February 2020

A matrix in and of itself is not a bad thing. The key to determining what kind of matrix you are connected to comes from your witness self. And the strength of that aptitude is accessed most easily through meditation.

Dr. Toni Galardi

The danger of breaking with the culture’s matrix and relying solely on the Divine Matrix (sometimes referred to as the 8th dimension of reality) for truth is that you begin to see the little man behind the curtain in so many places. We are in very interesting times… Not everyone is going to make it. In the past few days since Mercury officially began to plummet the depths of the collective unconscious, two people I knew peripherally committed suicide. People take that route when they feel isolated or misunderstood coupled with imbalanced neurotransmitters.

Being connected to people who value your independent thinking makes such a difference in these times when there is such a ferocious divide in America. The movie The Matrix has been on my mind lately so I decided to check out Keanu Reeves’ chart. Oh, my goodness. He was born to play this role of Neo – Sun conjunct Uranus ( the rebel), Pluto ( destroyer of false ego) and Mercury ( communication) on his ascendant ( all in Virgo, the sign of service). Pisces, ruler of dreams is on his partnership cusp.

“Morpheus: [to Neo] Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?”

Many years ago I knew a child who was so advanced that at 3 he said to me, “this world out here is the real dream.”

Another quote I love from the Matrix:

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

May 2021, the fourth Matrix film will be released. Clearly, people are waking up or there would have been no sequel at all.

Geologist Gregg Braden and Elon Musk ( Tesla’s mogul) both have agreed that we are living in a simulated reality right now. I believe that the key to unhooking from this made up illusion can only come from connecting to a parallel universe where quantum reality is not fixed, as time is not linear. It is essential that we lean back from this simulated reality into what Gregg Braden named The Divine Matrix.

Although it has always been important to me when I am coaching a client to track their dreamtime so I can see what is going on unconsciously, now more than ever, it can tell me just how enmeshed one is in the simulated matrix so I can assist my clients in accessing a higher frequency. The “red pill” from the movie is your connection to your soul, where your beautiful red heart leads the brain.

I invite you at the end of every day to do an energetic shower and cleanse other people, the media, social and otherwise and other influences as well from your field. Further, note what emotions were present through out the day by scanning the day and then consciously, release them from your energy field. Prepare yourself for the dreamtime by focusing as you drift off to sleep all that you are grateful for and immerse your mind in golden light. Record your dreams as you awaken, including the emotional tone.

It is said that the matrix controls people through fear. Pay attention to where you compare your self to others. Allow yourself to focus on where your energy goes up. What turns your soul on? When we are in touch with our soul place, there can be no space to be manipulated.

At the height of the Holocaust, Victor Frankl’s greatest message to those in the camps and later in his book Man’s Search For Meaning was that they can take everything away from you, but they can’t take your soul. Not if you don’t let them. If we stay in faith, imagination, creativity, service to the whole, and join with others, we will solve the climate crisis, no matter who is in office.

Ram Dass’ last message was: Love others and tell the truth no matter what.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1. NEW MOON at 7:21 AM PSTIf you are reading this before 11:00 AM on Monday, Feb. 24th, this is the time to set your intention under the new moon in Pisces. Take a moment and light a candle and turn within.
2. Mars Out of Bounds until March 2nd – When Mars goes out-of-bounds, He can provide greater energy to get things done; but, He may also “throw caution to the wind.” Avoid impulsive actions. During this time, one may be more prone to accidents and injuries. Mars out-of-bounds may trigger more “fiery” events in your life or the world. Know your limits. 
3. We have only a short period of one void moon work day, Tuesday morning until about 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST
4. If you must make a decision on something before March 10 when mercury stations direct, this next week is the best time. I just invite you to take it into counsel first as Mars can have us act impulsively, as so the people around us. Mars rules vehicles we are moving through life in, as well

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For the next three weeks, I am keeping my soul blueprint consults at the same price, but after 11 years of keeping my fee at $397, given the amount of analysis in advance, I am raising my price to $450 and my coaching sessions are going up $25 per session for new clients. My book is launching this summer, so my time is more limited and yet I still love the one on one and will still offer a 20 min free consult to explore if I am the right fit for you in the coaching domain.

