This is part 1 of 2 parts. 2024 was a year of intense transformation and upheaval, as discussed by host Allison DuBois and guest Tom McMullan. They delve into the tumultuous events that marked the past year, including the significant shifts in relationships and career paths for many individuals. The conversation highlights how the transition from Pluto in Capricorn to Aquarius signals a major change in societal structures and personal dynamics, paving the way for revolutionary ideas and progress. As they look ahead to 2025, Allison and Tom emphasize the importance of embracing change and the potential for new beginnings, particularly in the realms of spirituality and self-discovery. With insightful astrology perspectives, they encourage listeners to reflect on their own lives and the transformations they may face in the coming year.

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Welcome to the Dead Life.

Here's world renowned medium Allison Dubois.

Welcome to the Dead Life.

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Welcome back, Tom.

Thanks, Alison.

Oh my gosh.

It's always good to have you in studio because it's just like hanging out in my living room on Sundays.

Right.

Except we're surrounded by technology.

I know, that's true.

That's true.

That year was insane.

I don't think I'm alone in this feeling.

They would, they would be like, oh, is this a year of death?

I thought that's next year.

Transformation can be transforming from this lifetime into the next.

So we did see some death.

But you also saw people shedding, much like a snake sheds its skin.

Relationships that didn't serve them.

And I think that was actually a good thing.

Many of my clients were having career direction, sort of discord where they wanted to switch directions and they didn't know why.

So I actually enjoyed the life readings a lot.

I'm sure you probably really enjoyed reading your clients as well, because they were looking to change.

They were looking to have a different life and to do things differently.

It's like they had finally arrived, even though it was uncomfortable for them to do.

Yeah, I mean, both.

The big, the big questions always are, you know, work, career and relationships.

And I got probably a mix of both.

There's a lot.

There were because we're.

We had Pluto's coming at the end of Capricorn in this last year.

And so those are systems.

Systems we operate in the rules, the authorities, the work environment, the structures we're involved in, family structures, business structures.

And there seems to be a lot of change because it's got from an eight to a nine year and then relationships.

Relationships where it's just not working out.

It could be someone that's been in something for four years or 24 years.

It's just seems wanted to.

They're coming to an end or they're in the process of it.

And if you look at the astrology, we're moving from one major sign of 15, 16 years in Pluto in Capricorn to now Pluto moving into Aquarius.

So again, that's a transition.

So it all seems to be in the same direction.

Pluto in Capricorn.

Just for people that are just tuning in, that don't know, that was government.

It was the old standard kind of daddy energy.

Right?

Yeah.

And that's our houses, our structure, they collapsed and people lost their homes.

Yes, exactly.

Right.

So that's what you mean.

Yeah.

And then the economy had collapsed because of it.

Capricorn's money, banks, everything else.

I always think Capricorn's zodiac sign should be the monopoly banker.

That's probably very correct.

Actually.

I think that'd be more accurate in the depiction of how I think of Capricorns.

They need financial stability to feel safe in life and to feel okay.

And everything seems to revolve around that.

Permanently.

Permanently, yes, in November.

Right.

That was great.

And so obviously I was happy.

Anybody with Aquarius in their charts, like, pop the popcorn, let's see what happen.

You know, it's exciting.

People that don't vibe with adaptation and change may not Take it so well moving into it, but they'll get used to it, I think.

Well, Saturn rules Capricorn and Aquarius.

And so the Capricorn are the structures that have been in place that secure you and that you feel secured in.

And then Pluto comes along in Aquarius and Aquarius means, no, we're changing the system.

So they're both system oriented.

But one is going to rebel against a system that becomes antiquated and needs to move in a forward direction and not go to the past.

And so there's a lot of, if you look at the issues of the last election, whatever, you know, what things looked like in the past that were dissatisfied, that people wanted to move forward in and those who wanted to stay in it, Right.

So, you know, so we're in this massively transition time period from this year moving into 25 and 26, which I'll talk about in sections.

And you and I were talking last night as well, and I said, as an Aquarius, I am an Aquarius.

January 24th is my birthday.

And as an Aquarius, everybody always slaps humanitarian on us, which we are.

We're totally humanitarian, you know, mostly for people that are strangers and that we, we sense that they need help, whether it's an animal or a person, and.

And we feel drawn to be that help.

However, anybody out there that's an Aquarius knows this to be true.

We don't like people in our personal space.

So if people are standing in our personal space, it immediately makes us prickly.

Like it makes us uncomfortable.

So as Pluto is in Aquarius now, you're going to see people being like, get out of my room.

And so you're going to see that around the world where they're taking inventory of who is living in each country and who they want there and who they don't.

