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Hello, welcome to Astrology
Alchemy.

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I'm Sheila Bélanger your host
for this podcast.

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Alchemy is defined as a
seemingly magical process of

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transformation.

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Spiritual alchemy is the process
of pursuing the gold of your

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true nature.

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By transmuting the unrefined
limiting parts of yourself.

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In this podcast, I'll offer you
inspiring insights from current

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astrology cycles that support
your path of turning your

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personal lead into gold.

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More resources are available at
the website on the edges of

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change.com.

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Welcome to episode number 326 of
the Astrology Alchemy Podcast.

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This is for the week of August
18th, 2025, and I am your host

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and guide, Sheila Bélanger.

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Here's a phrase from this week's
podcast poem:"be grateful for

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whatever comes." This week
brings a potent blend of

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healing, disruption, and new
beginnings.

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The sun is in its Leo fullness
and meets chiron's medicine for

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old wounds.

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A Aun and Virgo invites change
through the unexpected.

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Venus draws us into tender, but
courageous relationship healing.

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And the sun steps into Virgo
with an electric square to

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Uranus.

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Expect moments of insight,
activation, and the call to

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respond with both grounded
presence and open-hearted

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adaptability.

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There's an overview.

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Now let's get down to it and
remember dear ones, especially

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if you're new to my podcast.

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The planets as they move through
the heavens are mirroring to us

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something of our own archetypal
change.

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The way that archetypal
astrologers work with the

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planetary movements, we don't
see it as causal.

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The planets are not doing
anything to us.

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They are mirrors because we're
all interconnected and some of

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us are deeply archetypally
sensitive to the movements of

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the planet.

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So in this kind of forecast that
I and most astrologers do, we're

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just helping you give words and
meaning to what you are already

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tracking, and hopefully in an
empowering way.

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If you're new to the podcast,
you don't know a lot of

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astrology, just listen to the
stories and notice what your

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heart tells you.

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You don't have to remember
anything about signs and squares

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and everything.

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Just jump in the river and flow
with us.

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So on.

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On August 19th, Tuesday, August
19th, the son in Leo.

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Trines Chiron in Aries, that
means they're 120 degrees away

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from each other.

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Very, very harmonious.

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So the sun, your conscious self
archetype, your identity, who I

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am shining in the world
harmonizes with Chiron and

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asteroid Comet, who is the
wounded healer, shamanic one,

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offering you a courageous moment
to meet vulnerabilities with

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self-compassion and sovereignty.

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Kyron being an Aries now, Aries
is a fire sign that's about

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individuality and the right to
really be who you are.

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The healing work we're all doing
with Kyron and Aries right now

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is what are the ouchies inside
where I feel like I can't be

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myself or the deep wound of an
Aries energy is out of pain and

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suffering.

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There's an overcompensation of
violence and aggression.

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Now the sun is always shining
the light and saying, okay, here

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you are.

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And when it's in Leo ites, be
who you are.

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So there's a beautiful energy
here of the Sun and Chiron this

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week to to heal some wounds of
visibility and self radical

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self-acceptance to say, this is
who I am.

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Not from a pissed off rebel
running over everybody, but from

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a deep place of grounded
sovereignty and electrifies

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shine.

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Here's a reflection question for
this cycle.

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Where could I let my confidence
and my vulnerability work

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together instead of at odds?

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Just notice what occurs this
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Reminder, all of these
reflection questions are in the

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show notes for the podcast, so
you're welcome to get them

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there.

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Then on August 22nd, we have a
new moon at zero degrees of

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Virgo, which squares Uranus in
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Now the moon is the instinctive
nurturer, and this, the new moon

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is where the sun and the moon
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So the conscious self and the
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are together and.

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It.

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A new moon begins a fresh cycle,
and it's just newly into the

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sign of Virgo.

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So both the sun and the moon are
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Virgo.

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Zero degrees means the very
beginning of a 30 D degree arc

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in the heavens of a particular
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And the Zodiac sign is the
energetic of what the archetypes

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are, are taking.

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Now, as soon as the New Moon
happens at the very beginning of

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Virgo, it is immediately
challenged by Uranus, the

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Maverick archetype.

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It's demand for innovation.

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'cause Uranus, the Maverick
archetype, has just recently

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gone into Gemini.

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So there's a 90 degree angle,
which is called a square, and

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this suggests that these
characters in us, in the world,

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there's some tension there.

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Something's gotta give.

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It's not that it's negative, but
it's not an easy flow.

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So.

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Disruption may be the seedbed
for a more authentic rhythm of

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daily life.

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'cause Virgo wants, as an
energy, wants things to have

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form and structure that works,
wants to heal and bring things

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into wholeness.

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So we're seeding the sun and
moon, the sacred marriage of yin

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and yang.

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You know, illuminating light and
reflective light to say, what's

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a new healing path to take?

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What's a new form of wholeness
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What needs to be healed and
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Part of that is disruption
because of the link with the

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maverick archetype in the sign
of Gemini, which is about ideas

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and communication.

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So it's like be open to
disruptive thoughts that

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actually might help your life
work better this week and be

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willing to put some energy into
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New moon, new cycle.

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Here's a reflection question for
this cycle.

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What unexpected shift.

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Could liberate me into a truer,
cleaner alignment with my

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values.

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Just notice what kinds of gifts
from unexpected places show up

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for you this week on the same
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On Friday, August 22nd, Venus is
in the sign of cancer and it

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squares Chiron in Aries.