Please contact me at the email address below. I love to hear from you.

drtoni@drtonigalardi.com

With the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Neptune in Pisces which rules compassion, wisdom, and imagination, be kind to yourself and others, listen to your gut no matter what the cost, and stay open to new ways you can contribute to humanity’s evolution.

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

When you break with the “party line” be it at work, your children’s school, or social media, you risk cultural shaming but in potentially standing alone, you bring the world forward.

Dr. Toni Galardi

Now that we have three planets in watery Pisces and three in earthy Capricorn, I thought I would talk about mud! Mercury is now officially retrograde in Pisces, the sun is about to go in on Tuesday, and the planet of illusion and dreams Neptune also in its own sign of Pisces, can make our thinking be a bit skewed and mud-dled.

Case in Point: A client came to me needing to make a decision about two different job offers. One paid more money with greater benefits, the other was a start up and much riskier. In looking at his chart as part of career coaching, I could see that he was better suited to working in an environment where his voice would count even as a new hire. I asked his permission to enter the energy field around his body. What I saw there was that he had been cyber bullied at some point in his life and it caused him to shut his intuition down.

He affirmed that classmates had made fun of him for having psychic abilities. Once we cleared that (in this case, childhood trauma), I could ask him to go into his heart and ask that question of himself. Unblocked, he was able to come to his own conclusion that the start up would be a better fit for him. The job that paid more money was the job his parents thought he should take because it was with a very established company in the Bay area, where he grew up.

Shame can get buried in our unconscious. Shame based memories that comes from doing dishonest acts are sometimes more available to our conscious mind ( stealing candy when you were 8 for example) than shame that comes from the tribe. When we choose a job, a relationship, or stand up to a prominent person in our tribe, we confront being shamed and ostracized. Further, if making that brave choice does not lead to happily ever after, well, then, we are really left with unresolved feelings about having chosen with our heart.

With Pluto, the god of the shadow and underworld in Capricorn, as I have mentioned before, our society is deconstructing. For this deconstruction to restructure into a healthy culture, we need to look long and hard at our own values. Do you know what your values are apart from what you inherited from your family and the culture you live in or grew up in? What you won’t betray no matter what?

Once in a great while, a leader comes along who is a visionary and takes on a mighty established order. Perfect? No. But neither was Gandhi or Martin Luther King. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform helped end the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. 

The predominance of water signs in his chart are indicators of a person with strong emotions. His Sun sign and Mercury are in the sign of Pisces with the Moon in Leo which by itself would have made him able to be an actor who is highly intuitive but his Libra rising gave him diplomatic skills. What allowed him to rise to the top karmically was having the planet of abundance Jupiter right at the top of the career house with the planet of assertion Mars and the planet of transformation Pluto all lined up in the sign that rules our country (the U.S.), Cancer. He had a date with destiny in dealing with his own country and ours.
He has a rare combination of shrewdness, ambition, and empathy all rolled up into one individual. This is the chart of a visionary who unfortunately, in the Soviet Union was not regarded with the respect that we here in America have given him. He is associated with the destruction of the motherland there.

The moon in Leo can endow a person with great courage and it did take courage to take down the old guard of the KGB. Where in your life are you being called to end an ancestral pattern, in order to follow your soul’s true calling? I invite you to spend these next three weeks during the Mercury retrograde and dig deep. Is there any area of your life in which you are not living in alignment with your true values?Feel free to write me and share. This is such a rich time to do our own inner work so that the cultural mores can change and with it will come new leadership in our country. Yep, it’s an inside job.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1) We are in the waning period of the moon until Feb 23rd, 7:32 AM PST. Focus on what needs completing. Engage a new moon ritual next Sunday for the new monthly cycle. The new moon is in Pisces so we will have four planets in the sign that rules intuition, vision, dreamtime, the imagination ( accessing the artist), and movies (for those who are scriptwriters).

2) The big event is the Moon Mars occultation on Tuesday. 02/18/20 – 3:38 am PST – average Moon occultation MarsThis from my astrologer colleague in Los Angeles, Jim Schultz:
“An occultation is a “super conjunction,” that is the two points are basically at the same degree of the zodiac and the same degree of declination. What might be the significance of Mars, god of war disappearing behind the Moon, symbol of the feminine? Is this a sign that women are gaining new power or of powerful men surrendering more power to women? This occultation will repeat in March. Pay attention to what unfolds within you and in the world.

