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 Bellagio, 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. 00:00:51.731 --> 00:00:57.582 Welcome to the episode number 3 31 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. 00:00:57.582 --> 00:01:06.581 This is for the week of September 22nd, 2025, and I am your host and guide, Sheila Boje. 00:01:07.262 --> 00:01:10.412 Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem. 00:01:11.522 --> 00:01:14.402 Don't you imagine the leaves dream. 00:01:14.552 --> 00:01:19.322 Now, well, here's an overview for this week. 00:01:19.921 --> 00:01:21.272 It's a threshold week. 00:01:21.331 --> 00:01:27.637 Like so many that we've been in as autumn Equinox initiates a new season of balance. 00:01:28.906 --> 00:01:43.096 While Mars dives into Scorpio and squares Pluto calling us into deep transformation, the sun's opposition to Neptune brings dreams and confusions to the surface, but also opens portals of vision. 00:01:44.087 --> 00:01:53.777 This week asks all of us, how do you align yourself at the edge of change with clarity, courage, and creative power? 00:01:55.697 --> 00:01:57.587 Monday, September 22nd. 00:01:58.802 --> 00:02:04.081 The sun enters Libra, which marks the beginning of autumn equinox in the Northern hemisphere. 00:02:04.412 --> 00:02:08.701 That happens exactly at 11:19 AM Pacific daylight time. 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:15.241 Of course, those of you living in southern hemisphere, you are stepping into spring now. 00:02:15.241 --> 00:02:20.972 The power of the Equinox is twice a year in our seasonal journey of the earth around the sun. 00:02:21.542 --> 00:02:26.252 We have this day of exact balance of light and dark. 00:02:27.497 --> 00:02:35.266 And for so many of us, the horrific, um, experiences we're witnessing, we're part of in the world right now. 00:02:36.556 --> 00:02:45.287 The cruelty, the violence, the taking over, and the misuse of power, it can really wear us down. 00:02:46.097 --> 00:02:53.447 And one of the things about Libra as a zodiac energy sign is it calls us into balance. 00:02:53.491 --> 00:03:00.782 It is called a cardinal air sign, which means it wants to initiate something, something's in the mind in a new way. 00:03:02.461 --> 00:03:07.051 The E Equinox turns the wheel day and night balance. 00:03:08.401 --> 00:03:18.451 Libra season begins inviting you to recalibrate your relationships, your sense of justice, and your commitment to harmony. 00:03:20.431 --> 00:03:22.831 Equinox is always a time of threshold. 00:03:23.641 --> 00:03:26.757 Harvesting What has ripened releasing what is done? 00:03:28.396 --> 00:03:36.736 And this is always, as I offer you, the opportunities to align with the archetypal energies of the astrology cycles starts with you. 00:03:36.826 --> 00:03:39.377 Because we're all interested in what does it mean for me? 00:03:39.407 --> 00:03:46.366 And that's good because I feel so deeply that as we do our personal changes that ripples out into the world. 00:03:46.667 --> 00:03:53.836 But the era we're living in now, we cannot escape the collective and and the global issues because it's so in our face. 00:03:54.317 --> 00:03:54.977 So as you're at. 00:03:56.026 --> 00:04:06.197 Attuning to the change into Equinox and balance Hold prayers for our world that we can find a new way to balance the light in the dark. 00:04:06.887 --> 00:04:10.486 Here's a reflection for the sudden entering Libra. 00:04:12.407 --> 00:04:19.187 Where in your life are you ready to rebalance so that both light and shadow are honored? 00:04:20.867 --> 00:04:23.416 And for my listeners, I remind you all of this is in. 00:04:23.867 --> 00:04:27.107 The show notes on the, on the, um, episode. 00:04:27.557 --> 00:04:30.976 So if you wanna go back and look at those reflection questions, they're right there. 00:04:32.596 --> 00:04:43.817 Also, on Monday, September 22nd, the planet Mars enters Scorpio for about six weeks now, Mars is the archetype of the warrior, the protector, the advocate. 00:04:43.817 --> 00:04:45.107 It's about the holy Y. 00:04:46.127 --> 00:04:47.146 Let's make it happen. 00:04:47.146 --> 00:04:48.137 Let's make it go. 00:04:48.557 --> 00:04:51.406 Moves into the deep water sign of Scorpio. 00:04:52.771 --> 00:04:55.891 Very intense energy for the next six weeks. 00:04:55.922 --> 00:04:57.752 Energy intensifies. 00:04:58.291 --> 00:05:05.822 This is a sea season of penetrating insight, fierce will, and facing what's hidden. 00:05:06.901 --> 00:05:12.166 The zodiac sign of Scorpio has like x-ray vision to see what's underneath, what's really going on. 00:05:13.456 --> 00:05:20.086 And Mars can be almost a reckless energy, but it certainly initiates and goes forward and says, let's make this happen. 