Episode #341-Week of Dec 1, 2025

This week brings a blend of illumination, deep integration, and expansive guidance as several personal planets align with larger cycles of change. Venus and Mars in Sagittarius open new pathways of meaning, while Mercury helps you synthesize emotional wisdom with renewed clarity. A Gemini Full Moon lights up fresh options and perspectives, inviting you to balance curiosity with deeper truth. Threshold energies are subtle but present: you’re being asked to see more, feel more, and choose with greater consciousness.

Tues Dec 2: Venus in Sagittarius sextile Pluto in Aquarius

Venus (Relational One) in Sagittarius forms a harmonious sextile with Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius. This alignment encourages courageous honesty, authentic self-expression, and a widening of your relational worldview.

You may be called to explore conversations or connections that expand what you believe is possible. Pluto brings depth and discernment; Venus brings heart truth. Together, they open a threshold for freedom through deeper relational integrity.

Reflection: Where is life asking me to expand my relational truth or express myself more authentically?

Thurs Dec 4: Full Moon at 13° Gemini

The Gemini Full Moon shines a bright, multifaceted light on your inner and outer conversations, helping you to see the many pathways available to you—mentally, creatively, relationally. It’s a moment to celebrate what you’ve learned, name what you’re ready to speak aloud, and let go of outdated stories.

The Full Moon radiates options, while the Sun in Sagittarius holds the wider arc of meaning. This axis invites you to stand at the threshold between information and wisdom, choosing the perspectives that help you grow.

Reflection: What stories, assumptions, or beliefs am I ready to evolve?

Fri Dec 5: Mars in Sagittarius trine Chiron in Aries

Mars (the Action-Taker) in Sagittarius supports Chiron (the Healer) in Aries. This trine releases momentum for brave steps, renewed confidence, and action rooted in your essential authenticity.

This is a beautiful day to move toward a new horizon—one aligned with your deeper truth. Old wounds around visibility, assertiveness, or leadership may ease, offering space for initiatory courage.

Reflection: What courageous action wants to move through me?

Sat Dec 6 & Sun Dec 7: Mercury (Direct) in Scorpio trine Jupiter in Cancer & Saturn in Pisces

With Mercury now direct in Scorpio, your thinking regains depth and coherence. This weekend, it forms supportive trines to Jupiter in Cancer (the expansive nurturer) and Saturn in Pisces (the compassionate structurer). Together they create a grand water harmony, helping you connect insights, intuition, and emotional truth.

This alignment supports integration—name what you’ve learned from the recent retrograde, reclaim your inner knowing, and reorganize your priorities from a place of emotional honesty.

Reflection: Where do I sense a quiet inner threshold inviting me toward a wiser, more aligned version of myself?

