EPISODE 16

SHOWNOTES:

In this conversation, Briana Mystic discusses how astrology has changed her life and how it can provide insight and support for self-discovery. She shares her personal experience with astrology, including her fascination with the subject since high school and how it validated her understanding of herself.

Briana explains the significance of the sun, moon, and rising signs in a birth chart and how they contribute to one's identity and personal growth. She also emphasizes the importance of understanding and compassion for others through astrology. Briana highlights the potential for astrology to provide guidance and awareness during challenging times and encourages listeners to explore their own birth charts.

TRANSCRIPT:

Chicky, chicky, chicky. Chicky, chicky, chicky. Chicky, chicky, chicky.

Do you like that one? That was a new one. Hello, my little chickens and welcome to Cosmic Conversations. What is going on today? I hope you are having a beautiful day. This is stupid.

What is up my little chickens? And welcome to Cosmic Conversations. If you're new here, I'm your host Breana Mystic. And I'm your spiritual mentor. I'm your galactic bestie. I am really all of the things. Entrepreneur, spirit, lead, all the things. I don't even know what I am anymore. So I just stopped. I don't know how to define myself. I just am.

So, and so are you. So I'm here to help you feel not alone navigating this crazy world that we're living in and navigating your own mind, your own heart, your own soul. Navigating this human experience to the best of our abilities. Trusting that you're not crazy and you're gonna be okay. We're growing through challenges. We're doing the damn thing. We're doing our best and knowing that that's all that we can do.

and then surrendering and giving it to God and all the things. And when I say God, I don't mean like I'm not religious again or anything like that. Just God as in source universe God, okay? Now.

You know what I realize is I say now a lot, which is just such a bad habit. I used to say and so all the time and then I stop that and I think that I've replaced it with the word now. So it's fine, all good, we're just gonna go with it. If you don't make any video content yourself, it's honestly more challenging than it looks.

There are so many little pieces and things that you need to set up. It's a lot, honestly.

So props to all of the long -term content creators that do this because it is not, it's really not easy. There's so much that goes into everything that we really don't even talk about. We really don't even know about. And I think that goes to say, that's like a lot of things that look easy, that look simple, that look flawless, that look well done. Think about Simone Biles, right? She does.

things up in the air. She's up 12 feet above Shaq's height and.

She makes it look flawless, but do you think it's actually easy? She has been practicing her entire life. Like obviously it's not easy. And anyone who's done any amount of gymnastics or cheerleading or tumbling would know none of that is easy. And any stretch of the imagination, obviously she's literally at the Olympics so it can't be easy, but she makes it look easy. So that's to be said with like a lot of things is when you see somebody

and it looks so effortless, just know there's a lot of effort I think that goes into these things. Like, I really have been trying so hard to get these recordings to be good and I sort of, there's like always something and I'm like, God, I think it's just God telling me that I should just still be okay being imperfect. And you know what that leads into? Today's topic, that was good.

So today's episode is all about astrology and specifically how astrology has changed my life. And with this, I'm hoping that you can see yourself in me in some ways. So how astrology changed my life and maybe I can change yours too. Now, before we get started, I just wanted to do a little shout out for Hydroflask. I'm not working with everything, but I just got this.

And now I understand, I gotta get that out of the frame. Now we understand why everybody is all obsessed with Stanley cups.

because they're legit. I have drank in so much water in the past few days, way more water than I normally drink. And like I've been trying to be good with water, but anyways, it's so much easier when you have like this big gulp thing and it's easy to open and close. It's super easy. Like even like twist off things too much work. And then I get grossed out because I think there's mold in it or something. So anyways, this hydro flask, we're only a couple of days in but.

I think it's, I think it's she's a win. I brought her to yoga today and I was just like so good. So I've been only putting water in maybe a little pinch of salt for hydration purposes, but no like other ingredients so far have been inside. So today's topic is all about astrology and it was.

prompted because this month's theme, this month's master class in Follow Your Heart Academy is astrology basics. Really getting to understand your natal chart and just learning about yourself. And so what a perfect way to kick this off with just a little share about how

and why, you know, astrology really has changed my life.

