Podcasts about Taurus

Taurus USA's Caleb Giddings is back in the studio, and he's not pulling punches — on Taurus's past, the honest feedback that helped fix it, or why he'll take a revolver over a striker-fired 9mm any day. Ryan Gresham and Caleb cover everything from Bianchi Cup war stories and red dots on handguns to what your longest shot at home actually is and why you should know it before you need it. One of the more candid conversations you'll hear in the gun space.This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Leupold, Ruger, Range Ready Studios, Colt, Remington Ammunition, and Shooting Sports Life.About Gun Talk NationGun Talk Media's Gun Talk Nation with Ryan Gresham is a weekly multi-platform podcast that offers a fresh look at all things firearms-related. Featuring notable guests and a lot of laughs. Gun Talk Nation is available as an audio podcast or in video format.For more content from Gun Talk Media, visit guntalk.com or subscribe on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, Instagram, and X. Catch First Person Defender on the new Official FPD YouTube channel. Watch Gun Talk Nation on its new YouTube channel. Catch Gun Talk Hunt on the new dedicated YouTube Channel. Listen to all Gun Talk Podcasts with Spreaker, iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find podcasts.Copyright ©2026 Freefire Media, LLCGun Talk Nation 09.03.26Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gun-talk--6185159/support.

A first-class plane ticket totally changed my life. In May 2023, I was heading to Louisville to spend two days with my business coach when she told me to dress in “one-million-dollar business attire” and start imagining myself as Million Dollar Maddie. Naturally, I was annoyed. But I'm also nothing if not a bit of a rule follower, so I went with it. (And because I'm a Taurus who deeply values luxury and comfort, I upgraded to first class.)That experience made me realize that if I wanted to become the version of myself who ran a million-dollar business, I needed to start making decisions like her now. This matters for brand photographers because the version of you making your business decisions is also shaping your brand. When those decisions come from fear, people-pleasing, and trying not to rock the boat, your brand becomes safer, smaller, and much easier to ignore.We're talking:How I accidentally built a brand from the smallest version of myselfWhy invisibility feels safe but fails every timeWhat your imposter syndrome actually isThe four parts of a brand with a backbonePositioning from fear versus positioning from abundanceAsking what the million-dollar version of you would doLinks & Resources✨ Join me for Invisible to Inquiries, my upcoming masterclass about building a brand with a backbone, getting visible, and turning that visibility into inquiries✨ Learn more about Rebrand, my group program where you get content reviews, marketing and business coaching, and support in becoming a booked out brand photographer. Learn more here!

This week-ahead reading for Aug 31-Sep 6, 2026 is an excerpt from this week's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Somatic Space class⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with Renee Sills. For the full-length forecast and embodied practice for this week, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠purchase the recording here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.This week as Venus begins to cast a retrograde shadow, reflect back to this same time of year in 2018 - the last time Venus retrograded in this part of the sky. What was happening then that might benefit now from review?Jupiter/Saturn cycles mark important themes in the evolution and changes of society and culture. As they form their trine this week, contemplate how you've been shaped by the last 6 years of social, cultural, and global events. Where are you now in relation to where you were then? How do these two cycles - Venus's retrograde, and that of Jupiter/Saturn - connect for you? What do they tell you about authenticity, engagement, integrity, and intention? ✨✨✨ UPCOMING AT EA ✨✨✨SEP 19 – HEALING JOURNEYS W/ CAMERON ALLEN3 days after Chiron retrogrades back into Aries to finish its nearly 8-year transit, medical astrologer and herbalist Cameron Allen will join Renee to explore the themes of the Wounded Healer. We'll tune in with our natal Chiron placements, consider the invitations Chiron is bringing to its upcoming transit in Taurus and what still needs closure and coherence as it finishes its time in Aries. Register here. 

