Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

I'm finally offering transcriptions of Ghost of a Podcast, not once but twice weekly.

That's right, transcriptions twice weekly over at Ghost of a Podcast dot com. Very slowly,

but surely I will also transcribe past episodes. So be patient, be excited, and you know,

keep on keeping on darlings. I've got a misstrology hot take for you that is a little bit of a

depth tale from the Sunday episode that I just dropped a couple days ago. I want to talk to you

about the eighth house and the 12th house. I got just flooded with questions about these two houses.

And I think it's really important for us to talk about them when any of us approach astrology

in general or our birth charts or the birth charts of our children or loved ones specifically,

looking for a tidy answer, looking for a straight line story where it's like there's a beginning

in a middle and an end. We are not going to like what we see. When you want your meaning in life

or your value in life to be a commodity or a product, you're going to have problems because

if all you are is a product, you know, if all you are is something material that can be seen by

others and evaluated by others, then you're not living a whole life, you know, you're just not.

And when we are looking to, you know, understand the birth chart in a way of being like, well,

it says X and it also says why how could these two different things exist at the same time?

Or I have all these sensitivities because I've lots of planets in the 12th and 8th houses.

How can I live? I'm destined for struggle or whatever. Whenever we see these things,

there's been a fundamental misunderstanding of what astrology is doing, what it's good for.

It's also a fundamental misunderstanding of what we are, of what we're meant to be. We are

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