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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 330 of
the Astrology Alchemy Podcast.

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This is for the week of
September 15th, 2025, and I'm

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your host and guide, Sheila
Bélanger.

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Here's a phrase from this week's
podcast poem:"take a small step,

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you can call your own." So
giving you a little overview

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here, we approach the second
eclipse of this cycle, a new

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moon, solar eclipse in Virgo
this week, framed by Saturn's

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ongoing lessons as it ends its
journey in Pisces.

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This week is definitely a
threshold moment.

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What has been released now makes
space for what must be planted.

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This week is alive with
relational tension, deep healing

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themes and mental shifts that
prepare the ground.

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So please be very kind to
yourself.

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Pace yourself.

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Count to 10.

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Think of this week as an
initiation.

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The cosmos is rearranging old
patterns, so you can enter a new

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level of discernment.

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Clarity and alignment, and my
goodness, do we need that in our

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world right now?

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Not just personally, but
collectively.

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The New Moon Virgo Eclipse
clears illusions and asks for

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discernment, humility, and
service.

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As this eclipse cycle portal
closes, you are invited to carry

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forward Saturn's teachings.

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Releasing the past with
compassion and stepping into a

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future shaped by clarity and
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That is the aspiration.

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On September 15th and 16th,
Venus and Mars activate Chiron.

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Venus.

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The relational one is an
archetype, is in Leo.

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And it sextiles Mars, the action
taker in Libra, it just means

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they're 60 degrees away from
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It's a harmonious connection.

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Then Venus trines, Chiron, the
asteroid Comet, who is the

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wounded healer archetype.

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Well, Mars opposes Chiron.

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So that's a couple sentences of
a lot of Astro babble, I say

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with love and appreciation.

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Let's step down to what it means
in English.

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Whenever Venus is active in a
cycle, we are called to be more

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in attune with our relationship
patterns inside and out our core

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values.

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What is a value to us?

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What's worth spending our
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When Mars is active, we are in
tune with our holy yang that

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wants to get going, that wants
to dynamically make something

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happen.

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And when we are connected to
Chiron, the archetype of the

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wounded healer or the shamanic
one, there is a huge invitation

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to slow down and work with some
old wound material, whether it's

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ours or ancestors or our worlds
in a healthy way.

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So all of these big cycles
happening this week with Venus

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and Mars and Chiron really help
you focus on relationships and

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desires.

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That's Venus and Mars.

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They come under a deeply healing
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The alignments of these planets
symbolically stir old wounds,

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but also offer creative pathways
to restore balance and vitality.

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And part of the journey with
these archetypes this week is to

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notice what are old wound
painful patterns.

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Especially the patterns with
Chiron in Aries where you feel

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like you can't be true to
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action you need to take and to
recognize.

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Whenever chiron's at play, many
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acknowledge where we are
unconsciously carrying ancestral

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pain, unmetabolized ancestral
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Collective trauma doesn't mean
that we don't need to do our

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part to shift and heal, but we
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ourselves, and we certainly
don't need to unconsciously try

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to do a rescue operation to heal
our ancestors.

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We can love them through our own
actions and our own awareness.

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They have their own karma.

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Take your part of the ancestral
lineage that is yours to work

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and heal and bless the ancestors
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That takes some courage.

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Mars, what's mine to carry?

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What's not mine to carry?

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And above it all, because Venus
is also so active with this set

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of cycles, I think of, beloved
spiritual teacher, Angles

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Arrien.

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She would often say how do you
connect to the good, true, and

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beautiful of the ancestors
beneath the wounds?

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So here's a reflection for this
set of cycles this week.

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How can you approach
relationship or desire this week

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as an opportunity for healing
rather than repeating old

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patterns?

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And then on September 17th and
18th, we have Mercury Cross

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Currents, mercury, the
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archetype, very much connected
to our mind and our narratives.

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It opposes Saturn, the
responsible one, and then it

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enters a new sign, Libra, and
immediately opposes Neptune, the

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Dreamer in Aries.

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Well, at the same time, it's in
what's called a trine to Uranus,

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the Maverick, and Pluto the
transformer.

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Whoa, that was a lot of
astrology.

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Okay, so take a breath.

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It's essentially saying the one
in you that creates story and

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narrative and ideas is having
some very powerful links with a

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grounded one.

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Saturn a Dreamer, mystic,
Neptune.

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A Maverick awakener, Uranus, and
a deep transformer, a systemic

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transformer Pluto.

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So dear ones in the this time
period, the middle of this week,

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pay attention to what's
happening in your mind, because

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there's a lot of activity of
transformation.

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The storyteller in you is
stretched across a wide field

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between responsibility and
imagination.

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Structure and disruption,
endings and transformation.

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This is a moment of truth
telling, refining how you

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communicate with yourself and
others and aligning your words

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with deeper realities.

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Its a fine week to be doing your
meditation practice or your

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quiet reflection practices for
all of these cycles.

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Here's one reflection to be
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What conversation inner or outer
needs, both honesty and

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imagination to unlock new
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It continues.

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It's an extraordinarily full
week, September 19th and 20th,

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Venus and the sun test
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just on the edge of the Equinox,
which is coming early next week

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venus, the relational one enters
Virgo, a deeply grounded,

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pragmatic, earth sign, healing
sign, and then when it does

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quickly squares.

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Uranus, the Maverick in Gemini,
the Sun in Virgo, also opposes

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Saturn, the responsible one in
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This is an invitation to step
beyond your comfort zones.

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Venus in Virgo wants clarity and
discernment with love and

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values.

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Uranus, the Maverick asks for
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How do you bring those together?

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And then the sun in the grounded
healing sign of Virgo faces

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Saturn the responsible one, and
reminds you to meet

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responsibility without shrinking
what is yours to do, especially

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emotionally, energetically,
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Here's a good reflection for
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Where are you being asked to
grow up without giving up to

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take responsibility, without
losing heart?

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So let those questions, that
questions, support you with

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these set of cycles.

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And then finally, on September
21st, we have the new Moon solar

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eclipse in Virgo.

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This is at 29 degrees of Virgo,
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sign, and it is opposite Saturn
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Uranus, and Pluto.

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So much like the mercury cycle
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week, this archetype.

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Of the sun and Moon together,
the New Moon seeding a new way

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forward for the next month has
this integration in bringing in

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the responsible one, the
dreamer, the Maverick, and the

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Transformer.

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This is a potent new beginning,
but not the easy kind.

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Virgo eclipses dissolve
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Clear away what's not aligned
and ask you to plant seeds of

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discernment and service that
will bear fruit over the next

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six months.

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Because this eclipse has such a
strong activity with what we

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call the outer planets,
especially the three most

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outermost planets, Uranus,
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definitely a collective beyond
the individual transpersonal.

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Energy to this.

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So as you dream into and will
look at how to have a more

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aligned, authentic life during
this seeding with the eclipse,

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ask yourself also, what might
that life look like if it was in

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service to the Great Turning,
that phrase from Joanna Macy

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about the times we're in:
turning away from a life

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destructive societal dominator
culture.

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Destroying nature.

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Human relationship resources.

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Great Turning to a life-giving
society and way of being.

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So you might consider what kind
of authentic aligned healing

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life.

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What I live into now, if I was
hoping to serve the great

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turning in some way.

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So this new moon solar eclipse
closes the portal opened by the

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Pisces Full moon eclipse two
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In this time, notice what has
dissolved, what has clarified,

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and what is asking to be borne
through you.

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This is a turning of a cycle.

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Let it work through you with
humility and courage.

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So you get to start over with a
Virgo new Moon Eclipse, and

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Virgo wants wholeness alignment.

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It wants to support you to be
who you are in your own form, in

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your own way, in your own
expression of your being.

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So this poem comes to support
you with that.

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It's called Start Close In by
David White.

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So notice where you're being
nudged by your inner wisdom.

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Take this step.

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Just one step.

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Align with the energy, the new
Moon, releasing the past what

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you can, and be right on the
edge of the equinox coming, that

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point of perfect balance.

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And for those of us in the
Northern Hemisphere marking the

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shift more towards the darkness
and the letting go.

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Those of my audience in the
Southern hemisphere, you're in

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the edge of going closer into
the light Regardless of where

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your being is, may you feel
deeply supported, guided, and

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nourished by these cycles.

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Take good care.

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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.