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. 00:00:51.822 --> 00:00:58.152 Hello, and welcome to episode number 329 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. 00:00:58.902 --> 00:01:06.662 This is for the week of September 8th, 2025, and I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bélanger. 00:01:07.871 --> 00:01:20.292 Here's a line from this week's podcast poem:"then decide what to do with your time." We are now inside the Eclipse Corridor. 00:01:20.667 --> 00:01:27.266 We're between two eclipses, the full moon eclipse last week and next week there'll be a new moon eclipse. 00:01:28.406 --> 00:01:33.656 This is a liminal space between what has dissolved and what is still forming. 00:01:34.647 --> 00:01:44.606 The ancients would often call this"the Betwixt and Between" time you're cut loose from the old not yet knowing what the new is. 00:01:46.302 --> 00:01:52.031 And key to this is Saturn, the responsible ones return to Pisces. 00:01:53.891 --> 00:02:00.671 That reminds us that we're in an integration as part of the completion process. 00:02:02.081 --> 00:02:05.081 Saturn will retrograde back into Pisces. 00:02:05.081 --> 00:02:05.951 It's been in Aries. 00:02:05.951 --> 00:02:11.081 It's going back into the Pisces for the last six months of its time in this sign. 00:02:12.222 --> 00:02:25.451 It asks you to gather the wisdom of the whole past cycle, and to give you a perspective, Saturn entered Aries the first sign of the Zodiac in spring of 1996. 00:02:26.622 --> 00:02:35.111 Now as it finishes, its last six months in Pisces, the last Zodiac sign in the whole cycle of 12. 00:02:35.472 --> 00:02:40.872 We are really, in many ways, bringing to completion experiences. 00:02:40.872 --> 00:02:44.981 We seeded personally and collectively early 1996. 00:02:46.812 --> 00:02:58.421 Especially in this time between the eclipses notice anything stirring the past 29 years that wants to be acknowledged, that wants to be integrated, that wants to be released. 00:02:59.562 --> 00:03:04.632 And this week only has a few exact aspects, astrological cycles. 00:03:06.106 --> 00:03:10.931 So the Cosmos is inviting us to pause, digest. 00:03:11.532 --> 00:03:15.671 And choose daily practices that align the body and the spirit. 00:03:17.021 --> 00:03:22.002 This is the time to let the in-between do its quiet work. 00:03:24.882 --> 00:03:32.472 On September 12th, the Sun and Mercury are in Virgo Sextile, and j Jupiter in cancer. 00:03:33.132 --> 00:03:35.081 Now, that's an astrological sentence. 00:03:35.081 --> 00:03:36.822 Don't worry about it if you don't understand it. 00:03:37.497 --> 00:03:42.417 I'll give you a sense of it so you can take it in with your heart and align with it. 00:03:43.407 --> 00:03:48.116 Both the sun, the archetype of the conscious self and mercury. 00:03:48.116 --> 00:04:02.366 The archetype of the storyteller or communicator are in flow with the planet Jupiter, the archetype of the wise one or the expanded one, practical clarity meets soulful nourishment. 00:04:04.016 --> 00:04:06.477 Virgo, the sign sharpens focus. 00:04:08.127 --> 00:04:11.426 Jupiter and Cancer expands empathy and care. 00:04:12.866 --> 00:04:27.562 All of these three characters together, sun and Mercury, and Virgo in flow with Jupiter in Cancer, invite you to translate vision into grounded practice, supported by heart-centered wisdom. 00:04:29.942 --> 00:04:32.161 Here's a reflection for this cycle. 00:04:33.836 --> 00:04:39.596 What daily choices or practices could nourish both your body and your spirit right now? 00:04:42.627 --> 00:04:47.697 As you have answers to that question, lean in and do those practices I. 00:04:49.437 --> 00:04:54.507 And then on September 13th, the sun is conjunct Mercury in Virgo. 00:04:54.507 --> 00:04:57.146 It means the sun and mercury are together in the heavens. 00:04:58.137 --> 00:05:00.177 The sun and Mercury join in Virgo. 00:05:00.687 --> 00:05:02.607 A moment of clear insight. 00:05:03.716 --> 00:05:09.567 It's like a spotlight on the stories you tell yourself and the ways you organize your life. 00:05:10.497 --> 00:05:19.497 The sign of Virgo asks what's useful, what's aligned, what's ready to be refined? 00:05:20.802 --> 00:05:34.721 And the sun is shining the light for you to examine your mercury energies, your stories, your narratives, how you think, how you communicate inside the Eclipse Corridor. 00:05:35.322 --> 00:05:40.091 This is a moment to write a new chapter of clarity and intention. 00:05:42.041 --> 00:05:44.846 It's a good week to be quiet and still and reflective. 00:05:45.911 --> 00:05:53.052 And listen to the insights that gently emerge from within and sometimes from without. 00:05:54.581 --> 00:05:57.132 Here's a reflection for this cycle. 00:05:58.211 --> 00:06:04.677 What story about your life are you ready to edit so it better reflects who you are becoming? 00:06:10.151 --> 00:06:15.942 So dear ones, this week is less about outer drama and more about inner cultivation. 00:06:17.591 --> 00:06:20.622 Let yourself settle into discernment and nourishment. 00:06:22.752 --> 00:06:34.302 The energy will build again next week as Venus Mercury and the sun activate powerful oppositions leading up to the Virgo solar eclipse. 00:06:34.451 --> 00:06:37.302 So take advantage of this quieter week. 00:06:37.872 --> 00:06:40.002 Get some rest, do some reflection. 00:06:40.776 --> 00:06:51.906 And remember the gift of Sun and Mercury and Virgo is to question some of your patterns, some of your ways of thinking or behaving and saying, what's a different way to do this? 00:06:53.497 --> 00:07:03.476 And so the poem that comes beautifully for this week to support you is called The Art of Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye. 00:07:05.797 --> 00:07:10.416 A beautiful poem about the art of disappearing and the art of discernment. 00:07:11.766 --> 00:07:12.997 May it serve you well. 00:07:15.906 --> 00:07:17.857 Thank you for your ongoing support. 00:07:18.726 --> 00:07:25.807 May these cycles bless you and give you some breathing time to go deeper with the integration. 00:07:27.036 --> 00:07:31.536 And don't forget to check out my website for all the resources available to you. 00:07:33.156 --> 00:07:36.937 On the edges of change.com/homepage. 00:07:41.682 --> 00:07:54.103 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. 00:07:54.642 --> 00:07:55.752 Thank you for listening. 00:07:56.413 --> 00:08:00.942 Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.