After spending eight years in the sign Aries, on June 19 Chiron finally dipped its toes into Taurus – but it will only be there for about twelve weeks before returning to Aries on September 17. We'll have to wait until mid-April 2027 before Chiron settles in for its seven year passage through the sign of the Bull. It first touches Gemini in July 2033, but soon returns to Taurus, and only arrives solidly in Gemini on May 5, 2034.  Chiron's journeys through Aries and Taurus are long ones, especially when we remember that its total orbit only takes a little under fifty-one years. Divide that number by twelve, and you get an average duration of its passage though each sign of about four years. One key to understanding why it spends so much time in Aries and Taurus is to remember that this planetoid's orbit is highly elliptical. Its motion is slowest when it's in Aries. By the time it gets into Libra, it's halfway around the zodiac. That puts it a lot closer to the Sun and the increased gravitational pull zooms it along a lot more quickly.  There's a second complicating factor: compared to the “real” planets, Chiron's mass is low and so it gets kicked around a lot by their gravity. That's why when you Google “Chiron's orbital period,” you don't get the kind of precision we're accustomed to seeing with, for example, Mars (686.98 earth days.) Some sources give Chiron an orbital period of 50.7 years, while others say 50.45 years. That's because of gravitational interference, mostly by massive Jupiter and Saturn. Sometimes Chiron is closer to them and it's pulled harder, other times it's further away and they're less of an influence, so it all becomes a tangle of ever-changing variables. One practical takeaway is that while we take Chiron seriously, we should never confuse it with the major planets. Chiron would fit between New York and Boston or just about cover the Shanghai-Hangzhou metroplex in China. Even relatively tiny Pluto – the smallest of the real astrological planets – is about twelve times Chiron's diameter. So, cutting to the heart of the matter, what can we expect from Chiron's passage through Taurus?

Роман Гончаренко, редактор Deutsche Welle, на Radio NV про теракт біля літака Ан-124 в аеропорту Лейпцига, можливу реакцію Берліна – від висилки дипломатів до закриття консульства та санкцій, перспективи передачі ракет Taurus Україні, візит директора ЦРУ Реткліффа до Москви та гібридні атаки Росії в Європі. Окремо – вибори в Саксонії-Ангальт 6 вересня, рекордні рейтинги Альтернативи для Німеччини та що перемога правоекстремістів означатиме для підтримки України Ведучий – Олексій Тарасов

This is your daily horoscope for Wednesday, September 2, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon in Taurus square Jupiter in Leo (1am PT)Moon in Taurus sextile Mars in Cancer (1:30am PT)Moon in Taurus trine Mercury in Virgo (3:30am PT)Unlock More MagicGrimoire: Become a Better Witch in 12 WeeksBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceRevoke Stacy Turner's Medical License (Corrupt Coroner in Mississippi)Donate in Memory of Juliana NzitaHelp Honor Tasia FortuneSign the Petition + Demand Clemency for Jeffery Lee I Call Gov. Ivey + Demand Clemency 334-242-7100

Welcome to September 2026. While the eclipses are behind us, we are still feeling their reverberations as a new six-month chapter takes hold. It's also Virgo Season, a time to put our lives in order. A powerful square between Mars and Saturn shows us our priorities. Timestamps:♈ Aries — 19:51♉ Taurus — 24:06♊ Gemini — 29:11♋ Cancer — 32:58♌ Leo — 37:20♍ Virgo — 40:39♎ Libra — 45:58♏ Scorpio — 51:05♐ Sagittarius — 54:51♑ Capricorn — 57:56♒ Aquarius — 1:01:44♓ Pisces — 1:05:40Read More:Mars in Cancer: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/mars-in-cancer-sign-by-sign/Jupiter in Leo: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/jupiter-in-leo-sign-by-sign/Saturn in Aries: Self Reliancehttps://empoweringastrology.com/saturn-in-aries-self-reliance-2025-2028-what-does-it-mean/Saturn in Aries: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/saturn-in-aries-sign-by-sign-what-does-it-mean/Uranus in Gemini: Radical Ideashttps://empoweringastrology.com/uranus-in-gemini-radical-ideas-what-does-it-mean/Uranus in Gemini: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/uranus-in-gemini-sign-by-sign/Neptune in Aries: A New Dawnhttps://empoweringastrology.com/neptune-in-aries-a-new-dawn-what-does-neptune-in-aries-mean/Neptune in Aries: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/neptune-in-aries-sign-by-sign/Pluto in Aquarius: Transforming Humanityhttps://empoweringastrology.com/pluto-in-aquarius-transforming-humanity-2023-2044-what-will-it-mean/Pluto in Aquarius: Sign by Signhttps://empoweringastrology.com/pluto-in-aquarius-what-does-it-mean-for-my-zodiac-sign/Subscribe to