Hi there and welcome this is Amanda the founder of Astrology Hub and you're listening to our Week Ahead snapshot with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic calendar

Christopher Wrenstrom. This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice

and how you navigate and weave these energies into your daily life.

Enjoy.

Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology hub.

And this week I wanted to talk to you about Mars,

turning retrograde in the Zodiac sign of Gemini

on October 30th.

Mars retrograde and Gemini.

That got me thinking, what could I talk about that would be very much representative of the energy of Mars turning retrograde in the zodiac sign of the twins?

And then it suddenly hit me. in the zodiac sign of the twins.

And then it suddenly hit me.

I remembered a book that I was haunted by

since I read and studied it for the first time

when I was a freshman at an all-boy college Catholic prep school.

The name of the book was Lord of the Flies and some of you may be familiar with that book from having also studied it in grade school or in high school.

When I first read Lord of the Flies, I was taken in by it.

I mean, it was such an absorbing book full of these extraordinary descriptions and this kind of adventure

this boy's adventure of suddenly being marooned on an island and being freed of their prep school background.

Actually in their case boarding school background, English boarding school background,

and suddenly being set free away from adults to run around on an island, however, the way that they chose to run around on this island.

I mean, it sounds like it's going to be all sorts of fun. But for anyone who's ever attended

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