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 --> 00:01:02.851 Hello, and welcome to episode number 328 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. 00:01:03.332 --> 00:01:06.992 This is for the week of September 1st, 2025. 00:01:07.621 --> 00:01:11.212 I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bélanger. 00:01:13.111 --> 00:01:24.361 Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem:"to live in this world, you must let it go." Let me give you an overview here. 00:01:25.081 --> 00:01:28.591 This week opens a powerful three week arc. 00:01:29.462 --> 00:01:34.352 Saturn returns to Pisces for its final six, much six month chapter. 00:01:34.352 --> 00:01:35.191 In the sign. 00:01:35.882 --> 00:01:43.081 Uranus shifts direction and the first of two very potent eclipses of light up the sky. 00:01:43.081 --> 00:01:53.762 I, this is the opening of the Eclipse Portal, inviting you to honor what is completing and to prepare for a new rhythm of becoming. 00:01:55.682 --> 00:02:02.402 We are all entering a threshold passage where old structures dissolve and new possibilities glimmer. 00:02:03.242 --> 00:02:04.682 It's not about control. 00:02:05.852 --> 00:02:13.741 It's about allowing the tide of change to teach you what still needs completion, release, and integration. 00:02:14.882 --> 00:02:24.092 And keeping in mind are ones, I'm always giving you a sense of the archetypal cycles from the astrological lens for your own personal growth. 00:02:24.092 --> 00:02:26.611 And of course, there's no separation with the collective. 00:02:27.181 --> 00:02:32.312 So as you hear these cycles, you may recognize, oh, this is happening on the collective. 00:02:33.002 --> 00:02:35.431 And for me, the more of us individually. 00:02:36.241 --> 00:02:44.252 Who consciously lean in to the alchemical process of change and really say, okay, I'll make those changes. 00:02:44.461 --> 00:02:49.801 The ripple effect is huge for our world, so it's not just personal. 00:02:51.572 --> 00:02:55.502 On September 1st, Saturn Reenters the sign of Pisces. 00:02:56.162 --> 00:03:02.581 Saturn, the responsible one, slips back into Pisces until February of 2026. 00:03:03.497 --> 00:03:07.426 This is the last stretch of a 29 year cycle. 00:03:08.266 --> 00:03:21.706 Pisces is the last of the 12 Zodiac signs and Saturn takes approximately 29 years to complete a whole cycle, starting with Aries and moving through all the other Zodiac signs to finish up in Pisces. 00:03:21.977 --> 00:03:27.646 So the last six months we're stepping into of the previous 29 year cycle. 00:03:29.146 --> 00:03:31.067 Think of it as a final apprenticeship. 00:03:32.507 --> 00:03:39.287 Six months to gather the wisdom of boundaries, responsibilities, and lessons learned. 00:03:39.437 --> 00:03:43.727 That's Saturn about flow, endings and surrender. 00:03:43.787 --> 00:03:44.747 That's Pisces. 00:03:45.646 --> 00:03:52.426 Pisces is that water sign that is about dissolving boundaries, dissolving illusions. 00:03:52.426 --> 00:03:58.877 Becoming one with Pisces helps us attune and love and heal. 00:03:59.912 --> 00:04:02.792 Attune with and love and heal our victim. 00:04:02.792 --> 00:04:13.592 One, our overwhelmed one, and Saturn is the one in us who can create boundaries and structure when it's in a healthy expression, in its unhealthy expression, it's like an inner critic. 00:04:13.592 --> 00:04:16.802 It's a fear-based controlling punitive energy. 00:04:17.641 --> 00:04:24.331 The highest gift of Saturn and Pisces is to take responsibility for your own unconscious energy. 00:04:26.596 --> 00:04:41.656 To become as aware of you as you can with all the energies in you, and to take responsibility not to project it out unconsciously on others, and to take responsibility to stand in your dreams and your visions and own them. 00:04:44.206 --> 00:04:47.776 Here's a reflection question for Saturn reentering Pisces. 00:04:49.666 --> 00:04:53.841 What unfinished learning about boundaries and responsibilities. 00:04:55.036 --> 00:05:01.966 Is asking for your patient attention before you can step into the next Saturn cycle. 00:05:05.927 --> 00:05:14.447 Then on September 2nd and third, mercury and Virgo meets Uranus in Gemini Mercury. 00:05:14.507 --> 00:05:21.257 The storyteller enters Virgo and quickly tangles with Uranus the Maverick in Gemini. 00:05:22.966 --> 00:05:29.956 Expect disruptions in communication, sudden insights or nervous system jolts. 