My Mailing Listhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/679683/113465703059687274/shareAstrology Webinars and Courseshttps://empoweringastrology.freshlearn.com/Book Your Astrology Consultationhttps://empoweringastrology.as.me/Astrology Gift Certificateshttps://empoweringastrology.com/gift-certificates/#marssquaresaturn #marsincancer #saturninaries #eclipseseason #virgoseason #suninvirgo #elementearth #september2026astrology #septemberastrology #empoweringastrology #katiesweetman #astrologyplusconsciousness #holisticastrology #astrologyforecast #soulalchemy #thesoulsjourney #modernmystics #astrology #astrologie #astrologia #astrolog #astrologersofinstagram #horoscope #horoscopes #astrologyposts #dailyhoroscope #dailyastrology #weeklyastrology #weeklyhoroscopes

This week, Mars is in conflict with, and Jupiter makes a soothing aspect to, serious Saturn. Mental faculties and manual skills get a supercharged boost with the sextile between Mercury and Mars, and the Gemini Last Quarter Moon manages to express the ideas that the Virgo Sun has given a lot of detailed thought. We have a pretty busy week at the Big Sky HQ as April gets ready for a conference and the Podathon, which starts next week, so we will keep things relatively brief and put off a listener question until after the Podathon! Plus: Raising the bar, an invisible super power, and default crankiness! Read a full transcript of this episode. Have a question you'd like answered on the show?  Email April or leave it here! Subscribe to April's mailing list and get a free lunar workbook at each New Moon! Love the show? Make a donation! Timestamps [1:34] Jupiter trines Saturn (Aug. 31, 3:17 pm PDT) at 13°41' Leo and Aries. This is the first of three trines that they will make. The other two will come on Apr. 3 and Jul. 11, 2027. Jupiter's Sabian symbol is 14 Leo: The human soul awaiting opportunity for expression.  Saturn is on 14 Aries: A serpent coiling near a man and a woman.  This aspect balances Jupiter's expansive optimism with Saturn's realistic restraint. Ideal for goals requiring both ambition and discipline. [4:28] Mars squares Saturn (Sep. 1, 2:59 am PDT) at 13°39' Cancer and Aries.  Mars' Sabian symbol is 14 Cancer: A very old man facing a vast dark space to the northeast.  Treat this transit as a lesson in how to impose more control and discipline over your temper, impulsiveness, and physical drives. [7:51]  Mercury sextiles Mars (Sep. 1, 6:21 am PDT) at 13°44' Virgo and Cancer.  Mercury is on the Sabian symbol 14 Virgo, A family tree.  Be mindful of your words.  Great transit for projects that require being good with your hands and having attention to detail. [9:43] Moon Report!  The Gemini Last Quarter Moon (Sep. 4, 12:51 am PDT) at 11°48' Gemini and Virgo. This Last Quarter wraps up that New Moon solar eclipse in Leo (Aug. 12, 2026).  Consider letting go of the sadness and regret that this eclipse season may have brought. [12:39] This is the Last Quarter phase (last action phase) in a lunar phase family cycle that began with a New Moon on Jun. 6, 2024 (16°17' Gemini). The First Quarter (first action phase) was on Mar. 6, 2025 (16°21' Gemini). The Full Moon (awareness point) occurred on Dec. 4, 2025 (13°3' Gemini). [14:29]  Void-of-Course (VOC) Moon periods.  The Moon in Aries opposes Venus in Libra (Aug. 31, 12:47 pm PDT). It's VOC then for 12 hours, 14 minutes before it enters Taurus (Sep. 1, 1:01 am PDT).  Use this VOC Moon to get in the habit of balancing your desires with somebody else's needs, so that a happy compromise can be reached. [15:57] The Moon in Taurus trines Mercury in Virgo (Sep. 2, 3:47 am PDT). It's VOC for 1 day, 1 hour before it enters Gemini (Sep. 3, 4:47 am PDT).  This is a great VOC Moon period to get to the root of an unhealthy habit or issue, so that healing and recovery can take place. [16:57] The Moon in Gemini trines Venus in Libra (Sep. 5, 1:40 am PDT). It's VOC for 5 hours, 50 minutes, and then enters Cancer (7:30 am PDT).  Use this VOC Moon to get in the habit of connecting with your neighbors during communal events. [18:54] No Listener Questions this week, but keep those questions coming in for future episodes!  Got a question? Leave a message of one minute or less at speakpipe.com/ bigskyastrologypodcast or email april (at) bigskyastrology (dot) com; put “Podcast Question” in the subject line. Free ways to support the podcast: subscribe, like, review and share with a friend! [20:16]  A tribute to this week's donors! If you would like to support the show and receive access to April's special donors-only videos, go to BigSkyAstropod.com and contribute $10 or more. You can make a one-time donation in any amount or become an ongoing monthly contributor. [21:24] The Big Sky Astrology Seventh Annual Podathon is coming up on Labor Day week – mark your calendar!

