Podcasts about Neptune

Today I'll be talking about Mercury in Sagittarius square to Neptune in Pisces.

A week to question attitudes that hinder you being in your own depths. The Sun and Mercury square Neptune inviting you to check if you're aligned with your visions or under a spells of hopelessness. Later in the week, Venus and Pluto join together initiating a 3-month journey of intense realignment with your deepest values.

April and Jen cut through the fog to bring you the news of the fortnight: Mars squares Jupiter, focusing action and attention on the future; the Pisces First Quarter Moon and Sun square Neptune call for forward motion through foggy conditions; as Venus conjoins Pluto, get rid of whatever doesn't look like love; Mars enters Sagittarius and kicks us out of the nest; Mercury enters no-nonsense Capricorn, and Venus turns retrograde in this sensible sign; and the Gemini Full Moon concludes the Gemini/Sagittarius Lunar Nodes/eclipse cycle. Plus: DIY drawer organizers; when good transits go bad; and the processed cheez food that dare not speak its name (okay, it's imaginary sponsor Velveeta)! Read full show notes for this episode at the BSA pod page! Contribute just $5 or more (or become a monthly ongoing donor!) to receive the super-secret, extra-special Capricorn Solstice bonus episode – a 3-month preview of the planetary action to come! Enjoy past episodes and leave comments at the BSA podcast site! Catch April's weekly column at her website! Read a full transcript of this episode. Episode timestamps: 00:30 – When good transits go bad! April recounts her real-life Instagram horror story, and how it reflects a Mercury/Mars/Saturn/Neptune collision in her birth chart. This is happening to lots of astrologers and others in the wellness community, so PSA: Email folks directly or contact them at their website to work with them! . 04:15 – WEEK ONE (Dec. 6-12) begins with Mars square Jupiter (Dec. 7) at 26.24 Scorpio/Aquarius. Sabian symbols: “A military band on the march” and “An ancient pottery bowl filled with violets.” Stay focused and avoid taking on more than you can handle (Jupiter). . 06:02 – **MOONWATCH** This week brings a First Quarter Moon at 19.13 Pisces (Dec. 10). Sabians: 20 Pisces, “A table set for an evening meal” and 20 Sag, “Men cutting through ice.” The Moon is conjunct Neptune, square the Sun and Mercury. The First Quarter Moon demands action, but we're trying to move forward through foggy conditions. The Sun is “cutting through” the fog, but Moon/Neptune cautions not to move too fast, to sit for a moment with our intuition. This Lunar Phase Family began with the March 13, 2021 New Moon at 23.03 Pisces. . 08:12 – Venus joins Pluto (Dec. 11) at 25.19 Capricorn on the Sabian symbol “A water sprite.” Burn away anything that doesn't look like love. Get rid of possessions that no longer suit you. Learn about letting go of people and situations that aren't right for you. This is the first of 3 conjunctions (the other two are Dec. 25, 2021 and March 3, 2022). Are we enjoying the way we're earning money, and are we being properly compensated for our work? . 13:59 – The Sun squares Neptune (Dec. 11/12) at 20.26 Sag/Pisces. On Dec. 7 Mercury also squares Neptune. Seeing things as they are instead of the way we'd like them to be. . 14:50 – The Sun represents confidence and physical vitality, and when it squares Neptune, some energy can get leaked… so get extra rest. . 15:20 – WEEK TWO (Dec. 13-19) begins with Mars entering Sagittarius (Dec. 13). Energetic Mars in this sign makes leaps of faith and acts on beliefs. Mars conjoins the True South Node (Dec. 15), so it may be time to leave the nest. The lunar nodes leave Gemini and Sagittarius on Jan. 18. With Mars in a fire sign, tempers are shorter, but we let go of the anger faster. . 18:35 – Mercury enters Capricorn (Dec. 13 - Jan. 2). Get serious and get down to business. Start working on plans for the new year. Plenty of time to get your year-end planner and develop your plans! Mercury will turn retrograde on Jan. 14, so now is the time to back up your computer. (And it's always helpful to review Episode 12, Mercury Retrograde: Where Are My Pants?) . 19:55 – **MOONWATCH** We have a Full Moon (Dec. 18/19) at 27.28 Gemini on the Sabian symbol, “A man declared bankrupt.” The Sun sits at 28 Sag, “An old bridge over a beautiful stream.” The Sun and Moon are in a T-square with Neptune, so tie up loose ends and seek the path with empathy. Virgo is the escape point, so make lists and get organized. (Do you buy or recycle your drawer organizers?) . 25:08 – Welcome new imaginary sponsor, Velveeta! . 25:23 – Venus turns retrograde (Dec. 19) at 26.29 Capricorn, and will appear to move backwards until Jan. 29, 2022, at 11.05 Capricorn. How comfortable are we in our bodies? Indulge a bit in what makes you feel good, physically. This is not a great time to initiate things ruled by Venus, but it's great for building nourishing structures and aligning our values with our relationships and finances. Venus was last retrograde May 12-June 24, 2020 in Gemini, and was last retrograde in Capricorn on Dec. 21, 2013-Jan. 31, 2014. . 30:44 – For more weekly planetary highlights, you can always check out April's weekly column at https://www.bigskyastrology.com. . 32:28 – This episode is brought to you by podpals TERRI EHLERT, MICHELLE KAPANEN, and non-imaginary sponsor MINA HABIBI! To support the show (at no cost!) please follow, give us a 5-star rating, or leave a happy review – here's how! And to hear our upcoming bonus Solstice episode exclusively for donors, just contribute $5 or more! You also will receive our rib-tickling bingo card (and our deep gratitude)! Thanks, podpals!  

Anne Ortelee, a nationally (NCGR-PAA Level 3, AMAFA, OPA) and internationally (ISAR) certified astrologer, presents her Cosmic Weekly Weather report. Based on the astrology configurations above our heads, Anne discusses the energy we can expect to experience on Planet Earth during the upcoming week. She offers a brief astrology lesson! You can always book a private consultation with Anne to discuss your personal questions and your chart. The eclipses are here!  The eclipses are here!  Sun is in Sagittarius!  Mercury is in Sagittarius.  Both answer to Jupiter in Aquarius so your horizons are broadening as you head off into your future.  The eclipss end things and herald new beginnings. There is a minor grand trine in the heavens of Mars in Scorpio, Venus/Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces acting as a very deep creative energy for manifesting.  Neptune swirled to a station on Wednesday, December 1 and turned direct making things that stopped July 26, 2021 go forward!.  The tides of our life shift!  Venus in Capricorn is helping you understand the permanent changes taking place in your life.  She is wildly out of bounds ~ things you took for granted as part of your life are moving too.  Mercury is also out of bounds!  Exuberant communications!!  Very unnerving when the earth moves under your feet!  Venus will be in Capricorn until March 2022!   The heavens are swirling in change. What's shaking and rolling in your world? 

A listener with unshakeable faith in their vision for what to do with their life wrote in to ask how to differentiate between one's earthly destiny and what might instead be the reflection of an inflated ego? This week's horoscope touches on lots of social themes, and includes some stressful transits to Neptune and Pluto. Learn about the Venus/Pluto transit that will follow us through all of December so you can make the most of its potential.