It's becoming so popular these days and rightfully so. Like thank God it's becoming popular as a whole because it's wonderful when used in a way that's actually empowering and supportive. You we don't want to give too much power to any of these tools because that would be outsourcing your own power, which is not what we want to do.

I personally like it because it always just validates something that I already know. Or it gives me insight into something that I've already observed, right? And so it's just like this, I kind of keep calling it a check and balance. It's kind of stupid, but that's kind of how I've been seeing it where I'm like, I noticed this thing. And then it's totally just written in the stars. It's like, well, no wonder I've been feeling that. It's like,

very obvious in their chart or in my chart or whoever's chart, then that's going to be part of their personality or part of your personality.

Let's get started in the very beginning. Well, I guess just want to give you an idea of kind of how long I've been involved or interested in this topic, in this topic of study. So when I was in high school, like obviously when you're a little kid you read your horoscopes and stuff or maybe not everyone but I think so. It like in all the magazines you know Gemini or you you get to read your thing for the week and those were I didn't really like think anything of them. I think everybody kind of just laughed at it and would read it and just really didn't think anything of it right.

But once I was in high school and I started to get curious, I started to question things a bit more. I really started to like question authority and question the system. And I this was like around my, I mean, I really started doing this in middle school, but like, I think, honestly, I don't know. So what I do know is that

junior year, senior year of high school, I got my first book about astrology. And it was just like, all you need to know about astrology. And I remember getting this book and I was like, I think I've found the secret code to life. And I obviously didn't, but I kind of did. And I remember I was like, okay, like I would, I would write notes. Cause back in the day I was like a very good student.

Like I really loved school. I, you know, obviously within reason, you know, but like more than the next person, I enjoyed learning so much. Like I loved taking notes. I loved just, I just loved it. You know, I love to learn. I love knowledge. And so I grabbed this astrology book and I'm taking beautiful notes. Like I always say like really good notes, you know, and I was like really like trying to memorize.

all of these things to like really learn what different signs are and placements and charts and like things like that. Right. And so this is in 2000 and you know, 12, 13, 14, I really started to like dive in. And it's funny because at my core, right at the at my base level, I am a Gemini, if you didn't know. And in Western astrology,

If you have no idea what these are, there's multiple types of astrology. And so I'm going to be speaking on Western astrology right now. That's like the modern astrology. But Vedic astrology is another type. There's multiples, but it's also very, very good. But just for sake of the podcast, we're just going to speak on Western astrology. And I think it has something to do with the procession of the equinoxes, all these different ones and ways of calculating things. So.

I look up and I'm like, I'm a Gemini son and I have another Gemini placement and I always really did resonate with being a Gemini. And it's funny because Geminis get like the worst rap. Like these days people rip on Geminis. And you know why? I wasn't gonna share this on here but I actually had a conversation about somebody about this with someone this past weekend because he, this guy was a Gemini and he's like, do you ever get like...

lot of crap from people that like think that you're just the worst person ever but really you're like I don't know what you're talking about I'm really not but it's just because you're a Gemini people lump you in with being like bad or something but you just don't really understand and what I said to him was like my gosh I completely understand and he seemed like so confused and so lost like doesn't know what to say to people when they say this to him because he didn't really get it and what I said to him was this was I said look Gemini is

very misunderstood and it also because it really deeply understands duality and deeply understands all of the perspectives of all of the situations.

that it can... Gemini energy on its own isn't necessarily considering what's moral, it's just concerned with the information. And so with the right, or wrong, brain, it can convince itself of anything, right? So like there's a lot of serial killers that are Geminis. And when I was really young, I used to think it was so fascinating to study these serial killers because like...

some part of me I feel like I could understand how somebody could, not like I ever thought about doing anything like that, but like I could understand, I just thought it was very fascinating. I could understand how somebody could be driven to do something really crazy by their own mind letting them do it. And without very deep access to the heart, without like unhealed Gemini energy can be very toxic.

The Gemini is not thinking of it as toxic because they're just understanding all of the perspectives and seeing it all the ways and everything's fine. So it's all good. However, when you do some healing work and you heal, obviously you realize more things about what's important in life and more different kinds of values and so...