This is your daily horoscope for Tuesday, September 1, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon enters Taurus (1am PT)Mars in Cancer square Saturn in Aries (3am PT)Mercury in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer (6:30am PT)Moon in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius (7am PT)Moon in Taurus trine Sun in Virgo (5:30pmPT)Unlock More MagicGrimoire: Become a Better Witch in 12 WeeksBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceRevoke Stacy Turner's Medical License (Corrupt Coroner in Mississippi)Donate in Memory of Juliana NzitaHelp Honor Tasia FortuneSign the Petition + Demand Clemency for Jeffery Lee I Call Gov. Ivey + Demand Clemency 334-242-7100

Oekraïense voedseldistributie onder druk | Iran vreest nieuwe opstanden | VS wil G20 opzetten tegen China Oekraïne verzwakt stap voor stap de Russische luchtverdediging, terwijl Russische raketten en drones Oekraïense steden en distributienetwerken blijven verwoesten. Arend Jan Boekestijn en Rob de Wijk schetsen een front dat militair licht in Oekraïens voordeel kantelt, maar waarin de burgerbevolking aan beide kanten steeds zwaarder wordt geraakt. Rusland zet in op een langzame uitputtingsslag in de Donbas en bereidt nieuwe aanvallen op de Oekraïense energievoorziening voor, terwijl het Westen zoekt naar beperkte opties tussen Taurus-raketten, sancties en cyberoperaties. Tegelijkertijd intensiveert Iran zijn horizontale escalatiestrategie, met snelle vergeldingsaanvallen in de regio en een effectieve verstoring van de scheepvaart door de Straat van Hormuz. De combinatie van secundaire Amerikaanse sancties, ingestorte handel en torenhoge inflatie vergroot het risico op nieuwe sociale onrust, waarop het regime reageert met censuur en extra repressie. De olieprijs kruipt omhoog, wat de geopolitieke kwetsbaarheid van Europa en de Verenigde Staten opnieuw onderstreept. In de Verenigde Staten botsen Trumps tariefpolitiek, sancties en neokoloniale oliedeals met Venezuela met de rest van de G20, die zich ernstig zorgen maakt over Amerikaanse tekorten en machtspolitiek. De koloniale omgang met Venezolaanse olievelden, de symbolische strijd om namen als Lake Ontario en de twijfels rond NAVO en EU-lijnen tonen een wereldorde waarin traditionele machtscentra terrein verliezen, terwijl conflicten van Oekraïne tot Hormuz en Gaza hardnekkig voortduren en nog weinig uitzicht op echte de-escalatie bieden. [Samenvatting geschreven door AI en gecontroleerd door mens] Over de Podcast Arend Jan Boekestijn en Rob de Wijk gaan onder leiding van Hugo Reitsma op zoek naar de nieuwe wereldorde. Wat betekenen oorlog, machtspolitiek en economische verschuivingen voor Europa en Nederland? In elke aflevering duiken zij in de geopolitieke actualiteit. Genomineerd voor de Zilveren Reissmicrofoon 2026, winnaar van de Dutch Podcast Awards 2022 in de categorie Nieuws & Politiek. Word lid van B&W Plus op boekestijnendewijk.nl voor de zaterdag-podcast, reclamevrij luisteren, en vele extra's! Reageren? Op X: @ajboekestijn en @robdewijk Bluesky: @hugoreitsma.bsky.social Mail: boekestijnendewijk@bnr.nl Over de makers: Arend Jan Boekestijn is een Nederlands historicus en voormalig politicus. Hij studeerde geschiedenis en politieke wetenschappen aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Boekestijn is voormalig Tweede Kamerlid (tot 2009). Sinds 1989 is hij verbonden aan de vakgroep geschiedenis van de Universiteit Utrecht en sinds 2016 lid van commissie Vrede en Veiligheid van AIV. Rob de Wijk studeerde eigentijdse geschiedenis en internationale betrekkingen, promoveerde op kernwapenstrategieën, werd hoogleraar in Leiden en richtte in 2007 het Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies op. Hugo Reitsma studeerde rechten en politicologie. Hij werkte eerder als politiek verslaggever en vanuit verschillende conflictgebieden. Hij is auteur van het boek ‘Boekestijn en De Wijk voorspellen de toekomst’ (november 2023).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Vision Finds Its StructureThe eclipse portal has closed. Integration is underway. This week is quieter in its archetypal signature, fewer major contacts, more spacious rhythm. Exactly what eclipse integration requires.But quieter does not mean insignificant. Monday opens with Jupiter trining Saturn, the cycle named on the horizon last week. And Tuesday brings Mars in Cancer into an honest reckoning with Saturn. After that the week opens into genuine spaciousness.Key Cycles This Week:Monday, August 31: Jupiter in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. To understand what this trine carries, the larger context matters.Jupiter and Saturn are the social planets — describing how transpersonal movements find expression in institutions, cultural narratives, and shared collective agreements. They meet in conjunction every twenty years, and their conjunctions cluster in the same element for roughly two hundred years before shifting.The two-hundred-year earth era, roughly 1800 to 2000, seeded the industrial revolution and the organization of collective life around physical resource and material production. Its shadow is what the