An astronomer has no business "believing" in UFOs - but sometimes he has no choice...That's what happened to me. I was an astronomer and planetary scientist for NASA. I worked at observatories and discovered asteroids. I was on mission flight teams to Neptune and Venus, and much more. UFOs were not my thing.But nothing could prepare me for what would happened New Year's Day of 2017.I walked outside and saw - not one, not two, not even three - but four disks descend from the clouds right in front of me. One appeared to be damaged. I took pictures and a video, and had no idea that by doing so I would change my life forever. As word spread I was contacted by USAF Space Command. The military response was swift and powerful. I was ripped out the world of sanitized scientific paradigms, and thrust into the very world I had disparaged: the dark, strange and twisted universe of UFOs. Suddenly my allies were the very ufologists I had fought with my whole life. I wish I could take that day back – but it's too late now…This is that story – my true story – and even now it is still unfolding…

It takes a lot of courage to go into the unknown with discovery rather than fear. You have to believe that you can trust yourself and that life is happening how it needs to - both in the collapse of what will no longer be and the arrival of what now will. You have to be willing to let go of the stories you tell yourself about how you thought it all was going to be when, it  isn't. You can do it.

As Neptune stations direct in Pisces, it feels timely that we drop an episode on this planet of dream, delusion, murk, poetry, music, inspiration, intoxication, and escape (among other themes — Neptune is notoriously hard to "pin down.”)Joining us is our friend and colleague, Stephanie Warner, a poet, astrologer, scholar, and Astrology Writer for @CHANI.app.Together, we explore: dreams, astral projection, the myths of Neptune and Poseidon, midlife transits, Neptune's influence on art and culture, past Neptune-Jupiter conjunctions, and their once-in-a-lifetime (or several lifetimes) conjunction in Pisces, which happens in April 2022. It's a packed episode, and we hope you enjoy (and share with all your friends!) For more on Stephanie Warner, check out her Substack  https://substack.com/profile/22745051-stephanie-warner or IG @dark_moon_astrologyFor more on Jasmine, Kestrel, and Eliza: www.kosmictonic.comFor more information on this episode:The Jupiter-Neptune cycle by Dane Rudhyar - https://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/astroarticles/jupiter_neptune.php

In this episode of the Astrology Hub Podcast astrologer Acyuta-bhava +  Amanda ‘Pua' Walsh, Founder of Astrology Hub discuss the Astrology of 2022 You'll learn... Why Acyuta-bhava feels that 2022 will be a year of “Incremental Awakening”, and what transits are inspiring this theme. About the Jupiter and Neptune conjunction and how this energy will work with Saturn and Uranus in 2022. How you can prepare for 2022 now by developing a spiritual practice that connects with your heart and soul direction. ✨ Grab Your Personalized Astrology Reports Life has never been more full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities. Now you can purchase a personalized astrology report and receive guidance for your life's journey straight to your inbox.

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With watery Neptune now moving forward & the powerful beam of this Sagittarius solar eclipse focused on truth & fairness, the mists of illusion & misdirection are finally clearing. Are we ready to release cozy beliefs in the name of innate wisdom? Have you noticed an enhanced hypersensitivity in the past few weeks as Neptune turned? I share some of my intuitive insights from Egypt. 

Some emotional relief arrives after the weekend and the Solar Eclipse. South node eclipse season emphasizes how we have operated in the past and in the signs of Sag-Gemini, self honesty is key. Venus retrograde in Capricorn will offer us opportunity to re-assess financial issues. Postpone major decisions until late January. Get more details on the public forecasting webinar Dec. 13th. Get on Astro News for the link. Mars in Sagittarius Dec.13 - Jan.24th can be a bit unnerving, impulsive and righteous. Finally, Neptune is now going direct @ 21* Pisces. It forms squares to the Solar Eclipse and Mercury. In addition, Neptune will continue to be a focal point culminating at the conjunction with Jupiter in April. Lots of opportunity for epiphanies and clarity on this grand journey to the core of the Soul.

December kicks off with Neptune stationing direct and the Sagittarius New Moon Solar Eclipse at 12 degrees that wants you to trust yourself even more as new beginnings are underway. Your future self is asking you to be open to the next phase, take a leap of faith, and tap into deep Universal support for what you want to create next in your life. Mars in Scorpio connects with Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Aquarius this week, activating a stronger life force of desire (or unconscious fears) that are driving you forward. It is an inspiring time to go beyond what you have known before and to be open to new energies, especially as they can support expanding your chakras and aura. Much more to share in this week's podcast episode.   ~ 15% off Akashic Records sessions with Jodi Lovoi at www.AkashicConnection.com ~ Akashic Records DNA Protocol transforms at a deep level of your being. Please reach on her website or at jodi@jodilovoi.com ~~ December 2021 Soul Growth Astrology: Discover how the energies of December 2021 are going to be significant in your life by following along with your natal astrology chart. Includes the Sagittarius Solar Eclipse, Gemini Full Moon and energies of the personal planets. Use code DECEMBER to get it for only $11 USD - https://www.mollymccord.online/offers/mm7QmFGo ~ If you can read a natal chart, you can read your Solar Return chart! ~ How To Read Your Solar Return Chart – Discover the main astrology themes and energies on your birthday as Molly teaches you how to interpret your solar return chart over 8 online courses. Use code BIRTHDAY to get it for 50% off now! https://www.mollymccord.online/solar-return-course

