Astrology Alchemy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sheila Bélanger
The Astrology Alchemy podcast gives you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal “lead” into “gold.” Hosted by archetypal astrologer Sheila Bélanger.
A Collective Initiatory Threshold
This week carries one of the most significant astrological events of the year. A total solar eclipse at 20 degrees of Leo. Rather than walking the week strictly in date sequence, we move through the eclipse as the gravitational center, with the supporting cycles named as what prepares the field before it and integrates what it seeds after.
This is not primarily a personal transformation moment. It is a collective initiatory threshold.
Before the Eclipse — The Field Is Prepared
Monday, August 10: Venus in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius and opposes Neptune in Aries.
Deep encounter becomes possible in the relational field. The kind of connection that touches something beneath the surface and reorganizes rather than merely confirms. Venus opposing Neptune brings emotional porousness and openness to what the collective imaginal field is carrying. Together these contacts prepare something in the relational field for what the eclipse will seed.
Tuesday, August 11: Mars enters Cancer. Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto and trines Neptune in Aries. Venus in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini.
A significant day of preparation. Mars entering Cancer moves the instinctual force from mental agility into feeling-body intelligence, acting from attunement, protecting what it loves, moving from ancestral knowing. In Cancer, Mars will quickly activate Saturn and Neptune in Aries, bringing instinctual protective intelligence to bear on what communities genuinely need in order to survive and flourish. In a time when shared meaning and collective care are under pressure, this is Mars in Cancer making itself known.
Mercury opposing Pluto asks what truth, spoken from genuine conviction, carries the power to reorganize rather than merely inform. Mercury trine Neptune opens the creative voice to something larger than the personal. Venus trine Uranus completes the preparation, something genuinely new becoming possible in how connection forms.
The Solar Eclipse
Wednesday, August 12: Total solar eclipse at 20 degrees of Leo. Mercury in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini.
A solar eclipse seeds a six-month arc of development. This one falls on the South Node in Leo, asking for release and integration of what has been organized around personal recognition and individual performance, so that what is genuinely creative can be offered more freely in service of the collective becoming the North Node in Aquarius is calling toward.
Jupiter has been amplifying the Leo field for weeks. The solar eclipse moves through that field, asking that the generosity, warmth, and creative aliveness Jupiter has been cultivating be offered not in service of the personal story but in service of something larger.
Watch what surfaces in collective life around this eclipse window. Eclipse seasons often bring what has been operating in shadow into sudden undeniable visibility. Mercury sextiling Uranus on the same day brings a quality of sudden mental clarity, a shift in understanding that may be one of the most durable gifts the eclipse carries.
After the Eclipse — Integration and Arrival
Thursday, August 13: Mercury in Leo sextiles Venus in Libra.
The creative voice and the relational field in warm easy alignment. What was seeded at the eclipse finds its first point of genuine human contact.
Saturday, August 15: Mercury conjuncts Jupiter in Leo.
A genuine arrival. What has been understood becomes meaningful. What has been articulated finds its larger significance. The creative voice offered in service of something beyond the personal finds its fullest most generous expression.
The Eclipse Portal
This solar eclipse opens a portal that closes with a companion lunar eclipse, the Full Moon at 5 degrees of Pisces on August 27. What is seeded on August 12 will be illuminated and begin its first completion on August 27. Between the two eclipses, a compressed arc of development unfolds. Let what moves in you this week be fully seeded before reaching for its completion.
Reflection Questions
- What does this solar eclipse on the South Node in Leo ask you to release so that what is genuinely creative in you can be offered more freely in service of something larger?
- As Mars enters Cancer, where is the instinctual body's protective intelligence being activated — what community or shared field is asking for your fierce and grounded care?
- In the days around this eclipse, what shifts in understanding feel like they belong to the longer arc of what is being seeded?
Podcast poem: A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
(Trigger warning–the poem carries some strong imagery of violence)
If the depth of these cycles is stirring something in you, a desire for grounded support in understanding how they are moving through your own unique chart, I offer astrology sessions designed for exactly that.
You can find the link to schedule under What's Open Now at ontheedgesofchange.com.
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
A Compassionate Return
After last week's culmination, the Full Moon activating all three great cycles, the nodal shift, Lammas marking the first harvest, this week offers a more interior quality. Three personal planets on the move. A significant healing threshold turning inward. And the week ahead already gathering its own considerable activation.
But first, this week. Which is asking something particular of us.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, August 3: Chiron stations retrograde at 1 degree of Taurus, retrograding back into Aries and turning direct in early 2027.
When Chiron entered Taurus in June we named a new era of healing work beginning — the wounds of body, earth, and resource. But Chiron is not yet fully committed to Taurus. It is turning back to complete what was not yet fully metabolized in Aries since 2018. The wounds of identity, agency, the right to exist and take up space. The armored individualism that mistakes isolation for strength.
This retrograde is not a setback. It is a deepening. And Chiron does not return to Aries empty-handed. It has touched Taurus, briefly, but genuinely. The wounds of scarcity, of distorted relationship to resource and embodied worth, are now being carried back into the Aries review. What would it mean to act and assert from a place of genuine embodied sufficiency rather than the chronic survival-level scarcity that dominator culture has installed in so many? The two wound territories are informing each other through the retrograde.
You might notice this as a revisiting of something you thought you had moved through. Let it be a compassionate return rather than a discouraging one. The Shamanic tradition knows that the deepest healing rarely happens in a single pass.
Thursday, August 6: Venus enters Libra. Sun in Leo trines Saturn in Aries.
Venus moves into her home sign, where she will remain for just over a month. After Virgo's careful discernment, Venus in Libra breathes into the relational field with greater ease and natural grace. Beauty as a value. Fairness as a felt sense. The recognition that relationship at its best is a genuine art form.
On the same day the Sun in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Creative expression meets honest reality. What has been alive and expansive in Leo season finds the grounded commitment that gives it genuine form and staying power. A good day for clear-eyed recognition of what is genuinely sustainable and worth building further.
Sunday, August 9: Mercury enters Leo, remaining about two and a half weeks. Mercury in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus.
Mercury moves from Cancer's careful feeling-toned interior processing into Leo's warmth and creative conviction. The Communicator now speaks from the center rather than the periphery. More direct, more vital, more willing to be seen in what it knows.
On the same day Mercury squares Chiron freshly retrograded toward Aries. Where has the voice been shaped by survival rather than authentic expression? Where has it learned to be smaller or more deferential than what is actually true? You might notice something you want to say meeting an old hesitation you did not know was still there. Stay curious about that hesitation. It may be pointing to exactly where the voice is ready to grow.
Looking Ahead
Next week Venus in Libra activates the air planets, moving toward opposition with Saturn and Neptune in Aries and making contact with Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini. Mercury in Leo activates the fire planets, trining Saturn and Neptune in Aries and moving through Jupiter in Leo. Let what this week offers be genuinely received before the next wave of activation arrives.
Reflection Questions
- As Chiron retrogrades back into Aries, what wound around identity, agency, or the right to take up space is asking for one more honest and compassionate look?
- Venus entering Libra invites genuine relational intelligence. Where in your relational field is the cultivation of real balance and right relation most needed right now?
- Where does the wound around speaking from genuine conviction still shape your voice, and what wants to be said that has not yet found its full expression?
If the depth of these cycles is stirring something in you, a desire for grounded support in understanding how they are moving through your own unique chart, I offer astrology sessions designed for exactly that.
You can find the link to schedule under What's Open Now at Sheila's website: ontheedgesofchange.com.
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
First Harvest at the Threshold
We have been building toward this week for a month. Three great cycles named and tracked. Jupiter weaving through all three. The Sun following. This week they culminate, not in abstract outer planet contacts alone, but in the most personal luminaries available. The Sun and Moon activating all three great cycles simultaneously at Wednesday's Full Moon.
And at the end of the week, the ancient Celtic festival of Lammas arrives, the first harvest. The earth's own wisdom confirming what the sky is saying. Something has been growing. It is time to begin gathering what it has produced.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, July 27: Sun in Leo trines Neptune in Aries and sextiles Uranus in Gemini. Lunar Nodes change signs: North Node enters Aquarius, South Node enters Leo.
The Sun opens the week touching two of the three great cycles in flowing alignment. Vision becoming feelable. Sudden clarity about what is genuinely new in how you understand yourself and the world.
On the same day the Lunar Nodes shift, an eighteen-month change in the direction of collective evolution. North Node in Aquarius calls the collective toward genuine community, collective intelligence, and the kind of power that arises from interconnection rather than concentrated authority. With Pluto already moving through Aquarius, the North Node arriving here deepens and confirms that direction.
South Node in Leo asks what we are integrating and moving beyond, not Leo's genuine gifts of authentic creative expression and open-hearted generosity, but its shadow. The over-reliance on individual performance. The hunger for recognition that substitutes for genuine contribution. The leadership organized around the singular charismatic figure rather than the nourishment of the collective field. Where have I been performing rather than genuinely contributing? That is the South Node question.
Wednesday, July 29: Venus in Virgo squares Mars in Gemini. Full Moon at 6 degrees of Aquarius conjunct Pluto, opposing Jupiter in Leo, sextile Neptune in Aries, trine Uranus in Gemini.
Venus in Virgo's careful tending meets Mars in Gemini's speed and variety in friction. There may be tension between what you need in order to feel genuinely attended to and what the pace of the moment is actually offering. Name that honestly rather than adapting around it.
And then the Full Moon, the culmination of everything this arc has been building toward. The luminaries activating all three great cycles simultaneously. Conjunct Pluto in Aquarius: what is ready to be released and transformed at the root, not only personally but collectively; what systems and inherited structures of power are ready to be genuinely transformed? Sextile Neptune: vision and inspiration present alongside the reckoning, the imaginal field open to what genuinely new collective life might look like. Trine Uranus in Gemini: something that has been building for weeks finds its moment of sudden clear arrival.
The Full Moon falling on the newly activated nodal axis, North Node in Aquarius, South Node in Leo, the luminaries holding the direction of collective evolution in their light. This is not only an ending. It is a revelation. Pay attention to what you see. And ask honestly how what is being illuminated wants to be offered in service of the larger web rather than the personal story.
Saturday, August 1: Lammas.
In the ancient Celtic tradition, Lammas is the festival of first harvest, the midpoint between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox, when the first fruits of the growing season are ready to be gathered. The body knows this threshold even when the mind has forgotten it.
The particular quality of this Lammas, held within the nodal shift toward Aquarius, asks a specific question. Not only what has ripened in you, but what has ripened that belongs to the larger field. The first harvest in earth-based tradition was never only personal abundance. It was shared. Brought to the community. Offered in gratitude to the web of life that made the growing possible.
Name what has ripened. Hold it with gratitude. And begin asking how it wants to be offered as genuine contribution to the larger web.
Larger Frame
The direction confirmed this week is toward Aquarius. Toward genuine community. Toward the collective intelligence that arises when individual gifts are offered in service of the whole rather than hoarded for personal recognition.
The breakdown of dominator systems continues. The reckoning is not complete. But something has moved, n you, in the collective field, in the long arc of what is being born. An elder perspective does not require the completion of the transformation to recognize the reality of the harvest.
Name what has ripened. Ask how it wants to serve. Trust the arc, even from inside it, even when its end is not yet visible.
Reflection Questions
- As the Lunar Nodes shift into Aquarius and Leo, where is the invitation to move from performing your gifts toward genuinely offering them in service of something larger than the personal story?
- What is the Full Moon illuminating that has been quietly present but not yet fully seen?
- At Lammas, what is the first fruit of your own long growing during this threshold time, and how does it want to be shared rather than kept?
If the depth of these cycles is stirring something in you, a desire for grounded support in understanding how they are moving through your own unique chart, I offer astrology sessions designed for exactly that.
You can find the link to schedule under "What's Open Now" at my website ontheedgesofchange.com.
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
The Long Cycles Converge
Last week we named three great cycles being activated simultaneously. This week Jupiter weaves through all three in rapid succession — bringing what is large and transpersonal into the realm of the humanly meaningful. Into story, culture, and the conversations where collective transformation actually takes root.
This week also carries a transit that deserves its own moment of recognition. On Friday, Neptune in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius, the two slowest moving planets in flowing alignment, directly activating their own great cycle seeded in the lates 1890s.
And the Sun follows. Mercury stations direct. Saturn stations retrograde. A rare threshold is reaching its crescendo.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, July 20: Jupiter in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius and trines Neptune in Aries.
Jupiter opens the week with two major contacts holding the essential tension of this entire threshold period. The opposition to Pluto, the Expander meeting the Transformer, activates the unfinished Uranus-Pluto Virgo revolution from the mid 1960's around power, identity, and who gets to flourish. Where does the desire to be fully seen meet the power structures that have historically demanded containment?
On the same day Jupiter trines Neptune in Aries, activating the Uranus-Neptune Capricorn cycle from the early 1990's, the dissolution of old structures of authority and meaning. Flow rather than rupture. The invitation to imagine what might replace what is dissolving. Hold both transits together. The confrontation with power and the opening of new vision are the same threshold approached from two directions.
Tuesday, July 21: Jupiter in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini.
Jupiter completes its rapid weaving through all three long cycles. This sextile activates the Neptune-Pluto Gemini cycle from the late 1890's, the revolution in mind, communication, and shared reality. New ideas finding unexpected audiences. Connections forming between people and communities that would not ordinarily find each other. In two days Jupiter has touched all three great cycles, bringing each into the realm of collective story and shared meaning.
Wednesday, July 22: Sun enters Leo.
Leo season begins in a field already charged by everything building around it. The Sun in Leo asks what is genuinely alive in you that wants to be expressed — not performed, not managed, but genuinely offered from the place that knows its own worth. In a collective moment asking so much endurance, Leo season is not a distraction. It is a necessary counterweight.
Thursday, July 23: Sun in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus. Mercury stations direct at 16 degrees Cancer.
The desire to shine meets the wound of unworthiness in its most embodied form. Where does the body carry the memory of having been seen and found lacking? Let what is tender be visible to yourself at least. That is enough for today.
At the same time Mercury stations direct, completing three weeks of retrograde review in the realm of feeling and belonging. What the interior work of these weeks revealed, the emotional truth that found language, the unfinished conversation revisited, is now ready to move forward. Trust what you know now. It is ready to be spoken.
Friday, July 24: Neptune in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius.
Before Saturn and the Sun's confrontation with Pluto, something quieter and more vast deserves naming. The two slowest moving planets, the Imaginal Field and the Transformer, in flowing alignment. This is the great Neptune-Pluto cycle speaking to itself across time, the revolution in mind and shared reality seeded in the late 1890s now activated through a harmonious aspect between the two planets themselves.
In the background of everything else moving through this week, this is a quiet and profound current. What is the imagination of humanity reaching toward beneath the noise and the breakdown? What is being dissolved so that something genuinely new can find its form? These are questions that do not resolve in a day. But they are worth sitting with as the longest arc of the three great cycles makes itself briefly, quietly known.
Sunday, July 26: Saturn stations retrograde at 15 degrees Aries. Sun in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius.
Saturn turning inward begins months of honest interior review. What structures in your life are genuinely serving who you are becoming? On the same day the Sun opposes Pluto, the Conscious Self meeting the Transformer directly. Where are you being asked to step into genuine visibility in the face of systems that have historically demanded your containment? Sun opposing Pluto makes that question undeniable. Sometimes the undeniable question is the most useful gift.
Looking Ahead to Next Week
Monday, July 27 the Lunar Nodes change signs.
The North Node enters Leo, the South Node enters Aquarius — an eighteen-month shift asking the collective to develop toward genuine creative expression and the courage to offer individual gifts in service of the whole.
Wednesday, July 29 brings a Full Moon at 6 degrees of Aquarius conjunct Pluto, opposing Jupiter in Leo, and activating all three long cycles simultaneously. The Sun and Moon in direct contact with Pluto while touching Neptune in Aries and Uranus in Gemini. This is the culmination of everything this arc has been building toward. Its own fuller story is coming in next's week podcast.
Reflection Questions
- As Jupiter weaves through all three long cycles, which thread feels most urgently alive in your own life and community right now?
- Where does the Sun squaring Chiron illuminate a wound around visibility or worthiness, and what would it mean to let that be seen rather than managed around?
- As Mercury stations direct and Saturn stations retrograde on the same day, what emotional truth is ready to be spoken, and what inner structure is ready to be honestly assessed?
You are being prepared for something. Stay present to the preparation.
Podcast poem: Working Together by David Whyte
If what we have been exploring these past two weeks is resonating — the long cycles, the thresholds of becoming, the invitation to shed what is false and remember what is genuinely true in you — I want to offer something that meets exactly that territory.
The Inner Alchemist's Path is a private podcast journey through seven thresholds of transformation. Ten beautifully crafted episodes, each five to eight minutes, guiding you through the mythic spiral of genuine inner alchemy.
If you are standing at a threshold right now, if something is dissolving and something new is quietly stirring, this was made for that moment.
You can find it at my website ontheedgesofchange.com on the Home page under "What's Open Now."
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
The Long Cycles Become Visible
Something unusual is happening in the sky this month.
Not just the weekly transits. Something larger. A convergence of long cycles that rarely become visible all at once — briefly illuminated in ways that allow us to feel their presence and direction. This week I am taking more time than usual to orient you in that larger field before walking the specific transits.
The Three Long Cycles
In astrology, when two outer planets meet in conjunction, they seed a cycle that unfolds over generations. Three of these great cycles were seeded in the last 130 years. This month all three are being activated simultaneously.
Neptune conjunct Pluto in Gemini, late 1890s. Gemini governs mind, language, communication, and how reality is constructed and shared. This conjunction seeded a revolution in all of those domains — mass media, the discovery of the unconscious, technologies that transformed how human beings perceive and communicate. The AI emergence, the fracturing of shared reality, the speed at which language and information now move — this is that Gemini cycle in its current expression.
Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo, mid-1960s. Virgo governs the body, healing, and the relationship between the individual and the systems they inhabit. This conjunction seeded a revolution in identity and power — civil rights, feminism, the environmental movement, the questioning of who gets to belong and on whose terms. The wounds of who has been excluded, whose body deemed less valuable, whose labor extracted — this cycle is still metabolizing in the collective body.
Uranus conjunct Neptune in Capricorn, early 1990s. Capricorn governs structure, authority, and the institutions that organize collective life. This conjunction seeded the dissolution of old structures of collective meaning — the fall of the Soviet Union, globalization, the beginning of the internet age, the slow unraveling of institutional frameworks that once held collective life together. Those structures have never been fully replaced. What is breaking down in collective systems right now is this Capricorn cycle in its current expression.