I think this is why if you've had a lot of trauma or someone you know who's a Gemini has had a lot of trauma, especially very young, they grew up with very fuzzy and confused type of...

mental space and so the therefore can convince themselves of anything. I don't know, this is what I think. And so it can be very toxic. It can be two -faced. It can be that. But at its highest expression, it can open you up to new perspectives and new beautiful ideas that maybe you hadn't ever seen or thought of before. can break you out of your rigid way of thinking.

And so that's why we need the Gemini to rise to see and to put its attention on these much better topics, right? Because if we're concerned about information, if we can be connected to our heart and concerned about higher dimensional information or just more important information or supportive information, we can do a lot of good for the world. So anyways, I digress, but that's a little rant on Geminis. So...

They're not bad but unhealed Gemini energy can be pretty crappy. And it's they're not doing it on purpose. So when I was in high school, I got into astrology. I found it to be so fascinating. And it actually led me to get a tattoo right after I graduated college. I got this tattoo.

It's honestly really bad. I traded a guy like weed for it or something. Just like a little weed for it in LA.

This tattoo, so it's a Gemini symbol, it's an air symbol because Gemini is an air sign and then it's also a Mercury symbol because it's Mercury is the ruling planet and so it's really just about my love for communication. Haha while I'm communicating about my love for communication. What is that inception? So... And then when I found out that I had an Aries moon which is intense and passionate and...

can be explosive at its worst. That also made a lot of sense for me as well because when I was younger I definitely had a hard time managing my emotional state. I just was really bad at regulating my emotions. I didn't know how. There was no tools but like I didn't hide my feelings. I would experience them to the fullest and sometimes it was helpful, sometimes it was not.

And so when I started to see, shoot, am very much so, like all of the things I'm feeling are explained right here. Now.

Does that give you a pass to just say, well, it's because I have an Aries moon so I can yell or something? It's like, no.

That's not what that means. That means that you need to do things that are going to be supportive for your moonsign to help you regulate your emotions. And so one person regulating their emotions is going to look different to somebody else. Right? So for somebody like me, I need to be active. I need to go, you know, punch it or scream or cry. I need to like really intensely and passionately get emotions out.

Not at a person, but just in my daily life so that it wears out the excess energy that comes up. Another person, let's say you have a cancer moon, you need to feel cozy. And you need to feel a sense of home and safety. And you need to feel emotionally safe with somebody around you so that you can feel safe emotionally and open up. So anyways.

It's pretty cool, right? Like I feel like you're picking this up. Like it's actually really freaking cool. And so you can learn. So yeah, I don't even know. I honestly don't even know. But I do know that after high school, I found it to be so interesting. And then though, unfortunately, when I first started my very first business, I was told that

All of these woo woo things that I kind of thought were interesting were just like a waste of time. Like they're not gonna move the needle so you should probably just like not talk about them, not think about them, not spend your time using them because you could be using that time to do something else, to build an empire, to create, you know? And so I kind of like just turned it all off for a while and that's fine, whatever. And then when I came back to it, was during the pandemic. The pandemic, I never called that, but you get the point. Pandemic.

I start looking into it a bit more. And I was doing inner child work and doing some healing things, meditating a lot, using Joe Dispenza. And I started to feel like I needed to change things in my life. And...

I feel like astrology just really made it very clear that everything I've been suspecting was in fact, it just made sense. That's how I say it. It just makes sense. know, was just like validating. I just needed the validation.

And then ever since then I've just been learning more and learning more and learning more and you know obviously we don't live and die by anything except like our hearts. Like we don't want to put our power in the hands of anything besides ourselves but there so many wonderful tools out there if they interest you so that you can gain some insight on how you best operate, how you best move in the world, what your main...

What your main emotional needs, what you need to heal in this lifetime, how you're best here to serve others. Like, I mean, the list goes on. You can learn so much valuable information just by looking at your birth chart. And the biggest thing, I think the way that I personally use astrology in two ways is I'm fascinated with self -discovery of self and of other. So I just think it's so interesting.

So for me, it gave me so much more understanding for myself.

