Astrology in 2025: Key Predictions, Mars Retrograde, and What Risks & Opportunities the Stars Reveal, with the AstroTwins

Renowned Astrologers The AstroTwins are back with their 2025 Predictions! Could Astrology have predicted the LA fires? Was the president destined to be re-elected? What are the best times to find LOVE or change your CAREER? Big world shifts are happening in 2025. From multiple Mars Retrogrades to patterns that haven't repeated since 1700 and 1940! We're diving into the most mind-blowing astrological insights that will shape your 2025. Find out what the planets have in store for love, peace, and even war. And discover how can astrology become your spiritual technology for making game-changing decisions. Plus, find out which colors, cosmic events, and shifts will bring positive transformations to your life next month. Don’t miss this MUST-LISTEN astrology forecast—your future is written in the stars! Get The AstroTwins’ 2025 Horoscope book with annual forecasts for all 12 signs and daily horoscopes for the whole year ! Get 20% off with code “NEWYEAR20” - Head to: AstroStyle.com/NewYear https://galaxy.astrostyle.com/go/holiday/ BialikBreakdown.com https://www.bialikbreakdown.com/ YouTube.com/mayimbialik https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOocPnDh2YQZZwh86K2OxA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices https://megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  There are many things, from the astrology to the lunar year, to the numerology, that have made the entry into 2025 so intense. Do you think that these things can be predicted? You're looking at cycles. We can go back thousands of years and we can go forward thousands of years. You know, as we're watching what's going on in LA, it feels like a combination of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy and a power or a force greater than you is at play. Mars, which is the planet, it's ruler of areas, a fire sign. It's a planet of war and destruction. 18 to 24 months, it turns retrograde, meaning it passes the Earth in its orbit. There's always something kind of intense that happens.

• 0:45Speaker 00

  The Pulse nightclub shooting happened during a Mars retrograde. When the Black Lives Matter protests turned into clashes with police in Portland. That was during a recent Mars retrogrades. There always tends to be something intense and even destructive. We also like to say, what's the opportunity here for humanity and our consciousness?

• 1:14Mayim Bialik?

  Hi, I'm Miam Bialik.

• 1:15Jonathan Cohen?

  I'm Jonathan Cohen.

• 1:17Mayim Bialik?

  Welcome to our audio breakdown, a place where we break things down so you don't have to.

• 1:20Jonathan Cohen?

  We're coming to you today for a special episode, audio only this time.

• 1:25Mayim Bialik?

  Mostly what's important to know is that everyone is naked. That's why we're doing it on audio. Our new thing for 2025 is podcasting naked. No, just kidding. We're doing an audio episode where we're going to tackle expectations for the year and trying to see if we can find ways to add to our arsenal of things that we use to make decisions, to make predictions, and to make plans about our love life, about our careers, about kind of how we should operate in the world. So many of us use personality tests or therapists. And this is an episode where we're going to talk with Ophi and Tali Adut, the astro twins, about how astrology can be yet another tool

• 2:10Mayim Bialik?

  that you use for a place of introspection, perspective, and planning.

• 2:15Jonathan Cohen?

  Also, we're going to explore the idea that there are natural cycles to the Earth's evolution that can increase the probability of things like who might become president, if countries go to war or not. And on a personal level, are there times of year that we may have more opportunities for love and financial success?

• 2:38Mayim Bialik?

  With everything I've known and learned about from, mostly from these two women and astrology, it hadn't occurred to me to look back and say, are the planets doing anything in 2025 that they've done before? And we're going to talk about certain things that the planets did in a very critical period in the 1940s and one of the most pivotal moments in this country's history. Planets are doing a very interesting orientation that echoes some changes that we may see more of. So the AstroTunes are also going to talk about their 2025 horoscope book. We're also going to give you a special code for you to get a discount off that book, which is super awesome. Let's welcome Ophi and Tali to the breakdown.

• 3:28Mayim Bialik?

  What is up with this year already?

• 3:32Speaker 00

  Right?

• 3:33Mayim Bialik?

  Now, for those of us in Southern California, it has been a series of emotions that most of us hope not to experience in our life, much less in the course of the first days and weeks of a year. And it's been a lot of very intense emotion, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear. From your perspective, and then we'll kind of back up and talk about how we get this perspective, what is happening with this year?

