00:32) Randee: Hello and welcome to the Dark Moon Cafe. We are your hosts. My name is Randee.

(00:37) Khasanti: And I’m Khasanti.

(00:39) Randee: And each Dark Moon, we will be inviting you in for a monthly conversation about astrology and other adjacent topics. Each episode we’ll compare notes on how the monthly transits have been showing up for us, followed by a deeper dive into a specific topic, which for tonight’s episode is Annual Profections. You can find transcripts of each episode on our website, DarkMoonCafe.com. We hope this podcast offers a cozy space to settle in and explore with us how we live our lives through the lens of astrology. So hey Khasanti, how are you and what are you drinking tonight?

(01:21) Khasanti: Hey Randee, my dear Astro Bestie. I am doing good, even though spoiler look behind the curtain of the pod, it’s actually daytime as we’re recording today. (Randee: Yes) So that’s pretty pretty weird. We don’t normally see each other in the light of day. (both laughter)

(01:45) Randee: We normally are just shadows in the darkness. (laughter)

(01:48) Khasanti: Shrouded in an evening glow. But yeah. So yeah, I’m doing good. I’m doing good. I am drinking a this is actually one of my favorite beverages, and it’s something that I invented all by myself. I’m sure nobody else in the world has ever thought of putting these things together. Just kidding. It’s a chamomile tea with milk and honey.

(02:19) Randee: Ohh, delicious.

(02:21) Khasanti: Have you ever put milk in a chamomile tea?

(02:24) Randee: You know, I honestly have not. So maybe you are on to something.

(02:30) Khasanti: Yeah, it is so like I sort of feel always feel like I I’m kind of tapping into some sort of I don’t know who’s the the person that like bathed in milk? Was that Cleopatra?

(02:45) Randee: Oh, oh, gosh, I don’t know.

(02:47) Khasanti: Yeah, it’s s somebody like that. Anyway, there there’s something about like I just it just feels like the most kind of luxurious, nourishing, kind of sleepy making, cozy beverage. And I have some reasons for that which are going to become clearer when I talk more about like what’s what’s up for me. So we’ll leave leave that dangling as a like just incredible cliffhanger for the listeners.

(03:22) Randee: Incredible. People are biting their nails right now.

(03:26) Khasanti: They are. (both laughter) Yeah, so what am I what’s in your cup or glass that I’m gonna cheers you with and with my honey, milk and chamomile tea?

(03:44) Randee: Yes, we are on slightly different pages with what we are drinking tonight. (Khasanti laughter) Mine is most definitely in a glass, not a mug. (Khasanti: Ok) I would like to toast to you a glass of champagne to celebrate your birthday. Yayyy!! (clapping)

(04:01) Khasanti: My goodness. You are so sweet. Thank you. Thank you. I love I love getting all the birthday love and it’s been a few days since the actual day, so I’m sort of starting to be slightly starving for attention and celebration. So this shows up just at the right moment.

(04:25) Randee: Well, happy belated birthday to one of my all time favorite Geminis. I just love you to bits and I hope you had an amazing birthday and it certainly inspired our topic selection for tonight. (Khasanti: It did) Because you most certainly are moving into a new Time Lord year, which we will expound upon later. (Khasanti: Yes) But happy happy movement into a new time lord year for you.

(05:01) Khasanti: Thank you. Thank you so very much. I’m excited. I’m ready. I’ve been I’ve been waiting a few months for this now. Like I love you Mars and yes, you’re getting me to do a lot of really good shit, but also I’m kinda tired and be nice to just hang with Venus for a while, so yeah.

(05:27) Randee: Yeah. A lot can happen in Mars years as we will definitely be talking more about, at least from my perspective as well. But yes, so how have you been and like what’s going on with you?

(05:41) Khasanti: Well, I have been let’s see, I have been terrible for a good chunk of the last month. (Randee: Oh no!) I had like literally the worst cold that any human has ever had to endure. it was horrible. It lasted I don’t know, about nine or ten days, I think. It was making me feel very anxious about whether I was gonna make it to NORWAC or not, which for the uninitiated is the Northwest Astrological Conference (Randee: I’m jealous) that happens in Seattle area every Memorial Day. And it’s really the highlight of my year. It’s the most social that I am in a in a whole year. It’s probably one of the most kind of energetically demanding weekends of the year and I was like I was sailing so close to the wind with like maybe having to just not go, which would have been so devastating. But thankfully my immune system pulled it out of the bag at the last minute and I was cleared by my doctor to not be spreading germs to everybody there. And so I was able to go and that was really exciting. And slightly hilariously I did lose my voice for a good amount of it. (both laughter) It was actually actually happened on my Mercury return, which felt kind of rude.

(07:28) Randee: (laughter) Rude. Extremely rude.

(07:31) Khasanti: Yeah, like hello, three planets in Gemini, Mercury rules all of them, NORWAC is like the time of year where I get to go the fuck off about my favorite subject with like a whole hotel full of people that speak the same language as me. And I had to hold up this little little sign that I made saying “I have lost my voice.”

(07:59) Randee: Oh, so sad.

(08:00) Khasanti: But you know what? I was like I was feeling pretty zen about the whole thing because I had been so worried that I wouldn’t be able to go at all. That I was like, you know what? I’m here. I don’t even care if I can speak. I’m just so delighted to kind of be in this place, get to hug like all the people that I want to hug and go to all these cool lectures and so yeah. And I couldn’t help kind of not that this has happened every Mercury return that I’ve had, but you know, my natal mercury is conjunct Saturn, so there is like a little bit of restriction kind of baked into that placement. So I thought that was kind of funny. And then there was also I was looking at the chart last night when I was preparing for this and also in the chart of the moment of my Mercury return, Mercury was getting an overcoming sextile from transiting Saturn in my sixth house of illness. So I’m like, okay. (Randee: Of course) We yeah, we we submit (both laughter) to the to the you know, the the the beautiful power and divine design of the fates and we yeah.

(09:35) Randee: Yeah. Submit is a good Saturnian word, honestly. (Khasanti: It is actually, totally) But you were able to still find creative ways to connect with people there, right?

(09:48) Khasanti: Yeah, I was. I was. In a way it was kinda interesting because what it did was it kind of cut off my ability to have kind of more superficial conversations with people and it meant that I was really conserving my voice. Like I could have very quiet conversations for a short amount of time with, you know, a small number of people. So it was just interesting. It kind of, it made me have to just bring a lot more awareness and mindfulness to like what are the really important things that I want to say ’cause I have to like save my resources for that. So you know, I did get to have some good convos with people. My voice fully came back on the Sunday, so that was also kind of nice. I could just like be more more myself. But yeah, I mean you can communicate a lot with a hug and a kind of very animated, excited facial expression.

(10:57) Randee: Mmm hmm. It makes me think of like planets that are in detriment. Like they have to find other creative ways to achieve their same objectives. (Khasanti: Totally) And so it’s just interesting, you know, when we have a Mercury that’s a little you know, injured, we find other ways to get the job done.

(11:18) Khasanti: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So yeah, it was great and I’m grateful that I was able to be there. So it all worked out.

(11:30) Randee: Awesome. Awesome. And I know that you were able to hand out a few of our fun new little things, right?

(11:37) Khasanti: I was. Yeah, we got some flyers made for the podcast and I there’s like this kind of little area at NORWAC where everyone kinda puts out their business cards and their flyers and all their kind of advertising-y stuff and I put a bunch out there and I I reckon that probably around forty or fifty people picked one up, (Randee: Wow) which really kind of exceeded my expectations. So yeah, if we if you happen to be someone who’s listening who picked up one of those flyers at NORWAC, welcome. And we’re so happy to have you here. And yeah, hope that you had a really good conference and hope that getting to listen to this podcast is another enjoyable way for you to stay connected with your love of astrology, (Randee: Absolutely) hanging out with two other people who are completely obsessed and in love with it.

(12:42) Randee: Yes. Yes. I too want to extend a big welcome to anybody new in our listenership. I have noticed that we did get a little bump in Instagram followers. So that’s really exciting for us. I definitely have to improve my Instagram game. So I’m hoping to be a little more active on there. But thank you for following us and it’s just so great that people are listening. It’s so fun. (Khasanti: Yeah, It’s awesome) Yeah. That’s great.

(13:17) Khasanti: So that’s kind of my state of the Khasanti. What’s the state of the Randee in this at this moment?

(13:28) Randee: Yeah, well honestly, I was so pumped to hear about your experience at NORWAC. I’m so jealous. One of these years I will get there. (Khasanti: Yes) It is a promise that I make and now it’s recorded. So now it really has to happen. (Khasanti: Yeah) But in terms of like specific transits or like the astrological weather that I’ve been in, one thing that I’ve been kind of noticing – my partner has their rising sign is Aries. And of course, as you know, we’ve had some Aries transits occurring and currently Saturn is kind of moving through there. And it’s interesting because for me in my chart, Aries is my seventh house. So seventh house can often represent the person that we are partnered with, right? The whole chart is not always about us. The first house is very much about us, but the seventh house can often be about our partner or partners or other important relationships in our life. And so one thing I’ve really kind of noticed is how they have been really dropping into working on themselves, right? Saturn, work. They’ve been really working on improving boundaries that they set with other people. Just some really excellent psychological work that they’ve been doing on themselves. And I just can’t help but look at that Saturn going through my seventh house as sort of their transit in their first house (Khasanti: Yeah) as just really speaking to the work that they’ve been doing on themselves and boundaries. And so I just kind of wanted to speak to that and again, just kind of remind people that our chart isn’t all about us. Like there are other people, other players in our life. And sometimes they get activated as well. So I thought that was kind of just like an interesting little thing I wanted to share.

