start the recording okay and we're live everybody hello hello welcome back to our live chat series I'm with somebody that I'm really excited to talk to let me see if I get your name correct in as Giovanette perfect okay everybody yes of Castle Feather winery in Alto Adige I'm really excited because the Castle Feather is unique because it's a family-owned winery in a region dominated by cooperatives or cooperativas in Italiano and yeah I came across these wines a couple of years ago in Slovenia of all places and were instantly drawn it was instantly drawn to them so Ines thanks for being on I really appreciate it thank you Matt it's great to be here thanks so everyone I kind of want to know you're from Europe and they're in Northern Italy I think everyone wants to know how is the situation going up there now that now that Italy starting to open up just a little bit yeah let's say that from the outside and Northern Italy has all put into one pot and so so it was basically but Lombardy and Veneto unfortunately were hit much harder than our region we are in the very very north to the border to Austria and Switzerland and I have to say that the numbers were always kind of you know it was it was always okay of course we had in fact we had that and but still it's better than in other regions and we are very very lucky that we were able to open one week or two weeks before the rest of Italy and so right now basically on yesterday restaurants and bars could open and we're very excited it's all strange because we have to wear the mask we have to wear gloves we have to when you go to a restaurant it's all different but at least something is moving and I feel like this little tiny movement is already making people so much more happy I want to ask you what let's jump right into a loaded question so you're a family you know you're a family winery you produce a good amount of wine but you're still family run winery how have you have you had to change a marketing strategy business model have you seen anything that you think can work after the world returns back to normal well for us and for me especially I have to say it was simply initially because when this crisis hit everybody I think everybody was just like what's happening what's going on and for me it was to stay alive kind of mean to do something to just go on and not be stopped and we were also lucky in that position because our so basically in Italy all over Italy wineries did not have to close by law and so that was a good point we were continuously trying to figure out what to do I was basically waking up every morning with a new idea and it helped me a lot because we were going much more selling much more towards private customers we worked with a couple of influencers we to promote our wines online we have invested quite a bit of time especially into social media into online marketing all that we've seen that the only things that were actually moving the only sales that we actually had where the online sales and some shops which could stay open for example in Germany and for us we were we have always been focused on export markets and so being present in 28 states in the world has helped of course but now that our or after one month that basically almost the whole world was shut down it became quite tricky for us as well and right now so I wouldn't say we have changed our sales strategy or marketing strategy completely but we have definitely been more and more flexible and just tried to pick every good thing and I think that it helped us a lot also having focused on social media in already in the past three four years so that we were at we had a good stopping point with that okay well let's talk about let's talk about some happier let's talk about some more positive things for people that don't know yes I get tons of comments my lock down here is getting out of control it's been three and a half months I'm getting it cut this week guys so just calm down let's let's talk a little bit about where you're the third generation since the family started the wine right let's let's start on a very basic level some people don't even know where Alto Adige is or what Alto Adige is all about can you talk a little bit about why the region is so special of course so Adige is this one of the smallest wine brewing regions within Italy we're not even 1% of the Italian wine production and that is very important to know but not being so small also allows us to be or to have become in the past 30 years one of the highest quality producing wine regions within Italy. Alto Adige is at the very northern border of Italy towards Austria and Switzerland and we sometimes so officially we are one region with Trentino, Trentino Alto Adige is one region but Alto Adige is the province where we mainly speak German because we used to be part of Austria until World War I and so over 70% of our population here still speaks German as their main language and so do I and my family and also from the production point of view Alto Adige is much smaller than Trentino and therefore also known for some of the highest quality especially white wines so right now our region produces 70% white wines and 30% reds and of the reds for our winery but also for many other wineries Pinot Noir and Lagrang and Schiava are the main the most important varieties. I'm just kind of showing people the map where you are up right here so I always help when I have maps here's the Adriatic Sea here's the Mediterranean so you're way up here obviously north but you do have you do have your fair share of whites what and what one thing that people when people look at pictures all it's a beautiful region right you're surrounded by mountains. Yeah it is mostly mountains I think we're I think we're over 70% of the whole area is actually mountains and we have the beautiful Dolomites which are just I mean for traveling for hiking for everybody who loves nature the Dolomites are just a very unique experience these white rocks very impressive go up to 3,800 meters so quite impressive from that point of view and then Alto Adige has also a little bit of a Mediterranean influence from the southern part of Italy and so you can see this difference between you have the mountains and then right underneath it you have this green I don't know the word meadows me those yes meadows correct and just a little bit lower you have the vineyards and the apple orchard and it's just in especially in spring and in fall it's very beautiful. I recommend if you want to see it people you should Google on YouTube the guild some video Wines of Alto Adige, Ina is actually in it you'll see you'll see her actually in it but you could see the beautiful scenery so I'll talk a little bit about your wines you know the first wines I was introduced even though right now I'm drinking one of your whites I'm drinking your Kerner from the Lawn Vineyard what do you what do you have okay so for those of you you have you have whites Kerner very unique great cross of Skiava and Riesling if I remember correct right so here's one thing I don't know about your winery are you focused you're more on you personally are you you're cast off other more focused on whites or reds because you have more grime, Pinot Noir, Skiava. So we reflect pretty much what Alto Adige is like we produce currently 70% whites and 30% reds but still Pinot Noir is our second most important variety with 17.5% of our production so even though we produce more whites and we also have more white varieties because we have about 10 different white varieties we still focus a lot on Pinot Noir and that's really I would say our tradition my grandfather already produced Pinot Noir and my father did and my brother and I are doing so and so we basically continue with this long long tradition. I want to get into Pinot Noir because I love your Pinot Noirs but I just want to ask what from your from Castle Fathers experience Alto Adige is known for making fantastic Sauvignon Blanc Muller Thurgau is supposed to do very well there. Tastes some excellent Riesling Chardonnays, Givetsterminer. What white grape do you feel like really does better maybe in your vineyards or that part of the world? So that's an interesting question because in Alto Adige we have this we call it the fourth dimension. We basically have such a difference in altitude having those steep mountains where we can go up with vineyards also quite high to the highest elevation that the producer goes up is 1200 meters almost. We don't go up as far but still you can imagine from the valley floor at 200 meters we can go up to for us it is about 900 meters of altitude and that gives us a huge possibility to play with a lot of different white plants and therefore saying what's doing best is quite tricky but definitely in the valley floor or in the lower vineyards we have great potential for Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, Pinot Bianco sorry. Those are the really important whites in the let's say up to 400 meters of altitude and then the higher up we go we have more Sauvignon and then the highest elevations for our wine we are Calma and Muller Thurgau because they need a very cool climate they need a very different climate different temperatures that they need and so that's what they're planting at 90 degrees and for those don't know I mean I cannot stress the quality of whites coming out of Alta Auge and we'll do Pinot Noir which we're going to talk about I think the wines are extraordinary wines don't get a lot of attention and they're very friendly and they're wallet you can get great bottles of wine for not a lot of money grapes like Muller Thurgau that don't have a great reputation do I the ones in Valladilosta and Alta Auge are just phenomenal so I highly recommend that let's talk about Pinot Noir I want to share this is I want to share the story really quick and then I'll let you do all the talking I didn't know about we know the wines of Alta Auge pretty well but I didn't bump into your winery until we went to this event Mojure Le Noir in Slovenia it was a festival celebrating Pinot Noir from Central and Eastern Europe and I tasted this it was my highest scored wine in the show your Burgum Novum Pinot Noir I thought it was a phenomenal wine can you talk about your love Kastafat is love for Pinot Noir Pinot Noir? Absolutely so for us Pinot Noir I was basically and my brother we were born into it we were like really for us Pinot Noir has always been a focus and recently we have reorganized because we have a little bit of time of course during this difficult time we have reorganized our rarity section in our warehouse and we took out the the really first bottles of 1989 of Burgum Novum with the same label with with pretty much that label that you have there and it just we were just talking about that and said well it's pretty much been always there since we were born and so it's it gives you that home and family feeling you know for us it is like that and that is also why we have decided to put all of our focus into a new Pinot Noir project and really work on different exposures different single linear Pinot Noir