• 3:57Speaker 00

  Yeah, definitely. I mean, there are many things from the astrology to the lunar year, to the numerology that have made the entry into 2025 so intense. Here in New York, as we're watching what's going on in LA, it's like, it's like, feels like a combination of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, where you feel like you don't know what's going to happen from moment to moment. And a power or a force greater than you is at play. So there are some similarities, especially in the lunar year, to a couple of those. For starters, the numerology of 2025 is a nine year, and that's the final year in a numerology cycle.

• 4:42Speaker 00

  The last one was 2016, so we have a couple of similarities in terms of who's taking office. And nine is a year of transition, release, surrender.

• 4:57Speaker 00

  The unexpected and they're they're preparing us for new nine year cycles. What makes it a nine year, just since you're probably wondering, is in numerology, you add up the digits of the year. So two plus zero plus two plus five winds up being nine. So every number has a vibration to it. And nine is the end of the numerology cycle. Nine is about transition, spirituality, letting go, releasing and preparing for the one year, which is 2026. And everything, even astrologically, kind of mirrors that. So, I mean,

• 5:43Speaker 00

  we can just dive right into it, or maybe you want?

• 5:45Mayim Bialik?

  No, this is, this is, no, this is super helpful.

• 5:48Jonathan Cohen?

  We almost skipped over it. There was a cycle that ended, or it began when Trump took office last time, and now that cycle ended and he's back?

• 5:58Speaker 00

  And I love that you picked up on that. Isn't that wild? So we started a one, the one to nine cycle on January 1st of 2017, and it'll end December 31st of 2025. So it's really strange. I was looking back at other nine years, nine to one years, so 2007, and I think 1999 and 1989. I have to confirm that. But it's a reckoning. It's it's humanities report card. That's what we kind of said when we were asked about the election and who was going to win. I mean, the odds were stacked toward Trump astrologically, but we said whoever won it would be, would be kind of a report card

• 6:40Speaker 00

  of where we are in terms of working together and selfishness versus unity and community as we're moving into the first full year of a 20 year cycle of Pluto being an Aquarius.

• 6:54Mayim Bialik?

  It's getting crazy already.

• 6:56Speaker 00

  It's getting cosmic.

• 6:57Mayim Bialik?

  Let's just back it up, just so we can kind of give a little bit of framework for how we're gonna. How we're gonna look at 2025 with the two of you today? Before we even get into some of the trends, like your 2025 trend report, your 2025 horoscope, literally like, it's like seven million pages? No, it's 600 some pages and it needs to be that long. But before we even go there, I wonder if you can give us a little bit of framework for people, for people who love astrology, like, welcome, awesome, great to have you here. And for people who might be curious, what is it like to look at the world through a lens that we weren't taught about in school?

• 7:41Mayim Bialik?

  That many people have studied for thousands and thousands of years. Many people have denigrated for thousands and thousands of years. I'm reminded of a Kanye West quote that says, "You can live through anything if magic made it." And I wonder if you can give us a little bit of a framework? Why approach the world with a sense of wonder, magic, possibility in things that maybe we can't understand the way we understand linear mechanics? What, what do you gain from approaching the world the way the two of you do? And the way that you encourage so many to do?

• 8:19Speaker 00

  It's another, it's another way of trend forecasting, just like anything else. You're looking at cycles. The planets all move through each zodiac sign in a very specific cycle. We can go back thousands of years and we can go forward thousands of years and know what, where each planet is. So as the planets orbit through the sky, they'll cross through, it's kind of like a monopoly board. They'll cross through a little bit of real estate. Each of the 12 signs owns a square on that monopoly board. We use geometry and it's 30 degrees.

• 9:00Speaker 00

  So the way we kind of look at the planets are like actors, the cast of actors in the movie of our lives. Each one has been given A role, a legend, a mythology and a role to play. And then when it's moving through that real estate, it's taking on the Zodiac signs qualities. It's always a little touchy to go back and analyze a thing like the wildfires in LA and the tragedy there through astrology. But we also have to look and wonder and say, what's happening?

• 9:40Speaker 00

  And one of the things to give an example, Mars, which is the planet, it's ruler of areas, a fire sign, it's a planet of war and destruction. And every 24 months, 18 to 24 months, it turns retrograde, meaning it passes the earth in its orbit. And it kind of has this extra challenging impact. It can go haywire. And so Mars turned retrograde in Leo on December 6th, which is very much a Hollywood energy. Rules kind of the haves versus the have nots.

