Astrologer and Chani App co-founder Chani Nicholas understands the alignment of planets- and how to run the company fairly.

In this week's episode of the Maire Claire podcast "Nice Talk," Nicholas discusses how salary transparency is just as important to her business as horoscopes, the popular astrology app CHANI.

She says meeting his wife Sonya Passi, who founded Freefrom, an organization that works to empower survivors of domestic violence financially, is about money. She explained that it helped inform her perception of how important it is to speak openly. "Economic abuse will be one of the main levers for humans to control each other and for men to control women.1 If I'm going to be super flat about it," she says. "Obviously, there are a lot of nuances, but it always works because that's how it works and that's how patriarchy works, but we don't talk about it."

In Chani, Nicholas says they are as upfront as they can about money. "We will post our salaries [in Chani]," the co-founder shares on the podcast. "But we all have to be very transparent about what we pay for, what we earn.

"You need to know what someone else is making — otherwise it will be used against you because the dynamic is the same," she continued, "If it is marriage, if it is parent-child, if it is boss, if it is employee, if it is president, if it is citizen, it is all the same abusive dynamic." It is a simple, easy-to-use app.This is not surprising, because we are still immersed in the het-cis patriarchy, which is a white supremacist.So extraction is the name of the game wherever it goes, and the only way to truncate it is to be clear about what it is."

Nicholas says that talking more openly about money should be the norm and can help take you where you want to be, "Taboo is there as an invisible prison and all you have to do is bust it," says the astrologer/activist. It will be. "Just ask people, "How did you make whatever your first one was?""Whatever you want to do, go ask people about money. Some people will not answer you. it's okay. please move on. Someone will have a conversation with you about money, and it will help clarify a lot for you.

In "Nice Talk," Nicholas also shares her insights into the upcoming Mars and Venus retrograde, which will begin on May 6 and 1, respectively.

She points out that Mars can represent masculine energy and equates that the upcoming transit could affect how men voted for Donald Trump after feeling "marginalized" by society. But Venus, with its feminine and strange energy, can have its own influence.

"Mars will be a direct station a week before Venus station retrograde. But there is a relationship between what is happening along the gender scale," says the CO-founder OF CHANI.

Referring to how Venus retrograde happens in the same place in the sky every 8 years, Nicholas explains, "Venus is a planet of women and strange people and style and beauty and everything we love. But what happened 8 years ago at the end of the 1st month, so we are experiencing the same Venus retrograde and the same inauguration.

"And just to put a little spin on it: What happened in 2017 was the Women's March, the Times Up, #MeToo, ""She persisted," "She continued," so we had a coalescing of activism. It was incomplete, cluttered, and not everything was effective...But that's what happened. And we now have the same exact one.

Nicholas opens up more about when she realized to monetize her work as an astrologer, running a self-funded business "Listening to podcasts everywhere episodes are out."