Podcast poem: We Are a River by Lao Tzu

Transcript

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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 episode number 341 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. This is for the week of December 1st, 2025. I'm your host and guide, Sheila Miler. Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem. You are a sage, a river at its deepest. This this week brings a blend of illumination, deep integration, and expansive guidance. As several personal planets form alliances with the larger cycles of change, Venus and Mars in Sagittarius, open new pathways of meaning while Mercury newly direct after being retrograde for three weeks helps you synthesize emotional wisdom with renewed clarity. A Gemini Full Moon lights up fresh options and perspectives inviting you to balance curiosity with deeper truth. Threshold. Energies are subtle, but present. You are being asked to see more, feel more, and choose with greater consciousness. On Tuesday, December 2nd, Venus in Sagittarius, sextiles Pluto in Aquarius. Here's the gift of expanded relational truth and empowered authenticity. Venus, the relational one in Sagittarius forms a harmonious sex tile with Pluto, the transformer in Aquarius. This alignment encourages courageously, honest, courageous honesty, authentic self-expression, and a widening of your relational worldview. You may feel called to explore conversations or connections that expand what you believe is possible. Pluto brings depth and discernment. In the sign of Aquarius, the deeper connection with the wider community and all beings, Venus brings heart truth, and in Sagittarius seeking of meaning and bigger picture, together they open a T threshold for freedom through deeper relational integrity. Here's a reflection question. Where is life asking me to expand my relational truth or express myself more authentically? On Thursday, December 4th, we have the Full Moon in Gemini at 3:14 PM Pacific Standard Time. It's at 13 degrees of Gemini. For those of my listeners who put it in your natal chart and look at it, this is really the clarity through curiosity. The Gemini Full Moon shines a bright multifaceted light on your inner and outer conversations. This Lu Nation helps you see the many pathways available to you mentally, creatively. Relationally. It's a moment to celebrate what you've learned. Name what you're ready to speak aloud and let go of outdated stories. The full Moon radiates options while the sun in Sagittarius holds the wider arc of meaning. This axis invites you to stand at the threshold. Between information and wisdom, choosing the perspectives that help you grow and honoring on a collective level. With all the deep continued upheaval and craziness happening in our world, this Full Moon can be a support for all of us to get clear of all the data and the chaos and the misinformation happening. Let me go. More to true north. What am I really seeking for meaning here? How can I really get to a bigger picture that is supportive and opens my awareness? A reflection question with this full moon. What stories, assumptions, or beliefs are illuminated here and you recognize you're ready to re, to evolve from them? On Friday, December 5th, Mars in Sagittarius, trines, Chiron in Aries. This brings us the courage to act from the healed part of ourselves Mars in Sagittarius, an action taker with vision supports Chiron in Aries, the initiating healer. This Trying releases momentum for brave steps. Renewed confidence and action rooted in your essential authenticity. This is a beautiful day to move toward a new horizon. One aligned with your deeper truth. Old wounds around visibility, assertiveness, or leadership may ease offering space for initiatory courage. A reflection question, what courageous action wants to move through me now. And then on Saturday, December 6th and Sunday, December 7th, mercury having just gone direct in Scorpio. Trines both Jupiter in cancer and Saturn in Pisces with Mercury now direct in Scorpio. Your thinking regains depth and coherence. This weekend, it forms supportive trines to Jupiter in cancer, the expanse of nurturer and Saturn in Pisces, the compassionate structure. Together, the three of them create what's called a grand water harmony, helping you connect insights, intuition, and emotional truth. This alignment supports integration. Naming what you've learned from the recent Mercury retrograde. Reclaiming your inner knowing and reorganizing your priorities from a place of emotional honesty. It's a threshold moment of consolidation. Understanding the deeper pattern beneath your choices and conversations, a reflection question. Where do I sense a quiet inner threshold inviting me toward a wiser, more aligned version of myself? So there, dear ones, it's an opportunity. Uh, very positive. Um, I don't like to bring a value judgment because all of the astrological cycles are helping us in our el chemical process, but some weeks are a little bit easier. Like this week there's more flow. And this, the poem that came to me is very much a poem about water to support this week of illumination, depth and quiet integration. With this poem, I invite you to pause and feel the waters within you. The currents of emotion, intuition, and deep knowing that move beneath the surface of everyday life. The poem is called, we Are a River From Lazu. We are a river. Our life has not been an ascent up one side of a mountain and down the other. We did not reach a peak only to decline and die. We have been as drops of water born in the ocean and sprinkled on the earth in a gentle rain. We became a spring and then a stream. And finally, a river flowing deeper and stronger, nourishing all it touches as it nears its home. Once again, don't accept the modern myths of aging. You are not declining. You are not fading away into uselessness. You are a sage, a river at its deepest and most nourishing. Sit by a river bank sometime and watch attentively as the river tells you of your life. You are a sage, a river. Its deepest and most nourishing. Doesn't matter what your chronological age is, you're not fading away into uselessness and inability to meet these times. You are a sage. Thank you as always for your support of this podcast. Really appreciate each and every one of you that give me your precious time in your ears to listen to this podcast. I wanna invite you in this week that supports threshold. Don't forget about my free elemental spiral quiz that helps you discover what elemental threshold is supporting you right now in your changes? If you wanna take the quiz, go to my home page on my website on the edges of change.com, and click the button to take the Elemental Spiral quiz. It's free and gives you lots of information after you take it. Thank you so, so much.