About BrianBrian is an accomplished dealmaker with experience ranging from developer platforms to mobile services. Before InfluxData, Brian led business development at Twilio. Joining at just thirty-five employees, he built over 150 partnerships globally from the company's infancy through its IPO in 2016. He led the company's international expansion, hiring its first teams in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to Twilio Brian was VP of Business Development at Clearwire and held management roles at Amp'd Mobile, Kivera, and PlaceWare.Links:InfluxData: https://www.influxdata.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by my friends at ThinkstCanary. Most companies find out way too late that they've been breached. ThinksCanary changes this and I love how they do it. Deploy canaries and canary tokens in minutes and then forget about them. What's great is the attackers tip their hand by touching them, giving you one alert, when it matters. I use it myself and I only remember this when I get the weekly update with a “we're still here, so you're aware” from them. It's glorious! There is zero admin overhead  to this, there are effectively no false positives unless I do something foolish. Canaries are deployed and loved on all seven continents. You can check out what people are saying at canary.love. And, their Kub config canary token is new and completely free as well. You can do an awful lot without paying them a dime, which is one of the things I love about them. It is useful stuff and not an, “ohh, I wish I had money.” It is speculator! Take a look; that's canary.love because it's genuinely rare to find a security product that people talk about in terms of love. It really is a unique thing to see. Canary.love. Thank you to ThinkstCanary for their support of my ridiculous, ridiculous nonsense.   Corey: Writing ad copy to fit into a 30 second slot is hard, but if anyone can do it the folks at Quali can. Just like their Torque infrastructure automation platform can deliver complex application environments anytime, anywhere, in just seconds instead of hours, days or weeks. Visit Qtorque.io today and learn how you can spin up application environments in about the same amount of time it took you to listen to this ad.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. This promoted guest episode is brought to us by our friends at InfluxData. And my guest is titled as the Chief Marketing Officer at InfluxData, and I don't even care because his bio has something absolutely fascinating that I want to address instead. Brian Mullen is an accomplished dealmaker is how the bio starts. And so many of us spend time negotiating deals, but so few people describe ourselves in that way. First, Brian, thank you for joining us. And secondly, what's up with that?Brian: [laugh]. Well, thanks, Corey, very excited to be here. And yes, dealmaker; I guess that would be apropos. How did I get into marketing? Well, a lot of my career is spent in business development, and so I think that's where the dealmaker part comes from.Several different roles, including my first role at Influx—when I joined Influx—was in business development and partnerships. And so, prior to coming to Influx, I spent many years building out the business development team at Twilio, growing that up, and we did a lot of deals with carriers, with Cloud partners, with all kinds of different partners; you name it, we worked with them. And then moving into Influx, joined in an BD capacity here and had a couple different roles that eventually evolved to Chief Marketing Officer. But  that's where the dealmaker comes from. I like to do deals, it's always nice to have one on the side   in whatever capacity you're working in, it's nice to have a deal or two working on the side. It kind of keeps you fresh.Corey: It's fun because people think, “Oh, a deal. You're thinking of mergers and acquisitions, and how hard could that be? You just show up with a bag of money and give it to people and then you have a deal closed.” And oh, if only it were that simple. Every client engagement we have on the consulting side has been a negotiation back and forth, and the idea is to ideally get everyone to the point where they're happy, but honestly, if everyone's slightly unhappy but can live with the result, we'll take that too.And as people go through their own careers it's, you're always trying to make a deal in some form: when you try to get a project approved, or you're trying to get resources thrown at something—by which I generally mean money, not people, though people, too—it's something that isn't necessarily clearly understood or discussed very often, despite the fact that half of what I do is negotiating with AWS on behalf of clients for better contractual terms. The thing that I think takes people by surprise the most is that dealmaking is almost never about pounding the table, being angry, and walking out, like you read the world's worst guide to buying a car or something. It's about finding the win for everyone. At least that's the way I've always approached it.Brian: That's a good point. And actually that wording that you described of finding a win for everybody, that's how I always thought about it. I think about it as first of all, you're trying to understand what the other party—and it could be an individual, it could be a company, it could be a group of companies, sometimes—you're trying to understand what their goals are, what their agenda is and see how that matches with your own; sometimes they're opposing, sometimes they're overlapping. And then everyone has to have some perceived win  in a deal. And it's not competitively; it's more like you just have to have value, that is kind of what the win is – having value in that deal.And so that's the way I always approached it. And doing deals, whether you're in BD or sales, or if you're working with vendors and you're in a different functional role, sometimes it's not even commercial, it's just about aligning resources, perhaps. Our deal might be that you and I are both going to put a collective effort into building something or taking something to market. In another scenario might be like, I'm going to pay for this service that you're delivering, or vice versa. Or we're going to go and bring two revenue-generating products together and take them to market. Whatever it might be, it doesn't matter so much what the mechanics are of the deal, but it's usually about aligning those agendas and in having someone get utility, get value on the other side.Corey: I think that people lose sight of the fact as well, that when you're talking about a service provider—and let's be clear, InfluxData has launched a cloud platform that we'll talk about in a minute—this is not the one-off transactional relationship; once the deal is signed, you've got to work with these people. When they host parts of your production infrastructure, whether you want to admit it or not they're your partner more so than they are your vendor. It has to be an ongoing relationship that people are, if they at least aren't thrilled with it, can at least be happy enough to live with, otherwise it just winds up with this growing sense of resentment and it just sort of leads nowhere.Brian: Yeah, there really is no deal moment. Yes, people sign agreements with companies, but that's just the very beginning. Your relationship evolves from there. We're delivering a product, we're delivering this platform that handles time-series data to our customers, and we're asking them to trust us with their product that they're taking out to market. They're asking us to handle their data and to deliver service to them that they're turning into their production applications. And so it's a big responsibility. And so we care about the relationship with our customers to continue that.Corey: So, I first really became aware of time-series data a few years back during a re:Invent keynote when they pre-announced Timestream, which took entirely too long to come to market. Okay, great. So, you're talking about time-series data. Can you explain what that means in simple terms? And I learned over the next eight minutes that they were talking about it, that no, no, they couldn't. I wound up more confused by the end of the announcement than I was at the beginning.So, assuming that I have the same respect for databases as you would expect for someone whose favorite data store is Route 53—because you can misuse it as a beautiful database—what is time-series data and why does it matter in 2021?Brian: Sure, it's a good question. And I was there in that audience as well that day. So, we think of time-series data as really any type of data that's stamped in time, in some way. It could be every hour, every minute, every second, every half second, whatever. But more specifically, it's any type of data that is generated by some source—and that could be a sensor sources within systems or an actual application—and these things change over time, and then therefore, stamped in time in some way.They can come at different frequencies, like I said, from nanoseconds to seconds, or minutes and hours, but the most important thing is that they usually trigger a workflow, trigger some sort of action. And so that's really what our platform is about. It allows people to handle this type of data and then work with it from there in their applications, trigger new workflows, et cetera. Because the historical context of what happens is super important.And when we talk about sources, it could be really many things. It could be in physical spaces, and we have a lot of IoT types of customers and use cases. And those are things like devices and sensors on the factory floor, out in the field, it's on a vehicle. It's even in space, believe it or not. There are customers that are using us on satellites.And then it can also be sources from within software, applications, and infrastructure, things like VMs, and containers, and microservices, all emitting time-series data. And it could be applications like crypto, or financial, or stock market, agricultural type of applications that are themselves as applications emitting data. So, you think about all these sources that are out there from the physical world to the virtual world, and they're all generating time-series data, and our platform is really specially designed to handle that kind of data. And we can get into some details of what exactly that means, but that's really why we're here. That's what time-series is all about.Corey: And this is the inherent challenge I think we're seeing across the entire industry slash ecosystem. I mean, this is airing during re:Invent week, but at the time we are recording this, we have not yet seen the Tuesday keynote that Adam Selipsky will take to the stage, and no doubt, render the stat I'm about to throw at you completely obsolete. But depending on how you count them, there's somewhere between 13 and 15 managed database or database-like services today that AWS offers. And they never turn things off and they're always releasing new things, supposedly on behalf of customers; in practice because someone somewhere wants to get promoted by launching a new service; good for them. Godspeed.If we look into the uncertain future, at some point, someone's job is going to be disambiguating between the 40 different managed database services that AWS offers and picking the one that works. What differentiates time-series from—let's just start with an easy one—something like MySQL or Postgres—or ‘Postgres-squeal' is how I insist on pronouncing that one. Let's stay away from things like Neptune because no one knows what a social graph database is and I assure you, you almost certainly don't need one. Where does something like Influx work in a way that, “Huh. Running this on MySQL is really starting to suck.”Brian: When and why is it time to consider a specialized tool. And in fact, that's actually what we see a lot with our customers is coming to us around that time when a time-series is a problem to solve for them is reaching the point where they really need a specialized tool that's kind of built for that. And so one way to look at that is really just to think about time-series in general as a type of data. It's rapidly rising. It's the fastest growing data category out there right now.And the reason for that is it's being driven by two big macro trends. One is the explosion of all these applications and services running in the cloud. They're expanding horizontally, they're running in more regions, they're in many cases running on multiple clouds, and so it's just getting big—the workloads are getting bigger and bigger. And those are emitting time-series data. And then simultaneously, you have this  growth of all these devices and sensors that are coming online out in the real world: batteries, and temperature gauges, and all kinds of stuff, both new and old, that is coming online, and those sources are generating a lot of time-series data.So typically, we're in a moment now, where a lot of developers are faced with this massive growth of time-series data. And if you think about some data set that you have, that you're putting into some kind of traditional database, now add the component of time as a multiplier by all the data you have. Instead of that one data, that one metric, you're now looking at doing that every one second in perpetuity. And so it's just an order of magnitude more data that you're dealing with. And then you also have this notion of—when you have that magnitude of data, you have fidelity, you're taking a lot of it in at the same time, I mean, very quickly, so you have  batch or stream data coming in at super high volume, and you may need that for a few minutes or a few hours or days, but maybe you don't need it for months and years.And so you'd maybe dropped down to kind of a lower fidelity for the longer-term. But you really have this  toggling back and forth of the high fidelity and low fidelity, all coming at you at pretty high volume. And so typically what happens is, is when the workloads get big enough, the legacy tools, they're just not equipped to do it. And a developer—if they have a small set of time-series they're dealing with, what is the first thing they're going to do? They're going to look around and be like, “Hey, what do I have here? Oh, I've got Mongo over here. I've got Splunk, or I've got this old relational database, I can put it in.”And that's typically what they'll do, and that works fine until it doesn't. And then that's when they come around looking for a specialized tool. So, we really sit in Influx and, frankly, other time-series products really do sit at that point where people are considering a specialized tool just because the workload has gotten such that it requires that.Corey: Yeah. Taking a look at most of the offerings in the space; anything that winds up charging anything more than a very tiny fraction of a penny—from what you're describing—is going to quickly become non-economical, where it's, “Oh, we're going to charge you”—like using S3: every, I think, 1000 writes cost a penny—“Oh, we're just going to use S3 for this.” Well, at some of these data volumes, that means that your request charge on S3 is very quickly going to become the largest single line item in your bill, which is nothing short of impressive in a lot of cases, but it also probably means that you've taken a very specific tool—like an iPad—and tried to use it as something else—like a hammer—and no one's particularly happy with that outcome.Brian: Yeah. First of all, having usage-based pricing is really important. We think about it as allowing people to have the full version of the product without a major commitment, and be using it in test scenarios and then later in the very early production scenarios. But as a principle, it's important for people that just signed up two hours ago using your product are basically using the same full product that the biggest customers that you have are using that are paying many, many thousands or tens of thousands per month. And so the way to do that is to offer usage-based pricing and not force people to commit to something before they're ready to do it.And so there's ways to unlock lower pricing, and we, like a lot of companies, offer annual pricing and we have a sales team that worked with folks to basically draw down their unit costs on the use of the platform once they kind of get comfortable with their workload. So, there's definitely avenues to get lower price, and we're believers in that. And we also want to, from a product development perspective, try to make the product more efficient. And so we basically are trying to drive down the costs through efficiencies in the product: make it run faster, make queries take less time, and also ship products on top of it that require developers to write less code themselves, kind of, do more of the work for them.Corey: One of the things I find particularly compelling about what you've done is it is an open-source project. If I want to go ahead and run some time-series experiments myself, I can spin it up anywhere I want and run it however I see fit. Now, at some point, if I'm doing this for anything more than, “Oh, let's see