You know, I'm very much of the mind like we don't know what the astrologer is going to how it's going to unfold until we get there because we're changing all the time or we're growing all the time and so what how can I grow myself in this moment to then meet that astrological imprint with with the best of what I can bring it.

Hey everybody, Mary M. Williamson here and thank you for joining me for my podcast this week. We're living in an extraordinary time, an amazing moment of phase transition as one world is literally disintegrating one geo political, biological, emotional, psychological, economic, social world is just sort of crumbling to the ground, creating a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety about that our personal lives and also in the larger structure.

There's stress within the larger structures of our civilization, but at the same time there's a sense of something new being born and that's always how life works anytime one phase ends it's the beginning of something new.

And so we are called to two tasks one is to be a midwife for that which is dying and one to be a midwife for that which is struggling to be born.

Women's stories have not always in fact hardly ever been at the center of languaging how we talk about the larger world outside ourselves now that women are telling our own stories we should be able to tell them in our own ways.

And one pattern which is very, very important to to all human beings but certainly to the experience of the woman to the experience of the female the experience however that is defined for anyone in their gender identity et cetera today.

It's the idea of pregnancy that we conceive a child then that just dates within us.

We are pregnant and when the time comes we go to labor and we give birth well that is as true for a civilization as it is for an individual.

And yet when it comes to giving birth to a new world you're talking about human consciousness is the womb we're talking about the fact that we conceive a new idea we conceive a new possibility we conceive a new perspective on the way life could be lived and then that just dates within us.

And that is what is happening now we are reconceiving the world because the world as it is is dying that which is struggling to be born must be reconceived conceived a new and that's our job today in large part to use our own imaginations as the womb out of which this new world will be born to conceive to imagine a world in which there is no war.

You know JFK president Kennedy said we will end war or war will end us but we've stopped even trying we need to bring our imaginations to bear upon the process of being responsible for the 21st century to allow ourselves to even imagine a world in which there is no war in which war has become a memory that war is just something you look you read about study about and look at museums to conceive of a world in which there is no poverty.

Which by the way is imminently possible given today's technology all of the skill sets that exist we could you know as people like Buckminster Fuller and other futurists approve him we could have a planet in which everybody is fed in which everybody has adequate housing there is so much unnecessary suffering doesn't have to be.

And so it's our job to come up with new ways of bringing forth the new but we will not be able to bring forth the new to the auspices of an old conversation.

We have to bring to bear the intelligence of the heart as well as the intelligence of the brain if we're going to formulate a new way of being.

And that's why people are expanding their sense of not only what's possible but the language the lens the filters through which to imagine articulate and bring forth what's possible.

This newness is everywhere it's in everything from agriculture to business to science and medical to healing.

It's even struggling to be born in politics although I certainly know I know the resistance of that institution but every institution resists the new.

Until the moment when the resistance simply itself cannot hold and new conversations new ways of doing things are then brought forth.

Well some of the new ways are actually old ways because what people talk about sometimes is this extraordinary modernity is actually a mirroring of things that are pieces of very ancient knowledge and very classical religious and spiritual traditions.

And one of the old things that's become new again is astrology.

I've always been interested in astrology ever since I was a teenager and the older I get the more wisdom I see there in terms not of predicting what's going to happen next Thursday but in terms of a psychological system that gives us insight into who we are, who other people are and also into how our relationships with other people can turn out.

It's so interesting because sometimes we act like nobody had an inner life until recently.

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