#299-"This is How Angels Come"--Week of February 10, 2025

In this week’s episode of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast, archetypal astrologer Sheila Bélanger explores the key astrology transits for the week of February 10, 2025. She discusses the Sun and Mercury in Aquarius both squaring Uranus in Taurus–which provide opportunities to release limited fear-based thinking and open to bigger perspectives. Other key transits are the Full Moon in Leo inviting greater sovereignty. The episode closes with a reflective poem to inspire deeper integration of these themes.

Timestamps:

• [00:00] Introduction & Weekly Astrology Overview
• [02:42] Sun and Mercury in Aquarius both squaring Uranus in Taurus–Open Your Mind
• [09:08] Full Moon in Leo – Balancing Individuality and Support for the Larger World
• [12:48] Closing Reflection & Poem: “Angels” by Miriam Darlington

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

<silence> Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy. I'm Sheila Bellagio , your host for this podcast, alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of transformation. Spiritual alchemy is the process of pursuing the gold of your true nature by transmuting the unrefined limiting parts of yourself. In this podcast, I'll offer you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal lead into gold. More resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. Hello and welcome to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast, episode number 2 99. This is for the week of February 10th, 2025. And I am your host and guide, Sheila Bella . I wanna invite us all as you're listening to this podcast, whether you're , uh, quietly listening to it or you're driving to just take a nice deep breath. Consciously take in breath, exhale. The extraordinary dismantling of reality that we're experiencing, especially in the United States right now, is so difficult and there are so many people suffering, whether it's literal being nabbed for deportation, or it's the anxiety that is building in the fear. And as I talk about some of the cycles this week, I want to encourage you to monitor that in your being and recognize that the mindset of fear and anxiety destabilizes you deeply closes down your heart, panics you and doesn't serve you. It's important to acknowledge what you're feeling, but to recognize the , um, poisonous manipulation that can happen when fear is used and amplified. And it's important to stay grounded and to take care of yourself. And the poem I'm gonna offer you for the end of this podcast has the phrase, this is how angels come. So invitation this week as we talk about a couple of the cycles supporting you for change is notice all the ways the angels are coming and present, however you see them. On Monday, February 10th, mercury squares Uranus at 23 degrees of Aquarius Taurus . On Tuesday, February 11th, the sun squares Uranus at the same degree measurement in these two signs. So I'm bringing them together because just this past weekend, the Sun and Mercury came together. They call it Simi . When a planet is so close to the sun and it disappears and there's a lot of power there. 'cause that planet, that archetype is getting infused with the sun's light, with awareness, with illumination. And mercury is the storyteller. The communicator has a lot to do with our narratives and the conversations we have inside ourselves, as well as as externally. The sun is the conscious self on the journey. You know, the person's journey, the hero, the heroine's journey. It's my life journey. And I am shining who I am. I'm illuminating. So first of all, the Sun and Mercury are just recently together in the sign of Aquarius. So this is shining the light on your mind and the way you think and the way you communicate. Now, Aquarius, remember the zodiac signs from our perspective on the earth is where the planet seemed to be the backdrop in the heavens. The , uh, zodiac signs are the energetics like the energy costume that the characters wear. So the mercury as your inner communicator, nar , narrative maker and the sun , your inner conscious self, they are wanting to express together in a new way. Mercury and sun , together starting a new cycle with Aquarius, acquire energy , blessing them. And that is about opening your mind to radical new ideas, to liberate yourself from the cages and the status quo and the way you've always done things. It's progressive, it's innovative, it's radical. It says, wake up your mind. Wake up your stories, question your narratives. And that's why I invited you at the beginning. I want you to take care of yourself emotionally and not deny whatever huge challenges you're each and every one of us is going through. But really pay attention to where you might be hooked by an old fear narrative, an old unre unresolved un um , metabolized trauma pattern of your own younger life or your ancestors' lives. And so with really deep compassion question your narratives, shine the light on them. How do you liberate yourself from old stories that are not supporting? How do you liberate yourself from old stories? You're putting on somebody else in the world or a situation? And I'm not advocating to do spiritual bypassing, escaping and pretending nothing's going on. I am advocating that you steward your mind and you watch the way that your narratives influence you and how they limit you or they free you. That kind of question. Now, both the sun and Mercury are squaring Uranus, the maverick archetype. Squaring means they're 90 degrees away from each other in the heavens. Squaring means they've got some adjustment they're trying to do with each other. Uranus , this is the wow. Open the cage door, get free, disrupt the status quo, try something different, think outside the box. Really, really strong destabilizing archetype. And Uranus is just about to finish its journey in Taurus, where it's been for six or seven years, still will go back, but it's on the edge of going into a new sign in a few months. And so part of what we see when a planet is ending a journey and a sign, especially if it's an outer planet that moves slowly, is towards the end of its gig. In that sign things are harvested. Things come home to roost. It's like, okay, what did you learn? Now Uranus is in an earth sign called Taurus, very practical, very grounded, very focused on security, stability, comfort. And what it's really saying is this, Uranus and Taurus has constantly been asking us , uh, since May of 2018, when it first entered, Taurus has been asking us, you need to disrupt your status quo and your comforts. You need to find a different way to be secure and safe and to steward your life resources and to be in your sensual physical body. It's been a long process through lots and lots of up peoples. And here we are towards the end of its full run in Taurus . And we have some of the most destabilizing, security threatening experiences, particularly those of us who are in the United States, but also the world that is just mind blowing . And yet, here is the communicator, storyteller, mercury, the sun , the conscious self illuminating change, your mind add. It's connected to your inner maverick saying, security isn't what you think it is. Now , I'm not doing stupid woo woo stuff here talking to you and saying, forget that you need to have some way to have food on the table and shelter for your