Episode 5 – The Vedic Astrology Podcast 
 sits down with Michael Reed 

0:00 Introduction and Welcome

·         Michael Reed

·         pulseoftheuniverse.com

01:47 How Did you Get into astrology?

·         Astrology finds the Astrologer

09:11 Humans feel like problems take too long and life is too short

·         Times of difficulty

·         Transitory nature of time

·         You are not ‘the doer’

·         You are not being punished

14:02 What is the role of astrology?

·         Vedic Astrology as a ‘yoga’

·         Tool for union

·         The five koshas

·         Cessation of the modulations of the mind

·         The job of the astrologer is to stop time

·         When a client’s life is out of alignment

·         Symptoms and root causes

·         Trusting life and being in the flow

21:24 The astrologer and “The Doer / not the doer” paradox

·         When I am I going to be happy?

·         What are the responsibilities of the client?

·         Is it helpful for the astrologer to tell a client WHAT to do?

·         “The free will of the individual and God’s will are really one in the same”

28:54 Have you ever consulted an astrologer?

·         General discussion

31:40 The importance of how the astrologer communicates with the client

·         “Tell the client exactly what you are seeing”

·         Contradictory indicators

34:25 What’s your current favourite ‘thing’ in astrology?

·         Nodal axis, D60, D1, Shastiamsa deities, Nakshatras

·         Human story through astrology

·         Sarvatobhadra Chakra

·         The story teller and the story listener

36:32 What has changed most in your time in astrology?

·         Nakshatras

·         We all have something to share with each other

·         So many ways to look at astrology

·         Using our positive discriminatory mind and clear away from the prejudice mind

·         Is there only one way to approach things?

42:55 Discipline and duality in astrology

·         Constant movement

·         What is the origin?

·         What is the resolution?

·         Varuna – split Heaven and Earth asunder

46:11 Technique and Intuition

·         Tarot

·         Confluence in astrology

·         Riding a bicycle

·         When detail becomes crippling

50:36 Favourite part of your job

·         Seeing people changing their life

·         Seeing progress

·         The astrologer is ‘doing’ nothing and the client is ‘doing’ nothing

55:42 Future?

·         Pulse of the Universe Online Academy

·         Working with clients

·         The five koshas and ‘how astrology works’