00:05:20.927 --> 00:05:27.437 The deep challenge of Mars in its wounded side is an unconscious, aggressive, violent energy. 00:05:28.456 --> 00:05:38.026 The deep wound and unconsciousness of the Scorpio energy is manipulation, misuse of power, hidden energies. 00:05:38.762 --> 00:05:53.492 Playing games so we can step into this time of Mars and scope year with our, our beings, our heart open, but deeply grounded and really, really be part of the collective energy that says, I'm going deeper. 00:05:53.942 --> 00:06:03.716 I'm having courage to look at what I've not been able to look at, and I'm going to have the maturity and care to not react with violence to myself or anyone else. 00:06:05.701 --> 00:06:09.031 Because we can feel angry when we feel manipulated. 00:06:09.242 --> 00:06:17.521 Mars and Scorpio, we can feel really rageful when we find out we've been duped or there's been hidden games going on. 00:06:18.122 --> 00:06:26.612 So just hold this stepping into the six weeks of Mars in Scorpio in a way that is really supporting your courage. 00:06:27.346 --> 00:06:34.547 To face what is hidden in yourself and in the world, and having the courage to make the changes, the deep emotional changes that are needed. 00:06:36.226 --> 00:06:39.797 Mars and Scorpio fuels both obsession and liberation. 00:06:40.607 --> 00:06:47.387 It asks you to confront power dynamics, shadow desires, and your capacity for transformation. 00:06:48.766 --> 00:06:50.747 Here's a reflection question for this cycle. 00:06:51.992 --> 00:06:57.122 What hidden passion or fear is ready to be faced with courage and clarity? 00:07:01.291 --> 00:07:07.382 On Tuesday, September 23rd, the sun in the sign of Libra opposes Neptune in Aries. 00:07:08.971 --> 00:07:09.122 Now. 00:07:09.692 --> 00:07:11.312 The sun is the conscious self. 00:07:11.701 --> 00:07:18.632 It's the aware self and just having stepped into Libra, it's shining the light in us and in the world. 00:07:18.632 --> 00:07:20.132 About what about balance? 00:07:20.492 --> 00:07:21.601 What about justice? 00:07:21.601 --> 00:07:23.072 What about reciprocity? 00:07:23.312 --> 00:07:24.752 What about right relationship? 00:07:25.471 --> 00:07:30.961 Now it's opposite Neptune, which is the dreamer, visionary, mystic, altered state one. 00:07:32.252 --> 00:07:47.012 Neptune just recently into Aries in the last few months is really inviting us to a whole new era of visioning and letting go of the spells we put ourselves under about who we are, Aries, and where we've lost our will. 00:07:47.387 --> 00:07:49.247 Our ability to initiate, which is Aries. 00:07:49.906 --> 00:07:56.987 Now, whenever Neptune is involved in a cycle, its energy can be confusing because it's an altered state. 00:07:57.466 --> 00:08:02.206 Now the sun is this shining light that can be very much with our minds and our awareness. 00:08:02.266 --> 00:08:07.276 So part of the sun opposite Neptune cycle can be, there's a little bit of confusion. 00:08:07.877 --> 00:08:15.612 You may feel unclear, dreamy, or disoriented, but this is also a chance to connect vision and compassion. 00:08:16.742 --> 00:08:27.781 To open your awareness to other realities, not as an escapist move, not as a spiritual bypass move, but as like, okay, what's another way for me to see this? 00:08:28.622 --> 00:08:42.586 How can I tap back into a greater compassion and unity consciousness despite all of the difficult, um, painful and profoundly harmful experiences in the world right now? 00:08:44.177 --> 00:08:53.506 Now when the sun is in this opposition to Neptune, it's also in a cycle called trines, Uranus in Gemini and trines, Pluto and Aquarius. 00:08:53.777 --> 00:08:55.817 Okay, that's an astrological mouthful. 00:08:55.876 --> 00:08:56.657 Let me translate. 00:08:57.437 --> 00:09:00.767 We basically have an equilateral triangle in the sky. 00:09:01.096 --> 00:09:05.206 A trine means two planets are 120 degrees away from each other. 00:09:05.657 --> 00:09:12.346 Now, in this week, the sun is in the beginning of Libra, one part of the equilateral triangle. 00:09:13.486 --> 00:09:19.187 Uranus is in the very beginning of Gemini, and Pluto is in the very beginning of Aquarius. 00:09:19.187 --> 00:09:22.486 So it's like we have this triangle between these three planets. 00:09:22.907 --> 00:09:23.836 Uranus is the maverick. 00:09:24.767 --> 00:09:31.966 The awakener, the rebel, and it's recently in Gemini, the sign of ideas and communication and words. 00:09:32.177 --> 00:09:42.976 So there's this radicalizing of our ideas and our words, which you can see very much playing out from the difficulty of, um, political violence and assassination that has happened. 00:09:43.096 --> 00:09:43.991 And yet. 00:09:44.261 --> 00:09:47.381 The trine with Pluto in Aquarius. 