(15:52) Khasanti: Yeah, that’s really awesome. First of all, good for them. That’s that’s good worthy work to be doing and good for them for submitting to Saturn (Randee: Yes, once again) through their first house. And yeah, I love that reminder ’cause it’s very easy to fall into thinking that everything that happens in astrology is all kind of to do with us (Randee: Right) and that’s definitely not always the case. (Randee: Absolutely) So yeah, great illustration of that.

(16:28) Randee: Yeah. So we have a very fun topic on the agenda for this evening. Do we feel ready to transition into that?

(16:40) Khasanti: I am so ready. I am so ready.

(16:46) Randee: Alright, so our topic for tonight is annual profections. Not to be confused with the word perfection. This is profection, P R O. And so I don’t know, Khasanti, you’re just so much better than I am at giving a beautifully concise description of the topic. But I will say that this is an ancient timing technique and I would like to start us off with a little quote from Richard Tarnas, who is a modern day astrologer. The quote is: “Astrology doesn’t tell us what will happen, but rather reveals the conditions and potentials that surround us, inviting us to participate consciously in the unfolding of our lives.” So I kind of like that as sort of a framework from which we can build a conversation about a timing technique that is quite beautiful in its simplicity. (Khasanti: Yes) And it’s really like something a beginner can grab onto and just immediately implement and get something from. So I don’t know if you would like to offer us a kind of a definition of it.

(18:17) Khasanti: Sure, sure, sure. And I don’t at all feel like I’m better than you at doing this for the record. (Randee: (laughter) I do) But I will gladly take on this responsibility today. So yeah, as you mentioned, annual profections, it’s a Hellenistic time lord technique that is mentioned by I think like five or six different astrologers in the Hellenistic times. And it is beautifully simple. It basically narrows our, it takes one house one whole sign house of our chart for each year of our lives and kind of gives us a place to focus on during that year. And the way that it works kind of mathematically is that in the first year of your life, so from age zero to age one, you’re in a first house profection year. From one to two, you’re in a second house year. And so on, all the way around the wheel until you and once you get to the end of your first twelfth house year, you go into another first house year and you just sort of keep going around the wheel and what it how we use it is it basically it kind of it shines a little I see it as like a sort of like a one of those like spotlights like if you know, there’s like a play on a stage or something and then you have, you know, so you have may might have like a bunch of different actors on the stage, but the spotlight is just shining on one area of the stage and one of the actors. This is what this technique does for the chart. So not only does it light up a particular house and sign of your natal chart, it also highlights the domicile ruler of that sign and makes both that house and that planet prominent in the astrology of the year that starts on your birthday. So it’s a really nice technique for helping you not get overwhelmed by I know that I, you know I still get overwhelmed by like how much astrology is happening all the time. Like there’s all of these planets all kind of up to stuff in the sky all the time. And it definitely helps me to kind of chunk that down to like, okay, who is my time lord for this year? Which by the way, any Doctor Who fans in the house, it’s kinda cool that that we have this we get to kind of like have a thing called a Time Lord, each year. And I feel like there’s more this is just one Time Lord technique. So there’s, you know, I think yeah, there are probably many other Time Lords that one could have from different techniques. But using this technique you just have a single Time Lord for your your year, which is a single planet that you can just focus on. You can focus on transits from that transiting planet to planets and points in your natal chart. You can also focus on that planet in your natal chart and look at what kind of astrology is happening to that planet. And even more generally, you can just look at what house is profected in that year. Like say it’s a tenth house year for you, then you can assume that topics of career and public roles and so forth are gonna just be a bit more center stage for you. Other parts of your life might be a little bit more kind of in the background. Does that feel like a okay summary to start us out?

