We Can Do Hard Things

Astrology for (Former) Skeptics: Sonya Renee Taylor Takes Us Further

December 18, 2025

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  • Every struggle indicated in an astrological chart has a corresponding path of ease, and aligning these two is the individual's path. 
  • The core work for Amanda involves redefining 'resource' beyond just money to include health, time, and relationships, and learning to trust comfort and security (Taurus Moon challenged by Chiron). 
  • The evolutionary journey involves reducing suffering by aligning the personality with the soul, recognizing that the individual's journey is inseparable from the collective's well-being. 

Segments

Episode Context and Guest Introduction
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(00:00:00)
  • Key Takeaway: This second part of the conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor focuses on reading Amanda’s astrological chart and processing the insights regarding ease, peace, and redefining success.
  • Summary: This episode is the second part of the conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor on We Can Do Hard Things. It features the reading of Amanda’s astrological chart, following the previous episode where Glennon and Abby’s charts were read. The discussion aims to shed wisdom on personal struggles, such as Amanda’s difficulty trusting comfort, and the broader theme of achieving ease and enoughness.
Amanda’s Sun and Moon Signs
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(00:02:14)
  • Key Takeaway: Amanda’s Aries Sun in the second house indicates an initiating energy around resources, while her Taurus Moon demands comfort, slowness, and security, creating an internal tug-of-war.
  • Summary: Amanda shares an Aries Sun, similar to her sister, signifying beginner energy, vitality, and a tendency to start many things, specifically concerning resources (second house). Internally, her Taurus Moon requires comfort, beauty, ease, and slowness, which counters the fast-paced Aries energy. This conflict can manifest as external actions appearing quick while internal processing has been long and resistant to change.
Chiron’s Impact on Trust and Security
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  • Key Takeaway: Chiron, the wounded healer, sits near Amanda’s Moon, creating uncertainty and instability that causes her to distrust comfort and security, slowing down necessary change.
  • Summary: Chiron, representing the wounded healer who learned to work with debilitating pain to become a healer, sits close to Amanda’s Moon, which craves soothing. This placement generates insecurity, leading to a belief that comfort is unsafe or untrustworthy. The work involves addressing the story that prevents self-expression and trusting inner safety when change arises.
Pisces Rising and Duality of Self
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  • Key Takeaway: Amanda’s Pisces Rising, with five placements in the sign, highlights a strong ability to merge with the collective consciousness, but her soul’s journey requires developing the individual fish aspect leading toward Virgo sovereignty.
  • Summary: Pisces, the sign of duality represented by two fish, signifies the connection to collective consciousness and the need to absorb into everything. Amanda’s chart shows an over-reliance on the collective fish (South Node), meaning her current work is to swim toward the individual fish, which embodies a whole, sovereign self (Virgo). This integration means understanding that one can be both individual and belong to everything.
Resource Definition and Self-Worth
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  • Key Takeaway: The belief that comfort and ease are unavailable is the core story Amanda must rewrite, as resource is defined by the belief that ease is accessible to her own will and desire.
  • Summary: Amanda recognized that her internal narrative suggests she does not ‘get’ comfort and security, viewing them as external or unattainable. The astrological reading suggests that resource is fundamentally the belief that comfort is available, and her work involves choosing her own desire, even if it conflicts with the collective’s perceived needs. This self-imposed prison is tied to the story that she cannot have what she desires.
Sovereignty in Relationship and Collective Embodiment
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  • Key Takeaway: Amanda’s soul path is toward sovereign selfhood within relationships, which requires rewriting the story that her individual journey is separate from the collective’s needs.
  • Summary: Amanda’s North Node points toward sovereignty in relationship, which is complicated by Saturn retrograde requiring reinterpretation of her work through a storyteller’s lens (Gemini). The key insight is that desiring peace for the world necessitates embodying that peace internally; one cannot wish for global comfort while denying it to the self. Being the energetic embodiment of what is desired is essential for that desire to manifest universally.
Suffering as Misalignment
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  • Key Takeaway: Suffering exists in the space between the soul’s truth and the personality’s actions, and the goal of the evolutionary journey is to reduce this suffering through alignment.
  • Summary: Sonya Renee Taylor defines suffering as the gap between one’s soul and one’s personality. Reducing suffering is achieved by aligning with the soul’s mission, which requires building internally what one desires externally. This reinforces the concept of radical self-love: one cannot effectively work to transform the world externally without first being the template internally.
Post-Reading Processing and External Validation
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(00:29:21)
  • Key Takeaway: The hosts recognize their shared pattern of orienting life around external metrics of success and relevance, realizing the need to re-evaluate what constitutes ’enoughness’ internally.
  • Summary: Glennon reflects on her life being wired around external metrics (downloads, followers) as a means to achieve self-worthiness, realizing this system is no longer suiting her. Abby connects her need to external soothing (booze, next plan) to the concept of enoughness residing within, suggesting that mothering her own spirit is the final frontier. The group questions the necessity of constantly setting new goalposts instead of accepting the present as enough.
Dreaming vs. Present Construction
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  • Key Takeaway: The word ‘dream’ is viewed with suspicion as it often implies a future state that avoids accepting the current reality, contrasting with the necessity of constructing the desired future in the present moment.
  • Summary: Glennon expresses suspicion toward the word ‘dream’ when it signifies something perpetually ‘better’ outside the current reality, fearing it is an avoidance tactic. The group agrees that the feeling represented by the dream must be given to oneself now, cutting out the middleman of material acquisition. This aligns with the Audre Lorde quote: the present being constructed must look like the future being dreamed.
Resource Rebalancing and Value Prioritization
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  • Key Takeaway: Resource is not solely money; it encompasses money, health, time, and relationship, and prioritizing one resource often depletes the others, necessitating constant rebalancing.
  • Summary: When discussing Amanda’s Sun in the house of resource, the hosts expand the definition beyond money to include health, time, and relationship. If money is prioritized, health, time, and relationships are depleted by definition, requiring a conscious rebalancing of values. The work involves identifying scarcity stories that prevent wise allocation across these four essential resources.