how I can misuse this today,” I probably want to at least consider letting someone who's better at running these things than I am take it over. And as I'm looking through your customer list, the thing that strikes me is how none of these things are quite like the other. We're talking about companies like Hulu is probably not using it the same way as Capital One is, at least I certainly hope not. You have Texas Instruments; you also have Adobe. And it sort of runs an entire gamut of none of these companies quite look alike; I have to imagine their use cases are also somewhat varied, too.Brian: Yeah, that's right. And we really do see as a platform, and with time-series being the common problem that people are looking to solve, we see this pretty broad set of use cases and customer types. And we have some more traditional customers like the Cisco's and the IBM's of the world, and then some  relatively new folks like Tesla and Hulu and others that are a little bit more recent. But they're all trying to solve the same fundamental problem with time-series, which is “How can I handle it in an efficient way and make use of it meaningfully in my applications and services?”And we were talking earlier about having some sources of time-series data being in, kind of a virtual space, like in infrastructure and software, and then some being in physical space, like in devices and sensors out in the real world. So, we have breadth in that way, too. We have folks who are building big software observability infrastructure solutions on us, and we also have people that are pulling data off of the devices on a solar panel that's sitting on a house in the emerging world, right? So, you have basically these two far ends of the spectrum, but all using this specialized tool to handle the time-series data that they're generating.Corey: It seems to me that for most of these use cases and the way you describe it, it's more about the overall shape of the data when we're talking about time-series more so than it is any particular data point in isolation. Is that accurate, or are there cases where that is very much not the case?Brian: I think that's accurate. What people are mostly trying to understand is context for what's happening. And so it's not necessarily—to your point—not searching for one specific data point or moment, but it's really understanding context for some general state that has changed or some trend that has emerged, whatever that might be, and then making sense of that, and then taking action on that. And taking an action could mean a couple of different things, too. It could be in an observability sense, where somebody in  an operator type of mode where they're looking at dashboards and paying attention to  infrastructure that's running and then need to take some sort of action based on that. It also, in many cases, is automated in some way: it's either some series of automated responses to some state that is reached that is visible in the data, or is actually kicking off some new series of tasks or actions inside of an application based on what is occurring and shown by the time-series data.Corey: You know what doesn't add to your AWS bill? Free developer security from Snyk. Snyk is a frictionless security platform that meets developers where they are, finding and fixing vulnerabilities right from the CLI, IDEs, repos, and pipelines. And Snyk integrates seamlessly with AWS offerings like CodePipeline, EKS, ECR, and oh so much more.Secure with Snyk and save some loot. Learn more at snyk.io/scream. That's S-N-Y-K-dot-I-O/screamCorey: So, we've talked about, you have an open-source product, which is the sort of thing that most people listening to this should have a vague idea of, “Oh, that means I can go on GitHub and download it and start using it, if it's not already in my package manager.” Great. You also have the enterprise offering, which is more or less, I presume, a supported distribution of this—for lack of a better term—that you then wind up providing blessed configurations thereof and helping run support for that—for companies that want to run it on-prem. Is that directionally accurate, or am I grossly mischaracterizing [laugh] what your enterprise offering is?Brian: Directionally accurate, of course. You could have a great job in marketing. I really think you could.Corey: Oh, you know, I would argue, on some level, I probably do. The challenge I have is that I keep conflating marketing with spectacle and that leads down to really unfortunate, weird places. But one additional area, which is relatively recent since the last time I spoke with Paul—one of the cofounders of your company—on this show is InfluxDB Cloud, which is one of those, “Oh, let me see if I look—if I'm right.” And sure enough, yeah, you wind up managing the infrastructure for us and it becomes a pay-per consumption model the way that most cloud service providers do, without the really obnoxious hidden 15 levels of billing dimensions.Brian: Yes, we are trying to bring the transparency back. But yes, you're correct. We have open-source and we have—it's very popular—we have over 500,000-plus instances of that deployed globally today in the community. And that's typically very common for developers to get started using the open-source, easily recognizable, it's been out for a long time, and so many people start the journey there.And then we have InfluxDB Enterprise, which it's actually a clustered version of InfluxDB open-source. So, it allows you to basically handle in an environment that you want to manage yourself, you manage a cluster and scale it out and handle ever-increasing workloads and have things like redundancy and replication, et cetera. But that's really specifically for people who want to deploy and operate the software themselves, which is a good set of people; we have a lot of folks who have done that. But one of the areas that's a little bit more recent is InfluxDB Cloud, which is really, for folks who don't want to have anything to do with the management; they really just want to use it as a service, send their data in—Corey: Yeah, give me an API endpoint, and I want you to worry about the care, and the feeding, and the waking up at two in the morning when a disk starts filling up. Yeah, that is the best kind of problem from my perspective: someone else's.Brian: Exactly. That's our job. And increasingly, we've seen folks gravitate to that. We've got a lot of folks have signed up on this product since it launched in 2019, and it's really increasingly where they begin their journey, maybe not even going to the open-source just going directly to this because it's relatively simple to get started.It's priced based on usage. People pay for three vectors: they have the amount of data in; they have number of queries made against the platform; and then storage, how much data you have and for how long. And depending on the use case, some people keep it around for relatively short time, like a few days or a couple of weeks. Other folks have it for many, many months and potentially years in some places. So, you really have that option.But I would say the three products are really about how you want to run it. Do you care about running the, kind of, underlying infrastructure and managing it or do you just want to hit an endpoint, as you said.Corey: You launched this, I want to say in 2019, which feels about directionally right. And I know it was after Timestream was announced, so I just want to say first, how kind and selfless it was of you to validate AWS's market, which is, you know how they always like to clarify and define what they're doing when they decide to enter every single market anywhere to compete with everyone. It turns out, I don't get the sense that they like it quite [laugh] as much being on the other side of that particular divide, but that's the best kind of problem, too: again, someone else's.Brian: Yeah, I think that's really true.Corey: The challenge that I have is that it seems like a weird direction to go in as a company, though it is clearly based upon a number of press releases you have made about the success and market traction that you found, it feels, on some level, like it is falling into an older version of an open-source trap of assuming that, “Well, we wrote the software therefore we are the best people you could pick to run it.” That was what a lot of companies did; it turns out that AWS has this operational excellence, as they call it, and what the rest of us call burning through people and making them wake up in the middle of the night to fix things before it becomes customer-visible. But from the outside, there's no difference. It seems, however, that you have built something that is clearly resonating, and in a big way, in a way that—I've got to be direct with you—the AWS time-series service that they are offering has not been finding success.Brian: Thank you for saying that, and we feel pretty excited about the success we've had even being in the same market as Amazon. And Amazon does a phenomenal job at running products at scale, and the breadth that they have in their product lineup is pretty impressive, especially when they roll out new stuff at AWS re:Invent every year. But we've been able to find some pretty good success with our approach, and it's based on a couple of things. So, one is being the company that actually develops and still deploys the open-source is really important. People gravitate to that.Our roots as a company are open-source, we've been a part of and fostered this community over many, many years, and there's a certain trust in the direction that we're taking the company. And Paul, our founder who you mentioned, he's been front and center with that community, pretty deeply engaged for many, many years. I think that carries a lot of weight. At least that's the way we think about it. But then as far as commercial products go, we really think about it as going to where our customers are, going to where developers are. And that could mean the language that they prefer, the language of preference for them. And that could [crosstalk 00:22:25]—Corey: Oh, and it's very clear; it seems that most database companies that I talk to—again, without naming names—tend to focus on the top-down sale, but I've never worked in an environment where the database that will be used was dictated by anyone other than the application developers who are the closest to the technical requirements for the workload. I've never understood this model of, “Oh, we're going to talk to the C suite because we believe that they're going to pick a database vendor based upon who has box seats this season.” I've never gotten that and that probably means I'm a terrible enterprise marketer, on some level. But unlike almost every other player in the database space, I've never struggled to understand what the hell your messaging has meant, other than the technical bits that I just don't have quite enough neurons to bang together to create sparks to fully understand. It is very clearly targeted at a builder rather than someone who's more or less spending their entire life in meetings. Which, oh, God, that's me.Brian: [laugh]. Yes, it's very much the case. We are focused on the developer. And that developer is a builder of an application or service that is seeing the light of day, it's going out and being used by their own end-users and end-customers.And so we care about going to where those developers are, and that could mean going and making your product easily used in the language and tool that customer cares about. So, if you're a Python developer, it's important for us to have tools and make it easy for Python developers. We have client libraries for Python, for example. It also means going to the cloud where your customers are. And this is something that differentiates us as well, when you start looking at what the other cloud providers are offering, in that data—like it or not—has gravity. And so somebody that has built their whole stack on AWS and sure they care about using a service that is going to receive their data, and that also being in AWS, but—Corey: It has to live where the customers are, especially with data egress charges being what they are, too.Brian: Exactly.Corey: And data gravity is real. The cloud provider people pick is the one where their data lives because of that particular inflection in the market.Brian: Absolutely true. And so that's great if you're only going after people who are on AWS, but what about Google Cloud and what about Microsoft Azure? There are a lot of developers that are building on those platforms as well, and that's one of the reasons we want to go there as well. So, InfluxDB Cloud is a multi-cloud offering, and it's equal experience and capability and pricing on each of the three major clouds. You can buy directly from us; you can put it on any of your cloud bills in one of those marketplaces, and to us that's like a really, really fundamental point is to bring your product and make it as easy to use on those platforms and in those languages, and in those realms and use cases where people are already working.Corey: I'm a big believer in multi-cloud for the use case you just defined. Because I know I'm going to get letters if I don't say this based upon my public multi-cloud is a dumb default worst practice for most folks—because it is, on a workload-by-workload basis—but you're building a service that has to be close to where your customers are and for that specific thing, yeah, it makes an awful lot of sense for you to have a presence across all the different providers. Now, here's the $64,000 question for you: is the experience as an InfluxDB Cloud customer meaningfully different between different providers?Brian: It's not. We actually pride ourselves on it being the same. Using InfluxDB, you sign up for InfluxDB Cloud, you come in, you set up your account, create your organization, and then you choose which underlying cloud provider you want your account to be provisioned in. And so it actually comes as a secondary choice; it's not something that is gated in the beginning, and that allows us to deliver a uniform experience across the board. And you may in a future use case, maybe somebody wants to have part of what they're building data living in AWS and maybe part of it living in Azure, I mean, that could be a scenario as well.However, typically what we've seen—and you've probably seen this as well—is  most developers are—and organizations—are building mostly on one cloud. I don't see a lot of  multi-cloud in that organization. But we ourselves need to be multi-cloud in order to go to where those people are working. And so that's the distinction. It's for us as a company that delivers product to those people, it's important for us to go where they are, whereas they themselves are not necessarily running on all three cloud products; they're probably running on one platform.Corey: Yeah. On a workload-by-workload basis, that's what generally makes sense. Anytime you have someone who has a particular workload that needs to be in multiple providers, okay, great, you're going to put that out there, but their backend systems, their billing, their marketing, all the rest, is not going to go down that path for a variety of excellent reasons, mostly that it is a colossal pain, and a bunch of, more or less, solving the same problems over and over, rather than the whole point of cloud being to make it someone else's. I want to thank you for taking so much time to speak to me about how you're viewing the evolution of the market, how you're seeing your move into cloud, and how you're effectively targeting folks who can actually care about the implementation details of a database rather than, honestly, suits. If people want to learn more, where can they find you?Brian: They can go to our website; it's the easiest place to go. So, influxdata.com. You can read all about InfluxDB, it's a pretty easy sign up to get underway. So, I recommend that people get their hands dirty with the product. That's the easiest way to understand what it's all about.Corey: And if you do end up doing that, please tell them I sent you because the involuntary flinch whenever people mention my name to vendors is one of my favorite parts of being me. Brian, thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I appreciate it.Brian: Thanks so much for having us on. 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Some emotional relief arrives after the weekend and the Solar Eclipse. South node eclipse season emphasizes how we have operated in the past and in the signs of Sag-Gemini, self honesty is key. Venus retrograde in Capricorn will offer us opportunity to re-assess financial issues. Postpone major decisions until late January. Get more details on the public forecasting webinar Dec. 13th. Get on Astro News for the link. Mars in Sagittarius Dec.13 - Jan.24th can be a bit unnerving, impulsive and righteous. Finally, Neptune is now going direct @ 21* Pisces. It forms squares to the Solar Eclipse/Mercury. In addition, Neptune will continue to be a focal point culminating at the conjunction with Jupiter in April. Lots of opportunity for epiphanies and clarity on this grand journey to the core of the Soul.