(22:52) Randee: Feels perfect. (Khasanti: OK) Yes. And I I love the visual of the spotlight on the stage because I often employ this technique, especially when doing a birthday reading for someone. It’s perfect for a birthday, right? Because you’re advancing in numerical age, and therefore you are advancing into a new profected sign, house (if you’re using whole sign houses) and you have a new time lord for the year. So it really just kind of brings a focal point into that planet, that ruling planet, any transits that that planet is making and also just activates a little bit the natal placement of that planet as well. As well as topics of the house that it rules. So there’s there’s kind of a lot, there’s a lot of directions you can go with the technique, but it does bring the focal point into a really concise, simple place in the chart, and then you can decide how much to expand upon from there.

(24:06) Khasanti: Yeah, I love that. I do want to mention this not to complicate things, but there are different places that you can profect from. So the way that we’re talking about is that you perfect from the ascendant, so that you sort of start in the first house and move around in that way that I described. There are versions of this where you can profect from the sect light, which is either the sun or the moon, depending on whether you were born during the day or during the night. In fact, you can actually profect from any planet if you want to. Now what I don’t know about you, Randee, what I find is that turns a technique that I enjoy because it helps to simplify things into a technique that starts to make things really complicated again really fast.

(25:09) Randee: I agree. I agree. I tend to you know, honestly, wow, that’s thunder outside. So we’re having a little storm here. (Khasanti: Hey Jupiter) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. But I really like to use this technique in conjunction with like a solar return chart. (Khasanti: Yeah) And maybe even like a lunar progression chart and see what jumps out, see if there are any like repeated themes or anything. But I agree with you, it can get a little complicated quickly. So I like to keep it simple. I really like to focus on the house topics that are highlighted and then maybe I’ll go down a little bit of a rabbit hole into that time lord as the transiting planet. What sort of aspects are we looking at? (Khasanti: Yeah) And where’s that planet in the natal chart? And just kind of like keep it contained a little bit.

(26:12) Khasanti: Mm-hmm. Yeah, another thing that I learned, I was doing a little bit of a refresher on this in preparation for this recording. And I even though I probably kind of knew this in the back of my mind, one of the things that I thought was interesting that I that I kind of relearned was this technique also kind of like…it kind of brings to light the relationship between the perfected house and the house where the Time Lord sits natally. So those two things always have a connection in your natal chart anyway, because, you know, the one planet rules that particular sign of house. (Randee: Right, right) But the kind of relationship between those two house topics also kind of gets a little bit of extra attention during a particular year. So, you know, as we’ve alluded, the reason that we’re talking about this today is because I on my birthday just went into a seventh house year, which is Taurus for me. It’s ruled by Venus. Venus is in my ninth house, so it’s got me kind of thinking about like, well, what is the relationship between my seventh and my ninth houses? So you know, just as a refresher, the seventh house, you already mentioned this, I think, today, Randee. The seventh house is it’s to do with on the biggest level, it’s to do with other people as opposed to the – it’s like the self’s relationship to other people, but more specifically it tends to speak to our kind of closest one on one relationships, whether that be romantic, sexual, kind of BFF relationships or client relationships, that kind of thing. And then the ninth house has to do with religion, spirituality, kind of big picture ideas about like you know, the meaning of life, it can speak to politics, it can speak to higher education, can speak to like long distance travel where you’re kind of broadening your horizons through physically going away from what’s familiar to you. So, and it’s not the first time I’ve thought about that in relation to my chart, but you know, it does, I feel like one of the most obvious things it speaks to for me is the fact that like most of the meaningful romantic relationships in my life have in some way been connected to my spiritual life. Like, you know, I’ve either sort of met them through like Buddhist circles or you know, or at least had some kind the there has to be like a spiritual dimension to them, otherwise it just doesn’t kinda doesn’t really work for me. (Randee: Mmm hmm) and so yeah, I’m interested to see what that’s gonna yeah, what that’s gonna look like for me in this coming year. Whether like you’ve mentioned whether it’s gonna be like you know stuff is just gonna be going on for my husband and I’m gonna be kind of, you know, just engaging with that or whether there’s gonna be yeah, just kinda something something cooking that’s like, you know, some new spiritual thing that we get into together or maybe we kinda take a big trip together somewhere or we I don’t know. It’s gonna be something like that. But you know, I’ll report back at the at the end of the year as to what it is. But anyway.

(30:19) Randee: That’s such a good reminder about how the house topics can be connected in that way. (Khasanti: Yeah, yeah) That’s a really good reminder. I now want to go back and retrace some of my historical analysis and think about that more. But that’s really, really interesting. And actually, that kind of makes sense because in my tracing back, so in preparation for this recording, tracing back different profection years, I noticed some patterns and the topics wouldn’t necessarily be extremely on the nose, but maybe they are if I consider the connected houses. (Khasanti: Yeah) So yeah. Yeah. I don’t know if you can hear that thunder. (Khasanti: I can) That was a really loud one. Jupiter has some words for us tonight.