So it's going to be interesting.

Just as an Aquarian, that won't change.

That's going to.

And this is for like 20 years that.

Yes, this would be 20 years.

And essentially when you're looking at a cause, because Aquarian is a cause, you know, the humanity is a cause that they idealize themselves to.

Right, okay.

But at the same time, they're not for other people's causes, just their own.

Because you have to know that they're for an organization, a group that they're trying to reform or progress that's stuck and help or at the same time they're, I call it fierce individuals.

So the rebels in their own selves.

And this is why we give Them the moniker of they love humanity, but they don't like people because they're individualists that don't want to belong.

But yet they'll, they'll go into a group, usually a lead the group or start a group and then go away.

Yeah, that's Aquarian.

I think the distinction and the difference for me is when there's a cause that say someone else has and I don't necessarily share, I don't have the energy on their cause like I may for some others.

I.

I think that a lot of Aquarians see people or animals that truly need help.

Underdogs.

Right?

Truly need help.

Yes.

And then we see people who don't really need it, but they want something.

And that's really where we draw the line.

It's like we don't care about helping those people.

No.

If they can help themselves.

Right.

It's just greed or selfishness, you know, so some people do it in the name of humanity.

They'll slap the humanitarian label on that.

And I don't think that's humanitarianism.

I think it's an excuse sometimes.

So I think that that's a distinction I'm making from humanitarianism for people and animals that truly need it, that are starving or need some water or a roof over their head.

And there are people around the world, but Aquarius tends to look in their own backyard.

And my sense was that all countries are going to be looking in their own backyard and more concerned with that than the rest of the world.

Yeah, you're right.

When you're looking at having the cause of something, something that is the system doesn't support.

Right.

And so no one's supporting these, this system that doesn't have any leadership, doesn't have anyone taking care of, providing for them.

It's how we come together when we have natural disasters.

So even when we had, you know, the division between our country and our politics this last year, then we had this massive hurricane and then everybody comes out of the politics and helps their neighbor.

That's.

That's.

Except the government.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, sometimes that kind of destruct can bring out the best in humanity.

And then right now we have the man who killed the healthcare CEO, that he assassinated him, he murdered him.

And there's people.

This is what I don't like about social media.

I don't like hearing what crazy people think.

Do you know what I mean?

That's why social media sucks.

Yeah, that's so true.

And they come out and I mean, there's some good things about it, and it's informative.

But then you've got these people who would never have had a voice, voice saying oh, he's so hot.

Like I want to be with that guy.

And it's, it's disturbing.

It is disturbing in a way.

I want them to be with that guy because he's gonna go off on them at some point.

And that's just, that just helps the rest of the world.

It's like, that's crazy.

Well, it brings out the Robin Hood consciousness, you know?

You know they say Robin Hood, but Ted Bundy had this.

Oh, I know, exactly.

It doesn't mean it's right.

Manson had this effect where women were flocking to them.

I don't understand understand it.

I see women like that as weak minded women and they like to play with fire.

Like there's some excitement in it to them or something.

Or they had a massively effed up relationship with their dad and they see the abusive male as sort of a representative of something they're used to, something they're familiar with.

I know, just, just my take share.

People out there can share their take of what they think, why they think people are into Manson and Bundy and this, this latest guy that clearly likes McDonald's a lot.

Yeah, I don't get it.

I don't either.

And you said virus, family, tradition.

That was so perfect.

And you were like, people are going to go back to tradition, which they did.

People started cooking because we were in lockdown and doing more traditional things.

And family was all about family because that's all we saw.

And obviously virus.

Transformation would probably be one of those.

It is the word.

It's the word, it's the word.

It's unexpected, sudden, revolutionary change of pretty much everything.

And as we go back into that time, because Neptune in Pisces, along with Saturn in Pisces was a big part of that period that caused that.

I call it sort of prediction or whatever you want to call it by virtue of the fact that we had our entire system shut down by a virus and Neptune essentially rules first mass consciousness, but at the same time it rules confinement, prison, isolation.

And so we became isolated within our own families.

We couldn't socialize and it created a very dark period for us.

Rules and regulations.

Yes.

And that Was again, a confinement where we had no choice.

This is a country where we always feel we have choices.

And it seemed to be everything got shut down.

And that was unusual for our country.

And then everybody came out of it in a different format of how they looked at that.

Because then now that we don't trust the government and now all the misinformation came out and all the conspiracy theories came out.

And that's just a byproduct of how people get left alone and disengaged.

We realized we didn't need a lot of celebrities out there anymore.

We're like, we don't need your movies.

It just.

Yeah.

