341. Uncover Your Life's Purpose: Intuitive Astrologer's Tools for Empowerment - Mary Jo Cranmore

Kara Goodwin: [00:00:00] Welcome to the meditation conversation, the podcast to support your spiritual revolution. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin. And this is a wonderful episode, featuring Mary Jo Cranmore. We dive into fascinating insights about numerology, astrology, and taro. Mary Jo gives her impression of what's happening in 2024, including the powerful eclipses, which are fast approaching.

As an intuitive astrologer taro reader and spiritual path teacher, Mary Jo helps people understand their mission in this life.

She's passionate about connecting the dots, astrology lays before us and how we can use that information to create true and lasting happiness. By revealing a person's life purpose using the tools of astrology, taro, and numerology.

She believes that armed with that awareness people become unstoppable.

So be sure to check out [00:01:00] Mary Jo's YouTube channel soulful revolution.

And also check out Kara goodwin.com, where you can get a free 10 minute meditation. If you want support for your meditation practice, I have a 21 day online program to help you develop your own practice. And you can also get a personalized recorded meditation slash energy transmission to help you get through whatever challenges are showing up in your life. I also have a recorded sacred geometry workshop series available that is very powerful, as well as the healing hearth membership, where you can get live online assistance With your questions about meditation and life. All of that and more on Kara goodwin.com. And now enjoy this episode. So welcome, Mary Jo. I'm so excited to talk to you today.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Hey, thank you. I'm excited to be here too.

Thank

you.

Kara Goodwin: So how did your path lead you to astrology and tarot and all of the [00:02:00] things that, you're focused on now?

Mary Jo Cranmore: it is a little bit of a long story, but I will give you the cliff notes version. And, I did start learning about astrology and numerology and tarot when I was in college. it was just something that I was interested in. It was a hobby. I became really good at doing tarot readings in college.

It was something that I, I would always have like a deck around the house and stuff like that, but it was not, any kind of main focus. And, I went to college for journalism and for film. I was working as a journalist in, as a producer, a television news producer in Miami and Chicago for NBC and for ABC and up here in Portland, Maine.

that's how I got

to Portland, Maine. And, I left TV because it was very stressful and,your life is really not your own. You really do get moved around quite a bit. And so I, for about five or so years, I taught people how to be on video and to make [00:03:00] video for their businesses and to help them understand.

what people wanted to know, like, why would they be searching for your business and things like that? So I was getting to the, I was very burned out by that work because at the time, this was like 2010, 2011, 2012, it was not like the ubiquitous thing of video that video is now. And I just Took video for granted because that was my whole life.

So I didn't realize that like people weren't like super psyched about being on camera. Oh, I was like, what are you talking about? Of course you want to, if this is your business, you have passion for it. And so I finally got so burned out by that whole thing that I just. it just ground to a halt.

Like it was like a car with no oil change and I just stopped being able to do it. And a couple of friends of mine are like, why don't you just do something else? And I was like, this is what I went to college for. what am I supposed to be doing? This is what my degree is. And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You [00:04:00] use the degree. Good for you. But what else do you like? And, I was very much in a financial pickle because of business loans I had taken out and everything like that. And I was going to just change everything. And I went to this attorney and she talked to me about it and I just felt freed by that.

And so I came home and like the next two months, I was just like, huh, what am I, what should I be doing? And literally my bookcases are full of astrology and the chakras and, soul contracts and and tarot cards just everywhere. And I'm like, huh, what should I do?

It's like,

Kara Goodwin: me a sign,

God,

Mary Jo Cranmore: And then I was like, okay. I had a final project in Dallas. Someone sent me a, an article from the New York times. It was talking about tarot on YouTube was such a big deal. And I was like, how does that even work? what does that even [00:05:00] mean? And so I came home and I went on YouTube and I zoomed around and I found a bunch of people and I was like, Oh, okay.