yes. The three single vineyard Pinot Noir project we're actually going to taste taste a little bit later I have an article coming up guys so you have to state into our website to check that out I want to add about it what do you think is so unique about Pinot Noir or Pinot Nero from Alto Adage or Casta Fetter like if if you were to if you were gonna have this Pinot Noir in a blind tasting or you're trying to describe it to someone why is it so unique. So we've done that a couple of times blind tasting and it was pretty interesting because I mean blind tasting throughout the world with Pinot Noir and as you know I mean the new world Pinot Noir can be or tend to be sometimes a little bit more darker a little bit more fruit and on the other hand then you have burgundy with more this earthiness very very elegant but still quite strong winds and then you have Alto Adage which seems almost like a little girl it seems like a very feminine Pinot Noir very delicate very we have a lot of fruit but not those fruit bumps we have more of a very delicate cherry very very soft very smooth fruit and especially the acidity and the elegance that we have in our winds with not too much tannic structure and very often when we discuss this we are kind of like thinking comparing it to the world's Pinot Noir that we lack a little bit of tannic structure on the other hand I think it's very typical for our region if you taste Pinot Noir throughout Alto Adage you will always find this very very elegant style of winds and I think that is the reason why Pinot Noir especially within Italy Pinot Noir from Alto Adage within Italy has become so famous and so requested because nowhere else in Italy Pinot Noir gives those results. Yeah I haven't tasted I've tasted some from Tuscany from Frioli, Vinicius, Lili, Valdi, Elsta. I think Alto Adage is always the most impressive for me I always get this mountain berry fruits real distinctive and because they're Italian ones you have this acidity this food friendliness as I'm gonna ask a little bit more of a geeky question. Shireen in fact is a huge Burgundy fan really into Pinot Noir we travel around the world looking for great Pinot Noir all the time. Are you using whole clusters when you ferment the Pinot Noir? That's really funny because in 1989 my dad has used a whole cluster for the first time in our experience so the winery was founded in 1969 and about 20 years later my dad used whole cluster for the first time he wanted to try it he wanted to check it out and it was of course a completely different wine than than the rest of our Pinot Noir's were and then another 30 years later or almost 30 years later my brother in 2015 decided again that he would try a complete whole cluster fermentation for a part of our Pinot Noir Reserva and so we put away that wine it was two to nose fermenting and we tasted it after I think the first time we tasted it was still during fermentation so it was you know that's always a little weird time so you're okay seems good but you know and then we left it aging a little bit and then we tasted it after a couple of months and we were like it's green it's completely tannic it's completely different from all of our Pinot Noir's and so we decided to bottle it only Magnum Bottles because we wanted it was more of an experiment for us and then this year during harvest my dad took out a Magnum bottle blank tasted at us on that and we were like could be burgundy I mean it's really you know we were all impressed and then he opened the bottle and basically it was our the one term 2015 so what I want to say with that is that the development of a whole cluster fermentation is completely different than a development of wine that may not be or maybe descent so for us it was a great experience and we think and what we've done from then since 2015 is use a little bit of whole cluster and the rest is decent and so in that we can blend them together and really use have a little bit more of the tannic structure avoiding the green notes by ripening the grapes or ripening the stems especially until they become quite red or brownish and just trying to get not an over ripening but a very intense and strong great quality and so to give more structure to the wine and it's been very successful since then. Do you know what clones do you have in the vineyard? Are they German clones? We have some Freiburger clones so it's very it varies a lot in the three areas that we have so we have one cooler area which is the wine you showed before where we have where we have a little bit looser clones and then in the classic Maton area we have all classic Dijon Jones and then in Maton in Glein where it goes up a little bit higher we have Dijon Freiburger and some Italian clones mixed. I think this is really interesting I haven't tasted I've only tasted a vintage Bougonovo I haven't tasted this project at this I have the bush holds and the other wines are back there but one thing that's cool is I see that the vineyards are anywhere from like 450 meters to 790 meters for those watching in the States I'm when we're talking about 1,500 feet up to close to 3,000 feet for those you know the valley floor is actually quite low it's not very high and the mountains just shoot straight up so these are vineyards that are seeing some serious serious altitude right what are the what are the slopes like on these vineyards? The steepness is quite okay because we can we have all clay soil so we can make terraces actually so from that I mean they are pretty steep but with the terraces it allows us to work in a more easy way and but I have to say that also my my idea of steepness has changed quite a bit when my brother in 2011 bought a vineyard in the Mosul Valley in Germany and from that moment on I was like when I was the first time there was like looking that oh my god from that moment on our vineyards are not steep anymore for me what what what village are you in in the Mosul? In the Mosul we are in Rheil near Trabenrava. I'm trying to bring up let's see on your website here if there is a picture of if there's any pictures I'll wait I'll wait and get to it okay I was trying to see if there was any pictures of Altalaatje because it's such a you can share screen actually do you know how to yeah I have become almost an expert yeah I'm sure that you I'm sure that you really know what you're doing maybe more than an idea so many zoom meetings and all that it's I think it's great by the way I know yes especially if somebody's invested in zoom then they're doing it well well Inez is looking it up I have to admit Moengiq so I studied up like crazy I've tasted tons of Altalaatje wines it's one reason I was in Italy the last two years probably eight or nine times I still have not been the Altalaatje in person something that I'm waiting I mean I love the wines Castel Fetter how many countries are you you're 28 countries around the world correct you said yeah you can find a lot of these wines around the world you'll find wines like Turlan now's my greed now's my greed I'm sorry Franz Haas you find these wines all over the world really really fair prices I in my opinion but I love hiking I love climbing so I have to make it there have to make it up there then make a little side trip to Veltalina absolutely I have the pictures but I cannot share them you have to do to activate so that I can share the screen let me see if let me see if I know how to even otherwise I send them to you and you can't share let's see I think I don't know how so maybe you'll have to send you'll have to send me a photo yeah I've actually never had that before I send them to you okay so anyways are you going to plant more peanut or what's the deal like it seems like it seems like that's becoming a bigger part of your story so yeah of course we were not expecting COVID-19 so we launched this new project with about I'd say right now we do in total about 60,000 bottles of Pinot Noir which is already a lot and we have added three new wines include that in those 60,000 bottles and so right now the focus is on get those going and trying to promote them and really go on with what we have I think this crisis will take us a couple of years at least to get over it will not be over tomorrow it will not be over by the end of the year from a family from an economic point of view yeah and so for now that's we have a lot of work to do on selling those wines on a side question how are the how your colleagues and producers feeling because obviously the the Dolomites that part of the Altolage you get a lot of tourism so restaurants are a big part of sales where the wines move how are people how are people thinking in terms of optimism are they neutral optimistic pessimistic how this is gonna all play out it really depends I talked to many people some of them are really very I would say very sad about the whole thing and it's very hard yeah some say you know it would go on and I'm one of those I'm just saying we have to be positive because we cannot change the course of this we cannot really do a lot of it we can just be you know open look what others do look what's happening and react immediately so that's the only thing we can do right now and I think nobody is expecting that it will take off immediately right let's say in June or July again as long as the borders are closed it will be tough for the restaurants here and for the hotels as soon as the borders open we already and when I talked to German customers they're all saying we can't wait and as soon as the borders open we're coming on vacation so we hope for that in the meanwhile Italian people if the regions are opening because right now we cannot even move within Italy so as soon as the regions are opening I think somebody will also show up this is this is the great shot this is what I'm talking about where where is your winery actually if you can see on the screen where are you are you on the left side here or the very busy the mountains at the end of the river yeah we are located down there that's the very end of a toadija it's the sudden sudden entrance of a toadija basically so that goes to the lake right yes that goes to the lake okay excellent well so this is you if you look at this this wall on the right side of in the right picture yes that's where the name castle feta comes from that's where the name of our winery comes from it's an old Roman customs point because as you can see from here you can overlook the whole valley to the south and also to the north and the other side and that's what the Romans used at that time because everything you see here in the valley floor is apple trees a toadija is actually a pretty important producer of apple trees and only on the slopes we have the vineyards and during like two thousand years ago all this area where the apples were planted was still wetlands it was basically the river flew all over the valley and it was not accessible until the Romans built their main road which crossed all the Roman Empire from Rome to Germany and on the side on the other side where you first yes on this side of the valley and then cross castle feta and then went on ah