• 10:20Speaker 00

  And that was really right before, was it like a couple of days after Luigi Mangione did his thing? And then it backed up into Cancer, which rules our homes, residential properties on January 6th. And we kind of look and say, why is this happening? We tend to ask after things happen. But looking at astrology as these repeating cycles and being able to plan ahead and know, you know, because Mars is turning retrograde, there's always something kind of intense that happens. The Pulse nightclub shooting happened during a Mars retrograde about 10 years ago at this point now.

• 11:04Speaker 00

  When the Black Lives Matter protests turned into clashes with police in Portland. That was during a recent Mars retrograde. So there always tends to be something. Intense and even destructive that happens during those cycles. And we hope it doesn't, but you just start to see patterns with astrology. I mean, there's other really big ones that are happening this year, too.

• 11:31Jonathan Cohen?

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• 15:01Mayim Bialik?

  being given that we may not know how to codify, but people who study it can intuitively start to see these patterns?

• 15:09Speaker 00

  It's like having a cosmic weather vein. A meteorologist will say, oh, these conditions are present. That could mean that there'll be a tropical storm because we know from experience that that often does happen with those conditions, but it's not guaranteed. It's true. It does seem absurd to people who haven't studied it. When we were on last time, we got a, we got such a fun mix and range of reactions to astrology being on your podcast. And it's funny because science really is about observation, right? To a certain extent. I'm not saying this is or isn't science, but we make a hypothesis,

• 15:53Speaker 00

  we test it. And of course, you have to have a certain amount of data and statistics that go along within the process. But astrologers are really using some of, something of a loose scientific process when they're making predictions.

• 16:09Mayim Bialik?

  People can turn up their noses all they want at astrology and it's very trendy to sort of be intellectually elitist about it. What are some of the stats on the people that rely on astrology or at the least enjoy using astrology as some sort of guideline for their life? What are some of those statistics?

• 16:29Speaker 00

  It was in Yahoo Finance and even in Forbes this past late summer, there was a study done that I believe it was 63% of Gen Z Americans, adults, use astrology in their careers. And there's a Harris Poll with a lot of very comprehensive stats. Apparently 90% of people read their horoscopes and believe in astrology that they surveyed. So...

• 16:57Mayim Bialik?

  What do you think they're looking for?

• 16:58Speaker 00

  I think they're looking for support with making decisions. I don't know if it's changed since I read it a few years ago, but the average adult makes 35,000 decisions a day. And I think 90 to 95% with their subconscious. So we're kind of driving without the GPS here. And...

• 17:18Speaker 00

  And we don't know where to start. We're overwhelmed by all the choices and decisions. So I think they're looking for some narrowing of the scope there. Like, help me like get out of analysis paralysis and keep my life moving forward because we can't afford to stop. Financially, maybe we have kids, relationships, ourselves, so many different things we're juggling. So we actually use astrology for our people. We present it often as like a decision-making tool where they can feel some calm and clarity and confidence in saying, you know, I'm going to go this way instead of just like, oh, I'm going to hide under the bed 2025.

• 17:57Mayim Bialik?

  And I think that's one of the things that people get wrong about astrology. It's not about this is what's going to happen to you and it's deterministic. It's about what if we present you with some patterns and some ideas and see where you are drawn? Which parts of you can we call on, right? Which is what any good parts therapist would do. Which parts of you can we call on to recruit reasoning and decision-making, given this kind of platter?

• 18:22Speaker 00

  Right, exactly. To make an acting metaphor, like if you were going to do a movie or a TV show, you would want a script. You're gonna, you're gonna read the script, but you're gonna bring your myum-ness to it. Yeah, lots of room to riff.

• 18:40Jonathan Cohen?

  Billions of people around the world consult astrology. And to Ophi's point, we do, we make like over 30,000 decisions a day. And I think people are interested in a connection to a universe that is greater than themselves, believing that there is a pattern, a rhythm to life that can explain why am I drawn to something at one time versus not? I think people believe and want to believe that they are unique in their spiritual DNA, that they are on a path that is uniquely theirs in the world, and that there are guideposts that their path will become easier. They will find love. They will have more success.

• 19:22Jonathan Cohen?

