Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy.
I'm Sheila Bélanger, your host for this podcast.
Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of transformation.
Spiritual alchemy is the process of pursuing the gold of your true nature.
By transmuting the unrefined limiting parts of yourself.
In this podcast, I'll offer you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal lead into gold.
More resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com.
Hello, and welcome to episode number 327 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast.
This is for the week of August 25th, 2025.
I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bje.
Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem:"I want us to live into another possible world." 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 we've love, creativity and relationship into the fabric of responsibility, dream innovation, and deep change.
Midweek brings a rare long-term Uranus Neptune sextile cycle, opening, a portal for visionary possibilities.
The week closes with Mercury and Chiron offering healing through truthful storytelling as I offer you a way to consider.
The archetypal opportunities this week.
Take whatever of this feels right for you and let go of the rest remind you, I give you a reflection question for each cycle.
You can always find those in the show notes if you wanna go back to them.
On Monday, August 25th, Venus enters Leo and right away trines Saturn and Aries.
Because both of them are newly into new signs.
Venus is the relational one as an archetype, has everything to do with our core values, what we love, how we love what's important to us and our self-worth.
Venus steps into the fiery sign of Leo, calling you to lead with love and show up in relationships with authenticity, and creative vitality.
Her trine to Saturn the responsible one as an archetype studies 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.
Here's a key reflection question for this cycle.
Where can you bring more courage and maturity to how you love and create?
On Tuesday, August 26th, Venus and Leo Trines Neptune in Aries, Neptune, and Saturn are very close together at the very beginning of Aries.
So Neptune, the Dreamer archetype, meets Venus's radiant heart.
The trine, which is 120 degree measurement between the two planets in the heavens, 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.
Venus is very busy.
This week we're gonna talk about two more cycles, but before going there, I wanna take a moment with the Venus Neptune Cycle to offer another support for you.
Venus, in its challenging experience is especially Venus and Leo, is where we might get caught in old patterns of performance to get approval, to be seen, to feel like we're worthwhile.
Neptune is the dreamer.
Visionary archetype when it's in its wounded side can really be when we're under a spell or we feel invisibleized or we're confused, or we're kind of in an unhealthy altered state.
Now, Venus trine Neptune is a very positive alignment with these two archetypes, these two planets.
So the other gift, for this cycle is that you may come out of the spell of a certain way of being in relationships, especially if you're looking for external relationships to give you validation.
You might like, what was I thinking?
You know, break that spell and really feel the deep love and compassion for yourself as you are in your sovereignty.
And to be open to more a different kind of dream and vision of relationships, whether it's with people or yourself, or your art or your creativity.
So use the beauty of Venus and Neptune in harmony to really kind of just dispel two small spells of who you are in relationship.
How can you dream your relationships and creative life into a more inspired form?
Now Venus continues on this day, on Tuesday, August 26th.
Venus in Leo Sextiles, Uranus in Gemini again, both of them very new into a sign.
Sextile means they're 60 degrees away from each other in the heavens, which also is a very positive, it is seen as a, that the two planetary characters are.
Good with each other.
They're like supporting each other.
So Venus' Warmth meets the Maverick Spark.
Uranus is the maverick architect.
The sudden awakener, the disturber, the chaos bringer.
But it's also like wake up and liberate yourself.
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.
Now, the beauty of this is Uranus is in the air sign of Gemini and Gemini's gift as an energy a sign, uh, when it connects with a planet is about questioning things, being curious, saying, well, what else is possible?
What's another way to do this?
Have we thought about this now for something completely different for my fans from the past?
And so let yourself be open to that.
Here's a reflection question for this cycle.
What old pattern in love or creativity is ready for a bold shift?
But wait, there's more.
One more Venus Cycle On Tuesday, August 26th, it's quite a day people, Venus and Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius.
They're opposite from each other in the heavens.
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.
Pluto is this profound ally.
Of deep systemic change and even though it's way at the edge of our solar system and is seen as a dwarf planet by astronomers'cause it's not big enough, astrologers know it's a powerfully huge archetype, is named after the deity of the underworld, and it is all about death, rebirth, and transmuting the poisons and alchemizing.
That which is old and festering and saying, okay, transform it and get into the gold or Phoenix consumed by the fire and then being reborn.
And whenever Venus and Pluto have some kind of conversation with each other in the heavens symbolically, we're getting down to it In any of our Venus issues, our relationships, our values, our money, our resources, our self-worth, it's like get down to it, you know, cut the bs.
This is what's really going on.
It does not have to be negative, but it's certainly a week for telling the truth as.
Beloved Angeles Arrien a spiritual teacher for so many of us would say,"tell the truth, without blame or judgment", just name it.
