Dr. Toni

We will look back at this time and ask, Did I listen to collective fear or my own counsel?

Dr. Toni Galardi

First off, my apologies if you got two emails from me last weekend. There was a glitch in my program. And secondly, if you were not able to get on to the new moon activation due to our technical difficulties , I do hope you listened to the replay. It’s not too late and so helpful for this times. Also, it is like one big giant Mercury retro in the technology world right now. Some people’s facebook live events have crashed, Zoom calls more difficult, etc

I am sending this to you today because I was told by a few sources that there could be an electrical grid black out for three days and it can be anytime between now and April 14th so I wanted you to have this information below to plan your week next week.

I am giving a free global activation on the full moon Tuesday April 7th at 5:00 PM PDT as it is so reflective of this month with the focus on Venus. Managing change in this time of a Global LifeQuake involves listening deeply to your heart and the planet Venus. As I mentioned in the last newsletter, Venus is now out of bounds as of April 1st and will go retro on May 13. I will explain the big picture of Venus and how to use her in this activation next Tuesday. With this full moon in Libra, we also have a Venus ruled moon so the goddess of love and money is so present now.

More on the moon in the astrology tips later.

More than ever before in your life, it is important to filter all information you receive through your heart. As I mentioned in a previous newsletter, in the movie The Matrix, taking the red pill meant choosing freedom of thought, not just passively hooked into the blue pill Matrix. I think of the red pill as anchored in your heart. You are being called to a new life, a new soul purpose. There is a supreme test here on managing anxiety and fear.
In honor of the full moon in Libra, I am sharing with you a little about a great freedom fighter that has unfortunately been forgotten in the history of revolutionary scientists of the 19th century, all because he had the courage to dispute Louis Pasteur’s germ theory that apparently is alive and well today as a philosophy. Pasteur put all the blame for microbial based illnesses on the pathogen itself. In Antoine Bechamp cell theory, he asserted that it was the health of the host and the environment that the host was living in that determined if a pathogen could take hold and cause illness. To prevent illness, Bechamp advocated not the killing of germs but the cultivation of health through diet, hygiene, and healthy lifestyle practices such as fresh air and exercise. Further, that regardless of age, health practices highly inform the immune system which is why not every elderly person exposed or 20 something exposed to a pathogen will get sick.
Unfortunately, Pasteur who was very jealous of Bechamp had very wealthy connections that blocked Bechamp’s work from getting its due.

The irony is that towards the end of his life, Pasteur renounced the germ theory and admitted that Bechamp was right all along. Unfortunately, modern medicine’s reliance on vaccines is strongly rooted in Pasteur’s germ theory, even to this day.

In the 20th century, a group of alternative medicine practitioners accused Pasteur, as did The French Academy of Sciences, of plagiarising and then suppressing Béchamp’s work, citing work such as Ethel Douglas Hume’s Béchamp or Pasteur: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology from the 1920s.^[4]

An interesting side note is that Pasteur was a Capricorn ( “My image really matters more than the truth”) and died at the age of 62. Bechamp lived until almost 92 in 1908!

I share this vignette to make this point: Stand up for what you believe to be true even if you don’t die with the most marbles. It may be the next generation who benefits from your efforts and/or calling. The archetype of Capricorn as we have known it through the father, society and our vocation is deconstructing now. Watch who steps into leadership next year. That is all I am going to say for right now.

And to continue on the subject of listening to your inner music,the global virtual summit called Your Music, Your Way hosted by my colleague and friend Daniel Barber begins on Monday. This summit can be an opportunity for you to discover your own rhythm and true purpose along with hearing from experts in the field of music and sound healing, April 6th-12th.

Click this link to sign up:

https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/12840/178343

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

WOW. lots of void moons and a full moon in the next week.