With clear skies this will be visible in the Los Angeles area and should be visible throughout California and the west coast. To see it, go out a few minutes earlier and look to the east as the Moon rises just above the horizon. Look for Mars, a small red “star” near the Moon’s illuminated edge. Watch as He disappears behind She the Moon. Don’t worry, he will reappear from the dark edge about 50 minutes or so later.

This occultation occurs at 1 Capricorn. Perhaps we might gain some insight from the Sabian Symbol for this degree. “Three stained glass windows, one damaged by bombardment.” Sometimes things may be damaged intentionally or unintentionally. Don’t despair; they can be repaired, but it will take intention and commitment on your part.

Tuesday, 02/18/20 – 8:57 pm – Sun enters PiscesCan you feel the shift from fixed air love for humanity Aquarius to mutable water striving for the divine, Pisces? The coming month will be a good time to reflect on your religious and/or spiritual beliefs. 

3) The moon is void on Thursday from 9:15 AM -2:45 PM, PST. Avoid meetings involving decisions, big purchases or surgical procedures.

This is not the week to launch anything new especially Tuesday and Thursday.

My fees are going up March 15. Working with me one on one during the Mercury retro is a great time to enter the portal to your unconscious and do an early Spring cleaning.

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Pisces rules compassion and wisdom, be kind to yourself and others, and I invite you to listen to your gut no matter what the cost as we move through these muddy AND muddled times.

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

If more people were in touch with their charism, the charisma of celebrity would have little appeal.

Dr. Toni Galardi

Mercury entered the sign of Pisces, the archetype of the mystic healer. This is not a natural placement for Mercury as it likes to move very fast, even while retrograde. We are feeling the retro energy already because it not only is slowing down its usual super wifi speed due to the retrograde coming, but it is in the watery sign that rules past lives, healing, the unconscious and the dreamtime. Its calling us to experience beyond linear time into non local reality where real healing can be had.

Pay attention to your dreams for the next 6 weeks especially. You may be taken back to times in your past or even past lives (I was taken to a lifetime where I was in a Russian pogrom recently). Most importantly right now is to just slow the heck down in general or you will pay a bigger price. Case in point: I went to my desk before the caffeine of green tea had kicked in and tripped and soaked my keyboard. And thus began 5 days of computer hell in obtaining a new one and getting my email program to work.

I couldn’t of conjured up a more graphic example of Mercury in the sign of Pisces in retro if I tried. Green rules healing. I needed to become more conscientious as we enter the murkiest Mercury retro of the year. Please ignore what you read about the dates of Mercury retrograde. We are in it folks and when it goes STATIONARY on March 9th,it will be another week before it really gains speed and it will stay in the sign of the oh so watery Pisces until April 11. As I mentioned in my last newsletter, it will dip back into Aquarius on march 4th for 12 days and then on March 16th back into Pisces for 3 more weeks.

These two archetypes are the last stages of evolution in astrology – Aquarius ruling humanitarianism and transpersonal love and Pisces ruling sacrifice of one’s personal ego to make room for the God self within us to emerge.

So, I thought I would share a little about the 20th century’s most famous mystic who was not only a sun sign Pisces but his Venus conjunct Saturn and Mercury were in Pisces as well. He has been called the “sleeping prophet”. Pisces rules the dreamtime so how perfect. He is said to have given over 15,000 personal readings to people who were ill ( they would line up outside his home). For many years he never charged for his readings, keeping his day job as a photographer until it became unmanageable.

Cayce’s moon was in Taurus. Taurus rules the throat in medical astrology. As a child of 10, he declared that he wanted to tell people about God and heal them. At 23, his father insisted he go into the insurance business with him. Within three months, Cayce became ill with laryngitis which progressed a month later to not being able to talk at all.