So, reflection question for this cycle, what truth about love, power or value is rising now that you can no longer ignore?
And I wanna note here, because this very potent poem that came forward for this week's podcast about many things, but this Venus- Pluto Cycle on a collective level.
All of these reflection questions are about your own individual journey, alchemical journey of transformation, and the planetary archetypes are reflecting collective journeys as well as personal individual journeys.
So there's also the gift and challenge of the Venus Pluto cycle for all of us Collectively.
What truth about love.
Power or value is rising now on the collective level that we can no longer ignore.
We have been ignoring some things.
We've had some survival strategies, and part of this week says, no more survival strategies.
Look witness, get real.
And with that, we have one of the most significant cycles, really, in the middle part of this decade.
On August 28th, Uranus in Gemini, sextiles Neptune.
In Aries, a rare long-term cycle begins five exact sextiles That means the planets are 60 degrees away from each other.
Over the next two years, and this is because planets seem to go retrograde, go forward and then go backwards.
So Uranus and Neptune are both very slow moving planets.
So from our perspective on the earth, they're moving forward and then they go backwards, a bit retrograde, and then they go forward again, and then they go retrograde backwards a bit and they both are doing that.
So because of that, this exact measurement.
Of 60 degrees of separation between them happens five times in the next two years.
And when we have a long term cycle with what we call the outer planets, the transpersonal planets, the ones that are at the edge, this is a long term transformation an initiation.
Uranus is 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.
That last part comes from Uranus being in Gemini, this Zodiac sign of communication and ideas, and Neptune being in an area is this fire sign of action taking and individual courage and like, let's do it.
So we have this amazing two year journey we're stepping into where the Maverick and the Dreamer want to partner with you inside and in the world to say, all right, how do we have the courage to dream differently?
Neptune and Aries.
And to radically change how we think, how we communicate what we're doing with technology.
Some of the most exciting things happening that you may not be aware of is people exploring how to use AI as a spiritual ally for transformation.
It's an example of Uranus and Neptune.
So here's a reflection for you personally around this cycle, which you'll be with for two years.
But here's the beginning of it.
What visionary idea is quietly emerging in your life that could shape your future?
And then finally, August 31st, mercury and Leo Trines Chiron.
In Aries, the storyteller archetype, mercury connects harmoniously trying with the wounded healer archetype.
Chiron.
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 carry medicine now and these two are in fire Signs, Leo, about creativity and sovereignty and love expressing your values and love and Rin, and the healing side of having the courage to be who you are.
Mercury, Chiron in a harmonious relationship.
Say what you gotta say.
Express what you gotta say.
'cause it's medicine now for you and the world.
Here's a reflection question for this cycle.
What story from your own wounds is ready to be told in a way that heals?
Thank you.
Here's um, integration.
Kind of a short paragraph to say, here is what's up this week.
This week's astrology is a heart led initiation into greater maturity, creative freedom, and deep transformation.
The rare Uranus, Neptune sex tile reminds you that the seeds you plant now.
Especially those woven from love and vision will ripple through years to come.
Speak your truth.
Dream boldly and love courageously.
So I wanna bring you a incredibly potent poem to support the cycles this week, to challenge and empower you, and guide you.
It's called"What Comes Next" by Rosemary Whatola Trommer, and she starts with a quote.
Naomi Shana from her poem Jerusalem.
The man in Palestine runs toward airdropped parcels, is shot in the back of his head.
The military says Such a shot was never fired.
The dead man does not argue back.
His body is carried away with medicine.
Dried beans, sacks of flour.
How many more must weep this world?
This world with its guns and fear and righteousness?
Whether or not we hold the gun, we all have a finger on a trigger.
What else can we do with our hands?
I wanna believe in a goodness that persists despite cruelty.
Not a fairytale story with a wand or a genie, but a real story in which a real woman grows peaches and gives them a wave for the joy of giving.
A story in which a man helps another man build a home with a bed, an oven, a roof war comes so quickly, peace comes so slow.
I wanna believe there is in all of us a place where hate won't grow.
I want to feed that place in myself.
I want to listen to that place in you.
I want us to live into another possible world.
Discover what else our lives can do, what comes next?
Rosemary Whatola Trommer So dear ones, may your journey this week awaken in you a radical dreamer.
Uranus- Neptune, may the power of your own sovereign love and creativity, Venus in Leo, activate amazing capacities within you.
Feed that place in yourself where hate won't grow.
Listen to it.
Live into another possible world.
Discover what else your and my life can do.
Thank you.
As always, for your connection being part of this larger circle of web of transformation.
Travel.
Well You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Bélanger Resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com.
Thank you for listening.
Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.