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Solar Eclipse in Leo and A Week of Great Acceleration
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The Summer of Great Change – August Eclipse
In all of my 27 years as an astrologer, I can honestly say I have never seen such a line up of intense light pouring onto the planet as the last 6 weeks, and next week it ratchets up even further. The frequency shift is reconstructing us all, if we let it.
The week leading up to the last solar eclipse of the year on August 11 is a doozy! I know I sound repetitive from what we experienced leading up to the lunar eclipse but it is that kind of summer, folks.
Before I get into next week’s “excitement”, I want to invite you to a free event I am co-leading with Daniela Carraro to celebrate the solar eclipse and the ushering in of the next six month cycle. Details are below but please email me at drtoni@drtonigalardi.com if you want to be a part of this event. Space is limited to 100 people.
Uranus (the great awakener and planet that triggers earthquakes and lightning bolts) will station retrograde on August 7 until January 6th, 2019, the very same day as the next solar eclipse in Capricorn. On Tuesday, this will give us six planets retrograde on the same day that the moon is void (stay grounded), including Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
Having six planets retrograde is a very rare occurrence, happening only less than 1% of the time, that’s 2/3 of one percent. Mars is not only retrograde but also out-of-bounds for three days (allowing for the energy to be unconstrained by other planets), adding to the intensity of the chaotic collective energy we are all creating. As the god of war, Mars energy stimulates extremism at this time, creating an atmosphere ripe for accidents and outbursts of focused anger.
A shooting in Trader Joe’s, earthquakes, and political volatility escalating, all exemplified this in recent weeks. The dominant planetary energy will be fixed, very Taurus in nature. Taurus’ hate change. Wherever the planet Taurus is or rules in your natal chart may be where you resist change and seek external security the most. These six planets retrograde bring a feeling of being stuck, or mired down as forward progress seems difficult at best, due to unexpected delays and roadblocks. If I were the universe and I wanted humans to take a break from DOING so much and focus on BEING, I would have planned it this way. Spend as much time as you can for the next 10 days, releasing the past and all your old stories about yourself. Emotional and mental detoxing is the doing to be doing.
Further, it is always important to be uber aware when either Mercury or Mars are retrograde, but because we have four days that the moon is void next week (which by itself can make people spacy, feisty, and unaware as they drive the freeways, and apparently… do their food shopping!), please move more slowly, meditate daily if you can, drink lots of water laced with trace minerals, chant Om to yourself all day long and commune with nature. Get your cute little dew beaters (look that one up!) into Mother Earth as much as possible.
What also to do: I would invite you to make a point on Aug 3, 7th, 9th, and 11th( the spaciest days) to visualize extending your auric field out by 3-6 ft in a bubble of light safe and loved by all whom you come into contact with while projecting that to others as well as you move through your life while your root chachra is connected downward toward Gaia.
Although the new moon solar eclipse is on August 11 at 2:57AM PDT, it immediately goes void until 9:30 PM PDT, that night. What we know about the energy of intentions is that because the moon rules our emotional body, we won’t feel the crystallization of the intention until it reaches the sign of Virgo. When the moon is void, there isn’t the fire of connectivity that happens when it aspects another planet.
So, once again, to support all of you, I am co-leading a 90 – minute invocation and workshop on Sunday morning, August 12th with Daniela Carraro, a gifted healer and Qi Gong master teacher. This is my gift to you. Space is limited so sign up and we will send the link for this online event: drtoni@drtonigalardi.com
I will cover what the energy of this summer is bringing and how to use it in the Fall, the significance of these three eclipses that we wont see again for 2 hundred years, and how to receive the archetypes of Cancer, Leo, and Aquarius through these three eclipses as they are imprinted in your very own matrix. We both will be taking you through very powerful visualizations to bring this new energy deep into your cells. When you sign up, you will have an opportunity to send us your intention for the next six months that will be weaved into our sacred energetic basket that you begin to step into when you sign up.
As this is a solar eclipse in Leo, the archetype that rules play, come play with us in this powerful circle where desires and rewiring can be manifested quickly in the next six months! Contact me asap through drtoni@drtonigalardi.com for the link. This will fill up.
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Molto Amore,
Dr. Toni
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Neptune Retrograde – Making Your Dreams Come True or Deception?
What a powerful time it is! When Mars goes retro next week, we will have 5 planets retro as we move toward these three eclipses in July and August. Not surprising that there was a major earthquake in Osaka, Japan. We are three weeks away from the first eclipse at 21 degrees of Cancer. Eclipses bring the death of people in the limelight often six weeks before or after (Mother Teresa, Princess Di, John Kennedy Jr). In ancient times, they called it “the fall of the king”.