I get it. This is you plug into general energy. I've been doing that, but just with one person, but you plug into general energy. I learned how to do that. And I started posting, I started posting videos and the channel just took off. So that lawyer and I were going down the road of bankruptcy of all kinds of loan, forget all kinds of stuff.

And I went back to her a few months later. I'm like, I don't think we're going to have to do this. I think I can, I think I can fix this mess. And she was like, Oh, That's fantastic. So yeah. So the channel just started growing. That was 2017 into 2018 and it just

kept growing.

Kara Goodwin: that's incredible. Wow. And so talk to us a little bit just about cards and numbers because you have a lot of different modalities that you use and, I'm curious about how they help people to understand themselves better. And I know from [00:06:00] my own experience, I've had numerology readings.

I've had psychic readings. I've had star genealogy readings and all of these different ways, gene keys, human design, all of these things.

And what's fascinating to me is how much they sync up.

Mary Jo Cranmore: hundred percent.

Kara Goodwin: It's crazy. And it's so specific. So

can you talk a little bit about that?

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yeah. I find that amazing too. And for me, it's like the layers of it. a lot of people that come to the channel, they know they're a sunshine Leo or, I think my boyfriend's a Libra or something like that. it's very mainstream, to get a Zodiac to look in your newspaper and you get a Zodiac newspaper.

Oh

my God. So

Kara Goodwin: I was thinking that I'm like, are people doing

Mary Jo Cranmore: no, no one's doing that. No one's doing

that.

Kara Goodwin: I know what you mean.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yes. Right. So like no one's doing that. but it's

super mainstream, right? Super mainstream. And, there's a book [00:07:00] called the divine triangle numerology and the divine

triangle. I don't know these people, but I've had four or five copies of this.

It was published in the seventies. I don't even think there's a Kindle version of it. I've had the paper version of it. I've beaten them up

so many

times.

Kara Goodwin: you know who wrote it?

Mary Jo Cranmore: Faith Javane, J A V A N E, and Dusty

Bunker, I believe.

Kara Goodwin: Interesting. Okay.

Mary Jo Cranmore: interesting names. But these, I like this book because they paired the tarot up with astrology, up

with numerology.

And so that, I found that book, because that book was published in the 1970s, I believe. I found that book, in the 1990s. And I was just like, blown away by, I liked the kind of 360 degree kind of way of looking at things. I liked that. It took away for me, the, stereotypical nature of things.

Of, oh, you're Sagittarius or of course you're Scorpio, like that kind of thing where everyone's like [00:08:00] all Scorpios keep secrets and all Sagittarius, you guys are a bunch of flakes. Like it took away the, and I'm Sagittarius full disclosure, but I, it took away the, just that kind of like broad brush stuff and it made it more personal.

So it made it more individual. And that's when I started really understanding about astrology being personal, interpersonal with Jupiter and Saturn, and then the planets that are further out are generational

because they move so slowly

Kara Goodwin: Is that like Saturn

and

Chiron

Mary Jo Cranmore: well, Saturn and Jupiter are in this interpersonal band that is like close to our personal planets, Mercury, Mars, Venus, but it's like the furthest out barrier.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At the time when astronomy, we only had certain amount of power in our, telescopes to be able to see that far out. So Jupiter and Saturn were

like it.

Kara Goodwin: Okay.

Mary Jo Cranmore: And then beyond that, in the seventies, they discovered the [00:09:00]asteroids,Chiron moves between Saturn and Uranus. so Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are generational.

Because they move so slowly that huge chunks of people are born with the exact same Pluto

degree, or the exact same Uranian degree. These kinds of things, it started to deepen for me to understand, okay, yes, you're a sun sign Sag, but look at all this other stuff. And then if we pair it with numerology, you can just get such a deeper reading.

And even when I'm doing general readings, the frequency of the numbers, the vibration, the frequency of numbers connected to tarot, connected to astrology, for me, that just brings in so much more depth.

Kara Goodwin: Oh, it's so fascinating. So let's shift over to tarot because I, I don't know a ton about tarot I find it kind of [00:10:00] confusing because you've got like different numbers and then there's like of, cups and of, you know, So we don't have to necessarily go into that level of detail, but just generally, how do you use tarot to help to fill out the info you get on someone?

