The ego wants us to be hard on ourselves and not take care of ourselves and focus on everybody else. And not even in a loving way - it's just like what did they think of me what does this person want from me what can I do for them in order to receive this? Letting the ego go has been probably the biggest and hardest part of this journey because the ego loves suffering.

I love seeing how artists individually like interpret each card. Some artists like to do their own versions of like the Rider Waite deck but then other artists will design the card in a way that kind of like either semi-alters or expands on the meaning of the card and I

love that because I can be pulled to a certain deck for a certain reading for someone and it will have been like necessary for me to use that deck because I'll get a certain message from like the artwork in that deck.

Isn't it funny how everybody kind of processes and copes in different ways? Some people need dancing and some people just need to like lay in bed and cry and sometimes, like you, you need both. You need them at different times for different things and there's a time and place for everything.

Having people learn their (astrological) charts is all about awareness because there are usually elements of strife, discomfort, the parts of ourselves that we don't like to look at but are in there and it's about awareness because once you become aware of those things inside of you you have greater choice in how you make decisions.

This is just a moment in time between the two of us which, I don't know if I've ever said this on a podcast, but it is absolutely part of the design of the podcast that we're talking about making meaning while making meaning. Talking about making meaning with people I love is an exercise in meaning which is also why I think it's so interesting to put it out for an audience because I think it changes the meaning when it's listened to or when it's watched.

I think down the road once we get more complicated systems the key to actually getting artificial consciousness is to build a system that can ask those “why” questions. Not only for the purpose of explaining to us but to explain to itself and ask its own reflexive questions. That's how a lot of people define consciousness in philosophy as well - human beings have the highest level of consciousness because we are able to ask “why am I conscious?”

The person who has just been so important in my life is my first acting coach Catherine Hartt. I have a tattoo of the last thing she said to me on the first day we met which is “when you look at the world you see poetry.” I have it tattooed on my ribs. Talk about someone who saw something in me that I didn't even see in myself at that time. It really encouraged me to hone that. Miss Hartt is extremely intelligent and compassionate and creative and intuitive as well and so I think a lot of my like mystical side I get from her. Having trust and faith in the universe. Which is weird to say about an acting teacher maybe, but she taught me how to love life.