When we don’t give ourselves permission (and defy the tribe sometimes) to follow our soul purpose, the body does it for us. He became a photographer ( Pisces rules photography) until a stage hypnotist came to town insisting he could cure him, and, he could speak, but only while in trance.This healing on the wounded healer would serve to become his calling. Healing people under trance. A devout Christian, he experienced great angst reading the notes his secretary transcribed, at some of what came through him after coming back from trance. For example, he spoke of Jesus having had many past lives in Atlantis and as Melchizadek, the priest that blessed Abraham.

He urged people to pay attention to their dreams and that they could find their own answers through remembering their dreams.

He also is said to have predicted the crash of ’29 and war that would involve the whole world. Cayce died of a stroke at the age of 67, even predicting his own death was imminent 4 days before.

There are some really fundamental lessons to be learned from Edgar Cayce. There is a cost to blocking our soul’s highest destiny and the body will show it until we express our gift, but his charism ( the talent or gift that comes from God to serve others) would eventually take its toll on his health. The shadow side of Pisces is having no boundaries, being completely self sacrificial to the point of overusing the body.

My own chart is very Piscean. Every time I have sacrificed myself for a client or friend to the point of exhaustion, I pay a big price. On the day of my computer disaster, I was extremely exhausted. In spite of having no computer, I took the day off after delivering my computer to ” Mac ICU “.

So, the cautionary tale of this murky Mercury in Pisces is to use it to access your inner mystic. Pay attention to what is calling you in both your day reality and your night life.

Discover your true charism and use it to benefit both you and others.

Be clear with your boundaries and your value in both your professional identity and your relationships. This whole year we have three planets in Capricorn, the sign that rules knowing your limits.

If things are slow to come to fruition the next two months, spend more time in activities that support a calm nervous system – meditation, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, and naps. Speaking of Pisces, a very good friend of mine in Los Angeles, John Vosler ( A joyous Pisces) teaches yoga nidra internationally and will be at Esalen Institute in March and Bali in June. His work is magical. For more information: https://johnvosler.com/classes

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1. We are now in the waning period of the moon until Feb 21st. Focus on what needs completing.
2. Mercury usually moves 2 degrees per day through a sign, averaging 14 degrees in a week. Although it doesn’t technically go into retrograde until next Sunday, it will move 3 degrees in the next 7 days before it stops and then begins its back stroke.
3. The moon is void on Tuesday from 10:30 AM -3:45 PM. Avoid meetings involving decisions, big purchases or surgical procedures.
4. This bears repeating, move in flow. Pretend you’re Esther Williams. ( look that one up!)

With great love and affection,

Dr Toni

We are all gods, and therefore given the right set of circumstances, can fall from the pantheon into our humanity.

Dr. Toni Galardi

In ancient times, the gods and goddesses were endowed with human shadow qualities besides having their superhuman traits, depending on what they were ruling. The goddess Aphrodite ( and her Roman counterpart Venus) is the goddess of love but she could also be a rather jealous minx as was Juno, the goddess of marriage. Zeus, ( aka Jupiter) was the king of the gods but he could be quite the bad boy.

In today’s world, the gods and goddesses we tend to worship are celebrities and celebrity athletes. Sometimes, we imbue them with such god like qualities that we forget they are human and capable of making human errors. They can forget they are human too because people will cater to their every desire. One of my favorite stories from Greek mythology is the story of Daedelus and Icarus. Daedelus created wings for Icarus to fly and escape from King Minos. Daedelus warned Icarus not to fly to close to the sun. Icarus ignored the warning, and as you know, the wings melted and he fell to earth.

This story is a rich Jungian and astrological metaphor. The sun in astrology is our ego personality self and rules the sign of Leo. When our personality self does not lean back and listen to the wise counsel of the higher self, disaster can occur.

Many astrologers have written on the shadow side of Kobe Bryant (his sex addiction) but I’m not going to address that today. Inside every tragedy that involves one of our gods or goddesses is a lesson or cautionary tale for us all to learn from, just as mythology was in ancient times.

The facts as we know them follows and then I will share the astrological transits that were in place that day:

According to the NY Times:The crash highlights two of the biggest issue causes of chopper accidents: low-altitude operations and pilot disorientation about nearby structures or terrain in low visibility.”