(31:20) Khasanti: Totally, totally. So so what what year are you in currently and who is your time lord?

(31:30) Randee: Ah, OK (sigh) (Khasanti: Oh OK big sigh) Yes. I’ll give you one guess.

(31:36) Khasanti: Is it our old pal Saturn?

(31:39) Randee: Well, close. He’s he’s involved in the story. (Khasanti laughter) I am currently in a twelfth house year. So not the easiest, peasiest of years we could probably surmise. And natally I have Saturn in the twelfth. (Khasanti: Right) So he’s part of this conversation for sure. But my twelfth house is ruled by Mercury because it’s I have Virgo in the twelfth house. So maybe I’ll just go off a little bit (Khasanti: Go off) on my thoughts on that. Okay. So when looking at this, right, we’re thinking about we’re thinking about the twelfth house, we’re thinking about Virgo, we’re thinking about Mercury, and we’re also considering Saturn. (Khasanti: Yeah) So when we think about Mercury, you know, and I’ve been reflecting on this because I’m about halfway through this twelfth house profection year, you know, concepts of the mind, transmission of ideas, writing, divining, all of those things are on on the table. And Mercury in my natal chart is in the fifth house, right? So we have this connection here. And one really awesome creative project of self expression that occurred this year is this podcast. (Khasanti: Right!) Right? So I thought that was a really interesting kind of manifestation of that. And also, you know, thinking about Mercury as my time lord of the year, I really have been tuned into Mercury transits this year so far. They’ve not been easy. I’ve had to have some difficult conversations. I think I referenced this in probably like our third or fourth episode. (Khasanti: Yeah, Mm-hmm) And so Mercury transits have been pronounced for me this year. Now let’s talk about the twelfth house, right? The twelfth house topics and the fact that I have Saturn there natally. So here we’re talking about topics of limits, endurance, the shadow, hidden struggles. I work in hospice. This year so far has been extremely intense in my work. So working with those that are in the dying process, that are ill in some way. And I’ve a few times this year so far have just felt mentally that I am in such a pressure cooker and that sometimes my head is just gonna pop off. Like (Khasanti: Wow) “this feels too hard” I have found myself saying on a few occasions. So I offer all of that sort of smattering of ideas to kind of illustrate, you know, the thinking that I’ve been doing about this twelfth house year for me. And, you know, if I had to kind of boil it down, I would say that the two major themes have been introspection and shadow work. You know, a lot of thinking, Mercury, about purpose and obligation, Saturn, related to my work, which is with those that are dying, and shadow work, just looking at psychological patterns, boundaries. There’s more I could say on this because as I was doing a retrospective, I’m about to enter (when my birthday rolls around) I will be entering a first house perfection year. And so interestingly, when I went back and looked at historically my first house years, they have almost all aligned with taking a new job. (Khasanti: Ohhh) So, okay, we wouldn’t naturally think of first house having to do with a career change, but it is personal. I do have other natal placements that might sort of link that together. But I was kind of thinking about it as I’m just coming off of a twelfth house profection year where I might be releasing something. (Khasanti: Oh yeah) Entering a first house year where I’m starting something new. And so, and it’s so interesting because as I’ve mentioned, I am thinking about making a sort of career pivot once again. (Khasanti: Mm-hmm) I’m not ready to just yet, but I have a feeling that by next year I will be. And so here we go once again, sort of analyzing what is my personal truth, what do I want to release? All of those things feel very twelfth house to me. (Khasanti: Yeah) And and so yeah, I just I was kind of excited to discover that in doing this retrospective work and and this could be a great homework assignment for our listeners. Find a profection chart online, trace it back, and think through any major changes that you’ve had in your life and just see what what aligns and it’s really quite profound.

(37:22) Khasanti: Yeah. I 100% encourage everybody to do that if it feels like something that feels fun to you. I well, before I get into that, I just wanna kind of respond to your twelfth house stuff. I feel like that feels very very on the nose, very hashtag astrology good. (Randee: Right (laughter)) Like well well done. You’re you’re kind of living out your astrology very well. And yeah, I think I mean the twelfth house is the place where Saturn rejoices, so it’s like you you know, you do have that natal placement and yet you know, I think it’s so valid to just you know, however much we both are like massive Saturn fans, it’s okay at some point to be like, you know, I might I might have just had enough of just spending every day kind of interfacing with some of the heaviest topics and people in the kind of heaviest moments of their lives and I just feel that. I feel yeah, when you’re saying like, you know, this just feels like too much, I’m like, wow, that’s that’s that’s definitely something to listen to if you find yourself saying it over and over again. It’s like you know, you don’t you’re not, it’s like there’s a kind of a chapter for everything, right? And maybe you’ve, maybe you’ve kind of given of your full self for like a full chapter of doing this twelfth house work.