This month, through flowing trines and sextiles, all three cycles are being activated simultaneously. This is why many people are experiencing this time as both overwhelming and somehow significant in a way they cannot quite name. Something genuinely large is in motion.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, July 13: Venus in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini.
Unexpected friction in relationship. A desire for more authenticity running up against existing patterns and expectations. Hold relationships with spaciousness. What feels like disruption may be asking for genuine realignment rather than repair of what no longer fits.
Tuesday, July 14: New Moon at 22 degrees of Cancer.
The most personal question in the middle of everything large: what do you need in order to feel genuinely held right now? This New Moon also invites tending the ancestral field. What has been passed down that is being asked to transform? What do you want to consciously seed differently for those who come after?
Wednesday, July 15: Uranus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries.
The revolution in mind and communication in easy flow with the dissolution of old identities and the emergence of new vision. Genuine creative and visionary potential available today. Stay curious about what arrives in image, in impulse, in what the imagination reaches toward.
Friday, July 17: Uranus in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.
One of the most significant contacts of the month. The Awakener and the Transformer in flowing alignment, directly activating the Uranus-Pluto Virgo cycle of the 1960s. Where that conjunction was rupturing initiation, this trine offers flow — new pathways for what was seeded in that turbulent decade. Not a transit to merely observe. A transit to act from.
Sunday, July 19: Mars in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.
A grounding close to an activated week. Inspiration finding form. Insight becoming commitment. What has moved through you this week that wants to become something real and actionable?
Looking Ahead
Next week the activation deepens further — Jupiter opposing Pluto, the Sun entering Leo, Saturn stationing retrograde, and a Full Moon at 6 degrees of Aquarius conjunct Pluto and square Chiron. A culmination moment for everything this two-week arc is building toward. Episode 374 will go deeper into what these cycles are asking of us personally and collectively.
Reflection Questions
- Of the three great cycles, which feels most alive and present in your own life right now?
- At this Cancer New Moon, what does your interior life genuinely need in order to feel held enough to be present to what is unfolding?
- What does the larger arc of collective transformation seem to be asking of you specifically, given your gifts, your wounds, your particular place in the web of life?
You are living inside something genuinely large. That is not a burden. It is, in its own way, a privilege — to be alive at a moment when the long arcs of collective transformation are briefly, unusually visible.
Podcast poem: Continue by Maya Angelou
If you are feeling called to work more deeply with these themes of tending, belonging, and rooting yourself within larger cycles of change, I invite you to join me in the Root in the Sacred group coaching program. It's a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, and with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. The program is structured as six-90-minute online sessions and meets on Thursdays, beginning July 16th.
You can find details about the program at ontheedgesofchange.com under What's Open Now.
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
What the Interior Field Is Asking
I am back.
Five weeks of pilgrimage in Bhutan, Nepal, and India. I am returning without full knowledge of what has shifted in the collective while I was away, trusting that you have been holding your own orientation through whatever has unfolded. What I can offer, as always, is the larger archetypal field and the longer view.
It is good to be back in this transmission with you.
This week has a particular quality of threshold. Neptune stations retrograde. A new Mercury cycle begins. Venus crosses into new territory. After weeks of considerable activation, something is turning more inward — more reflective, more attentive to what has been absorbed and what now needs integration.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, July 6: Sun in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.
The feeling self meets hard reality. What you are experiencing inwardly may not match what the outer field is demanding. The invitation is to let both be present without collapsing into either. Saturn at its best is not harshness — it is honest clarity. And that clarity, held alongside emotional intelligence, can be surprisingly useful.
Tuesday, July 7: Neptune stations retrograde at 4 degrees of Aries (remaining retrograde until December 12).
When Neptune turns inward, the fog that can accompany its direct motion begins to thin. Over these five months, visions become more interior and personal. Where has idealization been obscuring what is actually true? The quiet signal of your own deeper knowing becomes more available now. Trust it.
Thursday, July 9: Venus enters Virgo. Venus trines Chiron in Taurus.
Venus moves from Leo's expansive self-expression into Virgo's careful tending and discernment. Love that shows up in the details, in quiet acts of care that do not announce themselves. On the same day, Venus trines Chiron in Taurus — a genuinely healing contact. Healing arriving not through insight but through the body being genuinely attended to. A small act of care today may carry more weight than its size suggests.
Sunday, July 12: Sun conjuncts Mercury retrograde in Cancer.
A new Mercury cycle begins. This is the still point at the center of the retrograde — the moment when something becomes quietly, suddenly known. Not through analysis but through felt sense. Pay attention to what arises today. This new four-month Mercury cycle is seeded in the feeling field of Cancer. What becomes clear now is worth noting. It is planting something that will develop through the rest of the summer and into autumn.
Looking Ahead:
Monday, July 13 brings Venus in Virgo squaring Uranus in Gemini.
You may already feel this approaching in your relational field — unexpected friction, a desire for more authenticity that runs up against existing patterns. Hold relationships with extra spaciousness as the week closes.
Larger Frame
Less speed, more depth. Less projection, more honest seeing. Less performing of wellness or certainty, more genuine attunement to what is actually present.
Neptune retrograde supports that kind of seeing. Mercury's new cycle in Cancer invites a fresh chapter of communication rooted in emotional truth. And Venus in Virgo reminds us that love at its most real shows up in careful attention — to the body, to the earth, to the small acts of tending that keep life genuinely nourished.
Reflection Questions
- As Neptune stations retrograde, where has idealization or wishful thinking been obscuring what is actually true in my life?
- What is the quiet felt-sense knowing arriving at this Mercury cycle's new beginning about what wants to be seeded in the months ahead?
- Where is genuine healing arriving not through insight but through simple concrete acts of tending and care?
Podcast poem: "Portal" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
If you are feeling called to work more deeply with these themes of tending, belonging, and the earth element, two offerings are available now.
On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16 the Root in the Sacred group coaching begins, a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms.
You can find details on both at the home page of ontheedgesofchange.com under "What's Open Now" section.
Both are invitations, not urgencies. If they are calling to you, trust that.
Support the show
Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:
https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com
This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. This is the last episode in this batch — I will be back in real time with you for episode #372.
Feel First, Then Offer
This is not a quiet week. Two major planetary shifts land on the same day. Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer. Jupiter enters Leo. And Mars makes three significant contacts by Sunday. The week carries considerable activation and asks for both presence and discernment.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, June 29: Mercury turns retrograde at 26 degrees of Cancer and Jupiter enters Leo.
Mercury retrograde in Cancer begins three weeks of review in the realm of feeling, memory, and belonging. Not a time for new initiatives or major decisions. A time for revisiting what was left incomplete, feelings too large to be fully processed in their first arrival, emotional truths moved past too quickly.
On the same day Jupiter enters Leo, where it will remain until July 2027. For a full year Jupiter amplifies creative expression and authentic visibility, asking where you are playing smaller than your actual gifts require. The tension between Mercury turning inward and Jupiter expanding outward is worth sitting with. Feel first. Express from that ground.
Wednesday, July 1: Jupiter in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus.
Jupiter wants to expand into visibility and creative offering. Chiron in Taurus holds the wound of unworthiness in its most embodied form. Their square asks where the wound of not-enoughness contracts around the very expansion being offered. The elder wisdom here: you do not have to be fully healed to offer what is genuinely alive in you.
Friday, July 3: Mars conjuncts Uranus in Gemini.
The week's most electrically charged moment. The Action-Taker meets the Awakener at Gemini speed. On the eve of July 4th in the United States, when the mythology of independence and the reality of what this nation is becoming sit in painful contrast, this conjunction is not subtle. Mars conjunct Uranus can bring liberation and volatility in equal measure. Breathe before acting. The insight is real. It does not require urgency to be honored.
Saturday, July 4: Mars in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries.
The day after the electric conjunction, Mars finds the Imaginal Field of Neptune. Action in service of vision. On a day carrying its own complex collective weight, this sextile offers an interior alternative — quiet creative engagement, movement toward what is genuinely envisioned rather than performed or demanded.
Sunday, July 5: Mars in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.
The week closes with depth and purposeful direction. Mars in easy flow with the Transformer brings action that serves the larger restructuring rather than merely the immediate impulse. A good day for intentional engagement with what has been activated through the week.
Larger Frame
The thread holding this week together: feel first. Let the retrograde revisiting and the wound Chiron holds be real and present. Then let Jupiter in Leo remind you that what is alive in you is not meant to be indefinitely contained.
The healing is not a prerequisite for the offering. They happen together. That is the nature of genuine initiation.
Reflection Questions
- As Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer, what emotional truth is asking for more honest attention before I move forward?
- Where does the wound of unworthiness contract around what Jupiter in Leo is beginning to offer, and what would it mean to share what is genuinely alive in you without waiting to be fully healed first?
- In this week's activation and acceleration, what helps you feel the difference between inspired action and reactive urgency?
Podcast poem: What if There is No Need to Change? by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
If the themes of this transmission are resonating — the healing of our relationship to body, earth, and what genuinely nourishes — I want to let you know about two upcoming offerings rooted in exactly this territory.
On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16 the Root in the Sacred group coaching begins — a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms.
You can find details on both at ontheedgesofchange.com under "What's Open Now."
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This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living.
Tend What Is Real
We are in the first full week of Cancer season. The Solstice has turned. The light is beginning its slow arc back toward darkness, not as loss, but as the natural rhythm of a living world that knows how to move between fullness and rest. This week is quieter in its archetypal signature — an invitation to let what has moved through in recent weeks begin to settle into meaning.
Key Cycles This Week:
Thursday, June 25: Venus in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Sun in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.
Two movements pulling in different directions. Venus trine Saturn brings grounding to the heart. After recent intensity, this transit supports commitment to what genuinely matters — relationships, creative work, values lived as practice rather than ideal.
At the same time the Sun squares Neptune, bringing emotional blur and permeability alongside that clarity. Stay close to what grounds you. Let the blur be present without letting it make decisions.
Saturday, June 27: Mars in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer.
A genuinely nourishing contact. Embodied action in service of what genuinely nourishes. What you are doing and what you genuinely value may feel more aligned than usual today. Let this ease be felt. Mars is preparing for a significant transition and Saturday offers a good closing note before the crossing.
Sunday, June 28: Mars enters Gemini, remaining until August 11.
Six weeks of deliberate Taurus momentum gives way to something quicker and more multi-directional. Mars in Gemini brings ideas that become impulses, communication that becomes action. In a field already electrified by Uranus in Gemini, this adds further activation to the mental field. The invitation is to carry something of Taurus into the new sign — the deliberateness, the knowing of genuine resource — so that speed and discernment move together.
Larger Frame
Cancer season asks not what you are building or achieving but what you are genuinely tending — with care, with patience, with attention that nourishes rather than extracts. That question is its own orientation in uncertain times.
The large thresholds of recent weeks are working in the background as large transits do. Slowly. In the body. In ways that will take months and years to fully reveal themselves. This week offers something simpler: a moment of grounding in what genuinely matters, a closing of one chapter of action and the opening of another.
Reflection Questions
- Where this week does what I am doing and what I genuinely value feel more aligned than usual, and what does that alignment want me to notice?
- As Mars moves from Taurus into Gemini, what quality of the deliberate and embodied do I want to carry into faster more multi-directional terrain?
- In Cancer season's invitation to tend rather than achieve, what in my life is asking for more patient nourishing attention?
Tend what is real. Move with discernment into what is new. Let Cancer season do its deeper work in you.
The web of life is patient. It knows how to hold what is growing even when we cannot yet see it.
If the themes of this transmission are resonating — the healing of our relationship to body, earth, and what genuinely nourishes — I want to let you know about two upcoming offerings rooted in exactly this territory.
On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16, the Root in the Sacred group coaching program begins — a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms.
You can find details on both at ontheedgesofchange.com under What's Open Now.
Both are invitations, not urgencies. If they are calling to you, trust that.
Support the show
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This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living.
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The Wound Beneath Many Wounds
This is a week of significant arrivals. Venus in Leo moves through a rapid sequence of major contacts. Chiron crosses into Taurus, beginning nearly eight years of healing work in the realm of body, earth, and resource. And the week closes with the Sun entering Cancer at the Summer Solstice.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday. June 15: Venus in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini.
A liberating opening. Venus in Leo leans toward authentic self-expression. Uranus electrifies that impulse, breaking open stale patterns and quickening the creative field. Notice the difference between radiance that comes from genuine self-expression and the performance of radiance designed to manage how others see you. Uranus helps clarify which is which.
Tuesday, June 16: Venus in Leo trines Neptune in Aries.
Vision follows liberation. The heart and the imaginal field move in alignment. Creativity, inspiration, the sense that something more luminous is possible. In a collective field saturated with ugliness and cruelty, the capacity to remain open to beauty is not escapism. It is resistance. Let the imagination open today while holding what arises with gentle discernment.
Wednesday, June 17: Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius.
The week deepens. Venus opposite Pluto surfaces power dynamics in relationship, places where love has become entangled with control or desire shadowed by fear of loss. Collectively this opposition names what has long been visible: the way systems of power have sought to control the feminine, the relational, the creative. Where in your own life has love or creative expression become entangled with power in ways worth examining? What is being asked to transform?
Friday, June 19: Chiron enters Taurus, remaining until September 13 before briefly retrograding back into Aries, then returning to Taurus until May 2034. This is the threshold of the week. Perhaps of the year.
Chiron in Aries since 2018 has been working the wounds of identity, the right to exist and assert a self in the face of systems that deny that right to so many. It has also been working the wound of radical disconnection from the web of life. The mythology of the rugged individual who needs no one and owes nothing. The belief that life is fundamentally competitive rather than reciprocal. The armoring against interdependence that produces its own profound poverty and loneliness.
That wound does not end as Chiron moves into Taurus. It deepens into new territory.
Chiron in Taurus turns the healing work toward the body, the earth, and the deep unmetabolized wounds in our relationship to the living world. The wound of an economy built on extraction, of profound inequality where abundance exists alongside deprivation by design, of a civilization that severed its understanding that the earth is not a resource to be used but a living web of which we are part.
Nearly eight years. A generational healing arc is beginning. Honor the threshold.
Sunday, June 21: Sun enters Cancer. Summer Solstice and Sun sextiles Chiron in early Taurus.
The longest day in the northern hemisphere. A sacred pause in earth-based traditions, a moment to feel the fullness of what has been growing and to honor the turn. The Sun sextiling Chiron freshly arrived in Taurus is a gentle blessing on this new healing arc, the light of the Solstice illuminating what Chiron has come to work with. Spend time in the natural world if you can. Let the body be held by something older and larger than the current crisis.
Larger Frame
Chiron in Taurus initiates an era of healing in the domains that matter most for the continuation of life on this planet. The body. The earth. The radical inequality of who has access to sustenance. The severed relationship between human civilization and the living web it depends on.
This is the wound beneath many wounds. The one that colonial dominator culture has both created and depended on to sustain itself. Chiron in Taurus will not let it remain invisible.
The Summer Solstice opening this era is fitting. The longest light, blessing the beginning of a long healing.
Reflection Questions
- Where in my relationship to body, earth, money, or resource do I sense a wound that has not yet been fully named or witnessed?
- As Chiron begins its long transit through Taurus, what does genuine healing look like in the domains of physical life, sustenance, and belonging to the earth?
- On this Solstice threshold, what have I been growing in this half of the year that deserves to be honored in the fullness of this light?
Stand at the Solstice threshold before moving on. Feel the earth beneath you. Let the body remember that it belongs to something ancient and reciprocal.
We are not only living through breakdown. We are living through the beginning of a healing larger than any of us can fully see from inside it.
Podcast poem: Cornwall Swamp by Julie Cadwallader Staub
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This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
A brief note. These episodes are being released during a five-week period when I am away and not tracking current events in real time. The archetypal patterns I offer are reliable. What is expressing them in the world right now is yours to hold alongside what I offer.
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Completion, Crossing, and New Beginning
Something is completing and something is beginning this week. Venus, who has been moving through Cancer since mid-May, turning the relational field toward nurturing and genuine care, is preparing to leave. Before she goes, she has significant work to do.
Key Cycles This Week:
Tuesday, June 9: Venus conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer. Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.
Two movements pulling in different directions. Venus meeting Jupiter in Cancer amplifies what nourishes — warmth, generosity, the sense of genuine belonging. This is one of the more beautiful transits of recent weeks. Let it land. Let what is good be felt fully rather than held at arm's length by the urgency of everything else.
At the same time, Mercury squares Saturn. The feeling mind meets hard reality. Difficult conversations may be necessary. The gap between what is longed for and what is currently possible becomes harder to ignore. Hold both. Expansion and honest reckoning are not contradictions in a genuine threshold time.
Friday, June 12: Venus in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries.
Before Venus leaves Cancer, she meets the Wounded Healer. This square touches old relational wounds — places where the longing for genuine belonging has met disappointment or the pain of being too much or not enough within systems never designed to hold the fullness of who you are. For many, this wound is not only personal. It is ancestral and collective.
Venus square Chiron does not offer easy resolution. But the Shamanic tradition has always known that when a wound is brought into honest awareness and witnessed rather than managed, something in it begins to metabolize. What surfaces this week around old relational pain may be less a sign that something is wrong and more an invitation to witness what has long needed witnessing.
Saturday, June 13: Venus enters Leo, remaining until July 9.
The register shifts. Where Cancer sought quiet belonging and nourishment, Leo seeks expression, visibility, and the joy of being fully seen in one's vitality. This is not vanity. It is the soul's genuine need to be witnessed in its radiance, not only its tenderness. In a collective moment asking so much gravity and endurance, Venus in Leo is not a distraction. It is replenishment.
Sunday, June 14: New Moon at 24 degrees of Gemini.
The lunation cycle renews in the sign of the Communicator. In a field still charged by Uranus in Gemini, what wants to begin here is not a return to familiar patterns of thought but genuinely new perception. In a time when the information field is saturated and often deliberately disorienting, this lunation asks: what new way of knowing is trying to emerge in you, from your own direct experience rather than what you have been told?
Plant that.
Larger Frame
This week holds the full arc of Venus in Cancer — her expansion, her reckoning with old wounds, and her departure into Leo. What have you learned since mid-May about what genuinely nourishes you? Where has old relational pain asked to be witnessed? Venus carries what she has learned in Cancer into Leo. The nourishment becomes fuel for expression. The tenderness becomes the ground of genuine visibility.
And the New Moon in Gemini opens a new chapter in how we think and communicate, with ourselves, with each other, with the larger world trying to find its new form.
