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Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century!

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Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century!

The speaker begins by discussing the ancient practice of accumulating spiritual power (tapas) through devotion, noting that in the current dark age (Kali Yuga), practices yield 10 times more spiritual currency than in previous ages. They share a personal story of living in a yoga ashram for 10 years, including five years of intense celibate practice, which led to a decade of effortless success—such as playing guitar for 40,000 people and publishing books. The speaker then contrasts the idealistic promise of the Age of Aquarius (flower power era) with the reality of modern challenges: technology brings benefits but also dangers like information theft and chemical-laden foods. They stress that this is the most spiritually challenging period, with no rest between constant, intense life events. The key advice is to disassociate from political and religious polarities (e.g., Trump's divisiveness) to avoid creating enemies and wasting energy. Instead, focus on one's direct circle—family, work, health, and daily relationships—as these provide the real opportunities for growth. Letting go of the need to be right is crucial, as illustrated by a personal anecdote about a house sale. The speaker concludes by endorsing a simple spiritual approach: observe and handle what life brings, without elaborate practices.

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Okay, everybody, we just about ready to begin here. [Music] [Music] Welcome everybody. I hope you're having a pleasant Monday, wherever you are. The weather has been so good here. We finally got some rain. I mean, if you live in the southeast, I'm not sure if the rest of the southeast got rain, but we finally did, and we're supposed to get rain all day tomorrow. So we're very, very pleased about that because we were in a big drought here for a long time. And it was starting to really get kind of scary actually, you know. Here we are in Florida surrounded by natural springs and rivers and stuff. It just felt really strange, you know. But I also realized that last year, about the same time, when keep yourself muted, please. Christina, thank you. That there was, there was sort of a drought going on last year too. I discovered, I wasn't here then, but we heard about it. So I guess that just happens here in Florida. So maybe it's not a big deal, you know. But anyway, we're glad that I hope the weather where you are is doing well as well, you know. Who knows. I hear about this in NAP. We're on the far east, so we're a little out of touch with the West, the Midwest, the Northwest. I know there's like tornadoes always in Oklahoma and Texas and all that stuff, right? So I've lived there before. Anyway, nice to have all of you. I see some, some new faces and so I've seen some familiar faces. Nice to see you guys. People are still like coming in here. So I'm just keep letting them in. So I'm going to start this out tonight by telling a little story. Of course, my whole thing is a story, actually. Hold on. Waiting. Okay. Okay, everybody's in. Okay. So in ancient times, if you really wanted, if you had like a wish and we're talking about 6,000 years ago to like, I guess it would be probably for 200,000 years before that, up to 6,000 years ago in the previous age. Hi, Jody. I just saw your message. I just wonder if that was you. I didn't wasn't sure. And I'm seeing in a long time, you know, we change over time. So if you really wanted something, you would like to decide that you're going to, you're going to, you're going to basically pray and meditate on one of the gods like Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu. And these people, now you have to understand that in that previous age, people lived to a thousand years, not a hundred years like we do in this particular age. So they would do crazy things like they would just meditate on one of these deities and they wouldn't drink or they were just fast on water, they would stand on one foot. I mean, I'm talking about for years. And then at the end of this time, at some point, like, so what's happening when you do this spiritual practice like this is your, you're accumulating spiritual, it's like spiritual currency. It's called tapas. Okay. And you're accumulating this. And when somebody starts to really get so full of this energy, the whole universe begins to kind of start quaking a little bit. So, so usually the god that the person was was praying to, and this could be a woman or a man, it's worked both ways. We'd come to them and say, "You have really pleased me with your devotion. And what is it that I can give you?" And they can almost, they could pretty much ask for anything and they get it. And sometimes they were asking for like many times it was somebody who wanted all this power. He wouldn't be so so god be powerful that nobody could defeat him. Or there was one story where a woman wanted to be able to come back and defeat this one warrior. It's a long story. Everything's a long story in that book actually. It's all connected together. But basically, they would accumulate the spiritual power and they would be able to accomplish something just unbelievable. Okay. The reason I'm telling that story is because now we're in this Kaliuga, which is the darkest of ages. But in this particular age, you're able to accumulate more tapas with the least with less amount of practice. So any spiritual practice that we do in this age rewards us weight like 10 times more than it did in the previous age. Okay. Now, I remember I lived in a yoga ashram for 10 years and five years of that, I was a celibate and I was completely devoted to the practice of yoga. We were kidding up every morning at four o'clock and we were doing pranayam breathing exercises. Yoga, chanting, meditation. All before we had breakfast at 630, it was like a boot camp. And that was five years. But I lived there for additional five years. And when I came out of there, everything in my life, just anything I wanted to do, it just happened. I remember I was reading in the newspaper one day and it was a country band, a local country band that was looking for a guitar player and I played electric guitar in the years. I answered the ad, the guy sent me his record because he had a record. I listened to the record. I went out and bought myself electric guitar and I learned his songs and I got the job. I played with this guy for a year. We did concerts all over the country. I played in front of 40,000 people once in this band, you know. So it's like I had all, so I had such spiritual top as accumulated that for like, well, at least 10 years my life just was magical. Everything was really quite easy and I had a lot of success. That's when I published my first books and all kinds of things like that happen, you know. So I'm telling you that because in spite of what's going on around us right now in this age of Kali, which is also the age of Bacuerist, and we want to talk about that in a minute too. So when the age of Bacuerist, and it was funny, I don't know if him any of you. I think most of you remember that song. This is a donning of the age of Aquarius by the group called the fifth. I think they're called the fifth dimension, you know. I think that was the name of the band. Well, you know, it was so like it was all that was like the flower power error, you know, and it was like, oh, here comes the age of Aquarius. We're all going to start loving each