(39:26) Randee: Mmm. Mmm hmm. I really appreciate you reflecting that back. The twelfth house, I think for me is, I mean, I guess for everybody, is just such a repository of things, patterns that I have a real hard time breaking. And I think this has always been a struggle for me to some degree of this feeling of obligation to do certain things at odds with a sense of sort of free spirited self creative self-expression. Again, we’ve got that twelve-fifth connection. (Khasanti: Mmm hmm, mmm hmm) So yeah, boy, you’re good at this. That that that was like a little that was like really good for me to just hear back. (Khasanti: Yeah) You know, the twelfth house, it’s stuff we can’t see. It’s so shadowy and we need somebody to reflect back to us our twelfth house material again and again and again and again. And like maybe we’ll get it at some point. But if we don’t, that’s okay, ’cause like it lives in a shadow place and it likes to live there.

(40:44) Khasanti: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So yeah, I’m excited for you. I feel like you know, the twelfth house moving from a twelfth house year into a first house year it feels like it an even bigger transition than just between other houses ’cause it’s like you’ve done that whole circuit of the chart and now you’re kind of embarking on another twelve year period. (Randee: Yeah) And you know, it fe it does feel a little bit like a kind of rebirth somehow. (Randee: Yes) Of like, you know, with the twelfth house is the underworld and the first house is kind of the the light of day, it’s like it feel feels pretty appropriate that you would be heading towards a bit of a a kind of rebirth of your self concept.

(41:39) Randee: Yeah. And if if I was doing my own chart for someone else, I would also be noticing that I am also in a new moon progressed lunation phase. (Khasanti: Oh, yes!) Okay, here we are once again. We’re in the dark, right? (Khasanti: Yeah) We don’t exactly have a perfect vision, but we know something new is bubbling. (Khasanti: Yeah, yeah) And we’re we’re taking a step forward. So I like how that kinda illustrates how we can use different techniques that might highlight something similar and that’s like, ooh, yes, bingo, we’re on something here.

(42:20) Khasanti: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

(42:24) Randee: But anyway, thank you for that validation.

(42:28) Khasanti: Of course, yeah. I’m always available to validate that it’s okay to not do life on hard mode every single day, (Randee: Ugh, ugh) which anybody with Saturn placements needs to have kind of tattooed on their forehead probably. Well, and I guess we all have Saturn placements, but anyone with like sort of particularly prominent Saturn placements, like it is it’s yeah, it’s it’s a whole thing. Yeah.

(42:56) Randee: It’s a whole thing. So tell me tell me about you though. You are just entering into a new year of a new Time Lord.

