Astrology Alchemy Podcast

When the Ground Shifts Again
This week carries a feeling many of us recognize in our bones: something is moving forward again—but not back to what was.
Uranus, the planet of disruption, awakening, and radical change, turns direct in Taurus, marking the final stretch of a seven-year cycle that began in 2018. Since then, what once felt stable—finances, ecological systems, bodily safety, and the promise of “normal”—has been steadily unsettled. Taurus governs the ground beneath our feet, and Uranus has been shaking that ground not to punish, but to awaken.
As Uranus moves forward for the last months of its time in Taurus, the message is unmistakable: there is no return to the old stability. But there is an opportunity to build something truer.
This forward motion does not arrive quietly. Both Mercury and Venus in Aquarius form tense squares to Uranus, pressing our stories, values, and social agreements up against realities that refuse to be managed or smoothed over. Collectively, this shows up as unrest, protest, and outrage—signals that people can feel when systems no longer protect life or reflect shared values. 
Aquarius gives voice to the people; Uranus refuses compliance with what has become unjust or unsustainable.
At the same time, Mercury and Venus also make supportive connections to Chiron in Aries. Alongside anger and rupture, there is a healing process underway around identity, agency, and the right to exist as oneself. Honest conversation and values-based relationship become part of that healing—not by bypassing pain, but by naming it.
Later in the week, Mercury enters Pisces for an unusually long stay, shifting the tone from argument to intuition, from certainty to listening. This is not a time for quick solutions. It’s a time to sense what is dissolving and what is quietly asking to emerge.
As the week closes, it matters to say this clearly: outrage is not a spiritual failure—it is often a healthy response to real harm. What is equally important to notice is the courage moving alongside it: people supporting one another, organizing without violence, and creating care where institutions have failed. This is not chaos—it is conscience.
The astrology cycles of this week do not ask us to harden or look away. They ask us to stay present, embodied, and ethically awake, remembering that collective awakening often begins when we refuse to normalize what wounds life.
As you move on from this moment, let your feet find the ground beneath you, and remember that staying human—present, caring, and awake—is already an act of courage.
Reflection Questions for the Week:
Where has my sense of security already changed—financially, physically, or emotionally—even if I haven’t fully acknowledged it yet?
 
When I feel agitation, anger, or outrage—personally or in response to the collective—what truth might be trying to surface through that energy?
 
Where am I being invited to speak, relate, or choose more honestly—even if it disrupts comfort or agreement?
Podcast Poem: Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
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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.

Tending the First Flame
This week carries the feeling of a true threshold—quiet, consequential, and far-reaching.
On Monday, Neptune enters Aries, beginning a long cycle that reshapes how meaning, courage, and responsibility are lived. This is not a dramatic event, but a change in atmosphere. After more than a decade of Neptune in Pisces—marked by porous boundaries, saturation, and confusion about what was ours to carry—the guiding question shifts:
Not What am I absorbing?
But Where do I stand?
Neptune in Aries does not ask us to feel more or imagine harder. It asks for self-location—the courage to inhabit a stance without collapsing into urgency or reactivity. The waters begin to recede. Intention starts to matter again, not as force, but as orientation.
Midweek, Mars conjunct Pluto in Aquarius brings collective pressure into focus. This is energy moving through systems—exposing where power has been distorted, coerced, or frozen in place. In Aquarius, the deeper question is not who controls, but how power circulates. What structures support life, innovation, and shared belonging—and which ones are straining past their limits?
Aquarius carries an alchemical gift: innovation, egalitarian vision, and the capacity to imagine beyond inherited hierarchies. This is radical change not for chaos, but in service of a more inclusive future.
Mercury conjunct Venus in Aquarius offers a moment for clear, values-based conversation. Say less. Mean what you say. Listen for coherence rather than volume.
As the week turns, the Full Moon in Leo arrives alongside Imbolc in the Celtic wheel—the ancient marker of returning light. Imbolc does not promise spring; it signals its first stirring. The ground may still look frozen, but warmth has returned beneath the surface. A flame is kept—not to blaze, but to endure.
The Leo Full Moon brings heart and creative life-force into dialogue with the Aquarian field. This is the conversation between individual expression and collective good. Not self-erasure, and not self-promotion—but the weaving of unique presence into life-giving change that serves more than oneself.
This is not a week for dramatic declarations.
It is a week for orientation.
Neptune in Aries does not reward urgency or spectacle.
Mars–Pluto in Aquarius does not reward force without wisdom.
The Leo Full Moon asks not for attention, but for heart.
Reflective Questions for the Week
Where do I sense something wanting to begin, even if it’s still fragile or unnamed?
What am I no longer willing to absorb or carry forward?
How can my individuality serve life-giving change rather than react to pressure?
Let this be a week of keeping faith with what has just begun, even if you’re the only one who knows it’s there.

Podcast poem: Eagle Song by Joy Harjo
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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.

This week marks a quiet but pivotal turning point — not dramatic, but consequential. It’s a hinge moment where one era completes its handoff and another begins asking for our consent.
Rather than forecasting outcomes, this episode offers orientation: how to stand inside change with maturity, discernment, and care.
We explore the larger context shaping this week:
• The completion of a long Capricorn chapter and the collective shift toward Aquarius — from endurance and survival toward pattern awareness and conscious participation.
 • Neptune preparing to leave Pisces after fourteen years (2011–now), closing an era of dissolving certainties, heightened sensitivity, spiritual longing, and widespread disorientation — including life lived through screens, fear-based narratives, and inherited domination stories that thrive on confusion rather than discernment.
 • Neptune approaching Aries, signaling a change in tone from saturation to self-location — from absorbing the collective field to choosing what we are willing to embody and steward.
 • Pluto waiting at the Aquarian gate, initiating a deeper reckoning with power, responsibility, and participation in collective systems — not through collapse, but through clarity.
 • A stabilizing alliance between Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus (in supportive sextile), reminding us that lasting change does not require everything to fall apart; it asks for patient redesign rather than reactive rupture.
 • A return to last week’s New Moon at the final degrees of Capricorn — an unusually dense lunation involving all the personal planets and Pluto, harmonizing with Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune, and standing opposite Jupiter. Its message of “all hands on deck” is reframed here not as urgency, but as mature engagement and conscious participation.
This is not a week that demands action.
 It asks for orientation.
Reflective Questions for the Week
• Where in my life am I still operating from endurance rather than conscious choice?
 • What currently shapes my attention most — and does it align with what I truly want to steward?
 • In this moment of transition, what would it look like to stand more clearly in my values through steady, mature engagement rather than urgency or reaction?
This episode is an invitation to locate yourself more clearly in time — and to participate in what’s emerging with care, responsibility, and presence.

Podcast poem:  All This by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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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.

January is doing essential groundwork for the year ahead. Before the Saturn–Neptune threshold we meet next month, this week asks a quieter—but no less consequential—question: What are you actually standing on, and what are you standing for? This is not an abstract inquiry. It’s a lived one, shaping how we meet both our personal choices and the world we’re participating in right now.
This week unfolds in three distinct movements, helping us integrate January’s larger work: stabilizing what’s essential while preparing for the profound shifts of 2026.
Jan 12–13 | Structural Wounds & Mature Agency: Sun and Mars in Capricorn square Chiron in Aries
The week opens with repeated Capricorn–Aries tension, activating old wounds around authority, effort, and self-direction. These transits don’t ask us to push harder—they ask us to notice where willpower has replaced true authority, and where identity has been shaped by survival rather than choice.
Reflection Questions:
Where am I still proving instead of standing?
What action would come from self-trust rather than self-defense?
Jan 14–15 | Discernment Without Overreach: Mercury in Capricorn opposes Jupiter in Cancer, sextiles Saturn, squares Chiron; Venus trines Uranus
Midweek sharpens perception. Big feelings, big ideas, and big narratives arise—but Saturn’s involvement steadies the mind. This is a moment for measured clarity: choosing what is true without inflating it, and opening to change without destabilizing what works.
Reflection Questions:
What truth feels solid enough to act on now?
Where do I need fewer explanations and clearer commitments?
Jan 17–18 | Threshold Integration & New Direction: Supportive Capricorn trines/sextiles + New Moon at 28° Capricorn; Venus enters Aquarius
The weekend gathers momentum. Multiple supportive aspects align practicality with vision, culminating in a powerful New Moon bridging Capricorn and Aquarius. This is a structural reset—one that clarifies priorities, long-term direction, and what kind of future your current choices are actually building.
Reflection Questions:
What structure is ready to be completed, refined, or released?
What future-oriented commitment wants my consent now?
This is a week to choose fewer things—but choose them well. As you move through the days ahead, resist the urge to resolve everything at once. Let discernment do the quiet work of sorting what is essential from what is merely familiar. The structures you clarify now don’t need to be perfect—they need to be true. What you choose to carry forward from this New Moon becomes part of the scaffolding for the larger changes unfolding in 2026.
And as you make those choices, remember that this work doesn’t happen in isolation. We are shaping our inner foundations while living inside a shared world—one that is asking, again and again, what kind of authority, care, and responsibility we are willing to stand behind. Move slowly. Choose cleanly. Trust that clarity deepens when it’s given time to root—and that how you stand matters.
Podcast Poem: You Were Made for This by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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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.

This week concentrates powerful Capricorn energy, activating themes of commitment, responsibility, desire, and relational truth—all tested through tension with Jupiter in Cancer and Chiron in Aries. The question underneath it all: What are you truly willing to tend, protect, and build?
Tuesday, Jan 6 — Venus conjunct Sun in Capricorn
Archetypal Dialogue: The Lover meets the Sovereign
A renewal of values and relational orientation. What you love seeks alignment with what you are responsible for. Beauty, worth, and devotion ask to be taken seriously.
Reflection Question: Where am I clarifying what truly matters—and what I’m willing to commit to?
Wednesday, Jan 7 — Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn
Archetypal Dialogue: Desire joins Discipline
Attraction meets will. Passion becomes purposeful when guided by integrity and long-term vision. This is a moment to act in alignment with your values.
Reflection Question: How can my desire move with maturity rather than impulse?
Friday, Jan 9 — Sun conjunct Venus in Capricorn and Venus in Capricorn opposes Jupiter in Cancer
Archetypal Dialogue: Devotion faces Expansion
A peak moment for relationship and value themes. The tension asks you to balance duty with emotional nourishment—ambition with care.
Reflection Question: Where might growth require both boundaries and tenderness?
Saturday, Jan 10 — Sun & Mars in Capricorn oppose Jupiter in Cancer
Archetypal Dialogue: Authority meets Protection
Drive and responsibility meet the need for safety and belonging. Overreach or defensiveness may surface if inner needs are ignored.
Reflection Question: Am I acting from grounded authority—or compensating for unmet emotional needs?
Sunday, Jan 11 — Venus in Capricorn square Chiron in Aries
Archetypal Dialogue: The Lover meets the Wounded Self
Old relational wounds or identity sensitivities may be activated. This is an invitation to mature self-worth through compassion rather than self-judgment.
Reflection Question: What would honoring my worth look like without needing to prove myself?
Podcast poem: Alteration by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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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.