Mary Jo Cranmore: I think that a lot of people think tarot is a predictive tool and it's really not meant to be used that way. what tarot is for me is an empowerment tool. So instead of asking like, what is that person going to do? I prefer to ask what's my best reaction. What's my best.

how do I navigate this situation to my best and highest good? And, also, how can I, take a look at the current energy, right? The current energy that's going on. That's what I do with a general reading. I'm plugged into Gemini. I'm like, okay, do a little meditation on Gemini. This is what's coming through.

Okay. I feel that I'm a Gemini moon. So,

gotcha. And then. Are

you Gemini Sun? Excellent. All right. No [00:11:00] wonder. so then I'll work with that a little bit. And every tarot reading is a possibility. Your job as the person watching is to discern, use your intuition. Is this for me or is this not for me?

And you're also, if you are,in a looping kind of pattern that you have, or if you're in a victim mentality, or if you're in something that is like that, you're not going to choose or make yourself available to the highest level of vibration that could come through.if you are in a higher level vibration and there's things that come through in the cards that show possibilities of difficulty.

Most people who are in a higher vibration goes, okay, how can I use that? how can I work with that? All right. I know that, when we're on this planet, not everything is, fairy dust and unicorns. So if I'm going to have the situation coming toward me, I want to know about it and I want to know what's [00:12:00]my best reaction or action or my best direction.

Yeah. So that's how Tarot works. it's a vibrational empowerment

tool

Kara Goodwin: Okay. And it's not predictive. That's interesting.

Mary Jo Cranmore: to me.

Kara Goodwin: use it that

Mary Jo Cranmore: so I'll follow on to that because I'm sure everyone was like, what? it's not predictive. It's basically showing you the path. If you choose to do this, right? Because within the spread, we usually have like best actions, what's blocking things like that. If you choose to go in this direction, this is the thing that

could happen.

Kara Goodwin: Oh, okay.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Okay. This is the thing that could show up for you. There's other people involved. Other people can make decisions, but you can only

control you, right? You can only control what you're doing and what you're choosing. So I I do a reading for myself every morning, like what's my best use of today?

What can I expect from today? how do I navigate this sticky situation? I find myself [00:13:00] in. And if you start to become a student of your own patterns, Then you're going to see that in

the tarot reading because you're the one who's exuding that vibration. And that is matched. The energy is matched by the cards.

It's

shocking to me how right on

it can be, even when someone's not in the room with me, it's

surprising.

Kara Goodwin: That is surprising. Yeah. Fascinating. So what about your guides? Do you have guides outside of the cards and the numbers and so forth?

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yes. And, most I'm teaching my Pathfinder group to access their intuition to know what it feels like.you have a high self, right? you're a higher self. This is your, when you're in alignment, you are not only connected to the earth and connected to spirit, but you're also have the possibility.

Of getting above your high self to connect with [00:14:00] your spirit guides, your two main spirit guides. You have protection guides. You can call on other guides to help you with specific things, but all the chakras have to be clear. All the chakras have to be working in order for you to access the third eye, access the crown.

And then what's above. when I first started recognizing that I was in like this eighth, ninth chakra, Stuff like that's above your head. I really recognize that I've, I did not do as good a job as I should at protecting myself because not everything that's flowing around the universe is all, supportive to you and everything like that.

So you do want to be able to learn how. To connect to your high self, to know when everything's in alignment, to protect, and to only allow messages that are meant for your best and highest good to come in. It doesn't mean they're all sweet and kind and generous and lovely. It just means that, Oh, this is important for me

to know. [00:15:00] And so you're in that place of okay, thanks. So you're not manifesting with some like sky God out there. What you're doing is you're connecting with your own guides and you learn that the universe is like your coach right next to you. okay, how can we work? How can we manifest this?