00:09:47.652 --> 00:09:56.381 Pluto says, I'm the transformer and I really wanna touch the bigger collective egalitarian freedom movements for all. 00:09:57.042 --> 00:10:10.211 So one possibility this week with the sun linked to Uranus, the Maverick, and Pluto, the Transformer, we get to see a bigger picture of how might we align with words and ideas. 00:10:10.802 --> 00:10:14.491 And narratives, Gemini, that are truly transformative. 00:10:15.392 --> 00:10:26.461 And how do we keep track and see where we're going under spells a more wounded Neptune so we can really tap more of a vision that might be healing for us and for the world? 00:10:28.231 --> 00:10:37.892 Because the sun is in harmony with Uranus, the Maverick, and Pluto reminding you that imagination can fuel real change. 00:10:39.032 --> 00:10:43.772 This is a potent triangle of vision, disruption, and transformation. 00:10:44.672 --> 00:10:51.961 Don't be afraid to lean in to how those energies might come through you in a good way in your own personal life and in the world. 00:10:54.302 --> 00:11:00.511 On Wednesday sep, September 24th, Mars in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius. 00:11:01.876 --> 00:11:04.456 Mars meets Pluto in a fierce confrontation. 00:11:04.697 --> 00:11:13.037 This is a very, very intense cycle because Mars, by its nature is assertive and it's about personal will. 00:11:14.236 --> 00:11:20.447 Pluto by its nature is deeply transfer, transpersonal, transformative, and it's about collective will. 00:11:21.437 --> 00:11:22.371 So we have. 00:11:23.402 --> 00:11:27.422 Mars 90 degrees away from Pluto just having entered Scorpio. 00:11:27.422 --> 00:11:37.652 So wanting to take action on deeper emotional feelings and what you're tracking, wanting change, but also could get caught up in working with Unmetabolized Anger and rage. 00:11:38.297 --> 00:11:45.197 Particularly around feelings of being disempowered, lied to, manipulated, which is wounded side of Pluto. 00:11:45.947 --> 00:11:50.807 So I really invite all of us this week, do your meditation practices. 00:11:50.866 --> 00:11:55.246 Do your prayer practices stay grounded, do your exercise, get in nature. 00:11:55.636 --> 00:12:01.517 It's not about denying the power of this cycle, it's about stewarding it well and with consciousness. 00:12:02.447 --> 00:12:08.356 This transit can stir up old power struggles, hidden resents resentments, or collective eruptions. 00:12:09.106 --> 00:12:16.366 Yet it is also an alchemical forge Where will shadow and transformation collide? 00:12:17.356 --> 00:12:30.947 You're invited to release toxic control and claim authentic empowerment, and I wanna remind you every single one of us who can make some kind of move in that direction this week contributes to the greater changes in the whole world. 00:12:31.532 --> 00:12:32.581 So don't feel alone. 00:12:33.211 --> 00:12:34.231 Don't feel overwhelmed. 00:12:34.861 --> 00:12:40.741 Do your part, your alchemical part, and trust that many of us are doing the same, including the earth. 00:12:42.032 --> 00:12:43.442 Here's a reflection question. 00:12:44.432 --> 00:12:51.631 What outdated, outdated power, power pattern in your life is asking to be transmuted into new strength? 00:12:59.341 --> 00:13:14.942 Thank you, and I wanna give you just a little look ahead because there's pretty significant cycles upcoming in the next few months as I want you to kind of, I'll be talking about them, but I also wanna name them so you, those of you who are sensitive, which is most of my audience, was like, oh yeah, I feel that coming, Sheila. 00:13:16.142 --> 00:13:19.591 Um, here's a few major cycles that are looming on the horizon. 00:13:20.402 --> 00:13:28.621 Uh, October 22nd, Neptune will reenter Pisces, return us, returning us into the dissolving waters of collective dream work. 00:13:29.101 --> 00:13:34.682 We get to finish up what we've been working on since Neptune went into Pisces quite a while. 00:13:35.642 --> 00:13:48.782 And similarly, November 7th, Uranus, reenters Taurus, where it had been for about seven, eight years, making its final link into that sign, helping us to ground disruption in the material world. 00:13:49.682 --> 00:13:53.942 'cause there has been phenomenal amounts in the last seven, eight years. 00:13:54.346 --> 00:14:07.427 As there is now, and then in November 9th to 28th, mercury will have a retrograde cycle starting in Sagittarius, seeming to move backwards into Scorpio, and then going forward again into Sagittarius. 00:14:08.267 --> 00:14:26.807 Always Mercury retrograde cycles are those three week journeys of slow down, slow the roll with your net, your regular behaviors with ideas, communication, phones, texting, social media, all those things because it's a three week journey of reviewing beliefs, truths, and hidden patterns. 