WEBVTT 00:00:12.050 --> 00:00:14.509 Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy. 00:00:15.019 --> 00:00:17.510 I'm Sheila Bélanger, your host for this podcast. 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:22.100 Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of transformation. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:26.835 Spiritual alchemy is the process of pursuing the gold of your true nature. 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.949 By transmuting the unrefined limiting parts of yourself. 00:00:31.789 --> 00:00:41.689 In this podcast, I'll offer you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal lead into gold. 00:00:42.229 --> 00:00:48.530 More resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. 00:00:56.881 --> 00:01:02.521 Welcome to episode number 330 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. 00:01:02.942 --> 00:01:12.632 This is for the week of September 15th, 2025, and I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bélanger. 00:01:15.182 --> 00:01:41.162 Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem:"take a small step, you can call your own." So giving you a little overview here, we approach the second eclipse of this cycle, a new moon, solar eclipse in Virgo this week, framed by Saturn's ongoing lessons as it ends its journey in Pisces. 00:01:42.902 --> 00:01:45.421 This week is definitely a threshold moment. 00:01:46.441 --> 00:01:50.611 What has been released now makes space for what must be planted. 00:01:52.456 --> 00:02:01.337 This week is alive with relational tension, deep healing themes and mental shifts that prepare the ground. 00:02:02.087 --> 00:02:04.876 So please be very kind to yourself. 00:02:04.936 --> 00:02:05.746 Pace yourself. 00:02:07.427 --> 00:02:08.507 Count to 10. 00:02:10.127 --> 00:02:12.887 Think of this week as an initiation. 00:02:13.637 --> 00:02:19.847 The cosmos is rearranging old patterns, so you can enter a new level of discernment. 00:02:20.507 --> 00:02:26.836 Clarity and alignment, and my goodness, do we need that in our world right now? 00:02:26.836 --> 00:02:28.967 Not just personally, but collectively. 00:02:30.076 --> 00:02:36.706 The New Moon Virgo Eclipse clears illusions and asks for discernment, humility, and service. 00:02:38.176 --> 00:02:44.836 As this eclipse cycle portal closes, you are invited to carry forward Saturn's teachings. 00:02:45.407 --> 00:02:52.187 Releasing the past with compassion and stepping into a future shaped by clarity and authenticity. 00:02:53.326 --> 00:02:54.826 That is the aspiration. 00:02:56.956 --> 00:03:02.146 On September 15th and 16th, Venus and Mars activate Chiron. 00:03:03.526 --> 00:03:04.097 Venus. 00:03:04.157 --> 00:03:06.602 The relational one is an archetype, is in Leo. 00:03:07.442 --> 00:03:13.711 And it sextiles Mars, the action taker in Libra, it just means they're 60 degrees away from each other. 00:03:13.711 --> 00:03:15.331 It's a harmonious connection. 00:03:16.951 --> 00:03:23.882 Then Venus trines, Chiron, the asteroid Comet, who is the wounded healer archetype. 00:03:24.872 --> 00:03:26.942 Well, Mars opposes Chiron. 00:03:27.151 --> 00:03:33.081 So that's a couple sentences of a lot of Astro babble, I say with love and appreciation. 00:03:33.081 --> 00:03:35.572 Let's step down to what it means in English. 00:03:36.951 --> 00:03:47.872 Whenever Venus is active in a cycle, we are called to be more in attune with our relationship patterns inside and out our core values. 00:03:49.762 --> 00:03:51.412 What is a value to us? 00:03:51.592 --> 00:03:53.632 What's worth spending our precious life on? 00:03:54.651 --> 00:04:03.622 When Mars is active, we are in tune with our holy yang that wants to get going, that wants to dynamically make something happen. 00:04:04.717 --> 00:04:23.317 And when we are connected to Chiron, the archetype of the wounded healer or the shamanic one, there is a huge invitation to slow down and work with some old wound material, whether it's ours or ancestors or our worlds in a healthy way. 00:04:26.451 --> 00:04:37.762 So all of these big cycles happening this week with Venus and Mars and Chiron really help you focus on relationships and desires. 00:04:37.762 --> 00:04:39.021 That's Venus and Mars. 00:04:39.471 --> 00:04:42.021 They come under a deeply healing spotlight. 00:04:43.672 --> 00:04:52.612 The alignments of these planets symbolically stir old wounds, but also offer creative pathways to restore balance and vitality. 00:04:54.382 --> 00:05:02.661 And part of the journey with these archetypes this week is to notice what are old wound painful patterns. 00:05:04.026 --> 00:05:13.137 Especially the patterns with Chiron in Aries where you feel like you can't be true to yourself or you can't take the action you need to take and to recognize. 00:05:13.137 --> 00:05:23.387 Whenever chiron's at play, many times we're being asked to acknowledge where we are unconsciously carrying ancestral pain, unmetabolized ancestral trauma. 00:05:24.197 --> 00:05:37.997 Collective trauma doesn't mean that we don't need to do our part to shift and heal, but we don't need to overwhelm ourselves, and we certainly don't need to unconsciously try to do a rescue operation to heal our ancestors. 00:05:38.927 --> 00:05:43.096 We can love them through our own actions and our own awareness. 00:05:43.336 --> 00:05:44.447 They have their own karma. 00:05:45.166 --> 00:05:53.266 Take your part of the ancestral lineage that is yours to work and heal and bless the ancestors to complete their part. 00:05:54.031 --> 00:05:55.262 That takes some courage. 00:05:55.262 --> 00:05:57.901 Mars, what's mine to carry? 00:05:57.901 --> 00:05:59.221 What's not mine to carry? 00:06:00.151 --> 00:06:09.021 And above it all, because Venus is also so active with this set of cycles, I think of, beloved spiritual teacher, Angles Arrien. 00:06:09.271 --> 00:06:17.622 She would often say how do you connect to the good, true, and beautiful of the ancestors beneath the wounds? 00:06:19.482 --> 00:06:23.471 So here's a reflection for this set of cycles this week. 00:06:24.072 --> 00:06:32.682 How can you approach relationship or desire this week as an opportunity for healing rather than repeating old patterns? 00:06:35.651 --> 00:06:48.942 And then on September 17th and 18th, we have Mercury Cross Currents, mercury, the storyteller, communicator, archetype, very much connected to our mind and our narratives. 00:06:49.456 --> 00:07:00.357 It opposes Saturn, the responsible one, and then it enters a new sign, Libra, and immediately opposes Neptune, the Dreamer in Aries. 00:07:01.422 --> 00:07:09.612 Well, at the same time, it's in what's called a trine to Uranus, the Maverick, and Pluto the transformer. 00:07:09.762 --> 00:07:11.651 Whoa, that was a lot of astrology. 00:07:11.982 --> 00:07:13.812 Okay, so take a breath. 00:07:14.862 --> 00:07:25.992 It's essentially saying the one in you that creates story and narrative and ideas is having some very powerful links with a grounded one. 00:07:25.992 --> 00:07:29.951 Saturn a Dreamer, mystic, Neptune. 00:07:30.596 --> 00:07:37.076 A Maverick awakener, Uranus, and a deep transformer, a systemic transformer Pluto. 00:07:37.557 --> 00:07:49.437 So dear ones in the this time period, the middle of this week, pay attention to what's happening in your mind, because there's a lot of activity of transformation. 00:07:51.326 --> 00:07:59.547 The storyteller in you is stretched across a wide field between responsibility and imagination. 00:08:00.132 --> 00:08:05.201 Structure and disruption, endings and transformation. 00:08:06.822 --> 00:08:16.721 This is a moment of truth telling, refining how you communicate with yourself and others and aligning your words with deeper realities. 00:08:17.882 --> 00:08:26.021 Its a fine week to be doing your meditation practice or your quiet reflection practices for all of these cycles. 00:08:26.112 --> 00:08:27.771 Here's one reflection to be with. 00:08:29.531 --> 00:08:37.782 What conversation inner or outer needs, both honesty and imagination to unlock new possibilities? 00:08:40.662 --> 00:08:41.711 It continues. 00:08:41.802 --> 00:08:49.147 It's an extraordinarily full week, September 19th and 20th, Venus and the sun test boundaries. 00:08:50.231 --> 00:09:04.721 just on the edge of the Equinox, which is coming early next week venus, the relational one enters Virgo, a deeply grounded, pragmatic, earth sign, healing sign, and then when it does quickly squares. 00:09:04.721 --> 00:09:13.841 Uranus, the Maverick in Gemini, the Sun in Virgo, also opposes Saturn, the responsible one in Pisces. 00:09:14.831 --> 00:09:18.581 This is an invitation to step beyond your comfort zones. 00:09:19.451 --> 00:09:24.881 Venus in Virgo wants clarity and discernment with love and values. 00:09:25.647 --> 00:09:29.996 Uranus, the Maverick asks for freedom and innovation. 00:09:30.537 --> 00:09:33.326 How do you bring those together? 00:09:34.287 --> 00:09:50.787 And then the sun in the grounded healing sign of Virgo faces Saturn the responsible one, and reminds you to meet responsibility without shrinking what is yours to do, especially emotionally, energetically, Saturn in Pisces. 00:09:51.956 --> 00:09:53.817 Here's a good reflection for you. 00:09:54.956 --> 00:10:03.116 Where are you being asked to grow up without giving up to take responsibility, without losing heart? 00:10:06.326 --> 00:10:10.767 So let those questions, that questions, support you with these set of cycles. 00:10:11.756 --> 00:10:16.346 And then finally, on September 21st, we have the new Moon solar eclipse in Virgo. 00:10:18.116 --> 00:10:30.836 This is at 29 degrees of Virgo, the last degree of the Virgo sign, and it is opposite Saturn and Neptune, and it is trining, Uranus, and Pluto. 00:10:30.836 --> 00:10:38.787 So much like the mercury cycle we talked about earlier this week, this archetype. 00:10:39.716 --> 00:10:53.517 Of the sun and Moon together, the New Moon seeding a new way forward for the next month has this integration in bringing in the responsible one, the dreamer, the Maverick, and the Transformer. 00:10:54.147 --> 00:10:58.466 This is a potent new beginning, but not the easy kind. 00:10:59.667 --> 00:11:02.517 Virgo eclipses dissolve illusions. 00:11:03.642 --> 00:11:13.211 Clear away what's not aligned and ask you to plant seeds of discernment and service that will bear fruit over the next six months. 00:11:14.292 --> 00:11:32.022 Because this eclipse has such a strong activity with what we call the outer planets, especially the three most outermost planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, there is definitely a collective beyond the individual transpersonal. 00:11:32.667 --> 00:11:33.807 Energy to this. 00:11:34.136 --> 00:12:01.586 So as you dream into and will look at how to have a more aligned, authentic life during this seeding with the eclipse, ask yourself also, what might that life look like if it was in service to the Great Turning, that phrase from Joanna Macy about the times we're in: turning away from a life destructive societal dominator culture. 00:12:02.621 --> 00:12:03.792 Destroying nature. 00:12:04.871 --> 00:12:07.782 Human relationship resources. 00:12:08.052 --> 00:12:12.042 Great Turning to a life-giving society and way of being. 00:12:12.672 --> 00:12:18.072 So you might consider what kind of authentic aligned healing life. 00:12:18.552 --> 00:12:25.572 What I live into now, if I was hoping to serve the great turning in some way. 00:12:27.986 --> 00:12:36.506 So this new moon solar eclipse closes the portal opened by the Pisces Full moon eclipse two weeks ago. 00:12:38.037 --> 00:12:45.116 In this time, notice what has dissolved, what has clarified, and what is asking to be borne through you. 00:12:46.407 --> 00:12:48.086 This is a turning of a cycle. 00:12:49.256 --> 00:12:53.927 Let it work through you with humility and courage. 00:13:00.211 --> 00:13:11.621 So you get to start over with a Virgo new Moon Eclipse, and Virgo wants wholeness alignment. 00:13:14.336 --> 00:13:23.126 It wants to support you to be who you are in your own form, in your own way, in your own expression of your being. 00:13:24.326 --> 00:13:26.966 So this poem comes to support you with that. 00:13:27.836 --> 00:13:31.586 It's called Start Close In by David White. 00:13:33.567 --> 00:13:37.886 So notice where you're being nudged by your inner wisdom. 00:13:38.187 --> 00:13:39.116 Take this step. 00:13:39.657 --> 00:13:40.557 Just one step. 00:13:41.576 --> 00:13:58.447 Align with the energy, the new Moon, releasing the past what you can, and be right on the edge of the equinox coming, that point of perfect balance. 00:13:59.136 --> 00:14:07.506 And for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere marking the shift more towards the darkness and the letting go. 00:14:08.256 --> 00:14:24.256 Those of my audience in the Southern hemisphere, you're in the edge of going closer into the light Regardless of where your being is, may you feel deeply supported, guided, and nourished by these cycles. 00:14:27.322 --> 00:14:28.052 Take good care. 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:43.539 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. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.190 Thank you for listening. 00:14:45.850 --> 00:14:50.379 Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.