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.
Welcome to episode number 326 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast.
This is for the week of August 18th, 2025, and I am your host
and guide, Sheila Bélanger.
Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem:"be grateful for
whatever comes." This week brings a potent blend of
healing, disruption, and new beginnings.
The sun is in its Leo fullness and meets chiron's medicine for
old wounds.
A Aun and Virgo invites change through the unexpected.
Venus draws us into tender, but courageous relationship healing.
And the sun steps into Virgo with an electric square to
Uranus.
Expect moments of insight, activation, and the call to
respond with both grounded presence and open-hearted
adaptability.
There's an overview.
Now let's get down to it and remember dear ones, especially
if you're new to my podcast.
The planets as they move through the heavens are mirroring to us
something of our own archetypal change.
The way that archetypal astrologers work with the
planetary movements, we don't see it as causal.
The planets are not doing anything to us.
They are mirrors because we're all interconnected and some of
us are deeply archetypally sensitive to the movements of
the planet.
So in this kind of forecast that I and most astrologers do, we're
just helping you give words and meaning to what you are already
tracking, and hopefully in an empowering way.
If you're new to the podcast, you don't know a lot of
astrology, just listen to the stories and notice what your
heart tells you.
You don't have to remember anything about signs and squares
and everything.
Just jump in the river and flow with us.
So on.
On August 19th, Tuesday, August 19th, the son in Leo.
Trines Chiron in Aries, that means they're 120 degrees away
from each other.
Very, very harmonious.
So the sun, your conscious self archetype, your identity, who I
am shining in the world harmonizes with Chiron and
asteroid Comet, who is the wounded healer, shamanic one,
offering you a courageous moment to meet vulnerabilities with
self-compassion and sovereignty.
Kyron being an Aries now, Aries is a fire sign that's about
individuality and the right to really be who you are.
The healing work we're all doing with Kyron and Aries right now
is what are the ouchies inside where I feel like I can't be
myself or the deep wound of an Aries energy is out of pain and
suffering.
There's an overcompensation of violence and aggression.
Now the sun is always shining the light and saying, okay, here
you are.
And when it's in Leo ites, be who you are.
So there's a beautiful energy here of the Sun and Chiron this
week to to heal some wounds of visibility and self radical
self-acceptance to say, this is who I am.
Not from a pissed off rebel running over everybody, but from
a deep place of grounded sovereignty and electrifies
shine.
Here's a reflection question for this cycle.
Where could I let my confidence and my vulnerability work
together instead of at odds?
Just notice what occurs this week.
Reminder, all of these reflection questions are in the
show notes for the podcast, so you're welcome to get them
there.
Then on August 22nd, we have a new moon at zero degrees of
Virgo, which squares Uranus in Gemini.
Now the moon is the instinctive nurturer, and this, the new moon
is where the sun and the moon are together.
So the conscious self and the instinctive nurturer archetypes
are together and.
It.
A new moon begins a fresh cycle, and it's just newly into the
sign of Virgo.
So both the sun and the moon are just right into the beginning of
Virgo.
Zero degrees means the very beginning of a 30 D degree arc
in the heavens of a particular Zodiac sign.
And the Zodiac sign is the energetic of what the archetypes
are, are taking.
Now, as soon as the New Moon happens at the very beginning of
Virgo, it is immediately challenged by Uranus, the
Maverick archetype.
It's demand for innovation.
'cause Uranus, the Maverick archetype, has just recently
gone into Gemini.
So there's a 90 degree angle, which is called a square, and
this suggests that these characters in us, in the world,
there's some tension there.
Something's gotta give.
It's not that it's negative, but it's not an easy flow.
So.
Disruption may be the seedbed for a more authentic rhythm of
daily life.
'cause Virgo wants, as an energy, wants things to have
form and structure that works, wants to heal and bring things
into wholeness.
So we're seeding the sun and moon, the sacred marriage of yin
and yang.
You know, illuminating light and reflective light to say, what's
a new healing path to take?
What's a new form of wholeness to take?
What needs to be healed and fixed in a good way?
Part of that is disruption because of the link with the
maverick archetype in the sign of Gemini, which is about ideas
and communication.
So it's like be open to disruptive thoughts that
actually might help your life work better this week and be
willing to put some energy into them and try them.
New moon, new cycle.
Here's a reflection question for this cycle.
What unexpected shift.
Could liberate me into a truer, cleaner alignment with my
values.
Just notice what kinds of gifts from unexpected places show up
for you this week on the same day.
On Friday, August 22nd, Venus is in the sign of cancer and it
squares Chiron in Aries.
So Chiron is active, very active this week.
So Venus is the relational one archetype.