  The roadblocks will feel less treacherous if only they can find these guides or be in a flow that will help them along the way. And I think that's why people go to intuitives. That's why they look to astrology and astrology is like this map that says. What you're going through is uniquely yours, but also it is part of a larger system of energy, of timing, and that there are cycles to life. And if we know how to operate within these cycles and look for these things, then life will be easier. I'll have more hope. I'll be at the right place at the right time. I'll get that intuition. And when we think about success being hard work meets opportunity,

• 20:06Jonathan Cohen?

  we'll know where that right moment is and we won't be pushing the boulder up the hill.

• 20:10Mayim Bialik?

  I should have asked Jonathan, what are people looking for?

• 20:13Speaker 00

  We're three sadges here. We had to ask the empathic cancer to sum it up. What Jonathan said is kind of why we call, why we call astrology spiritual technology rather than science, because it really is an energy system, a spiritual system, but it also has a technology. It is a system that anyone can learn. And there's kind of two pieces to it. There is your birth chart. If we kind of freeze frame the planets at your exact moment of birth, they're all going to be lined up with different zodiac signs, plus the sun and the moon. So we all know our zodiac signs, our sun signs, which is Sagittarius for the ladies

• 20:55Speaker 00

  here and Cancer for Jonathan, but you have a moon sign, you have a Mercury, Venus, Mars. They're all in different places, only someone born in the same minute, in the same time zone will share that chart. It's very unique. And for us, that's how we got obsessed with it because we discovered that we had moon, Mercury, Mars and Venus and Scorpio, which is a very different energy, a very curious, mystical investigative energy. And that really filled in some blanks about who we were that we always felt, but it, it led us down this, this path of discovering and wanting to do everyone's chart around us.

• 21:36Speaker 00

  So there's that piece, like learning your factory settings according to the stars. And then there's also tracking where the planets are in their movements. And that's what we do every year in our giant six. Six million word book.

• 21:51Mayim Bialik?

  Well, and that's sort of what I wanted to to talk a little bit about as as we're starting 2025. Reading your horoscope every day is fun, or once a month, or, you know, when you get a magazine. But there are things about the patterns of the year itself. So I wonder if you can talk a little bit about some of the things that are happening in 2025.

• 22:13Speaker 00

  So the outer planets, which are Jupiter through Pluto, Pluto's still a planet in astrology. They move very slowly through each sign. Jupiter spends about a year in every sign. Pluto, since it's so far out in the sun, 12 to 30 years.

• 22:30Mayim Bialik?

  Just to clarify, these outer planets, they're the ones, quote, farthest away. And they spend more time because their orbit has a larger diameter.

• 22:38Speaker 00

  Exactly. Simple geometry.

• 22:40Mayim Bialik?

  Okay.

• 22:41Speaker 00

  Three of the outer planets are changing signs for part of the year. And then they're swinging back to the signs they've been in for a while. Saturn, which has been in Pisces for a couple of years, swings into Aries for a couple of months, from March 24th until September 1st and back into Pisces. And then in in 2026, these three planets plant themselves in these new signs for a longer period. But Uranus is another one that does the pendulum swing.

• 23:14Mayim Bialik?

  It's Uranus. I will correct you every time.

• 23:18Speaker 00

  All right, all right, I'll call it Uranus. So Uranus is moving into Gemini from July 7th to November 7th. And it hasn't been there since 1940 to 49.

• 23:31Mayim Bialik?

  A lot happened in those years. Those were some big years for the planet.

• 23:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, Neptune is the other one. It's moving into Aries for the first time since 1862 to 1875. And that was a real huge shift. And while it was in Pisces, which it will be for part of the year and it's does the pendulum swing from Pisces to Aries to Pisces again. But that was the time of the spiritualist movement when people were having seances in their houses and.

• 24:00Mayim Bialik?

  And and something else that's kind of interesting that that you talk about happening in 2025. Anyone who knows one thing about astrology knows like Mercury's in retrograde is something that people say when they're like cranky, angry and everything's breaking and you're tripping over the air. So there are three retrogrades. Is that right?

