Astrology Alchemy Podcast

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 AriesThe 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 UranusMidweek 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 AquariusThe 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 EstesSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com/home-page 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 CapricornArchetypal 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 CapricornArchetypal 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 CancerArchetypal 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 CancerArchetypal 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 AriesArchetypal 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 TrommerSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com/home-page 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 final week of the year carries a sober, luminous tone. Mind, faith, and healing are tested against reality, mystery, and emotional truth. What remains after illusion falls away is not certainty—but something more trustworthy.Mon, Dec 29 — Mercury in Sagittarius square Saturn in PiscesBeliefs meet consequence. Words meet responsibility. This is a moment to discern which truths can be lived—and which were aspirational but ungrounded. Sobriety sharpens wisdom.Reflection Question: Which beliefs am I being asked to mature, simplify, or release as this year closes?Thur, Jan 1 — Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune in PiscesVision blurs, certainty dissolves. This is not confusion for its own sake, but an invitation to loosen the grip on meaning-making and listen for subtler guidance. Not all truth arrives in words.Reflection Question: Where can I loosen my grip on meaning and allow deeper truth to emerge without forcing clarity?Fri, Jan 2 — Chiron turns direct in AriesAfter months of inner review, the work of healing identity turns outward again. This marks the final full retrograde chapter of Chiron in Aries—an initiation nearly complete.Reflection Question: What kind of courage now feels rooted rather than reactive?Sat, Jan 3 — Full Moon at 13° Cancer (Sun conjunct Venus & Mars in Capricorn | Moon conjunct Jupiter in Cancer)Emotional truth swells against structures of duty and ambition. What nourishes you seeks recognition—not as indulgence, but as essential fuel for the road ahead.Reflection Question: What does emotional nourishment ask me to protect and prioritize as I step into the year ahead?Podcast Poem: How the Light Comes by Jan RichardsonSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com/home-page 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 is a quieter week and that feels deeply appropriate. Across many spiritual and faith traditions, this is a time of holy pause—a moment when outer striving softens and inner meaning comes forward.Rather than dramatic turning points, the sky invites integration:What has been learned this year?What is ready to be carried forward with greater maturity, honesty, and care?Tuesday, December 23: Venus in Sagittarius square Neptune in PiscesThis is a tender, permeable alignment—beautiful, but not always clear.Venus in Sagittarius seeks truth, meaning, and heartfelt enthusiasm.Neptune in Pisces dissolves boundaries, blurs edges, and opens us to longing, devotion, and compassion.Notice where idealism slips into projection—or where longing replaces discernment.This can show up as:Romanticizing a path, a belief, or a relationshipFeeling disoriented about values or directionConfusing spiritual yearning with actual alignmentThis aspect also opens deep compassion, poetic sensitivity, and soulful listening—especially when we resist the urge to decide too quickly. Let your values be informed by both heart and grounded truth.Reflection Question:Where am I being invited to soften my certainty without abandoning my discernment?Wednesday, December 24: Venus enters Capricorn (until January 17)As Venus moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn, the tone of relating and valuing changes noticeably. Capricorn is the sign of commitment, integrity and long-term responsibilityHere, love becomes less about possibility and more about presence.Values are no longer theoretical—they want to be lived.This is not cold or restrictive energy; it is maturing energy.Venus in Capricorn asks:What do I truly stand for?What am I willing to tend over time?What relationships, projects, and devotions are worth the effort?Choose what you are willing to build—not just what inspires you.Reflection Question:What values am I ready to embody more fully as we enter the new year?Saturday, December 27: Mercury in Sagittarius trine Chiron in AriesThis is a quietly powerful aspect—especially for reflection, conversation, and integration.Mercury in Sagittarius speaks in big-picture language: truth, meaning, and perspective. Chiron in Aries holds wounds around identity, courage, and the right to exist as oneself.Their harmonious trine supports:Healing conversationsReframing old narratives about who you areSpeaking truths that restore confidence rather than inflame painThis is not about fixing wounds—it’s about finding language that honors the journey. Words can become medicine here, especially when they arise from lived experience rather than theory. Let your story carry wisdom, not self-judgment.Reflection Question:What truth am I now able to speak about myself that once felt too tender or risky?This is not a week for pushing forward. It’s a week for listening, tending, and integrating. Let faith—however you define it—be something you inhabit, not perform.Podcast poem: Daybreak by Galway KinnellSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com/home-page 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.

Vision, Discernment, and the Turning of the Seasonal YearThis week carries us toward the Solstice through a series of profound conversations between Sagittarius vision and Pisces depth. Beliefs are tested, dreams are refined, and intentions are asked to mature. Rather than pushing forward, these cycles invite listening, discernment, and a quieter kind of courage as the light begins its return.Tuesday, December 16: Sun in Sagittarius square Saturn in PiscesThe Seeker meets the Elder of ConsequenceThe Sun’s drive for meaning and expansion meets Saturn’s gravity in Pisces. Inspiration may feel slowed or questioned, yet this tension offers an initiation into wiser belief—vision that can endure uncertainty, limits, and time.Key invitation: Let your truth mature rather than harden or collapse.Reflection: Which belief or direction in my life is asking to be refined rather than abandoned?Friday, December 19: New Moon at 28° Sagittarius(conjunct Venus, square Saturn & Neptune in Pisces)This New Moon is tender and demanding. Venus infuses the lunation with longing, values, and love, while Saturn and Neptune challenge fantasy, idealization, and spiritual bypassing. What begins now asks for honesty, humility, and resonance rather than certainty.This is a moon for quiet intention—listening beneath desire to what is genuinely alive.Key invitation: Begin by releasing illusion, not by forcing clarity.Reflection: What am I being invited to begin by releasing illusion rather than chasing certainty?Sunday, December 21: Jupiter in Cancer square Chiron in AriesThe Great Nurturer meets the Wounded PioneerHere we meet the tension between caring for what is tender and trusting ourselves to act. Old wounds around confidence, protection, and belonging may surface—not to weaken us, but to restore courage through compassion.Key invitation: Let self-care strengthen bravery rather than replace it.Reflection: Where does tending my own vulnerability restore my confidence to act?Sunday, December 21 — Sun enters Capricorn (Winter Solstice  in the Northern Hemisphere)At the Solstice, the light turns quietly. Capricorn does not rush this moment—it commits. This is a threshold of orientation rather than action, inviting patience, responsibility, and a grounded sense of purpose that will unfold over time.Key invitation: Choose what you are willing to tend through the dark.Reflection: What inner responsibility am I ready to carry forward into the coming cycle?Podcast Poem: In the Bleak Midwinter by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com/home-page 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.