very cool I definitely got to get there I want to change gears a little bit I'm drinking Kerner like I said which is a cross of Skiava greasling I know it's a I know that it's a very predictable grape I know producers and ontology are working with resistant grapes that might be the future of wine are you doing the same thing are you working with these odd varieties we have a little bit of solaris and we it's our first experience it's been two years it's pretty interesting I have to say and especially it's interesting also for areas where you are maybe near to a little village or something so for treatments it's not the perfect thing and they're resistant so you don't have to do any spraying any treatment from that point of view it's interesting from a marketing point of view I think it's pretty tough to sell them because not a lot of people know them right now yeah and Kerner instead has become has made its way and luckily in Alto Adige where some of the few areas who produce a dry camera and that is why people love it and it has been so successful in the last years in Germany there is a lot of Kerner produced but it's very often produced sweet or off-dry or until that's not everybody's style thank you for pronouncing my German pronunciation I was so I was I was two months in Germany last year going through all the wine regions and then some of the pronunciations were so difficult I tasted a Bronner from Lisa Lehoff actually I had a bottle a little while ago and it was an interest I found it to be an interesting wine more than a good wine so to speak so I think that's probably gonna be the challenge right with the resistant grapes it is some can be very interesting results and I have to say that just because they're unknown still the wine can be very very interesting but as I said just from a marketing point of view I'm I don't know so that is is doing well here in Alto Adige people know it people like to drink it but it will I doubt that it will reach the fame that like let's say I don't know I still need you know or something else I want to ask one interest because you've seen you've your grandfather still alive right who founded the winery correct he passed away unfortunately in September yes okay well my condolences that's one thing I didn't know he was 98 years old so he had a great life he lived a great life I mean so you had but you you grew up knowing him so this is also an interesting question in three generations you know he started the one year in 69 you grew up your dad your dad took over then you know you're you and your brother starting to take over through your stories from your grandfather your father and you and your brother how have you seen the image and the quality and everything the lines of Alto Adige change over time well if we look at the story of Alto Adige it's impressive that in 30 years we could see the change from this to this so I am 35 years old and I have I have no memories of how it was when my dad and my grandfather were at the winery but I still know those stories and it's something that I that we have even though we may not have lived through all of it but we still have it in our you know in our mind Alto Adige until 30 40 years ago produced 70 percent red wines and out of this 40 percent was Schiava so our local variety was produced in big quantities and it was mostly sold in bulk to Germany Austria and Switzerland so you can imagine we have basically made a complete change in the 80s meet 80s to late 80s it has started and basically the winery started to produce more high quality go towards less yield and just simply better wines and from that on it has basically gone like this so now we are at the point which is pretty interesting in my for my brother and me because we are at the new changing point because now we have as you said before we have a very good level of quality but we also have a good price level because we're not too high we're not too low we have a pretty good medium price range where which is affordable for many people and now the idea or the the philosophy is more going towards how can we transmit as a very small wine growing area the reality the vineyards what we are doing and this this great work that we do in the vineyards to our customers and that is why we're focusing so much on the single vineyards because for us it's what we live every day we have always focused on the single vineyards even if in the end we may blend them together but each single vineyard has a very high importance for us and each single vineyard is different and so it's it's this knowledge that my grandfather already passed on to my dad and to us that you just have to listen to the vineyards you have to look at them you have to learn them you have to understand them and I also think that this is the best way and the most authentic way to to make to make the customer understand what we are actually doing and what he's drinking because if I have a pinot noir from Pujol it's the one you have there I can tell the whole story and if you are coming to visit or anybody else is coming to visit I can take you to Pujol I can show you and explain and show you everything and I just I just think that's a great way and that's why we believe so much in the single vineyards and that's the next step so right now in Alto Adige we can produce over 20 different varieties and with this vineyard allocations a little bit I think that it this may be reduced in the future maybe not in the near future because it's one of our great potentials to produce so many different varieties so it's hard to say I'm not producing camera anymore yeah why not if I make a good camera if I can sell it why should I not make it this is good by the way this is this is a good camera by the way thank you but still we're we're trying to focus and my brother and I we have decided on five varieties so it's it's a Chardonnay Pinot Villegio because it's the biggest part of our production yeah it's Pinot Noir of course it's Sauvignon and it's Lagrang so that's pretty much what we want I have to take sure look I love Lagrang by the way love lagrang love the variety I have a couple questions here from people this is question actually Cherine too is interested in it's about Sauvignon Blanc because for me okay the Kiwis have made it really really famous New Zealanders have made it famous in the last 20 years but for me really world-class Sauvignon Blanc for me when I think of it I think of I think of the Loire I think of Steyrmark in Austria freely Vinicius Julia your neighbor there's a region called Santa Barbara California it's County in California and Alto Adige so why what makes Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon so special there in Alto Adige so for me I have to admit that I am not a big I'm the only one of our family that I don't drink a lot of Sauvignon Blanc so my whole family whenever we have a family reunion it's always Sauvignon Blanc from all over the world for me the Sauvignon here what I really like and what I sometimes don't like in for example New Zealand or freely Vinicius Julia is this very strong intense acidity in Alto Adige I feel like the acidity is present it's there but it's a little smoother and the wines are a little softer on the palate and I I really like that and I think that also is important is an important characteristic of Sauvignon in Alto Adige on the other hand I think that from the aromatics we are still finding our way we have kind of two types one the more green style the more very green aromatic style and the other one the little smoother softer style on the nose and so I think we're still you know you can find both in Alto Adige so we're kind of trying to find our way there I have another question here something because we actually have a lot of wine maker young wine makers following the page following us too as well how is how is the transition when you're a malt when you're a multi-generational winery how is smoothing out that transition between grandfather grandfather grandmother father mother then grandson granddaughter so I would lie if I would say oh it's always great it's all perfect but no we are we have lived my my dad took over the winery very when he was very young only 22 years old so basically for him it was completely my grandfather gave the winery to him and that was pretty much it for us my dad is very young so it's a it's a we've been working with my dad and my mom for 14 years now and it's always done well because we are for very different characters so my mom is the one that balances out everything everyone so she's always you know if she weren't there most probably we would fight a little more my dad is still you know the boss he decides and everything but he was very good at bringing us and teaching us a lot of things in the first years working with us very very closely in the first years and then slowly you know giving the responsibilities to us so right now I am basically completely overlooking the whole sales and marketing side and my brother is overlooking the whole production and so each of us has his part and my dad is still mainly controlling the finance and all that and so it's doing very well and also from a philosophical point of view how where the winery should go where do we want to go we have the same goal and I think that's that's what counts and that's the most important part if you have different ideas then it's getting tricky but I think we have the same idea with some you know generally we have one goal yeah you're the one that gets to travel all the time too right yes so that's that works out pretty well for people that like to travel I have one last question here besides besides castle feather which I reckon I mean I think for I'm just putting a plug out there because this is something I truly believe I've had several vintages the book of noble I think it's just phenomenal Pinoir anybody that purchases it it's gonna be they're not gonna be disappointed I think it's fantastic world-class Pinoir what are some of your colleagues some producers that you think are doing a good job there besides yourselves absolutely I mean I thought he just has so many great lines that it's really hard to mention some but for Pinoir we are of course the some of the key producers are Hofstetter, Giel and Michela Callotto is a small producer but also producing great great Pinoir and there are many others that really we really like to drink so from for Pinoir from that side it's really great and then everyone has its favorite and I for a long time I very often drank the caramel from Kufalhof okay that's like that was one of my favorite blinds for a very long time and then you switch you know but we we there are really a lot of good ones so yeah great I hope I hope to make sure and I hope to make it up there sooner rather than later hopefully when all this clears up not only not only to drink some wine eat some great food and do some hiking burn off some of those calories that were everybody or at least I'm accumulating during this whole lockdown process any what oh one one another one last question what is the production size Castle