00:05:31.216 --> 00:05:37.276 It's an invitation to sharpen your discernment, separating signal from noise. 00:05:38.357 --> 00:05:41.266 The Zodiac sign of Virgo brings us precision. 00:05:42.286 --> 00:05:48.291 The archetype of Uranus brings surprise, unexpected change together. 00:05:49.682 --> 00:06:00.692 Mercury and Virgo, the Communicator, and Uranus, the Maverick and Gemini, together, they call you to reframe old patterns of thought and oh my goodness, do we and our world need that? 00:06:01.682 --> 00:06:03.961 Here's a reflection question for this cycle. 00:06:05.341 --> 00:06:12.331 What sudden shift in perspective could free you from mental habits that no longer serve? 00:06:16.052 --> 00:06:22.291 And then on September 4th, Mars in Libra Squares, Jupiter in Cancer. 00:06:23.461 --> 00:06:28.862 If you don't understand the astrology lingo of squaring in opposition and such, don't worry about it. 00:06:29.372 --> 00:06:36.872 I try to tell you stories in English so that you can get the gist of what I'm offering you to consider. 00:06:37.771 --> 00:06:40.112 So Mars the action taker archetype. 00:06:40.906 --> 00:06:47.057 Presses against Jupiter, the wise one energy may feel inflated. 00:06:47.716 --> 00:06:50.387 Conflict or urgency can escalate. 00:06:51.137 --> 00:06:56.146 Particularly true for Mars because that character in US and the world is very impulsive. 00:06:56.146 --> 00:06:57.497 It wants it yesterday. 00:06:57.826 --> 00:06:58.692 It just wants to go. 00:06:59.591 --> 00:07:00.612 Now it's in. 00:07:01.591 --> 00:07:07.502 The relational sign of Libra, which wants to take turns thinking about what's right for everyone else. 00:07:07.682 --> 00:07:15.151 So you can find an impulsiveness with Mars and Libra in your relationships, and you can have this sort of pushy urgency. 00:07:16.622 --> 00:07:26.372 But the deeper invitation is to learn balance, right timing, right action, right Expansion. 00:07:27.151 --> 00:07:38.942 That's attuning with Jupiter as the wise one archetype in the deep water sign of cancer, which is sensitive and nurturing and wants to connect emotionally. 00:07:40.291 --> 00:07:55.937 It's less about pushing harder and more about aligning effort with a larger purpose, still about taking action, and it's first of all, attuning sensitively to yourself and others before you take those actions. 00:07:57.692 --> 00:07:59.401 It's a reflection for this cycle. 00:08:01.201 --> 00:08:06.422 Where could you temper bold action with wise timing this week? 00:08:11.432 --> 00:08:15.271 Okay, September 5th, Uranus goes retrograde. 00:08:16.081 --> 00:08:23.341 The Maverick Planet Stations looks like it stops and turns backward, beginning a five month inward review. 00:08:24.151 --> 00:08:25.471 Planets go retrograde. 00:08:25.471 --> 00:08:27.151 From our perspective on the earth. 00:08:27.151 --> 00:08:34.172 When they appear to move backwards in their orbit, you know they're not doing that, and it's an archetypal review period. 00:08:34.652 --> 00:08:35.611 Slow down. 00:08:35.611 --> 00:08:36.572 Go inside. 00:08:36.572 --> 00:08:37.172 Review. 00:08:39.542 --> 00:08:46.052 Uranus asks you and us, what systems of meaning are you ready to rewire? 00:08:46.831 --> 00:08:54.932 The Zodiac sign of Gemini is all about ideas and thoughts and connection, and curiosity and possibilities. 00:08:56.042 --> 00:08:59.731 The maverick being in Gemini is saying, whoa, change your thinking. 00:09:00.152 --> 00:09:02.162 What's a different perspective you can have? 00:09:04.261 --> 00:09:12.721 So the new systems of meaning in Gemini, this especially touches communication, learning, and technology. 00:09:14.192 --> 00:09:19.442 The station of Uranus going backwards can spark restless energy. 00:09:20.192 --> 00:09:25.081 Notice what breakthroughs are trying to emerge and keep yourself grounded. 00:09:25.591 --> 00:09:27.001 It's a high energy. 00:09:27.331 --> 00:09:29.402 Uranus in Gemini turning retrograde. 00:09:29.971 --> 00:09:31.052 Lots of quickness. 00:09:31.591 --> 00:09:35.461 Do your practices of grounding, of breathing, of meditating. 00:09:35.881 --> 00:09:37.111 So you're staying connected. 00:09:38.761 --> 00:09:40.501 Here's a reflection for this cycle. 00:09:41.912 --> 00:09:47.461 What fresh story about yourself or the world is waiting to be ridden? 00:09:51.032 --> 00:10:04.201 And then finally, on September 7th, we have the full moon eclipse in Pisces at 11:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time. 00:10:06.376 --> 00:10:09.947 This whole week culminates in this full moon lunar eclipse. 