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[HOROSCOPE HIGHLIGHTS] The Art of Criticism w/ Christopher Renstrom

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.7934 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This is your Horoscope Highlight for the week of January 2-8, 2023 with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of The Cosmic Calendar, Christopher Renstrom. In this episode, Christopher reflects on Mercury's retrograde in Capricorn and the French axiom, "the more things change, the more things remain the same." Is this an expression of cynicism, or just a description of homeostasis? He then goes on to describe the nature of Mercury in Capricorn, both by transit and in the natal ch...

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This podcast is brought to you by The Inner Circle, your place to learn astrology in community with the masters and transform your life in the process. Hi there and welcome, this is Amanda, the founder of Astrology Hub

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and you're listening to our Week Ahead snapshot with world-class

0:24.3

astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic Calendar, Christopher Renstrom.

0:29.7

This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the week ahead,

0:34.0

enabling you the gift of choice, and how you navigate and weave these energies into your daily life.

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Enjoy.

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Hello. Enjoy. and this week I wanted to talk to you about Mercury's retrograde in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.

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More that's French. more things change, is the mamchos.

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That's French, for the more things change,

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the more things remain the same.

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It's something to think about with Mercury currently retrograde in the zodiac sign of

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Capricorn. Actually, it's an epigram, first coined by the French critic, journalist, and flBaptiste Afons-Car in the 1849 January edition of his magazine, The Wasps. I put quotes around January because you can already tell

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that it has a particularly Saturnian sting. The more things change, the more things change the more things remain the same I remember being

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being quite absorbed with that thought in my wayward youth in New York City, wearing a beret on my head and smoking

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jitens on St Mark's place, thinking to myself, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

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And then maybe turning to my copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea and reflecting on what I was reading there while sipping

2:16.7

from a café latte. In any case, that phrase, the more things change, the more things remain the same, has haunted me, really, ever since.

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I mean, it makes you really kind of ask yourself what does that mean? Does it mean that for I don't know for every

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action there's an equal and opposite reaction so that whatever you do is

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counteracted by something that goes against it

2:45.8

and then they engage in a kind of like locked hold

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of stasis or does it refer to a sort of been there done that jadedness that

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