In this episode of the Astrology Hub Podcast, Astrologer Rick Levine and Amanda ‘Pua' Walsh discuss your November Forecast.  You'll learn... Why Rick chose the theme “The end is near” for December, and what transits are powerful this month. About Jupiter moving into Pisces, and what is extraordinary about both Neptune and Jupiter being in this sign. What themes Venus and Pluto could manifest during December and how far they will stretch into 2022. ✨ Grab Your Personalized Astrology Reports Life has never been more full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities. Now you can purchase a personalized astrology report and receive guidance for your life's journey straight to your inbox.

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December offers multiple energy changes that support shifts, lifts, and elevations around themes that perhaps had you in a holding pattern throughout 2021. We've had to sit in certain experiences, situations, healing themes, and dynamics longer than expected in order to dive deeper to the root cause, or foundational energy, where the imprint originated. December has turning points and completions through multiple astrological transiting planets, including Neptune stationing direct, Sagittarius Solar Eclipse, Chiron stationing direct, Venus stationing retrograde, the third Saturn-Uranus square, and the nodes of fate now at 0 degrees of Gemini/Sagittarius. Venus will be conjunct Pluto in Capricorn for most of the month – both direct and retrograde – and the Gemini Full Moon is opposite the Sun conjunct the Galactic Center.  Much more to discuss and share in this podcast episode.   ~~ December 2021 Soul Growth Astrology: Discover how the energies of December 2021 are going to be significant in your life by following along with your natal astrology chart. Includes the Sagittarius Solar Eclipse, Gemini Full Moon and energies of the personal planets. Use code DECEMBER to get it for only $11 USD - https://www.mollymccord.online/offers/mm7QmFGo   2022 Soul Growth Astrology Webinars ~ The major astrology of 2022 and how the energies will show up in your natal chart, including the 4 Mercury retrogrades, Venus retrograde, Mars retrograde, and the 4 eclipses in Taurus and Scorpio. Use code “2022” to get it for only $25 USD for a limited time. Check it out: https://www.mollymccord.online/2022-astrology  

