Astrology Alchemy Podcast

We are inside the field of the upcoming Solar Eclipse and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, a rare pivotal week.
On February 17, 2026, the Solar Eclipse at 28° Aquarius activates the North Node (the dragon’s head), symbolizing appetite, growth, and evolutionary pull. In myth, the nodes were imagined as a dragon: the head hungry and grasping, the tail releasing and purging. When the eclipse aligns with the North Node, desire intensifies. Restlessness increases. The future presses forward.
In Aquarius, that hunger becomes collective.
We grow dissatisfied with outdated systems.
We feel the strain of identities that no longer fit.
We sense that the status quo cannot sustain what is coming.
This eclipse also squares Uranus in Taurus — the Maverick-Awakener grounded in the material world. Vision must root. Innovation must sustain life. Revolution must be embodied.
This New Moon Solar Eclipse is a preview of the larger Leo–Aquarius nodal shift later this year. The story of belonging, leadership, community, and collective responsibility is only beginning.
And then we widen the lens.
Saturn and Neptune are moving toward their conjunction on February 20th at 0° Aries — the very first degree of the zodiac. The last time these two met at this degree was nearly 6,000 years ago, during the dawn of early written language and formal calendar systems. Humanity was naming reality. Establishing shared agreements about time, meaning, and order.
We are standing at a similar threshold.
Saturn (structure, law, accountability) meets Neptune (vision, dissolution, transcendence). Together, they reset the boundary between what is real and what is imagined.
We are renegotiating reality.
Collectively, this may show up as institutions dissolving or restructuring, illusions surfacing, and new definitions of identity and authority emerging.
Personally, this week may bring:
Dissatisfaction without a clear replacement
A call to build something meaningful
A quiet recognition that an old agreement has expired
A hunger for the future that must be guided with maturity
This is not a week for impulsive action.
It is a week for orientation.
Nearly 6,000 years ago, humans were deciding how to name the world.
What are we naming now?
Something is being written again.
And you are not outside that story.
Reflection Questions:
Where in my life am I being asked to renegotiate what is “real” — based on lived truth rather than habit or fear? (Notice where old assumptions no longer fit, even if nothing external has fully changed yet.)
What am I hungry for — and is that hunger aligned with integrity or urgency? (The North Node’s appetite needs wise stewardship.)
If I were naming my world anew from maturity rather than survival, what would I consciously call forward? (Think language, identity, agreements, roles.)
Podcast Poem: Let Them Not Say by Jane Hirshfield
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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 turning point rather than a buildup of minor events. On Feb 13th, Saturn fully enters Aries, beginning a two-year cycle that will reshape how action, authority, and responsibility move through both personal and collective life.
Saturn is also moving toward a rare conjunction with Neptune, signaling the dissolution of false authority alongside the demand for mature, embodied leadership.
This is a shift in conditions, not just astrology. What has been diffuse, delayed, or hidden is coming under pressure. What has relied on impulse, fantasy, or force is being tested for integrity and endurance.
Alongside this, on Feb 17th, we experience the first Solar Eclipse of 2026 at 29° Aquarius, square Uranus in Taurus. This eclipse applies stress to collective systems, social contracts, technologies, and economic or material foundations. When Aquarius and Taurus collide, the tension between ideals and survival becomes unavoidable. What has been artificially stabilized can no longer hold.
We are also entering the Year of the Fire Horse, an energy of acceleration, volatility, and uncompromising movement. Fire Horse years amplify speed and intensity—but they do not reward recklessness. This is fire that must be shaped, contained, and directed with discernment.
Astrologically, we are witnessing a larger elemental transition as well: a gradual shift away from Earth and Water dominance into Air and Fire. This brings faster movement, sharper conflicts around truth and ideology, and an urgent need for clarity in both thought and action. Emotional processing and material reckoning are giving way to decisive moments that ask for ethical resolve.
This week's astrology aligns with:
The Forge, not the Fire — pressure applied with purpose
The Training Ground, not the Battlefield — courage developed through discipline
The Unmasking of Authority — legitimacy tested through accountability
Collectively, this moment coincides with visible authoritarian violence, extractive economic behavior, and escalating systems failure. These are not anomalies, but end-stage expressions of structures losing legitimacy. At the same time, quieter signals of the future are emerging through mutual aid, non-violent resistance, and community care.
Reflection Questions for the Week
Sit with these gently. They are meant to ground the archetypal themes into everyday life.
Where in my life am I being asked to act with more maturity—not more force?
Notice where restraint, clarity, or responsibility would be more powerful than urgency or reaction.
What from the last Saturn-in-Aries cycle (1996–1999) is ready to be completed, integrated, or consciously released now?
This may include an identity you formed, a way of leading or proving yourself, or a lesson that no longer needs to be relearned.
How can I stay grounded, relational, and human in my responses—without hardening, rushing, or disengaging—as collective pressures intensify?
What helps you remain present and clear when conditions feel volatile?
This is a time for clean action, grounded presence, and courage shaped by responsibility.
Podcast poem: The Fire in the Song by David Whyte
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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.

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.