(43:07) Khasanti: I am. I am. I’m like perched on the precipice. I’ve got my little feet dangling in the in the the lovely warm waters of a Venus ruled year. And yeah, and I just did like I had a blast this morning like doing a deep dive on my own like past, it was supposed to just be a deep dive on past seventh house years. It ended up being like me kind of filling this whole like going through my I’ve already talked, I think, in previous episodes about my amazing spreadsheet timeline of my life. (Randee: Oh, yes) Yeah. So I got to hang out with that again today, which is always a pleasure. And just kind of cherry pick some some kind of, in fact I didn’t really do it like I could have done it through the lens of like, I’m just gonna pick things which feel like they fit with whatever profection year they’re gonna be put into. But instead of doing that, I just kind of I didn’t really have that hat on. I just kinda like threw everything in their places and then I thought, well, after I’ve done that, I’ll kinda go back and look at each year and just kinda see if I can thread a needle through any of the topics. Some of them were really fascinating, actually and yeah, I guess I will for the purposes of time I will just talk a little bit about what I found about past seventh house years. So the ages that one is in a seventh house year are age six, age eighteen, age thirty, age forty two, and then, you know, I guess I’m giving away my age I just turned fifty four, so so I have four past eighth house sorry, seventh house years to look at and kind of try and get a flavor of what might be in store for me. Some of them I felt were more on the nose. Others of them I think require a little bit more digging to try and kind of make them make sense. But I think combining the I did a I did go a little bit down the road of like pulling a solar return chart for each of these years and trying to kind of see. And for folks who don’t know what a solar return chart is, it’s you basically just cast a chart for the moment that the sun returns to the exact degree and minute that it was at when you were born. And then that gives you kind of like a cool divinatory map for like what the next year of your life is potentially gonna hold. So so yeah, I found that when I was six I was a fairy in our school nativity play. This is this is the kind of stuff that you find in my amazing spreadsheet timeline. (Both laughter) So, you know, I mean, maybe a lot of people are a fairy in their school play when they’re six, but I just thought that was kind of a cute little you know, not very deep, but still kind of cute Venusian kind of kind of thing to be, just a cute little fairy. I also learned to swim while we were my family was vacationing in one of the little islands off of Spain, which is a pretty common place for Brits to go take their summer holidays. So I thought that was kind of cool that without getting like too overcomplicated in the solar return chart, Venus was in Cancer. Venus is natally in Cancer for me. I thought learning to swim was kind of a nice a nice little kind of metaphor for the sign of cancer and that it happened while we were overseas, felt kind of a nice little ninth house connection there. (Randee: Oh, very nice) So that was age six, nothing, you know, probably a little bit too young to be having crushes on people at that age. I don’t know, maybe not. I but anyway, nothing is noted in the magical timeline spreadsheet about any any six year old crushes. Now eighteen, this was a little bit more of a difficult year for me. So in the solar return chart, Venus was in Taurus in the first house. and various other things were going on that were a bit more challenging in that chart. And yeah, this one took a little bit more kind of thinking for me. The like the two main things that were going on for me was I was in my first year at university. I was kind of on one hand glad to be branching out from you know, my family childhood home. But on another hand, I was just just kind of a little bit lost and a little bit depressed and a little bit just kind of you know, it’s it’s pretty shock I found it pretty shocking to like have to suddenly start from scratch with like new friends and like meeting people and figuring out who my people were and just sort of dealing with all of that. And I was in a relationship at the time, so I you know, I was curious about what seventh house stuff was going on. I was with like my first boyfriend, like my first like serious boyfriend. And it was, you know, it was not a great relationship. wasn’t really very functional, I guess, and the cracks were really starting to show during this year. And I guess another thing that I noticed, which is kind of cool, like so Jupiter also has a twelve year cycle, right? So Jupiter returns to the same sign every twelve years, so I mean, I suppose it makes sense, but I haven’t quite like grokked it for myself that like every time I’m in a seventh house year, Jupiter is in cancer, which is my ninth house. So it’s like…

(50:20) Randee: Brilliant.

(50:21) Khasanti: Yeah. So so I feel like if I had to analyze this year it would be like subjectively unpleasant but but kind of like this boyfriend was someone who I did not have I mean I didn’t really have much of a spiritual life of my own at that point, but like I feel like the universe was…I needed to break up with this guy, right? He was a he was no good for me. Terrible for my self-esteem, terrible for like all all kinds of things. And so even though it kind of sucked, I think Jupiter in my ninth house was kind of like helping me on some level just kind of see the reality of what wasn’t working, and that eventually led to me breaking up with him and kind of moving on to better things. You know, and I think pretty much everyone that came after him was someone who I was at least able to have conversations with about like the meaning of life and whatnot. So so yeah let’s see. I’m gonna have to speed up here a little bit looking at the clock. Time always goes too fast. So age thirty. Oh, this was a good one. Yeah, this was a good one. So I actually did the Artist’s Way (Randee: Ohhh, amazing) in this year. Which is like so peak Venus as a time lord. (Both laughter, Randee: Yes, yes!) And in this solar return chart, Venus is in Cancer, in the fifth house of creativity, like precisely conjunct Jupiter. So like just a very auspicious kind of benefic looking year for me in the realm of creativity and art and so forth. So I bought myself an electric guitar. I decided I was gonna like, you know, be a rock star and like started writing all of this stream of consciousness stuff and like writing songs, sang karaoke for the first time in my life in a little gay bar in Brighton in the UK (Randee: Ah, that’s amazing) and like I’m like, you know, I was just like, I mean I still am totally obsessed with Patty Smith, but I was like, this is I just I need to like sort of channel my inner Patty Smith and like figure out how to, you know. It didn’t you know, spoiler alert, I did not become a rock star, but I feel like it was it was a very creative time for me and it’s it’s definitely kind of informed who I’ve turned into even though it didn’t sort of go in that in that kind of precise direction. So yeah, I think you know, there’s not so for forty two, honestly, there’s not like so much stuff. That was another slightly heavy year that I have to kind of unpack a little bit more in terms of like how how that really fits with Venus in the seventh house. But yeah, so here I am, fifty four, excited to just see what Venus I feel like there’s, I do have a just a sense of like, I mean, I know Venus is benefic her own right, but like my Venus is has some decent dignity in my chart and the fact that I’ve discovered that Jupiter is like always in Cancer when I’m in a Venus in Taurus year, it’s kind of like, I just feel quite hopeful.