I no longer kept like thinking there was something wrong with me or thinking that I shouldn't be like this or thinking I shouldn't be like that when like that's literally just kind of how I am. And I don't mean negative traits. I mean traits that would be positive, you know? Like, I'm just too intense. It's like, well, if you can regulate your emotions, intensity is a beautiful thing. Passion is a beautiful thing. Just channel it in the right way. You know, like, I just, I like so many things. find knowledge so interesting. I just want to learn a lot of stuff. Well.

Ugh, you know, I can't sit still. It's like...

Well, you have a lot of Gemini energy, you know? Or like, there's just so many things, right?

There's so many things.

With that, not only do you get more compassion for yourself, you're like, it's okay. It's safe to be me. I'm gonna be this, right? I can be the highest expression of this. And of course you can transcend it if you want, but like, you don't have to, you know?

And then the second greatest piece of this is when you have someone else's birth chart, the immense amount of compassion you can have for another person.

because you really get what they're experiencing. Even if like you haven't gone through it yourself is amazing. When I was a lot younger, it was very hard for me to understand that people didn't think like the way I did. I was just like, how do these people not get it? Like I just truly could not conceptualize other people not thinking the way I think. And

That's ridiculous when I think about it, but that was just how I grew up. I was just like, how did these people not get it? I was just like, don't fucking understand. And when I started learning more about astrology and like when I would have specific people in my life that I would be like, I love this person, but I just don't fucking understand them. I cannot quite grasp why they would do that or why they would act this way or why they would think that. Like it just makes no sense to me. And so I would look up their astrology chart.

Virgo Moon. Or whatever, I'm just kidding. I attract a lot of Virgo Moons in my life. have lots of Virgo Moon friends. And so it's just silly. But when you understand why people operate the way that they do, and it's totally in contrast to the way you operate, because everything is funny when we're all just operating the same. But when we're not operating the same and we move differently,

We might not make sense to each other. If you look at the person's birth chart, you make, yeah. Well, no wonder they're thinking that way. They're like designed to move slower than I am or vice versa. Or I never understood how people could hold on to things for so long because I could get over them really quickly. But people are wired very different. And if you look at the birth chart, it'll tell you right there.

fire moons are going to get over something quicker. Obviously you have to look at the rest of your chart.

It's just whereas a water moon might hold the grudge forever. know? So those are like truly the biggest things that have made the biggest impact along with I would say learning about so emotional needs of my moonsign and just how to get energy out and move things. Also it's helped me with

life path and wound. And this is what I also love to teach to my clients. And what I'll teach in Follow Your Heart is the

There's a part, there's parts of your birth chart that can show you what your core wound is. And it's just an area where like it's going to keep coming up over and over again. And like it's, you're designed to heal it. It's, it's a healing area where you need to heal. It's a point where you need to heal and then like through that you can help others. And same thing goes with like life path is like there's like your nodes and

where you become more fulfilled by doing the scary thing in a sense or doing the thing that doesn't naturally come to you but is actually serving you and so the whole goal of your lifetime in general like very generalized very grand scheme is to utilize the strengths of your south node in order to move forward towards your north node with grace and it's definitely

more of like a challenging path. Like you'll have challenges, but you're gonna find that whether or not you're following your astrology, if you look at your parents astrology or something, you'll be like, whoa, you know, like their south note is this, their north note is this. And like, you get to see the regression of their life. It's just beautiful. Like being able to see all the people in my personal life and all of my clients, like you can tell, like, did you have to grow up really fast? Okay, let's talk about it. Or.

I can tell you've had a lot of responsibilities at a young age or were you not emotionally supported very much when you were a kid or what's going on with your mom? You know, it can be, it can start heavy, but obviously I'm doing like, this is healing work. You know, I'm not doing the lighter stuff that we're talking about right now, but it can really give us some powerful insight into things that you may just not.

think about or want to talk about initially, but can become a portal to so much growth and passion and just magic, you know, and so.

I understand that there's definitely gonna be some people that are skeptical and like if you know me, you know I'm not really the kind of person that's here to convince anybody of anything that might not be good marketing, but I just, that's not really my thing. Like if you don't resonate, then just don't, don't look into it and just come back when you feel like you want to.