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So Chiron is active, very active
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So Venus is the relational one
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It's all about what we value,
what we care about, it's

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relationship on so many levels
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It's how you relate to your
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It's how you relate to nature
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How you relate to the ancestors
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And Venus is in the sign of
cancer, a water sign of deep

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nourishment and sensitivity and
care and wanting to belong.

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Kyron again, the wounded healer,
the shamanic one, the

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Shapeshifter says I'm all about
healing some old wounds, but now

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I'm linked up with a relational
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So the relational one faces the
wounded healer this week

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inviting tenderness in places
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love at bay.

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You might notice compassionately
with yourself inside this week,

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your external relationships are
not your enemies and be cautious

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about.

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Survival strategies and wounded
patterns of making everybody the

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enemy.

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They're trying to, uh, cage me.

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They're trying to tell me what
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They won't let me be who I am.

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It's all their fault.

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It's the relationship, it's the
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That may be true.

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There might be some dynamics
with external people.

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Really look at the dynamics
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Are your own, um, intense pain
and suffering around, I don't

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feel like I can be me Coloring
your ability to really be in

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loving relationship with others.

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No blame here.

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Just compassionately Notice a
reflection question.

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How might I soften towards
myself or another without

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abandoning my own boundaries?

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The gift of cancer is this steep
emotional connection.

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The gift of Aries is
independent, self-reliant, be

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true to oneself.

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You can have both.

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That's what the Venus Cancer and
Aries Corona Aries is inviting

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you to adjust.

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Then on Sunday, August 24th, the
sun in Virgo Squares, Uranus in

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Gemini.

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So now this conscious self
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shining who we are in the world
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angle to Uranus, the maverick.

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In Gemini, that air sign
Gemini's about, again, ideas and

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diversification in something
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The tension between just the
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Virgo wants it's an ERs sign,
very grounded and uh, wants to

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get things formed and healed and
working and lined.

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Gemini wants to blow everything
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Uranus wants to blow things up,
but Gemini says, ah, let's try

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this.

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What about that?

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How about that?

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So it's a little frenetic and
Virgo can get tight ass and say,

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ah, you're messing things up
'cause you're changing it so

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much.

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And yet the sun is shining the
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So it's saying, okay, now we
want discernment.

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So the sun, the conscious self,
now turns towards discernment

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and skillfulness.

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The sun recently in De Virgo yet
meets Uranus's jolt to think and

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act differently.

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So how do you explore both end
with those energies?

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Here's a reflection question,
where is life asking me to break

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a habitual pattern in order to
live more freely?

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One of the challenges with a
planet in Virgo, a part of

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ourselves in the Virgo energy is
v Virgo Energy in its wounded

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side is perfectionistic and
critical of self and other not

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right, not perfect, not good
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Whereas Gemini's kind of the
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Let's try it.

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Let's experiment.

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So you're looking for a nice
sweet spot here where.

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There's impulses in you in the
world that say, try something

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different.

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Wake up, do it, you know, upset
things and then you get to come

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up against any part of you that
says, no, no, it's gotta be this

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way.

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Or to criticize self or others
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right.

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Like, let that kind of open up a
bit, right?

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So they're dear ones are the key
cycles that we have this week.

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I am going to give you kind of
an overview here before we move

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into the um, poem.

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This week doesn't come wrapped
in tidy lessons.

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It comes with a match in one
hand and a healing salve in the

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other.

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The sun in Leo Daress you to
show up with your full heart

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scars and all the new Moon in
Virgo says Start over.

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Well, Uranus flips the script
before you finish the first

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sentence.

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Venus pulls you into raw unarmed
conversation, and the sun's face

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off with Uranus shouts Break the
damn pattern.

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If you're willing to ride the
disruption, you might just find

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a way of living that's more
alive than you imagined.

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A little tip for this week.

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Step with both feet on the
ground, but keep your eyes open

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for the unexpected doors that
appear.

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So dear ones, the poem that
really wants to come forward

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this week is one that is deeply
beloved, and many of you already

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know it, and it's always worth
repeating.

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It's called The Guest House by
Rumi.

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This being human is a guest
house every morning, a new

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arrival, a joy, a depression, a
meanness.

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Some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

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Welcome and entertain them all.

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Even if there are a crowd of
sorrows who violently sweep your

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house, empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest

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honorably.

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He may be clearing you out for
some new delight.

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She, they may be clearing you
out for some new delight.

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The dark thought.

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The shame, the malice.

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Meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.

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Be grateful for whoever comes.

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'cause each has been sent as a
guide from beyond"The Guest

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House" by Rumi an incredible
invitation to make of yourself a

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big basket of welcoming all the
parts of yourself.

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To release the need to other
inner parts of yourself.

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'cause as you do that for
yourself, you do that for

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others, and it is a huge prayer
for the world, especially as the

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sun crosses into Virgo this week
with the maverick leaning in,

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urging you to shape your life as
a prayer that refuses to be

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bound by yesterday's patterns.

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Thanks as always, for your
support and your connection.

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Feel my deep honor of you and my
gratitude for we're all in this

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together.

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Take good care of yourself.

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You have been listening to the
Astrology Alchemy Podcast with

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your host, Sheila Bélanger
Resources are available at the

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website on the edges of
change.com.

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Thank you for listening.

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Bless your alchemical journey to
embrace the gold of your true

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nature.