WEBVTT 00:00:07.049 --> 00:00:09.509 Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy. 00:00:10.019 --> 00:00:12.509 I'm Sheila Bélanger your host for this podcast. 00:00:13.169 --> 00:00:17.100 Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of transformation. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.835 Spiritual alchemy is the process of pursuing the gold of your true nature. 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.949 By transmuting the unrefined limiting parts of yourself. 00:00:26.789 --> 00:00:36.689 In this podcast, I'll offer you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal lead into gold. 00:00:37.229 --> 00:00:43.530 More resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. 00:00:49.871 --> 00:00:56.170 Welcome to episode number 326 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. 00:00:56.651 --> 00:01:04.781 This is for the week of August 18th, 2025, and I am your host and guide, Sheila Bélanger. 00:01:06.070 --> 00:01:23.171 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. 00:01:24.221 --> 00:01:29.861 The sun is in its Leo fullness and meets chiron's medicine for old wounds. 00:01:31.391 --> 00:01:35.230 A Aun and Virgo invites change through the unexpected. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.801 Venus draws us into tender, but courageous relationship healing. 00:01:42.865 --> 00:01:46.796 And the sun steps into Virgo with an electric square to Uranus. 00:01:48.325 --> 00:01:58.016 Expect moments of insight, activation, and the call to respond with both grounded presence and open-hearted adaptability. 00:02:00.025 --> 00:02:00.956 There's an overview. 00:02:00.956 --> 00:02:05.575 Now let's get down to it and remember dear ones, especially if you're new to my podcast. 00:02:06.055 --> 00:02:13.496 The planets as they move through the heavens are mirroring to us something of our own archetypal change. 00:02:13.975 --> 00:02:20.665 The way that archetypal astrologers work with the planetary movements, we don't see it as causal. 00:02:20.665 --> 00:02:22.675 The planets are not doing anything to us. 00:02:23.561 --> 00:02:31.841 They are mirrors because we're all interconnected and some of us are deeply archetypally sensitive to the movements of the planet. 00:02:31.841 --> 00:02:42.536 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. 00:02:43.705 --> 00:02:49.316 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. 00:02:49.316 --> 00:02:53.846 You don't have to remember anything about signs and squares and everything. 00:02:53.996 --> 00:02:57.145 Just jump in the river and flow with us. 00:02:58.795 --> 00:02:59.575 So on. 00:02:59.575 --> 00:03:04.045 On August 19th, Tuesday, August 19th, the son in Leo. 00:03:05.140 --> 00:03:09.401 Trines Chiron in Aries, that means they're 120 degrees away from each other. 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:12.010 Very, very harmonious. 00:03:12.461 --> 00:03:32.441 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. 00:03:33.626 --> 00:03:40.135 Kyron being an Aries now, Aries is a fire sign that's about individuality and the right to really be who you are. 00:03:40.526 --> 00:03:54.175 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. 00:03:54.175 --> 00:03:56.846 There's an overcompensation of violence and aggression. 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:01.931 Now the sun is always shining the light and saying, okay, here you are. 00:04:02.110 --> 00:04:04.270 And when it's in Leo ites, be who you are. 00:04:04.841 --> 00:04:15.790 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. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:24.790 Not from a pissed off rebel running over everybody, but from a deep place of grounded sovereignty and electrifies shine. 00:04:26.396 --> 00:04:29.156 Here's a reflection question for this cycle. 00:04:30.925 --> 00:04:36.956 Where could I let my confidence and my vulnerability work together instead of at odds? 00:04:40.076 --> 00:04:41.786 Just notice what occurs this week. 00:04:42.026 --> 00:04:47.545 Reminder, all of these reflection questions are in the show notes for the podcast, so you're welcome to get them there. 00:04:48.386 --> 00:04:55.886 Then on August 22nd, we have a new moon at zero degrees of Virgo, which squares Uranus in Gemini. 00:04:56.935 --> 00:05:02.636 Now the moon is the instinctive nurturer, and this, the new moon is where the sun and the moon are together. 00:05:02.636 --> 00:05:07.826 So the conscious self and the instinctive nurturer archetypes are together and. 00:05:08.276 --> 00:05:08.545 It. 00:05:08.906 --> 00:05:13.286 A new moon begins a fresh cycle, and it's just newly into the sign of Virgo. 00:05:13.286 --> 00:05:17.276 So both the sun and the moon are just right into the beginning of Virgo. 00:05:17.305 --> 00:05:23.966 Zero degrees means the very beginning of a 30 D degree arc in the heavens of a particular Zodiac sign. 00:05:24.295 --> 00:05:28.105 And the Zodiac sign is the energetic of what the archetypes are, are taking. 00:05:29.545 --> 00:05:37.915 Now, as soon as the New Moon happens at the very beginning of Virgo, it is immediately challenged by Uranus, the Maverick archetype. 00:05:38.516 --> 00:05:40.016 It's demand for innovation. 00:05:40.045 --> 00:05:44.456 'cause Uranus, the Maverick archetype, has just recently gone into Gemini. 00:05:44.696 --> 00:05:53.005 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. 00:05:53.456 --> 00:05:54.386 Something's gotta give. 00:05:54.625 --> 00:05:56.665 It's not that it's negative, but it's not an easy flow. 00:05:58.151 --> 00:05:58.721 So. 00:05:59.350 --> 00:06:04.540 Disruption may be the seedbed for a more authentic rhythm of daily life. 00:06:04.961 --> 00:06:12.701 'cause Virgo wants, as an energy, wants things to have form and structure that works, wants to heal and bring things into wholeness. 00:06:12.911 --> 00:06:17.321 So we're seeding the sun and moon, the sacred marriage of yin and yang. 00:06:17.831 --> 00:06:23.380 You know, illuminating light and reflective light to say, what's a new healing path to take? 00:06:23.380 --> 00:06:25.480 What's a new form of wholeness to take? 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.630 What needs to be healed and fixed in a good way? 00:06:29.425 --> 00:06:37.586 Part of that is disruption because of the link with the maverick archetype in the sign of Gemini, which is about ideas and communication. 00:06:38.456 --> 00:06:48.086 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. 00:06:48.086 --> 00:06:49.255 New moon, new cycle. 00:06:50.036 --> 00:06:52.946 Here's a reflection question for this cycle. 00:06:54.625 --> 00:06:56.480 What unexpected shift. 00:06:57.656 --> 00:07:03.115 Could liberate me into a truer, cleaner alignment with my values. 00:07:08.365 --> 00:07:15.161 Just notice what kinds of gifts from unexpected places show up for you this week on the same day. 00:07:16.630 --> 00:07:22.571 On Friday, August 22nd, Venus is in the sign of cancer and it squares Chiron in Aries. 00:07:22.571 --> 00:07:25.420 So Chiron is active, very active this week. 00:07:26.201 --> 00:07:28.661 So Venus is the relational one archetype. 00:07:29.021 --> 00:07:37.120 It's all about what we value, what we care about, it's relationship on so many levels beyond just human beings. 00:07:37.841 --> 00:07:40.870 It's how you relate to your inner figures inside. 00:07:40.870 --> 00:07:44.800 It's how you relate to nature and creatures, the elements. 00:07:45.326 --> 00:07:49.286 How you relate to the ancestors and the invisible spirits. 00:07:50.125 --> 00:07:58.016 And Venus is in the sign of cancer, a water sign of deep nourishment and sensitivity and care and wanting to belong. 00:07:59.305 --> 00:08:08.005 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. 00:08:09.430 --> 00:08:18.850 So the relational one faces the wounded healer this week inviting tenderness in places where self-protection has kept love at bay. 00:08:20.261 --> 00:08:30.581 You might notice compassionately with yourself inside this week, your external relationships are not your enemies and be cautious about. 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:35.890 Survival strategies and wounded patterns of making everybody the enemy. 00:08:35.890 --> 00:08:38.321 They're trying to, uh, cage me. 00:08:38.321 --> 00:08:39.850 They're trying to tell me what to do. 00:08:39.850 --> 00:08:41.681 They won't let me be who I am. 00:08:41.831 --> 00:08:43.360 It's all their fault. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.551 It's the relationship, it's the parents. 00:08:45.821 --> 00:08:46.630 That may be true. 00:08:46.630 --> 00:08:49.181 There might be some dynamics with external people. 00:08:49.451 --> 00:08:51.551 Really look at the dynamics inside. 00:08:52.645 --> 00:09:04.916 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. 00:09:05.725 --> 00:09:06.625 No blame here. 00:09:06.956 --> 00:09:11.125 Just compassionately Notice a reflection question. 00:09:13.015 --> 00:09:19.346 How might I soften towards myself or another without abandoning my own boundaries? 00:09:23.951 --> 00:09:26.921 The gift of cancer is this steep emotional connection. 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:32.561 The gift of Aries is independent, self-reliant, be true to oneself. 00:09:33.010 --> 00:09:33.941 You can have both. 00:09:34.510 --> 00:09:40.150 That's what the Venus Cancer and Aries Corona Aries is inviting you to adjust. 00:09:41.770 --> 00:09:47.020 Then on Sunday, August 24th, the sun in Virgo Squares, Uranus in Gemini. 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:58.456 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. 