other. We're going to be nice. We're all going to be hugging and everybody's going to be happy. Didn't quite turn out that way. But we do have the age of Aquarius and that we're into like the internet, robotics, futuristic stuff. All this is happening. But this is happening during this happens every, what is it? Every 24,000 years. Every 2000 years we're going to a new age. Okay, so this is happened before. It's going to happen again. But we're in the age of Kali right now, which we see all this technology. Yes, we get a lot of benefit from it. And it's also being used to do bad things because there's a lot of bad energy in the air. I mean, how many of you realize, I mean, just since, okay, the internet came out, it was so great. And now you have to be so careful on the internet. Everybody's trying to steal your information. Everybody's trying to get into your bank account. You know, it's like, it's like that, right? So all this was really really predicted 6,000 years ago and earlier by the enlightened stages of the time. And they wrote about it. They wrote exactly what it was going to be like in this age, you know, this is the only age of the four ages in which you can become famous for doing bad things. A person can become famous. And I want to and I wanted to show you something. Let me see, let me get it up here. Give me one second. Let's go to this. Yes. Okay. Here we go. Now, I want to just illustrate something really briefly. If I can find this. It's an illustration. Here we go. Okay. Great. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to make this a little bit smaller. So it fits on my screen a little better. Okay. So you guys, most of you who are card students, you're familiar with this, but I'm just going to share it anyway. Here we have a life and spiritual spread. Okay. So over here is where is the is this is the the world of duality. This is the world of unity and spiritual on the side, the left side. So in the world of duality, which we live in mostly, this is how this is the worldly spread, you see, in the worldly spread, the highest accomplishment is this card in the very top center, which is the Edadiamonds. And that is the card of fame. Fame and power and wealth to it's a money card. But mostly it's it's fame. This is what the world looks up to the most. If you're famous, we all look up to you. Okay. And the greatest gift, which is in the very center of the whole spread, is the Ten of Diamonds. This is the money card, like the greatest thing you could get could acquire is winning the lottery or having all this money, right. So this is the this is where the world is focused, you know. And and of course, in doing so, you go through your life's Fred and all these cards are like, you know, odd and even cards and there's never like there's never harmony or peace over here, you know, as you're going through the life spread. Over here, by the way, the highest accomplishment is Queen of space, which is self mastery, and the highest gift over here in the spiritual spread is the Queen of clubs, which is intuition. Intuition, okay. And you know, and it's also they're both Queen, so they're both service cars about service service to humanity. You know, so this is what's going on. And you know, I'm sure all of you are aware, like, like I go to the supermarket, I go to buy groceries, we go to buy for groceries. And how many how many of you realize there's just so little there's so many things that you just can't buy there by us as buying, you know, the food that's on the shelf. I'm not talking about all foods. I'm talking about your regular supermarket where most people buy their food, you know, there's so many ingredients in these things. And even the things that we used to like that were pretty much harmless when we were growing up, these foods have they've changed. They're awful of chemicals now, but not the same. You can't you can't count on them being the same, they say, where you have to really be yet to be really careful. Like, it's like we have to be so much more careful about everything, you know, who knows what's going on. Okay. So, but there's a way, this is like this most spiritually challenging period of time. And I think lately, as I talked about this in a show that we had about a month ago or two months ago, I talked about how right on the on the spring equinox, we had all these planets going into areas we had, I think it was Pluto and Saturn. And I forget I have to go look it up. But there was like three major planets all went at the same time at zero degrees of aries. Okay. It was like ushering in this new age. And I really felt it myself like I felt like things started moving then that was on March 21st, by the way, if you want to look back at your astrology, look back at March 21st, see what was going on in the heavens. I feel like things really start to move forward because there was a lot of things. But now I feel like and I've had a discussion with our senior magi members last Saturday, we were talking about this how it seems like. And this is hard to put into words. But what it seems like is there's so much going on that it's like I get a feeling of like I can't really take it. I can't digest it all. I can't I can't make sense of it all. I can't like used to be it came a little bit at a time. So I had time to digest what was coming, what was having. And then I'd be ready for something else. There was like a rest period in between. It seemed like there's no rest period anymore. It's just one, it's just like we're getting used to just things just bombarding us every day on a very more intense level. It seems like, you know, and it's like everybody's going through it. Now some people may be a little more immune to it right now. Maybe their chart is such that, you know, but as a general thing, I've seen this so much and a lot of people that I've spoken to, they agree that they feel like they have kind of lost control. Like there's no like our mind wants to understand something so that we can feel safe with it. You know, we have this desire to understand what's going on. You know, I'm talking about in our personal life, you know, we can we'll talk about the the world around us in a minute. But just in a personal level, challenges are coming up so fast, you know, and we're being asked to really be more and more aware. We're asked, we being asked by the universe to be much more aware, to much more conscious of ourselves, and to to live, live this life of being aware, and being thoughtful about what we do and say and how we react and taking care of ourself when we react in a negative way, and we find ourselves getting drawn back into negativity, you know, just just being willing to look at ourself more. So I feel like it's more of a spiritual challenge than anything else. So then now going back now, this spiritual challenge that's happening, a lot of this, a lot of it can be you can let go of a lot of stuff so that you don't you're not like so because you could go crazy. People could go crazy today. Probably people are. I mean, I mean, look at what's going on. If you if you pay any attention at all to the news, it's just madness. It's complete madness. What's going on? So these are some these are some tips that I have that I want to share with you that I think really helps us to to be very, very centered and successful in this time period. Because things are not going to slow down. They're going to keep speeding up. That's just the nature of this dark age where in the Kali Yuga. That's what's going to happen. It's going to keep going. It's going to keep at any point during the Kali Yuga, everybody perceives the energy as like, wow, it's getting worse and worse. Like the like Dharma is which is means means, you know, being. Dharma means living in a righteous life. It means making the right choices for the right reasons. Okay. Dharma is on its last leg in this in this age. And in this during this age, there's a whole time. Everybody feels like things are just getting we're losing more and more of that sense of right and wrong. You know what I mean? That's what happens in during this age. That's what it feels like. It's a perception. Okay. But that's what's happening. Okay. So one thing that really helps is to disassociate yourself with what's going on in the world. Like do not. If you can help it, catch yourself taking sides on all these political and religious and other beliefs and let it go. Don't take sides. Don't pick a side. Don't, you know, now I want to say this knowing that some of us are destined to take a side. You know, there's some people like they I've had clients who have like Mars in the 9th house. I've talked about this before. 