1. The moon is void for 14 hours beginning at 1:00 PM on Friday April 3rd PDT until Saturday, April 4th at 3:00 PM If you must go out, stay grounded, others may not be.
2. At 4:50 PM PDT there will be a global meditation on facebook as Jupiter and Pluto go exact and a brand new portal opens. The last time Jupiter and Pluto went exact in Capricorn was February 24, 1771. No wonder George Washington ( Feb 22 birthday) became the first president.
3. Monday April 6th, the moon goes void of its course again from 9:29 AM – 5:16 PM PDT in Libra. If you have a regular work day, focus on mundane tasks. Also a great day during this time to file taxes. The phrase to remember about void moon days is ” nothing will come of it.” Not the day to initiate new projects. We can also be a little spacier than usual so wait until Tuesday to go to the grocery store if you can or just be very patient with others.3)Tuesday, Full moon in Libra, ruled by Venus. Watch your emotions.
4. Wednesday, April 8th is another void moon work day 8:50 AM – 4:17 PM. If you can, just relax. Spend time in the inner world of your soul.
5. You building up your immune system and serenity practice, (whatever that is) now is the key to transformation for the world when the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto come back into conjunction around Halloween through December 15.
6. We are gradually moving into a completely new world but this will take time.
7. Mercury will finally go into fiery Aries, Friday, April 10th when it joins the Sun in Aries. A lot will come to light and… everyone may start getting antsy.
8. For this week, spend time watching and listening to things that soothe your soul. Listen deeply to your intuition and your sleeping dreams while Mercury is in its last week of Pisces. What is calling you now?
9. VENUS is now out of bounds for two months in Gemini. Venus rules what we love, who we love and how we love. This bears repeating: If we are at home for half or all of this time, what you have to be careful of is EXCESS: turning to food, spending, whatever your addictions are can expand if you are not mindful . The market can swing wildly during this time. Further, Venus rules music and our values. Spending money on that which will support your true well being will spiral you up at an accelerated pace!

Two free opportunities to experience my work:

https://drtonigalardi.com/product/free-full-moon-activation

releasing limiting beliefs on Tuesday April 7th at 5:00 PM PDT

Sign up here for the free summit Your Music, Your Way starting monday April 6th:

https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/12840/178343

With great love and affection,

Dr Toni

We are in the most globally transformational experiment in history. Can we turn this time of uncertainty into LifeQuake Miracles? Mother Earth is listening.

Dr. Toni Galardi

What and who we are listening to is critical to managing fear and strengthening our immune systems right now. I predict we are going to learn so much about the immune system in this pandemic and the role fear and serenity play in being healthy in the coming years.

According to psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD, and immunologist Ronald Glaser, PhD, of the Ohio State University College of Medicine who were intrigued by animal studies that linked stress and infection. These pioneer researchers studied medical students. Among other things, they found that the students’ immunity went down every year under the simple stress of the three-day exam period. Test takers had fewer natural killer cells, which fight tumors and viral infections and of course, got sick.

They almost stopped producing immunity-boosting gamma interferon, and infection-fighting T-cells responded only weakly to test-tube stimulation.Managing stress, especially chronic or long-term stress (even if it’s not intense), may help people to fight germs.

Kiecolt-Glaser and Glaser confirmed this hopeful option by comparing the immune function of exam-stressed medical students given hypnosis and relaxation training with that of students without auditory training. At first, the immune responses of the two groups appeared to both go down. However, closer inspection revealed that some students took this exercise more seriously than others. ( Does that sound familiar?) Those who didn’t take relaxation training seriously didn’t fare so well; those who practiced conscientiously did actually have significantly better immune function during exams than students who practiced erratically or not at all.

The sounds we are listening to right now are so critical to our immune system function. The music we listen to is part of this but so is the feedback we get from well intentioned friends who’ve spent way too much time listening to the news. I encourage social distancing from negative messages.

21 years ago when I was conducting a study for my doctoral dissertation, my experimental method was a cassette tape that those in the case study would listen to during a certain period of time for relaxation. The control group listened to nothing except were instructed to observe their feelings during this critical month that I knew would be stressful from planetary influences lasting 3 months. I then instructed the experimental group to stop listening to the guided meditation for another month and record their stress response to determine the efficacy of the tape.

Well! I had an insurrection. The experimental group that had received the tape did not want to give up their recording of my voice inducing a relaxation exercise. I had to promise them the return of the recording once the one month second phase was over to retrieve it and save my research!

Although we are all sequestered right now, there is an opportunity to find your own music both metaphorically and literally. There is a wonderful children’s book that my web designer David Woolfrey shared with me called Giraffes Can’t Dance that I recommend getting if you can. The message is very much about using this time to discover “what lights you up to find your own dance”.

I had the honor to participate in a global virtual summit called Your Music, Your Way hosted by my colleague and friend Daniel Barber. This summit can be an opportunity for you to discover your own rhythm and true purpose along with hearing from experts in the field of music and sound healing, April 6th-12th.

Click this link to sign up:

https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/12840/178343

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

WOW. A lot happening right now.

1) Monday the 30th, the moon goes void of its course from 8:10 AM – 4:43 PM PDT. If you have a regular work day, focus on mundane tasks. Also a great day during this time to file taxes. The phrase to remember about void moon days is ” nothing will come of it.” Not the day to initiate new projects. We can also be a little spacier than usual so wait until Tuesday to go to the grocery store if you can or just be very patient with others.

2) Saturn has just moved into Aquarius for a few months. Aquarius rules humanity. Saturn rules structure. With Jupiter and Pluto still in Capricorn( the death and restructure of society), we are being called to come together as a global family. In July, Saturn will go back into Capricorn until December when it transits into Aquarius for 2 1/2 more years. This transition from Capricorn to Aquarius occurred just as everything got real in the U.S. We will see this transition again in November/December.

You building up your immune system and serenity practice, (whatever that is) now is the key to transformation for the world when the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto come back into conjunction around Halloween through December 15.

We are gradually moving into a completely new world but this will take time. Those who do not succumb to fear will experience giant leaps in their evolution in the coming two-three years.

3) Mercury will still be in “go within and meditate, practice stillness” Pisces where it has been for two months until April 10th when it joins the Sun in Aries. For this week, spend time watching and listening to things that soothe your soul. Listen deeply to your intuition and your sleeping dreams. What is calling you now?

4) VENUS goes out of bounds on Wednesday, April Fool’s Day for two months. Venus rules what we love, who we love and how we love. If placed with good aspects in certain houses, it influences our finances, as it rules the sign of Taurus which rules the house of the money we earn directly. If we are at home for half or all of this time, what you have to watch is EXCESS: turning to food, spending, whatever your addictions are can expand if you are not mindful . The market can swing wildly during this time. Further, Venus rules music and our values. Spending money on that which will support your true well being will spiral you up!

Sign up here for the free summit Your Music, Your Way:

https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/12840/178343

For those who sign up for the free summit, I also will be offering a 12 week coaching package, an astrological soul blueprint reading, 4 guided invocations and my book in download format for $500 off the normal price.

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

It is so much easier to look out there and demand that the government produce a vaccine to eradicate the infectious disease of the moment. Looking within to what is in dis-ease and doing the health practices that will bring the cells of the body back into harmony requires honoring the body as a temple. But when you do that first, you will find yourself spreading “infectious ease” to your fellow humans, instead of hysteria.

Dr. Toni Galardi

At the beginning of this year, everyone was so relieved that 2019 was over and what a different year this would be. Not wanting to come on like the Queen of Doomsday, I merely have urged more time to going within as we began to encounter this line up never before seen of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all in Capricorn.

I spoke of the restructuring that our society was going through and would continue to go through. Further, I shared that with Uranus in Taurus, there would also be financial restructuring. Although Capricorn rules society, please remember that it also rules the career/or soul purpose domain.

This virus taking hold as it did in a big way in February under the Mercury retrograde in Pisces is not surprising. Pisces rules the immune system. Under Mercury Retrogrades, we are called to go inside and develop a deeper relationship with our soul. As most people do not do this willingly, the global soul in co-parnership with Gaia, our earth mother to do it for us. I listened yesterday to a recently produced Ted talk given by Alanna Shaikh, expert from The World Health Organization. At the end of her talk, she shares the link between what we have done to our forests and undeveloped lands that are a part of why this virus exists. She describes how the virus has these spokes that allow it to pierce the RNA of the cell.

As someone who views life through symbology, i couldn’t help but think that this description of the virus seems to have been created by dear Pachamamma to defend herself from more human invasion. I wrote a book called The LifeQuake Phenomenon that was published 10 years ago and about to be republished with updates information on the neuroscience of change and resilience. My subtitle then was about how to thrive in times of personal and global upheaval. The major thesis of this book is to get people to wake up before outmoded lives have to go through devastating experiences. I linked that to the world stage. This mild pandemic is a huge wake up call for all of us.

Some branding expert on facebook was suggesting to her followers that while we are all being forced to stay at home, to use it as a time to indulge yourself in comfort food, showing loaves of baked bread she had made. She further urged everyone to make it ok to put on a few pounds. She made a case for self care as actually meaning self indulgence … what we already do so well in this country as a response to feeling un- comfortable. God forbid we should feel uncomfortable and hear intuitive messages for real self care that require the C word – no, I don’t mean cancer … change!

This brings me to the medieval cult hero for his prescient predictions in the 16th century, Michel Nostradamus. Nostradamus was a bit of a James Dean kind of rebel of the medical community. He attended medical school but the school was closed a year later due to the effects of the plague on the town of Avignon where he was being schooled. He then went on a journey, spending 8 years traveling through France, Spain and Italy gathering herbal remedies. Through becoming an apothecary, he helped save many people with his remedies, one famous one being a pink pill he made from rose hips which of course has Vitamin C in it. What many people dont know about Michel Nostradamus was that he understood that the Black plague could be remediated by basic hygiene and administering his rose pills. He knew it was the host not the bacterium itself that had to be made stronger. When he attempted to come back to medical school, the administration threw him out because at that time, herbalists ( apothecaries) were seen as inferior to physicians and they refused to allow his knowledge to have influence in their establishment.

His predictions around events that he saw would happen to the Court got the attention of Queen Catherine De Medici when several of them came true. He became quite the celebrity of his time. Nostradamus’ sun sign was Capricorn. Cut to our current “pandemic”. Chinese physicians began a wide spread study in February on the efficacy of intravenous Vitamin C ( about 20 grams) to people in the throws of the latest corona virus. Integrative medicine doctors I know here have seen its efficacy with acute lung diseases and flu.

It has been said that the virus will die down as the warm weather emerges but will come back in the late Fall to winter when the weather turns cold and damp again. Interesting synchronicity is that although Saturn will briefly go into Aquarius soon ( the ruler of humanity and groups), we will see the line up of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto again in Capricorn with Mars in retrograde (rules the adrenals) and Mercury in retrograde squaring this line up in Capricorn. Could be a challenging time.

The key is preparation. Another pandemic is not fated if we learn to use our natural resources and our bodies respectfully. What is happening is that we are restructuring our workplace now to accomodate this semi-quarantine for the next few weeks. More people will be working from home who work for companies. It is also expanding our concept of tribe beyond the American borders, thanks to the internet. As conferences are being cancelled left and right, webinars and web conferences are proliferating. Even my personal trainer is making videos because she will be at home with her children for the next three weeks with school being cancelled.

It is my deepest prayer that innovations are made for strengthening the immune system and that this word gets out as a stronger solution than Big Pharma producing vaccines.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1) Monday the moon is void until 12:30 PM EST, 5:30 PM Greenwich Time. Monday may be slower getting into for all of us.

2) Mercury made a brief dash into Aquarius in retrograde to get us all coming together as a species to sequester for the good of all. However, as of Monday, it goes back into Pisces. We are being called to go deep into our intuition and dreams until April 10th when it goes into fiery, warrior like, adrenal on steroids, Aries.

3) The moon will be out of bounds beginning on Monday at 9:15 PM March 16th until 4:52 PM on March 17th. This from astrologer Jim Schultz:”It has been almost 9 years, April 21, 2011, since the Moon last went out-of-bounds. The Moon is at 6 Capricorn 23 as She takes Her first tentative steps out-of-bounds in almost nine years. From this point onward, for the next nine years, the Moon will go out-of-bounds twice each month, once north and once south. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is “A veiled prophet speaks, seized by the power of the Divine.” What insight might we gain from this symbol? The Moon will be out-of-bounds for almost 20 hours. Be sure to “listen” for messages from the-Universe. These messages may be auditory, visual, or you may feel them. Be open to all sources. With the Moon being south out-of-bounds, they may have to do with or come from someone from your past. Note your dreams, insights and all sensations tonight.

My take on this is that if we do not give our feminine side its time away from the world in the other world of Yin for this next 9 year cycle, we may not survive as a species.

4) The moon is in its waning phase so waiting until March 24th to make big decisions will prove to be very efficacious.

5) Saturn goes void of its course for 53 hours beginning at around 5:00 PM Thursday eve which only happens every 2.5 years approximately. Saturn void-of-course? Saturn is about maintaining control, obeying the rules and following instructions. When He is void-of-course there may be a greater tendency to take chances, to skip steps or just see how much one can get away with. Don’t! Once Saturn enters Aquarius reality will set in and you will regret any skipped steps or other transgressions.

6) Along with Saturn void, the moon will also be void all day Friday. Yes, it is the Spring Equinox but it may not feel like Spring until the new moon in Aries late on Monday night March 23.

In summary, give yourself permission for inner work this week. Journal, listen to podcasts, release old traumas with a skilled therapist. This is what Mercury in Pisces is calling for, and speaking of calling, it is the time to avail yourself of what is calling you now. Discovering your next soul purpose requires nurturing the inner soil and understanding your soul contract for 2020 and beyond.

Yes, we are living in a time that is teaching us great resilience and honoring of our feminine essence. For your sake and the world’s…

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

It is so much easier to look out there and demand that the government produce a vaccine to eradicate the infectious disease of the moment. Looking within to what is in dis-ease and doing the health practices that will bring the cells of the body back into harmony requires honoring the body as a temple. But when you do that first, you will find yourself spreading “infectious ease” to your fellow humans, instead of hysteria.

Dr. Toni Galardi

At the beginning of this year, everyone was so relieved that 2019 was over and what a different year this would be. Not wanting to come on like the Queen of Doomsday, I merely have urged more time to going within as we began to encounter this line up never before seen of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all in Capricorn.

I spoke of the restructuring that our society was going through and would continue to go through. Further, I shared that with Uranus in Taurus, there would also be financial restructuring. Although Capricorn rules society, please remember that it also rules the career/or soul purpose domain.

This virus taking hold as it did in a big way in February under the Mercury retrograde in Pisces is not surprising. Pisces rules the immune system. Under Mercury Retrogrades, we are called to go inside and develop a deeper relationship with our soul. As most people do not do this willingly, the global soul in co-parnership with Gaia, our earth mother to do it for us. I listened yesterday to a recently produced Ted talk given by Alanna Shaikh, expert from The World Health Organization. At the end of her talk, she shares the link between what we have done to our forests and undeveloped lands that are a part of why this virus exists. She describes how the virus has these spokes that allow it to pierce the RNA of the cell.

As someone who views life through symbology, i couldn’t help but think that this description of the virus seems to have been created by dear Pachamamma to defend herself from more human invasion. I wrote a book called The LifeQuake Phenomenon that was published 10 years ago and about to be republished with updates information on the neuroscience of change and resilience. My subtitle then was about how to thrive in times of personal and global upheaval. The major thesis of this book is to get people to wake up before outmoded lives have to go through devastating experiences. I linked that to the world stage. This mild pandemic is a huge wake up call for all of us.

Some branding expert on facebook was suggesting to her followers that while we are all being forced to stay at home, to use it as a time to indulge yourself in comfort food, showing loaves of baked bread she had made. She further urged everyone to make it ok to put on a few pounds. She made a case for self care as actually meaning self indulgence … what we already do so well in this country as a response to feeling un- comfortable. God forbid we should feel uncomfortable and hear intuitive messages for real self care that require the C word – no, I don’t mean cancer … change!

This brings me to the medieval cult hero for his prescient predictions in the 16th century, Michel Nostradamus. Nostradamus was a bit of a James Dean kind of rebel of the medical community. He attended medical school but the school was closed a year later due to the effects of the plague on the town of Avignon where he was being schooled. He then went on a journey, spending 8 years traveling through France, Spain and Italy gathering herbal remedies. Through becoming an apothecary, he helped save many people with his remedies, one famous one being a pink pill he made from rose hips which of course has Vitamin C in it. What many people don’t know about Michel Nostradamus was that he understood that the Black plague could be remediated by basic hygiene and administering his rose pills. He knew it was the host not the bacterium itself that had to be made stronger. When he attempted to come back to medical school, the administration threw him out because at that time, herbalists ( apothecaries) were seen as inferior to physicians and they refused to allow his knowledge to have influence in their establishment.

His predictions around events that he saw would happen to the Court got the attention of Queen Catherine De Medici when several of them came true. He became quite the celebrity of his time. Nostradamus’ sun sign was Capricorn. Cut to our current “pandemic”. Chinese physicians began a wide spread study in February on the efficacy of intravenous Vitamin C ( about 20 grams) to people in the throws of the latest corona virus. Integrative medicine doctors I know here have seen its efficacy with acute lung diseases and flu.

It has been said that the virus will die down as the warm weather emerges but will come back in the late Fall to winter when the weather turns cold and damp again. Interesting synchronicity is that although Saturn will briefly go into Aquarius soon ( the ruler of humanity and groups), we will see the line up of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto again in Capricorn with Mars in retrograde (rules the adrenals) and Mercury in retrograde squaring this line up in Capricorn. Could be a challenging time.

The key is preparation. Another pandemic is not fated if we learn to use our natural resources and our bodies respectfully. What is happening is that we are restructuring our workplace now to accomodate this semi-quarantine for the next few weeks. More people will be working from home who work for companies. It is also expanding our concept of tribe beyond the American borders, thanks to the internet. As conferences are being cancelled left and right, webinars and web conferences are proliferating. Even my personal trainer is making videos because she will be at home with her children for the next three weeks with school being cancelled.

It is my deepest prayer that innovations are made for strengthening the immune system and that this word gets out as a stronger solution than Big Pharma producing vaccines.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1) Monday the moon is void until 12:30 PM EST, 5:30 PM Greenwich Time. Monday may be slower getting into for all of us.

2) Mercury made a brief dash into Aquarius in retrograde to get us all coming together as a species to sequester for the good of all. However, as of Monday, it goes back into Pisces. We are being called to go deep into our intuition and dreams until April 10th when it goes into fiery, warrior like, adrenal on steroids, Aries.

3) The moon will be out of bounds beginning on Monday at 9:15 PM March 16th until 4:52 PM on March 17th. This from astrologer Jim Schultz:”It has been almost 9 years, April 21, 2011, since the Moon last went out-of-bounds. The Moon is at 6 Capricorn 23 as She takes Her first tentative steps out-of-bounds in almost nine years. From this point onward, for the next nine years, the Moon will go out-of-bounds twice each month, once north and once south. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is “A veiled prophet speaks, seized by the power of the Divine.” What insight might we gain from this symbol? The Moon will be out-of-bounds for almost 20 hours. Be sure to “listen” for messages from the-Universe. These messages may be auditory, visual, or you may feel them. Be open to all sources. With the Moon being south out-of-bounds, they may have to do with or come fromsomeone from your past. Note your dreams, insights and all sensations tonight.

My take on this is that if we do not give our feminine side its time away from the world in the other world of Yin for this next 9 year cycle, we may not survive as a species.

4) The moon is in its waning phase so waiting until March 24th to make big decisions will prove to be very efficacious.

5) Saturn goes void of its course for 53 hours beginning at around 5:00 PM Thursday eve which only happens every 2.5 years approximately. Saturn void-of-course? Saturn is about maintaining control, obeying the rules and following instructions. When He is void-of-course there may be a greater tendency to take chances, to skip steps or just see how much one can get away with. Don’t! Once Saturn enters Aquarius reality will set in and you will regret any skipped steps or other transgressions.

6) Along with Saturn void, the moon will also be void all day Friday. Yes, it is the Spring Equinox but it may not feel like Spring until the new moon in Aries late on Monday night March 23.

In summary, give yourself permission for inner work this week. Journal, listen to podcasts, release old traumas with a skilled therapist. This is what Mercury in Pisces is calling for, and speaking of calling, it is the time to avail yourself of what is calling you now. Discovering your next soul purpose requires nurturing the inner soil and understanding your soul contract for 2020 and beyond.

Yes, we are living in a time that is teaching us great resilience and honoring of our feminine essence. For your sake and the world’s…

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

Just as gods and goddesses were created by humans with super hero qualities and flawed character to teach us, so can we draw great lessons from our modern day version sometimes referred to as celebrities.

Dr. Toni Galardi

A few months ago I began sharing stories about famous iconic people to give us lessons to draw from. There are plenty of astrologers on the net who share information on famous people with a gossip columnist quality to their articles but I think that sharing the shadow of people whose talents we have worshiped can teach us so much more, if we understand the myth they contracted to play out for themselves and us, much like the stories from Ancient Greece, Rome and Sumeria, etc

Further, their human limitations is often more relatable than that of Buddha or Jesus. I’ve chosen to share my take on Audrey Hepburn as she truly embodied so much for us to learn from. The astrological archetypes of her personal chart are very present for us right now as Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are transiting the signs of Aquarius, Pisces and Taurus.