How can we move? And my guides, Isabel and Isaac. I didn't realize this. I heard someone else talking about initially when you find your first guides, they're usually there. The names are start with I because

it's I

Kara Goodwin: Oh, interesting.

Mary Jo Cranmore: was like, yeah. And this was like two years ago. And I heard that just a couple

of weeks ago and I was like, Holy cow, Isaac and Isabel, right?

Isaac is like the ghost of Christmas present, like this big body kind of energy, just this, maybe has a Scottish accent. I'm

not sure, but like Viking for sure. And then Isabel is like this sweet, Older lady who's always in a flower garden. I'm always seeing her in the floppy hat and she's always in the flower garden.

I go out there and we talk to her. I caught to her and she's very [00:16:00] nurturing. and Isaac is the one who's like a little kick in the pants guy. And he's the one who, has the sense of humor and all of that. But then you can call in after you start working with them. Once you learn to protect yourself and learn what that

feels like.

Kara Goodwin: Okay. And so what is that discernment like for you in terms of like you, cause you mentioned recognizing when you're aligned and that that's an important

part of the protection. So,

can you give some insight in how that works for you? Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: most of the time, if I, I come down here, I have a very, I live by myself. So I have this routine of in the morning with Charlie, my dog. And then we come, I do my own readings. I do my own meditations and I come prepared. Like I come ready.And I just plug myself in. It took me a while to get my morning routine.

So I could just plug myself in, but I pick up the deck. And if I have this, like a little feeling of Ooh, something's going to come through, like something's exciting. This is, I can't wait to see what happens with Aquarius today or [00:17:00] whatever. I know I'm like. If I'm like, and this doesn't happen very often.

Sometimes I,the energies can be a little crazy with everything that's going on in the world. There can be a lot of, we have eclipse season just coming up now as we're talking and, Those things can throw you off a little bit, they can. And so you have to be, just be kind with yourself and not, I definitely, I have Mars and Capricorn, so I'm very determined, which has never really been an issue because I've pushed myself through things a lot.

In my previous, incarnations in my life, with other kinds of work. But now I'm like, okay, you know what? That's all I can do today.I'm supposed to do like Sagittarius and Capricorn and Aquarius, and then later on I'm supposed to do da, da, da da, but sometimes I can't. And giving yourself permission to just be like, you know what?

Okay. Okay. Yeah. And so I just feel, I just, [00:18:00] whenever anything comes through me, sometimes I can't get the words out

fast enough.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: if I'm, if there's a lot of messages coming through, sometimes it doesn't happen that way. Like a lot, some of the readings are just like, there it is. That's what the reading is.

But other ones I put down the cards and I'm like, I hope there's a story in there somewhere because. That looks weird. And then all of a sudden it'll just start. And sometimes I can't get the words out fast enough. That's how I know that like super plugged in, but if I'm pushing and I'm searching for words and I'm I'm like, okay, what's this?

Like, why is that happening? And a lot of times it's just you've got to

stop

Kara Goodwin: does that, does that equate to interference? Cause it sounded like when you were talking about like the the protection because I really appreciate that understanding the difference between like, this is actually coming from your higher self versus. Sometimes we can be in a place where it's like, well, that's not me.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yeah,

Kara Goodwin: getting that information from me, but then it's like, well, is it in my highest and best good? You know, and how how [00:19:00] can people help to know when it is coming from a a good place for lack of a better word. Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: first of all, they doubt themselves. They've been gaslit since they were little kids that they don't really know, that they don't really have this knowing, or they don't have intuition that gives them any good information. Every time I follow my intuition, it sends me down a bad road.

actually, Sometimes you have to learn a lesson. So it's not that just being plugged into intuition is going to always send you in this super duper,beautiful energy. A lot of times that intuition is going to, is talking to you all the time. And sometimes you heard, you've heard yourself say this.

Oh, I knew that. I knew that was going to happen. God, I knew that was, why didn't I listen? You know what I mean? for me in terms of, how people can know is I believe in journals. I believe in journals because I [00:20:00] want you to prove to yourself that you have intuition.