Anthony Bourdain was born in the early degrees of Cancer and Kate Spade in the polar opposite sign of Capricorn also in early degrees. Both had the planet Uranus coming into orb with their sun. Uranus can make us do impulsive things as well as trigger earthquakes.
Today I want to talk about my favorite planet: Neptune. Now, from a Western World point of view, Neptune is not as highly valued as say, Jupiter or Uranus is because it rules that which is unseen and works us on the subtle body level. Neptune rules the dreamtime, mysticism, meditation, retreats, monasteries, fog, intuition, and imagination. It also rules the collective unconscious.
As neuroscience is showing us how profound an impact that meditation has on the brain, in time we will see how important it is to look at Neptune in your chart. It will show you where you can be fooled or deceive yourself and it will also show the road for you specifically that will assist in reaching your most enlightened state.
One of the ways to contact Neptune and feel its powers is through the dreamtime. As a Jungian trained psychotherapist, I have personally and professionally experienced the power of recording and interpreting one’s dreams. One of my clients received information in a dream to pull her money out of the stock market, one week before the 2008 crash. Another saw the trade towers being bombed the night before 9/11. I have been told to take certain supplements that my body needed. I was given a message in my dreams the night before the Northridge earthquake. Artists and inventors get many inspirations through the dreamtime.
I have also gotten creative ideas in my dreams. However, dream recall is not easy for most busy people and one has to really apply effort through keeping a blank pad by your bed or your cell phone turned off but ready to be used to record the download upon awakening. Meditating before bed also helps. If you have a dilemma or problem you want your intuition to help you with, write it down and put it near your bed before sleeping at night.
When planets go retrograde, the impact of that planet’s function in our world intensifies. If you work with your dreams over the next four months and keep up a steady meditation practice, your brain can reformat into greater serenity and bring you greater creative juice. As the next few months are pulling us inward ( if we listen), it is a great time to do focused coaching.
In closing, here are two gifts: I am sharing here in my newsletter, the link to the radio interview I did recently in Hollywood and to continue to offer to the end of this month a 25% discount on my astrology readings.
From my heart to yours,
Dr. Toni
Planet of Radical Changes Moves into the Money Sign for 7 Years
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What to Do During Saturn Retrograde
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The Best Time to Make a Career Change
Career Changes When You’re in Transition
As a career coach and futurist, people often come to me when they are confused about what kind of career move they should make and when to make it. They often want a simple, quick, one size fits all answer. As the saying goes, “Hope springs eternal”. A pragmatist would always suggest you to not leave a job until you have another one lined up. An idealist would say, trust and leap. It will get you out of your rut. An optimist might say, write your resume and let it inspire you to draw from your experience to make your next career move.
Although I was a psychotherapist for several years before I became a change management consultant, I have always had the philosophy as someone who was trained in the Jungian tradition, that the answer to the what and when of career change is non-linear. What it does require if you want to do it before you are fired for performing poorly on the job is being present. Begin with paying close attention to synchronicities. When we are keenly aware of the world around us and our feeling state as it interacts with our world, patterns and themes will show up. You might hear the same word or words repeatedly. You might meet a new person or persons that are very out of the ordinary or eccentric even. Further, your dreams may have messages to guide your process.
When I was just finishing graduate school, my professors at Chapman University warned us not to go into private practice. We were in a big economic recession and the smart move was to work at a clinic or addiction treatment facility or go into teaching. After all, those who can’t do, teach, right? 🙂 I however, did go into private practice as an intern under a psychologist who specialized in sex and love addiction and my practice grew fast. Not because I specialized in those kind of addictions, because I didn’t. My specialty from the beginning was transition – helping people through difficult uncertain cycles like divorce or career change. I wasn’t much interested in chronic conditions like anxiety and depression; although they are lucrative, because people rarely get better who have been depressed for many years, so they stay with you. This did not interest me. I liked working with addictions that were brought on by being in the tunnel and perhaps stuck in the birth canal.
When I discovered astrology, a whole new world opened up for me. I could see latent talents in a person’s horoscope that they might never have thought they could make money doing. I could also help them with timing. And even Daniel Pink, a very rational sort of journalist has written about timing. We all know that doing things at the right time can make all the difference.