• 24:22Speaker 00

  Yeah. Every planet goes retrograde for part of the year. The outer planets, so slow, big diameter ones, they'll go retrograde for four to five months of every year. But the the inner planets, the ones closest to the sun, affect our day to day lives according to astrology. Mercury is communication and Venus is love. Mars is kind of our drive and energy level. So we'll feel them more acutely according to horoscopes when those planets are retrograde. Mercury turns to retrograde three times every year for about three weeks. Venus every 18 months. And Venus is going retrograde. Venus, the planet of love.

• 25:06Speaker 00

  Interestingly enough, I think it was in Leo when Bennifer got together for 2.0 and they're both Leos and it was retrograde in Leo and started to get a little choppy for them. It started when it was retrograde in Leo in 2023. But yeah, we have a Venus retrograde from March 1st, April 12th this year.

• 25:27Mayim Bialik?

  So what should I, what should I do or not do at that time?

• 25:30Speaker 00

  I mean, what happens actually? When Venus goes retrograde is it changes from an evening star to a morning star. So the evening star Venus, the ancients used to think that there were actually two different planets for Venus because Venus would appear at dusk. And then there's a period of time where it disappears right in the middle of the retrograde. And then it appears again right before dawn. So it switches from Hesperus, which is what's its old, the evening star name, which means west, it would rise in the west to phosphorus, which is morning light. So this is where astrologers come in. We're like, thanks astronomers, we got you.

• 26:14Speaker 00

  So we're going to say that this is a time since Venus is a love goddess where we put old, tired love stories to bed and then we wake up a new energy in our love lives. I think you could look at it two ways. If you're like skeptical, meaning you're like, yeah, I don't believe most of this, but I'm open. Show me, show, you could be like, well, you know, every relationship could use a six week refresher every 18 months. So why don't I just use it whether it's true or not?

• 26:46Mayim Bialik?

  What if we don't have to know so much if it's true, but we lean into the possibility that if you're going to plan something, I kind of like this idea. So when is my, when is my love, my love repair supposed to happen?

• 26:59Speaker 00

  First to April 12th.

• 27:01Mayim Bialik?

  Okay, great. There might be like a holiday in there you could take, a special weekend. If you've been saving up money to be like, I'm going to do something nice with my partner. Maybe that's the time to do it. Maybe just see what happens if you did that. So let's do the same thing for career. What time of 2025 might be the time to give your two weeks notice and start your fantastic new life?

• 27:25Speaker 00

  Not during Mercury retrograde.

• 27:28Mayim Bialik?

  Of course not. You don't want to sign a contract. You don't want to deal with money. I know what not to do during Mercury and retrograde.

• 27:35Speaker 00

  Yeah. And actually Venus also rules money and the things we value. So that's also not a great time. With Mars, which is drive and ambition, and Jupiter, which is opportunity and luck and optimism, both are retrograde at the start of 2025. And I feel like a lot of people are getting a slow start, not only because of the fires, but in general. But on February 3rd, Jupiter is going to go out of retrograde. So that would be a time, according to astrology, to take more risks. And if you're like, I'm reaching out to people, I'm not getting any bites. See what happens if you follow up in early February.

• 28:15Speaker 00

  And Mars being our ambition and drive being retrograde till February 23rd could affect, well, in our book, we take it specific to each Zodiac sign.

• 28:26Mayim Bialik?

  Right.

• 28:26Speaker 00

  Because depending on your sign, the planet and the sign it's retrograde in is going to touch a different piece of that monopoly board of your chart, the real estate. So for one sign, it might be happening in a family and home part of their chart. Another, it might be in a career part. So that's why we write the book every year so that you can get a little more granular and personalized.

• 28:49Mayim Bialik?

  Love that.

• 28:51Speaker 00

  Yeah, if you want to do it fully for yourself, you get a chart reading with an astrologer, us or someone else, and then we can look at what's uniquely you and only you.

• 29:01Mayim Bialik?

  Another thing that you talk about, you talk about colors. Every year, whatever paint company that is, I don't know, and they don't sponsor the podcast, we don't need to say, but they always come out with a color. And my kids in the last few years are like, did you hear what the color is? And I'm like, what is that? What does that mean? Like, what do you mean there's like a color? But I do notice, and I'm not someone who follows trends, which is, I think, why astrology for me is a little bit like a learning curve. Because I don't, like, I wear the same thing every year, literally my whole life, just like different variations of the same thing every year, year round. It's the same. I listen to the same music I've listened to since I was like 12 years old. Like, it's just classic rock all the time. I mean, there's a couple of new things spliced in there. But one of the things that you talk about is colors.