current Chiron in Taurus cycle is being asked to heal.In 1980, Jupiter and Saturn met in Libra, an air sign, for the first time, a foreshadowing of the coming shift. Then on the Winter Solstice of 2020 they met at 0 degrees of Aquarius, confirming the arrival of a new two-hundred-year air era. Mind, communication, relationship, and the invisible infrastructures of shared meaning are now the organizing domain. The AI revolution, the fracturing and reformation of how reality is constructed, the question of genuine collective intelligence — these are the opening expressions of that era.Jupiter trine Saturn today is a harmonious moment within the twenty-year cycle seeded in 2020. Vision and structure finding each other with ease. What Jupiter in Leo has been amplifying — creative gifts, authentic visibility, generous offering in service of something larger — now finds the structural ground that allows it to become more than aspiration.Watch in the broader field for genuine vision finding real-world form. And personally, where is what you have been envisioning ready to find more committed honest structure?Tuesday, September 1: Mars in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries. Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer. Mars in Cancer's instinctual protective force meets Saturn's unsentimental reality principle in friction. The tension between what the feeling body knows needs protecting and what is actually sustainable or feasible right now. Not a suppression of the protective impulse, but a call for strategic honesty. What can you actually do, with genuine resources you have, that serves what most needs protecting?Mercury sextiling Mars offers useful counterbalance, the discerning mind in easy flow with your feeling body. Thought and feeling in conversation. A good day for honest strategic thinking about what matters most and what genuine action actually looks like.The Rest of the Week: Genuine spaciousness. No major contacts. Eclipse integration does not happen through analysis or effort. It happens through the body's slower deeper process, through dreams, through what surfaces in quiet moments, through unexpected conversations that open something waiting. Let the spaciousness be what it is.Larger FrameJupiter trine Saturn sits at the intersection of the twenty-year and two-hundred-year cycles, while all three transpersonal cycles remain activated in the background. The choices being made right now — in how we communicate, what we build, what we protect, what we offer in service of something larger — are not small choices. They are being made at a genuine hinge point in the longer story.Jupiter trine Saturn asks that those choices be made with both vision and honest structure. With both the generosity of the open heart and the reality-tested commitment of genuine form.Reflection QuestionsAs Jupiter trines Saturn, what vision that has been forming is ready to find more honest committed structural form?Where is Mars in Cancer's protective instinct being activated, and what does strategic resource-grounded action in service of what most needs protecting actually look like?In the spaciousness of this integration week, what is your body processing that the mind has not yet caught up with?Podcast Poem: The Dream by Rosemerry Whatola TrommerThe Alchemize the Old taster workshop replay is available as a free resource — an experiential introduction to the transformative pattern-breaking work of the Fire elemental spiral.You can find it at my Home page, ontheedgesofchange.com. under What's Open Now.  If the Fire spiral is calling you, trust that.Support the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comThis episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

Step out of the everyday world and discover how the planetary alignments of September 2026 will shape your career, finances, and creative endeavors. In this Star Power Astrology forecast, Trish MacGregor breaks down a clear sky free from Mercury retrogrades or eclipses, revealing where unexpected opportunities and key turning points await. And take a journey into the cosmos as we map out the month's essential astrological dates for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. From the tension of the September 1st Mars-Saturn square to the expansive, career-boosting trines and the intuitive Aries Full Moon conjunct Neptune, learn how to align with the universe's natural rhythms. ● No Retrograde Fog: Navigate a clear astrological landscape with zero Mercury retrogrades or eclipses slowing your momentum. ● The September 1st Challenge: What to watch out for as Mars in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries, and why patience pays off until the 10th. ● New Moon in Virgo (Sept 10): How this supportive lunation opens fresh doors in daily work, creative projects, communication, and wellness. ● Creative & Career Expansion (Sept 21 & 25): Harnessing Mercury-Jupiter and Sun-Pluto aspects to take projects viral, pitch publishers, and boost income. ● Aries Full Moon Conjunct Neptune (Sept 26): Why closing old cycles and trusting your gut intuition will reveal your next big breakthrough.