Fetter how many bottles are we do we do 600,000 bottles now we we're producing we're working 70 hectares the 70 okay wow and for your it's all a state ground fruit that's right you're only using or do you buy a fly a flute so I thought it's quite diverse in from that point of view it's we have 25 hectares ourselves or now almost 30 hectares that we work ourselves and that we follow completely and then I thought it is very small parcels you saw that before maybe on the picture it's very small vineyards and so we have a lot of wine growers that actually deliver the grapes to us but we're still a privately owned winery so it's not like a cooperative but it's from the the idea the difference is that for us they're wine growers that deliver the grapes and in the cooperative they basically buy a share and so they're shareholders of the cooperative so that's the main difference yeah it's I mean it's an area dominated by my small growers selling the cooperatives that's just a picture that's just a picture of the vineyard like I said I just stare at that forever because I love mountains that looks spectacular yeah thank you so much for thank you so much for thank you so much for being on let and one last small thing are you selling direct to consumers direct from the website your website absolutely we are we don't have an online shop right now we're working on it but you can everybody can email us and we ship in many countries in the world and it's definitely not a problem to ship to the Eastern half of Europe or anywhere else or even to the US if anybody wants we can also ship great so keep up the good work guys 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Hello everyone, welcome to NPTEL course on groundwater hydrology and management. This is week 10 lecture 2. In the past weeks, we have been looking at the importance of groundwater and the important properties that help us to understand groundwater. We are coming to a close of this lecture wherein we are looking at the resources to collect data and map data for your study areas. Since this course is focused on India, I will only be showing the data sources for our India regions. I will also show one remote sensing data which is across the world you could use. But for now, we are going to look at the observation data. In the past classes, we looked at the lithologs and the aquifer depth, aquifer type data. Now, in today's lecture, I would like to take you to the groundwater data. This is one of the most important data for groundwater hydrology, water management, resources, etc. And it is one of the most dynamic data because the aquifer type, the width, thickness, all these parameters, lithology doesn't change. The water storing in and pumping changes. That is captured by this groundwater data. In India, while there are some private players that could monitor data for their benefits, like for example, industry or a housing agency that wants to monitor, most of the data is only monitored by the government agencies. There are two government agencies. One is the CGWP, which we have extensively looked at in this lecture series. CGWP stands for Central Ground Water Board and they collect a lot of data, almost 15,000 wells across India. We will look at that data in detail. Then we have the state data, which is in different names. For example, in Tamil Nadu, it will be PWD, Public Water Department or Public Works Department. In West Bengal, it is SWID, State Water Information Director. There are other groundwater boards. We will look at some of them in data and why it's different from Central Ground Water Board, etc. Most important details while looking at this data, please take note is station name. Every single data point has a name and a location attached to it. The station name captures all this along with it, the station lat long is given in the text. I will show you how to extract that image. Then quickly, we can do a trend analysis. You don't have to download the data. Just looking at the data, you can get some analysis. Especially qualitatively, is it coming down? Is it going up? Is it stabilizing? There are long-term averages given by the WRIS website to help you understand these trends. For example, if I just have data, non-water data and it's coming down, is that good enough to understand for that state, the water level is coming down? If you have long-term data, let's say 100 years or 50 years or 30 years, right now we have almost 30 years data. You could see that. How does your observation, the lowering trend, compare with the 30 years? If, for example, your lowering trend is still above the average of the 30 years, then you're okay. You have good ground water. That is what we're going to see in some case studies today. Finally, I'll show you how to download the data and then keep it for working further using Excel or other tabulated form. You can also use GIS and other tables, maps to look at the data. So this is how it looks like. It has, on one side, you have your layers and different options for the layers. You can also import your own data, which is kind of advanced and we don't want to spoil that right now. We'll just look at most of the ground ground data and the entire focus you can look at is the nation, a state, a district or a particular well. So you see how you can look at the entire groundwater for the whole country as one value. You can zoom into a particular state. You can zoom into a particular district, which has a lot of villages. And you can also zoom into block or the exact location of the well and look at these trends. So what you see here is, this is the actual seasonal groundwater information for October 2018 using state and central groundwater stations for India. Area focus is India. We bring my pointer. So you could see the area focus is India and it says for October 2018 using both the state and the groundwater data, central groundwater data. You could see that the RF actual level. So actual level is above or below. So this is your current level, the orange is your current level, whereas your long-term average level is given here. So RF is your long-term groundwater average. So on a long-term average, it has been high, but for your actual current level it is low. And then you have the last 10 years, last year. You can also look at the last 10 years of data or the last year data. So for example, 2018, the last 10 years would be 20 to 08. Or you can also look at the last year data, which is 2017 data. So let me take you to the website where you can also show how to download the data. I'm going to show you the website from the home screen, this screen, the share screen. It's opening the website. So I hope you could see the website which is showing the India WRIS. What you could see here is somewhere I'm going to show you the access to the groundwater data. So go to the water data, come down and then go right in your mouse, come down water level behavior. I've taken a screenshot of this and put it in the PowerPoint. Please use it. Then go to the groundwater level. Do not click anywhere.  So just slowly come down this hover, then move it to the right, move it to the bottom to water level. Move it to the, see I lost it. See, so you have to go very slowly just on that water level and groundwater. I click groundwater and then this page comes up. You have to wait for a couple of seconds. I'm showing it live so that you don't worry that, oh, I see the India map, but why is it not coming for me? See now, the India map has come. It does take time. So all these lags are going to be captured in the video for the lecture because I want you to understand that it does take time. So don't worry about the internet and connectivity issues are also there. Okay. So when it comes straight, this image comes where you have the focus areas India. Okay. And you have, I just go through each and every step for you. So the whole of India is there. And you have the, let's take this out and then say the current level, the current level is 11.75 and the last 10 years is this is the last 10 years rainfall. So RF is your rainfall level. So you have good rainfall coming in July, September, but we're just going to look at the last 10 years of groundwater. Okay. So you could see that somewhere it's still, your 2018 is okay because it is touching these lines and but still somewhere it is going below. So this is going below groundwater level. Overall it is below the groundwater level. So 2018 was a rough year for groundwater we can say because it has gone below the green line. The green line is the 10 year average. Let me take it out and then show you this. And this is last year, just 2017, even 2017, the groundwater level was even lower. So you can see it is coming down below the current level. So 2018 is not as bad as 2017, but over the 10 years it is bad. Okay. So maybe 2017 was bad and it has pulled down the water level something like that. So this is the trend of groundwater level going from the ground how much deep you have to go to get the water level. And you could see that it is on average for whole of India 9 meters, etc. Is this a good number to think about? No, because what is the point of taking whole India one level? It is just for an informative purpose. But when you want to conserve water, work on water, you need to go to every particular location. Okay. So let's start. When you come here, sometimes if this does not show or it is not coming, don't worry. For example, I'm going to close it. See, oh, I don't know where it went. Don't worry, go to applications. It will come up. Even if you close this arrow mark because you didn't know what to press. All these other things would come. Okay, rainfall, reservoirs, river points, evapotranspiration. All these we saw as part of your water budget. But we want our groundwater. So we just keep groundwater. Okay. The first bifurcation of this data is do you want it as admin boundary, which is administrative boundary or basin boundary. Administrative boundary means your states or districts, those kind of things where administration is occurring or basin is the watershed basin. Do you want it as a, for example, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Kaveri basin like that.  You have to be slowly working on this because of the internet speed and the data transfer from the server. It will be taking some time. So if you see this, I have clicked, I'm going to click on this. And suddenly this will change to Godavari because Godavari is the basin I selected just randomly. And you have the same 10 year average and everything changed now. Let's look at the numbers. It has changed. So for the last 10 years, still your groundwater level is okay. Okay. And then you can see all the other data. Let's not get into the full data now. Let's first look at the left hand side. How do you communicate between. So I'm going to go back to the admin. There is a reason why I go back to the admin because you have the different central and state agencies. Okay. And that comes at a level. The other thing I wanted to show you is the coloring. What does the coloring indicate? If it is zero to two meters below the ground, the access of water is there. It is good. It is blue color. But if it is continually decreasing like 2.5, 2 to 5 meters, 5 to 10, then the color changes to red. The color is picked very smartly because red means danger. So right now you know where the dangerous locations are for groundwater. It is along these regions where excessive pumping happens for agriculture purposes. And some domestic use, industrial use is also there, but mostly it is the agriculture because agriculture uses a lot of long water. Then you have agencies, the source of data. As I said, each one state government will have its own name. They will have IPWRID, Dieterate of Water Resources, Inventory Direct, something like that. They will have different names in different states. I for sure know, Tamil Nadu will be PWD. Okay. And surface water groundwater is also there, an agency. Delhi, surface water groundwater. All these agencies are there. Okay. Then you have your CGWB. CGWB is across India. Whereas these are only at particular state levels. So if you say all agencies, all the data will come. Okay. So let's say CGWB. Okay. So now slightly the color changes, but again, as I said, for the whole of India, CGWB has the most amount of data. So the good data will be coming. Then, okay, I'm just going to put it back to all agencies. So all data will be there. Then do you want it at what different level, time stamp, time step, time stamp or temporal resolution? So we say monthly, do we have monthly data? Do we have daily, yearly or season? Mostly we have seasonal data. Okay. We don't have groundwater daily data. It is too expensive. Even monthly is not collected. CGWB collects four times a year. So it is mostly seasonal. Okay.  So let's say monthly, if you say monthly, then there will be gaps, but still you can pick a date. Only say monthly, you can pick a date. And let's say, if you click this calendar, you can see this calendar start date, click the calendar, click the year, then the different years will come. Then click again this arrow. Let's see how far we can go and see there's no stop sign comes, which means it tells don't go, you cannot go further. This is the last. So 1993 is the first data point. If you go here, there's no data. It doesn't turn into a finger. So here it turns into a finger, which means 1993, the data started. And which month did it start? December. So December I'm going to click and stop. I'll say, let's say 2022 Jan. Let's say Jan. So December 1993 to Jan 2022. I've put in the request and I'm going to see advanced filter all stations or not. Yes, all stations or CGD. It'll be asking manual telemetry, et cetera. So what is the difference manual is when people put in the meter and take the data. Telemetry is an automated system where it collects data by itself and relays the data to the government agencies. It is kind of a telemetry or through remote sensing. It sends the data to the end user, which is the government agency. There is a modern or the SIM card, which is transmitting this data to the central server. I'm going to say all and submit. So hit submit. You'll find this bridge. So you'll find this bridge. So hit submit. You'll find this block going up and down, up and down, up and down. Basically the coloring takes time, but your data has already populated. You could see all the data has already populated. The rainfall also comes in, but you can remove the rainfall because right now I'm just going to see the groundwater. See the coloring has finished. And there are some errors. This is a clear error which goes down very fast. It cannot jump from zero to minus 160. So 160 meters down, it cannot go. So that is an error. So those who in class, I've taught that what are the groundwater data errors that you can get? This is one clear error, right? Lively I'm showing, but let's say I'm going to see which month it is. It is August to 2021. So let's remove that, which means I have to go before August 2021. I'm going to go Jan 2021. Submit. Now you could see a better resolution thing. You can see how beautifully the groundwater level is declining. It goes up and down, up and down, up and down, and then goes down. Why does it go up and down? Because in the summer you pump, so groundwater goes down. And then after the summer you have rainfall, the groundwater goes up, down, up, down. So this up-down motion, if it is this up-down motion you see in groundwater, if it is coming in the same average, then it is fine. But if the average is coming like this, then you are facing a groundwater depression. For example, up, down, up, down. So the average was around here, which is okay. But after 2007, you could see that it is going down. This is the concern for groundwater. Because you are actually using more than the water which is recharging. Okay. So I showed you how to pick all agencies. Whole of India we are looking at. Okay. For whole of India, this is the trend. And I've told you how to select the time stamp, which is monthly. And also where to start, how to start the time stamp, which month, et cetera. Don't do daily. Daily there's no data, then you have to pick a date, which is actually extra work. But if you do monthly, at least you'll capture some seasonal. Because seasonal means, for example, August is the, June, July, August is your peak month of rainfall. They want to collect data, August month. But suddenly August, if they didn't collect data, it goes too much flood. They collected in September. Then what happens is you miss the data point. So that is why I'm saying use monthly. Monthly is fine. You can collect all the data. Okay. Similarly to the previous lecture, I'm going to show you the different layers that exist. When you click the layers, the base layers will come. There is two base layers, the boon or the open street maps. Depending on your internet, the slowest and the most stable one would have already been selected. So here it's already selected, open street maps. I'm fine with it. If you zoom in, for example, I don't know this area. If you zoom in, sometimes you will see the background telling the name, the label. Okay. For that you can use it. Then you want the boundaries. Which boundaries you want? Do you want the, let's go to Maharashtra. There's state and district boundaries. If you unclick this, then your district boundaries are coming. Okay. If you click this, then the state boundaries are also there. You want the basins or basin boundaries is, you can put it in or take it out. The India boundary for sure. And the groundwater stations. So if you click this, the location of the groundwater station comes. So beautifully you could see like, for example, this, if you click it, this name will come here. It's Aurangabad in Maharashtra. And you could see the table also populates. Again, I'm going to take off the rainfall RF. And you will see the ground orders stable. This is more stable. It fluctuates up and down, but the net average is almost the same. Okay. Slight decrease, but that's fine. Okay. But again, if you add all these layers into your visualization of the map, depending on your computer speed and your computer internet, you will find lag. So I'm going to take it out. And this is the groundwater heat map, which is the color which is coming. So if I remove the color, you could see that the names of the different districts are coming, Aurangabad, Jalgaon, et cetera. So we do need the groundwater heat map. Let's keep it, but that is the one which takes a lot of time.  And this data will still be very quick. This data is very quick because it's just a number. You give from two, it will populate the data and give it to you. Then you have the full extent. If you want the full India coming in one button, you can click it, clear, compare, et cetera. Okay. So the comparison is between two data points. If you want to compare the stations, you have to select one station, two station and then do. So right now we're not going to do that because all these tools you could play and take a comparison. I want to show this map comparison where you can pick two different years. It does take time depending on your internet, but I'm going to just show you for India. Okay. This is 1993 to 2021. All the 20 years data is coming. Okay. So what is this used for? This is the information that comes on your groundwater books. What does it show? It shows you two distinct time periods. 1993, 2001, 2021, something like that. And you will find the differences just by visualization. Here right now it will be the same because both the time periods are the same. You could actually change the month here or you could change the data. Okay. And then you could use this as a slider to show which one you want to compare between the time periods. So I'm going to go to the full extent again, just one extent. And I would like to show you one state that I'm going to take. Okay. Sometimes if it doesn't let you do it, just go back, groundwater. It's not letting me go to the previous view. It's fine. I'm just going to click the groundwater. It will take me to initial water level data. So because of so much data in this website, it might get sometimes stuck. And don't worry. Your work is not stuck inside. Anyway, you need to download the data. That is why they let you visualize the data. From the visualization, you can take the data out. So here it is. I've refreshed it. It has gone. The full data page has come. Now I'm just going to select one agency. So PCPCB is the central pollution control board that is also monitoring groundwater to understand the pollution, not the quantity alone, but the pollution. Okay. So that is why you see your CPCB here. So now let's say that I want to see the West Bengal. Okay. So automatically it should focus on West Bengal, but it doesn't. You could still use these date ranges. So I'm going to say, let's say five years data. So now when I say submit, it brings it. So these are the stations by DWRID. Okay. So DWRID stations have populated and the trend for the full West Bengal has populated. In the next class, I will show you how to pinpoint one data and download the data, understand the data, and also most importantly get the important location specific information from the data. I will see you in the next class, but just one more information I would like to give you is read about these agencies. Okay. So the small short forms are given. It might be different what I've said also because it depends on where the agencies kept, but all agencies is better. But let's say all agencies and then I'm going to select all the agencies here. And you will see all the data combined for India. I'm going to just do West Bengal. Okay. So West Bengal state, you can see this map. If it is getting slow, remove the heat map, only take the graph data, which is enough. I had to move my video dippers to show the readings. Okay. So don't worry about it. You can also close this legend, et cetera. So next week when next class, when we come, we will go back to this West Bengal location and we'll pick some stations and look at how to understand the data. What are the key statistics are given in the data and we will look at it. But now we'll just say the average is seven meters. 800 stations are monitored. 2943 total number of stations are there. Okay. For this data, 800 are monitored and analyzed, but total is around 3000 stations. So there is some gap, some issues. We will come back and understanding about this in the next class. Thank you.


