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Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. Today I have something that was super fun and special and I think you'll enjoy. Basically I was interviewed recently by an astrologer and she wanted to really dig into the mythology of my life and who I am and why I do the things I do.

And so it was fun. I went into parts of my story that I hadn't really shared, especially about my childhood and my upbringing, which I know people have tons of questions about because it was so random and alternative. And so I wanted to share it with you and I thought this would be really fun to do. So enjoy this and I hope you have a great day.

Hey everybody, welcome back to stars like us. I am your host, Aliza Kelly and I am so excited to introduce you guys to another Virgo. We love Virgos here. We love that Mercurial energy. Her name is Annie Grace and she is the author of this naked mind. It is so lovely to meet you. Thank you for being here. Oh, thank you. It's such a pleasure.

So as I always do with these episodes when we introduce a new guest on the show, I love to learn and and sort of understand your own personal mythology.

Something that I think is really interesting that I had been sort of ruminating on a few days ago, but I don't think I had shared on this podcast is

that when we look at a birth chart in astrology, we're really looking at somebody's personal mythology. And that means that their story is embedded into it.

So unlike some of the other mystical practices that are very much of like I see a lion, like what does a lion represent for you?

We actually kind of approach it with the inverted and through an inverted way where we take what has actually happened to somebody in their story and then we say, ah, okay, this is how your real life is captured in the symbolism of your birth chart.

So it really all goes back to the narrative and story and the mythology. So Annie, what is your mythology? How did you come to be who you are today?

So I love that fascinating. So I had a really unique upbringing. I was actually born and raised in a tiny one room cabin on the back side of the mountain at 10,500 feet without running water or electricity.

Whoa, wait, so maybe we should go back a little bit more. How did how did that come to be? How did how what were what's the story of your parents and how they ended up in a cabin?

So my dad was born and raised in the Bronx, Jewish, you know, upbringing and my mom was Cape Cod area outside of Massachusetts. And she, they both just kind of were drawn to Colorado.

And they both kind of, I think my mom like cross country road trip to cross the country. And then my dad ended up at D.U. getting a film degree and he was doing internships in Manhattan during the summers.

And right after he graduated, a friend of theirs said, hey, well, we have this cabin out in the mountains. So will you kind of house set it for us for a few weeks.

And they left and I think they went to like to our Europe or something and my dad had, you know, they're both very into like the hippie movement in the 60s.

And my dad went to the cabin and didn't leave and they didn't come back. And so he's been there. I think it's close to 50 years now that he's been living in that cabin. It might even be over a few years.

Do people still think he's house sitting?

I don't even know that anybody would know that story. I mean, he's like a fixture. There's, you know, half a dozen cabins in this area and a few miles apart. And you can't even get there by car.

You have to snow wheel in the winter because it's just that remote. So it's dirt roads, all four wheel drive and then they just close the roads. So when I was a baby, actually, they didn't have anything. My dad didn't want to own anything that had a motor.

But then I was born and he realized he needed to buy a chainsaw because otherwise, like the hand sawing in a firewood to keep a baby warm was just too much effort.

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