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

connect with the order in the beauty of the Cosmos and to explore your connection

to all of it. We're so happy you're here. Thank you for joining. My name's

Amanda Pua Walsh. I'm the founder of Astrology Hub and I am here with Rick

Merlin Levine and today we have a very interesting topic to explore, which this was Gail's idea correct I think it was yes so

Gail is Rick's longtime editor and friend and amazing amazing woman and so she's like Rick you got to talk about this

which we're going to be talking about which is the astrology of family dynamics

so how you can see in the chart the way the astrology plays out and what that tells you and Rick's going to tell us a lot more.

Very excited to explore. Go ahead.

Well, I don't even know where to jump in.

It's just such a wide topic.

I think really the place where we want to start is just acknowledging that we are not separate from our environments.

You know, the depth psychologists had had some of this right or have some of this right and that is what happens to us in the first months, year, years of our life.

There are psychologists that are based upon what happens to us

pre-Nadilly in utero and the birth actual experience that these are all fractals, microcosms if you will, micro, you know, slices

of the larger picture of our lives and astrology takes a look at the moment we were

born and yet that moment occurs in a larger context. And of course the primary larger context it occurs in is family.

And something happens in family that creates a family of athletes or a family of military

heroes or a family of criminals or I mean something occurs where we look at the we look at our siblings we look at our

parents or even sometimes more significant we look at our grandparents because often things seem to jump a generation and there's

something that is handed down generation to generation and I used to say that my experience in astrology validates to me that there is something to heredity. In other words, we all believe, based upon the experimental evidence, that something is handed down from parent to child to grandchild to great-grandchild or however you want to frame it,

but generation to generation to generation that creates a continuity in that family and although we might attribute that to our genes or to

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