It changed a lot.

Yeah.

I think it.

In a strange way, if you're looking for the silver lining, it brought families closer together in because they were spending time.

Even you and I.

Like, we would only see.

We saw our family and you and Rodney.

Right.

And that was our bubble.

That was our universe for that year.

And I.

It's kind of strangely special in some ways because we took care of each other.

I'd be like, I'm picking up pasta.

Do you need pasta?

You know.

Right.

I mean, we just.

We were a little more thoughtful and we had more time to process who we are and what we want.

Well, that's what I kind of went through in that as sort of an internalization of self.

Because the outside world shut down and it creates fear instantly.

Yeah.

And I don't go to fear very easily.

It's not something I process because I look at the big picture of everything and everything's temporary.

So I'm observational about how I go through something and how I watch other people or how society reacts to the energy that I look at in astrology and then how I choose to manage it in my own personal life.

And for me and for you, we're self employed.

We run our own business.

And so it was not hard to do.

But then in my social life, as everything shuts down, I just felt like I can't go out.

I'm a Libra.

I'm social by nature.

I miss that.

Yeah.

Oh, I did not.

No, I know you did it.

I.

I was just fine.

I was just fine.

I felt bad for the young people.

I didn't even feel bad for everyone else.

Children and in that sense.

And teenagers and college kids.

Absolutely.

They missed out on things we completely took for granted in high school and college.

And I just.

Sophia turned 21.

Yeah.

That year.

And the first trip that we took was for her birthday.

And I looked at Jo And I said, I'm not missing her birthday.

We're not celebrating her birthday.

I'm going to survive whatever this is, and I'm going to do it.

And so, as an Aquarius, I was just unafraid that year, and I went to my friend's funeral.

I'm so glad I went to Debbie's funeral and didn't stay home out of fear.

And I know some people, you know, did stay home out of fear or they didn't want to spread it, but those masks protected everyone, so I don't know how it could spread.

I'm kidding.

Anyways.

Anyways, so I'm really glad I went to her funeral, because I got to say goodbye to my friend and say her eulogy.

Like, stand up and say something for her.

Yeah.

And what we're willing to do for those we love.

Yeah.

So I.

I did learn a lot about myself in that year.

I saw people doing complete 180s in their life where they're a.

An accountant, and now I want to be a.

An astrologer or a numerologist or a healer.

There's a lot of that in my reading.

There's.

Yeah, there's a lot.

People are really waking up and saying, wait a second.

Is this who I am?

And the answer is no.

But that also came from Neptune, because Neptune awakens the spiritual and the artistic.

And so it was bringing people out of their practicality and going, I'm bored.

This is really who I am.

That's not my soul.

That's what my soul wants.

It's, like, what I have to do to survive.

And they started being pulled into this nature of, like, I want something bigger, something more meaning and more purpose.

And that's what Neptune was doing to us also.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's still doing it.

It is still doing it.

I counseled more women who were having an affair.

I cannot even begin to tell you.

Name names.

I can't now.

I'm kidding.

You know, I know I don't have to keep client privilege confidentiality, but it's kind of a spiritual unspoken word there, that.

Your pride.

I know.

And your privacy.

I know.

I know.

But I was amazed.

It was like all of these women all of a sudden saying.

And I think Covid had something to do with that, too, because a lot of people looked at each other and said, oh, God, I don't want to be with this person for another 20 years.

So there was a lot of pop off divorces right in that time frame as well.

So I'm seeing the women who stayed for resources, for financial reasons, finding other, like drawing in other partners.

Yeah.

And they're all of a sudden the heart is on fire and they're ready to go.

So you'll find that going into this next year, if that started, it's going to go through this next year.

Absolute.

Absolutely.

A year of endings.

People that you don't expect because the people that I was counseling were married 20 to 40 years.

Those were long marriages that people wouldn't have thought would have ended.

So it's going to be really interesting.

But you're right up until we're going to be right up until the 1st of January that I'm still seeing the same issues.

And does that accelerate in the year of endings with it'll finally finish off certain relationships or you're finally going to throw down the gauntlet at work and change direction or go out on your own vision?

Well, we've got so much fire and air coming into this next year that's going to go on for quite a while.

And so the fire and air is like this gets things done.

And also both of those energies are cleansing energies.

Water is a cleaning agent, fire is a cleaning agent.

And so we're going to be kind of put in situations where you need to get rid of this, you need to clear the decks, you need to wipe this out because it's time.

So an eight year is technically like Scorpio.

Ish energy.

Yeah.

And then the nine year is like Sagittarian smacks of Sagittarius.

It does, but it's also spiritual because it's a year.

