Emily Ridout | Expanding Astro Understanding: Our 2021 In Review & Looking Forward To A Bright 2022
Emily Ridout is an astrologer, folklorist and master yogini, who's been a frequent returning guest for InnerVerse. Combining her multiple disciplines, Emily not only reads your sky-clock chart, she combines that wisdom with your unique physiology by prescribing movement practices that are perfect for your planetary placements. Today we're going live with this Astro-Yoga guru to talk about 2021 and 2022.
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Core themes
Reading the chart through the body
Emily Ridout describes AstroYoga as astrology that literally affects the body, with the body then used to navigate the sky map toward where a person wants to go. She says that can mean yoga postures, mudra and mantra, or simply choosing activities that resonate the way a placement needs. A first birth chart reading has value, she says, but clients who return month after month get far deeper and more specific advice. She closes by describing her Astrology Academy course starting in January, her on demand AstroYoga teacher training, and memberships with group sessions and a monthly booklet of roughly fifty pages.
Relative truth and holding others in loving awareness
With Mars entering Sagittarius and crossing the lunar south node, Emily says the hallmark of the Sagittarius and Gemini nodes is mistaking a relative truth for the ultimate truth. She argues this is a moment to trust lived experience, the body and intuition over authority, while admitting that opinions, like a favorite ice cream flavor, are meant to stay relative. Heading into the holidays, Chance says meeting family where they are works better than arguing, since our energy is the one thing we control. Emily adds that a frustrating argument reflects something about ourselves, and that no problem is solved at the level at which it was created.
Freedom versus structure in 2021
Emily names the Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus square as the hallmark of 2021, likening it to the myth of Ouranos and Kronos at war. In her reading, Saturn brings restriction, from online censorship to the useful structure of organizing a podcast, while Uranus brings freedom, chaos and surprise, so people wrestled with questions like staying single or marrying. Chance recalls a day that left him with new respect for Saturn's boundaries. Emily also says native Plutonians born roughly from 1984 into the early 1990s met a Uranus opposition that resurfaced old shadow, and that Chiron in Aries exposes where we traded our true self for safety.
Venus retrograde and love that starts within
Emily describes Venus joining Pluto in Capricorn, which she links to the Persephone and Hades story as an allegory for winter, before Venus stations retrograde. In her view beauty is then best sought within, so it is a poor moment to shop for clothes or hunt for a new partner and Capricorn's rule over antiquity invites looking back through folklore and tarot. Chance offers his own view that the only kind of love is self-love, with care for others as its verb, so nobody runs a love deficit. Emily adds the tarot image of cups brought full to the party, and asks couples to separate love from attachment.
What 2022 may bring, in Emily's reading
Emily calls Jupiter entering Pisces to join Neptune the hallmark of 2022, with an exact conjunction around April that she believes could help many people move from knowing esoteric principles to consciously directing them. She ties Pisces to the Moon card, and asks listeners to keep up meditation and to rest, since she says those shifts happen during sleep. She raises floods and waves as a possible pitfall, and Chance mentions Cliff High's web bot forecasting glacial movement. Emily also flags the lunar nodes moving into Taurus and Scorpio in January, the eclipse axis of seed and flower, and a United States Pluto return.
Quotes
“I specialize in astrology but then how astrology literally affects your body, how your body then can be used to navigate your sky map to get where you actually want to go.”
“Our energy is the only thing that we really have the ability to take responsibility for.”
“This is a moment when we can throw out authority and take action based on the inner guidance system that we all have.”
“Soul level powers will be developed in the coming age shift that are so far beyond what we started off life thinking was possible.”
“As Chiron moves through Aries we see the ways in which we've traded our true self for an illusion of safety.”
“Venus, when she turns backwards, she disappears from the external world in a certain way and we then get to experience her inside of ourselves, and so at this time beauty is best sought within.”
“For me it's helpful to think of love as only being self-love, that that's the only kind that exists, and then we've mistaken love for something external.”
“Take heart, you're doing wonderful. The more we can all be conscious of ourselves and our worlds around us, the more we can shift the collective.”
Emily Ridout is a folklorist and AstroYoga specialist who blends astrology, yoga, and tarot; she appeared on InnerVerse (multiple times) to discuss her book AstroYoga for an Aquarian Age.
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