All right. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Cosmic Connection. It's so great to be here with you all and to be here with our Cosmic Navigator, Rick Merlin Levine. And today we're going to be talking about when astrology becomes an obsession and really exploring blind between like a healthy engagement with astrology as a tool and then that line for when it becomes

it's using you like you're no longer using it, it's using you. And so it's out of balance.

And I was just telling Rick that I recently met someone who said, you know, I was so into

astrology for 10 years, you know, every person I met I would run their chart.

I was in, you know, I was in the horse every day looking at everything and then she got to

a point where she's like and then I have to completely denounce it and just like completely

walk away from it because it wasn't healthy anymore. So I would I was thinking

about this and I was thinking God I wonder what Rick would say about this.

And so here we are having this conversation.

And Rick, where do you want to start with this?

Just that I've had a 55-year unregulated obsession,

that I actually, just to get this off to a right start in my mid 30s. I mean I kind of fell into

astrology in my late teens and by my early 20s everything in my life in some way had to be fit around my

astrology obsession where I was really mostly at that time in learning mode.

But after I began seeing clients doing charts even, I moved to Southern California and between just needing to cope with life and have family and whatever.

I began questioning, you know, maybe, maybe I'm so clever

that I could just make all this shit work.

And maybe it's not really based on reality. You know, I mean I have a scientific

logical background and you know what if I'm just really like everyone else just

getting sucked into this and making it all up. And I ended up putting all of my astrology books, computer programs, calculation software, ephemerises, in boxes in a garage where they stayed for

nearly two years. I did no astrology. None, none. And, and I think I've told bits of this story before on online.

And that is during a time when many years prior,

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