9th house is the house of right and wrong. If you have Mars there, you you want to take action. You want to fight for justice. You want to fight for what's right. You know? But every time we do that, we make an enemy. So now we're in an enemy situation. You see? So like do you need that? Do you really have to be right? I remember taking this transformational training once and they said the primary motivation of most people is looking good and being right. And they also asked they asked this amazing question. They said Would you rather be right? right or get what you want. Would you rather be right or get what you want from life? 'Cause sometimes you can't have both. You can't have both. So I've been facing this myself recently because we have this, we're trying, we have a house for sale. And we have this guy that wants to buy it, but he's just not doing it the way I think he should do it. He's just not showing up the way I wanted to show up. And I caught myself like I was so right about how messed up he was, but it wasn't helping. It wasn't helping to be right. And I almost blew the whole thing out of the water. I mean, it may fall through anyway, but I had to let that go. I had to let go of being right. You know, and I hated it. Because I was so right. I'm going to be fine yourself in that situation, right? You know, it's so obvious to you because you think clearly but you're in a situation where it doesn't matter that you're right. And it's going to actually be forcing my rightness on the other person would have definitely, he would have walked away from the whole thing and said, you know, screw you and keep your house. He may still do it. I don't know. I can still make a mess up again, you know, it could still happen. But I'm just saying that that that is something that we have to keep an eye on, you know, we have to keep an eye on like that. And like, if you're taking a side in this whole political theater that's happening right now between the Democrats and the Republicans and the woke and the anti woke and the Magga and the Bagga and the Houdoo and the Woudoo, if you're getting involved in any of those, you're saying, oh, let me join up with these guys and fight against the other bad guys because I'm right. And we're right. You're right back stuck in that right thing again. You know, I don't, I'm just saying, I'm just saying that consider letting that go and see if it doesn't bring more peace of mind. And, you know, we, I mean, we got so much stuff on a day-to-day basis to deal with. We have our family, we have our job, we have our, our health, we have our relationship with, you know, our life, you know, the day-to-day life, financial stuff. We got so much in our hands. Why throw a bunch of other shit? And I do use that word literally. Okay, that's really beyond the sphere of our influence. I mean, if you really think you can go out in the world and make a difference, if that's really your calling, if that's your love, you should definitely do it. Okay. But unless it is, it just takes away from your energy. And it always puts a person in a enemy situation. You know, I mean, Trump is the master of creating enemies. He has created so many enemies. He is so divisive, divisive, you know. I mean, I'm not, I'm not against everything that he's done. But I've seen that him coming in has created such a polarity in our world that now we have people like murdering people for their beliefs here in our country. And we have a lot of people encouraging murder of other people who are on the opposite side. I mean, do you really want to be involved in all of that? Do you really need to be involved in all of that? If you don't, don't. So, you know, see if you see if you can disassociate yourself from that conversation. That's a conversation that doesn't lead to anywhere. And I just realized for myself, I just thought, I can't really do anything about all that. I'm not going to try. And I don't really want to preach my beliefs on other people anyway. I don't want to like try to change somebody. I don't want to make anybody wrong for what they're doing. But I just want to live my life and take care of the things within my circle of influence and do the best I can. And, you know, my favorite spirit to teach her is this beautiful woman in Nashville, named Alaya. She's a five of diamonds. And, you know, she, her way of her spiritual way is, is, is, is, is as a five. It's like no practices, no meditation. Just look at what your life is bringing you and deal with that. That's all that you we need. That's all that we need. It's right here in front of us. It's in a relationship that the people that we wake up in the morning with, the people that we go to work with. It's with what's going on in our life right now. That's all you need to wake up and she woke up. And, you know, it's funny. She said that, she said that when she was young, before she actually woke up, she was, she would think, wow, I'm getting so upset about this. That really sucks. It really sucks that I'm getting upset. Why am I getting upset about these things? She really questioned it, you know, and that led her to her own awakening. And now I mean, I've, I've hung out with her for years. And she is honestly, there's no ego there. I have never seen her get upset. You know, I mean, you can see their spiritual teachers out there. And if you get to know them personally, they're not nice people. A lot of them, you get up, they do, they get angry. They get very controlling. She is like just, I don't know, you know, there's no ego there. There's no, there's nobody there to. She has nothing to defend. Okay, there's nothing to defend in her. I tested her out. I just, I didn't believe she was who she was when I first met her. It took me a while before I really saw that there was just no, there was nobody there. Nobody's home, you know, no self, no sense of style, no sense of like, I am me because, you know, she's just feeling connected to everybody. So I'm not saying we can all do that, right? But we can at least start to disassociate ourselves. Our identity from these belief systems in the world. Like what are we fighting about? You know, why do we have to fight? Why do we have to be right about everything or about anything? You know? So then, you know, it's a that that that freeze of so much energy, just that one thing, you know? And then like, like taking care of our health is important to, you know, like, I'm sure most you people here, most of you have realized that you have to really eat good food. You can't just eat what the what society gives you. You just