00:14:27.047 --> 00:14:32.386 More to come on that, but some of my people are really sensitive to Mercury antegrade. 00:14:32.386 --> 00:14:37.101 So even though it doesn't start for over a month, you may, you may wanna know that it's coming in. 00:14:37.741 --> 00:14:41.491 I'm sure you're hearing that from other Astrologies people that you're working with. 00:14:42.182 --> 00:14:50.282 And then finally, just a reminder that this is Equinox week rebalancing to help you prepare for these shifts. 00:14:51.932 --> 00:15:00.091 Notice the signs of it already stirring because these key cycles coming up are shaping the final months of this calendar year. 00:15:03.721 --> 00:15:04.772 Thank you so much. 00:15:04.772 --> 00:15:06.331 I would like to offer this poem. 00:15:06.767 --> 00:15:08.537 It's beautiful poem for Autumn. 00:15:09.527 --> 00:15:12.527 It's called Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver. 00:15:14.447 --> 00:15:26.386 Don't you imagine the leaves' dream Now, how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless fresh its of wind. 00:15:27.736 --> 00:15:35.131 And don't you think the trees, especially those with mossy hollows, are beginning to look for the fires that will come. 00:15:36.017 --> 00:15:40.336 Six a dozen to sleep inside their bodies. 00:15:41.897 --> 00:15:45.346 And don't you hear the golden rod whispering goodbye? 00:15:46.216 --> 00:15:52.486 The everlasting being crowned with the first tought of snow, the pond stiffens. 00:15:52.486 --> 00:15:59.206 And the white field over which the fox runs so quickly brings out its long blue shadows. 00:16:00.226 --> 00:16:02.657 The wind wags, its many tails. 00:16:03.886 --> 00:16:04.542 And in the evening. 00:16:05.552 --> 00:16:07.532 The piled firewood shifts. 00:16:07.591 --> 00:16:15.182 A little longing to be on its way, song For Autumn by Mary Oliver. 00:16:16.917 --> 00:16:18.511 I particularly love this poem. 00:16:18.511 --> 00:16:18.841 One. 00:16:18.841 --> 00:16:32.011 I love Mary Oliver, like so many of us, brilliant one portal into nature's mystery and power and transformation, and to honor this poignancy of Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. 00:16:32.866 --> 00:16:35.057 Where things are shifting so deeply. 00:16:36.256 --> 00:16:51.917 You know, in many First Nation traditions they call autumn the goes within time, and that's slowing down and turning within that which is composting, that which is dying, that which is letting go all the deep changes in the external earth. 00:16:51.917 --> 00:17:00.616 All the deep changes in our own psyche and that place where we know go in, transform. 00:17:01.366 --> 00:17:02.447 Harvest let go. 00:17:05.656 --> 00:17:10.846 So may this week, bless you and may you bless us how you travel this week. 00:17:12.586 --> 00:17:16.396 Thank you as always for all your support and thank you so much. 00:17:16.396 --> 00:17:26.402 Those of you who've been telling others about the podcast I've run into by email and even talking to some people in person who've been connected to the podcast by others, thank you so much for that. 00:17:28.146 --> 00:17:34.987 And I hope that your timing with your own journey of transformation is a sacred one. 00:17:39.075 --> 00:17:49.755 And I wanna remind you, I have a free workshop coming up on Saturday, October 4th, nine to 11:00 AM Pacific Online, reclaim Inner Sovereignty. 00:17:50.055 --> 00:17:55.065 It is a free taster workshop for an upcoming six week group coaching immersion. 00:17:56.204 --> 00:18:00.680 Heal the wounds, break the spells, awaken the sovereign within. 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.460 It is a guided experience to honor the wisdom in your wounds. 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:11.160 Break free from inherited stories and meet the sovereign self who drinks from source. 00:18:12.210 --> 00:18:18.869 If you're interested, go to my homepage on my website on the edges of change.com back slash homepage. 00:18:18.869 --> 00:18:21.299 You'll see it right there on the homepage. 00:18:21.450 --> 00:18:28.380 You can enroll in the free workshop and even if you can't come live, roll anyway'cause you'll get the replay for free. 00:18:28.769 --> 00:18:30.420 Reclaim inner sovereignty. 00:18:31.664 --> 00:18:33.855 It's a powerful journey for autumn. 00:18:40.834 --> 00:18:45.784 You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Lange. 00:18:46.653 --> 00:18:53.253 Resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. 00:18:53.794 --> 00:18:54.903 Thank you for listening. 00:18:55.564 --> 00:19:00.094 Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.