The most expensive mistake you can make coming off a bank holiday is deciding that a task taking three times longer than planned means you are bad at the work. Almost always, it means the task was under-resourced before you ever opened your laptop. In this episode of the CEO Brief, we walk through the first block of September: The Clean Up. As Venus enters shadow and Mars squares Saturn on the first working day of the month, your one job across these seven days is simple: isolate the commitments eating your time and complete your Capacity Audit Sheet before Saturday. What We Cover in This Episode: The Bank Holiday Trap: Why jumping straight into client emails on Monday creates an un-costed boundary leak you will defend until November. Mars Square Saturn (Tuesday 1 Sept): How to respond when you hit the operational wall without resorting to martyr energy or sheer willpower. The 25-Hour Void Window (Wed 2 & Thu 3 Sept): How to leverage the quietest stretch of the month to audit your true delivery hours vs. your quoted rates. The Retainer Arithmetic: A step-by-step example showing how an £800/month project can drop from £100/hr to £42/hr when untracked voice notes and quick check-ins creep in. The Friday Cut (Last Quarter Moon in Gemini): Identifying the two live commitments eating your business capacity and clearing your desk. Domestic Guardrails: Keeping Moon conjunct Mars off the Sunday dinner table. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS & AGENDA 00:00 · Section 1: The Room Gathers (Seasonal Shift & Housekeeping) 03:23 · Section 2: The Agenda Opens (The One Job & Mars Square Saturn) 05:32 · Section 3: The Backdrop (Virgo Energy, Venus Shadow & Jupiter-Saturn Trine) 09:20 · Section 4: Walking the Agenda (Day-by-Day Walk & The Retainer Diagnostic) 21:50 · Section 5: Capacity Protections (3 Boardroom Guardrails) 23:07 · Section 6: Housekeeping & Feed Redirect 23:41 · Section 7: Meeting Adjourns (The One Action & Sign-off) RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED Free September Brief Map: Download your free date-stamped map featuring all five blocks, void windows, and pivot days: https://hollybray.kit.com/september  The September Audit Kit (£47): Get the pre-built workspace containing all 5 tabs and the automatic Capacity Audit Calculator: https://abranchofholly.thrivecart.com/the-september-kit/  Instagram Grid: Head to the feed on Monday for your sign-by-sign elemental department breakdowns: https://www.instagram.com/hollybrayceo/  TRANSIT TIMINGS (BST) MONDAY 31 AUGUST Venus enters its retrograde shadow · 15:46 Moon void of course from 20:47 Jupiter trine Saturn · 23:17 TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER Moon enters Taurus · 09:01 Mars square Saturn · 10:59 Mercury sextile Mars · 14:21 WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER Moon void of course from 11:47 THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER Moon enters Gemini · 12:47 (void ends, 25 hours) FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER Last Quarter Moon in Gemini · 08:51 SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Moon void of course 09:40 to 15:30 Moon enters Cancer · 15:30 SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Moon conjunct Mars in Cancer · 20:06

Before We Dive InRecording this on August 26th, and I want to say clearly at the start: I am feeling a bit low. The eclipse energy has been personally challenging in a number of ways, and also — Dolly Parton and Tim Curry have both passed, within days of each other. Both around 80 years old. I loved them both, for very different reasons, and I find their passing sitting in me in that particular way that celebrity deaths sometimes do, when someone has been part of the landscape of your whole life.I'm telling you this because it's also very much the energy of this week. This is the come-down after eclipse season. If you're feeling deflated, that's appropriate. That's the astrology. The cards are honest about it — but they end in a place of genuine hope. If you're looking for that hopeful note right now, go and watch the September 10th Virgo New Moon video I just put up. That one has more light in it.This week: do your inner work. Go into the woods. Slow your roll.Subscribe free on Substack for all posts in your inbox. Spiral Weave / Spiral Codex membership — $10/month or $90/year.Venus Retrograde: Heroine's Journey — I'll decide on the final pricing when I'm back from Chicago. For now, it's still open and I'll let you know. Two tiers: the basic Venus Retrograde course, and Dragon Rider (adds a year of Spiral Codex membership, a 30-minute one-on-one with me, and a personal gift). louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026One more small thing: if you enjoy astrology AND music, Chris Brennan did an extraordinary interview with Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears about his astrology memoir. It's worth your time. I've listened twice and bought the hard copy.The Energy of This WeekWe come off the lunar eclipse on August 28th and begin to wane. The week opens with the Moon in Aries and ends with it in Cancer, waning all the while, heading toward the September 10th new moon. We are in the shedding phase.What makes this week distinctive — and why the message