Reflection Questions
- Where am I being invited to let genuine goodness or expansion actually land rather than holding it at arm's length?
- What old relational wound is asking to be witnessed rather than managed right now?
- As Venus moves into Leo and the New Moon plants new seeds, what wants to be expressed that has not yet had enough room?
Let what is good be felt. Let what is wounded be witnessed. Let what is new have the quiet attention of this lunation.
The web of life is always reorganizing toward something, even when we cannot yet see its full shape.
Podcast poem: Wisdom of the Deer by Kent Osbourne
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This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
What the Feeling Body Knows
A brief note before we begin.
The next several episodes have been created in advance, during a period when I am away on pilgrimage. I am not tracking the daily news cycle or what is unfolding in real time. If significant things have shifted in the collective field since these episodes were recorded, I trust you to hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. The archetypal patterns are reliable. The specific events that express them are yours to track.
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There is a quality of turning inward this week.
Mercury, the Communicator and Storyteller, enters Cancer on Monday and will remain there, through retrograde, until August 9. Nearly ten weeks of the mind moving through the waters of feeling, memory, ancestral knowing, and the interior life. This is not a week for speed or surface. It is a week for depth and for what the feeling body knows that the analytical mind cannot easily reach.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, June 1: Mercury enters Cancer, remaining there through retrograde motion until August 9.
Mercury in Cancer thinks through feeling and communicates through attunement. For those trained by dominant culture to distrust feeling as a source of knowing, this extended transit is an invitation into a different way of understanding. What do you know through your body? Through what arises when you are still enough to listen? Simply notice the shift as it begins.
Tuesday, June 2: Sun in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.
A grounding thread. The Conscious Self connects easily with the Structurer, offering clarity and form. A good day for honest communication and bringing practical shape to what the interior work of the week is revealing. Just enough groundedness to keep the inward turn from becoming untethered.
Wednesday, June 3: Mercury in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.
Just days into Cancer, Mercury meets the Dissolver. Blur, emotional porousness, the thinning of boundaries between what is yours and what belongs to the collective field. This is not a transit for important decisions. It is a transit for poetry, for dream, for the kind of knowing that arrives sideways through image and metaphor. There is information in the blur. It simply speaks a different language than analysis.
Larger Frame
Mercury in Cancer for nearly ten weeks, including a retrograde cycle, is asking something that dominant culture rarely supports. It is asking us to slow down enough to feel. To treat emotional intelligence not as a liability but as a genuine form of knowing.
The collective shadow surfacing in these times lives not only in institutions and policies. It lives in bodies. In inherited emotional patterns. In what has been passed down through generations without being named. Mercury in Cancer, over these coming weeks, may bring some of that into language. Not all at once. Not cleanly. But with the particular tenderness that feeling-based knowing carries when given enough space.
Reflection Questions
- What does my feeling body know right now that my analytical mind has been moving too fast to hear?
- As Mercury settles into Cancer for an extended stay, what emotional truths, family patterns, or questions of belonging are quietly asking for my attention?
- When the blur arrives and clarity dissolves, can I stay with it long enough to let it speak in its own language?
This is a quieter week in register, though not in times. The invitation is inward. Into feeling. Into what the body knows. Into the long memory that Cancer carries.
Let yourself be moved. Let what is tender have room.
The web of life speaks through the heart as much as through the mind.
Podcast poem: Daybreak by Galway Kinnell
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Where Is Your Source of Genuine Meaning?
This week the pressure deepens.
It opens on Memorial Day in the United States, a moment when a nation is asked to honor its dead, even as it struggles to honestly name what so many of them died for, and what continues to be sacrificed in the service of systems that were never designed for everyone.
An Elder perspective (which we can all carry) does not bypass that tension. It holds it.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, May 25: Mars in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius.
Memorial Day. A confrontation between force and transformation. Where your will or resources meet something that does not yield easily, this is not a transit to push through with more force. Stay grounded. Feel where your actual resources are. Resist the pull toward reaction in a week that will offer plenty of provocation.
Collectively, this transit on Memorial Day carries particular weight. The structures of power being challenged right now were built on specific choices, specific violence, specific mythologies of superiority. That is not abstract history. It is present architecture.
Tuesday, May 26: Sun in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.
A day later, tension eases into something more workable. What felt like confrontation yesterday may begin to reveal its deeper pattern. A good moment for clarity, for seeing beneath the surface with less distortion and more genuine perception.
Thursday, May 28: Venus in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.
The Relational One in the nurturing sign of Cancer meets the Structurer, and it is not an easy meeting. This transit carries a deeper archetypal current worth naming. Venus represents the feminine principle, relational and attuned to what nourishes connection. Saturn in its wounded expression becomes external authority that restricts and defines what the feminine is permitted to be or decide.
This is the oldest survival pattern many have inherited, the feminine adapting and deferring under systems never designed to hold her sovereign. We are watching that pattern in its most literal form right now, in the ongoing legislative assault on women's autonomy and rights. This transit asks where in your own life you have been running on adaptation rather than authentic choice. That clarity, even if tender, is more useful than the blur.
Sunday, May 31: Full Moon at 10 degrees of Sagittarius and Mercury in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries.
The Full Moon illuminates the Gemini-Sagittarius axis, the axis of information and meaning. Gemini gathers data. Sagittarius asks what it means and what larger truth it serves. In a time when information is being generated and weaponized at unprecedented scale, this lunation asks where your source of genuine meaning actually is. Not what you have been told to believe, but what in your own deeper knowing actually orients you.
Mercury sextiling Chiron weaves in the wounded healer thread. Something that has needed to be said may find its moment here.
Larger Frame
This week moves from confrontation to clarity to limitation to illumination. What is being asked is a particular kind of maturity. To stay present to what is difficult without collapsing into it. To be honest about relational limitation without abandoning the longing for genuine care. To locate ourselves not in the information stream, which is vast and often deliberately disorienting, but in genuine meaning.
That is always the Elder's work. To hold the longer view when immediate pressure makes the longer view feel impossible.
Reflection Questions
- Where am I being asked to meet something immovable this week, and what does genuine power look like in that encounter, as distinct from force or reaction?
- In my relational field, where am I being called to greater honesty about what is genuinely nourishing versus what has been running on adaptation rather than authentic choice?
- Beneath the volume and speed of the current information field, what actually orients me? What is my source of genuine meaning?
This is a week that asks for groundedness more than brilliance. You do not have to have answers. You are asked only to stay present to what is real, resist the pull toward reaction, and keep returning to what genuinely orients you.
The web of life holds more than the current noise suggests.
Podcast poem: How Surely Gravity's Law by Rainer Maria Rilke
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This week brings a quiet but potent shift. Both Saturn and Mercury turn direct, creating a double-threshold moment where orientation returns and the path ahead steadies.
Meanwhile, Venus in Scorpio acts as the key weaver of the week. She links the social planets (Jupiter–Saturn) with the transpersonal ones (Uranus–Neptune), inviting emotional honesty, relational truth-telling, and a deeper sense of the soul’s timing. This is a Threshold Gate where the larger arc becomes perceptible.
Mon Nov 24 — Mercury Rx conjunct Venus in Scorpio
The Storyteller meets the Relational Weaver in the depths, illuminating the emotional subtext beneath old stories.
This alignment draws you inward to examine relational truths, motivations, and self-worth patterns that have been buried or unspoken. Conversations, memories, or insights may surface that help you revise the narrative you’ve been carrying.
A reframed story that brings more honesty and compassion.
Wed, Nov 26 — Venus In Scorpio trines Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces
The Relational Weaver harmonizes with the Expander and the Elder, creating coherence between desire, wisdom, and responsibility.
This trine stabilizes the heart. You may feel guided, supported, or emotionally fortified as inner truths meet grounded commitment. It can bring clarity about what nourishes you, who stands with you, and how your deeper values align with your long-term path.
A sense of emotional and relational coherence.
Thurs Nov 27 — Saturn turns Direct at 25° Pisces
The Elder pauses, pivots, and steps forward with renewed authority.
After four months of inner restructuring, Saturn’s direct turn brings a shift toward outer movement. Structure returns. Boundaries sharpen. You begin to sense what is non-negotiable and what responsibilities are yours to carry.
A grounded clarity about commitments and next steps.
Sat Nov 29 — Mercury turns Direct and Venus opposes Uranus
The Storyteller rises from the underworld with new insight and a clearer voice. The Relational Weaver meets the Awakener across the axis of truth and stability, sparking liberation.
Mercury’s direct turn brings mental clarity, emotional insight, and a renewed sense of direction. Venus opposite Uranus can shake loose old relational patterns, reveal surprising truths, or liberate you from ways of relating that have become too tight or scripted.
A breakthrough that frees your mind or heart.
Sun Nov 30 — Venus in Scorpio trines Neptune in Pisces
The Relational Weaver communes with the Mystic, blending compassion, intuition, and soul-level connection.
This trine softens Saturday’s jolts and brings you into a more spacious emotional field. Creativity, forgiveness, synchronicity, and spiritual intimacy increase. Something larger than you touches your heart and restores meaning.
A return to tenderness, imagination, and spiritual connection.
Reflections:
- What clarity returns as Saturn and Mercury both turn direct?
- What old relational or emotional pattern is ready to be released?
- Where do I sense Venus revealing a deeper timing or soul-direction now?
Podcast Poem: Sound Bath by Rosemerry Wahtola Tro
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This week we’re in a sea of transformation. The Grand Water Trine between Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn deepens emotional wisdom and soul maturity.
Mercury retrograde dives back into Scorpio for revelations that rewrite the story.
The New Moon in Scorpio seeds new emotional intelligence for the next cycle. The Sun moves into Sagittarius, light begins to rise from the depths—invite clarity, perspective, and renewed faith in the journey. Beneath it all, Uranus and Neptune continue their slow journey to shape the dream of a new world.
Nov 17–19: Sun in Scorpio trine Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces
The heart of the Grand Water Trine brings flow between transformation (Scorpio), faith (Cancer), and spiritual maturity (Pisces). These three archetypes create the cauldron where emotional growth stabilizes into inner authority.
Reflection question: Where can I trust that what has dissolved is already reshaping into a wiser form of strength?
Nov 19: New Moon at 28° Scorpio + Mercury retrograde in Scorpio
The New Moon joins the Water Trine, seeding renewal in the hidden chambers of psyche. With Mercury retrograde returning to Scorpio, perception turns x-ray sharp—unspoken truths surface, secrets seek cleansing, conversations go to the root.
Reflection question: What truth am I ready to hear within, so new life can begin to form from honest ground?
Nov 19–21: Mercury retrograde in Scorpio opposite Uranus retrograde in Taurus and trine Neptune in Pisces
The Trickster Messenger faces the Awakener across the axis of security and change while receiving a visionary signal from Neptune. Expect flashes of insight and intuitive downloads that challenge comfort zones.
Reflection question: Where is life inviting me to think in entirely new ways about what stability really means?
Nov 20 Sun conjunct ☿ Mercury retrograde in Scorpio
The heart of the Mercury retrograde cycle—when the Sun and Mercury meet, a new four-month story of consciousness begins.
Reflection question: What fresh truth is being born from the ashes of my old storyline?
Nov 20: Uranus in Taurus sextile ♆ Neptune in Pisces
The Innovator and the Dreamer collaborate again. This second of five sextiles (2025–2027) dips back into Earth–Water review: how the physical world and emotional patterns are evolving to carry visionary potential.
Reflection question: How can I ground my most imaginative longings in forms that nurture both soul and soil?
Nov 21: Sun enters Sagittarius
After the underworld immersion, the Sun steps onto higher ground. Sagittarius light ignites perspective, humor, and faith after the descent.
Reflection question: How does seeing the larger pattern free me from the weight of the past?
Nov 22: Mercury retrograde in Scorpio trine Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces
The Messenger reviews lessons with the Wise Ones. Thought meets empathy (Jupiter) and discernment (Saturn), revealing emotional intelligence born from experience.
Reflection question: What understanding am I ready to live, not just think?
Podcast poem: Tobar Phadraig by D
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This week’s Theme: The Pause Between Depth and Flight
This week we stand in the still point between deep water and wide sky. Jupiter turns inward in Cancer, inviting a review of how we grow through care and belonging. Mercury retrograde meets Mars in Sagittarius—rekindling the courage to speak truth that liberates. And the Sun’s trines to Jupiter and Saturn offer calm integration after months of intensity.
Beneath it all, the long dance of Uranus and Neptune hums below the threshold—reminding us that every personal turning is part of a collective evolution.
Tuesday Nov 11: Jupiter turns retrograde in Cancer
The Great Expander begins his inward journey through the tender waters of Cancer. What has grown outward since midsummer now asks to deepen inward. This is not contraction—it’s consecration. Jupiter’s retrograde reviews the emotional architecture that supports your growth. Are your roots strong enough to hold what you’ve been cultivating?
Re-root abundance in emotional integrity.
Reflection question: What belief about safety or success is ready to be rewritten from the inside out?
Wednesday Nov 12: Mercury retrograde conjunct Mars in Sagittarius
The Messenger meets the Warrior(iess) on the path of the Seeker. This is the second in a trilogy of conjunctions—the first in late October in Scorpio unearthed hidden truths, this one in Sagittarius gives them voice, and the third next January in Capricorn will anchor them in mature, embodied wisdom.
Now, words burn bright. Mercury’s review asks: Can I speak with courage without aggression? Mars urges movement—but not haste. Together they teach how conviction becomes illumination when rooted in reflection.
Transform reactive speech into revelatory communication.
Reflection question: What truth needs to be re-spoken with heart-centered courage rather than urgency or defense?
Sunday Nov 16: Sun in Scorpio trines Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces
A harmonious Grand Water flow blesses the week’s end. The Sun in Scorpio—self in transformation—finds steady current with Jupiter’s inner faith and Saturn’s compassionate discipline. After months of deep excavation, emotional insight can finally take shape. This is the sweet point where intensity ripens into wisdom.
Let renewed self-trust become a stabilizing current for your next cycle.
Reflection question: What part of me is emerging from the depths now ready to live with greater emotional mastery and spiritual grace?
Nov 20: Uranus in Taurus sextiles Neptune in Pisces
The Innovator and the Dreamer meet again—the second step in a two-year initiation (2025 – 2027). The first sextile in late August sparked ideas in airy-fiery realms of inspiration. Now both planets, retrograde and grounded in Earth and Water, invite integration: How do vision and matter, soul and body, imagination and livelihood, join forces?
This is the deep-tide review before the next ignition. Reweave imagination and embodiment so the dream can hold real form.
Reflection question: Where do my material realities and soul longings need to realign to support the world I’m dreaming into being?
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This week pulses with strong Mars energy—action, will, courage, and the drive to live from truth. Mars connects with several outer planets, activating an alchemical dance between personal intention and larger evolutionary forces. The Taurus Full Moon and Uranus’ re-entry into Taurus turn your attention to what stability and security really mean in these times of change. Courage now looks like grounded authenticity.
Monday, November 3: Mars in Scorpio trines Neptune in Pisces
Your actions align with inspiration and compassion. Intuition and imagination help you sense what’s ready to move from the invisible into form. Trust your instincts and allow mystery to inform your choices.
Tuesday, November 4: Mars enters Sagittarius and opposes Uranus in Gemini
Energy surges toward exploration and truth-telling. You may feel restless or impatient with restrictions. Sudden revelations could shake loose old patterns. Channel the fire into liberated, creative action instead of rebellion for its own sake.
Wednesday, November 5: Full Moon at 13° Taurus at 5:19 am Pacific
Illumination rises around embodiment, resources, and self-worth. What grounds you in a changing world? What values sustain your aliveness? Release attachment to false security and return to the wisdom of the body.
Thursday, November 6: Mars in Sagittarius sextiles Pluto in Aquarius; Venus enters Scorpio
Focused action supports deep transformation. You can move mountains when your intent aligns with soul purpose. As Venus dives into Scorpio, relationships and finances invite depth and truth. Surface appearances no longer satisfy.
Friday, November 7: Uranus re-enters Taurus; Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius
A potent threshold day. Uranus’ return to Taurus (where it first entered in 2018) reawakens the long cycle of revolutionizing your relationship with the Earth, body, and material stability. Venus squaring Pluto stirs relational intensity and evolutionary growth through tension.
Sunday, November 9: Mercury turns retrograde at 7° Sagittarius (until Nov. 29)
Mercury begins its retrograde journey from Sagittarius back into Scorpio later in the month—an invitation to review beliefs, messages, and inner truth. The first part of this cycle (in Sagittarius) helps you reexamine the stories you’ve been telling yourself about purpose, meaning, and direction. As Mercury retraces its steps into Scorpio, the focus deepens—what hidden emotions, fears, or power dynamics shape those stories?
This retrograde offers a potent opportunity to slow down and align thought with soul. Old certainties can soften into wisdom when you let curiosity lead the way. Let your intuition and dreams reveal what the rational mind has overlooked.
Reflection Questions for the Week:
- Where is courage asking you to act with integrity rather than urgency?
- How does your body reveal what’s truly valuable and sustainable?
- What beliefs about safety, freedom, or truth are being revolutionized as Uranus returns to Taurus?
Podcast poem: Where to Now by Mark Nepo
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This week’s astrology invites deep reflection and spiritual attunement as we cross into the sacred threshold of Samhain—the ancient Celtic festival honoring the ancestors and the unseen realms. The veils are thin now. It’s a time to listen between the worlds, to commune with the Mystery, and to release what must die so the new can be born.
With Mars and Mercury both journeying through Scorpio, the cosmos calls you to courageously meet transformation. Water trines weave through the week, helping you trust the flow of emotion, intuition, and soul remembrance.
Monday, Oct 27 – Mars (Warrior/ess) in Scorpio trines Jupiter (Teacher) in Cancer
This harmonious alignment activates emotional courage and purposeful passion. The Scorpio–Cancer flow empowers you to take action rooted in empathy rather than reactivity. There’s strength in sensitivity now—an invitation to stand for what truly nurtures and protects life.
Reflection Question: Where can you act from fierce compassion rather than defensive control?
Wednesday, Oct 29 – Mercury (Storyteller) in Scorpio trines Neptune (Mystic) in Pisces; Mercury enters Sagittarius; Mars (Warrior/ess)) in Scorpio trines Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces
A triple activation of intuition, imagination, and integrity. Early in the day, Mercury’s trine to Neptune opens psychic and poetic channels—messages may come through dreams, synchronicities, or ancestors.
When Mercury enters Sagittarius, the mind seeks to weave meaning from what has been uncovered in Scorpio’s depths.
Mars trining Saturn brings form to the mystical, offering the discipline to ground insight into commitment and steady action.