can't go to McDonald's, even though Warren Buffett ate at McDonald's for his whole life or something. I don't know if that's true. I heard that a couple days ago. Is that really true? They just say that he still isn't McDonald's every day. But, you know, I used to love to go to McDonald's. I used to love having a filet of fish sandwich. And now when I get in, I'm like, God, this, this is weird. This is like a plastic fish sandwich. I don't know what the fuck this is. You know, it was so strange. I can't eat there anymore. You know, if you have one bad meal at one of these places, you'll probably never go back, you know? Like, like a long time ago, I ate at a hearty. This was like 30 years ago. I had a hamburger at a hearty. And I got so sick from that. And I have never eaten there since then. I have never eaten at a hearty since then. And I don't like hamburgers, you know? So, you know, watching your health, like, you got to do something. Okay, I'm 72 years old. I've run with my dogs and I walk with my dogs every morning. And it wasn't easy to get back into running again a little bit, you know? My whole body is saying, "What the hell are you doing?" And running down the road with your sneakers on, and it's dirt row with your dogs. Now, I don't run a whole way, but I run enough to get my heart rate going. And I feel it brought back that feeling of feeling good in my body, you know? Just feeling vital, you know? So, like, doing just enough exercise each day that keeps me feeling vital. It's so important to me. And, you know, some people get old, they just completely throw it all away. I just, you know, I'm not doing anything. I'm just going to just keep losing more and more of my ability to do things and deal with my bodily problems. And, you know, I mean, my mother, you know, last 10 years of her life, or even longer, really, all she did was talk about her problems and their doctors, you know? And she never exercised. My mother never exercised. She never watched her diet, you know? And if you get, you know, I mean, she's used to buying things at the store that used to be okay, you know? All the things at the store used to be okay. You know, 30 years ago, it was fine to eat bread and eat desserts that were at the store. It's before they started pouring all these chemicals into our food, you know, a friend of mine had another friend and they were rich and they owned, they were in Chicago. and they own a company that sells what they sell as they sell flavorings for commercial foods. That's what their business is. Selling all these artificial flavors for people to make food taste better. You know, and it's like half of these things are poison, you know, I think about it. And I mean, have you ever eaten, have you guys ever eaten a Dorito lately, a Dorito chip, you know, the regular ones? You can any one really. There's so much flavor in that. You feel like you're eating like the flavor is almost like a complete meal hamburger thing. It's just absolutely delicious. And then after you eat a few of them, you're like, yeah, I feel like killing myself. How come my stomach's hurting? What's in these poison little chips here? My seven-year-old loves those damn things. We don't buy them anymore, but he doesn't care. He likes celery. He likes, you give him a carrot. He's a satch. Get him a carrot. He's happy. You know, sages are horses. They like crunchy things. Carrots, apples, celery, stuff like that. Anything crunchy, they love it. It's amazing. Well, have you got some sages here? Is that it? Do I see some hands? Okay. Throw me a carrot. I'm happy. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love, I love having a sage in the family. They're so honest. They just say what else on their mind. You better be ready because they're going to just give it to you right from the right from the hip. If you can't handle it, if you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen because you're going to get it with the sageitarium. They're going to give it to you. They're not trying to hurt anybody. They just can't stay. They just can't do anything but be honest. They have so much honesty in them that that they just can't hold it in. So, taking care of ourselves, and now I know to remind you about what I talked about in the beginning, if you do have a spiritual practice, just something like, let's just say, I was celibate for five years during that time at the Osrom. That's a spiritual thing. And I was doing yoga and only singing meditation and yoga and stuff. If you have something like that, but for me, going for that run every morning and walk with my dogs is my spiritual practice. And it's paying off in a big way. It's paying off. So, if you have something like that, which means it kind of means doing something you don't want to do, but you know it's good for you. This is what the Kali Yoga can give you a great payoff on. Okay? So, keep that in mind. Like, keep keep it in mind. Like, and if you do this, any kind of spiritual practice, like, and I'm talking about something where you make a little bit of a sacrifice of some kind, you know, it's not just that you do a spiritual practice. It's like, well, any spiritual practice, even if it's like chanting or meditation, that is like it takes a conscious effort to do that, right? It's not something you're just going to do because normally we just want to go from one pleasure to the other. You know, let me have a pleasurable practice and let me go have pleasurable drive to my work or wherever. And let's have some pleasure here. Oh, you're going to have a little chocolate, eat some half some chewing gum here. You know, central pleasures here and there, whatever. Take a bath, you know, whatever. Okay? We that's our basic motive is going from one to the other. Okay? So those are the things that I think really matter, like disassociating yourself from the worldly fighting and that and taking sides. Why take sides? Why take it? Why pick a side? Why be a Democrat? Why be a Republican? You know, I mean, who side is right? Honestly, who side is right? But we know what's right? Right? Right? The real right and wrong is like, you know, you know, it's not it's not right to kill somebody, to hurt somebody else. We know that. It's like, you know, we know that we want to be treated the way that that we would love. We want to treat others the way that we want to be treated. We know this. It's inherent. You know, that internally, it's not like a mystery. Nobody has to tell you what is right. And you know, just do do the right thing. Just be doing the right thing. Okay, so that's my little talk here. And now we're going to have a quick song and then you can raise your hand now if you'd like to share or ask a question. Let me get something up here real quick. We'll be right back just like a minute here. Raise your hand if you'd like to share or ask a question. [Music] Okay, okay, here we go. All right, Suzanne, you're first up. So feel free to unmute yourself. Yeah, sometimes it's hard to find that unmute button, isn't it? I got it. Unmute. How are you? I'm good. How you doing, Suzanne? Oh, I'm good, better. But listening to you, it's amazing. Every time I get on and listen to your Monday nights, I love it. It just, it's like, just resonates so much. Sometimes I just listen. Sometimes I want to say something. So tonight, definitely. I mean, I am such a healthy eater and agree with you. Like, Europe has the most strict rules of what they can and cannot put in food. And we are so disgusting here in America, the food consumption that we're giving people. And I just, it's so horrible, like, to talk to people in Europe