It's all about what we value, what we care about, it's
relationship on so many levels beyond just human beings.
It's how you relate to your inner figures inside.
It's how you relate to nature and creatures, the elements.
How you relate to the ancestors and the invisible spirits.
And Venus is in the sign of cancer, a water sign of deep
nourishment and sensitivity and care and wanting to belong.
Kyron again, the wounded healer, the shamanic one, the
Shapeshifter says I'm all about healing some old wounds, but now
I'm linked up with a relational one.
So the relational one faces the wounded healer this week
inviting tenderness in places where self-protection has kept
love at bay.
You might notice compassionately with yourself inside this week,
your external relationships are not your enemies and be cautious
about.
Survival strategies and wounded patterns of making everybody the
enemy.
They're trying to, uh, cage me.
They're trying to tell me what to do.
They won't let me be who I am.
It's all their fault.
It's the relationship, it's the parents.
That may be true.
There might be some dynamics with external people.
Really look at the dynamics inside.
Are your own, um, intense pain and suffering around, I don't
feel like I can be me Coloring your ability to really be in
loving relationship with others.
No blame here.
Just compassionately Notice a reflection question.
How might I soften towards myself or another without
abandoning my own boundaries?
The gift of cancer is this steep emotional connection.
The gift of Aries is independent, self-reliant, be
true to oneself.
You can have both.
That's what the Venus Cancer and Aries Corona Aries is inviting
you to adjust.
Then on Sunday, August 24th, the sun in Virgo Squares, Uranus in
Gemini.
So now this conscious self character in us, in the world
shining who we are in the world is exactly in this 90 degree
angle to Uranus, the maverick.
In Gemini, that air sign Gemini's about, again, ideas and
diversification in something different.
The tension between just the signs Virgo in Gemini.
Virgo wants it's an ERs sign, very grounded and uh, wants to
get things formed and healed and working and lined.
Gemini wants to blow everything up.
Uranus wants to blow things up, but Gemini says, ah, let's try
this.
What about that?
How about that?
So it's a little frenetic and Virgo can get tight ass and say,
ah, you're messing things up 'cause you're changing it so
much.
And yet the sun is shining the light on Virgo.
So it's saying, okay, now we want discernment.
So the sun, the conscious self, now turns towards discernment
and skillfulness.
The sun recently in De Virgo yet meets Uranus's jolt to think and
act differently.
So how do you explore both end with those energies?
Here's a reflection question, where is life asking me to break
a habitual pattern in order to live more freely?
One of the challenges with a planet in Virgo, a part of
ourselves in the Virgo energy is v Virgo Energy in its wounded
side is perfectionistic and critical of self and other not
right, not perfect, not good enough.
Whereas Gemini's kind of the sky's the limit.
Let's try it.
Let's experiment.
So you're looking for a nice sweet spot here where.
There's impulses in you in the world that say, try something
different.
Wake up, do it, you know, upset things and then you get to come
up against any part of you that says, no, no, it's gotta be this
way.
Or to criticize self or others 'cause they're not doing it
right.
Like, let that kind of open up a bit, right?
So they're dear ones are the key cycles that we have this week.
I am going to give you kind of an overview here before we move
into the um, poem.
This week doesn't come wrapped in tidy lessons.
It comes with a match in one hand and a healing salve in the
other.
The sun in Leo Daress you to show up with your full heart
scars and all the new Moon in Virgo says Start over.
Well, Uranus flips the script before you finish the first
sentence.
Venus pulls you into raw unarmed conversation, and the sun's face
off with Uranus shouts Break the damn pattern.
If you're willing to ride the disruption, you might just find
a way of living that's more alive than you imagined.
A little tip for this week.
Step with both feet on the ground, but keep your eyes open
for the unexpected doors that appear.
So dear ones, the poem that really wants to come forward
this week is one that is deeply beloved, and many of you already
know it, and it's always worth repeating.
It's called The Guest House by Rumi.
This being human is a guest house every morning, a new
arrival, a joy, a depression, a meanness.
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all.
Even if there are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your
house, empty of its furniture, still treat each guest
honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
She, they may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought.
The shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes.
'cause each has been sent as a guide from beyond"The Guest
House" by Rumi an incredible invitation to make of yourself a
big basket of welcoming all the parts of yourself.
To release the need to other inner parts of yourself.
'cause as you do that for yourself, you do that for
others, and it is a huge prayer for the world, especially as the
sun crosses into Virgo this week with the maverick leaning in,
urging you to shape your life as a prayer that refuses to be
bound by yesterday's patterns.
Thanks as always, for your support and your connection.
Feel my deep honor of you and my gratitude for we're all in this
together.
Take good care of yourself.
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.