And if you don't write things down when they happen, you get a little intuitive hit. Oh, that's interesting. And I write it down or I'm thinking at the end of the day, as I'm like, emptying out my brain into my journal, I'm like, Oh yeah, that was interesting. When I did that reading and this happened, this body feeling happened.

you need to learn you. You need to learn your own, body's way, because it is in your body, it's your body's way of communicating. If you're, I don't trust any reader who's constantly up in, in the ethers all the time without being grounded. Because in order to give advice or give counsel of any kind, there has to be, because we have a 3d life, there has to be some connection to it.

that feeling of being both anchored and connected is what we're learning. And so I think [00:21:00]people don't ask questions enough. People are like, how do I know the name of my guides? And I'm like, can you ask them? Ask them. And then whatever, and just listen, I'm not going to tell you what the name of your guide is.

you have to ask them and you have to build a relationship. and how people can know is I learned that I would, when I said something and I would get like this feeling of like tingles on the top of my legs, I was like, Oh yeah, that was it. Like I got to it, whatever I was, whatever I needed to say, like tingle, tingle, tingle, Okay, I said that in the video. I got there. Good.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah, I love that. It's at the

top of your legs. Cause I get it a lot like down my back or in my head, like in my hair and all. So I'm like people who watch the, the show or listen there. They've heard me say gazillion times. Oh my God, that gives me so many chills. Cause I don't feel it all down my

back, but that's so fun that you feel it differently.

Like same, but different, you,

Mary Jo Cranmore: [00:22:00] different. And yes. And so what is your thing? everybody's got their own thing. I know that, we can have some commonalities. there are many times when I do feel like the top of my head coming off or something like that. Like when you wear a ponytail too long and you're like, ah, like that feels so good.

Um, so that can be it. But if you have to be a student of your own intuition.

You have to pay attention. And I have a little story I will share with you because people always ask about signs and symbols. Like, how do I know what that means? And I'm like, okay. You have to create a catalog of your own meanings.

So you can go look up what 444 means and that's fine and cardinals and stuff like that. But if when you're starting to talk with your guides and work with your guides, I asked my guides, I said, I'm having a hard time making this decision. And I want to know if this is an idea, that I should pursue [00:23:00]that it will either bring me, some new understanding or it will bring me happiness or whatever it will bring me.

But if this is a good choice for me to make in terms of my growth, then show me a blue umbrella. Ask for the symbol because everyone's like looking out there for symbols. It's like your symbols. Your symbol. So it was August at the time. And I was like, blue umbrella, you never, don't ask for something that you can just

look and see, right?

Like ask for something that may be a little out of place. And I was thinking, it's August, not a cloud in the sky and everything like that. And, I live in new England. So I went into this place called ocean state job loss, which is, it's like different every day when you go in, there's different stuff.

And I looked up and there was like a wall full of blue

beach umbrellas.

And

Kara Goodwin: Oh, wow.

Mary Jo Cranmore: just laughed right

out loud. And the lady was like, we don't have

that reaction.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: it was so obvious to me. I was like,

there they are. It was like two hours later. It's there

[00:24:00] they are.

Kara Goodwin: I love that. That's awesome. And so then when you talk about the journaling, it's maybe building almost a catalog where,

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yes.

Kara Goodwin: yeah, that's that's really smart.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yeah.

ask for it. I have like my personal connection to numbers. my birth time is 3 21 AM. So whenever I see three, two, one, I'm always like

blast off. You know,

Kara Goodwin: Oh, yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: blast off. And your own personal connection with numbers or with whatever can mean something specific to you.

So start building that catalog and journaling is really a great way to

to do that.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Well, I understand that you've had some discoveries about the roots of patterns. And I think that this ties into astrology.And the karmic path that we're all here for. Can you talk to us

a bit about that?

Mary Jo Cranmore: the patterns, it's so interesting to me that We all do have our patterns and what I'm, when I'm [00:25:00] saying about patterns, what I'm looking at, or what I'm seeing is that you have free will, you absolutely have free will and for whatever reason, this particular pattern is you have, you feel like you have to go and do it again and do it again and do it again.