family. And you know, some way of, of stabilizing yourself in the world. And I am saying, the old ways of doing that are finished. And particularly if you're not white privileged in North America, especially Canada and the United States, it's been ongoing that there's been destabilization. So what this combination of energies brings to us in the beginning of this week is like the kind of waking up, okay, what am I learning about security and stability? Because what I thought it was is changing. And oh, by the way, how do I need to track my narratives and inner conversations, my mental inner talk that isn't, is this too small for my soul for the world, for what the world needs of me now? So just tracking that and then following right on the heels of that, on Wednesday, February 12th, we have a full moon at 24 degrees of Leo that happens at 5:53 AM Pacific standard time full moon, remember is the sun opposite the moon? So here's the sun been activated with the communicator and being in relationship to the maverick. And then the moon comes and says, I'm part of this conversation. It's the full moon. And the moon is in Leo, the opposite sign of Aquarius where the sun is . Now just a reminder, the full moon is this balance of the luminaries. We call them the solar and the lunar luminaries and the solar. The sun is the conscious self. It's often connected to the mind or or the conscious expression. The moon is the one who's reflecting the light. And it's very connected to our instinctive nurturer , our intuition, our emotions, our non-cognitive, non-rational side, very instinctive, emotional fluid title. And the moon wants us, wants to support us to be nurtured, to come home to ourselves. And Leo is a fire sign that is about honoring your individuality and your creativity and your life force and your beauty and your heart. It balances Aquarius. 'cause Aquarius is about the tribe and the community and the bigger picture. And how do we all help each other? And Leo says to Aquarius, that's great, but we all have to be in our sovereignty. We all have to start with self-respect and self-love in a healthy way so that we can fully give ourselves to the community and support each other. And Aquarius balances Leo, because Leo in his wounded side can get very narcissistic and self-focused, and it's all about me. And Aquarius balances it and says, Hey, there are other people on the planet. There are other things we need to be looking at. There's a way we wanna liberate everybody and make sure everybody gets what they need, not just your own self. And so that's the conversation playing out this week, which you can see totally in the collective, especially in the United States, is like, okay, are we going to have Leo characters that narcissistically say, I'm getting mine. I want what I want, and that's it. Who cares about everyone else? What about all the millions of others on the country, as an example with United States and Aquarius saying, Hey, wait a minute. What about the people that need help? What about the people that are in harm's way? What are we gonna do? So this is like a, this is a personal journey we all have in our sensitivity to the moon, the full moon and the way that the maverick is awakening us up. But it's also, of course, on the collective level. That's how the archetypal dance happens. Remember, astrologers will often say as above, so below as within. So without this powerful, mysterious mirroring of what happens in the heavens mirrors to us what's happening on an individual, on a collective level, we track it because it helps us to have more awareness and to feel like we have more choice an agency, because rather than feeling victimized or there's nothing I can do, we can learn from the archetypal invitation and make decisions. How do I wanna dance with this energy? How do I paddle in this current? What do I do? Okay, so coming back to say, breathe. Because all of these strong cycles this week have a connection with a planet in Taurus, a sign of deep mother earth connection, physicality, body being, don't leave your body, take care of yourself, but ground yourself. Whatever practices you have, including no matter where you live, can you be outside a little bit? Some of you in really cold climates are really dense cities may not be able to, but can you touch the earth in some way to have a ground, a tap of sanity to remember your animal nature, your human body, nature, and to breathe. And in that present moment, say, okay, okay, connect to the earth. Ground into the earth. Because there are blessings and there are support from the earth as well as the earth herself, as an anate being is hugely part of this conversation with all the climate crisis and horrific changes that are happening on the face of the earth in nature, this is another conversation we need to be in because we are on deep attention and alert. So all that said, here's the poem I wanna offer you today to support you. It's called Angels by Miriam Darlington Angels. This is how an angel comes out of the earth upwards from the underworld when everybody thought they came from the light wings of the sky. No, they are massive. On nights of rain and sleet, split the soil splash and muddy the grass wingspans wide. As lakes wearing mud armor, they crawl full length up rivers and streams, ditches, seep through drains, penetrate walls, barns, chicken coops, unsettled bats with wing beets that shake down trees. Remind us cradled in our prayers, how we like to remain dry, sheltered. This is how angels come mouths full of earth spitting verses of poetry. The angels are here, they're shaken down. They're reminding us cradled in our prayers, how we like to remain dry and sheltered. Every single one of us has a part that wants to be in our comfort zone. These times don't support it. So can you lean in to the presence of these earth angels? Can you feel the power, the natural power, primordial power of the earth that can help us all and can help us all are coming upwards from the underworld calling to us. May they help you this week in dismantling the narratives that are too small. May the full moon shine upon you in a way that you deeply feel your sovereignty, the power of your heart, and your ability to stand in the strength of your own love and individuality. May you steward the ones of you that are frightened and anxious and caught in old, old, painful trauma patterns. May have all the resources you need to travel just the way you need to travel in a good way.

Speaker 2: 17:01

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Speaker 1: 17:04

Bless your journey this week, and I wanna remind you, I just started a really powerful self-reflective journey. The Relational Alchemist. It's a do it yourself journey with the upcoming venous retrograde cycle, helping you to explore the deep changes with relationships, values, and how you be with your life resources. So you can still enroll in it up till February 15th. If you're interested, go to my website on the edges of change.com. There on the homepage you'll see a button to go get details. You can also get information on my astrology page on that same website on the edges of change.com. Take good, good care.

Speaker 3: 17:58

You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Lange , more resource on the edges of change.com. Thank you for listening. Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature .