Episode Details

Scorpio season called for a Scorpio guest. Paul met Caroline from Love by Caro on a walk through the woods — she read his shirt, they got into an astrology conversation, and here she is. Caroline is a death doula, yoga teacher, business coach, former Big Four accountant, and solo traveler who quit her corporate job in fall 2019 to move through seven countries before landing in Las Vegas during a pandemic. Three planets in Scorpio. Sixth house stellium. Saturn in Aquarius in the ninth house — still figuring out what she believes but certain it has to be different from what everyone else believes. Aries moon giving her the guts to book the solo flight and take off alone. The chart of the day she quit her job showed the Moon on her Sun with Mars and Pluto, Jupiter conjunct her Mercury, and the Sagittarius energy of long distance travel lighting up all at once. The chart of the day she decided to quit — two weeks before — showed her in an Aries month in a Mars sixth house activation with the Moon in the 12th of endings. The dots connect. Then death comes into the room. What a death doula actually does. Why the five stages of grief were written for people who are dying not for the people left behind. Why we've lost the ceremonial ritual around death and what it costs us. And the economy of the future — free agency, hired guns, the passion economy — and why Caroline's accounting skills aren't necessarily behind her. Know thyself. Balance your energy.

Takeaways

1. Caroline's chart shows three planets in Scorpio in the sixth house alongside Saturn in Aquarius in the ninth house — the combination explains both her precision in accounting and her unconventional need to build a belief system completely different from everyone around her.
2. The transit chart of her last day at her corporate job showed the Moon conjunct her natal Sun with Mars and Pluto, Jupiter conjunct her Mercury in the Sagittarius seventh house of relationships and long-distance energy — she walked out and got on a plane the next day, and the chart called it exactly.
3. A death doula provides emotional and spiritual support before death through legacy work and ceremony planning, presence during active dying, and grief support for the family afterward — the work Caroline focuses on is grief counseling, helping people process loss without a prescribed timeline.
4. The five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — were written by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross for people who are dying, not for the people left behind, which means most people are trying to apply a framework to grief that was never designed for survivors.
5. The future economy is moving toward free agency and the passion economy — whatever skills you've built in a corporate career can be packaged and sold independently, and the transition from corporate paycheck to passion income is the primary obstacle that requires reconciling your sense of worth with what you charge.

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