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Engagement Party

What’s Your Sign? Astrology's Modern Renaissance

Engagement Party

CNN

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4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Why is astrology having such a moment? The business of astrology — estimated to be worth more than $2 billion — is booming: apps, classes, conferences, startups. All being fueled by the social media age. This week Audie looks to the heavens with two world-renowned astrologers, Jennifer Freed and Chani Nicholas. They explore astrology’s popularity as well as the meaning and history of this ancient personality system. (Oh, and they read Audie her chart.)  Jennifer Freed Ph.D. is a psychological astrologer and author of ten books, including: Use Your Planets Wisely and A Map To Your Soul: Using the Astrology of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water to Live Deeply and Fully She has served as the clinical director of Pacifica Graduate Institute and is national consultant for EMDR (Post Traumatic Growth Therapies). She is a regular contributor to goop.  Chani Nicholas is an astrologer and author of You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance. She’s been a counseling astrologer for more than twenty years and is the proprietor of the wildly popular CHANI app, which offers users a personalized, daily understanding of their birth chart.  Special thanks this week to the fantastic TikTokers we featured: @tobiasthoth, @jkitscole, and the hilarious @mamaa.arii  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

back in the 1980s when first lady nancy reagan revealed that she consulted an astrologer well

0:07.4

let's just say it wasn't pretty new reports of mrs regan's reliance on an astrologer raised new

0:13.8

questions about national security they consult the charts to determine the hour for inaugurations

0:19.7

treaty signings and please god don't tell us what else.

0:24.1

Is that why we invaded Grenada? Because Jupiter had entered the third orbit of Mars?

0:30.9

Oh, how the tide has turned.

0:33.7

If you're having a bad day or feel like everything is going wrong, you may be tempted to blame it on the phenomenon known as Mercury Retrograde.

0:42.4

Stop what you're doing.

0:43.9

Fortune just released an article on the top ten signs mostly to be a billionaire.

0:48.5

It looks like 12% of the world's billionaires are Libra's.

0:52.4

Here are my rules for dating a Gemini.

0:56.4

As a Gemini, I think it's important that I share these rules.

0:59.9

In fact, we are nearly at peak memeification.

1:01.4

Wait, so, like, what's your sign?

1:03.4

A barbecue sun, a chicken rising.

1:04.1

Nope.

1:06.0

Sis, why are you crying?

1:06.8

What's going on?

1:09.7

Like, girl, my grandma passed away.

1:11.1

It's just been really hard. Like, damn, man.

1:11.9

I know you at Toyota Moon, so I know y'all be taking things to the heart.

1:15.0

Like, that's crazy.

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