THE END OF AN ERA IS HERE. The last Sagittarius Eclipse is finally hear, symbolizing the end of a year and a half long cycle. Jade and Kara break down how this eclipse can have us letting go of past versions of ourselves, find our purpose, stop apologizing and more. Your favorite astrology podcast is back and also covers the end of Neptune retrograde, what this means for celebrity/influencer culture and more. PLUS: is dreaming big really such a bad thing? Do filters really cause that much damage? Tune in for some juicy discussions paired with life saving advice. BOOK ASTROLOGY READINGS: ✩Kara: intro.co/karanicole ✩Jade: intro.co/jadesalzano WEBSITE: ✩ blameitonthestars.co FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: ✩ www.twitter.com/blmethestars ✩ www.twitter.com/astr0kara ✩ www.twitter.com/astr0jade FOLLOW US INSTAGRAM: ✩ www.instagram.com/blmethestars Sending you good vibes! Xoxo, Jade & Kara --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blameitonthestars/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blameitonthestars/support

On todays episode we discuss Neptune Direct. Neptune will now join Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter in their move forward. Tune in to learn how this will affect each of the signs and what you can do to harness the energy.

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Neptune goes forward this week in Pisces inviting you to open to greater visions and hopes while compassionately nurturing the parts of you feeing caught in hopelessness and overwhelm. At the end of the week a new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius supports us to find new ways to follow our aspirations and spiritual wisdom that lies underneath our grasping strategic mind caught in its certainty about everything!

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For the week of November 29th we have a couple of lovely days at the beginning of the week leading to the New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius Dec 3rd, closing the Wormhole! This week we have special guest Monique Ruffin who is a spiritual coach, astrologer, and the moon mama! Michael and Monique discuss the Pluto Return of the United States of America.  

Anne Ortelee, a nationally (NCGR-PAA Level 3, AMAFA, OPA) and internationally (ISAR) certified astrologer, presents her Cosmic Weekly Weather report. Based on the astrology configurations above our heads, Anne discusses the energy we can expect to experience on Planet Earth during the upcoming week. She offers a brief astrology lesson! You can always book a private consultation with Anne to discuss your personal questions and your chart. The eclipses are here!  The eclipses are here!  Sun is in Sagittarius!  Mercury is in Sagittarius.  Both answer to Jupiter in Aquarius so your horizons are broadening as you head off into your future.  The eclipss end things and herald new beginnings.  Neptune swirls to a station on Wednesday, December 1 and turns direct.  The tides of our life shift!  Venus in Capricorn is helping you understand the permanent changes taking place in your life.  She is wildly out of bounds ~ things you took for granted as part of your life are moving too.  Very unnerving when the earth moves under your feet!  Venus will be in Capricorn until March 2022!   The heavens are swirling in change. What's shaking and rolling in your world? 

Astrology forecast for November 27 – December 3 Chris and Almie talk about the upcoming Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Sagittarius on December 4th. They encourage listeners to take full advantage of this New Moon to set intentions and goals, since the New Moon in January will be butting up against the start of our next Mercury Retrograde which could make for a clunky start to 2022. They discuss Neptune going direct (It had been retrograde since June 25th) and Chris thinks Pluto moving to 25º Capricorn on Tuesday, November 30th could bring some power plays and potential conflict this week. In “Ask A Scorpio”, Chris asks Almie about her rewatch of “Sex and the City” and whether she has a different perspective of the show this time around. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/almie/message

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This is your Horoscope Highlight for the week of November 29 - December 5, 2021, 2021 with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of The Cosmic Calendar, Christopher Renstrom. This week, Neptune, the planet of illusion, vision, and imagination, turns direct and invites us to see what lies beyond the horizon: emotional depth, healing, and most of all... forgiveness. If you'd like more personalized guidance from Christopher, make sure you subscribe to receive your free Weekly Horoscope so you can read what the week ahead will bring for your sun or rising sign, delivered to your inbox every Sunday! Get Your Weekly Horoscope at astrologyhub.com/horoscope ✨ Grab Your Personalized Astrology Reports Life has never been more full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities. Now you can purchase a personalized astrology report and receive guidance for your life's journey straight to your inbox.

