This is Karen Hunter and welcome to another edition of Unlock Astrology with the one and only Samuel Reynolds. Let me thank you for being here. Hey, thank you for having me.

Listen, and for people who are in, uh, go down the rabbit hole, you know, go back to the first episode that we did, give it a thumbs up, like it, share it, because this is a journey that we're going to go on.

This, we're going to take you on a journey, but it requires that you have all information,

all the information.

I think a lot of people start, say I'm in the middle of a story.

People jump in, they go into the comments, watching the first five minutes,

at the first couple of minutes, because they know what this is. Go back, find out the origin story,

how we got here. And I think that's super important that you you know that you like you went on a journey you didn't just come into astrology you know like I got this you were a skeptic you were Baptist minister, you were an atheist, you're now practicing Muslim,

and it was through the exploration that you arrived and landed at this space.

So, you know, before we get into the individual signs, just give people, and I'm still a skeptic,

so let me just be clear, even though I do think that there's something to when you're born.

So let's start there. Like I won't go to my horoscopes to see what's going to happen because I think you know we talked about this last time. I'm not doing that. But what is it about the signs and when you were born when you meet somebody like oh I know that person is a

Sagittarius I know that person is definitely a Gemini because I have oh yeah you act like

kangier and Donald Trump you, like what is it about the signs and the personality types or traits that come with these signs?

People like some elements of control is part of our evolutionary impulse to find ways in order to keep ourselves safe to be able to group people or have some way of knowing them. There's a good and bad

element to that, especially as it relates to astrology. The good element of it is that I think more on a personal level that if you kind of come to understand

the general rubric of a sign, you have some way by which to understand a little more about yourself.

I think that becomes the most useful aspect of it,

especially if your starting point is the idea of a sun sign.

So for instance, you know, for me,

I got a scorpio on my arm tattooed on my arm and a Phoenix. And you might remember when we last talked about it, you know, I was on this thing, this journey, part of my journey was like,

and I'm a Scorpio or I'm a saj, which is it?

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