Audrey Hepburn’s sun sign was in Taurus, her moon was in Pisces and her Mars was conjunct Pluto in Cancer with an Aquarius rising. I won’t get into the technical details of her chart but here are some facts that give us a clue to her love/hate relationship with food that like all mythic lives, leads to a higher destiny:

1. She was a chubby baby and toddler who loved chocolate so much that her mother, a Dutch baroness instructed their cook to lock the cupboards.
2. She spent her teen years in the Netherlands during the war years and almost starved to death when the Nazis punished the Dutch for trying to thwart their occupation by cutting off the food supply between 1944-45.
3. She learned to fantasize ( moon in Pisces) that she wasn’t hungry so that her mother could provide for the other children.
4. This ultimate control over food and vast imagination would serve her as a dancer later and then as an actress. In a time when the ideal woman had an hour glass figure like Marilyn Monroe, coming out of the ballet into modeling and acting, she had a unique look that stood out. Hired to play a waif like character on Broadway, she was offered the opportunity to come to New York from England by luxury ship so she would learn her lines. Having access to rich food and chocolate, she arrived 12 pounds heavier 10 days later. The producer, shocked at her weight gain, demanded that she lose the weight immediately which she did and then some. Thus began her interesting relationship with food.

Although her chart indicates a passion for food, her son insists that she was as thin as she was because she only ate a little of everything. A long time smoker, I do believe she had an eating disorder ( she was 5 ft 7 and weighed 105 pounds) that engaged her in her later passion which was to become a Unicef Ambassador ( Aquarius Rising) to help starving children in third world countries. It was very common for women of that time to use nicotine to speed up their metabolism and control hunger. Audrey really cared though, very much about the fate of the world’s children. Clearly, her own experience in Holland during the war engendered a deep empathy for starving children.

Audrey Hepburn took the wounds of her childhood and devoted the last years of her life to Unicef.

The planet Mercury rules communication and the conscious mind.What Miss Hepburn has to teach us especially right now as Mercury has gone back into Aquarius in retrograde is to reflect these next few days on how you can engage humane acts toward the betterment of others irrespective of race, gender or political orientation. In a week, Mercury will go back into Pisces until April 10 so we are being called, each of us to expand our empathy. How often when someone acts so differently than you, are you able to put yourself in their shoes? I know I struggle with this one. One of Audrey Hepburn’s finest qualities was that she saw the good in people, all people. It is unfortunate that she passed at age 63 of a rare form of colon cancer. Although she had beautiful features, what made her so beautiful in her early 60’s, ( with no cosmetic augmentation) was that she was lit from within. Kindness is a great cosmetic. Of course, having Givenchy dress you ain’t bad either. ha!

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1) Monday and Tuesday could be a little wonky. We are adjusting to the time change and we have a full moon in Pisces/Virgo and Mercury stationing all within a few hours of one another. And this is a super full moon meaning it will closer to the earth than usual. Remember, the moon rules the emotional body.

2) When Mercury comes to the end of a retrograde or at the beginning of it going direct, information can come to light that we didn’t have or didn’t see earlier. Dr Joseph Mercola, well known integrative medicine doctor published an article today that gives pretty compelling evidence for the Corona Virus being a bioweaponized pathogen just as SARS was. Wuhan, the city in which CO-VID 19 was first identified is a Biosafety Level 4 facility.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/03/08/dr-francis-boyle-bioterrorism.aspx?cid_medium=etaf&cid=share

My take on these viruses is that vaccines are not the answer. Building your immune system up with impeccable health habits is a harder path than taking a pill or shot but it is most of the time, the best route to not contracting this or any virus. And fear also lowers the immune system. Step away from media and government fear tactics. I predict we will be seeing a lot of fear driven messages in the coming months based on Donald Trump’s astrological chart and its dovetail with the U.S. chart. ( more on that in a future newsletter)

2) It will take Mercury a good two weeks to get its mojo working for you most effectively ( remember that Mercury rules the brain) as it will be back in watery Pisces in one week. Listen to your intuition through the body wisdom.

3) The moon will enter its waning phase on Monday as well so waiting until March 24th to make big decisions will prove to be very efficacious. A moon wobble is coming next weekend which can make for intense emotional responses.

4) Meditation can really help this week.