During a Mercury Retrograde, for example, which we are in now until April 20, the time is best spent on turning within and discovering what is your calling. People often call me during a retrograde without knowing why. It is not however the best time to make any firm commitments you cannot get out of. Now this is general to everyone. More nuanced is the best time for you specifically to make a move once you know what direction you want to start in. This is where observing the interaction between your electromagnetic field and the planets in the galaxy comes in through drawing an astrological blueprint. Einstein is quoted as saying that our destiny is tied to this mathematical universe we live in. People who are not familiar with astrology confuse it with tarot card reading because they don’t know how mathematical the mantic sciences of astrology and numerology are.
Where the art comes in, is in the interpretation. If you think about it, this applies to medicine as well. A doctor is given a list of symptoms by his/her patient and three doctors might give three interpretations which is what can happen when you get a second and third opinion. So, if doctors are “guestamating” based on their training, the same is true for career coaching. I listen to my client… deeply. I listen to more than the words. I listen to their voice inflection, their body language, and something that just comes from 30 years of experience and my gut.
I love helping people find what they are here to do next. For a millennial, it may be their first career, for someone in mid life, it may be drawing on the experience they already have to do something slightly different, and for Act 3 individuals, it may be a radical divergence they can now economically support, a kind ofcocooning dream they’ve had for years and can finally allow to become a butterfly and take flight.
So to answer the thesis for this article, there is no best time to make a career change – not even in a recession or if you have a physical condition or if you have very little money. The best time is uniquely quixotic for everyone.
Dr. Toni Galardi has been a career and transitions coach for 30 years and wrote The LifeQuake Phenomenon – a 7 stage model for helping people be resilient while discovering their passionate purpose. She can be reached at 310- 890-6832. She works by phone, Skype and FaceTime with people all over the world.
“The Italian St Patrick’s Day”
St. Joseph’s Day is celebrated all over the world.
In Sicily, participants usually wear red and build what is known as “St. Joseph’s Table.” This table is often decorated with flowers and candles, and people place wine and foods on it that are considered lucky. Some of these lucky foods include fava beans, lemons, and foods that contain sawdust. All of these foods have symbolic meanings. Fava beans were the only things that survived a drought during the Middle Ages in Italy – which is why it is considered lucky. Breadcrumbs are worked into the recipes of the dishes because St. Joseph was a carpenter and the breadcrumbs represent sawdust. Some people place fish and seafood on the altar as well. However, what is not placed on St. Joseph’s Table is any dish which contains meat. That’s because this holiday occurs during Lent.
In Sicily, it is also believed that if a woman manages to sneak a lemon off of St. Joseph’s Table on this day, then she have better luck finding a husband. It is also customary for people to wear red on this day and to indulge themselves with doughnuts and crème puffs. In Italy, Spain and Portugal, St. Joseph’s Day is Father’s Day.
Since New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States was a major port of entry for Sicilian immigrants during the late 1800s and has a large Sicilian population, this holiday is celebrated by the whole city. On St. Joseph’s Day. St. Joseph’s Tables are built both for the public and by private individuals. These altars are then filled with a variety of different food – just like the celebrations in Sicily – however, these foods usually have somewhat of a Cajun twist to them. Afterward, all of the food is then usually donated to the poor. New Orleans also has a variety of parades and marching bands performing on the streets during this day.
In Switzerland, it is a public holiday in some of the cantons. The cantons which observe this day include Valais, Schwyz, Uri, Ticino, and Nidwalden. On these days, banks and schools are usually closed but many businesses may still be open. While this holiday was traditionally popular in Switzerland, it has begun to lose much of that popularity over the last several years and fewer people are observing it in this country.
St. Joseph’s Day is also traditionally celebrated in many other American communities, particularly those who have large Italian populations. This includes cities such as New York, Syracuse, Buffalo, Jersey City, Chicago, Gloucester, Providence, Kansas City and St. Louis. In Providence, some people will wear red clothing on this day – much in the same way that people will wear green on St. Patrick’s Day.
Hoarding – The Addiction No One Talks About – Counselor Magazine
Dear Dr. Galardi:
I am a physician who treats morbidly obese patients for weight loss. I have three children and a boyfriend. I am 50 years old and because I am prominent in my community have not felt safe reaching out to my colleagues with my issue. Given that I have never had an eating disorder myself or substance abuse issue, I never really thought of my problem as an addiction but I read your column and thought I would get your opinion.
I have a hard time letting go of stuff. Real stuff. My children’s baby clothes, their toys when they were small, clothes I haven’t worn in years, etc. I spend $700 a month on a storage unit I never go to. If I need something that I know is somewhere in storage, I just go buy it new rather than bother to rummage through all the boxes. I have spent $40,000 on this storage unit in total so far but when I think of giving it up, my nervous system goes into a panic. I feel that I have been on my own since I was a kid
My mother died when I was 7 years old and my father sent me and my brother to live with an aunt and we were only allowed to bring one bag of clothes. We had to leave our toys behind. There is something about having all that stuff in storage that gives me a good feeling. My house also is packed with too much stuff. My fiance’ thinks I have an addiction and I wanted to check this out with you. What I do know is that I am wasting good money and it does give me a feeling of security knowing that storage unit is there. So, what do you think?
