I was skeptical of astrology my entire life. Until I started mapping the patterns against my own life and could not explain what I found. In this episode, I share what shifted my thinking, how I went from dismissing it entirely to using it as one lens for making better decisions as a real estate entrepreneur, and why I now think about it the way I think about weather when planning travel. This is not about horoscopes or sun signs. It is about pattern awareness, knowing the season you are in, and stopping the habit of fighting against your circumstances. If you are an entrepreneur making big decisions without perfect information, this one might give you a different way to think about timing and growth.
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I was skeptical of astrology my entire life. Until I started mapping the patterns against my own life and could not explain what I found. In this episode, I share what shifted my thinking, how I went from dismissing it entirely to using it as one lens for making better decisions as a real estate entrepreneur, and why I now think about it the way I think about weather when planning travel. This is not about horoscopes or sun signs. It is about pattern awareness, knowing the season you are in, and stopping the habit of fighting against your circumstances. If you are an entrepreneur making big decisions without perfect information, this one might give you a different way to think about timing and growth.
I was skeptical of astrology my entire life. It honestly sounded ridiculous to me. How can the location of the planets in the solar system when you were born affect how you are as a human being? But over the last few months, my perspective has shifted and not in the way you might think.
If you are an entrepreneur or real estate investor making big decisions, this might give you a different way to think about timing and growth.
As real estate entrepreneurs, we’re constantly making decisions without perfect information. When to invest, when to scale, whether or not to bring that person onto our team, when to take risks, and when to play it safe. So the question becomes, are there patterns or frameworks that can help us make better decisions?
So, let’s talk about astrology and how that could affect you as a real estate entrepreneur. As I said in the beginning, my thinking with astrology was always how could these planets possibly affect you as a human being? It didn’t make sense. At one point, I was having a conversation with a friend who was bringing up astrology and their lives and I had my normal “this is ridiculous” thought in my brain and then you know what I thought?
If I believe in a divine creator who designed this entire universe, couldn’t it be that that divine creator made it so that all of these things do interact and there is that interplay of impact and energy and it does make a difference? If this was divinely created, maybe there is some connection. Versus if people really felt like this was all a big bang and it was all random, then I feel like it’d be harder to believe in astrology, because there’s no overall plan or creation or system behind that.
So, I thought, you know what? I’m just going to be less skeptical. I’m just going to say, sure, whatever. Maybe it’s not my thing, but I’m not going to necessarily think it’s wrong like I did before. And I think how I felt before is pretty common for a lot of Christians. They believe astrology is conflicting with their beliefs. And I thought, you know what? Maybe it is aligned because we believe in a created ordered universe.
This didn’t mean I suddenly believed in astrology. It just meant I wasn’t as closed off and critical and judgmental of it. And then a few months ago, I went to a wellness retreat. And part of the wellness retreat included an astrology presentation. I listened with this new “maybe it’s not all hokum” mindset.
And what this presenter was speaking about specifically was the Saturn cycle. So Saturn, one of the planets, it takes about 27 to 30 years to make an entire orbit around the sun and return to where it was when somebody was born. And there was a presentation on the effect of Saturn at every 7 years or so as it goes every 90 degrees and you hit what are called squares at the 90 degrees, oppositions at the 180, another square at 270 degrees back to where it was when someone was born and then the Saturn return when it’s back where it was when somebody was born.
Now, these roughly 7-year periods when it gets to this every 90 degree interval are supposedly periods of growth, challenge, and maturity. So, I listened to this, I was like, “Sure, maybe.” And then what I did afterward, I pulled my own birth chart or natal chart, which is where you input into astro.com or some other website your exact date, time, and location of birth.
And based on that, it’s amazing. With technology now, they can give you in an instant the exact location, the chart of all of the planets and the sun and the moon at the time of your birth. And so then I took that, I put it into AI and I said, what were the periods of my key moments with Saturn? These 90 degree intervals, the squares, the opposition, the Saturn return. What were those periods in my life? Dates, years, months, days, years. When exactly did that fall in my life? I was going to test in my own life what this presenter had shared about Saturn and it was crazy.