and they're like, you know, oh, this is banned there. Even as a hairdresser, like, they have certain products that they, they won't even bring to America because I mean, that's banned there, but then they bring them to America. So we're a little crazy here. It's horrible. But I love when you look at my, my numbers, on September 7th, 1966, four diamonds, I've just been through the ringer with my gut. And I'm, oh my god, I had diverticulitis, c-diff from the antibiotic. My dog died yesterday. I'm like a complete wreck. I just, I'm feeling, oh, horrible. It was, it's just been like such a horrible, well, you're in Saturn right now, you know? Yeah, I'm 59 and like, it's just going to be, but you're in a Saturn period, I mean, of the year. Oh, god. It began on April 4th. Yeah, that's when I, yep, April 12th, I was in the hospital. I mean, I've never, I eat so healthy. I am so like, too ingredient, three ingredient, make my own, I'm making eggs right now. I can't wait to have a hard boiled egg right now. Like I just love healthy food. And it's like so ironic that this happened to me. And I just wanted to, I just get these cars and I don't even have your deck and eight up here, but you've got the seven of spades underneath this A. Sohards. You have an A. Soh Spades with it. This is a law of five cars. So you got, those are really challenging cars. You have a jack of hearts, which is that that is a sacrifice kind of card, you know? That's my daughter's jack of hearts. That's one of her cards. Yeah. Yeah. And this Jack of spades you have has a six of spades and nine of spades with it. So I can tell this was a challenging, this has been a challenging Saturn period. Harmful. I'm horrible. You'll be out of this on May 26th. That was my question. Yeah. Hallelujah. Yeah. Things will be much better, a lot better starting on May 20th or around that time. Okay. So yeah. And but most people are feeling that I'm not just me but there's astrological things going on, right? Doesn't everybody feel like a little bunky, wonky right now? Well, I like I was saying the beginning. I think I think the this the intensity is keeps growing in the world and it also reflects with us internally. And I think that each of us is having a lot more challenges. Yeah. Now there are some exceptions to that, but I think most of us. I mean, I know so many people. I had a serious accident. I had a good friend and a serious accident. You know, all kinds of stuff like that's going on. So, I think we get whatever we need. Each of us is, it's like, it's like our own spiritual path unfolding and it comes in waves. I just feel like right now it's a lot stronger than it has been for me. And I think we have this illusion as we get older, it's going to get easier. You ever have that illusion? Yeah. Oh, I'm going to get all this stuff. I did my work. It's going to be easy when I get old. Yeah, that's not true. Yeah, it's not. It feels like maybe we just know too much. And now it's just settling in. Yeah, when you're younger, you're kind of like naive. And then you'll do you get we know too much. Well, I, you know, I think your next peer is going to be easier. You're not completely out of the woods because you have a nine and a seven there. But I got a feeling it's going to be a huge relief starting on May 26th for you. Oh, Lulia. Good. Thank you. Good to see you. Thank you. I love these Monday nights. Thank you for doing them. It's also awesome. Why do we learn something and love to listen? Thank you. Thanks, Zaggy. Thank you. All right. Okay, Jackie, you're up. Hey, Robert, nice to see you back in healthy. Yeah, yeah, I feel good. I feel good. That was a big, big thing. It knocked me out there for a while. But you've been in my prayers, Robert. I've been praying for recovery. Well, thank you. I think your prayers, they worked. They worked. I'm in my Jupiter period. And I've had the most interesting month. I've had this like somatic grief completion where like these feelings have come out of me. Like crying every day, but like releasing all these emotions. It's never happened to me in my life. And I'm on the other end of it. But do you want my birthday? Yeah, I know your spark. Yeah, November 12, 1970. And I'm okay. But like, man, it was wild. It was like I was having the anxiety coming up, terror coming out, childhood fear. Like all these emotions I suppressed one night it woke me up at midnight. Like my heart was beating out of my chest. I knew I was having a panic attack. And I was going to be okay. But I was like, it was so scary. And it was just wild. It's wild how the body knows when it's ready, you know? Yeah, you know, it's interesting because I've heard a lot of people who had things that you would consider be difficult, even scary things like you're talking about in Jupiter, which you don't think you don't think it's ever going to happen in Jupiter. But the way I look at it, because I had similar things in Jupiter too, the way I look at it is that Jupiter, it's always a protection. So whatever is going on, it would have been much worse. That's the way I look at it. Yeah, because it wasn't as bad as it was bad, but there was a protection there for sure. There's a protection. And for you, I mean, there's even more protection because your Jupiter period for your birth card is always in the Jupiter line, the Jupiter column, you know? So it's in the most less spot. So you get even extra protection in Jupiter than the average person. Yeah, I feel like it's allowing other opportunities to come in that I haven't had in a long time. But you had a nine of clubs and you have a nine of clubs and you have also a seven of spades. Yeah. As a law of five card they're going on. So there's, you know, there still could be some challenge, but I don't, I don't think it's really going to hurt you really. I don't think you're going to be hurt by this. Thank you. Well, you're ready for this. I've been going to church every day and I love it. Oh, that's good. That's good. That's good. Hey, man, we have a, we have a Krishna community here, a really large Krishna community and we go on Sundays, they have chanting and it's just, it's like going to church and we go there and they feed you afterwards to this delicious Indian food. So it's really nice. You know, it's nice to connect with a group of people that are all like, you know, thinking higher thoughts, you know? Yeah, that's how I feel. It's just, and I like what is so diverse where I live. It's all single people. It's great. Oh, okay. Oh, all right. So I'm good to talk to you, Jackie. Good talk to you too. Nice to see you. They healthy. Thank you. I'll do my best. I'll do my best. We need our Mondays with Robert. I know. I I got to, I got to do them more often. I keep saying I'm going to do that. I'm going to, I'm aware of it. Okay. I want to do more often and I will thank you for saying that. Do what you can. We're here. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. All right. Sharon, you're up. Hi, Robert. How are you? My niece just had a baby and it got me to thinking about, I've been listening to a lot of your stuff for you. Talk about how we can transcend the cards and that we have choice in, like, if you have a nine of spades and Saturn and you would always ask, you know, am I going to die in that period and you say, do you want to? So what happens with babies? Like, are they subjected to whatever the cards are because they don't really have choices? I mean, I mean, everybody arrives here with karma of some kind, you know, all babies have karma. I mean, my, what are my nieces had a baby and that baby had cancer at age two and that baby was in and out of the hospital. That young man until he died. He must have went, he must have had 20 operations by the age of four or five and then he finally succumbed to it and passed away. And I think I thought, well, he didn't do anything to deserve that. Not in this lifetime anyway. Yeah. And you know, and my mother was a Queen of clubs. You know, they always, my mother law, we lost, we lost a younger brother when I was growing up. Queen of clubs often lose a child. Well, she lost two children because she was really attached to this young, this young baby too. They lived in the, in the same area. So it was devastating for my, for my mom and for, of course, his mother, you know, to have this happen. So I thought about it. I thought like, so strange like it has to be some karma from the past life that's being acted out early on. So we don't know, you know, anybody could have any kind of karma at any point in their life. You understand? Because there's no, there's no way to completely predict somebody's karma. Now there is, I mean, a lot of it can be predicted like with astrology in the cards, you can predict certain things. You definitely can. But there's so much more that is beyond us that we can't predict. So like, I couldn't say like, like, you, there's no birthday where the child comes in with cancer every time. There's just isn't. You know, there's a lot of individual karma that's playing out with different people in different birthdays. Does that answer your question? Yeah, could we take a look at this baby's cards? Sure. What's the birthday? May 6th, 26. And it's interesting. The mother is a queen of clubs and she had two message carriages before this child. So I was really worried about the health of the baby and she was born healthy. Well, this is King of Diamonds. This is a good birthday. I mean, this is a fortunate birthday because has a four clubs ruler, which is an adjuperate column. I wouldn't predict any problems with this child's health. And there's nothing about the child's cards in the first year of life that would indicate health problems. Has there been health problems already? No, I'm just worried about because of all the miscarriages and the health issues with the mom. I don't see anything. I would be surprised that this baby had any problems with health, honestly. I had a son that birthday. He never had any health problems. Little tiger. King of Diamonds, that's a tough, you know, Sharon Stone is a king of diamonds. Bay done away was a king of diamonds. These are tough ladies. Yeah, it's my planetary ruling card. So, okay. We are. They're not going to take any crap from anybody. That's for sure. Right. Not from guys. That helps. Does that helps? Yes. Yeah. Thank you. You're very welcome. Okay, Francine, can you unmute yourself? Hello. There you are. How are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. Thank you. That's good. I had a question. I recently had a birthday and my birthday is April 30th, 1961. And my husband died two years ago and I was thinking that I'm ready to date. And I- I, in fact, I did go out with a neighbor, but I don't know. He's got cancer and it's just sort of triggered me. And so now I'm thinking, I don't think I can date. So I'm just wondering, you know, is this the, I don't know, it's like I'm never lived by myself. And so it's just like, well, you're going to have to, you're going to have to like, you know, get a learner's, learner's permit for dating, you know? Yeah. I know, yeah, I'm a little scared too. Yeah, go out, just take it easy, go out and kick a few tires, slam a few doors, you know, like don't, don't get, don't make such a big deal about it. But you do have a queen of hearts long range. So generally that means that you are having some romantic involvements, okay? And you don't have a lot of, you have, let's see, you have a two of hearts Pluto. So you definitely want somebody. Yeah. I don't know if you'll settle down with one person, not this year. I don't think so. Yeah. I don't, yeah, I'm not sure about that anyway. But your Mars period is starts on August 12th. And it goes till October 3rd. And you've got a really great card. You're going to have a lot of fun romantically and socially during that period. So, you know, you may be hesitant now, but that's going to change when your Mars period comes around. Okay. Okay. All right. It's going to be fun. Okay. That's the play girl card, the play girl card, the eight hearts. Yeah. Okay. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Have fun. Have fun. Okay. Thank you. Nice talking to you, Brent. You too. Okay. Erica and you're up. Hello. Hello. Hi, Robert. How are you doing? Super to see you doing healthy things like running and getting out with the dogs. That's great. I actually have a question to Zan. I think it was who hit on astrology being kind of kind of strange. Seems like there's, oh gosh, that's Friday. It was, seems like anybody. Well, we have these powerful planets that are all like all the outer planets like starting with Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Neptune. The all these planets are like, they've all gone into a new sign just recently. It's very unusual. This happened at all at the same time. They're actually in very compatible formations with each other, which is very interesting. They're not conflicting what they do sometimes. Like, sometimes some really scary world events happen when they plan out of planets or fighting with each other. We have these earthquakes and, you know, playing crashes and things like that. Well, we can kind of have those anyway. But right now, they're all in harmony with each other. So it's really interesting that it seems like a lot of things are happening to people. A lot of challenging things are happening. But not everybody, of course, but I think more people than usual, it seems like to me. What do you think? Yeah, yeah, it's not happening to me. It's happening to other people. Yeah, well, sometimes, you know, it's funny. You know, I had a good friend, a long time ago in LA. She was in Ada Clubs and she had, she was a Leo Ada Clubs and she had like five planets in Leo. So yet almost all of her planets are in Leo and they were in the house, the seventh house of other people. So nothing happened to her. But when Pluto was in Scorpio and it squared all those planets back then, like four or five people in her family died one after the other. Like nothing happened to her. It just happened to people she knew. What's your birthday, Erica? It's April 6, 1988. You're a two, you're a two, that's like a Libra. So, you know, it's, you are all about people, you know, your friends, it's a friendship card. I had a good friend, it was a two space and when his, when one of his friends left town for a job, he got sick for two weeks. He got sick over the losing a good friend. It was so important to him. I don't know if that's so much for you, but it is a card of, it's one of the relationship cards, you know, so relationships are way more important for two's to other people. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Did you have a question about your cards or anything? Actually, my biggest question was, I think like a couple of years ago, you did some kind of astrology reading at the beginning of the year. Kind of like a hate, hate, don't travel on these dates. And it was like so accurate and I was wondering if you're, if you have any plans to do that ever again. Well, I do, I do a yearly thing every year in January. So if you go back on, on Spotify, where my past shows are, you'll see there's a astrological thing for this year that I did back in back, after the new year sometime. I don't remember what the date was, but it'll be one of those Mondays in early in January. Okay. So yeah, I do it every year because I like to do it, I like to talk about, you know, what the plans are doing these to us. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Robert. Great. Welcome, Erica. Nice talking to you. Yeah. You too. Okay. Florence, are you there? Hello. Hi, Robert. Hello. I have a question. So my birthday is May 1, 1981. I, so I lost my job in December. I also left my home a few days before losing my job. So I've been, you know, moving around for the past five months and I'm looking, you know, I need a job because I'm on a visa. And then, you know, I, I spent the last year letting go of all the limiting belief. So I'm like ready to start new and it's the 45th birthday. And then there's this whole family of nine. That isn't my spread. And also the, even there's an ace, I think it's your Peter, but there's a nine with a nine. So yeah, you have, you know, a lot of nine's. You got? Yes. That's interesting. But, you know, you shouldn't, um, nine's are not always bad. Okay. Nine's can mean you get what you want. Oh. Yeah. I would be great. It means the end of waiting or the end of wanting, you see? Mm-hmm. I mean, you are a nine yourself. Wait a minute. No, I'm a five, a five of a speed. Yeah, you're five is paid, but you're not. And nine of a club. You're not. You're a nine. You're a five and a nine, right? Right. So, you know, so I don't know. I think this is a Jupiter year for you. So there is protection here. And frequently in the Jupiter year, we get wishes fulfilled. If you look at your Jupiter period, you have an ace of clubs and a nine of diamonds. Uh-huh. You have an ace of clubs also in Venus. I think you're going to have a job very soon. Oh. Okay. That would be great. Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it too much. It may be, it may not be till June or I mean till July, because that's when I see stuff happening. It's in here Venus periods, which begins on June 22nd. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Patience is the biggest stuff. Yeah. Patience is what you would be a little patient there. And then Ari's moon. Yeah. Ari's, Ari's, I have Ari's moon. I have no patients. I have no patients. Yeah. So I understand that. I understand that. Okay. Just do your best. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. You're welcome. Okay. Prana, this is going to be my last person I talked to. I see you there, Prana. I see your gut. Hello. I'm doing fine. I'm a true soul. Good to see you. So I have a weird scenario where I'm like, I feel like these last two years, my cards are not falling off like how they usually do. And by that I mean, it's like I had like a good, what was it? Like a 10 of space. It's one of the 10s. It's the one where you can wish for whatever you got. And what I more so wanted to ask about this year, which is, I want to say it's called a convergence. I have a, first of all, sorry, three, three dash, nine dash, 94 is my birthday. So it makes me an ace of spades. And what I was more concerned about is I put my friend on your book and he's like, ooh, it sounds like you're going to have a kid. And I'm like in no position to have a kid as far as like, my angel, you know, that stuff. So it's kind of a little bit worried about that where I was looking for. You know, you know, God doesn't care what you think, you know what I mean? You know, you think you're not ready for a kid, you know, blah, blah, blah. And boom, what happens, right? You just don't know. Right. Yeah. And you got cards for it coming up in your Mars period. Mars, period. Stars. June 21st June 21st I thought that was for I thought we already had my bars. Yeah how are you born March 9th? Yeah March 9th 1994. Yeah your Mars period begins on June 21st. Oh I'm glad I'm talking to you. So you have a Queen of Hearts in bars okay and I see you have an Asahar's result card. That's what I think your friend must have saw those okay. They must have saw those cards and though it's not like a guarantee that it's going to happen but it's definitely likely okay. So are you practicing safe sex or what you know like well the thing I was more so concerned about too was like isn't that called a convergence when you have a like you get the card that's in your seven or is it your 13 year period? How your whole life spread is broken up into like the different cards. So it's like I have the jack of Hearts for my next period that I get on when I turn 30 and in 2003. Yeah. So it has nothing to do with that at all as far as like there's no picture. No that period hasn't come yet. So the cards you have now are not connected to that period. Okay okay I just want to make sure. Okay. Oh you said Mars right? Your Mars period begins on June 21st and it goes to August 12th and it looks like you're going to be having some sex in that period okay. I just be blunt about it. You know a Queen of Hearts is for a woman is is a card of it's not always that but it's a strong it's a strong indicator and then you combine that with the fact that you have an A. So Hearts result which doesn't mean you're going to have a baby it's but it is it is a it's a possible okay. I actually wouldn't worry about it if I were you I would just practice safe sex and you'll be fine. That's my take on it that helps. Thank you appreciate it. Yeah yeah I mean you know some people don't want to ever have a baby it's their decision you know in my first marriage you know neither one of us want to have a baby and we were married for six years and then long story but I got divorced and then my second marriage we started talking about a baby right off the bat like what you know and and yeah we had a baby you know it's like you don't know like it I think it has a lot to do with the chemistry of yourself another person and you know what your climate is with babies because you know babies are like they're like another like a married partner you have karma with babies just like you have with your marriage partner you know or any partner and so there's a lot of learning there's a lot of spiritual growth that can occur through any important relationship and definitely having a baby is it's a big decision it's scary very scary I think you'd make a wonderful mom though. Thank you thank you the clean of spades. Well you're an Asia space and you're two hearts you're very loving you're very considerate and you're hardworking you know you would be a good mom. Thank you thank you yeah you're welcome. Nice talking to you probably have a good evening. You too have a good one and I'll still stay on I'm just gonna listen to stay. Oh yeah yeah absolutely you don't have to run out for anything thank you okay we are about done guys it's great to great to um thanks you thank you all good to see you Jody haven't seen you in ages when I first saw you I was like is that Jody and that looks like Jody and she's called Jody too. Jody's a King of clubs I've known her for probably 30 years I think shoot I think I met you wow such a long time ago we were both so young back then we were yelling and beautiful. Oh well anyway guys it's been a pleasure hope you have a great week and thank you all for showing up and and participating it's really nice to be with you and we're gonna have a little song as we leave here let me get this shared thing up again I hope you guys have a great week we have all kinds of exciting stuff happening here I'll tell you that thank you all it's great to see you all up here [Music] thank you happening good night everybody have a good night

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The speaker introduces the concept of "tapas" (spiritual currency) accumulated through intense spiritual practice, noting that in the current dark age (Kali Yuga), practices yield greater spiritual rewards with less effort.
  2. Personal experience from a 10-year ashram stay led to a "magical" decade of success, including playing guitar for a large audience and publishing books.
  3. The Age of Aquarius brings technology and progress but also challenges like internet scams and chemical-laden foods, reflecting the duality of this era.
  4. The speaker emphasizes the need to avoid taking sides in political or religious conflicts, as it creates enemies and drains energy, suggesting focusing on one's immediate circle of influence.
  5. Current times feel overwhelming with constant bombardment of challenges, requiring heightened self-awareness and letting go of the need to be right.

Summary:

The speaker begins by discussing the ancient practice of accumulating spiritual power (tapas) through devotion, noting that in the current dark age (Kali Yuga), practices yield 10 times more spiritual currency than in previous ages. They share a personal story of living in a yoga ashram for 10 years, including five years of intense celibate practice, which led to a decade of effortless success—such as playing guitar for 40,000 people and publishing books. The speaker then contrasts the idealistic promise of the Age of Aquarius (flower power era) with the reality of modern challenges: technology brings benefits but also dangers like information theft and chemical-laden foods.

They stress that this is the most spiritually challenging period, with no rest between constant, intense life events. , Trump's divisiveness) to avoid creating enemies and wasting energy. Instead, focus on one's direct circle—family, work, health, and daily relationships—as these provide the real opportunities for growth.

Letting go of the need to be right is crucial, as illustrated by a personal anecdote about a house sale. The speaker concludes by endorsing a simple spiritual approach: observe and handle what life brings, without elaborate practices.

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Tapas is a spiritual currency accumulated through practices like meditation and fasting. It builds energy that can grant wishes or bring success.

In the Kali Yuga, the darkest age, spiritual practice yields about 10 times more reward than in previous ages. This makes even small efforts very effective.

The highest accomplishment in the worldly spread is the Ace of Diamonds, which represents fame, power, and wealth. The greatest gift is the Ten of Diamonds, symbolizing money.

The highest accomplishment is the Queen of Space, representing self-mastery, and the highest gift is the Queen of Clubs, representing intuition. Both are about service to humanity.

The speaker advises disassociating from world events and not taking sides in political or religious debates. Focus on your personal life and circle of influence to maintain peace of mind.

The speaker emphasizes that being right can hinder progress, as seen in a personal house sale story. They suggest letting go of the need to be right to achieve desired outcomes.

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