I feel like this kind of stuff isn't meant for people to like be all skeptical about it. It's meant for you if you're looking for support. And whether or not like honestly hear me out this is a very Gemini thought okay whether or not it is real even though I think it's real okay but whether or not it is real if it can support you in your growth in your healing

Is there anything wrong? Anyways, that's my stupid argument. But it, I don't know, honestly. I believe in it and it's happening regardless. It's just literally the stars and the connection to the stars. So believe it or don't believe it, it's happening regardless of whether or not you believe in it. And if you choose to take an active role,

you can navigate it maybe a little bit more smoothly or with more awareness. I think that's another big thing. It's like when you can... Okay, okay, okay. Sorry. I'm going all over the place but... Hey. So there are things called transits and obviously, know, like Mercury's in retrograde, which it is right now. And all these like other things, right? Saturn retrograde, you know? Something's transiting that or you have a Pluto opposition right now. There's all these different things, okay? And what I think is so freaking crazy...

is like especially if there are certain transits going on inside of your birth chart like you could be going through some crazy shit okay you could have like just come out of the other side of like a breakup or a huge loss or a move or you just met somebody new that you're gonna do business with and then you look at your astrology like your timing and things like the transits that are going on and it's like so obvious it's like you may be going through a sudden shift in blank right now and it's like

It's unreal, you know, it's like, if you want to say you can make it up, okay, fine. Then let us live in our deludul land that we like to call it. We're gonna live in astrology world. You don't have to. But so it's like when you know, okay, well this trans is lasting for another six months. I'm just gonna make the best out of it and trust that I'm gonna grow through this and I'm gonna expand through this. And so it's like when you see challenges, you know, I'm just here to grow. I'm just here to grow through this. This is not gonna be forever. This is going to be.

Temporary and we will prevail we will move through this and we will be okay and amazing and great At some point right obviously the world's the crazy world so we do our best, you know, I mean You know There are certain

So you have like your big three and that's like sun, moon and rising would be your big three. Your sun is like your basic identity. Your moon is your emotional self, like the self that not a lot of people see or sorry, that you feel the most like actually. Cause you feel like this sign. You feel like this. You are your sun sign. You feel like your moon sign.

And then your rising sign, there's multiple ways people talk about your rising sign. And so I kind of just say, well, we're going to blend them both. Some people think that it's like your external persona, how you present yourself, how people see you. And then other people also see it as like what you're supposed to develop into throughout this life. So you will continually be developing more into this archetype.

It's an important point because your rising sign is the reason that you need your birth time because your rising sign will change every single two hours. Now, if you haven't done anything on your birth chart, you really should. You really should go on like astro .com and look up your birth chart.

reach out to me, join the academy and I'll, well we're gonna go into it next week and then the replay will be available for everybody so you can learn a bit more about who you are and just a bit more about what you came here to do and how you came here to do it.

That's how astrology changed my life. It's changed my life in more ways. It's helped me heal a lot. It's helped me support the healing of others a lot. There's also certain points in your birth chart that indicate when you and another person like connect and it's really powerful. There's just so many different ways that you can use this to your advantage to support yourself, especially with self discovery.

People will use it for predictive things and stuff and that's just not really my vibe. My vibe is more about self -discovery and more about understanding who you are, why you do what you do, how to best optimize that, how to work in the world, show up, and what your life path kind of looks like. And less about the predictive stuff because anything can happen honestly at all times and I know that there's definitely influence but like...

the actual expression, like what's the physical thing that's gonna happen based off this information or these influences of the planets? Like, I don't know. But what we can work with is its influence on you and how you show up and define yourself, really. It's very hard to define ourselves, but we try. Now...

Honestly, please just come to Follow Your Heart Academy. It's popping off. Today we had a light language activation meditation for your throat chakra and every single girl had a really powerful experience. It was magical and it's going to be uploaded in the replay so you can always see it.

I highly, highly, highly recommend you join because it's kind of the only way to work with me right now. But I'm really focusing on this community because we're a really cool bunch of people that really need to connect with each other. And we have somatic breath work. We have all the things. We have all the things.

Now, let me know what you felt about this. Tell me how has astrology impacted your life? Tell me, do you want to learn more about astrology? Let's just start the conversation. All right? I love you. I love you, I love you. And I'll see you in the next episode.