What are the odds of the results that came up? So to be honest this first Saturn square when I was around seven or eight I don’t remember anything from that point or the opposition necessarily when I was around 14. So when we got to the Saturn square that was around when I was 21 it was crazy. I could not believe it because that period of time was when I got married. You want to talk about a big event in terms of maturity and growth and life-changing, marriage is a pretty big one. And there was no astrologer in my life or advising or being a part of choosing the date when I got married. And yet that really important life event fell during this Saturn square window.
And then when we talk about Saturn return, Saturn being back to its location when I was born, that was a period of time when I gave birth to my first child. So again, you want to talk about big life events. And again, no astrologer was consulted in timing the birth of my first child. And yet, it happened to fall during that window. And what was crazy to me is that I kind of felt like myself and my husband and the people in our lives were helping choose the date of things like our wedding. And the birth of a child was a little bit out of our control. Nature has a part. And yet they also aligned with these supposed periods of growth and maturity.
And that’s when I started to really think, hey, maybe there is a greater power in this astrology than I originally saw and maybe there’s some way that we can leverage that to work with it rather than fighting against it. Now, this is something totally different than what I normally cover and I recognize that. So, I’d love to know in the comments, have you ever looked into astrology? Or do you completely dismiss it? I’d be curious where you land on this. I’d love to hear in the comments.
Now, if you’re still like, “Oh my gosh, this is ridiculous. There’s coincidence.” Let me talk a little bit about what astrology definitely is not. And I am not an expert, and this is what I have learned so far. Astrology is not something that completely controls your life, and that you have no say in it. It’s not making decisions for you. And it’s also definitely not just your sun sign and these horoscopes that you see in the newspaper, popular magazines or anything like that.
First, let’s talk about this sun sign piece. That’s the most popular astrology that you see every day where all of humanity is grouped into just a few different groups based off of the day they were born. And I can see how this would totally create skepticism and it did for me as well. Now, that’s a very simplified version or a pop version of astrology. And I think that in order to really get the benefit of it, you’re having to look at stuff more deeply, like this whole Saturn return that ended up being so in line for me personally. That wasn’t just my sun sign of am I a Libra or a Pisces.
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Now, let’s get back. Using just a sun sign is trying to understand the weather when you only look at temperature. If we know it’s 70 degrees, 70 degrees with zero humidity and sun is going to be totally different than 70 degrees with 100% humidity and sun or 70 degrees and heavy rain. So the sun sign is really just one aspect and it doesn’t give you the full picture just like temperature isn’t going to give you the full picture when it comes to the weather.
So what is astrology? It’s really much more about your full birth chart or natal chart. This includes where the sun, the moon, and all the planets were at the time you were born. And so even if you’ve heard your whole life you’re a Sagittarius or you’re an Aries because that’s where the sun was, that doesn’t necessarily tell your whole picture. What’s going to affect you in the astrology belief is not just where your sun is, but where the moon was and the other planets were at the time of your birth. And then how they interact and go through and affect your life on a daily, monthly, weekly basis as well.
Now, if you want to see what this looks like for yourself, you can go to a site like astro.com. You input your birth date, time, and location. And you can get your birth chart and see not just your sun sign, but all of these other aspects as well. And then the way I think about astrology now is similar to how I think about the weather. Now, those of you who listen a lot, you know that I travel full-time internationally with my family. And one of the key things we consider is weather.
I’m not going to go to Da Nang, Vietnam in October when it rains on average 18 inches per month. I’m going to use what we know about the weather to plan for my best travels. The weather doesn’t control my decisions, but it does help me plan better and help me have the wind at my back and everything working in my favor. And that’s how I view astrology now. It’s awareness of patterns, not control over outcomes.
And I can be aware of these patterns and use them to my benefit rather than fighting against them. As an entrepreneur, I think about this as being aware of the season you’re in. I talked about the Saturn return and how this gives you periods or seasons of a lot of growth and maturity, which can be something that requires some challenge as well. There are different seasons based on how these things interplay. Some that are better for growth, some that are more challenging. And I’m not using this as my primary decision-making tool, but it is becoming one lens that I consider.
So, I’m still early in exploring this. I’m not an expert in astrology, and yet it’s something that I saw that I’d kind of closed off before, and yet I’m immediately seeing it being impactful as I learn more about it. So, thank you for joining me on a different topic today. And again, I’d love to hear your perspective. Drop it in the comments below and let’s see. Are you using astrology? Do you want to use it? I’d love to hear your story. And then join me again next week.