keeps being the same — is the sheer number of retrograde planets in Aries: Neptune, Manwë, Saturn, Pallas Athena, Eris, and Vesta, all moving backwards. When the Aries Moon moves through them, each conjunction or activation is saying: slow down. Go in. Revisit. Review. Do not charge forward. Aries likes action and speed; the retrogrades are applying the brakes.The overall prescription for this week: radical, extraordinary self-care. More than you normally would. The whole week is a churn of inner processing. Let it do its work.Three more things to note:Pluto is out of bounds until December 5th — as it will be for a few months around this time of year until 2035. Going out of bounds to the south, which Rosie Finn's book Persephone's Revolution associates with people rising up and more peaceful collective energy. We are in that window.Sedna stations retrograde this week (Thursday) — her 11,406-year orbit is so slow that her stations are gentler than most, but she's still asking: dig deeper into your perceptions and adaptations. She was last in Gemini at the end of the Great Ice Ages.Venus is entering the shadow of her retrograde — she hits 21°50' Libra at the start of the week, which is the point she'll return to when she stations direct on November 13th. Start paying attention now to what comes up around your values, your relationships, your sense of justice and beauty, your desires. Everything that surfaces in the next few weeks will have something to say when Venus goes retrograde in October.Only Venus, Mercury, and the Sun have passed the South Node and Regulus so far. Everyone else is still coming. Gradually, one by one.The Cards — A First GlanceFrom the Red Seeds Tarot and the Witch Oracle: Two of Bees, Eight of Seeds reversed, Ten of Bees, and The Witch.Tension. Disengagement. Then: revelation. And then the Witch herself — the one in total control of herself — to close. More at the end.Day by DaySunday, August 30 — Moon in Aries. Slow Your Horses. Venus Enters Her Shadow.The Moon is freshly in Aries — and immediately hits all those retrograde planets. A sextile to Sedna (about to station), a sextile to Pluto activating the basket at 4°, then the Moon conjuncts Neptune — stop and smell the coffee. Tune in to your intuition. There is nothing to rush into right now. The Moon then sextiles Uranus — the aha question of this whole period: who am I in this new world we're building? That's worth sitting with.The Moon squares Ceres in Cancer — do your self-care. Take care of yourself first, and then you are able to care for and protect your loved ones. And squares Pholus — the lid is still coming off things.The Moon is being slowed at every turn. Neptune is particularly potent here: the retrograde Aries cluster, every one of them applying the brakes to the Aries Moon's natural preference for speed. Slow your horses. We are not at full speed ahead yet.The Moon conjuncts Pallas Athena (revisiting strategy and pattern recognition), then conjuncts Eris (tables turning, but within — going in to see what you need to overturn in your own life), then squares Juno (renegotiating contracts), sextiles Hekate (the torchbearer is saying: the path forward is through your inner truths), and finally conjuncts Vesta (inner flame — what are you devoted to, really?). Before the day closes, the Moon conjuncts Saturn — a hard stop. Reality check. Put the brakes on.Venus at 21°50' Libra directly opposes Pallas Athena retrograde — the strategist, the pattern-recognizer, looking keenly back at Venus. Slow down. Think through your relationships, your values, your sense of justice. See the patterns before you charge on. Venus is covering ground she will cover again during the retrograde. Pay attention to what surfaces.Black Moon Lilith makes a fire trine to Eris and Vesta, and sextiles Hekate — that inner feminine rage at injustice, in flowing conversation with the table-turners and the inner flame, with the way-shower lighting the path. And Mercury in Virgo trines Pholus — more information coming to light. More things being seen.Monday, August 31 — Saturn Squares Asteroid Lilith. Black Moon Lilith Enters Capricorn. Earth Grand Trine.Saturn at 13° Aries squares Asteroid Lilith in Cancer. Thirteen — the number of the goddess, the witch. Saturn in Aries retrograde is revisiting the rules, the structures, the identities we've been building. Asteroid Lilith — the talk-to-the-hand, we-were-created-equal, original divine feminine — is in the Moon's sign, looking around and asking: how are all our needs being met? How are outsiders' needs being met? It's a hard look, again, before we do anything more. Saturn can bring the “shoulds” — and this week: don't. It will still be there later.Black Moon Lilith reaches the end of Sagittarius and enters Capricorn — the sign of our institutions, structures, and the man-made rules we live under. And the moment she crosses into Capricorn, she trines Regulus at 0° Virgo and Chiron at 0° Taurus — an Earth Grand Trine. The exiled feminine energy, in flowing conversation with the Royal Star that now speaks of future stewards, and with the medicine man shining his light on wounds and healing.The way forward is this world. This experience. Being on this Earth, which is our home.Jupiter at 13° Leo trines Saturn at 