Astrology Alchemy Podcast

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 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 Recalibration of the Personal Field
This is a week of genuine shift.
Three personal planets change signs within two days. Mars enters Taurus. Venus enters Cancer. The Sun moves into Gemini. How we act, how we relate, and how we perceive are all recalibrating simultaneously.
This is happening within a larger collective reckoning that has not quieted. The basement contents of colonial, dominator, and white supremacist culture continue surfacing in ways that are difficult to look at and equally difficult to look away from. This week's astrology does not take us out of that reckoning. But it offers different ground to stand on within it.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, May 18: Mars enters Taurus. Venus enters Cancer. Mercury in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.
 Mars slows from the heat of Aries into something more deliberate and embodied. In a time of collective overwhelm, your body is being invited to act from genuine resource rather than reaction. Venus entering Cancer turns the relational field toward what genuinely nourishes, toward tending, toward care that cannot be scaled or automated. Mercury sextiling Saturn asks that insight become form and that what is being thought actually land somewhere real.
Tuesday, May 19: Mercury in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius. 
Depth without obstruction. Things living below the surface of awareness may find language now. Conversations that have felt too large or too heavy may suddenly become possible. You might notice an unusual capacity to say what is true without losing your ground in the saying of it.
Wednesday, May 20: Sun enters Gemini. 
Gemini season begins. Curiosity, connection, the recognition that reality is plural and perspective always partial. This year the Sun enters a field already charged by Uranus. Watch for what becomes suddenly visible, in the world and in yourself.
Thursday, May 21: Venus in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries. 
A tender and potentially disorienting transit. The longing for genuine belonging meets dissolution and blur. Slow down before acting on what may still be forming. This transit also touches collective grief, the gap between a world organized around genuine care and what current systems actually deliver. That grief is not weakness. It is moral clarity.
Friday, May 22: Sun conjunct Uranus in Gemini. Mercury sextiles Saturn in Aries.
The electric center of the week. The Conscious Self meets the Awakener directly. Sudden insight. A realization that reorganizes how you understand something important. A break in an old pattern of thought. Sun conjunct Uranus is not always comfortable, but it carries genuine liberation. Mercury sextiling Saturn again offers grounding, a reminder to let what is illuminated find structure.
Sunday, May 24: Sun in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries. 
A gentler close. Imagination in service of clarity. A sense of larger possibility. Let what has moved through you this week begin to settle into meaning.
Larger Frame
Mars in Taurus asks us to slow the body and act from genuine resource. Venus in Cancer asks us to tend what is real and nourish what cannot be commodified. Sun in Gemini with Uranus asks us to see more clearly and let the old frame break if it must.
The patterns of colonial and dominator culture becoming visible in public life do not dissolve on their own. They require exactly these capacities. The steadiness to act without urgency. The willingness to tend what is genuinely vulnerable. The courage to see clearly even when clarity disrupts comfort.
This is the inner work that makes outer change possible.
Reflection Questions
As the body slows and the relational field turns toward genuine nourishment, what am I being called to tend that I may have been moving too fast to notice?
Where this week did something become suddenly clearer, a pattern named, a frame broken, a truth that could finally be spoken? What do I want to do with that clarity?
How am I staying connected to both the grief of what is surfacing collectively and the ground of what I genuinely value?
This is a week of recalibration. Stay close to what genuinely nourishes you. Stay willing to see what is being illuminated. Stay connected to the web of life, which holds more than any single narrative can contain.
The reckoning continues. And so does the life that is reorganizing within it.
Podcast poem: Seeing Through the Story by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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.

Rooting What Is Genuinely New
This is a week of gathering and crossing.
After the weight of recent weeks, there is a breath here. A moment of coherence before the next movement begins. And what is gathering is significant. At the end of this week, three of the five personal planets will change signs within two days. The relational field, the communicating mind, and the instinctual body are all crossing thresholds nearly simultaneously.
It is worth paying attention to what you are carrying into this crossing, and what you might be ready to leave on this side of it.
Key Cycles This Week:
Tues, May 12: Mercury in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer. 
The mind finds some ease. Something clicks into place. A piece of understanding arrives that feels both true and spacious. Let it ground you before the acceleration that follows.
Thurs May 14: Sun conjunct Mercury in Taurus. 
What has been circling internally may find language now. This conjunction also marks the midpoint of a four-month Mercury cycle, the moment when something you have been developing moves from testing into building. If a project or evolving body of work is ready to take more visible shape, this is that threshold.
Sat, May 16: New Moon at 26 degrees of Taurus conjunct Uranus in early Gemini and Mars conjunct Chiron in Aries. 
The New Moon invites planting, but not simply what is comfortable or familiar. With Uranus nearby, what wants to take root is genuinely new. Something that may ask you to leave a known identity behind and root yourself in authentic emergence rather than safe repetition. What do you actually value that is genuinely new? Not what survival required you to prioritize, not what has served you in a chapter that may now be completing. 
At the same time, Mars meets Chiron, the Wounded Healer and Shamanic One. In the ancient understanding, the wounded healer does not heal despite their wound. They heal through it. The medicine they carry to the people is precisely what was forged in their own descent. Where you have been most broken open may be exactly where your most authentic medicine lives.
Sun, May 17: Mercury enters Gemini and conjuncts Uranus. plus Venus in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries. 
The mind quickens and the acceleration arrives. Stay anchored in the body and direct experience even as the mental field speeds up. Venus sextiling Chiron offers a relational thread, healing available in honest conversation and the simple act of being witnessed in something tender.
Reflection Questions
What is genuinely wanting to take root in me right now, not what should, but what my body and deeper knowing recognize as authentically new?
Where in my own story has a wound or difficult passage begun to reveal itself as a form of medicine or gift?
As the mental field begins to accelerate, what helps me stay anchored in my own direct experience?
This is a real crossing. Let what is true become speakable. Let what wants to grow, even if it surprises you, have the quiet attention it deserves.
Podcast poem: Questo Muro by Anita Barrows
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 Lives in the Basement
This is a week of pressure, depth, and reckoning.
If you're feeling friction — between what wants to move in you and what the world seems to be asking, between your own pace and a larger momentum — you're reading the moment accurately.
What is happening in the world is not separate from what is happening in us. The intensity in collective systems, the unraveling of familiar agreements about how things work — this is the outer expression of a reckoning that is also deeply interior.
We are not observers of this moment. We are inside it.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday, May 4: Mars in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer. Heat and urgency meet complexity. A pull to act runs into questions not yet ready to be answered. Stay curious about what's driving the urgency — there may be something worth slowing toward beneath it.
Tuesday, May 5: Mercury in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius. The surface explanation is no longer sufficient. Something beneath it is asking to be named. What is actually true here, beneath what is being projected or defended?
Wednesday, May 6: Pluto stations retrograde at 5 degrees of Aquarius (remaining retrograde until mid-October 2026). This is the center of the week. When Pluto turns inward, the Transformer asks each of us to look at what we have kept in the basement. Old grief. Old agreements we didn't consciously choose. Old survival strategies still running in the background. Old stories about power.
Collectively, we are watching what happens when the contents of the cultural basement begin to surface. The shadow of Western systems — the violence, the extractive logic, the domination long hidden or rationalized — is now more visible than it has been in generations.
Pluto does not create what it reveals. It illuminates what was already present, waiting to be reckoned with.
Sunday, May 10: Sun in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer. A softer note arrives. Groundedness meeting warmth. Let that in. It matters as much as the reckoning.
Larger Frame
We are being asked to develop a capacity that dominator culture has systematically discouraged: the ability to remain present to what is difficult without checking out, numbing, or bypassing into false hope.
The cultural shadow is surfacing. The personal shadow is surfacing. And the two are not separate.
The invitation is not to fix everything. It is to stay awake, stay connected, and let the reckoning be real without letting it be the only thing that is real.
Reflection Questions
Where am I feeling friction between what wants to move in me and what the larger moment seems to be asking?
What might be living in my own basement right now — something I've been working around or haven't yet had room to name?
As the collective shadow surfaces, what helps me stay present without collapsing into despair or turning away?
Stay close to what is real. Stay connected to others in the ways that cannot be automated. And remember, even in times of deep reckoning, life continues to reorganize within the larger web of life.
Podcast poem: Fearing Paris by Marsha Truman Cooper. 
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.

This is a potent threshold week. You may feel both the quickening of change and the weight of what is being asked to release. There’s nothing wrong with you if it feels intense. This is part of a real initiation in the larger spiral of change.
We are moving through a moment where personal experience and collective reality are tightly interwoven. The instability we are witnessing in the world, including ongoing war and forms of leadership shaped by deep wounding, is not separate from our inner process. It is part of the same field. The invitation is to stay present without collapsing or turning away.
Tuesday, April 28 — Venus in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius
The Relational One meets the Transformer. This opens a doorway for deeper, more honest connection. Conversations may carry unexpected truth. Venus in Gemini invites curiosity and new ways of relating, while Pluto in Aquarius works at a collective level, reshaping how we connect within rapidly changing systems. This is an early glimpse of a larger shift that will unfold as Uranus moves into Gemini. Notice where your way of connecting is evolving. Stay curious.
Friday, May 1 — Full Moon at 11° Scorpio (trine Jupiter in Cancer)
This is deep water. Scorpio Full Moons bring emotional truth, revealing what we hold tightly beneath the surface. With Jupiter in Cancer, there is support for integration and care.
This Full Moon aligns with Beltane, a seasonal threshold honoring life force, creativity, and the fire of becoming. There is a powerful paradox here. Beltane brings vitality and emergence, while Scorpio asks for depth and release. True aliveness includes both.
Something may soften, open, or be revealed. Old patterns rooted in control or protection may feel less stable. At the collective level, this intensity mirrors the power struggles and fear-based actions we are witnessing. The invitation is to stay present with what is real without losing your center.
Also Friday — Venus in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries
This brings grounding and maturity into relationships. Small, clear choices matter. Honest communication and clean boundaries support stability within change.
Friday — Mercury in Aries conjunct Chiron in Aries
A tender but important moment. Words may touch old wounds around voice and self-expression. There is also healing here. New language can emerge that is more truthful and less reactive. Stay gentle. This is about being real, not perfect.
Saturday, May 2 — Mercury enters Taurus
A shift into steadiness. The mind slows down and begins to integrate. After the intensity, this supports grounding and embodiment. Let things land.
Reflection Questions:
Where am I being invited to tell a deeper truth in how I relate?
What emotional truth is surfacing that I might usually avoid?
How can I stay present to both my inner experience and the wider world without losing my center?
Podcast poem: Trough by Judy Brown
If you’d like support in understanding your personal astrology cycles during these times, I offer a small number of one-on-one sessions. Learn more at ontheedgesofchange.com/astrology
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.