Reflection Question: What truth or vision wants to guide your next act of courage?
Saturday, Nov 1 – Venus (Relational One) in Libra opposes Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries and squares Jupiter (Teacher) in Cancer
The heart becomes the alchemical crucible. Venus opposing Chiron illuminates old wounds in love and belonging, while her square to Jupiter expands what’s been repressed—sometimes dramatically. Yet this tension opens a doorway to deeper compassion and mutual understanding.
Reflection Question: What relationship pattern is asking for healing through honesty and love?
Seasonal Portal: Samhain & Día de los Muertos (Oct 31–Nov 1)
Samhain marks the cross-quarter point between the Autumn Equinox and the coming Winter Solstice. It is the time of descent—when the veils between seen and unseen thin and ancestors draw near. Ancient traditions teach that the seeds of new life are dreamed in the dark. You may feel called to light candles, offer prayers, or speak the names of your beloved dead. The practice is simple yet profound: remember, release, and renew.
Reflection Question: What wisdom from your ancestors or invisible allies is ready to be reclaimed within you?
Podcast poem: “Remember” by Joy Harjo
Closing Blessing:
As the veils thin, may you walk gently between worlds—
Listening to what whispers in the dark,
Honoring what has ended,
And trusting the unseen hands guiding your becoming.
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Overview: This week invites a deep turning inward.
The New Moon in Libra opens a portal for recalibrating relationships and restoring inner balance after months of disruption. As Neptune re-enters Pisces, we begin the final chapter of a 14-year collective dream cycle—time to dissolve what’s illusion and harvest what’s true from our spiritual and creative evolution since 2011. The Sun’s move into Scorpio and a cascade of aspects between Jupiter, Chiron, and Pluto intensify the alchemical work—shadow integration, emotional honesty, and soulful truth-telling. By the weekend, Mercury trines Saturn, grounding the revelations of the week into practical wisdom.
Tuesday, October 21 – New Moon in Libra
This New Moon at 28° Libra invites you to seed new relational patterns founded on authentic harmony, not people-pleasing. Libra’s evolutionary task is to balance the dance between self and other—how to stay centered in your truth while staying connected. After recent Pluto-Venus shifts, this lunation renews your capacity for grace under transformation.
Reflection: What new relational agreement—inner or outer—wants to be born from truth, not habit?
Wednesday, October 22 – Neptune re-enters Pisces; Sun enters Scorpio
Neptune’s return to Pisces (through January 2026) completes the vast oceanic cycle that began in 2011. This is the closing dream—time to discern which visions still hold soul truth and which dissolve into mist. The Sun’s shift into Scorpio deepens this inquiry, illuminating what must be released for renewal. The veils thin, inviting compassionate surrender and courageous descent.
Reflection: What illusions are ready to dissolve so your truer vision can emerge?
Thursday, October 23 – Jupiter in Cancer square Chiron in Aries
Expanding beyond old emotional defenses, this tension invites healing around belonging and self-protection. Jupiter amplifies the need for emotional security, while Chiron exposes the wounds that prevent full self-trust. Growth arises from vulnerability—learning to nurture without over-giving.
Reflection: Where does your growth now require tenderness instead of toughness?
Friday, October 24 – Sun in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius
This potent square exposes the power dynamics in your relationships and your psyche. Transformation accelerates when you face control, fear, or resistance with honesty. Pluto in Aquarius asks for collective evolution; the Sun in Scorpio demands emotional integrity. Together, they burn away falseness so something new can be born from the ashes.
Reflection: What truth wants to surface, no matter how uncomfortable, to set you free?
Saturday, October 25 – Mercury in Scorpio trine Saturn in Pisces
After an intense week, this trine grounds insights into words and form. Deep communication and intuitive clarity become available. Saturn helps you translate the ineffable into structure—journaling, ritual, or commitments that honor your truth.
Reflection: What truth or insight is ready to be named and anchored into practice?
Podcast poem: For Those Who Have Far to Travel by Jan Richardson
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Mon. Oct. 13:
1) Pluto (The Transformer) turns Direct in Aquarius
There's a shift from inner shadow excavation to outer empowerment. In Aquarius, the Transformer reanimates collective renewal — systems, technologies, and communities are being reborn. You may feel the tectonic plates of your psyche moving: what inner underworld work have you done since May that now wants to express in service of the greater good?
Reflection Question:
What truth about your power or your purpose is now ready to move from hidden depth into active expression?
2) Venus (The Relational One) enters Libra
Time to reimagine relationships not as compromise but as creative co-weaving. It’s a cycle for listening with your whole being, for recalibrating the harmony between giving and receiving.
Reflection Question:
Where can you restore balance or beauty in how you meet the “other,” whether that’s a person, project, or part of yourself?
3) Venus opposes Neptune (The Dreamer)
The Dreamer stirs visions of unconditional love and spiritual union, yet the Relational One seeks clarity and integrity. Watch for projections or disillusionment that can dissolve boundaries — or open portals to transcendent compassion.
Reflection Question:
How can you stay heart-open without losing the clarity of your own truth?
Tuesday, October 14: Venus trines Uranus (The Awakener) in Gemini and Pluto (The Transformer) in Aquarius
Venus meets two agents of radical renewal, sparking relational breakthroughs, creative reinvention, and fresh freedom in connection. Something once stagnant can shift quickly now if you allow love to evolve beyond the familiar script.
Reflection Question:
What new pattern of relating or creating is ready to liberate you from an outdated way of connecting?
Thurs. Oct. 16: Sun (The Heroic Self) in Libra squares Jupiter (The Teacher) in Cancer
The Sun’s light on partnership and fairness rubs against Jupiter’s instinct to nurture and protect in Cancer. This tension can amplify generosity or inflate expectations — both reveal where growth demands a rebalancing of confidence and care.
Reflection Question:
Where might over-giving or over-controlling be blocking true mutual growth?
Fri. Oct. 17: Sun (The Heroic Self) in Libra opposes Chiron (The Wounded Healer) in Aries
Relationships mirror old wounds of independence and belonging. We explore how our desire for harmony often hides ancient fears of rejection or domination. Healing happens when we can hold both self-assertion and empathy as sacred.
Reflection Question: What old relational wound is asking for compassionate witnessing rather than defense or withdrawal?
Sun., Oct. 19: Mercury (The Storyteller) conjunct Mars (The Warrior) in Scorpio
Words pierce to the truth. This potent conjunction intensifies communication — it’s surgical, passionate, and potentially confrontational. When wielded consciously, this energy cuts through illusion and fuels courageous conversations that catalyze transformation.
Reflection Question:
What truth needs to be spoken or written from the depth of your courage, not the edge of your anger?
Podcast poem: For Presence by John O'Do
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This week brings powerful turning points. A fiery Full Moon in Aries spotlights the dance between self-assertion and partnership, while Mercury’s entry into Scorpio begins a season of deeper truth-telling that will echo into November’s retrograde. The Mercury–Pluto square midweek demands honest words that can catalyze transformation, and the Venus–Saturn opposition challenges us to bring discernment and commitment into love, money, and values. As we move through these passages, we prepare for next week’s potent shift—Pluto turning direct in Aquarius, reigniting collective transformation.
Monday, October 6 – Full Moon in Aries at 14°
The Instinctive Self (Moon) shines in fiery Aries, illuminating your desires for autonomy, vitality, and courage. Opposite the Relational Self (Sun) in Libra, this lunation calls you to balance self-assertion with partnership. What wants to be initiated? What needs to be released in your relationships or patterns of self-abandonment?
Reflection: Where do I need to step forward with courage without cutting myself off from connection?
Monday, October 6 – Mercury enters Scorpio
The Storyteller (Mercury) dives into the depths of Scorpio’s Realm of Transformation. Words, perceptions, and thoughts become sharper, more probing. This transit foreshadows Mercury’s retrograde in November when it returns here to excavate deeper truths. Be alert to whispers of what’s hidden beneath the surface—what you notice now will become important later.
Reflection: What hidden story or truth is beginning to stir in me that will require deeper excavation later this season?
Tuesday, October 7 – Mercury in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius
The Storyteller (Mercury) in the realm of intensity locks horns with the Transformer (Pluto) in visionary Aquarius. Expect confrontations with uncomfortable truths, power dynamics in communication, or a need to name what’s been unspeakable. Transformation begins with words spoken honestly and directly.
Reflection: Where do I need to risk speaking truth to shift a stagnant or controlling pattern?
Saturday, October 11 – Venus in Virgo opposes Saturn in Pisces
The Relational One (Venus) in discerning Virgo stands across from the Responsible One (Saturn) in dreamy Pisces. This aspect challenges you to bring integrity and discernment into your relationships, finances, and creative projects. Saturn tests Venus—are you discerning or critical, committed or avoiding? The tension invites you to clarify what really matters.
Reflection: What relationship or value requires both discernment and commitment right now?
Looking Ahead to the Next Week
On Monday, October 13, the Transformer (Pluto) turns direct at 1° Aquarius after being retrograde since early May. This shift intensifies the collective push into Aquarian transformation: new systems, collective re-imaginings, and innovative structures are beginning to move forward. Expect themes of power and collective re-invention to reemerge.
Podcast Poem: Sunday Morning Ear
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This week’s cycles invite you to find your voice in the tension between self and other, and to alchemize old wounds of belonging into courageous self-expression under the light of the Full Moon.
Wednesday, October 1 – Mercury in Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer
The Storyteller (Mercury) in Libra, sign of balance and relational harmony, encounters tension with the Teacher (Jupiter) in Cancer, the sign of belonging, lineage, and emotional roots. This square can amplify conversations about fairness, truth, and belonging—sometimes exaggerating perspectives or inflating the desire to be “right.” There’s an invitation to expand your vision while also listening carefully to others’ truths, especially when your own need for belonging gets stirred. Miscommunication may highlight old emotional patterns that are ready to grow into greater wisdom.
Reflection Question: Where are my words or thoughts asking for expansion beyond old family or belonging stories, and how can I hold space for multiple truths without losing my own voice?
Friday, October 3 – Mercury in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries
Here the Storyteller (Mercury) in Libra directly faces the Wounded Healer (Chiron) in Aries. This can spotlight core wounds around self-expression—feeling unheard, unseen, or dismissed—and how these wounds play out in relationships. Conversations may carry a sharp edge, not because they are wrong, but because they touch a tender place of vulnerability. The medicine is in noticing how old wounds of self-assertion or self-worth shape current dialogues, and how to bring compassion and balance into the exchange. Healing can come by learning to speak your truth gently, without abandoning yourself.
Reflection Question: What tender wound in me is asking for compassionate communication, and how can I honor both my voice and the voices of others in this dialogue?
Looking Ahead to Next Week– Full Moon at 14° Aries (Oct 6)
The week builds toward a powerful Full Moon in Aries on Monday, Oct 6. This lunation illuminates the central polarity of the week: Libra’s call for harmony and connection versus Aries’ call for courage and authentic selfhood. The Moon in Aries shines on your need for bold self-expression, while the Libra Sun reminds you of the beauty of reciprocity and balance in relationship. Expect heightened emotions and the potential for breakthroughs—especially where old wounds around speaking up, being heard, or claiming your space in relationships are ready to shift.
This upcoming Full Moon acts as the alchemical climax of the week: all the Mercury conversations with Jupiter and Chiron prepare the ground for a liberating moment of truth under this Aries–Libra illumination.
Reflection Question: What truth of my own selfhood is ready to be spoken and witnessed under the light of the Full Moon?
Podcast Poem: The Forest for the Trees by Rena Priest
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This is a threshold week—Autumn Equinox initiates a new season of balance, while Mars dives into Scorpio and squares Pluto, calling us into deep transformation. The Sun’s opposition to Neptune brings dreams and confusions to the surface, but also opens portals of vision. This week asks: how do you align yourself at the edge of change—with clarity, courage, and creative power?
Monday, Sept 22:
Sun enters Libra (Autumn Equinox)
- The Equinox turns the wheel—day and night balance. Libra season begins, inviting you to recalibrate your relationships, your sense of justice, and your commitment to harmony. Equinox is always a time of threshold: harvesting what has ripened, releasing what is done.
- Reflection: Where in your life are you ready to rebalance so that both light and shadow are honored?
Mars enters Scorpio (6 weeks)
- Mars, archetype of the Warrior and Protector, moves into Scorpio. For the next six weeks, energy intensifies. This is a season of penetrating insight, fierce will, and facing what’s hidden. Mars in Scorpio fuels both obsession and liberation—it asks you to confront power dynamics, shadow desires, and your capacity for transformation.
- Reflection: What hidden passion or fear is ready to be faced with courage and clarity?
Tuesday, Sept 23: Sun in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries (also trines Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius)
The Sun shines a light on Neptune’s mists. You may feel unclear, dreamy, or disoriented. But this is also a chance to connect vision and compassion. The Sun also links in harmony to Uranus and Pluto—reminding you that imagination can fuel real change. This is a potent triangle of vision, disruption, and transformation.
Reflection: How can you allow your imagination to serve both your personal clarity and the collective good?
Wednesday, Sept 24: Mars in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius
Mars meets Pluto in a fierce confrontation. This transit can stir up old power struggles, hidden resentments, or collective eruptions. Yet it is also an alchemical forge—where will, shadow, and transformation collide. You are invited to release toxic control and claim authentic empowerment.
Reflection: What outdated power pattern in your life is asking to be transmuted into new strength?
Looking Ahead-A few major cycles loom on the horizon:
- Oct 22: Neptune re-enters Pisces, returning us to the dissolving waters of collective dreamwork for the next two decades.
- Nov 7: Uranus re-enters Taurus, grounding disruption in the material world.
- Nov 9–28: Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius–Scorpio, a three-week journey of reviewing beliefs, truths, and hidden patterns.
- The Equinox rebalancing this week prepares you for these coming shifts.
These upcoming shifts will shape the final months of 2025—so notice the signs already stirring.
Podcast poem: Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver
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We’re moving toward the second eclipse of this month—the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo. The week is alive with relational tension, deep healing themes, and mental shifts that prepare the ground. Think of it as an initiation: the cosmos is rearranging old patterns so you can enter a new level of discernment, clarity, and alignment.
00:00 Welcome to Astrology Alchemy
00:55 Episode Overview: September 15th, 2025
02:56 Venus, Mars, and Chiron: Relationship and Healing
- Reflection: How can you approach relationship or desire this week as an opportunity for healing rather than repeating old patterns?
06:35 Mercury Cross Currents: Mind and Transformation
- Reflection:What conversation—inner or outer—needs both honesty and imagination to unlock new possibilities?
08:41 Venus and the Sun: Testing Boundaries
- Reflection: Where are you being asked to grow up without giving up, to take responsibility without losing heart?
10:11 New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo
- Reflection: What vision of a more aligned, authentic life is asking to be planted in the fertile soil of this eclipse?
13:14 Podcast Poem: Start Close In by David Whyte
14:28 Closing Remarks
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We are now inside the eclipse corridor, a liminal space between what has dissolved and what is still forming. Saturn’s return to Pisces reminds us that integration is part of completion: this six-month apprenticeship asks you to gather the wisdom of the past cycle. With only a few exact aspects this week, the cosmos invites us to pause, digest, and choose daily practices that align body and spirit. This is a time to let the in-between do its quiet work.
00:00 Welcome to Astrology Alchemy
00:50 Episode Introduction and Weekly Theme
01:20 Understanding the Eclipse Corridor
01:46 Saturn's Return to Pisces
02:59 Astrological Aspects of the Week
04:42 Sun and Mercury in Virgo sextile Jupiter
- Reflection: What daily choices or practices could nourish both your body and your spirit right now?
05:42 Sun Conjunct Mercury in Virgo
- Reflection: What story about your life are you ready to edit so it better reflects who you are becoming?
06:53 Podcast Poem: The Art of Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Key highlights include Saturn’s return to Pisces for the final six-month chapter of a 29-year cycle, Mercury’s meeting with Uranus, Mars squaring Jupiter, and Uranus going retrograde. The episode culminates with a Full Moon eclipse in Pisces, emphasizing the release of old patterns and emotional cleansing. Reflection questions for each significant astrological event to guide listeners in their personal growth and transformation.
00:00 Welcome to Astrology Alchemy
00:55 Episode Overview: September 1st, 2025
02:51 Saturn Re-enters Pisces (Sept. 1)
- Reflection: What unfinished learning about boundaries and responsibilities is asking for your patient attention before you can step into the next 29-year Saturn cycle?
05:05 Mercury Meets Uranus (Sept. 2-3)
- Reflection: What sudden shift in perspective could free you from mental habits that no longer serve?
06:16 Mars Squares Jupiter (Sept. 4)
- Reflection: Where could you temper bold action with wise timing this week?
08:11 Uranus Goes Retrograde (Sept. 5)
- Reflection: What fresh story about yourself or the world is waiting to be written?
09:51 Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces (Sept. 7 @ 11:09 am PDT)
- Reflection: What in your life is ready to be released back into the ocean, so your next chapter can begin with clarity?
12:59 Final Reflections and Resources
Podcast poem: In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
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This week the cosmos invites you into a potent dance of heart, vision, and transformation. Venus in Leo makes a series of rich alignments that weave love, creativity, and relationship into the fabric of responsibility, dream, innovation, and deep change. Midweek brings a rare long-term Uranus–Neptune sextile opening a portal for visionary possibilities. The week closes with Mercury and Chiron offering healing through truthful storytelling.
Aug 25 – Venus enters Leo trine Saturn in Aries
Venus, the Relational One, steps into fiery Leo, calling you to lead with love and show up in relationships with authenticity and creative vitality. Her trine to Saturn, the Responsible One, steadies that passion with mature commitment. This is an invitation to honor both joy and accountability in how you connect with others and in how you express your gifts.
Reflection: Where can you bring more courage and maturity to how you love and create?
Aug 26 – Venus in Leo trine Neptune in Aries
Neptune, the Dreamer archetype meets Venus’ radiant heart. This trine asks you to open your imagination and infuse relationships, art, and values with inspiration. Let your heart vision stretch beyond the ordinary into the mythic.
Reflection: How can you dream your relationships and creative life into a more inspired form?
Aug 26 – Venus in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini
Venus’ warmth meets the Maverick’s (Uranus’) spark. Expect surprises in love, creativity, and self-expression. Uranus invites you to break free from stale patterns in how you connect, to play with the unexpected, and to let fresh possibilities in.
Reflection: What old pattern in love or creativity is ready for a bold shift?
Aug 26 – Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius
This is deep alchemy. Venus meets Pluto, the Transformer across the Leo–Aquarius axis, calling you to face the shadows in love, value systems, and creativity. Power dynamics in relationships may surface—this is a chance to transform them into mutual empowerment.
