conjunction. Just so people know, I work mainly with the seven traditional planets that just my training, and I find that to just be more tangible for me 'cause I can see them. And a lot of the ancient philosophies are built around them. So, but either way, Pluto or not in the mix, it's still an eclipse season with Saturn right in that eclipse axis.

And that's gonna be quite difficult. The other big saying is that both Saturn and Jupiter are now in direct motion by September. Jupiter just went direct as we've had this talk. So during this talk, Jupiter went direct September 18th, Saturn stations direct. So it starts moving forward in the zodiac again. And I think that's gonna just give energy to push our collective narrative forward depending on people's natal charts. They might find that they're re-energized with things that have been installed, might be ready to continue to unfold. But I imagine we're gonna accelerate into some pretty interesting times later, Christmas and into January.

And yeah, so those are the only two other things I wanted to mention to folks. Enjoy this month, enjoy Virgo season, enjoy this purification of the masculine energy and figure out how healthy masculinity maybe reach the books on it, ask yourself what that means to you, what does it mean to be an active force, an initiating force for the benefit of others, for your own benefit? How can we initiate? And that's why I love the masculinity. We all have a masculine and a feminine, but we all have to be initiators. We all have to take action in life and that's how things get done. So how do we do that in a loving way?

How do we do that with, like I was saying before courage, nobility, right? These symbols are symbols to contemplate. What's the noble warrior as we go into this life, this game of life or the sort of battlefield of life? The daily struggles, the vicissitudes, how do we handle that? How do we equip ourselves to enter that realm and take that action that's loving and that's useful? We've talked about a lot of tools here. I mean, the meditation and many other things, but these are the things I would be contemplating and especially as we get into the rest of the year. I think this period can get people equipped for the rest of the year if they wanna be.

That's I think the best summation of this is this is the time as I sense it to gather your tools and resources and understand yourself as the best you possibly can because I do think as we move into 2020, just the stuff that we don't acknowledge and deal with internally is going to be out pictured into our reality in a very tangible way. And I think if you do understand that, you have the ability to again, select a version of reality that's gonna be aligned with you being in flow and feeling good and just like, I can tell when you're talking, you can tell when I'm talking, like when someone's loving life, let's trekking you on that.

There's a fucking fake me out switch on that shit. They're either loving it or they're not. And I genuinely know and believe everyone has the ability to love their life fully, wake up every day and be like, I just said to my wife, I was like, I fucking feel great. Like I can't remember where I had three months in a row and knowing that it's gonna last and been through challenging shit. I don't wanna make it seems like a utopian externally, but I just feel fucking great. I know that's possible for everyone and this is the time to kind of gather all of these tools together. And I love you say the masculine shit because I never understood it, man.

I mean, obviously at some point previously, but man, it clicked for me a few months ago and man, it's just, it's a beautiful thing. It really is. S.J., this is a bit of pleasure. We'll figure out the next time to check back in, man, but I'm down to do these fucking whenever you want.

Cool, yeah, we'll figure it out. And I think I like this. I like being able to just hit on some of the astrology that's in as kind of a segue into these other conversations about non-astrological matters of just life matters, core life issues, core being issues, let's say. 'Cause that's how it should be. The astrology is really just a way to support us in these kind of deeper, useful conversations about how to live well. So I appreciate that.

Totally, man. And it just occurred to me, I can put these up on the MinePod Network YouTube channel, which now has like 13,000 subscribers gained like 12,000 in the last month. So, imagination. I've been doing digital marketing for a long time. I have no explanation other than I imagined something. Like, I'm good at, I've done really well and know what works. I can not tell you the real reason this shit happened, but it's pretty cool, man. We should put these up there too. And we could also do some live things. 'Cause I think, I just know when shit is good. And it's good to, the people need to hear a lot of this stuff right now.

And if people have questions, they can figure out how to hit us up and we'll get back to them. I know Twitter is really good. What's your Twitter handle?

Yeah, my Twitter handle is SJ Anderson 1444. And that's @ SJ Anderson 1444. And I'm hard at work right now. I'm hoping at some point next year, I will be kind of launching my ability to take readings. And I do readings for friends, and I've done readings for a while now, but I haven't launched kind of a formal practice.

Any help, man. Any help you need? Yeah, any help, any help.

Yeah, I just want people to know that's in the works and it will be ready. And so it's something that when you have a read for people, it's a very serious thing. And so it can't be done lightly. And I've had to do a lot of preparation, take a lot of classes about counseling skills and how to hold space with people. But that's in the works. And a lot of people have been hitting me up. And I imagine if more people start hearing me, there might be more people curious about that. But just know that will be available. And I look forward to serving people and doing what I can to add value to their lives.

So.

Fuck yeah, fuck yeah. All right, man. That's great. And Joanna, how's the future, by the way? How is today?

The future. Oh, yeah, the future is wonderful, man. It's a beautiful, clear evening out. And I'm gonna get out and go hang out with friend here now. So I'm just really having a wonderful day. And it's China's great, man. All bad things aside that said about China and the media, when you come here, great people, salt of the earth, really loving being here. So nothing bad to say about China at this point.

Awesome. I love to hear that, amazing. All right, man. We'll talk to you.

All right, guys, so you know, peace.

Peace, dude.

All right. (upbeat music) ♪ You're the light ♪ ♪ Taking my ♪ ♪ Holding on the ground ♪ ♪ I'm the light ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

Thanks for listening to that episode. That music you just heard is a teaser of a remix I did. I guess it's not really a remix. It's a bootleg. A bootleg did from a song called Diamond Veins. Whatever, I liked it. Made it cool. I like it. It was cool to begin with. Made it cool in my own way. But that, I don't know if it will ever see the late of days in official release. Maybe I'll hit them up. Maybe someone knows them. What is the name of the group? I probably should have been prepared before I started recording this outro, but I'm gonna do it anyway. It is by a group called French 79. The song came out in 2016.

The song is called Diamond Veins, featuring Sarah Rebecca. And I'm gonna try to get right to that. 'Cause I like the remix of the things. There's a full version. Hit me up. Noah@syncpodcast.com if you want it. I'll give it to you for free. Finishing it. There's a lot of music coming. There's a lot of good music coming. A lot of different types of music coming. So stay tuned for that. If you enjoyed this episode, go check out SJ on Twitter. He told you where to do it. There are links in this podcast. It's super easy to do. I'm gonna release this either Monday or Tuesday. So the 12th or the 13th of August, 2019.

So it's gonna be close enough to the conversation where it's still impactful. That's it. Rate and review this podcast. That would be wonderful. I appreciate it. Sign up for the list. The imagination list. Syncpodcast.com. Send me an email. Noah@syncpodcast.com. Super easy. All easy stuff to fucking do. That's it. That's it for this week. Now I keep saying this week, I'm used to doing a weekly. Usually I'm now gonna at least do two a week. Maybe three. So I'll just see. Next time, happy imagining. How about we go with that? Happy imagining. Bye bye.