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Four of the most exciting names in contemporary R&B - Kirby, Gallant, Baby Rose and Durand Bernarr - discuss the secrets of their craft, from being vulnerable enough to expose what they're going through in the writing room, to thinking of music as candle scents. Kirby started her career by setting herself the challenge of writing a song a day on YouTube - 302 days later she signed to Jay Z's label Roc Nation, and since then she has penned music for Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, and she co-wrote the smash hit FourFiveSeconds with Kanye West, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney. Gallant is an LA-based artist who released his Grammy-nominated debut album in 2016. He's worked with former Music Life host Adrian Younge, 6LACK, and Jhene Aiko; his latest project, Neptune, marks his first release as an independent artist. Also joining the discussion are Baby Rose, an Atlanta-based singer-songwriter who has been tipped as "the new voice of R&B", and Durand Bernarr, one of the most in-demand artists and producers in the world of soul and R&B. He has worked with the likes of Anderson .Paak, The Internet, Thundercat and Kaytranada, and he dropped his full-length album DUR& in 2020.

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The astrology this week holds a lot of energy with personal planets firing up as well as a major shift in Direction as Neptune comes out of months of slumber and goes Direct again. Tune in with Zoe Moon to hear how it may impact your sign.

The last week of November offers uplifting energies for revelations, movement, and healing as many planets interact in supportive conversations. Mercury is now in truth-speaking Sagittarius and will be conjunct the Sun on Nov 28 at 5 degrees, then both planets will enter positive connections with Saturn in Aquarius and Chiron in Aries. December begins with Neptune stationing direct at 20 degrees Pisces, which we can feel physically, emotionally, and energetically as a type of slow down for a bit. You may need to be very clear with your thoughts and words, as well as give yourself more time to rest or reflect, as well as listen to your intuition. Lovely energies moving us into December! More to share in this podcast episode.   Special Offer! 10% off a subscription to The Mountain Astrologer magazine with code MOXIE10 - Check it out: https://mountainastrologer.com/   Only 99 cents! Kindle versions of my books are on sale for a limited time - https://www.amazon.com/Molly-McCord/e/B00APLNK2E/   ~~ December 2021 Soul Growth Astrology: Discover how the energies of December 2021 are going to be significant in your life by following along with your natal astrology chart. Includes the Sagittarius Solar Eclipse, Gemini Full Moon and energies of the personal planets. Use code DECEMBER to get it for only $11 USD - https://www.mollymccord.online/offers/mm7QmFGo

Les scientifiques n'avaient encore pu observer toutes les formes de l'eau. Avec la mise au point d'un échantillon stable de "glace noire", le quatrième état de l'eau, c'est désormais chose faite.Une glace aux propriétés très différentesSur Terre, nous connaissons l'eau sous trois formes : liquide, solide et gazeuse. Mais, depuis la fin des années 1980, les scientifiques pensaient qu'elle pouvait se présenter sous une quatrième forme : celle d'une glace particulière, qu'on appelle "superionique" ou "noire".Très récemment, les chercheurs ont pu observer un échantillon de cette glace, qu'on ne trouve pas à l'état naturel sur notre planète. En effet, elle ne se forme que dans des conditions de très forte pression et de températures extrêmes.Sous l'effet de ces facteurs, les atomes d'oxygène et d'hydrogène qui constituent l'eau vont se dissocier. Les premiers se structurent d'une autre manière, tandis que les seconds se déplacent librement.Cette glace ne ressemble en rien à celle que nous connaissons. Elle est chaude et présente moins de densité. Elle se révèle également une excellente conductrice, au même titre que le métal. Enfin, sa réaction à la lumière lui donne une coloration sombre, d'où son nom.Un échantillon de glace noire plus stablePour mieux connaître les propriétés de cette glace superionique, il fallait pouvoir l'observer. En effet, toute la difficulté consiste à recréer des conditions de température et de pression qui n'existent pas sur Terre et qu'il est délicat de reconstituer en laboratoire.En 2019, des chercheurs arrivent enfin à reproduire ces conditions extrêmes. Mais l'échantillon qu'ils obtiennent, très instable, ne se maintient que quelques nanosecondes.Deux ans plus tard, d'autres scientifiques ont réussi à stabiliser cette glace noire. Pour y parvenir, ils ont eu recours à une technologie innovante : un puissant accélérateur de particules et une cellule à enclume de diamant, capable d'atteindre des niveaux de pression et de température très élevés, ont ainsi permis la production de cet échantillon.Ces recherches devraient permettre de mieux comprendre les conditions dans lesquelles cette glace noire doit certainement se former dans des planètes géantes comme Neptune ou Uranus. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One last reading spot available for 2021 at http://www.quietmindastrology.com Get your free birth chart and schedule a reading at http://www.quietmindastrology.com Follow on Instagram: @QuietmindAstrology Subscribe on YouTube: Quietmind Astrology YouTube Channel My Yoga podcasts: http://www.quietmind.yoga/podcasts Keywords: Astrology, Jyotish, Vedic Astrology, Quiet Mind, Jeremy Devens, Jupiter, Neptune, Horoscope, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Rahu, Ketu, Sun, Moon, Aries, Taurus
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Welcome back beautiful souls. This we on the 21/22 we are moving into Sagittarius Season ♐ moving out of the shadows and into the light of our next chapter. A renewal of energy. Next week we have the Solar eclipse in Sagittarius ♐ 23/24 moon wobble Energy can feel of balance for a lil bit. 28 sun conjunction Mecury Bringing clarity, clear thinking. 29/30 Goddesses asteroid Representative of independence Sexuailty. Venus sextile Neptune heart chakra awakening clearing expansion. Namaste Hazel Website https://cosmicangel555.wixsite.com/cosmicangel555

For the week of November 22nd we move into the Sagittarius Mansion, Mercury is in Sagittarius, Venus is in its Retrograde shadow in Capricorn, the Sun and Mercury meet up on the 28th, and Saturn and Chiron hit a sextile in their third triple transit.   This week we cover mice, rabbits and the theatre. 