• The Sikorsky S-76B helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, Gianna and the seven others did not possess a recommended safety device, according to AP.
• There was no black box in the helicopter. Having one was not a requirement. 
• The helicopter carrying Bryant and eight others had been given special permission to fly despite foggy conditions, according to a report from the New York Times. Due to the inclement weather, the chopper was flying quite low, according to CNN, who reported, “At one point, an air traffic controller informed the pilot, “You’re still too low for flight following at this time,” meaning the chopper wasn’t flying high enough to register on radar.

1. On the morning of the crash, the moon was void of its course which can impair judgement when either driving or flying. If I have to fly under a void moon, I surround the entire plane with light before take off. One time I was flying back from California and the moon was void at the layover in Charlotte. The entire crew showed up late for the flight!
2. A transit was present in Kobe’s chart that would have tempted him to overextend his energy or overestimate on a decision, Jupiter squaring this Mars.
3. The lightning bolt planet Uranus was hitting the foundation point in the chart ( also considered the house of endings in astrology). It usually portends a sudden move from one’s current home.
4. Saturn placed in the natal chart in the house of death can portend a painful death and/or debts incurred from others, like lawsuits.

Something that stood out for me about his natal chart that may have come into play that morning is that Kobe was a person who liked to be in service ( sun saturn conjunction in Virgo) and make the people in his life happy, Mars and Venus conjunct in Libra the pleaser. If the pilot reported that conditions were foggy, the transits in place for Kobe might have inspired him to not want to disappoint his daughter and his friends who had all been invited to fly on the plane with him. When Jupiter transits in hard aspects, it makes us act impulsively and we play out the hubris of Jupiter, thinking we are God instead of a god, with our yet so fragile wax wings.

The lesson that can be extracted from this horrible tragedy is that when you are responsible for leading a group of people no matter how much money or effort has gone into the plan, if you are given information that weather conditions for example are not good, do not be tempted to use your influence to pull strings and bend the will of the gods. I do not know if he asked the pilot to use his influence “to get special permission” as the NY Times reported. I can only guess based on his transits.

Last week I was a guest on The Healing Matrix with Dr Sue Morter in Boulder on the Gaia network and while I was there on the set, the associate producer and I were trading stories on our 9/11 premonitions and she shared with me an interesting statistic: that on average in every major airline accident, 20% of the people scheduled to fly, cancel at the last minute. There were many stories reported after 9/11 of people not getting on United 93 because something didn’t feel right. I knew my flight was safe because the planes were booked solid coming and going!

Shortly after returning from my trip to do the show, I was scheduled for an appointment on a void moon day and the roads were a bit slick due to snow flurries. I also was very tired and feeling off but torn about cancelling at the last minute for this meeting and disappointing this person. When I checked in with my gut, I got a no. Do not get in your car. If you find yourself in doubt about a decision pending, no matter how many people it might mean disappointing, listen to your inner Sophia, the goddess of wisdom. She never fails to deliver.

If accessing your intuition is still challenging for you, come work with me one on one and we will unleash your fullest potential self through utilizing simple yet effective tools. Because I only keep a part time coaching practice, I am very discerning on who I work best with with and therefore, give a 30 min complimentary call to see if we are the right fit for one another. I want to make sure you get to the right person as well.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1. We are still in the new moon energy until February 7th when the full moon begins the waning phase for the following two weeks. There are also no retrograde planets until Mercury around that same time starts moving backward, so this is a great time to launch new projects. however…
2. Mercury has entered its shadow today. The shadow zone is defined by the span between where a planet goes retrograde, and where it goes direct after the retrograde period. In this case, Mercury goes retrograde at 13 Pisces on February 16. It will retrograde back to 29 Aquarius, where it goes stationary direct on March 9.That puts the shadow zone between 29 Aquarius and 13 Pisces, and around 10 pm PST February 1st, it crossed into the degree where it’ll go direct in mid-March. If you dont launch a project this week, prepare for delays until mid March.
3. On Wednesday February 5th, the moon will be void from 6:20 AM PST – 11:20 AM. If you live in the east, schedule important meetings in the afternoon after 2:20 PM EST
4. Start your weekend on Friday, February 7th as the moon will be void from 7:43 AM – 2:45 PM PST and if you can’t take the weekend off, stick to fun things. The moon is void in Leo and full. Dance, create, play!

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni