Well, hello everybody, and welcome to the Cosmic Connection. This is your place to come and

explore the beauty and the order of the Cosmos and your connection to it all. My name is Amanda Pua Walsh. I'm the founder of

Astrology Hub, the host of this show, and I am so pleased to be here today with

Rick Merlin Levine, our guide through this cosmic order and beauty. And today we are going to be talking

about astrology, divination, and intuition, and the role that divination and intuition and these kinds of things play in chart interpretation.

So this was a question that actually came in from one of our astrology foundations level one students and we noted it as ooh let's do a cosmic connection on that one and so Rick

Where do you want to start with this?

There's a lot of different places we can go.

Maybe what's the difference to you

between divination and intuition?

Is there one?

Yeah, these are tricky. This is a tricky question, but we can jump in there.

I mean, let's go back in history first.

Here we're doing a Rickism because you've asked me a little question but I can't go I can't go there until we go here.

When if we go back three four five six hundred years, you know, and more.

There was a vast barrier between heaven and earth

that the two were in completely distinct realms and that a lot of the

religious tradition that we get comes from this idea that there were basically two completely

different orders of being that Mercilia Eliad wrote a book about called the sacred and the profane.

The sacred is everything that is divine.

Oh, there's a key piece of that word

that's in the word divination, hold that thought.

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