Cosmic Riptides: Crunchy and Ragey

The Awake Space with Laurie Rivers is 100% Listener Supported! Find astrology you can use and amazing community at The Awake Space CommunityLinks:The Archivist Report - Each month the archivist reports on Laurie's accuracy rating - SeptemberAstrology Consults: Wokeastrology.com2027 Prepared: Astrology Based Planner & Workbook Buy HereArticle: When Life Hits From All SidesOctober is officially crunchy.In this episode of The Awake Space Astrology Podcast, Laurie Rivers gets personal about a difficult week filled with grief, family changes, exhaustion, and the reality that astrologers aren't immune to the transits they forecast.With Mercury and Mars creating tension and Pluto preparing to station direct in Aquarius, Laurie explores what happens when life pushes us outside our comfort zones. The pressure is real, but so is the potential to use it creatively and deliberately.This episode also takes a deeper look at anger, spirituality, power, and the idea that being spiritual does not require being passive. Love can be active. Advocacy can be loving. Anger can carry useful information. The question isn't whether you're allowed to feel it. The question is: What are you going to do with it?Laurie shares reflections on watching people she loves age, saying goodbye to a beloved family dog, and witnessing the strange, painful beauty of life's transitions. She also talks about learning to look for beauty during difficult circumstances and why regulating our emotions isn't the same thing as suppressing them.As Pluto prepares to move direct in Aquarius, we're entering a period when people may be increasingly unwilling to accept old hierarchies, abuses of power, and systems that depend on silence or passivity.The challenge this week is to use the pressure rather than letting it consume you.Create something. Advocate for something. Help someone. Rest when you need to rest. Feel what you need to feel. Then decide where you're going to put your attention next.Laurie also shares a preview of Living by Luna, her six-month guided process for observing your patterns, reactions, energy, and responses through daily lunar transits. You'll hear a sample from the introductory audio created for participants while they wait for their physical Living by Luna journal to arrive.00:03 October is crunchy: what to expect this week02:18 Why spiritual passivity isn't the answer03:30 Living by Luna and learning to recognize your patterns08:34 Aging, family, grief, and saying goodbye22:34 Mercury square Mars: tension, communication and forced pivots25:34 Why we're still having the same conversations about power and abuse27:29 Pluto direct in Aquarius and power to the people28:49 Turning anger and angst into creativity31:17 Rage against the dying of the light33:45 Purpose, passion and showing up36:07 Spirituality doesn't require accepting another hit39:31 Love isn't passive40:11 What are you going to do with your anger?41:20 Ralph Report and Predictions44:46 Justice can't erase the past, but healing can build something new45:30 A preview of Living by LunaThis isn't a week for pretending everything is fine. It's a week for recognizing what you feel without allowing those feelings to permanently take you out of the game.Sometimes you need to fall down. Sometimes you need to grieve. Sometimes you need to rage.And when one of us falls, the rest of us guard the flame until they can stand again.Every morning is another chance to reset.