And I want to measure this in terms of what it really truly means.

It's to inspire.

So it comes from your soul.

It doesn't come from practicality, it comes from.

That's why it's going to be even stronger for people going, I want to do something that I really want to do that I never did or I just now I have an idea and I'm going to just go with it because it brings in that I need to inspire myself and then I want to inspire others also and encourage others.

So you'll get a lot of that organizations coming up where they're going to be like, join my organizations and let me help get you where you need to go.

That's a great business to Even start if you're.

If you have a concept like marketing.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a lot of people in marketing now though, because of technology, which is great.

We need that.

And although it was painful, it's like birth and you have a story to tell, something to remember and learn from, so.

Eight's a success year.

So if you energetically put the energy out there and started the ball rolling on your vision career wise and you're willing to do the work, it pays off because it's a success here.

So if you start something in a nine year, it just doesn't carry the same success or how does that.

Do you know how that works?

It takes, it goes to a level of purpose.

It has more of a just a success in itself, but it has a purpose beyond just the monetary.

Just part of the ego.

It's not an ego energy.

It's more like this is my passion, this is my purpose, this is why I'm here.

So it tends to have a little extra kick to it because it is.

Your passion, has more meaning.

Got it.

Okay.

No, that makes a lot of sense.

So let's get some of the all on Instagram.

Everybody's asking about this and your answer could be like nothing.

And that's fine.

Well, January 25th is when that happens essentially.

And it's basically the majority of planets are lining up sort of in the same area.

And it's really astronomical.

It doesn't have an astrology reference to it, essentially.

I'm gonna give you astrology.

So question though.

All of the outer planets are changing signs.

Yes.

But on January 21st we can see the rare alignment of the planets.

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn.

And it can be best seen on January 25th.

Right.

Are those the same occurrences?

Aren't those two different things?

Yes, the planets changing signs?

Yes, they're very different things.

Mars going into something else.

Can you talk about that a little bit?

Well, the lining up essentially is an astronomical thing.

So if you had that in your chart, you're born at that time, everything would be compacted into maybe one or two houses of a 12 house chart.

So everything's overidentified and wherever that is.

So I did a reading a while back recently where I had a woman.

Everything was in the top of her chart.

Everything.

So everything in her storyline, in her past coming in is to be elevated.

But because it's rare, I think people are thinking this alignment of.

Of six planets is going to cause some overall energy.

That's the question.

It is not.

It is a specific spatial thing that just.

It shows up in a chart, but it's determined by where it is in that place.

Okay.

And so.

But the planets themselves are very specifically defined differently.

Okay.

So it's beautiful and it's special and it's rare, but it doesn't change anything for us.

Got it.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm gonna go through all of them.

Okay, great.

Can't wait to hear.

And we're gonna talk about Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn.

Essentially.

Jupiter's in there kind of there, but not very much because it's not in a sign for more.

It's about a year.

But I'm gonna start with Pluto.

Pluto in Aquarius now that we're there for the next 20 years.

So I love doing history.

If you don't have history in astrology, you're not a good astrologer because everything is about patterns, repeats of patterns, and understanding when it's happened before.

1798.

So it is the birth of our country in the Age of Enlightenment.

It is the beginning of what I refer to as the Aquarian Age, leaving the Piscean Age.

The Piscean Age is when the few control the masses through religious rule for thousands of years.

Wow.

And so then we come into a time of enlightenment where that begins to shift with the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Industrial Age, and the revolution of that.

The planet that rules Aquarius.

Wow.

That was brand new because Saturn ruled it before.

I wish I had a sexier planet.

The constitution was ratified.

And so essentially, it means a new world order.

And that is what's happening around the world.

And then the wars we've been fighting in the last.

Well, through Capricorn specifically.

All wars have been based in religion.

It's still there.

And men, the Middle East.

And patriarchal.

Absolutely.

Because they're patriarchal.

And money.

Yeah.

So power and control over the masses.

So Aquarius comes in and we get this country freedom to choose our own Religion, emancipation, freedoms of groups over the 200 and some odd years, freeing blacks, freeing women, more power, more liberation, if you will, as we've gone through these ages.

And so that is.

And then other peak creates democracies that we've seen.

And it, you know, snowballed into other democracies around the world.

But then you still had autocracies and, you know, communism and Marxism and fascism.

So they're all still around.

It's kind of amazing, isn't it?

Well, in my world, it's like I just.

You watch it, you see.

I know, but how it's just been in the.

Because I went to college in 91, and Marxism and socialism, people cringed.

Those were dirty words.

And now we've got generations, not the old ones, that are saying it because they've always been crazy.