And it's happened to me many times, with relationships. I can see patterns in that. A lot of times in, tarot readings, you can see when something is like,

On repeat, on repeat, on repeat.especially in your own life, if you read for yourself and you see the same cards over and over and over again, that can show you that you're stuck in a pattern.

Most of the time people stay in patterns out of, it's just comfortable because I know what's going to happen, even if it's a terrible

pattern, even if it's something that I don't want sometimes. Moving away from patterns can up end people.and I think a lot of, a lot of the people that come to the channel are wondering how to just block [00:26:00] people out of their lives.

I want to block my twin flame, or I want to block this particular, this narcissistic pattern, And I'm like, you're going to get more of it. You're going to get more of it. You're going to get more of what you don't want. If you do this, if you like, put up a wall, what you need to do is you need to look the monster in the eye.

And, be like, bring it because you're here for a reason I want to get this over with. I don't want to have to do this again. So I'm going to, I'm going to walk right up and look you in the eye and be like, what is it? What am I missing here? What am I missing? And a lot of times, like, in the movies, right?

when you look at the monster,

 It loses power. because it's not, it's no longer making you run and making you do lots of stuff. You're like going right up to it. those are the people that usually survive those scary movies are the ones that go right up and be like, not be afraid and have a plan about how to, deal with that.

but patterns can also show up in a subconscious way in our life. And we just think [00:27:00] that this is how life

is.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Like it's belief systems that come from family upbringing. if you've gone through some kind of poverty or some kind of, maybe divorce has happened in your family, maybe some other kinds of stuff that's happened.

And you can form a belief, which calcifies into a conviction that this is how life is and those kinds of things. So you can see those things in numerology. You can see them in tarot and astrology. Astrology, you would look at Saturn to see things that are your, I don't know, patterns. You could only do it once.

You only may only have to do it once, but looking at Saturn is a good way to look at your lessons, in your astrology or in a tarot. I use the cards that are underneath the deck after I shuffle to see what's going on relationally to the reading, but also what's going on subconsciously that you

might not know about.

Kara Goodwin: Oh,

Mary Jo Cranmore: And so half the battle is just becoming [00:28:00] aware of like, Oh, wow. I didn't know how that connected with

that.

Kara Goodwin: mm

Mary Jo Cranmore: I never connected that. So I think that's part of my mission is to be somebody who connects dots

for people.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah. That's really powerful. Yeah. I love how you say that calcification. That's really powerful. How we can just have these beliefs and then they just like. Become almost solid and, and how that can hold us back. I think about that a lot too, just with our patterns and, and how culture and society plays into it.

Because you talk about parents too, you know, like the family we're brought up in, and then we also have the society that we're in, the culture that we're in. And having lived in a couple of different cultures, for, you know, years at a time, it's like, there are things that we really take for granted that we don't As just being how things are and it's like, Oh my gosh, a lot of that has to do with like the [00:29:00]borders of our country or of the state, even of the state that we're in,

Mary Jo Cranmore: And I, well, I'll tell you the, nothing hates. Nothing hates, letting go of a pattern more

than a culture. And because it's like, it's, it is, it's like almost woven into the fabric of what that culture is. And we have right now, we have a Pluto transit that's happening in astrology, which you might've heard other people talking about it.

Cause it's happened. It's so

slow. Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008 when the banks fell off a cliff and Pluto Crushes things or blows away things that the foundation has become calcified. that calcification of a belief, or that, conviction becoming a conviction that, this is the way this should work.

And then they corrupted it to such an unknown degree that it had to blow apart. it couldn't. Operate anymore. And we just had Pluto go swung all the way through Capricorn and it moved [00:30:00] into Aquarius, in January of this year. And so Capricorn is the old guard, the old systems, the things that the hierarchical system all of that kind of stuff.