00:10:09.947 --> 00:10:19.547 So the sun and moon are opposite each other and they're balancing the sun is the conscious self in opposition balance with moon. 00:10:19.547 --> 00:10:23.777 The instinct of nurturer the power of an eclipse means. 00:10:25.096 --> 00:10:33.647 We on the earth are in between the sun and the moon in such a way that the earth's shadow find falls on the moon's disc lunar eclipse. 00:10:33.917 --> 00:10:39.767 So part of the moon's disc in part of the world is seen to disappear or be blackened. 00:10:41.147 --> 00:10:45.976 It's a powerful time lunar eclipses to release old emotional patterns. 00:10:47.522 --> 00:10:56.192 And this full moon eclipse in Pisces amplifies Saturn's recent reentry into the sign of Pisces. 00:10:57.542 --> 00:11:08.912 This eclipse is like a tidal surge washing away illusions, dissolving what no longer holds truth and illuminating spiritual clarity. 00:11:10.292 --> 00:11:14.701 It's tender, mystical, and deeply cleansing. 00:11:15.871 --> 00:11:42.152 It has a lovely relationship with Jupiter in cancer, the wise one, and so there's a lot of emotionality, a lot of cleansing and releasing, and because Saturn is recently back into Pisces, it brings that responsible one, that clarity around what's done, what's finished, and always with a lunar eclipse, there can be the support for us to release emotionally. 00:11:43.111 --> 00:11:47.072 What we don't need to carry anymore, and let's contextualize it. 00:11:47.072 --> 00:11:53.942 We're in an enormous, painful, challenging initiation time. 00:11:54.721 --> 00:12:07.897 So much is dissolving of who we thought we were, our countries, our governments, our principles, and there's a lot of confusion and it's also a powerful time of endings. 00:12:10.846 --> 00:12:23.897 And one of the things about Pisces is it brings us closer to our awareness of universality in the sense of we're all in it together and we're always changing. 00:12:25.517 --> 00:12:32.956 The Buddhists know this truth, impermanence, and yet our egos keep trying to think we're in control and we're gonna make it the same. 00:12:33.496 --> 00:12:37.547 So in this potent full moon eclipse, be tender with yourself. 00:12:38.282 --> 00:12:39.991 And be courageous with yourself. 00:12:41.522 --> 00:12:44.851 Here's a reflection question for this full moon eclipse. 00:12:46.621 --> 00:12:51.511 What in your life is ready to be released back into the ocean? 00:12:52.471 --> 00:12:55.412 So your next chapter can begin with clarity. 00:12:59.011 --> 00:13:07.201 Sometimes for many of us, particularly now with all this suffering, the horrific suffering in the world, we've not been able to fully grieve. 00:13:07.861 --> 00:13:23.072 Because it is overwhelming the losses, and yet you may find this full moon eclipse supports you in some way to grieve, to recognize what you need to let go, what maybe you had to let go, not by choice. 00:13:24.601 --> 00:13:35.586 It's a very tender and potent time, and the poem that came for this week is a very powerful one. 00:13:36.317 --> 00:13:42.706 From Mary Oliver about releasing and letting go, and our human journey of that. 00:13:44.326 --> 00:13:49.787 It's called In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver. 00:13:51.647 --> 00:13:54.782 So feel the Deep archetypal support this week dear ones. 00:13:56.861 --> 00:14:10.331 You are grieving what you know the losses are, and yet the deep support of the tides to let them go and trust your emotions and trust that you're not alone and you're letting go. 00:14:11.562 --> 00:14:17.922 There is a clearing happening, awaiting for a different kind of rebirth or new beginnings. 00:14:21.072 --> 00:14:22.241 Thanks as always. 00:14:22.736 --> 00:14:37.677 For your continued support of this podcast, really appreciate the donations, the emails, passing the word on to others, and I want you to know always, there's so many resources available from me to you. 00:14:38.366 --> 00:14:45.836 Just go to my website on the edges of change.com homepage. 00:14:46.871 --> 00:14:47.721 Thanks so much. 00:14:51.283 --> 00:14:56.232 You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Lange. 00:14:57.102 --> 00:15:03.702 Resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. 00:15:04.243 --> 00:15:05.352 Thank you for listening. 00:15:06.013 --> 00:15:10.543 Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.