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Hey, there you go. Welcome back to the channel. Alright you guys, let's do a check-in and see what comes up here for January. Rest of January. Looks like we have a couple weeks left of the month, so we're going to let's extend it into the first half of February as well and see what shows up here for you guys. Okay, in love. If you'd like to get a personal reading, there's a link in the description box below to book your reading. Okay, you can get a text reading or a phone call reading. So let's get into this. Okay, you have water sign, caution, they'll be back and a confession. Okay, interesting. So let's start. What are you needing to be cautious about here Virgo? Finding out more information, don't overwork yourself. Okay, or find out be cautious. That's what I'm hearing. Okay, think before you act Virgo. That's the big message here. Be cautious and think before you act. Okay, so there may be a water sign that you have a connection with, a beautiful friendly support of connection with. Okay, or it could be anybody, but it looks like with this six of cups there may be some kind of a reunion with someone or a reconciliation or someone from your past that you need to just don't get scared. Just prepare. You might need to get a little more information about someone. Now it could be a sibling, it could be a romantic partner showing up here, but it looks like like be careful.  Don't break your back trying to figure out what is going on here. Okay, because I just feel like there's something that you need to know first. Maybe before you reconcile with someone. Okay, Virgo, so or before you, yeah, come back into some kind of a union here with someone. Yeah, before you, before you connect with someone, let's get into this more. I keep repeating myself. Okay, oh yeah, you have the seven of pentacles. So you need to do a thorough check, but of course, like I said, don't overwork yourself, but you need to do a thorough check or really think about this thing. You need to think about something before you say yes or before you say no regarding if you want to take the time to invest or not. Okay, there's some information. You only have a little. There's more you need to take a look at about someone. Okay, wow, five of pentacles. So I kind of feel like this is you like, is this going to be worth the struggle? Hmm, Virgo, what's going on? Is this worth the struggle? You might find something out about someone and so I don't know if you feel like abandoned or left out in the cold by somebody or you might feel that way going forward, but I kind of get a sense that there is it. There is this energy of like, do I want to just keep doing this? Oh my gosh, you have the death card in the tower, two major Akana could have something to do with a Scorpio or Aries, but yeah, I don't know it looks like you're on the verge of ending something here or discovering information about someone that you're close with might be a little bit shocking. Some of you might find out that someone from your past, long time ago, maybe a lover or someone that you're close to, you know, is no longer here that you were hoping to reconnect with or have some kind of, you know, maybe a wreck like a reunion or reconciliation with here. Okay, yeah, I feel like that's a very specific message for somebody. I don't feel like that's the whole message. I feel like the overall message here is you trying to decide if you want to have a reunion with someone or reconnect with someone from before or if it's because there's this feeling of like, what is the problem? What is the struggle? Does that mean somebody is going to try to reconnect with you between now and like the second week of February? Perhaps, but I don't know, Virgo, you are kind of like hesitating, like, do I want to do this or not? Do I want to connect with someone and have that reconciliation? Will it just cause long term struggle or problems or a feeling of just not being like just hardship in the relationship? Or is it better for me to let go and just end something here and just cold turkey it? That's that tower. It feels like a cold turkey. It's like a shock. It's like, you know, when you just cold turkey something, it's a shock to the system. So I feel like before the message is before you do it, make sure that this is really what you need to do for yourself. Not so much want because you might want to, but you know what I mean? Like it has to be the best thing for you if you're making a decision and that goes in the reverse. If you're going to decide to have some kind of reunion or reconciliation with somebody here, you know, is it for some of you? Is it like, okay, one last time, one last one last shot for us? Should I even take it or allow this to happen? Because, you know, universe could put it in your path, but you still have free will. Okay. So you have the Eight of Swords. Yeah. So I kind of feel like some of you, oh man, it's tough. You have a tough decision. Why do you feel like, like what, first of all, what is Virgo going to find out that causes this? Okay, it's very simple.   Like the fool can be kind of childish, immature, you know, it's like the ovum, it's immature, scattered, someone who is always like a thrill seeker looking for adventure, not really, you know, they have a rucksack there. That's not really someone who is stay put kind of person. They're always on the move.  Oh, they're a freedom seeker. And that could have something to do, like where it might not fit what you're seeking or what you want. Okay, so you have to like make this decision, you know, if this is the kind of relationship you want to have with this person could be an Aquarius. There's like a void, you know, because it's a zero. So there's some type of a void here with this person as well. And they, they take their risk taker, you know, they don't heed the call. They don't hear like they might, maybe you've told them in the past, this person that they need to grow up, whoever it is, it doesn't have to be romantic. Like I said, this could be a friend or a person, you might be in this decision making process, you know, where you're, I feel like you are where it's like, do I want to have this relationship with this person or should I just cut it off? You know, so I'm not feeling trapped by the mental effects I feel it might have on you. Yeah, Virgo.  Yeah, Virgo, this, this, but you know, the message here is like, be sure, before you make this move that you're going to stick with it, like stick to your guns, it really just damages your character. If you end the relationship and then go back, because you didn't think it through or try to make an objective, logical, practical decision about this rather than emotional one, because your emotions will, they change on a dime. So you know, one day you could feel like if you, all emotions change on the dime, but I feel like if you are reactive to your emotions, then you're going to make emotional decisions and you're pretty much a candle in the wind. And sure, it's easier said than done, but you really have to like get in tune, identify how you feel about the reason why you're in this decision making mode and try to decide if this is going to not necessarily work, work out for you emotionally, but if this is going to work out for you on a practical level, like is there compatibility? Is there an ability to be, you know, I mean, Virgo, if you decide, you know what, I want to travel and I just want to run the world and, you know, explore every path and I'm totally fine that this person's like this and I don't have any expectations and I don't have any desires to have them fit in a certain box that I have, you know, or fill that need that I have. I'm just carefree. Then, you know, this might be a decision that you're making, maybe you're changing something within yourself, but I feel like the overall message here is don't do anything until you really think about what your plan is and what you're going to do and that you can commit to it. Okay, as far as this particular relationship goes and, you know, kind of like set the day when I have that talk with someone, if you plan to go or stay or sever the relationship or not, prepare yourself for it. Definitely isn't something to take lightly. Let me get a couple of numbers for you here and say in letters. Okay, the initial a someone could be 46 years of age, and this could be for someone who's born on September 10. And that doesn't mean it's not your reading. If that doesn't resonate with you. It just means it's more specific. And then we have Sagittarius showing up here. Okay, so let me just get a charm. A for Amanda, Andrew, Aaron, I just heard. And I just heard this song. Oh my gosh. And they're giving me a for Andy Gibb. They just said, it's such an old song, my God, I'm dating myself here. I just want to be your everything. I just want to be your everything. Okay, and the charm that you have right now for this particular reading is you have a gun. So this is about pulling the trigger or asking yourself if you're being triggered too much in a particular relationship or you need to fire the first shot figuratively, not literally, please, please, not in this day and age. But this is about, you know, off to the races. Are you going to do it? And if you do, you know, race horses, they tend to stay in their own lane and, and, you know, keep going. So what's your decision going to be here, Virgo? What is your decision? I just want to ask one more thing out of this person, though, whoever they are feels about Virgo. Okay, so the nine of pentacles. They feel that you should stay single. You should maybe date others. Alright, lots of meaning behind that. Okay, Virgo, let's go on to the next message. Virgo, you have water sign, cancer, Scorpio Pisces. So let's take a look and see what's going on with the water sign. Now you could have cancer, Scorpio Pisces in your chart. You could also have a connection to a water sign. So let's take a look. All right. Oh, so there's a water sign who's extremely anxious, having anxiety, nightmares, conflict, mental conflicts, it's affecting their heart, their ability to speak and their ability to think. Okay, this person might have like a mental struggle that affects their ability to speak, maybe affects their ability to have compassion or be empathetic, or to think clearly. Okay. Oh, here's five pentacles here. Again. Okay. So this water sign, it looks like, no matter how hard things get, they will follow you anywhere. Even through 10 feet of snow on crutches out in the cold.  