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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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Hello, and welcome to episode
number 329 of the Astrology

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Alchemy Podcast.

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This is for the week of
September 8th, 2025, and I'm

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your host and guide, Sheila
Bélanger.

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Here's a line from this week's
podcast poem:"then decide what

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to do with your time." We are
now inside the Eclipse Corridor.

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We're between two eclipses, the
full moon eclipse last week and

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next week there'll be a new moon
eclipse.

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This is a liminal space between
what has dissolved and what is

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still forming.

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The ancients would often call
this"the Betwixt and Between"

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time you're cut loose from the
old not yet knowing what the new

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is.

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And key to this is Saturn, the
responsible ones return to

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Pisces.

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That reminds us that we're in an
integration as part of the

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completion process.

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Saturn will retrograde back into
Pisces.

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It's been in Aries.

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It's going back into the Pisces
for the last six months of its

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time in this sign.

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It asks you to gather the wisdom
of the whole past cycle, and to

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give you a perspective, Saturn
entered Aries the first sign of

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the Zodiac in spring of 1996.

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Now as it finishes, its last six
months in Pisces, the last

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Zodiac sign in the whole cycle
of 12.

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We are really, in many ways,
bringing to completion

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experiences.

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We seeded personally and
collectively early 1996.

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Especially in this time between
the eclipses notice anything

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stirring the past 29 years that
wants to be acknowledged, that

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wants to be integrated, that
wants to be released.

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And this week only has a few
exact aspects, astrological

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cycles.

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So the Cosmos is inviting us to
pause, digest.

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And choose daily practices that
align the body and the spirit.

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This is the time to let the
in-between do its quiet work.

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On September 12th, the Sun and
Mercury are in Virgo Sextile,

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and j Jupiter in cancer.

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Now, that's an astrological
sentence.

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Don't worry about it if you
don't understand it.

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I'll give you a sense of it so
you can take it in with your

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heart and align with it.

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Both the sun, the archetype of
the conscious self and mercury.

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The archetype of the storyteller
or communicator are in flow with

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the planet Jupiter, the
archetype of the wise one or the

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expanded one, practical clarity
meets soulful nourishment.

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Virgo, the sign sharpens focus.

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Jupiter and Cancer expands
empathy and care.

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All of these three characters
together, sun and Mercury, and

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Virgo in flow with Jupiter in
Cancer, invite you to translate

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vision into grounded practice,
supported by heart-centered

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wisdom.

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Here's a reflection for this
cycle.

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What daily choices or practices
could nourish both your body and

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your spirit right now?

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As you have answers to that
question, lean in and do those

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practices I.

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And then on September 13th, the
sun is conjunct Mercury in

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Virgo.

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It means the sun and mercury are
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The sun and Mercury join in
Virgo.

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A moment of clear insight.

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It's like a spotlight on the
stories you tell yourself and

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the ways you organize your life.

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The sign of Virgo asks what's
useful, what's aligned, what's

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ready to be refined?

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And the sun is shining the light
for you to examine your mercury

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energies, your stories, your
narratives, how you think, how

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you communicate inside the
Eclipse Corridor.

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This is a moment to write a new
chapter of clarity and

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intention.

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It's a good week to be quiet and
still and reflective.

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And listen to the insights that
gently emerge from within and

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sometimes from without.

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Here's a reflection for this
cycle.

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What story about your life are
you ready to edit so it better

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reflects who you are becoming?

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So dear ones, this week is less
about outer drama and more about

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inner cultivation.

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Let yourself settle into
discernment and nourishment.

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The energy will build again next
week as Venus Mercury and the

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sun activate powerful
oppositions leading up to the

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Virgo solar eclipse.

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So take advantage of this
quieter week.

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Get some rest, do some
reflection.

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And remember the gift of Sun and
Mercury and Virgo is to question

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some of your patterns, some of
your ways of thinking or

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behaving and saying, what's a
different way to do this?

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And so the poem that comes
beautifully for this week to

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support you is called The Art of
Disappearing by Naomi Shihab

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Nye.

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A beautiful poem about the art
of disappearing and the art of

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discernment.

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May it serve you well.

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Thank you for your ongoing
support.

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May these cycles bless you and
give you some breathing time to

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go deeper with the integration.

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And don't forget to check out my
website for all the resources

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available to you.

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On the edges of
change.com/homepage.

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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.