Reflection: What truth about love, power, or value is rising now that you can no longer ignore?
Aug 28 – Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries
A rare long-term cycle begins—five exact sextiles over the next two years. Uranus, the Maverick, and Neptune, the Dreamer, collaborate to awaken collective vision. This is a subtle but profound activation of imagination, innovation, and spiritual insight, especially around communication, technology, and inspired action.
Reflection – What visionary idea is quietly emerging in your life that could shape your future?
Aug 31 – Mercury in Leo trine Chiron in Aries
Mercury, the Storyteller connects harmoniously with Chiron, the Wounded Healer. This is a moment to speak from the heart and share your truth in ways that bring healing—to yourself and to others. Your words can carry medicine now.
Reflection: What story from your own wounds is ready to be told in a way that heals?
This week’s astrology is a heart-led initiation into greater maturity, creative freedom, and deep transformation. The rare Uranus–Neptune sextile reminds you that the seeds you plant now—especi
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This week brings a potent blend of healing, disruption, and new beginnings. The Sun in its Leo fullness meets Chiron’s medicine for old wounds, a New Moon in Virgo invites change through the unexpected, Venus draws us into tender but courageous relationship healing, and the Sun steps into Virgo with an electric square to Uranus. Expect moments of insight, activation, and the call to respond with both grounded presence and open-hearted adaptability.
Aug 19 – Sun in Leo trine Chiron in Aries
Your Conscious Self (Sun) harmonizes with the Wounded Healer (Chiron), offering you a courageous moment to meet vulnerabilities with self-compassion and sovereignty.
Reflection Question: Where could I let my confidence and my vulnerability work together instead of at odds?
Aug 22 – New Moon at 0° Virgo square Uranus in Gemini
The Instinctive Nurturer (Moon) archetype begins a fresh Virgo cycle, immediately challenged by the Maverick’s demand for innovation. Disruption may be the seedbed for a more authentic rhythm of daily life.
Reflection Question: What unexpected shift could liberate me into a truer, cleaner alignment with my values?
Aug 22 – Venus in Cancer square Chiron in Aries
The Relational One (Venus) faces the Wounded Healer (Chiron) —inviting tenderness in places where self-protection has kept love at bay.
Reflection Question: How might I soften toward myself or another without abandoning my own boundaries?
Aug 24 – Sun in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini
The Conscious Self (Sun) now turns toward discernment and skillfulness, yet meets Uranus’ (Maverick's) jolt to think and act differently.
Reflection Question: Where is life asking me to break a habitual pattern in order to live more freely?
Podcast poem: "The Guest House" by Rumi
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This week offers an archetypal time of release, renewal, and bold expression. Multiple alignments offer breakthroughs in thinking, love, structure, and soul purpose.
August 11: 💥 Mercury (Storyteller) Direct at 4° Leo:
Your mental focus, communication, and inner narrative begin to move forward—but not in the same way as before. This station direct reactivates Mercury’s recent contacts with:
- Uranus (Maverick)in Gemini – new thought frequencies, unexpected downloads
- Saturn (Responsible One) retrograde in Aries – the confrontation with inner and outer authority
- Neptune (Dreamer) retrograde in Aries – releasing illusion, inviting intuitive knowing
- Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius – shedding outdated mental control, opening to soul-truths
This rare confluence offers you a multi-dimensional opportunity to recalibrate how you think, speak, and share your vision. It's a green light—but one that asks you to lead from the heart of your truth, not the mask of performance.
Reflection: What inner clarity are you now ready to voice with courage and creativity?
⚡ August 11: Saturn in Aries trine Uranus in Gemini
This rare harmonious aspect between the planet of discipline and the planet of liberation offers a bridge between old structures and new possibilities. It’s an invitation to evolve tradition, not just reject it. This is a moment to build innovative systems that support true freedom.
Reflection: How can you become a mature steward of the changes your soul is ready to live?
💗 August 11: Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer
A lush and expansive moment in the heart realms. Venus and Jupiter—planets of love and abundance—unite in the deeply feeling sign of Cancer. This opens a portal of nourishment, emotional generosity, and sacred connection. A beautiful time to restore your sense of belonging.
Reflection: Where can you say yes to love that nourishes your body, heart, and roots?
🔥 August 14 & August 17: Mercury in Leo sextile Mars in Libra (twice)
Mercury, now moving direct, forms a double sextile to Mars—first as it begins to move, and again once it picks up speed. This gives you momentum to take aligned action on what you’ve been reflecting on during the retrograde. Mercury in Leo gives voice to your creativity; Mars in Libra empowers you to act with grace and strategy.
Reflection: What message or idea are you ready to activate—with both heart and harmony?
Podcast poem: The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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The Sun (Conscious Self) is conjunct Mercury (Communicator) in Libra illuminating new insights about relationships and creative ideas. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra squares Mars (Action-Taker) in Cancer initing you to seed new ways to be in relationship with self and others where you courageously attend to your emotional needs with compassion and clarity. Release emotional resentments that others are not giving you what you want. It's an inside job! Venus (Relational One) in Scorpio trines Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces supporting you to responsibly track deeper truths in relationships and make appropriate changes. Mercury in Libra squares Mars in Cancer helping you to balance your head and your heart around issues of belonging and feeling nurtured.
Podcast poem: "Fearing Paris" by Marsha Truman Cooper
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Mercury (Communicator) connects with all three transpersonal (beyond everyday ego awareness) planets this week. Expand your mind to engage with deeper, more mysterious conversations with life. Mercury in Virgo trines Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus activating you to open to unexpected flashes of insights and ideas around your practical life details. Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces inviting you to shift unconscious narratives that need healing as well as embrace your empathetic wisdom. Mercury in Virgo trines Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn catalyzing you to acknowledge and release hidden ideas and stories that disempower you and others. Mars (Action-Taker) in Cancer trines Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces supporting you to courageously advocate for your emotional vulnerability and needs. Take care of yourself by setting appropriate emotional boundaries.
Podcast poem: "Let It Go" by Danna Faulds
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Venus (Relational One) in Libra opposes Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries supporting you to balance the needs of self and others in relationships. The Full Moon Eclipse is conjunct Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces activating high emotional tides of sensitivity and dreaming. Stay grounded in compassion for self and others. Mercury (Communicator) in Virgo opposes Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces helping you to own and effectively express your vulnerable feelings. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces inviting you to recognize and ground your intuitive insights. Mercury in Virgo squares Jupiter (Mentor-Teacher) in Gemini challenging you to discern how to effectively express the abundance of ideas and possibilities dancing in your head. The Sun enters Libra marking Autumn Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Pause and honor the ancient turning of the seasons and attune to more sustainable balance in your life. Venus in Libra squares Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn catalyzing you to get real with deeper currents in relationships. Release limiting “People Pleaser” patterns.
Podcast poem: "For Equilibrium-A Blessing" by John O'Donohue
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Mercury (Communicator) re-enters Virgo after its recent retrograde cycle in Leo inviting you to get more precision and clarity in your communication with creative ideas and projects. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Virgo squares Jupiter (Expanded One) in Gemini challenging you to balance the bigger picture of possibilities with the necessity to know the details on how to make them happen. Venus (Relational One) in Libra trines Jupiter in Gemini supporting expanded romance with the world (human relationships, art, nature and ideas). Let your love shine forth!
Podcast poem: Camas Lilies by Lynn Ungar
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The New Moon in Virgo supports you to clarify what works and doesn't and what serves and doesn't. Mars (Action-Taker) in Gemini squares Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces supports you to track and shift unconscious patterns that drain your energy and capacity to move forward. Venus (Relational One) is conjunct the South Node in Libra challenging you to release old relational patterns of over-accommodation and making nice. Mars enters Cancer for 6 weeks of practicing shifting emotional resentment into actively asking for what you need. Mercury (Messenger) in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to open to outrageous new ideas and explore how to practically implement them. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Virgo opposes Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces catalyzing you to recognize why you're working too hard and to ask for help.
Podcast poem: "Flowering" by Linda Buckmaster
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Here's a week of attuning to the changing currents in your life. Venus (Relational One) connects to the three transpersonal planets this week supporting deeper changes with relationships and values. Venus in Virgo trines Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus supporting you to explore more freedom in your relationships. Mercury (Communicator) turns direct in Leo after 3 weeks of retrograde motion. Express creative ideas and shine your ideas. Venus in Virgo opposes Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces challenging you to break some spells of denial and enmeshment in relationships. Venus enters Libra and trines Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius activating your desire for depths and transformation with your values, resources and connections with others. Uranus turns retrograde in Taurus for a 5-month journey of exploring the security of authentic inner belonging to yourself. Pluto re-enters Capricorn until mid-November catalyzing personal and collective lessons in transmuting the poisons of fear-based and dominating authority and life structures that we've all been with since 2008.
Podcast poem: "We Are of a Tribe" by Alberto Rios
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The Full Moon in Aquarius invites you to balance the Sun (Conscious Self) in Leo, the sign of individual creativity and visibility, with the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Aquarius, the sign of radical authenticity and alignment with necessary changes. Plus the Full Moon squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus challenging you to integrate unexpected changes to your established patterns and identities. Jupiter (Expanded One) in Gemini squares Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces marking a 10-month journey of deep reassessment of what is truly important to you and to understand any gaps between your ideals and your current life situations. Begin to explore how to manifest your ideals realistically. Changes you and society make now guides the larger direction of the big archetypal changes coming in 2025. Venus (Relational One) in Virgo squares Mars (Action-Taker) in Gemini inviting you to first recognize what needs healing and grounding in relationships and your life before you enthusiastically chase new ideas and opportunities.
Podcast poem: "Being a Person" by William Stafford
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There are very big currents of astrological change in the next two weeks. Jupiter (Expanded One) in Gemini squares Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces marking a 10-month journey of deep reassessment of what is truly important to you and to understand any gaps between your ideals and your current life situations. Begin to explore how to manifest your ideals realistically. Mars (Action-Taker) in Gemini is both conjunct Jupiter and square Saturn supporting you to notice if your actions align with your aspirations. If you feel frustrated at feeling thwarted in going forward with your goals, recognize the limitations are there to help you manifest your goals more successfully. Mercury (Communicator) in Leo in its retrograde journey is square Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus challenging you to open your creative mind to alternative ways to express yourself. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Leo conjoins Mercury supporting you to start a 4-month journey of following a creative idea or project to fruition. Notice any nudges from your Muse and take the first steps to explore them. Venus (Relational One) in Virgo squares Jupiter catalyzing you to balance your enthusiasm for new ideas and projects with your desire for steadfastness and grounded wholeness.
Podcast poem: "In the Other Kind of Time" by Mark Nepo
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Mercury (Communicator) turns retrograde in Virgo for a 3-week journey of decluttering your mind with narratives and thoughts that are not aligned with your wholeness. Slow down and honor the beauty and sacred presence of your everyday life. Mercury conjoins Venus (Relational One) in Virgo inviting you to weave your mind and heart in healing ways. Continue to release the old ideas and busy thoughts that get in the way of actualizing your deepest values and desires. Plus a preview of coming attractions with the upcoming Jupiter square Saturn cycle mid August that supports you to review how to practically manifest your aspirations and ideals.
Podcast poem: "Stone" by Danusha Laméris
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In the Northern Hemisphere seasonal changes, this week we enter the first harvest time of Lammas. Venus (Relational One) in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus waking you up to make necessary changes in your relationships (with self and others). Come out more visibly in your uniqueness and release patterns of seeking approval from others to feel worthy. The New Moon in Leo invites you to shine your gifts, radiate your creative love and warmth from your Inner Sovereign. Mercury (Communicator) turns retrograde (seemingly backtracking in the heavens) to begin a 3-week journey of reviewing ideas, mental patterns and expression. Chani says: "This particular backtrack begins in meticulous Virgo and then rewinds into showboating Leo. This transit reminds us that when we refine the ways that we share our creative gifts with the world, we attract our ideal audiences."
Podcast poem: "Blessing of the Reaper" by Joanna Powell Colbert
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The Sun (Conscious Self) in Leo opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to free yourself from survival patterns of seeking recognition from others. Courageously recognize and honor your unique creativity and presence in the world and offer them to our world in support of collective deep transformation. Chiron (Wounded Healer) turns retrograde in Aries for a 5-month inner journey of healing the wounds of isolation and resentment due to feeling not accepted as your true self. Activate the "medicine" of self-acceptance and courage to be you for yourself, your ancestors and the world.
Podcast poem: "The Burial" by Judith Adams
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The Sun (Conscious Self) in Cancer squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries illuminating the call to be tender and nurturing toward the parts of you who feel isolated and react with a closed heart. Mars (Advocate-Warrioress) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus with a possible volatile combination of restlessness and reactivity around issues of safety and personal territory. Before unconsciously reacting to perceived threats, pause and ground with the Earth and your body. Know you are held and loved and act accordingly. Mars enters Gemini for a 6-week journey of courageously choosing new experimental ideas and paths that open you to alternative ways of thinking. The second Full Moon in Capricorn activates the need to balance emotional vulnerability and your longing to belong with the ability to, as Chani says, "own your own inner and outer authority." Mercury (Communicator) in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus awakening unexpected insights from yourself and others.
Podcast poem: "There is This Moment" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Venus (Relational One) just into Leo opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to go deeper with truth-telling in relationships and where you are focusing your life energy. Balance the desire to be seen and loved with the need to see and love others and the world. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Cancer squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries illuminating the call to be tender and nurturing toward the parts of you who feel isolated and react with a closed heart. Mars (Advocate-Warrioress) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus with a possible volatile combination of restlessness and reactivity around issues of safety and personal territory. Before unconsciously reacting to perceived threats, pause and ground with the Earth and your body. Know you are held and loved and act accordingly.
Podcast poem: "For the Sake of Strangers" by Dorianne Laux
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Neptune (Dreamer) turns retrograde at the very end of Pisces for a 5-month journey that invites you to pay attention to the more mysterious, unconscious currents underneath your conscious mind. The healthy expression of the Dreamer archetype aligns you with your deepest aspirations, hopes and inspirations. The wounded expression aligns you with your struggles with confusion, addictions and victim consciousness. All can be present. Honor what is emerging with deep self-compassion. Mercury (Communicator) just into Leo opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to get real with how best to courageously express your individual creativity and presence with sensitivity to what your larger community and world truly need for effective transformation. Transmute wounded self-focused patterns that insist it's all about you. The New Moon in Cancer supports you to seed new ways to make a place in your heart for your sensitivity and care for yourself and your beloveds. Venus (Relational One) in Cancer squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries reminding you to lean into deep emotional healing around wounded patterns of armoring your heart to stay true to yourself. You can have both individual agency and nurturance in your relationships.
Podcast poem: "When I Am Among Trees" by Mary Oliver
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Mercury (Storyteller) in Cancer squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries challenging you to shift old family and ancestral wound stories about armoring your heart. Release the outworn narratives that you have to do it alone or you need to toughen up to protect your vulnerability and sensitivity. Saturn (Responsible One) turns retrograde in Pisces. A potent time out week where you're invited to take a time out and re-assess your emotional responsibilities and tendency to get caught in rescue operations. Discern what is yours to do and what is not. Make the changes so you have psychic space in which to attune to your own emotional needs. Chani suggests you use this cycle to "renew your vows to yourself and commit to healing without a deadline."
Podcast poem: "August Third" by May Sarton
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Mercury (Communicator) in Gemini squares Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces inviting you to release limited illusions and wound stories and express your visions and unique ideas. Mercury conjoins Venus (Relational One) at the very beginning of Cancer. As Astrobutterfly says: " This is THE time to bring your creative intention to life." Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere arrives as the Sun enters Cancer and activates your heart connection to emotional care and belonging with Beloveds including the Earth. Let your heart love and nurturing shine out. The Full Moon in Capricorn squares Neptune in Pisces illuminating your ability to steward your deep emotions and sensitivity in grounded and loving ways.
Podcast poem: "The Seven of Pentacles" by Marge Piercy
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Mars (Warrior/ess) in Taurus squares Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to investigate what's underneath any anger around perceived threats to your security and personal territory. Say yes to the world's invitation for personal adjustment in support of collective change. Mercury (Communicator) in Gemini squares Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces invites you to clarify what unconscious stories and emotional patterns are clogging your mind. Release them. The Sun (Conscious Self) is conjunct Mercury in Gemini supporting you to illuminate ideas and projects that you are ready to express. Venus (Relational One) in Gemini squares Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces catalyzing you to address where you might be enmeshed and caught under a spell in relationships or where you spend your life energy.
Podcast poem: "Witness" by Denise Levertov
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Mercury (Storyteller) in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius inviting you to track the deeper currents of change in your life. Mercury conjoins Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Gemini expanding your curiosity, flexibility and willingness to explore new ideas. The New Moon in Gemini conjoins Venus (Relational One) opening new options for communication and connection in relationships and with how you spend your life energy. Notice new ways to think about your values and beloveds. Venus and the Sun (Conscious Self) in Gemini square Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces. As you explore new ideas and partnerships, stay grounded in your empathetic and spiritual side.
Podcast Poem: "For Equilibrium" by John O'Donohue
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Mars (Advocate) conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries catalyzing you to heal old wounds with anger, agency and impulsiveness. Recognize and shift personal and ancestral patterns of resentment and feeling that you have to do it all yourself. Courageously open to your unique ways of taking risks and being a champion for what and who you love. Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to shake up the old mental cobwebs around security and stability. Notice innovative ideas, thoughts and synchronistic encounters that demonstrate you belong to your life and are resourced in unexpected ways. Jupiter (Teacher-Expanded One) newly into Gemini trines Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius inviting you to let go what's not working mentally and shift outworn paradigms. Clear the mental closets so you can attune to deeper innovative transformation.
Podcast Poem: "Allow by Danna Faulds
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Momentous week of shifting into new energies of exploration and networking. The Sun (Conscious Self) enters Gemini and trines Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius. Activate your inner detective to follow idea and communication clues that bring you to deeper mind transformation. The Full Moon in Sagittarius guides you to lean into new adventures to expand your experiences and paradigms. Venus (Relational One) conjoins Jupiter (Wise Expanded One) in Taurus inviting you to know your deep belonging to the Earth and embodied life. Jupiter in Taurus trines Neptune in Pisces to expand your awareness of your interconnectedness with all Life. Venus enters Gemini and trines Pluto supporting going deeper with relationships and values by exploring new directions. The big news--Jupiter (Wise Expanded One) enters Gemini for a year of expanding optimistic exploration of new ideas, communication and paradigms.
Podcast poem: "Jump" by Alision Luterman
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The Sun (Hero/Heroine) conjoins Uranus (Maverick/Change Agent) in Taurus illuminating where you are called to break out of ruts with your resources and connection to the Earth. Mercury (Storyteller) enters Taurus activating your thoughts and expression to get real and pragmatic with your projects and conversations. Mercury in Taurus squares Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius inviting you to tell yourself some deeper truths about how to balance security and safety with the need for more freedom for you and others. Venus (Relational One) conjoins Uranus in Taurus catalyzing some unexpected random good luck and relational awakenings.
Podcast Poem: "Forget About Enlightenment" by John Welwood
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Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries inviting you to acknowledge how you've shifted old wounded self-marginalization stories in the last 6 weeks. The New Moon in Taurus is conjunct Uranus (Maverick) and Jupiter (Wise One) supporting you to seed new ways to explore the paradox of radical change with grounded stability.
Podcast Poem: "Instead of Turning Off the News" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Venus (Relational One) enters Taurus for a few weeks of attuning to the beauty and sensuality of relationships with others and the Earth. Celebrate the time of Beltane and the gift of life renewing itself. Venus squares Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius inviting you to follow deeper currents of change in relationships and with your values. What is costing too much (time, resources, money) for both you and others. Release it! Mars (Advocate) enters Aries for 6 weeks of dynamic moving forward with new ideas and projects. Track unconscious patterns of aggressively going after what you want at the cost of reciprocity in your relationships. Pluto turns retrograde for 5 months of inner review of the outworn patterns of disempowerment that need to go. Recognize the call to make inner changes for the sake of greater freedom for the collective.
Podcast poem: "Replenish" by Claudia Schmidt
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The Full Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius challenging you to track deeper emotional currents with trying to balance security, intimacy and freedom. Release old patterns of holding on due to fear of loss and scarcity and attune with your deeper needs to be emotionally real and free at the same time. Mercury (Storyteller) turns direct in Aries after 3 weeks of being retrograde. Implement the necessary changes in your inner and outer narratives that support you and others to be more authentic. Mars (Advocate) conjoins Neptune (Visionary) in Pisces inviting you to take action on your dreams in fluid intuitive ways.
Podcast poem: "The Story Wheel" by Joy Harjo
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Mercury (Storyteller) retrograde conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries for the second time in the current 6-week journey. Keep tracking the old wounded narratives that it's not okay to be you and let them go. Mercury also conjoins Venus (Relational One) in Aries to deepen your healing journey with self-acceptance and reassessing what do you spend your life on? The long awaited big cycle of Jupiter (Mentor-Teacher) conjunct Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus happens this week. Expand into more innovative and authentic beliefs around relationships and resources. Venus conjoins Chiron in Aries inviting you to honor the uniqueness and individuality of everyone in relationships. You do you and let others do them. Sun (Conscious Self) in Taurus squares Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius catalyzing you to recognize where you might be holding onto some kind of security and privilege at the cost of others having the same benefits. Lean into generosity and alternative ways to feel secure.
Podcast poem: "A Valley Like This" by William Stafford
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The New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Aries activates your call to embrace your authenticity and release old wounded self-diminishment stories. Be the Phoenix that rises from the ashes of old identities and stories that are too small for your soul. Mars (Warrior/ess) conjoins Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces challenging you to courageously address the unconscious emotional patterns of victimization and lack of agency. Activate the appropriate boundaries and inner structures that support effectiveness. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Mercury (Storyteller) retrograde in Aries offering awareness and insights to some of the communication review and re-assessment you're been doing. Attune to new projects and ideas you're called to explore for the next four months.
Podcast poem: "Second Sight" by David Whyte
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Mercury (Storyteller-Bridge Maker) goes retrograde in Aries for 3 weeks. Allow some pauses and time outs in your busy communication processes (in-person and via devices) to listen to yourself. Be curious about what's underneath old patterns of moving too fast and burning yourself out. Make some shifts to slow the roll! Venus (Relational One) conjoins Neptune (Mystic) in Pisces inviting you to greater compassion for yourself and others while also tracking patterns of enmeshment that don't serve. The upcoming Solar Eclipse in Aries is conjunct Chiron (Wounded Healer) and the North Node (Evolutionary Purpose). Attune with this potent time of seeding new ways of radical self-acceptance and acceptance of others.
Podcast Poem: "What if There is No Need to Change?" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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The Full Moon Eclipse in Libra challenges you to notice entrenched patterns of over-accommodation and/or unconscious selfishness. Activate your capacity to be balanced, reciprocal and fair with all your relationships (inner and outer). Next week, Mercury (Communicator) turns retrograde in Aries. Slow down and take time for review and re-assessment of what supports your authentic expression.
Podcast poem: "Wage Peace" by Judyth Hill
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The Sun (Conscious Self) enters Aries marking the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Notice where you are ready to sprout into new courageous directions and align with the energies of rebirth. Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries initiating a 7-week journey of healing wounded personal and collective narratives. Open your mind to self-acceptance and activate ways to boldly express yourself. Venus (Relational One) conjoins Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces catalyzing you to assess the sustainability of your relationships with people, resources and values. Track what's not working emotionally and where you might be caught in enmeshment and denial patterns. Make grounded course corrections. Mars (Advocate-Champion) enters Pisces for a 6-week journey of "slowing the roll" of impulsive reactive moves. Time to attend to deeper unconscious currents of feelings and dreams. Count to 100 before you impulsively make a reactive move with yourself or others. The Full Moon Eclipse in Libra challenges you to notice entrenched patterns of over-accommodation and/or unconscious selfishness. Activate your capacity to be balanced, reciprocal and fair with all your relationships (inner and outer).
Podcast poem: "The Cleverness of Seeds" by Pat Brisson
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Mercury (Storyteller) just entered Aries for two months of support to express your uniqueness. In a few weeks Mercury will go retrograde in Aries so notice where you already are feeling the call to "slow the roll" of moving too fast with your communication. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces illuminating your dreams, visions and connections to the invisible worlds. You may also recognize where you need clearer emotional and empathetic boundaries. Attune to the deeper mysterious currents underneath your conscious mind.
Podcast Poem: "The Way Under the Way" by Mark Nepo
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Mercury (Communicator) conjoins Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces opening you to the fluid dreaming of your Muse. Pay attention to your dreams (night and day ones) and the quiet little whispers of creativity. Mars (Action-Taker) in Aquarius squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus catalyzing you to channel your restlessness and desire for more freedom into innovative new directions. Watch out for the unconscious urge to act out at your perception of being ignored and marginalized. Instead, courageously take some risks to be more visible with your uniqueness and championship for alternative people and ways. The New Moon in Pisces supports you to seed new paths of compassion, creativity and trusting your feelings. Give yourself unstructured time to just follow the flow of your life: take a meandering walk, have a coffee date with your Muse or make some gentle compassionate moves for yourself and others.
Podcast poem: "For a New Beginning" by John O'Donohue
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Mars (Warrior/ess-Advocate) in Aquarius squares Jupiter (Teacher-Mentor) in Taurus challenging you to recognize where your desire for freedom and change might be clashing with your desire for security and stability. Don't get irritated, get courageous with choices that integrate both. The Sun (Conscious Self), Mercury (Communicator) and Saturn (Responsible One) all conjoin in Pisces. Create functional ways to express your artistic and intuitive gifts. Don't take the bait of your wounded critical one to diminish yourself or others. Instead, compassionately recognize that we're all searching for effective ways to carry our sensitivity in a world with so much suffering. Venus (Relational One) in Aquarius squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to explore innovative ways to have more freedom and experimentation in your relationships in grounded and practical ways.
Podcast poem: "Because even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle
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A week with some key pivotal cycles of change. Chiron (Wounded Healer-Shamanic One) conjoins the North Node (Pathway of Destiny) in Aries calling you to recognize that your healing journey with core wounds informs your ability to rewrite your destiny. Venus (Relational One) conjoins Mars (Champion) in Aquarius seeding a new phase of exploring alternative more spacious ways to love and be loved. Release comparisons of yourself and your relationships to some external cultural norm and enjoy being you! The Full Moon in Virgo balances the Sun (Conscious Self) in Pisces with the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Virgo to support you embody and manifest your dreams and intuitive musings into healing forms. Venus in Aquarius squares Jupiter (Teacher-Mentor) in Taurus challenging you to explore the integration of security and innovation in your values and relationships.
Podcast poem: "Saint Francis and the Sow" by Galway Kinnell
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The New Moon in Virgo beckons you to seed new pathways of healing, service and realignment to wholeness. This New Moon is connected to all three transpersonal planets, the archetypes of deep evolutionary change: Uranus (Maverick-Change Agent) in Taurus, Neptune (Visionary-Dreamer) in Pisces and Pluto (Systemic Transformer) in Capricorn. Seek news ways to:
- Revolutionize (Uranus) the way you steward your life resources
- Dissolve (Neptune) old spells of hopelessness and victim consciousness
- Transmute (Pluto) toxic constricted patterns of disempowerment and fear
Mercury (Communicator) turns forward in Virgo after three weeks of retrograde motion. After reviewing outworn ideas of perfectionism and criticism of self and others, move forward with new healing ways to communicate. Venus (Relational One) in Leo squares Jupiter (Wise One) retrograde in Taurus completing a 3-month period of review around if your values and relationship patterns (Venus) align with your deeper truths and beliefs (Jupiter). Make any necessary changes now.
Podcast poem: "While the World Burned On" by Heather Swan
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Jupiter (Teacher-Mentor) goes retrograde in Taurus for 4 months challenging you to reassess outworn paradigms and beliefs about safety and resources. Let go of fear-based holding on and open to trust deeper resources. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Mercury (Communicator) retrograde in Virgo seeding a new 4-month cycle to develop new projects and offerings around service, healing and realignment. The zodiac sign Virgo honors your ability to recognize what's not working and to lean into more congruent forms of expression. The Sun in Virgo trines Jupiter in Taurus illuminating where sustainable healing can happen with limited scarcity mindsets. Lean into a healing attitude adjustment.
Podcast poem: "You Just Never Know" by Gloria Heffernan
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Uranus (Maverick) turns retrograde in Taurus inviting you to a 5-month journey of radical inner transformation with your resources and concepts of safety. The Full Moon in Pisces is a Blue Moon (second full moon a month) and conjunct Saturn (Responsible One). Honor and align with your deeper intuitive knowing (Pisces) and let it guide you to realign your life to be more congruent and effective (Virgo). Venus (Relational One) turns forward in Leo after 6 weeks of being retrograde. Time to rise up with your creativity and sovereignty and allow your beauty to be visible. Recognize the sovereignty and beauty of others too.
Podcast poem: "Why I Smile at Strangers" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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A strong week for reviewing how and where you use your life energy. Venus (Relational One) retrograde in Leo squares Jupiter (Wise One) in Taurus challenging you to question some outworn paradigms about "holding on" to stay secure in relationships. Mars (Advocate ) in Virgo opposes Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces catalyzing you to tune into where you are doing too much and need to activate more of your “being-ness.” Mercury (Messenger) turns retrograde in Virgo for a three-week journey in unexpected changes with communication, schedules and your certainty about how things should go. Time to release mental patterns of trying to fix, rescue or order your Universe to be a certain way. Instead, develop your capacity to flow with change in healthy ways. At the end of the week, Mars enters Libra offering you a 6-week opportunity to stand up for more balance, respect and reciprocity in all your relationships (inside and out).
Podcast poem: “Instructions to the Worker Bee” by Lucy Adkins
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We're in the heart of the Venus retrograde cycle! Venus (Relational One) in Leo is trine Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries supporting you to heal individual and ancestral trauma and to recognize the potency of your wounds as a healing presence. The New Moon in Leo unites the Sun (Conscious Self) with the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) inspiring you to harness your heart power in new ways. The New Moon is conjunct Venus retrograde and Black Moon Lilith (Wild Undomesticated Feminine) and square Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus. Whew! Look for pathways to reclaim your sovereignty, liberate yourself from oppressive cultural norms, and ignite your authentic power. Mars (Advocate-Champion) in Virgo is in a Grand Trines pattern with Uranus in Taurus and Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn. Harness the power to make effective transformative changes in your everyday life around health, resources and work.
Podcast poem: "The Journey" by David Whyte
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Venus (Relational One) retrograde in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to upset your status quo patterns with relationships and resources. What supports you to stop wasting life energy trying to be someone you're not? The Sun (Conscious Self) in Leo trines Chiron (Wounded Healer) retrograde in Aries supporting you to courageously heal wounds around invisibility and be who you are. The Sun conjoins Venus in Leo illuminating your greatest personal insights in the current Venus retrograde cycle. What supports you to be more authentic in your relationships and to awaken your recognition of your worthiness?
Podcast Poem: "The Cleverness of Seeds" by Pat Brisson
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Venus (Relational One) retrograde in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to upset your status quo patterns with relationships and resources. What supports you to stop wasting life energy trying to be someone you're not? The Sun (Conscious Self) in Leo trines Chiron (Wounded Healer) retrograde in Aries supporting you to courageously heal wounds around invisibility and be who you are. The Sun conjoins Venus in Leo illuminating your greatest personal insights in the current Venus retrograde cycle. What supports you to be more authentic in your relationships and to awaken your recognition of your worthiness?
Podcast Poem: "The Cleverness of Seeds" by Pat Brisson
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The Full Moon in Aquarius squares Jupiter (Mentor-Wise One) challenging you to honor your personal sovereignty while also honoring that of others. Shift fear-based survival paradigms that cage you in false separateness. We are all in this together! Mercury (Communicator) in Virgo opposes Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces supporting you to release wounded patterns of self-diminishment and"othering" those who are different than you.
Podcast poem: "On Stripping Bark from Myself" by Alice Walker
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Mercury (Communicator) conjoins Venus Retrograde in Leo to activate a mental clearing of patterns of self-diminishment. Mercury then enters Virgo (for an unusual 2 and 1/2 months) supporting you to get more analytical, clear and articulate with your communication. Recognize that it's time to shift old mental patterns of self-criticism and sacrificial service and align with more wholeness. Pluto (Transformer) squares the Nodes (Your Evolutionary Path) catalyzing you to release non-sustainable patterns of over-accommodation and lean into more courageous self-expression.
Podcast Poem: "Holding the Light" by Stuart Kestenbaum
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The New Moon in Cancer is opposite Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn inviting you to follow your deeper emotional currents of change to align with where you really belong. The North Node (our evolutionary path) shifts into Aries and the South Node (our survival strategies path) shifts into Libra. Welcome to a new 18-month journey of releasing "People Pleaser" and "make nice" patterns (unhealthy Libra) so you can activate your courage to be true to who you really are (healthy Aries). Venus (Relational One) turns retrograde in Leo challenging you to redefine your values and break free of the approval trap in relationships. Chiron (Wounded Healer-Shamanic One) also turns retrograde in Aries for a 5-month journey of transforming conscious, unconscious and ancestral wounds into deeper healing.
Podcast poem: "The Journey" by Mary Oliver
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Mars (Advocate-Action-Taker) enters Virgo for 7 weeks activating you to roll up your sleeves and get to work with sorting out clutter and tangles (inside and out). Mercury (Storyteller-Communicator) in Cancer opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn at the very end of both signs. Notice key emotional truths bubbling up from your heart that invite deep systemic changes about what is true home and belonging. Mercury enters Leo for a few weeks of dynamic expression and creative communication. Channel your inner lion and deliver your message and truths. The Sun (Conscious Self) in Cancer squares Chiron (Shapeshifter-Wounded Healer) in Aries shining the light of awareness on how to compassionately go deeper with healing wounds of lack of self-acceptance.
Podcast poem: "Earth's Eternal Heart" by Kavari Patel
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The Full Moon in Capricorn illuminates a potent week of inner and outer healing. The Sun (Conscious Self) is conjunct Mercury (Storyteller-Communicator) in Cancer opposite the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Capricorn. Notice the call to balance your vulnerable, tender longing to belong and be safe (Cancer) with your emotional desires to be grounded, mature and a leader in your life (Capricorn). Chiron (Wounded Healer-Shamanic One) in Aries squares the Full Moon activating your pull to express the life wisdom that has emerged from your deep healing journey of self-acceptance. How might your unique healing presence bless the world this week?
Podcast poem: "Inseparable" by Mark Nepo
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Mars (Advocate-Activator) in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus wakes you up to address patterns of old resentment patterns around your gifts and creativity not being recognized nor honored. Recognition starts at home. Courageously own your ideas and longing to move forward in creative ways and "make it so!" Neptune (Dreamer) turns retrograde in Pisces inviting you into a 5-month self-reflective process to dissolve old patterns of helpless victimization and being caught in confusing spells or in someone else's dreams. Release the small versions of self and attune to your soul's dreams. Venus (Relational One) in Leo squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus stirs up longings for more freedom and authentic change long overdue in your relationships and with how you steward your resources. Channel your inner sovereign to guide your life with creativity, spaciousness and love for you and all your beloveds.
Podcast poem: "Song for the Salmon" by David Whyte
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Jupiter (Teacher-Expanded One) in Taurus sextiles Saturn (Responsible, Grounded One) in Pisces supporting you to harmonize your call to grow your practicality in ways that attune with your sensitivity and intuitive wisdom. The Sun (Conscious Self) enters Cancer marking Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Listen to your heart for ways to align with the power of illumination and the greatest amount of light. How do you want to step into a new season of growth and beauty? Mercury (Storyteller) in Gemini squares Neptune (Visionary) in Pisces challenging you to track your sensitivity to the conversations happening on a more intuitive, non-cognitive way. You're not crazy--you're attuning to more subtle energies. Track them!
Podcast poem: "My Brilliant Image" by Hafiz
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Saturn (Responsible One) turns retrograde in Pisces for 5 months. Retrograde cycles are invitations to take a time-out from "business as usual" and reflect and review on necessary changes. Saturn retrograde in Pisces challenges you to re-assess if you are carrying too much emotional responsibilities for others and if clearer boundaries are needed. Plus the New Moon in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces inviting you to seed new creative ideas and conversations with your Muse and your visions. Notice the more subtle energetic conversations you are sharing with the world. Invite your mind to dream more.
Podcast poem: "The Journey" by Mary Oliver
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Venus (Relational One) enter Leo for an unusual stay of 4 months inviting you to re-align with creativity, beauty and sovereignty. Venus in Leo opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to get real with the deeper issues that need to be addressed in relationships and with your resources. Venus squares Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Taurus catalyzing you to shift patterns of over indulgence that have run their course. Pluto re-enters Capricorn for 7 months of completing systemic changes with fear-based control patterns and non-sustainable life structures and responsibilities.