Okay. They're like a follower. Let me see. Oh, there you go. I feel like this might be a continuation here. Oh, my gosh, they just said this person is they're stressing about the fact that you might be thinking about abandoning them or leaving them. Are they they're aware they give you some kind of struggle or problem? I do feel like they are trying to take a look at that here. Okay, trying to see like, can it's it's more like, are they able to make a change? What can they do about this? Can they make a change? Does do they even are even aware of what? See, I feel like they're met whatever's going on up in the mental, like the brain has an effect on their ability to communicate clearly, to be direct, and to communicate from the heart. Because if you see those three swords right there going through the head, the crown chakra right through the throat, and right through the chest through the heart area. Okay. And all the rest are just all of their anxieties up above. This person's like really trapped. Tell Virgo more what's going on with this water sign. Could be you too. You could be having this issue as well, Virgo. As well, like I said, you could be trying to figure out what you're going to do here. You might be stressing about the fact that you need to make a decision. You're contemplating whether the struggle is worth it. And could be giving you some anxiety. I just heard there might be a communication or conversation that you have with a queen of swords, who will tell you, you know, there's medication for that, whatever you're going through, whatever this person is going through, whether it's holistic or commercial, is that the word I'm trying to find? The opposite holistic, you know, medicinal, whichever pharmaceutical. You're definitely I feel like you're gonna be able to have some communication. And or this person is going to have some communication with someone to give it to him straight. Somebody's going to tell him straight or you you might they might ask you and you might give it to him straight. Like, how can I help you? You know, I don't know if there's if this person they might have like depression and anxiety. They might have other things going on like I'm not a doctor, but the first thing I could think of anything that has an effect, they might be like neuro diverse, they could have stuff like that going on. They could have like anger issues and stuff like that that they need help with. Whether that's like an opportunity to go speak with someone or you or you, right? But you know, and that's only and that's not for just straight up Virgos. That's for Virgo that has heavy water in their in their chart.  Okay, I'm talking about a water sign. So I feel like for the most part, though, Virgo, this person, either you're going to say something or have a communication with them or they're going to talk to somebody about how to get some help. I just heard how to get some help to be more empathetic and giving towards you. Because maybe they were cold and they weren't, you know, acting that way. Not by just not by choice, but because of a lack of capability to do something like that. Okay. So I mean, freaking psychological read man. What's going on here? Let me see. Alright, so the king of wands is here. Well, areas of Sagittarius. Why is the king of wands here? Oh, two of cups. Okay.  Also, who there's a male and a masculine and a feminine in their life that maybe they're friends with. That's going to it feels like give them this good advice. Some kind of good advice about a relationship that they have with you. Oh, and there's even an Empress here. Yeah, I feel like Virgo. This person is going to be like seeking some kind of advice because they're kind of on the end here where they I'm getting this message. They're saying that they feel like they have to fix something or if they don't, then like the Ten of Swords is going to be the next card to fall out and it's going to be done. It's gonna some things. Oh my god, right when I said that there it is. Yeah, they know that this is this is this kind of feels to me like same a little bit like same as the last the reading that I just recently did. So this person knows they're aware that this is it. This is like the end here. It's coming close to the end. Wow, Virgo, I mean, I don't think you I feel like we were talking about you in the previous reading there with the caution because I really feel like you needed to really get some more information and figure out you're on the brink here of either calling it quits or making a decision to never return as well as whether or not you should stay like you're kind of like alright, I need to figure out what's going on here. And there I feel like this person is aware of it. So either they're aware of it or that you make them aware in like this time period, January through February.  They see you as like home to them. Okay, like when they're with you.    Because you are reliant, of course, and stable. And you can take care of yourself. I don't know if this person is capable of taking care of themselves very well. They might have that inability to they might have help taking care of them, you know, just the daily tasks, or, you know, even like, cooking for themselves or to you know what I mean, they might have somebody else helping them. This is crazy. This this message is just it feels very specific. So I won't get offended if some of you are like, No, this is not for me. I don't feel like this person is an a hole. I don't I feel like they maybe they have like mind blindness or an inability to connect in some way. Yeah, look at that. For pentacles, right when I said that this person has a lot of blocks, a lot of blockages, head, heart, even their feet inability to move. They struggle.  So, you know, whatever this person has or whatever is going on with them, you know, if they are going to try to find ways to make accommodations to try to make your partnership be better, that's great. But if they're not, you, you know, have to do what's best for you at the end of the day.  What are you willing to? What are you willing to do? Are you willing to stay and help them love you? Are you willing to stay and because you love them so much? Like, like, it's up to you. What do you want to do? You know, because I do feel like this is kind of like the second portion here. Because I see you, Virgo, as just on your own being single, no attachments. Yeah, no attachments. So you're, you're good. You're good either way. But I think there's a lot of text going on for you, Virgo, just wants to be happy. Virgo is like, I just want to be happy. That's not too much to ask. I just want to stay happy. It's not even be happy. I just want to stay happy. Enjoy us and enjoy my life and have fun and, you know, do the things that I like to do and be have that playful energy. And I once I feel like you're kind of like, you know, that's Leo energy. You know, it's vibrant. And I feel like you might have some vibrancy about you and you do best, perhaps in warm climate. You focus on that beach scene, you know, or being by the water or some 11 had me up last. Let me say, yeah, Virgo just wants to be happy and stay happy. Okay, you've got Pisces, September 8. You have Aries here. I'm also hearing August 28. You have cancer. Let me see what. Oh, you have a again. And this said November. And then when I touched it, it flipped to February. So there could be someone that you have a connection with whose birthday is in November or February. September 18. Someone was born in 1988. Anything. Okay, you have the letter Z. Okay, somebody might have an alcohol problem is going to AA. Someone is age 30. And I'm also picking up August 30. And then the letter M, someone's name might be I, it's I don't know if it's a name or a nickname maz or mazzi or maza. There's also like the Z for someone's first name, Zachariah, Zelda, someone there's a connection to Zimbabwe as well. There's strength. I don't know why I pulled that other card, but strong Leo energy here, which is all about the confidence.  Okay, so you have Oh, you have an eagle. Alright, this could have this is an American symbol. So that could be connected to America could also be connected to Eagles football. So you know, when I call out these charms, this just gives more of a significator that this reading may be resonating or might be more for you specifically. But the eagle pretty much is a bird that is very versatile, and is very capable of getting what it is that it wants, you know, it's very strong grip. Some of you might need to let your grip go a little. Some of you might need to strengthen your grip. But the eagle soars very high, high above the rest. And they're just telling me now that whoever this water sign is, they view you as someone who is way higher above the rest. You are almost practically out of this world to them. I don't know how high an eagle can fly. But I mean, you're not like an alien or a spaceship. But you're definitely someone that they view is like way above them, like in terms of like who you are. And just they're amazed, just like an amazing eagle. Somebody else might be bald. Somebody might have no hair. Alright, so let's move on to the next message you're gonna have, they'll be back. We'll be next. Alright, Virgo, so they will be back. Expect to hear from them soon. Okay, who's Virgo going to be hearing from? Is it gonna be this person we've been talking about? Let's say 10 of Wands, the Wheel of Fortune. Wow, I can't even believe this just keeps showing up so far in three readings. Yeah, somebody's definitely gonna be returning. Okay. It could be if there's a court card, it'll definitely show up more specifically, but it could be Aquarius, Leo, Taurus, or Scorpio, you will be receiving a message from somebody after they put down some kind of load that they've been carrying around for quite some time, there's definitely going to be a change. And you will hear from someone on the page of cups is a very mild message. That's very sweet. It could be in the form of a text, it could be an email. Could be like a chat comes in. Let's say this person. Why is this eight of seven of pentacles here? Huh, this person comes in with this big, they've contemplated themselves, it looks like they're coming in with this Emperor energy Aries. They're coming in with this bold take the lead energy.  So seeing you as an Empress, them coming in as an Emperor, you know, Virgo, I kind of feel like this person's going to come back completely changed. Yes, and look, there's the ace of cups. Yes. Okay, so like changed behavior is what I feel. I feel like this person is not going to change a personality. They are who they are. But the behaviors coming in with this Emperor energy is very much like aboveboard upfront, honest, a bit commanding, not demanding commanding. Good communicator, someone who is good at delegating very direct type of a person, but not mean, and also someone who is a very little words. But what they do say is profound of what they do say. So yeah, you're going to be hearing between February, I'm sorry, between now, January, the, I don't even know today, is it Monday, the 15th, 16th, all the way up through like the second week of February, you're going to be here maybe on Valentine's Day, could be getting a little heart. Alright, three apeticals fell out in the reverse. So as part of this communication, I feel like is going to be this person, because you know, the next reading is confession. So hold on. They may lead up to perhaps telling you, I'm actually let me do them both, because they're just calling me to bring these in now, someone has some has someone has to tell you something. So they may lead up to telling you and confessing to you what's changed, and how they weren't all open to learning in the past. They were kind of like unteachable. Maybe they're you know, how you the older you get tired to teach an old dog new tricks might have been that too.   