“Dr. Pack Rat”
Dear Reader:
From what you have described I would say that you do indeed have an addiction. When a person gets emotional security from something outside him/herself that is costing them in some way, then there is a compulsion present. It is costing you money to keep this storage unit, clutter in your home, it is providing a bad role model for your children, and your fiance’ is now getting upset. Hoarding is an addiction.
Losing your mother at the age of 7 and if you had to go live with your aunt, losing your father as well and most of your worldly possessions is traumatic. It has left a deep wound inside of you. You mentioned that you work with people who have an eating disorder and you have never had a food issue or substance abuse issue. Perhaps this issue is meant to serve you in terms of upping your compassion for people who compulsively eat or use. Unless someone has had an addiction can they really understand the irrationality of doing something that creates loss in the long run and provides emotional stability artificially. Your childhood wound and chosen profession qualifies you to embody what is called “the wounded healer.” Someone who has taken their childhood wound and followed a path of healing for others.
Further, you also mention that despite having a boyfriend, you feel you’ve been on your own since childhood. My advice is to do this practice every day: at the end of the day before bed, write out either on your phone note section or computer or by hand in a journal, how you were supported today. Scan through the day and note kindnesses extended to you by others, ways people helped you, how your children contribute to you, your boyfriend. Begin sorting through your life how the universe is supporting you. Now feel into this support in your body. This will begin to change the neurotransmitters and re-pattern the early trauma.
I also recommend a 12 step program for clutter – Clutterers Anonymous. To quote from their program: “ We admitted we were powerless over clutter—that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.”
May you find serenity and greater empathy for those you serve through this healing journey of your own.
Dr. Toni Galardi is a licensed psychotherapist, author of The LifeQuake Phenomenon and a well known consultant/expert on career repurposing as part of recovery in the addiction field. She has been the advice columnist for Counselor Magazine for 7 years.
If you have a question for The LifeQuake Doctor, you can write to her through: drtoni@drtonigalardi.com or by calling 310-890-6832. She works by phone and SKYPE in private practice. Her website is http://www.thelifequakedoctor.com
Executing Resilience While A Parent is Dying Their Way
What I Learned on the First Day of Jupiter Retrograde in Scorpio
My father had his first chemo treatment today. I’ve come a long way in a week. When my stepmother (who also had chemotherapy two years ago for acute myeletic leukemia) told me that my father decided to go ahead with the chemo because the oncologist felt it was the best treatment for his bone cancer, I was very upset with the oncologist. I explained to my father that in this time of managed care, chemotherapy rooms are to an oncologist what a bar is to a restauranteur – their cash cow, although not exactly cash as it comes from medicare. None the less, when you have five people in a room five days a week getting shot up with chemicals that make your hair fall out and cause violent vomiting, you are being paid handsomely well for a treatment that could be so less violating to the body.
But why would a doctor recommend detoxification, alkalinizing the diet, and cannabis oil when it isn’t lucrative? However, today I realized as I walked through the redwood forest that the lesson here was for me. I have a wealth of information on healing the body and it has always fallen on deaf ears with my family. Given that my prayer is to become a kinder, more compassionate human being, what better way to learn this than with my own family. I believed that the only reason my father was doing this chemo was for his wife who told me that she can’t go on without him. She is by the way, 27 years younger than him. My father, like so many of us in my family, is co-dependent, so I initially started to silently blame his wife for encouraging him to do a treatment that may only give him a few more months. Today, as the planet of expansion and abundance turned retrograde, I had my first aha, Jupiter moment.
My father described how supportive Barbara had been toward him while he was in the hospital for 10 days, completely neglecting her own health because she had a bone marrow transplant last year and was advised to stay in germ free environments. After his fifth day there, she came down with a virus and then was forced to stay home. Once again, I was horrified and urged her to stay home, which she eventually did on the advice of the head honcho (his doctor). Today, however, my judgments were gone. I didn’t judge my dad inhaling a pastry while talking to me on the phone, or doing chemo, or Barbara sacrificing her own health for his.
No, today I allowed myself to enter his reality. In his reality, she had loved him to the nth degree (which by the way, my mother who was 20 years older than his current wife had not) and perhaps his way of loving her back was to give her a few more months with him that chemo could possibly offer.
I didn’t feel anything but love for my father this morning and genuine respect for the soul contract these two have with one another. He saw her through her harrowing journey of chemo, then all the failed attempts to find a donor match and then the transplant itself. And now, she was doing the same for him.
The astrological sign of Scorpio rules ego death and transformation and is assigned the Phoenix bird when operating at its highest manifestation. It also governs the planet Pluto, the god of hell and wealth, if you pay the god its dues. As Jupiter “retros” in Scorpio the next few months, consider this: where are you being called to go into the fire to be consumed into ashes and reborn into a higher form?
I can see this in an astrological chart. For the next four months, the fire may be turned up a tad in all of us. When it calls you, it can feel like a dark night of the soul. Mid July, Jupiter turns direct again around the time of the next solar eclipse. One’s outer life may start to feel alien, with you questioning, “Who am I”? This is all part of a massive spiritual quickening that requires more time spent alone and inward perhaps. This will intensify with the addition of Mercury going retrograde on March 20. Further, Jupiter also rules faith and one’s spiritual beliefs so the process of the dark night of the soul transmutes old beliefs that no longer serve you, if you allow yourself to be emptied. This to me is the essence of Jupiter retrograde in Scorpio: will you journey into the depths of your shadow and let go of the identity that you’ve outgrown or will you spend the retrograde as a victim of whatever circumstances that befall you. Pay attention to any crisis that occurs in the next few months. It can be the catalyst for a great quickening and rebirth in July.
In the early days of my father’s hospitalization, he was given a purgative to move his bowels. In my world, what would have followed was eating fresh fruit and vegetables or juices. Instead, true to his Italian palate, he requested a meatball sub and his wife, his supplier, delivered just as she had the capocolla and prosciutto on so many other occasions, against doctor’s orders. I’ve come a long way in one week. I congratulated him for eating a pastry after chemo. Eating anything that he could keep down and tasted good to him became more important than, was it good for him? His own father died at age 47 and he never expected to double that life span.
With five family members dealing with cancer or dementia, I’m sure my journey to genuine compassion will continue. I’ve decided that since the Passion Play of the crucifixion and resurrection so personifies Jupiter in retrograde, I am giving my usual bi –yearly promotion of 25% off for soul blueprint sessions now until April 1, Easter Sunday.
May March bring revelation and inner expansion and if it makes you feel good – find your inspiration from my 91 – year – old papa – maybe imbibing more Italian food to raise your serotonin levels and lengthen your life span!
Buona Giornata.
Ciao,
Dr. Toni
A tidbit of Chapter One of LifeQuake
CHAPTER 1
The Heat Wave: Subtle Tremors
We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, 1613-1680
In the opening chapter the reader is shown how the sociological, psychological, and environmental crises occurring on a grand scale are in fact catalysts, prompting each of us to evolve in our own lives. Our collective chaos is fueling a push toward greater personal adaptation to accelerated change.
The concept of a “LifeQuake” is introduced as the result of resisting change — yet also the emergence of a new self accompanied by inevitable birthing pains. In its first- stage subtleties, a LifeQuake often goes unrecognized. Tell-tale signs include boredom, restlessness, and irritability. What is misunderstood, if not totally overlooked, is that these are symptoms of an old life that’s been outgrown. Not surprisingly, this is when resistance to change is strongest. Without recognition of the process, it may be hard to identify that these symptoms signal the dawn of a more authentic life and higher level
of consciousness.
Through a questionnaire that has been given to thousands of people over the years, this chapter helps readers identify which stage of their LifeQuake is operative. Then it reviews the impact of Stage One on lifestyle, workplace, relationships, and health, while providing tangible strategies for mastering change in each of these areas.
How to start building a new ‘faultless’ foundation when the old one starts to crack open is described, accompanied with an explanation of the building elements for that stage.
In Chapter One, the building elements are Keen Observation and Listening. Each chapter contains a toolbox section with practical exercises to assist in transitioning to the next stage. The tool box exercises in Chapter 1 are:
- LIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION (a visualization to start the day)
- TAKING YOUR EMOTIONAL PULSE (a tool to be used periodically throughout the
day),
- DOTMAKING YOUR DESTINY (throughout the day)
- MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL (exercise to be practiced at the end of each day).
As with all heroic journeys, there are distinct tasks that help with developing change mastery. At the end of this chapter and those following, these tasks are shown as bulleted checkpoints summarizing the first leg of the LifeQuake journey. These are meant to be guide posts not judgmental criteria for how well you are doing.