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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 328 of the Astrology

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Alchemy Podcast.

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This is for the week of
September 1st, 2025.

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I'm your host and guide, Sheila
Bélanger.

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Here's a phrase from this week's
podcast poem:"to live in this

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world, you must let it go." Let
me give you an overview here.

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This week opens a powerful three
week arc.

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Saturn returns to Pisces for its
final six, much six month

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chapter.

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In the sign.

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Uranus shifts direction and the
first of two very potent

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eclipses of light up the sky.

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I, this is the opening of the
Eclipse Portal, inviting you to

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honor what is completing and to
prepare for a new rhythm of

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becoming.

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We are all entering a threshold
passage where old structures

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dissolve and new possibilities
glimmer.

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It's not about control.

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It's about allowing the tide of
change to teach you what still

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needs completion, release, and
integration.

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And keeping in mind are ones,
I'm always giving you a sense of

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the archetypal cycles from the
astrological lens for your own

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personal growth.

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And of course, there's no
separation with the collective.

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So as you hear these cycles, you
may recognize, oh, this is

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happening on the collective.

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And for me, the more of us
individually.

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Who consciously lean in to the
alchemical process of change and

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really say, okay, I'll make
those changes.

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The ripple effect is huge for
our world, so it's not just

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personal.

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On September 1st, Saturn
Reenters the sign of Pisces.

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Saturn, the responsible one,
slips back into Pisces until

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February of 2026.

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This is the last stretch of a 29
year cycle.

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Pisces is the last of the 12
Zodiac signs and Saturn takes

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approximately 29 years to
complete a whole cycle, starting

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with Aries and moving through
all the other Zodiac signs to

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finish up in Pisces.

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So the last six months we're
stepping into of the previous 29

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year cycle.

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Think of it as a final
apprenticeship.

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Six months to gather the wisdom
of boundaries, responsibilities,

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and lessons learned.

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That's Saturn about flow,
endings and surrender.

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That's Pisces.

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Pisces is that water sign that
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dissolving illusions.

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Becoming one with Pisces helps
us attune and love and heal.

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Attune with and love and heal
our victim.

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One, our overwhelmed one, and
Saturn is the one in us who can

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create boundaries and structure
when it's in a healthy

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expression, in its unhealthy
expression, it's like an inner

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critic.

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It's a fear-based controlling
punitive energy.

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The highest gift of Saturn and
Pisces is to take responsibility

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for your own unconscious energy.

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To become as aware of you as you
can with all the energies in

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you, and to take responsibility
not to project it out

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unconsciously on others, and to
take responsibility to stand in

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your dreams and your visions and
own them.

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Here's a reflection question for
Saturn reentering Pisces.

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What unfinished learning about
boundaries and responsibilities.

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Is asking for your patient
attention before you can step

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into the next Saturn cycle.

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Then on September 2nd and third,
mercury and Virgo meets Uranus

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in Gemini Mercury.

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The storyteller enters Virgo and
quickly tangles with Uranus the

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Maverick in Gemini.

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Expect disruptions in
communication, sudden insights

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or nervous system jolts.

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It's an invitation to sharpen
your discernment, separating

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signal from noise.

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The Zodiac sign of Virgo brings
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The archetype of Uranus brings
surprise, unexpected change

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together.

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Mercury and Virgo, the
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Maverick and Gemini, together,
they call you to reframe old

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patterns of thought and oh my
goodness, do we and our world

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need that?

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Here's a reflection question for
this cycle.

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What sudden shift in perspective
could free you from mental

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habits that no longer serve?

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And then on September 4th, Mars
in Libra Squares, Jupiter in

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Cancer.

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If you don't understand the
astrology lingo of squaring in

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opposition and such, don't worry
about it.

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I try to tell you stories in
English so that you can get the

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gist of what I'm offering you to
consider.

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So Mars the action taker
archetype.

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Presses against Jupiter, the
wise one energy may feel

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inflated.

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Conflict or urgency can
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Particularly true for Mars
because that character in US and

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the world is very impulsive.

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It wants it yesterday.

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It just wants to go.

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Now it's in.

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The relational sign of Libra,
which wants to take turns

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thinking about what's right for
everyone else.

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So you can find an impulsiveness
with Mars and Libra in your

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relationships, and you can have
this sort of pushy urgency.

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But the deeper invitation is to
learn balance, right timing,

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right action, right Expansion.

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That's attuning with Jupiter as
the wise one archetype in the

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deep water sign of cancer, which
is sensitive and nurturing and

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wants to connect emotionally.

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It's less about pushing harder
and more about aligning effort

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with a larger purpose, still
about taking action, and it's

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first of all, attuning
sensitively to yourself and

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others before you take those
actions.

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It's a reflection for this
cycle.

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Where could you temper bold
action with wise timing this

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week?

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Okay, September 5th, Uranus goes
retrograde.

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The Maverick Planet Stations
looks like it stops and turns

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backward, beginning a five month
inward review.

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Planets go retrograde.

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From our perspective on the
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When they appear to move
backwards in their orbit, you

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know they're not doing that, and
it's an archetypal review

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period.

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Slow down.

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Go inside.

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Review.

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Uranus asks you and us, what
systems of meaning are you ready

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to rewire?

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The Zodiac sign of Gemini is all
about ideas and thoughts and

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connection, and curiosity and
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The maverick being in Gemini is
saying, whoa, change your

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thinking.

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What's a different perspective
you can have?

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So the new systems of meaning in
Gemini, this especially touches

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communication, learning, and
technology.

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The station of Uranus going
backwards can spark restless

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energy.

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Notice what breakthroughs are
trying to emerge and keep

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yourself grounded.

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It's a high energy.

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Uranus in Gemini turning
retrograde.

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Lots of quickness.

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Do your practices of grounding,
of breathing, of meditating.

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So you're staying connected.

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Here's a reflection for this
cycle.

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What fresh story about yourself
or the world is waiting to be

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ridden?

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And then finally, on September
7th, we have the full moon

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eclipse in Pisces at 11:09 AM
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This whole week culminates in
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So the sun and moon are opposite
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the sun is the conscious self in
opposition balance with moon.

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The instinct of nurturer the
power of an eclipse means.

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We on the earth are in between
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way that the earth's shadow find
falls on the moon's disc lunar

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eclipse.

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So part of the moon's disc in
part of the world is seen to

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disappear or be blackened.

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It's a powerful time lunar
eclipses to release old

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emotional patterns.

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And this full moon eclipse in
Pisces amplifies Saturn's recent

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reentry into the sign of Pisces.

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This eclipse is like a tidal
surge washing away illusions,

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dissolving what no longer holds
truth and illuminating spiritual

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clarity.

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It's tender, mystical, and
deeply cleansing.

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It has a lovely relationship
with Jupiter in cancer, the wise

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one, and so there's a lot of
emotionality, a lot of cleansing

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and releasing, and because
Saturn is recently back into

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Pisces, it brings that
responsible one, that clarity

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around what's done, what's
finished, and always with a

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lunar eclipse, there can be the
support for us to release

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emotionally.

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What we don't need to carry
anymore, and let's contextualize

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it.

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We're in an enormous, painful,
challenging initiation time.

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So much is dissolving of who we
thought we were, our countries,

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our governments, our principles,
and there's a lot of confusion

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and it's also a powerful time of
endings.

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And one of the things about
Pisces is it brings us closer to

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our awareness of universality in
the sense of we're all in it

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together and we're always
changing.

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The Buddhists know this truth,
impermanence, and yet our egos

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keep trying to think we're in
control and we're gonna make it

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the same.

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So in this potent full moon
eclipse, be tender with

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yourself.

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And be courageous with yourself.

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Here's a reflection question for
this full moon eclipse.

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What in your life is ready to be
released back into the ocean?

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So your next chapter can begin
with clarity.

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Sometimes for many of us,
particularly now with all this

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suffering, the horrific
suffering in the world, we've

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not been able to fully grieve.

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Because it is overwhelming the
losses, and yet you may find

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this full moon eclipse supports
you in some way to grieve, to

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recognize what you need to let
go, what maybe you had to let

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go, not by choice.

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It's a very tender and potent
time, and the poem that came for

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this week is a very powerful
one.

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From Mary Oliver about releasing
and letting go, and our human

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journey of that.

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It's called In Blackwater Woods
by Mary Oliver.

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So feel the Deep archetypal
support this week dear ones.

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You are grieving what you know
the losses are, and yet the deep

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support of the tides to let them
go and trust your emotions and

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trust that you're not alone and
you're letting go.

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There is a clearing happening,
awaiting for a different kind of

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rebirth or new beginnings.

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Thanks as always.

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For your continued support of
this podcast, really appreciate

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the donations, the emails,
passing the word on to others,

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and I want you to know always,
there's so many resources

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available from me to you.

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Just go to my website on the
edges of change.com homepage.

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Thanks so much.

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You have been listening to the
Astrology Alchemy Podcast with

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your host, Sheila Lange.

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Resources are available at the
website on the edges of

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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.