Aquarius. Nope. Aquarius is all about the future. Aquarius is all about innovation and change and transformation and everything. And so having that Pluto energy swing from one to the other, you're seeing a lot of that in the world that there's like this sense of, things cannot stay every single pattern or every single institution is being questioned right now,

all over the world, not just for the, for Americans, but all over the

world.

Very interesting that's happening right now.

Kara Goodwin: that's very interesting. I have heard that about Jupiter. I'm curious, you know, here we are in in March and do you get some senses of what this year is going to be like? Because I hear that it's going to be a powerful year.

And I know personally for myself, even though we're, just a couple of months [00:31:00] in. it, it, I've noticed a lot of changes in my own life, with this year. So what what do you, what kind of

feeling do you have about 2024?

Mary Jo Cranmore: I will say that I think there is going to be, some major, major shifts going on this year. I will say that earlier this year, like with that Pluto movement into Aquarius, we're going from an earth sign into air. So it's faster. So the, everything is moving faster right now. that Pluto energy.

Is going through and like crushing things and Godzilla walking through the city like getting rid of anything that isn't up to snuff. And we do have these eclipses happening. March 25th and April 8th is a big eclipse in Aries. the 1 that's happening in March is in Libra. And. They are tied in, I won't bore you with the math or the astrology, but there's something called the North Node and it is the, a lunar node

around the moon. North Node and [00:32:00] South Node is an ellipsis around the moon. It's just a mathematical point. Okay. But last year in July, the North Node moved into Aries and South Node moved

into

Libra. And,

Kara Goodwin: are, these are the nodes of the moon, you

Mary Jo Cranmore: Yes. These are the nodes of the moon and it,

Kara Goodwin: on the planet too, right?

Mary Jo Cranmore: yes, but this like coincides with moon energy in terms of

eclipses, right?

So all of the eclipses are going to align with those

signs. So Aries and Libra are opposite signs, right? Aries is about me and Libra is

about, we, it's about independence versus, coupling. it's about how do I. Still have power in relationships and not disappear into them, or how can I have, how can I stop big footing my partner in relationships like balancing the Aries and Libra and these eclipses.

Now we have the lunar eclipse in Libra 5 degrees Libra happening March 25th. And that is going to be about opening one's eyes. To see what's really [00:33:00] going on. And then am I going to be a people pleaser, a lower vibration of Libra, or am I going to then reach for Aries, which is about asserting my power.

April 8th is, a solar eclipse and that one is in Aries. We also have Aries, Aries sun, Aries moon, and Chiron and Aries all at

19 degrees. So

Kara Goodwin: On the 8th?

Mary Jo Cranmore: On the 8th of April and so that is known as a stellium three or more planets in the same sign. There's other stuff other asteroids in there too, but it is going to be a powerful.

energetic expression of people's power. if you have been fading into the woodwork at work, it's whatever's going to be going on in your life is going to like shove you forward. You have to make a choice here. And if something is like hurting you or, no one's listening to you or something like that, you may find your voice.

You may find, [00:34:00] whatever that personal power element is for you, you may find. And if you look at your birth chart, where is this hitting for me? So if that eclipse in Aries hits, like in the 10th house, it could hit your

career. And it could be like, you know what? I'm no longer, I'm not going to be just a cog in the machine.

I'm going to start my own

business.

Kara Goodwin: Hmm.

Mary Jo Cranmore: So you have to see how that is all working. April 20th. we have a Jupiter square or Jupiter conjunct Uranus in, In Taurus, and that is Jupiter expands anything. It comes in contact with and Uranus is about innovation and change and I can't think of a sign that doesn't like innovation and change

more than Taurus

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Taurus is like, no, I'm super comfortable right now.

And this is just lovely. You don't need to do anything. Uranus says. There is no such thing as safety without risk. You must [00:35:00] have risk in order to have safety. You must risk and invest money in order to have safety. You must take a risk and look for a different kind of job. If you want to expand your horizons, you must start your own business.

You must get married, must get divorced, whatever it is. And so Jupiter. Is, a benefic, a lucky planet, right? It is that really, gorgeous energy of expansion and Uranus expansion too. There can be a lot of money made around this. It depends on where it falls in your chart. There can be a lot of, love expressed, right?

It's just a beautiful energy and, Taurus, Likely will go kicking and screaming, but I think Taurus will be like, after it's over, be like,

Oh yeah,

I wanted to do that. That sounds good I'm a bit of a late adopter, but

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Mary Jo Cranmore: right. And so then Jupiter moves into, in May, Jupiter moves into Gemini. which again is an air sign.

So things are going to speed up more. So we have this, we have a lot [00:36:00] going on just in this next three months that is really going to force us to, see if we're circling a pattern or, anything that needs to be innovated is going to get expanded, like right in our face. Like you're not going to be able to avoid that.

This and when Jupiter is going into Gemini, Gemini is all about communication. So there can be a lot of experiences that happen for us. Maybe privately Taurus, maybe privately that as soon as Jupiter moves into Gemini. We have this major need to confess or we have to communicate or bring our learnings, our key learnings back to the

tribe or something like that, right?

Like we, we, we are now going to be,reporters, right? Responsible for sharing our learnings.

Kara Goodwin: Wow. Well, thank you for all of that insight. I'm curious. I haven't thought before about. April 8th being [00:37:00] four, eight, 2024 from a numeral numerology perspective. I'm actually right. I live on the, line of the, the eclipse. So it's a big

deal around here

Mary Jo Cranmore: Do you really? Okay. Yes. Yes.

Kara Goodwin: And, so it's been on my radar for a long time and and it's right when we come back from spring break too.

So I've been like, for months we have to be back before, you know, I

don't want to be stuck somewhere. Um, but anyway, but the, I hadn't thought about the numbers. So April 8th, 4, 8, 2, 2, 4. Is

that, is

Mary Jo Cranmore: 8, so 4, so 2, 2, 20, 24 is

an 8 year,

Kara Goodwin: Uh huh.

Mary Jo Cranmore: the 8th of April, obviously, and the 4, 4 and 8 is 12, and 8 is 20, so it's 0, I like having a 0, because that's a God protection. Two is the, the energy of choice [00:38:00] decisions. I'm going to do this, or I'm going to do that. So when you have a 20 number, that's going to be boiled down to a two obviously, but don't lose sight of that zero because that is God's protection as you are making decisions.

So I like that, especially when we're talking about Aries energy,a lower vibration of Aries energy is I'm going to do whatever the hell I want.screw you. I'm just doing it. The higher vibration of Aries energy is the benevolent leader who is doing things. Not quite an Aquarian.

We're Aquarian. We all have to, agree on everything. Aries is definitely making the choice, but they're There's they are having their inner divine feminine kind of soften, and not be I don't know, gruff and hard edges and hard elbows and stuff. So I like that.

That makes me feel like there's a lot of initiative happening. Eights are the number of initiative and putting in effort. Fours are the number of structure and, The number four of wands keeps coming up in the readings too. And [00:39:00] that's a lovely number about moving or surprises around our physical life.

And I would definitely say that about April 8th, it's always been for me, right smack dab in the middle of Aries season, you're gearing up to do things you want, but I like the connection to the four, which is more about how are we working together on something, so that's not going to be lost.

That won't be

lost.

Kara Goodwin: Fascinating. Well, Mary Jo, this has been so much fun, and I've learned so much. Thank you so much. How can people find you and connect with you?

Mary Jo Cranmore: my YouTube channel is called Soulful Revolution and I post there every day. not every reading every day, but I do post in the morning and I post, Zodiac readings during the week. I also post the Twin Flame reading and, once a week and you can check it out, at YouTube channel and my website.

I have all my classes and my memberships and [00:40:00] everything there. So you can just go plow around in there and

see what you think.

Kara Goodwin: Awesome. Well, thank you so much. I've really loved this. I appreciate you coming on.

Mary Jo Cranmore: Me too. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Kara Goodwin: My pleasure.