A closing thought from “Holly Golightly” ( if you haven’t seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s I recommend it!):

Remember you have two hands: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. Audrey Hepburn

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

Pleasure has a place in discovering your soul purpose. It either takes us into addiction, and then recovery helps us discover our purpose, or… if we engage pleasure with curiosity, not shame, we might be able to go straight to discovery.

– Dr. Toni Galardi

One more week give or take for Mercury in retro in Pisces. I am going deep into the watery realm of Pisces as this is such a time to be exploring the God that exists in our shadow. Yes, Pisces rules the direct experience of God or if you prefer, the mystical realm. And, it also rules sensuality and drugs. What is the God of your shadow? What addiction has or is taking you to a deeper relationship with your soul?

I thought I would share a little about one of the 20th centuries most prolific writers who became famous after giving up his partying ways to join the Catholic monastery. The Trappist life is about as austere as it gets and yet Thomas Merton, known to have had plenty of women in his college days, was not ordained until age 34. In his short life of twenty more years, he wrote more than 50 books.

To quote wikipedia, “Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dali Lama, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh.”

Ahem, he also authored successful books on Zen buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism in the most conservative era of the 20th century, the 1950’s!

There is a documentary on Merton’s life on Amazon and a journalist makes the comment that after many years in the monastery, Merton was invited to speak at a major conference in San Francisco in the 60’s and while they were having coffee in a cafe, he became quite distracted by all the beautiful scantily clad women he observed.

This piqued my interest. So, of course, I had to look at his chart and there was an accurate time of birth. Fascinating.

Thomas Merton had a Pisces rising so he gave the appearance of a monk but was a true radical activist in his core. If he hadn’t made so much money for the church, they may have never let him engage with the East and his passionate commitment for us to understand Eastern religious philosophy in the West.
Thomas Merton had 6 planets ( if you include the north node) in Aquarius in Aquarius’ house, the 11th. Aquarius of course rules the rebel, the future, and bringing humanity into oneness. However, his moon was in Leo in the house Leo rules, creativity, fun, and personal love in great ease with his Venus in Sagittarius in the 9th house of publishing. That’s a lot of fire in the planets that rule love and sex.

Here is a quote that so expresses his Leo moon: “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” 

Perhaps, if Thomas Merton had not had his 20’s to live in the world with all its sensual appetites, he may not have been able to transmute those passions into his work as a writer and author away from the world. And he was very passionate about writing. However, one can only sublimate carnal passion for so long.

He began having aches and pains that took him to the hospital where he would hear on the radio of the social unrest, Kennedy’s and then King’s assassination. This galvanized his writing to take on a social activist’s tone. A passionate but semi-clandestine relationship with a young nurse called Margie Smith, was discovered by his superiors at the Abbey of Gethsemani, who issued him an ultimatum of choosing between the woman and a reaffirmation of his vocation as a celibate monk. He chose to cut it off but shortly after, he supposedly died of electrocution ( Aquarius rules electricity) from a fan after getting out of the shower not long after breaking off this relationship. An autopsy was waived by the church.

As we get closer to the elections, I close with this from Merton: “Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but see these things in yourself, not in another.” 

What Merton was not able to reconcile was his own personal passion ( moon conjunct the south node in Leo) and his impersonal mission ( stellium of planets in the 11th).

What we can take from this is to include time in our lives for monastic retreat to be curious and inclusive as to what we are truly passionate about now with non-judgment. What is calling your soul needs a respite from the world as part of every week. Every day taking time to feed your soul by asking it, “what will nourish you today, my friend?” Otherwise, the shadow gets our attention through our addictions.

Astrology Tips for Your Work Week

1. Mars comes back into bounds Monday March 2nd. Hopefully, this will calm everyone down a bit as we move to election day.
2. The moon will go out of bounds on Wednesday March 4th for about 4 hours. With Mercury in retro until March 10th, I would not recommend making any important decisions that day. When a planet goes out of bounds, we see the extreme version of that planet. In the case of Mars, it brought excessive anger out in people. With the moon, we make emotional decisions that we regret when Mercury turns direct and we see more clearly what to do.
3. If you must make a decision on something before March 10 when mercury stations direct, Monday and Thursday are best.

One last quote from Thomas Merton’s journal: “This day of my life will never come again.”Imagine beginning each day with that contemplation.

With great love and affection,

Dr. Toni

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