So it was someone who was just irresponsible, doesn't take heat or mourning, you know, and I feel like this is part of the story that this person, it's like, wow, I decided to grow up, I decided to like, be an adult in this relationship. And I want to tell you that I was a juvenile delinquent with you, I was not open to learning, I was not teachable. In other words, I struggled with hearing what you had to say, I struggled with empathizing, I couldn't put myself in your shoes, I may have been dismissive. When you tried to share how you felt or I might have gone cold or just pushed you away. And I've learned through maybe either a mentor, or someone that I was talking to like a fire sign before, or an air sign, and I've learned that I'm on the brink of losing you, if I don't make these little changes, these aren't massive changes.   They're just non negotiable. This is the price. If you can't pay the price, you've got to go shop somewhere else. Those types of things, like I'm I'm saying, you don't ever like, you don't, if you pick up a snake that has a cute little scarf on, because it looks cute, and that makes you think it's okay. No, that's saying it's gonna be you buy you could snake snake, right? I feel like if someone has messed around or done things continuously, and then they're coming back with, I've learned my lesson, now get the L out, get out of here, get out of the door, don't even call, no, you had your chance.  If if you're sitting here like, oh, okay, I'll give another chance. No, that's not what I'm saying. This is someone who, you know, you might have asked them, you know, can we go so many days without talking?  So that's what I'm talking about here, this person, you know, you've asked time and time again, how many times do I have to ask you to put the toilet seat down or up, whichever for me, or if you could do this one little thing, right? These are the things that I'm talking about.  Okay, water sign, queen of cups. Yeah, I feel like this person will tell you like part of that confession is they kept a lid on their feelings and their emotions. Well, though they do have, I feel like they do have the empathy and I feel like they do have the ability to feel, but their way to express it's a little chunky, I'm hearing. It's like chunky peanut butter, like that's so gross. It's not enjoyable. We want something smooth, things that come out smooth with this person, they come out, perhaps chunky, like off putting or not what you expect someone to say, you know, like someone says, I love you and the other person's like ditto. Like, okay, well, that doesn't mean you do, but really ditto. I mean, maybe you guys did that. I don't know. And I'm not saying that's a right or wrong. I'm just trying to give an example of like ditto is kind of cold, even though it even though it does mean the same thing, and it can be playful.  So this is, yeah, this person, look, here they come with the Knight of Cups. Yeah, so they're going to make some effort here. Definitely with you. And it's not going to be profound because the Knight of Cups is not profound. It's not the lovers. It is an action card where its emotions are expressed through action. So there is going to be something. Okay, but remember, you were still trying to figure out what you wanted to do here from the other readings. You were still kind of like, Oh, is it going to be struggle? Am I, am I built for this struggle? You know, I mean, I know there's there seems to be a lot of variables and factors and things that you have to figure out for yourself. As far as committing goes, you know, because I like to think that sometimes people, they just want to commit just to commit, but they don't even are aware of what they're committing to.  You know, I personally think it's good to try to be as objective as possible. But I understand sometimes your emotions get the best of you and you just feel them love feelings or you may feel like, Oh, there's nobody else out there. And this person ticks a good bit of my boxes. And am I willing to put up with these other boxes that are on ticked? I feel like this person is going to try to tick some of those other boxes. But I hope that you keep your expectations low if you decide that you want to try. If not, you might just say, you know, maybe maybe it's better we just remain friends. Yeah, so you got some stuff going on here for you during this time period. But if this runs in through Valentine's Day, which you possibly could, I would say you might hear from this person even around Valentine's Day, which could be, well, it's sweet, you know, it's kind of sweet. It may not be enough for you or for others, it might be. So let me say, is there anything else we're going to need to know? Okay, yeah, they're definitely going to try to do the right thing here. That's labor and energy there. They're definitely going to try to make things right. Not perfect, but make things right. Try at least. And they're going to start with love and try to give you, like, I don't like, I don't know if this is, because this Queen of Cups has his lid on the chalice there, which means the emotions are deep within. I don't know if this person, like, I feel like they're going to try to give you what you need, not what they need. Does that make sense? Which might be alright with you. Oh, look, there's a King of Cups, yeah. So, you know, I don't know what's going on here in this reading, but I will honestly tell you that I feel like part of this confession to tell you is that they're aware, they've become aware, and they don't want to lose this relationship. They're going to have to make some tweaks. It's not a lot. I don't feel like Virgo's ever really asked for much. I feel like Virgo's, you know, I just don't. I feel like Virgo is not that person who's, you know, asks for much, because I feel like Virgo's are very settled. They can be, and quite self-sufficient. They're okay. They don't usually have great expectations of people either. If they're in their logical, objective, practical mind, not so sure about the emotional side, but Virgo's do have a tendency to want things perfect, and I think it's important that you know. This person is going to try, like I said, to make things as right as they possibly can, if you want them to. But they're not, it's not going to be perfect. And so, if you have an expectation for perfection, you're going to be disappointed. And that just goes all across the board with people in general, because nobody is perfect. Right? So let's get a couple of initials and names and try to see. Okay, we've got the letter B, and the letter O, Bo, B-O, or just B, and the letter O. Then there was a 12, and it flipped to a 10. So we have September 10th, September 12th. Also, somebody is age 53. See what else you have here, Virgo. Oh, see what I was telling you about the snake? Here's the snake. All right. And that's specific for you guys, where I was trying to say that if you're dealing with someone who, like I said, has just been, I'm not even talking making tiny mistakes. I mean, it's just been a slither and snake. No, I would not advise to give more chances to that person. You know, sometimes people just got to take a loss, you know? I mean, it's like when you get to the playoffs, you didn't get one chance out there. So, you know, if you, I was watching these old America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, all that, and I was watching, I don't know if you guys saw it, but there was the really bad auditions, and there were people that were showing up there that weren't prepared, you know, because they didn't really want it that much, I guess, or they had something wrong with them, that they thought they were amazing or gifted, talented singers or whatever. But they would show up, and they were just awful. And then, of course, you know, the judges are like, no, you're not going to pass through, and they would get really upset. Like, I'm the best singer in the world. I've got this and I've got that, and they'd get a real attitude. And sometimes the judges are like, okay, well, if you feel that way, did you do any preparation? Have you had any vocal training? Have you done anything to secure your position to get to the next level here? Well, no, I haven't. I never did that. I just know I'm a good singer. You know, and it's kind of like, I think the point I'm trying to make is, when you're dealing with someone who just comes back around and is like, well, I've learned my lesson. You got to be like, how? What have you done? What actions? What work have you done? What has happened to you? You can't just take people at their word. You know, because, I mean, and if you decide to, you'll find out very soon if they're true to their word or not. But I wouldn't just take anybody at their word after they've pulled those major violations against you, against your soul. Because I can tell you that the worst thing that can happen to someone is not their physical injury, but their spirit being decimated.  Your body will just follow along later. Because people are generally strong and they can put up a good fight.  You know, so that's that snake, slithering snake, shedding its skin. Every time they come back around and tell you that they've changed, but they haven't, they just, they just got new skin. You have to see what I'm talking about here, because that's not what I'm talking about here with this person.  It's not worth breaking up over, but for some of you, it's like, these are small tweaky changes that need to be made, you know, that need to be talked about like I was saying before. So I do feel like that energy is good and that's going to start to improve. Because I feel like this person, I know, something makes them want to be with you, something special about you. Like I said, you had that eagle in the previous reading, you're above, high above all the rest, you're worthy, you're worth it. But if it's, if it's, if you feel like it's, this is that person that's like, oh yeah, they feel all that way, but then they keep doing what they're doing, then it's a no. Don't even entertain the reading. Don't, don't gaslight yourself. You don't need to worry about anybody else gaslighting you. You need to worry about gaslighting yourself. Keep it real. All right, Virgo. I'm going to leave that there for you. I hope that that was helpful. If not, maybe enjoyable. So yeah, I will see you guys all back here tomorrow. Don't forget to book a reading with me. 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