(54:30) Randee: Is there anything specific that is sort of on your, on your intuitive radar?

(54:37) Khasanti: You know, mainly I’m just kind of looking at how to how to just, I may have said this in prior episodes, but how to just like lean into more deliciousness in my life. Like, you know, I’m still gonna be pretty busy, like I’m still gonna be doing the affordable reading clinic, I’m gonna be doing the tutoring stuff with Nightlight, like objectively, the demands aren’t kind of going anywhere, but I’m kind of I’m looking to sort of transform my lens from a kind of more like Marsy in the trenches, I’m tired, but I’m pushing through kind of vibe, and more into just like, how can we just like fully squeeze the most delicious juice out of this time.

(55:41) Randee: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. When you were referencing the visual of sitting on a cliff with your feet dangling in the nice warm Venusian water coming off of a Mars year, I was imagining your wings being on fire. (Khasanti: Oh! (laughter)) Like you know, the tail is still on fire. (Khasanti: Yeah) But there’s there’s the cooling waters ahead.

(56:06) Khasanti: Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. And just to tie it real quickly back into my beverage, ’cause Yeah (Randee: Oh, gosh, wow! (laughter)) We love to (Randee: That’s amazing) we love to kind of close a parenthesis. So one of the things that that coincided with the start of my Venus year is we just bought a new mattress for the first time. Like our old mattress we discovered was like twenty five years old, I think.

(56:35) Randee: Two full cycles old. (Both laughter)

(56:39) Khasanti: Yeah Exactly. Exactly. So we you know, we’re now like incredibly bougie people with a Tempurpedic mattress…so fucking comfortable. (Randee laughter) Like I cannot even express to you how much it feels like just melting into a delicious buttery cloud of like love and enfoldment. And so I’m just (Randee: Wow) I’m so excited about just having really good sleeps in my Venus year (Randee: Oh my gosh) and maybe just spending more time in bed.

(57:21) Randee: That’s it. In a nutshell. I mean, we don’t even need to unpack it any further than that, right? (Khasanti: Yeah, yeah) You’re gonna be more comfortable this year and more well slept than you have been in twelve years. So good for you. (laughter)

(57:35) Khasanti: Yeah, I truly am. And so that was what my chamomile tea was a nod to. It was just kind of like, you know, I’m just yeah, just leaning into that delicious, sleepy, let’s go to bed and get cozy vibe.

(57:51) Randee: That is so wonderful. And I love how you really kind of further understood your annual profection years as you traced it back by bringing in the solar return chart. (Khasanti: Mmm hmm) That’s really cool. I like how you did that. And that’s a great illustration of bringing together two timing techniques to really articulate something more fully.

(58:24) Khasanti: Yeah, thank you. And it’s not actually something I’ve done very much. I know it’s a thing that people do, but this was kind of like this was quite illuminating for me, in terms of like realizing how I can bring that in more for client work. So that was pretty cool. (Randee: Mm-hmm. Yeah) So…

(58:45) Randee: Amazing. Amazing. I know we gosh, I feel like we just got started. (Khasanti: I know) I will say in parting words on my end, one thing I did note, I know I didn’t really get into like my seventh house revelations, but one thing just to share with our beloved listeners is, you know, the angles, like the houses on the angles, those could be years that really stand out. (Khasanti: Right) I know when I did my retrospective, they really stood out to me. (Khasanti: Yeah) And so that’s just something I might offer as a starting point if you didn’t want to go back through every single year, you could just trace the angles and see what’s happening on those years.

(59:37) Khasanti: That is yeah, that’s really a really cool reflection, I think. So first house, fourth house, seventh house, tenth house years. (Randee: Mm-hmm) Go take a peek. (Randee: Take a peak, yeah) See what’s up. (Randee: Mm-hmm) So yeah. Well this has as always been incredibly fun. Not long enough, but you know, it keeps us wanting more and wanting to come back next month (Randee: Yes) and talk to you all again. Hopefully it keeps you all wanting more too. As always, we have loved hanging out with you at the Dark Moon Cafe and we hope you enjoyed your time with us. It would mean so much to us if you would subscribe to the pod in your podcatcher of choice and leave us a stellar review. You can always book a session with one or other of us if you’d like to talk more about your own annual profections. And we also adore hearing your thoughts, and you can now write to us directly at [email protected]. Let us know what you like, what you’d like more of, any questions you have or topics you’d like us to cover. And we, as always, are wishing you the very best for the coming month, and we look forward to seeing you again next Dark Moon.