EPISODE 151 · NOV 15, 2023 · 1H 09M
Sarah DeHaven Astro Update & Guidance
EPISODE 151 · SARAH DEHAVEN
Astro Update & Guidance
Sarah DeHaven returns to walk through the astrological weather of late 2023 — Pluto's warning shot into Aquarius, Venus retrograde in Leo for the first time in decades, Mars closing a cycle with Pluto in Scorpio. The pressure test is on: how serious are you about living as who you came here to be?
Joel, Yerasimos, and Sarah move through victim consciousness projected onto global suffering, the inner tyrant that refuses individuation, Scorpio's demand to look at the taboo darkness inside, and the closing Saturn-Neptune cycle dissolving the illusion that the system works. The conversation asks: what do you do with mass suffering on display when you can't turn it down? How do you navigate uncertainty when emotional maturity is still young in the species? Where are you generating life versus squeezing it out through control?
- Pressure to honor your values Pluto's spring preview in Aquarius was a warning shot: how serious are you about becoming who you are? Venus retrograde in Leo for the first time in decades brought the question sharply into focus — what matters to you? What do you need to feel alive? The closing Mars-Pluto cycle in Scorpio demands purging of addictions and patterns that kept you alive in the past but now block growth. The opportunity: get real about what motivates your behavior.
- Victim consciousness as pathology People sitting in opulence watching others be victimized, projecting their own victimhood onto the screen rather than living their own hero's journey. The victim mentality is low-vibrational — shame, guilt, despair, fear, pride. It doesn't create life, it does the opposite. When you ignore the call to live as who you came here to be, pathology results. The alternative: push up into courage, take action in your own life if you want to change what's happening in the world.
- The inner tyrant The tyrant isn't only on the outside. When you try to force another person to live based on a paradigm you think reality should conform to, it's tyranny. The Uranus-Mars opposition shows this: people refusing to individuate will manipulate reality to feel control. Real opportunity in the transits: see where you're manipulating to convince yourself you have power, when the only thing you can actually control is yourself — and sometimes the best way to control an outcome is to let things move through you.
- Scorpio's real truth-seeking Scorpio at high consciousness wants to know the truth. It wants to get to the core of reality and see it for all its ugliness — taboo, fucked up, freaky, weird, disgusting. There's beauty at the core of that darkness. The necessity to see these things for what they really are is how we grow. Most people won't look because of the fear of what it means about their value. The subconscious is where all that 'evil' is, and refusing to go there keeps you trapped.
- Dissolving the sandcastle Saturn closing on Neptune in Pisces: the dissolving of what we thought was reality, the disillusionment that the system doesn't work. Some will claw to put the sandcastle back together. Nature is asking us to let go — feel what you're feeling, all of it, without identifying with it. Don't keep remembering World War II and blood wars. Remember your power, your genius. Nature always works in our favor. We're on the precipice of a new cycle with the opportunity for a renaissance if we value ourselves and get out of apathy.
- Emotional expression vs. emotional mastery The culture only accepts emotional expression when it's pleasant. But sometimes expression is necessary to evolve, get feedback, transform, connect heart to heart. Asteroid Chaos moving into Cancer for decades signals a massive initiation in how we relate to our emotions — dissociate or engage. Emotions need recognition, but we're still figuring out how to use them properly. Repeating patterns without self-honesty is the trap. When anger or rage arise after a lifetime of repression, it won't look pretty at first.
- The divine is everywhere God resides in all realms — video game storylines, song lyrics, dreams, jokes whispered while walking alone. The air element realm includes the internet. Divine guidance comes through memes, conversations, random clicks. Sarah talks to the divine constantly, has quiet time alone to connect. The message in a low moment: 'I brought you here because you were supposed to be here. I don't want anyone else. I want you.' The more you relax your body — even muscles around the scalp — the more you connect to guidance.
- The Lucifer archetype Lucifer in the natal chart shows where sabotaging evil hides in the psyche — pride, hubris, masochism, sadism. The Lord of Lies side uses emotions to convince you the trajectory and choices are what you want, until you look back and realize: this isn't where I wanted to go. The Bearer of Light side stands against false gods and authorities, shines as the one most favored by the divine. Sifting through the gross stuff reveals the greatest power. The Lucifer Report reading scrutinizes this force thoroughly to transmute it.
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"Most people do feel like something's wrong, but they may not know what to do, because there's immediate practical issues that are on their plate right now, too, like money, resources. When you're in survival mode, and then you got all this going on, and then humanity does have a compassionate heart — it can feel so overwhelming."
Sarah DeHaven
"It's the inner tyrant. It's very, very easy to assume that the tyrant is on the outside, but when you're trying to force another person to live a life based on a paradigm that you think the reality should be based on, it's tyranny."
Sarah DeHaven
"Scorpio wants to know the truth. It wants to get to the core of a reality and see it for all its ugliness, no matter how fucked up, pardon my language, freaky, weird, taboo, disgusting it is. It wants to see it because there's something at the core of what that is, and it's the truth. And it's actually beauty."
Sarah DeHaven
"We're at this point, we just got through a three-year experiment on humanity, and a lot of people were severely traumatized by that and haven't even had the time to process that trauma. And then now stuff like this is happening — constant, perpetual war, more egregious wars after the next."
Sarah DeHaven
"I honestly feel that part of the problem is that we don't accept emotional expression unless it's something very pleasant for us to experience. And part of where my growth has come from — sometimes expression is necessary in order to evolve, in order to get the feedback we require, in order to transform, in order to meet someone heart to heart."
Sarah DeHaven
"If you're not an advocate of repression, obviously in the beginning stages when a person is starting to feel and express, it's not going to look pretty. But if you're repeating these patterns over and over again and you're not getting the things that you want, this is where self-acceptance and self-honesty comes into play."
Yerasimos
"Maybe the vulnerability that's triggered in people is that if what the other person is saying is true, what does that say about me and what I believe? Most people don't sit with that, so they go into attack, judgment, self-righteousness — because it feels better to be self-righteous than fucking confused and vulnerable."
Yerasimos
"I'm an optimist. There's just something in humanity that just won't lay down and die."
Sarah DeHaven
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