Podcast Poem: "We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners" by Hafiz
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The Full Moon this week aligns us with the Sun (Conscious Self) in Gemini opposite the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Sagittarius. Illuminate your longing to balance your curious, active mind (Gemini) with your bigger picture, philosophical insights (Sagittarius). Acknowledge any mental extremes of frenetic "Squirrel-in-Cage" or dogmatic "I Know the Truth" habits. Lean in to offer healing to the wounded parts of you carrying those extremes. Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces squares the Full Moon Open inviting you to access a deeper spaciousness and peacefulness in your mind.
Podcast Poem: "Dear You" by Kaveri Patel
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The Full Moon this week aligns us with the Sun (Conscious Self) in Gemini opposite the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Sagittarius. Illuminate your longing to balance your curious, active mind (Gemini) with your bigger picture, philosophical insights (Sagittarius). Acknowledge any mental extremes of frenetic "Squirrel-in-Cage" or dogmatic "I Know the Truth" habits. Lean in to offer healing to the wounded parts of you carrying those extremes. Saturn (Responsible One) in Pisces squares the Full Moon Open inviting you to access a deeper spaciousness and peacefulness in your mind.
Podcast Poem: "Dear You" by Kaveri Patel
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Mars (Advocate) in Leo squares Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Taurus inviting you to balance your personal desire to be visible with the necessity to track the cost of being too self-focused. The Sun in Gemini squares Saturn in Pisces challenging you to notice if your words and communication are aligned with your compassionate heart.
Podcast Poem: "Cargo" by Greg Kimura
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A doozy of a week with two planets changing signs and both in connection with Pluto. Jupiter (Wise Self) enters Taurus for a year of expanding our wisdom and abilities with stewardship of our resources such as money, time and projects. Jupiter in Taurus squares Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to integrate the desire for comfort and security with the desire for systemic change in service to the world's changes. The New Moon in Taurus supports you to seed new ways to be embodied, practical and connected to the Earth. Mars (Advocate) enters Leo activating your courage to be visible and to shine your gifts. Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Taurus catalyzing the need to balance personal needs with the needs of the community. Track unconscious any privileged narcissistic patterns and get to their roots so you can shift them.
Podcast Poem: "The Seven of Pentacles" by Marge Piercy
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The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus illuminating practical paths you can take to shake up outworn habits that limit you and others. Invest your life energy in what brings more spaciousness for everyone. Mercury (Storyteller) goes direct in Taurus after being retrograde for the last 3 weeks. Reflect on what you learned about changes needed to steward your resources better (like time, money and focus). Now go forward with making those changes.
Podcast Poem: "It Could Be" by Julia M. Fehrenbacher
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Pluto (Transformer) turns retrograde in Aquarius supporting a 5-month self-reflective review of how to free yourself from patterns of self-marginalization. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Mercury (Storyteller) in its retrograde phase in Taurus to initiate a 4-month process of exploring and manifesting new communication projects. Notice and implement any ideas percolating that support being more pragmatic, grounded and a more effective steward of life resources (yours and the world's). The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio activates dynamic emotional tides that help you to recognize outworn obsessions and resentments that you're ready to release. Get real and free your mind from rutted patterns of grasping so you can dream of a freer life for you, others and the more-than-human world.
Podcast Poem: "The Sun" by Mary Oliver
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Mars (Warrior/ess-Advocate) in Cancer squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries catalyzing you to compassionately care for your emotional vulnerabilities. Explore what's underneath any prickly passive aggressive moves. Lean into addressing unhealed personal and ancestral wounds of not being able to fully come out as yourself. Compassionately remember that these polarizing times can activate fears of being hurt because you're different than the cultural norms (as if anyone is "normal"). Courageously tend to your difficult emotional wounds and advocate for yourself.
Podcast poem: "The Healing Time" by Persha Gertler
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The New Moon Solar Eclipse at the very end of Aries squares Pluto (Transformer) at the beginning of Aquarius. The disk of the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) eclipses the disk of the Sun (Hero-Heroine) inviting you to release old solar conscious identities and attune with your wild, undomesticated instinctive self. Pluto supports this transformative psycho-spiritual skin-shedding. This is the second New Moon in Aries (the first occurred at Equinox). Time to embody the new changes envisioned at Equinox. Mercury (Communicator) goes retrograde for three weeks in Taurus inviting you to slow the roll with your mind and discern what is worth your life energy? And to answer Earth's poignant call to review how you steward life resources so that all may live.
Podcast Poem: "A Message from the Wanderer" by William E. Stafford
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Two key Venus cycles this week challenge you to discern what in your life calls for your precious presence? Venus (Relational One) in Gemini trines Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius supporting you to make some key liberating systemic changes with values, relationships and personal resources. Later in the week, Venus squares Saturn (Structure-Maker) in Pisces inviting you to redefine your emotional and energetic responsibilities in key relationships. Track the nudges to re-evaluate where you spend your life energy and to try something different new.
Podcast Poem: "Scrapping the Lawn" by Maya Stein
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The Full Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Libra is opposite the Sun in Aries illuminating your path to balance your individual "do-it-myself" and your "do-it-with others" inner figures. At this Full Moon, the Sun in Aries also conjoins Jupiter (Wise One) and Chiron (Wounded Healer) expanding your ability to embrace your individual nature as a healing offering for the world. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
Podcast Poem: "The Way It Is" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Venus (Relational One) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus waking you up to where you need more grounded authenticity in your relationships, resources and values. Continue to track the call for radical change in your life whose pulse has begun quietly with last weeks' entrance of Pluto into Aquarius. Explore shifting the "shoulds" to the "possibilities" with all your relationships (inner and outer).
Podcast Poem: "Don't Waste Your Time" by Elizabeth Carlton
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A momentous week where three planets change signs and we all begin an initiatory 20-year cycle of deep social change. The Sun enters Aries to mark Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the call to start over with courage and forward motion. The New Moon at 0° Aries conjuncts Neptune (Visionary) and Mercury (Storyteller) seeding this new season of your life with renewed vision and ideas. Pluto (Transformer) enters Aquarius ushering in a profound 20 years of systemic change to reclaim the power of the collective. Mars (Advocate) enters Cancer after 8 months in Gemini challenging you to courageously acknowledge your feelings and vulnerability underneath the mental battles you've been fighting since last summer. Take some time this week to notice and mark where you are tracking these essential shifts.
Podcast Poem: "Allow" by Danna Faulds
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Mars (Warror/ess) in Gemini squares Neptune (Visionary) in Pisces challenging you to do a spring cleaning in your mind. Release the spells of limiting stories of victimhood and resentment. Open to visionary stories and ways to take action guided by your heart. This cycle helps you to complete the last 7 months of Mars in Gemini where you've learned what is worth taking action on and what battles are you done fighting.
Podcast Poem: "The Clearing" by Martha Postelthwaite
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A major archetypal shift occurs this week when Saturn (Responsible One) enters Pisces to support you to connect to your deeper dreams and meaning. The Full Moon in Virgo squares Mars (Warrior-ess) in Gemini inviting you to courageously use your unique perspectives and voice to benefit others. Jupiter (Teacher) conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) to initiate a new cycle of healing and growth with greater awareness and acceptance of your authentic nature.
Podcast poem: "The Way Under the Way" by Mark Nepo
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Venus (Relational One) conjoins Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Aries inviting you to courageously begin new pathways of loving yourself, others and the world in radically authentic ways. Venus also conjoins Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries challenging you to release unconscious ancestral wound patterns that diminish your self-acceptance. Lean into your healing journey of being a sacred loving witness to your life.
Podcast poem: "My Courageous Life" by David Whyte
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The New Moon in Pisces is conjunct Saturn (Responsible- Manifestor) in Aquarius inviting you to seed a new path forward that is both visionary and practical. This New Moon prepares you to align with the upcoming shift of Saturn leaving Aquarius (where it had been since March 2020) and entering Pisces. Attune to how you want to tap your inner visions, dreams and wisdom to guide you forward in your life.
Podcast poem: "Twilight" by Louise Glück
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In this week that celebrates the heart and our capacity to love, Venus (Relational One) conjoins Neptune (Dreamer-Visionary) in Pisces magnetizing your heart to connection with your deepest hopes, dreams and visions. Yes, this is a week for romance, but not just between human beings. Court your Muse, feed your visions and align with your spiritual nature. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjoins Saturn (Responsible One) near the end of Aquarius inviting you to reflect on the important life structure changes you've made in the last 2-1/2 years. Shine the light on changes you've made to more authentic. Notice where you've been called to be more responsible to the greater collective in service to everyone being empowered to be more authentic.
Podcast poem: "Five A.M. in the Pinewoods" by Mary Oliver
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Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Pluto (Transformer) at the very end of Capricorn calling you to recognize the habitual stories and mindsets that are over. This cycle supports you in your deep changes during this pivotal time when Pluto prepares to move into Aquarius after being in Capricorn since 2008. Be honest with yourself this week about unsustainable life patterns, relationships and responsibilities that you know need to stop. Take some clear actions to release what's done.
Podcast poem: "Earthworms" by Lynn Ungar
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Venus (Relational One) in Pisces squares Mars (Action-Taking One) in Gemini inviting you to balance your pull between dreamy, intuitive flow in relationships with a dynamic mind curious and interested in exploring new ideas. The Full Moon in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus shining the light on the call to balance your focus on individual and collective needs in radical new ways.
Podcast Poem: "Mind Wanting More" by Holly J. Hughes
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Mercury (Storyteller) in Capricorn squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries inviting you to release the cranky Inner Critic narratives that want to diminish you. Instead, accept and explore your individual uniqueness as a healing presence in the world. Imagine how our world might be if we all had greater acceptance of self and others! The Sun (Conscious Self) in Aquarius trines Mars (Advocate-Champion) in Gemini supporting you to courageously be authentic and to advocate for others to be free rto do the same,
Podcast poem: "Dropping Keys" by Hafiz
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Mercury (Communicator) turns direct in Capricorn after three weeks of being retrograde. After the retrograde review process, move forward with purposeful ideas and communication projects. The Sun (Conscious Self) conjunct Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn offering you a deeper reality check on what is truly your responsibility to carry. The New Moon in Aquarius calls you to seed new ways to be more radically authentic and aligned with necessary community and society changes. Uranus (Maverick) turns direct in Taurus (after almost five months of being retrograde). Watch for where the winds of change are blowing strong and sudden in their invitation to get free from paradigms of selfish hoarding and embrace more egalitarian ones. Venus (Relational One) conjoins Saturn (Builder) in Aquarius challenging you to "walk your talk" in more direct ways. Show up in your relationships with your values and willingness to support mutual freedom for all.
Podcast Poem: "In Those Years" by Adrienne Rich
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Mercury (Storyteller) retrograde in Capricorn squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries challenging you to track and shift narratives of self-criticism and overwork. Mars turns direct in Gemini after being retrograde for 2 and 1/2 months. During that time, notice what you discovered about battles that are not yours to fight and what has been exhausting your mind. Go forward now with a renewed mind and the courage to steward your life energy in sustainable ways. Take action on those new ideas and projects that are ready to emerge. Venus (Relational One) in Aquarius squares Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus inviting you to shift up too-small relationship patterns to give everyone more room to breath. Time to explore new ways to steward your life resources in more egalitarian ways.
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The Sun (Heroine-Hero-Conscious Self) in Capricorn squares Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries calling you to a healing journey of greater self-acceptance and willingness to release ancestral patterns that are not yours to carry. The Sun trines Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus supporting you to to free yourself from outworn constrictive patterns by making some necessary radical changes around stewardship of your resources and being em-bodied. The Full Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) in Cancer calls you to balance strength and vulnerability. Chiron is square this Full Moon inviting you to emotionally release limiting wound patterns that keep you from deep belonging to yourself and your life. The Sun conjoins Mercury retrograde (Storyteller-Communicator) in Capricorn seeding a new 4-month timeline to create, implement and test out a new project that aligns with your purpose, authority and a more sustainable life.
Podcast Poem: "Beannacht" (Blessing for a New Year) by John O'Donohue
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Mercury (Storyteller) turns retrograde in Capricorn for a 3-week journey of deeper reflections on your inner and outer "systems." Mercury is with Venus (Relational One) and close to Pluto (Transformer) when it goes retrograde. Pause in this time-out period at the end of the calendar year to re-assess what's working and not working in core relationships, resources and systemic life changes you know you need to make. Venus is conjunct Pluto at the end of the year inviting you to shift the deep outworn models and paradigms of relationships and self-worth whose shelf life has expired.
Podcast poem: "The Door" by Jane Hirshfield
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Remember that Mars (Advocate-Warrior) is retrograde in Gemini until mid-January of next year challenging you to stop the activities that drain your vitality and to stop fighting battles that are not yours to fight. This week, Mercury (Storyteller) and Venus (Relational One) in Sagittarius oppose Mars inviting you to get the bigger picture of why you're making important changes in how you manage your life energy--possibly to align more deeply with your core values and your sense of purpose in life. Neptune (Dreamer-Visionary) turns forward in Pisces (after being retrograde for 5 months). Notice where your muse is calling you to more visionary creative expressions and, with great self-compassion, you're ready to break old spells of self-duplicity and patterns of unhealthy checking out. Mercury and Venus both square Neptune as it moves forward calling you to open your intuitive mind and release old relationship patterns of self-sacrifice and enmeshment.
Podcast Poem: Praise Song by Barbara Crooker
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Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Venus (Relational One) in Sagittarius to open your mind to bigger and optimistic visions and to focus your mind on what you love and care about. Cultivate an "attitude of gratitude" during this week of Thanksgiving (in the USA). The New Moon in Sagittarius supports you to seed new clear pathways for growth and expansion. Just at the New Moon, Jupiter turns direct (after 3 months of being retrograde) at the end of Pisces. Recognize the gifts of your compassionate visionary nature and bring them more forward in the world now. Mercury and Venus in Sagittarius trine Chiron (Wounded Healer) in Aries inviting you to shift a wound story into a healing story as you release the limiting narrative of "what's wrong with me" into an ability to honor how your challenges have initiated you into greater authenticity.
Podcast Poem: The Way It Is by Lynn Ungar
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The Sun (Conscious Self) in Scorpio trines Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces supporting you to align your deeper emotional truths with your life visions. During this week, Venus (Relational One), Mercury (Storyteller) and the Sun in Scorpio all trine Jupiter (Teacher-Seeker) in Pisces. Reconnect to expanded life visions and aspirations from your awareness of what's really important. Mars (Advocate-Warrior-Warrioress) retrograde in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces challenging you to shift the old mental habits of impatience and exhaustion by aligning with your sensitivity and intuition.
Poem: "Wisdom of the Deer" by Kent Osborne
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The major astrology of this week is the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Taurus. The Sun (Conscious Self), Venus (Relational One) and Mercury (Storyteller) are together in Scorpio. They are opposite the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) and Uranus (Maverick) in Taurus. And all these planets square Saturn (Responsible One) in Aquarius. Whew!!!! This is a huge emotional cauldron of transformation. Align with your mature compassionate self to shift the old patterns of getting trapped in emotional trauma-drama (Scorpio) because of survival fears (Taurus). Recognize which of these patterns are echoes of past pain (for you and your unhealed ancestral) so you can free yourself to evolve into a new belonging (Aquarius) to your life, your people and your world.
Podcast Poem: "A Message from the Wanderer" by William Stafford
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Remember that Mars (Warrioress-Advocate) just turned retrograde in Gemini for 2 1/2 months. Slow down, track and shift old thought patterns of verbal arguing in order to be right. Ask yourself these questions:
- Is this my battle to fight?
- What diminishes my life energy?
Then take action to make changes based on your answers. Also several planets conjoin the South Node (Old Survival Patterns) in Scorpio this week. Look for insights for where you are caught in too-costly dramas with relationships, communication and your resources.
Podcast poem: "Talk About Walking" by Philip Booth
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New Moon Eclipse in Scorpio invites you to deal with experiences that carry old emotional residue. Lean in and transmute them. Jupiter (Teacher-Guide) re-enters Pisces until the end of the year asking you to address limited paradigms of victimization and escapism and reconnect to functional faith and hope. Mars (Advocate-Assertive One) goes retrograde in Gemini for 2 and 1/2 months challenging you to track how your busy mind and actions can exhaust you. In this time, review what diminishes your life energy and have the courage to change your mind and habits to allow more freedom and openness in your life.
Podcast poem: "Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte
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A supportive harmonious week getting you ready for the upcoming eclipse season and Mars retrograde. The Sun (Conscious Self) and Venus (Relational One) conjoin in Libra to support you to anchor in your core values of reciprocity and fairness in all relationships. Both the Sun and Venus trine Mars (Courageous Warrior/ess) in Gemini inviting you to honor and invest in new ideas and options for positive change in relationships. Open your mind to go beyond habitual wounded mind patterns of anger and frustration to focus on what you really love and care about. Both the Sun and Venus square Pluto in Capricorn challenging you to stop being an over-controlling relationship cop or taking on too much for others. At the end of the week, Saturn (Responsible Structure-Maker) turns direct in Aquarius after 4 months of retrograde motion. Big call to "adulting" time with implementing new life structures and forms that are more liberating and authentic for all concerned.
Podcast poem: "The Word" by Tony Hoagland
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The potent healing energies of the recent Full Moon in Aries continue to invite you to more deeply claim your authenticity, especially in relationships. Mercury (The Communicator) re-enters Libra to help you integrate the insights you gained about reciprocity from its recent retrograde cycle. Mars (Advocate-Courageous One) in Gemini squares Neptune (Dreamer-Mystic) in Pisces challenging you to release false identities crafted as survival strategies and have the courage to be who you really are. Mercury in Libra opposes Jupiter (Mentor-Expanded One) in Aries for the third time since early September. Look for insights and more awareness about the bigger picture in your life. Both the Sun (Conscious Self) and Venus (Relational One) in Libra trine Saturn (Responsible One) in Aquarius signaling it's time to make more serious commitments in your life.
Podcast Poem: "It is I Who Must Begin" by Vaclav Havel
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A very potent week of change with two planets going forward and a Full Moon. Mercury (Communicator-Storyteller) has just gone direct in Virgo after three weeks of being retrograde. Go forward with the necessary changes in relationship communications that you've discovered. Pluto (Transformer-Systemic Change Agent) goes direct in Capricorn after being retrograde for 5 months. Notice the tides of intensity and pull to implement changes to your patterns and paradigms of responsibility, control and power dynamics. At the Full Moon in Aries, the Moon (Instinctive Nurturer) is conjunct Chiron (Wounded Healer) and opposite the Sun (Heroine-Hero-Conscious Self) in Libra is conjunct Venus (Relational One). Courageously address old personal ands ancestral wounds of not being able to be your authentic self in relationships. Be real, true and release what's not yours to carry for others (especially the ancestors).