• 29:46Mayim Bialik?

  And I was thinking, this is something that like, for people who do like trends, for people who do like to mix things up, we Know that different wavelengths make us feel different ways. We know that different smells make us feel different ways, different sounds, but different colors. People always say like, don't paint your kitchen yellow or everyone will be fighting all the time. And I joke like, I was raised with a yellow kitchen. Maybe that was the problem. But anyway, lavender oil is a thing. It is a calming scent. Like, that's something that we know. Colors can do the same thing. And I was thinking, if I want to bring compassion, mystery and refinement into my life, I think dusky rosewood needs to happen. So tell us about the colors of the year.

• 30:26Speaker 00

  That's all Tali and, you know, we went to art school. So we're like, let's play around with, you know, each of the planets being in the sign that it's in could bring a very different energy. So you have to think of the amalgamation. That's how we came up with the divine pendulum because this pendulum swing is very disorienting. But our way through that is to really find some awe in the divine, the spiritual, the mystical this year. There's a couple other poles towards Pisces this year, which is the 12th sign, the most ethereal sign.

• 31:07Speaker 00

  And the nine year being the end of the nine cycle, the numerology cycle. So it just felt like the colors this year should be ones that supported more of an inner contemplation. That burnished terracotta, dusky rosewood, smoky amethyst and jade forest. So it's kind of picturing like going out to the woods with your crystals and just being in that, it's a moody vibe, a little bit of a gray vibe. It's not, it's a little bit of a melancholy year, but not in a way that zaps your joy, but maybe that expands your emotional palate.

• 31:52Mayim Bialik?

  You know, your book has really kind of predictions and trends for sort of every aspect of our existence. Everything from the environment to psilocybin research to Compassion, AI, you know, technology. Can you talk a bit about what this year might look like for war and peace? Because, you know, 2024 was enormous. You know, many people are saying, are we going to look back and say 2024 was the beginning of World War III? And we didn't see it, right? Or it's a different kind of structure of war that we're, we're living in. Can you talk about what we can look forward to?

• 32:28Speaker 00

  Yeah, for sure. Well, Tali mentioned Pisces. So there are two points. They're called the lunar nodes. They're actually part of Kabbalistic astrology, too. The, the destiny points. The south node is kind of what's buried and in the shadows or where we have some shadow work to do. And then the north node is this energy that comes racing out and calls for us to interact with it. So from July of 2023 until January 11th of 2025, the nodes, which are always an opposite sign, so it's very pole, you know, there's a lot of polarity. We're in Libra, which is peace, and Aries, which is war.

• 33:11Speaker 00

  Shortly after that, we had October 7th and everything happened with the Israel Hamas war. And then less than a week after they shifted out of the war and peace signs, there's the, finally, the beginning of a ceasefire deal being brokered. So. And that's also been the year of the dragon since February 10th, and it is of 2024. And that is associated with Aries as well. And if we give it a Western equivalent, and that's going on until this January 29th. Unfortunately, war is not ending. We have Saturn and Neptune moving into Aries. And then we have this, we have some cycles that are repeating.

• 33:54Speaker 00

  You know, the 1940s with Uranus going into Gemini. No surprise that I think AI is especially going to develop a lot faster. So when we make these. Predictions, which are as much of a prediction as anyone else is making, we really do look at like when we're a few of the last times that the cycle happened and try to find common themes and patterns and see. And then we kind of make a hypothesis based on that. So it's always different because the 1940s had Uranus and Gemini, but did not have Saturn and Aries. That was the Civil War time. So it wasn't, it's never going to be the same mix.

• 34:35Speaker 00

  It's going to be a different mix of ingredients with some Pisces energy in the mix with, which is the opposite of war. I mean, it does have hidden enemies can be, can be there, but it can also be like deep divine healing as well. So we also like to say, well, what is, what's the opportunity here for humanity and our consciousness? The, the message I'm taking from looking at this mix of planets this year is that technology and consciousness will both be expanding at a very fast rate for people. And I don't think that was true of the 1940s. Uh, you know, I think people were very materialistic during that time more, and it was, it was more focusing on that kind of security,