April and Jen celebrate an eclipsy second Podiversary, as we move up to the Varsity team and bring you another two-week episode chock full o' planetary highlights: The last of the Gemini/Sagittarius eclipse series, along with a details-versus-big-picture Virgo Last Quarter Moon; Mercury busts into Sagittarius, Kool-Aid Man style; hasty Mars is influenced by helpful, healing Neptune; and the god of the seas turns direct (reminding us of our very first episode!). Plus: The look, the feel of cotton; socks as the perfect anniversary gift; and we are happy, peppy, and bursting with love! Read full show notes for this episode at the BSA pod page! Enjoy past episodes, leave comments, or make a contribution at the BSA podcast site! The Moonwatch segment is brought to you by our non-imaginary sponsor The Witches Are Watching podcast! It's eclipse season, so order a personalized Followed by a Moonshadow eclipse report if it suits your fancy! Read a full transcript of this episode. Episode timestamps: 00:30 – April and Jen are wearing their imaginary BSA cotton t-shirts as they celebrate two years podcasting together! . 01:36 – Help-y, healthy, and bursting with love: If you're reading show notes that are cut off, please know that we always upload full show notes to the episode webpage! And a reminder that Spotify listeners may need to re-follow if you're not getting new episodes in your feed! . 02:59 – WEEK ONE (Nov. 22-28) begins with Mercury busting into Sagittarius (Nov. 24 – Dec. 13) and we may struggle to put large concepts into words. Think big – but beware of making promises you can't keep! . 06:37 – This week's Moonwatch segment is brought to you by our non-imaginary sponsor, The Witches Are Watching podcast! Find them wherever you listen! . 08:44 – Interested in sponsoring Moonwatch? We'd love to chat! Let us know: April(at)bigskyastrology(dot)com . 09:10 – **MOONWATCH!** This week brings a Last Quarter Moon (Nov. 27) at 5.28 Virgo on the Sabian symbol, “A merry-go-round.” The Sun sits on sporty 6 Sag, “A game of cricket.” Try to find a balance between Virgo's attention to detail and Sag's big-picture ideas. . 11:58 – Mercury joins the Sun at 7.10 Sagittarius (Nov. 28/29) in a superior conjunction. Beware of hearing only what you want to hear. . 13:28 – WEEK TWO (Nov. 29 – Dec. 5) begins with Mars, at 20.24 Scorpio, trine Neptune in Pisces (Nov. 29). This could be a time to act on behalf of others, or on faith. It's a good week to get a little extra rest if you can! . 15:16 – The Sun, at 8.57 Sag, sextiles Saturn in Aquarius (Nov. 30). This indicates that perhaps a spirit of adventure will lead to opportunities for future success! . 15:51 – Why are Sagittarius and Aquarius compatible? (And – oops! – Jen was so darn close (and yet slightly off) on the episode about the elements: Revisit Episode 36, A Mini-Class for the Dog Days: Elements & Modalities. And to learn more about the sextile aspect, lend your ears to Episode 16, Let's Talk about Sextiles). . 17:23 – Neptune turns direct at 20.24 Pisces (Dec. 1) after being retrograde since June 25. (And to find the webinar that Jackie Slevin did, check out NCGR's website!) To hear more about Neptune turning direct, review our very first podcast, Episode 1, Sagittarius New Moon: Stars Over Thanksgiving! . 19:12 – Here's a little more info on NCGR , astrology-loving podpals! . 20:00 – Here's where to order a personalized Followed by a Moonshadow eclipse report! . 20:56 – **MOONWATCH!** There is a New Moon Solar Eclipse at 12.22 Sagittarius (Dec. 3/4)! This is the last eclipse in the Gemini/Sag series until Oct. 2029, so this eclipse may have a “final exam” feel to it; this area of your chart has been getting attention. . 23:58 – Previous eclipses at this point: June 2020, June 2012, Dec. 2002, June 1993, and Dec. 1983. Which houses and what planets are in your chart between 8°-16° of Gemini, Virgo, Sag, and Pisces? Does anything from those times echo now? (And do visit Episode 5, Unboxing Eclipses if your ears want more!) . 25:34 – Could this Sag New Moon Eclipse be a good time to look ahead to 2022? Can it help set us up in a big-picture way? . 28:50 – This episode is brought to you by podpals Laurie Schaeffer, Carla Eno, and Shellie Crow! To support the show (at no cost!) please follow, give us a 5-star rating, or leave a happy review – here's how! And to hear our upcoming bonus (donor-only) Solstice episode, just contribute $5 or more! You also will receive our rib-tickling bingo card! Thanks, podpals!

Welcome to this edition of the EP podcast on “Sagittarius Season 2021” - where Jack Marsh and I put our astro lens' on the Sag ingress chart to pull out the characteristics these next 30 days unravel. Next, we dissect the south node and cazimi action that leads us into the final eclipse that wraps up the Gemini / Sag eclipse axis that has been dominating the celestial story for the past 18 months. We also talk about the significations of the archer, Jupiter coming back into focus, and the stations of Neptune, Chiron, and the star of the last episode's planetary focus, Venus! I always love chatting (and laughing) with Jack, and there is much for us to riff on in this closing out season of the year… so sit back, grab the popcorn, and join us on this journey that is Sagittarius season! Visit Jack: www.geminijack.com IG @jackpxmarsh Mel & Energetic Principles: Website: https://www.energeticprinciples.com/ Courses: https://www.learningthestars.com/ IG @energeticprinciples SIGN UP FOR “THE HEAVENLY WIND” MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/dytZHf

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Special workshop this Saturday: Yoga to Stress Less & Thrive Through The Holidays Get your free birth chart and schedule a reading at http://www.quietmindastrology.com Follow on Instagram: @QuietmindAstrology Subscribe on YouTube: Quietmind Astrology YouTube Channel My other podcasts: http://www.quietmind.yoga/podcasts Keywords: Astrology, Jyotish, Vedic Astrology, Quiet Mind, Jeremy Devens, Jupiter, Neptune, Horoscope, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Rahu, Ketu, Sun, Moon, Aries, Taurus
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 620: Why Getting to the Outer Worlds is So Difficult by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Good News! Over the next few years we're gonna see a flotilla of new missions headed to Jupiter and Saturn. Why aren't we seeing more missions to the outer planets like Uranus and Neptune, even Pluto? It turns out those places are far away. Today let's talk about the challenges of exploring the outer, outer solar system.

For the week of November 15 we talk about all things Eclipse season.   This week we cover what pooping in your dreams mean.

My book Neptune in Pisces an Astrological Search for Enlightenment is on special offer ONLY until the 30th November 2021 on this direct link https://books2read.com/u/bQVw60 This week I am covering Jupiter & Saturn conjunct natal and/or transiting. https://www.astrowow.com/ Adrian Duncan's website with the fab software Horoscope Interpreter Here is the natal chart of Mother Meera https://www.mothermeera.com/ Sag Asc, Sun Capricorn, Moon Aries. Jupiter 12 degrees 42 minutes Capricorn conjunct Saturn 18 degrees 53 minutes Capricorn   Storming of the Capitol in USA Transits in Donald Trumps's chart Jupiter 3 degrees 56 mins Aquarius & Saturn 2 degrees 12 mins Aquarius conjunct to each other transiting opposition Trump's natal Pluto in Leo in the 12th   Kae Tempest natal http://www.kaetempest.co.uk/ Showing transit of Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto conjunct: all retrograde on the day they made their announcement. Saturn is the 'ruler' to their Sun sign of Capricorn Uranus in Taurus transiting conjunct natal Moon in Taurus (please note I haven't changed their name on my account coz of my filing system) Their announcement on Instagram

Learn about how someone can change their identity (and their mind); and “mushballs” on Uranus and Neptune. Plus: trivia! More from Lee McIntyre: Pick up "How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason": https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Science-Denier-Conversations/dp/0262046105  Website: https://leemcintyrebooks.com/  Follow @leemcintyre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leecmcintyre  More on Jim Bridenstine changing his mind about climate change:  Pomeroy, R. (2018, June 12). Trump's NASA Chief Changed His Mind on Climate Change. Space.com; Space. https://www.space.com/40857-trumps-nasa-chief-changed-his-mind-on-climate-change-he-is-a-scientific-hero.html  "Mushballs" may solve a mystery about the atmosphere on Uranus and Neptune by Briana Brownell Next-Generation NASA Instrument to Study Uranus & Neptune Atmospheres. (2019). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/next-generation-nasa-instrument-advanced-to-study-the-atmospheres-of-uranus-and-neptune  ‌NASA thinks it's time to return to neptune with its Trident mission. (2020). NASA thinks it's time to return to Neptune with its Trident mission. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-06-nasa-neptune-trident-mission.html  Episodes referenced in this month's Curiosity Challenge Trivia game:  Aging trick: https://www.curiositydaily.com/blowhole-origins-weather-manipulation-how-to-slow-aging  Emotional hangovers: https://www.curiositydaily.com/your-extra-artery-emotional-hangovers-leds-are-bad-for-bugs/  Painkillers: https://www.curiositydaily.com/pills-can-detect-radiation-metabolism-myth-waking-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-bed/  Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to learn something new every day withCody Gough andAshley Hamer. Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.