Podcast poem: "The Layers" by Stanley Kunitz
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It's a Mercury Week! Mercury (Storyteller) conjoins Venus (Relational One) in Virgo calling you into healing communication patterns in relationships. Mercury in Virgo trines Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn inviting you to get real in conversations and track deeper currents with ideas and projects. Mercury turns direct in Virgo after 3 weeks of being retrograde. Before taking action on new communication projects or experiences, make sure you take time to "ground-truth" them and clarify best ways to manifest them.
Poem: "Two Kinds of Intelligences" by Rumi
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Venus (Relational One) connects with all three transpersonal planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) this week to invite deeper soul currents into your experiences of relationships and values. Autumn Equinox arrives as the Sun (Hero-Heroine-Conscious Self) enters Libra calling you into greater balance of light and darkness. The Sun conjuncts Mercury (Communicator-Storyteller) in Libra to begin a new 4-month Mercury cycle to develop creative communication and expression projects. The New Moon in Libra opposes Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Aries challenging you to weave together partnership and individualism in balanced ways.
Podcast Poem: "For New Beginning" by by John O’Donohue
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The Sun (Conscious Self) in Virgo opposes Neptune (Dreamer-Visionary) in Pisces and trines Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn supporting you to ground into your heart and compassion and transmute old patterns of over-control. Venus (Relational One) in Virgo squares Mars (Advocate) in Gemini challenging you to balance your love of form and game plan with your love of innovative new ideas and change. Mercury (Storyteller) in Libra opposes Jupiter (Mentor-Seeker) in Aries inviting you to go beneath limited reactions of fight or flight and activate authentic and effective communication patterns.
Podcast Poem: "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott
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Here's a very potent week for shifting your awareness into deeper spiritual and creative waters. Mercury (Storyteller-Communicator) turns retrograde in Libra. It stays retrograde for 3 weeks and will re-enter Virgo inviting you to re-examine your narratives and stories in relationships that need greater healing and alignment with your soul knowing. The Full Moon in Pisces continues this challenge to discover ways to be grounded in your own healing and congruent forms while staying connected to empathy and compassion for others in your world.
Podcast Poem: "How Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry
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Mars (Advocate) in Gemini sextiles Jupiter (Teacher-Expanded One) in Aries to support you to courageously expand your beliefs and stories about what it means to be independent and free to do your own thing. Mercury (Storyteller-Communicator) in Libra opposes Jupiter inviting you to redefine the balance between independence and connection in relationships.
Podcast Poem: "Making Contact" by Virginia Satir
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Uranus (Maverick) goes retrograde in Taurus inviting you to five months of inner revolutions around themes of security and resources. The New Moon in Virgo squares Mars (Advocate-Champion) in Gemini supports you to seed new paths to healing and inner alignment by courageously opening your mind to new ideas and options. Venus (Relational One) in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus and opposes Saturn (Responsible One) in Aquarius challenging you make essential deep changes in relationships and with your resources to activate a more mature and sustainable life.
Poem: "Tired of Speaking Sweetly" by Hafiz
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This is a week with all four elements in strong expression. Mercury (Storyteller) trines Uranus (Maverick) in the earth signs of Virgo and Taurus inviting you to open your mind to innovative ways to make things work. Venus (Relational One) trines Jupiter (Teacher-Mentor) in the fire signs of Leo and Aries expanding your romantic and creative soul. Mars enters the air sign of Gemini for a seven-month journey to challenge you to change limited mindsets and speak your truth. Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune (Visionary-Dreamer) in the water sign of Pisces calling you to explore ways to ground into reality your visions and dreams.
Poem: "All Will Come in its Strength" by Rilke (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
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Venus (Relational One) in Cancer opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn challenging you to recognize patterns in relationships, values and your resources that are over and that you need to release. The Full Moon in Aquarius is aligned in a potent cross configuration with Saturn (Responsible One), Mars (Advocate-Champion), Uranus (Maverick) and the North Node (Evolutionary Path) to help you shake off your fearful complacency and get on with making necessary radical shifts that help to liberate you and others. Mars trines Pluto to support your courage and determination to go forward with doing what you know you gotta do.
Poem: “Threshold” by Mark Coleman
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A week that supports you to make radical changes to release restrictions and evolve beyond outdated norms. Mars (Warrioress-Advocate) conjoins Uranus (Maverick) and the North Node (Your Destiny Path) in Taurus. Have the courage to make essential paradigm shifts around money, resources and security. Venus (Relational One) in Cancer trines Neptune (Visionary) in Pisces feeding your tender heart connections and inspirational dreams. Mars in Taurus squares Saturn (Structure-Maker) in Aquarius challenging you to stop wasting your life energy fighting external authorities and get your "courage on" to activate your agency and stand as the leader of your own life.
Poem: The Friend by Mark Nepo
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Mercury (Storyteller) squares Mars (Warrior) and Uranus (Maverick) and opposes Saturn (Structure-Maker) catalyzing you to radically shift an old scarcity and fear mindset and activate your mature leader mindset. The New Moon in Leo invites you to seed new ways to be in your creativity and dignity while helping others to do the same. Jupiter turns retrograde for four months of inner redefining of your core beliefs around independence and personal will. Uranus conjoins the North Node ushering in a new 15-year journey of shaking up how we collectively steward resources and on an individual level, how you live a life on your own terms.
Poem: "The Moment" by Margaret Atwood
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Mercury (Storyteller) and the Sun (Conscious Self) in Cancer oppose Pluto (Transformer) in Capricorn stimulating turbulent currents of emotional transformation. Compassionately care for you tender vulnerable parts as you make necessary changes with maturity and integrity. Chiron (Wounded Healer) turns retrograde in Aries inviting you into a 4-month healing journey to transmute your anger and grief at not being accepted for who you are. Venus (Relational One) in Cancer squares Jupiter (Teacher-Wise One) in Aries challenging you to balance sensitivity and belonging in relationships with your need to expand independently in new directions.
Poem: The Healing Time by Pesha Gertler
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Mercury in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries invites you to bring caring communication to yourself healing journey of self-acceptance. The Full Moon in Capricorn catalyzes you be honest and effective in transforming deeper emotional pain. The Sun conjunct Mercury in Cancer helps you to gain greater mental clarity through tapping the wisdom of your emotions.
Poem: The Turn by Mark Coleman
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Mars (Warrior/ess-Advocate) enters Taurus for a 6-week journey to move more slowly and deliberately to access what actions do you really need to take? Mercury (Storyteller) enters Cancer inviting you to think and speak more from your feelings. Mercury in Cancer squares Jupiter (Seeker-Wise One) in Aries challenging you to integrate sensitive communication with the urge to courageously go forward in new directions. The Sun (Hero/Heroine/Conscious Self) is in harmony with Uranus (Maverick/Change Agent) supporting you to be aligned with your heart and deep belonging as you make important changes with how you steward your life resources.
Poem: You Have to Be Careful Telling Things by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Neptune turns retrograde in Pisces inviting you to release old victim spells and confusion and align with your heart visions. The New Moon in Cancer squares Jupiter in Aries helping you to seed new ways of belonging and coming home to yourself in authentic ways. Mars in Aries squares Pluto in Capricorn challenging you to align your fiery independent personal will with deeper soul will and its currents of transformation. Transmute the poisons of unconscious selfishness and domination.
Poem: The Hardest Part is People by Karen Holden
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The Sun enters Cancer ushering in Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and inviting you expand nurturing for self and others. Venus trines Pluto to support you to make sustainable and practical changes with relationships and values. Venus enters Gemini for four weeks to stir up your desire to flirt with new ideas and ways to be. Watch the night sky in the early mornings in the coming week to witness five planets in alignment.
Poem: The Summer's Day by Mary Oliver
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The Full Moon in Sagittarius invites you to balance the conscious need for change and options (Sun in Gemini) with the emotional need to have deeper meaning and understanding with changes (Moon in Sagittarius). Mars (Assertive One) and Chiron (Wounded Healer) conjoin in Aries to challenge you to heal unconscious and ancestral patterns of anger and resentment for not being accepted as you are. Venus (Relational One) squares Saturn (Structure-Maker) encouraging you to face reality with your relationships and resources to discern how to balance pleasure and responsibility.
Poem: The Cure for it All by Julia Fehrenbacher
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You're still in the field of Saturn going retrograde inviting you to a 4-1/2 month inner reassessment of how to be in greater integrity with necessary innovative changes. Mercury trines Pluto finishing up a 6-week cycle of going into deeper truth-telling processes in communication. Venus conjoins Uranus in Taurus challenging you to shake up the status quo with relationships and values and choose some new directions that are worthy of your love.
Poem: "Love's Exquisite Freedom" by Maya Angelou
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The New Moon in Gemini invites you to a courageous new healing mindset. Mercury goes direct in Taurus after three weeks being retrograde and reviewing what ideas and new projects are really worth investing in. Saturn goes retrograde in Aquarius challenging you to review where you need to be more responsible to community and yourself to support sustainable innovative changes.
Poem: Sometimes by David Whyte
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Mercury (Communicator) has harmonious connections with Mars (Courageous Advocate) and Pluto (Transformer) supporting you to courageously clarify old stories that no longer serve you. Mars enters Aries and conjoins Jupiter (Expanded One) inviting you to go forward authentically with new directions in your life. Venus (Relational One) squares Pluto challenging you to explore how to honestly balance independence and responsibility in relationships.
Poem: The Way It Is by Rosemerry Whatola Trommer
Poet’s website: https://www.wordwoman.com/
Continue to clear past emotional patterns from the archetypal tides of Sunday's total lunar eclipse in Scorpio. Mars and Neptune are conjunct in Pisces inviting you to courageously find your faith again. The Sun conjoins Mercury retrograde at the very beginning of Gemini supporting you to start a new 4-month Mercury cycle with a project, idea or communication process.
This is a strong week for big archetypal changes. Mercury goes retrograde for three weeks in Gemini-Taurus inviting you to review ideas and projects to ensure you have the resources to support them. Jupiter enters Aries calling you to a year of bold, courageous actions to grow in new directions. The total full moon eclipse in Scorpio challenges you to shift old patterns to clear past karma. Whew--stay grounded and connected to your heart!
Poem: True North by Doug van Koss
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An amazingly supportive week to dare to take flight with your greater aspirations and creative projects. There are harmonious patterns with planets in earth and water signs offering archetypal support for fertile seeding of your deeper visions. Venus (Relational One), Pluto (Transformer) and Jupiter (Inner Wise Mentor) aligned in Pisces and Capricorn support you to effectively steward transformative aspirations. The Sun (Purposeful One), Mars (Inner Advocate) and Uranus (Maverick) aligned in Pisces and Taurus support you to lean into spontaneity and the ability to push your limits in grounded ways.
Poem: "Five AM in Pinewoods" by Mary Oliver
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A tidal week of expanded faith and dreams in flow with a deep calling for inner change. Venus conjoins both Neptune and Jupiter this week with positive energy for possibilities. Pluto turns retrograde in Capricorn inviting five months of systemic inner change for greater integrity. The new Moon Solar Eclipse in Taurus supports you to seed innovative practical changes.
Poem: "The Unbroken" by Rashani Rea
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Mercury conjunct Uranus in Taurus invites you to startle yourself with insights about how to steward your life resources with authenticity and unexpected wisdom. The Sun squares Pluto (in Aries-Capricorn) catalyzing you to courageously make some necessary systemic changes. Mercury squares Saturn (in Taurus and Aquarius) challenging you to get more clarity on how you balance security and change.
Poem: "Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself" by Barbara Crooker
Poet's Website: https://www.barbaracrooker.com
The rare cycle of Jupiter conjunct Neptune in Pisces happens this week. Seed your big dreams and take leaps of faith while avoiding old patterns of going under the spells of escapism and self-deception. The Full Moon in Libra squaring Pluto challenges you to courageously get real in relationships and explore authentic intimacy with self and others.
Poem: "What to Remember When Waking" by David Whyte
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Mars conjunct Saturn in Aquarius supports you to take strategic action on innovative ways to change your life and the lives of others for the better. Watch out for unconscious impulsive actions. Mercury squares Pluto in Aries-Capricorn challenging you to get clear what's worth saying and what's not. Be aware of unconscious motivations in your thoughts and communication.
Quote: “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”—Maya Angelou
A good week for renewal and courage. Venus (the Relational One) conjoins Saturn (the Responsible One) in Aquarius inviting you to review relationships and life choices to be in alignment with your values. The New Moon in Aries in conjunct both Mercury (the Storyteller-Communicator) and Chiron (the Wounded Healer). This is a seed point for the coming year challenging you to have the courage to shift wounded stories about having to do it all yourself. Open your mind to renewal and healing.
Poem: The Good News by Thich Nhat Hahn
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A week of archetypal tidal currents with yin and yang, being and doing! Mercury conjuncts both Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces calling you to listen to the deeper mysteries and visions and speak from the heart. Mars in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus catalyzing you to take actions on where you want to stand up for yourself and others to be free to be. Watch out for unconscious reactivity. Channel your fire into prayer, meditation and conscious advocacy.
Poem: Camas Lilies by Lynn Ungar
Poet's Website: http://www.lynnungar.com
The Full Moon in Virgo invites you to balance your fluid, mysterious watery Pisces energy with your practical, healing energy of Virgo. Let go of perfectionism and criticism and deepen your ability to trust. Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere happens on March 20 when the Sun enters Aries. Time to re-ignite your fire for renewal and going forward. Venus squares Uranus in Aquarius-Taurus challenging you to discover in your relationships (especially with yourself) the balance of freedom and security.
The archetypal threads of the recent Venus-Mars conjunction in Aquarius help you to seed new pathways of loving self and the world in more authentic ways. Later this week, the Sun conjoins Neptune in Pisces to invite deep dreaming and opening to multi-levels of awareness. Believe in your dreams and support the ones of you that are caught in the spells of fear and victimization.
Poem: The Well by Denise Levertov
An extraordinary week of six conjunctions (joining together) of planets inviting you to several new beginnings. Mercury and Saturn in Aquarius call for innovating your mind in practical ways. Sun and Moon with Jupiter blesses you with a "make-a-wish" New Moon. Venus, Mars and Pluto unite to challenge you to transform outworn patterns with relationships and anger. Later in the week, Venus connects with Mars in Aquarius to choose authentic new ways to love as a personal as well as collective offering.
Poem: For a New Beginning by John O'Donohue (https://www.johnodonohue.com)
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This week brings lots of support for change with several planets in harmonious archetypal connection with each other. Mars (the courageous Advocate), Venus (the Relational One) and Neptune (the Visionary) help you to move forward with changes in compassionate grounded ways. Mercury (the Communicator) squares Uranus (the Maverick) to challenge you to keep releasing your limiting mindset patterns.
Poem: "let it Go" by Danna Faulds
A week for the archetypal lovers of Venus and Mars conjunct in Capricorn challenging you to live your loving nature in real ands sustainable ways. The Full Moon in Leo invites you to balance your desire to belong with your kindred tribe while also being true to yourself. Jupiter sextile Uranus supports you to risk following your dreams and intuitive knowings as you recognize radical news ways to be secure.
Poem: "You See I Want a Lot" by Rainier Maria Rilke
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Mars in Capricorn trines Uranus in Taurus supporting you to go for it with making necessary changes in the status quo structures in your life. Mercury conjunct Pluto completes a 6-week cycle of recognizing some deep truths about ideas and narratives you need to release.
A dynamic week of the tidal flow between freedom and structure, chaos and order. Venus going direct calls you to move forward with important changes with relationships and values. Mercury going direct invites more authentic narratives and stories. New Moon in Aquarius seeds pathways of being more radically authentic. Sun with Saturn challenges you to steward your life more directly. Mars square Chiron reminds you that you can shift anger at external authorities to claim your persona authority.
Poem: My Courageous Life by David Whyte
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A week to be saturated by Capricorn energy of grounded-ness, purposefulness and adulting. Mars enters Capricorn for a 6-week phase of calling you to take decisive, pragmatic actions to live with more integrity. Venus turns direct after 6 weeks of being retrograde (a deep review period) inviting you to implement necessary changes in the areas of relationships, resources, core values and your sense of where you really belong.
Big illumination of necessary changes with the Full Moon in Cancer, Uranus going direct and the Nodes shifting into Taurus and Scorpio.
Mars squares Neptune challenging you to balance your desire to enact your personal agendas and your willingness to be flexible and adaptable. Mercury goes retrograde in Aquarius for a 3-week journey to explore how to make your progressive ideas and changes manifest in practical ways. Venus rises as a Morning Star ushering in a new 20-month cycle of responsible and sustainable choices in relationships and with resources. Sun conjunct Pluto asking you to surrender to the truth of who you are.
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We begin the new year with a New Moon in Capricorn inviting you to be an impeccable steward in your life. Jupiter squares the nodes to support you to expand your faith and compassion to shift limited dogmatic narratives. At the end of the week, the Sun joins Venus (in retrograde motion) to seed a new 20-month cycle of being more real, honest and mature in relationships and with resource stewardship.
Poem: A Blessing for the New Year by John O'Donohue
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Jupiter returns to Pisces inviting you to find a renewed faith in how to open your heart. Mercury, Venus and Pluto all connect in Capricorn challenging you to tell yourself the truth about the systemic changes you must make in relationships. The New Moon in Capricorn ushers in the new year with a call to align with greater purposefulness, integrity and sustainability.
A very full week of Venus (the Relational One) turning retrograde conjunct Pluto (The Transformer) beginning a 6-week underworld journey of transforming relationship and value patterns that need releasing. Chiron (The Wounded Healer) goes direct inviting you to initiate outer healing by bravely being more visible with your authentic self. Winter Solstice and the returning of the light comes this week. And the last of the Saturn-Uranus square cycles completes supporting you harvest the challenging lessons of this year about balancing order and chaos.
Venus turns retrograde in Capricorn marking a 6-week phase of shifting old dysfunctional relationship patterns and getting more honest about where to put your life energy. Also, Chiron turns direct in Aries inviting you to courageously risk being more authentic and move beyond resentment of others because they don't accept you.
A week to question attitudes that hinder you being in your own depths. The Sun and Mercury square Neptune inviting you to check if you're aligned with your visions or under a spells of hopelessness. Later in the week, Venus and Pluto join together initiating a 3-month journey of intense realignment with your deepest values.