And we knew that, though, because they were the only ones.

Like, they stood out.

So we knew who they were.

But now there's all these younger people repeating what they were taught in the universities.

And it's scary, you know, that they think that can work when it's already been tried and it's already failed.

So I don't know why they don't teach them that in school.

But please, please continue.

We have to learn again, always.

Because we repeat.

We tend to repeat because we forget.

That's the point.

We forget and then repeat it again.

But we know this.

It's like people who don't know history, you know, if you don't remember, you're doomed to repeat it.

We know that.

So.

But people don't know history.

That's why I'm giving it today.

Why aren't they teaching in school?

We're paying for it, damn it.

Aquarius also is an air sign.

So for 20 years, we move into an air sign out of an earth sign that we've had with Pluto in Capricorn.

And so we're also going in.

Since there's a lot of air and fire moving us forward.

We're talking about the yin and yang.

We've been in a yin period, which is very feminine.

We're going into a yang period, which is extremely masculine.

Wait, we're coming out of a feminine period?

Yes, yes.

Okay, yes.

And we're coming into.

Taking over, taking charge.

Very male aggression.

Well, we need a little bit of that right now.

I mean, they were so mean to men for the last, like, 10 years.

Men deserve a little bit of space.

Well, the bros did it this year.

They took over the election.

So we.

Yeah, it was one of the biggest things was Men, you know.

Well, because they were treated so badly, Tom.

Well, I wasn't one of them.

I am male, you know.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, different, though.

Different.

But different.

But same umbrella.

Yeah.

But I want you to understand that this is rapid, revolutionary change in progress on massive proportions in the air energy.

The Earth energy ruled for so long.

And I've used this in previous podcasts where, you know, we talked about moving out of Earth energy, where it was the industrial revolution, building buildings, and.

And all our resources were underground, and all the things that we worked with was Earth energy.

And we're going into air energy, which creates intellectual and its progress in science, medicine, technology.

All these things are being repeated, and we're going to go through them again.

So now we have AI that comes out of nowhere, and it's scaring the hell out of everybody.

And so these are the things that are going forward because Pluto is staying there now for 20 years.

And so it's going to have that influence of transforming us through a very high vibration of air and intelligent quality.

This could be cures to cancer.

This could be finding out we're not alone in the universe.

There's so many big things that can happen out of nowhere, which I'm laughing because in the last few days, they're talking about the lights over New Jersey, and I'm like, oh, here they come.

Yeah, I don't know.

I know, but it's kind of like the message is like, people are like, what is that?

It's.

There's a lot of fear in the unknown.

People like to know when something the size of a bus that's hovering above their home, what it is, is sort of important.

But the thing is, we fear the unknown, not the known.

So we cling to the patterns of the past.

We hold onto them no matter what they look like, because we know the outcome, right?

We fear the unknown because our security is defined in something we don't know the outcome to.

It's very scary to us because that's what forces us to take risks, to change, to evolve, to grow.

And that's not easy to do, as you all know, as you come into a life and keep repeating the same damn relationship profile over and over, and then finally, you know, take a risk in your life and see a change in your life that you made that go.

I don't know how I got here from there.

You know, the change I've seen people make in their life in regards to that is I always say, if you're remotely attracted to them, go out a second time with the guy that you're not attracted to initially.

Give him a shot.

I've seen more people get married that way.

That's interesting.

I've never heard that.

Because they get in these patterns of familiarity.

So that's chemistry as well, I would imagine who you're attracted to, you know, the familiarity of that kind of person or that look that way they carry themselves that energy.

And so if they go and they give somebody the time of day that doesn't carry that energy.

I found that people actually end up being quite happy because they got off that hamster trail that they'd been on that just was going nowhere.

Where can people reach you if they want to have their chart run and have a karmic reading?

Tom mcmullen.com and McMullen's M C M U L L A N.

And that's my website.

It shows you go to the menu and how to get a reading from me.

You can email me@tomommcmullen.com and right now I'm about three or four weeks booked out and it gets really busy as we hit January.

It'd be a good gift for Christmas, honestly.

Yeah, I got a few of those already coming up.

Yeah, people are very lost and so.

Nope, that's a great idea.

Even Sophia's like, I gotta get some of those for my friends.

Some gift certificates from Tom for Christmas.

So.

Okay, go find tomorrow.

At least know what baggage you came in with from a past life.

I love hearing that.

You're so right on.

When it comes to the energy we carry and we can identify with certain time periods and places that.

Yeah, that makes sense that I was there.

I love that.

And thank you to my listeners for tuning in.

Next week is Christmas, so I'm taking next week off.

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