00:09:59.380 --> 00:10:04.961 In Gemini, that air sign Gemini's about, again, ideas and diversification in something different. 00:10:05.650 --> 00:10:08.801 The tension between just the signs Virgo in Gemini. 00:10:09.370 --> 00:10:16.721 Virgo wants it's an ERs sign, very grounded and uh, wants to get things formed and healed and working and lined. 00:10:17.331 --> 00:10:19.160 Gemini wants to blow everything up. 00:10:19.221 --> 00:10:22.041 Uranus wants to blow things up, but Gemini says, ah, let's try this. 00:10:22.041 --> 00:10:22.671 What about that? 00:10:22.671 --> 00:10:23.301 How about that? 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:30.260 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. 00:10:30.591 --> 00:10:33.650 And yet the sun is shining the light on Virgo. 00:10:34.071 --> 00:10:36.115 So it's saying, okay, now we want discernment. 00:10:37.270 --> 00:10:42.730 So the sun, the conscious self, now turns towards discernment and skillfulness. 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:48.671 The sun recently in De Virgo yet meets Uranus's jolt to think and act differently. 00:10:49.780 --> 00:10:54.071 So how do you explore both end with those energies? 00:10:54.520 --> 00:11:03.880 Here's a reflection question, where is life asking me to break a habitual pattern in order to live more freely? 00:11:10.181 --> 00:11:22.421 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. 00:11:23.171 --> 00:11:25.360 Whereas Gemini's kind of the sky's the limit. 00:11:25.451 --> 00:11:26.140 Let's try it. 00:11:26.140 --> 00:11:27.071 Let's experiment. 00:11:27.311 --> 00:11:30.640 So you're looking for a nice sweet spot here where. 00:11:31.015 --> 00:11:33.956 There's impulses in you in the world that say, try something different. 00:11:33.956 --> 00:11:41.275 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. 00:11:41.995 --> 00:11:44.605 Or to criticize self or others'cause they're not doing it right. 00:11:44.605 --> 00:11:47.785 Like, let that kind of open up a bit, right? 00:11:50.140 --> 00:11:56.186 So they're dear ones are the key cycles that we have this week. 00:11:57.145 --> 00:12:03.865 I am going to give you kind of an overview here before we move into the um, poem. 00:12:06.625 --> 00:12:09.836 This week doesn't come wrapped in tidy lessons. 00:12:10.495 --> 00:12:14.275 It comes with a match in one hand and a healing salve in the other. 00:12:15.625 --> 00:12:24.895 The sun in Leo Daress you to show up with your full heart scars and all the new Moon in Virgo says Start over. 00:12:26.201 --> 00:12:30.130 Well, Uranus flips the script before you finish the first sentence. 00:12:32.020 --> 00:12:42.221 Venus pulls you into raw unarmed conversation, and the sun's face off with Uranus shouts Break the damn pattern. 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:52.541 If you're willing to ride the disruption, you might just find a way of living that's more alive than you imagined. 00:12:56.275 --> 00:12:57.716 A little tip for this week. 00:12:58.826 --> 00:13:05.635 Step with both feet on the ground, but keep your eyes open for the unexpected doors that appear. 00:13:10.105 --> 00:13:19.076 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. 00:13:19.855 --> 00:13:22.556 It's called The Guest House by Rumi. 00:13:24.416 --> 00:13:34.046 This being human is a guest house every morning, a new arrival, a joy, a depression, a meanness. 00:13:34.750 --> 00:13:38.980 Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. 00:13:39.791 --> 00:13:41.740 Welcome and entertain them all. 00:13:42.821 --> 00:13:53.140 Even if there are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house, empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. 00:13:54.071 --> 00:13:57.221 He may be clearing you out for some new delight. 00:13:57.461 --> 00:14:01.660 She, they may be clearing you out for some new delight. 00:14:02.890 --> 00:14:03.655 The dark thought. 00:14:04.525 --> 00:14:06.355 The shame, the malice. 00:14:06.985 --> 00:14:10.166 Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. 00:14:11.306 --> 00:14:13.765 Be grateful for whoever comes. 00:14:14.605 --> 00:14:30.745 '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. 00:14:32.591 --> 00:14:36.400 To release the need to other inner parts of yourself. 00:14:36.551 --> 00:15:00.760 '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. 00:15:04.030 --> 00:15:08.350 Thanks as always, for your support and your connection. 00:15:09.221 --> 00:15:14.385 Feel my deep honor of you and my gratitude for we're all in this together. 00:15:14.936 --> 00:15:16.145 Take good care of yourself. 00:15:18.982 --> 00:15:31.403 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. 00:15:31.942 --> 00:15:33.052 Thank you for listening. 00:15:33.712 --> 00:15:38.243 Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.