Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast, I'm your host Jessica Lagnado. 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.

Welcome back to Ghost of a podcast. We have come through a really intense couple of weeks of astrology and your life may feel

exceptionally stressful right now. You may be kind of reeling from some of the things that have gone on in your personal life or just

the energies of the world.

Certainly if you have been paying attention to what's happening in the world, as I know most of you who listen to this

podcast do there's a lot to mentally and emotionally process and I just want to

take a moment to acknowledge the weight of the world and how that may be impacting you on a personal level.

Because when we acknowledge what we're going through on any level, because when we acknowledge what we're going through on any level,

we have the capacity to cultivate acceptance.

This is what's real right now.

And from the foundation of acceptance it becomes possible to come up with

the healthiest best adjusted coping mechanisms for the here and now. And that's essential for living in balance,

for sustaining adversity and hardship,

and even for sustaining joy and expansion and excitement.

Accepting where you are here and now

is about being present.

And presence is really hard and it's always been hard for humans but now with

our little pocket robots and you know constant, constant distractions and constant pressures to be engaged in and with the

world. It's really hard to cultivate presence, but it's such a valuable practice. And I don't know if it's exactly related, but it feels

related. As I've called for queer questions, I have been actually genuinely surprised at how many people are struggling to come out,

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