• 35:20Speaker 00

  especially after the Great Depression and everything. I don't want to say materialistic, but materially oriented. And it's not that we aren't because, you know, as we know, everything is so expensive now, but with Pluto and Aquarius for the first time since the late 1700s. Aquarius is a sign of community and the collective and it's going to be there until early 2044. So, so we have the war cycles combined with these really healing Pisces and this really deep transformational humanitarian ones. So just going back to LA, just even seeing like this devastation, but then this beautiful way that people are coming together for each other and

• 36:05Speaker 00

  how entire, you know, these two entire communities, even though they're supposedly wealthy and not wealthy, everyone is equal in terms of having lost their home. They're equalized by that. And we saw that with nine 11 and Hurricane Sandy in a, in a different way in New York and

• 36:26Speaker 00

  nine 11 was during the year of the snake. And now we have another year of the snake. So I don't know. That's not really a full answer, but.

• 36:37Jonathan Cohen?

  What can people look forward to this year? You talked about expanding consciousness. Can you talk a little bit more about that and about what else people may be looking forward to in 2025?

• 36:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, let's get a little hope. So Jupiter, which is what you can look forward to is in Gemini for the first half of the year, which rules media and communication and, you know, neighborhoods. So we can look forward to people looking out for each other, speaking, you know, finding new ways of communicating well with each other. And then it'll be in Cancer in the second half of the year, which is for you was great. And that's a sign of home and family, also real estate. So we will definitely be seeing changes in the way people live, whether it's creating new models for housing.

• 37:30Speaker 00

  You know, there's, there's, there's all these trends forecasted for kind of a golden girls for all, co-housing, co-living. It sounds good to me personally, but I'm the daughter of a keep it's father. But people living more communally and looking out for each other, even if it's a small amount of the population, you know, any amount is a good amount, I'd say.

• 37:55Mayim Bialik?

  I really, I really appreciate the notion of hope and also kind of balancing out a lot of these predictions. I really, I respect that you're, you're not sort of unilateral about how these things work. And I just really appreciate the notion that people use all sorts of things to plan, right? They use all sorts of resources to, to plan when they're going to do things or when it's convenient, or, you know, when the US government has decided it's a three day weekend, right? We take advantage of that to go on vacation, daylight savings. Like people use all sorts of things. So I, I love that this is something else to kind of add to our arsenal. Obviously your, your horoscope book, the 2025 horoscope book, which you can get at.

• 38:38Mayim Bialik?

  AstroStyle.com/newyear. You can get 20% off with the code NEWYEAR20. Go to AstroStyle.com/newyear and use the code NEWYEAR20 to get 20% off. This book has literally every single prediction for the uniqueness that is you, and also a really great understanding of the year as it lays out. And so, we just, we really appreciate getting to talk to you again and getting to hear your perspectives and find new ways to be inspired because if you're stuck in any way, or you feel stuck, or something's not working, how about trying something new this year? That's what I'm up for. So glad, glad to have you part of that.

• 39:16Speaker 00

  Thank you so much. It's something to try on. It's like, you don't have to believe in astrology or, you know, but play with, like you said, see, play with making your love life better from March 1st, April 12th. And if it was simply the prompt of astrology that did that, well, no one's gonna suffer from that.

• 39:37Mayim Bialik?

  Absolutely. Thank you so much. Thank you, and happy 2025.

• 39:46Mayim Bialik?

  Jonathan, thank you so much for encouraging us to continue to talk to Ophi and Tali. I'm continually and consistently impressed by the framing that they put on what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. And I really especially appreciated your framing of being open to, you know, a world of wonder and possibility that might need guidance from places that you haven't yet tapped into.

• 40:15Jonathan Cohen?

  Other parts of the world use astrology to predict marriage and decide what the best couples are gonna be. But here in the West, 63% of Gen Z adults use astrology in their career to try to navigate. And 90% of people read their horoscope at least sometimes. So we're seeing a resurgence of people interested in this tool to try to make sense of the world.

• 40:41Mayim Bialik?

  Well, I'm all about making sense of the world. And if you would like to check out our full episode with Ophi and Tali, please do that on our YouTube channel or anywhere that you listen to podcasts. And from our breakdown, the one we hope you never have, we'll see you next time.

• 41:07Speaker 03

  It's my ambience breakdown. She's gonna break it down for you. She's got a neuroscience PhD or two. One fiction, one. And now she's gonna break down. It's a breakdown. She's gonna break it down.