13° Aries. Thirteen — the goddess number, the witch number, also a number of creation (Fibonacci, phi). This is the opening trine of the cycle that began at the Great Conjunction in December 2020 — Jupiter and Saturn at 0° Aquarius, the beginning of the Age of Air. Now Jupiter has moved into Leo and this is the first flowering of that seed. We have to change these man-made rules that are not in alignment with the natural laws of the universe. That's what this aspect is saying. In the number of the goddess, no less.The Moon in Aries moves through Pallas Athena (revisiting strategy), opposes Venus (emotions stirred around what Venus is covering in her pre-retrograde territory — feel it, don't push it away), conjuncts Eris (more inner table-turning), squares Juno, sextiles Hekate, conjuncts Vesta.Tuesday, September 1 — Moon Into Taurus. Mars Squares Saturn. Mercury Meets Circe. The Brakes.The Moon finishes its Aries passage by aspecting the Nodes (still at 29° until October 9th — eclipse energy still reverberating) before moving into Taurus at 4:01am Eastern. Immediately, the Moon conjuncts Chiron — the shaman, the medicine man, hands-on healing. Earth. Body. Values. The wound and the medicine.Venus at 23° Libra makes a lovely unbroken flow aspect to Chariklo in Aquarius — the cosmic doula, Chiron's consort, the grace-spinner, holding space for the new story we're weaving. I am here with you. I am helping you weave it.Then the aspect that defines the day: Mars in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries. Mars in Cancer is already uncomfortable — fire in water, drive dampened by sensitivity. And Saturn in Aries is retrograde, in Mars's own sign. One foot on the accelerator, one foot on the brake. Except this week: it is far more brake than accelerator.If you feel the shoulds pressing in — I should be doing this, I should be doing that — this week is not the time. What needs to be done will still be there after you've rested and gone in. The brakes are on for a reason.Mercury in Virgo meets Circe the Sorceress — Circe is also conjunct the upcoming Virgo New Moon, which feels intentional. Mercury saying: get into the details, go in and do some inner sorcery and magic. The craftsmanship here is interior. Mercury then sextiles Asteroid Lilith — she's in there too, having a very good look at what she's going to say no to. Not performing the no yet. Looking clearly.The Taurus Moon Earth-trines the Virgo Sun and Pholus at around 9-10° — a pull to earth, to the somatic, to the body, to roots. Get your bare feet on the ground. Do grounding meditations. Go into the woods. That's why I chose the Red Riding Hood image for this week — the feminine going into the woods, into the inner world, is the heroine's journey. Read those old fairy tales from a different lens.Wednesday, September 2 — Moon in Taurus. Everything Is Within.The Taurus Moon squares Jupiter at 13° Leo — the natural laws of the universe, in the sign of the heart, at the goddess number again. The pattern of all of these 13° aspects this week is unmistakable.Everything is pointing inward. Everything is saying: come into balance and harmony within your nervous system. These eclipses have been nerve-jangling. If you feel your nervous system a bit fried, that's both appropriate and fixable. You have the tools. Use them.The Moon sextiles Mars (still cooling its jets, heading toward Asteroid Lilith), and the Sun trines Black Moon Lilith — with Okyrhoe the seer joining that aspect. This is about uncovering your inner seer. Going to the depth within that knows things before the mind catches up. The inner oracle.Thursday, September 3 — Sedna Stations Retrograde. Moon Into Gemini. Basket Activated.The Taurus Moon makes an Earth trine to Juno — our sacred contracts with each other, held in the flowing earth energy that's been the backbone of this week. This Earth trine has been holding the whole week: pulling inward, pulling down to ground, pulling roots deeper.Sedna stations retrograde in Gemini. Her 11,406-year orbit means she was last in Gemini at the end of the Great Ice Ages. Her stations are slower-burning than closer-in planets, but this is still a turning point: dig deeper into your perceptions, your ideas, your words, your thinking. How do you need to shift? How do you need to adapt?Black Moon Lilith squares Saturn — now in his own sign Capricorn, pressing against the rules and structures of our institutions. More things being seen. More reality checks arriving. This is not the moment to rail at every little thing. It's the moment to take it in, to see clearly, to know what you're looking at before you act.The Taurus Moon reaches 27-29° — the Pleiades degrees. This may feel like a tender, even sad day. The Pleiades carry the grief of endings and the beauty of the in-between. With Dolly and Tim Curry's passing this week, and with so much being released in the collective, let yourself feel what's there. The Moon then squares Hekate, squares the Nodes, and begins moving toward the drain of the South Node.At 7:47am Eastern, the Moon enters Gemini and immediately meets Sedna — who just stationed retrograde, all that adapt-or-transform energy newly concentrated. The Moon then trines Pluto, sextiles Neptune, conjuncts Uranus — the basket, again. The cradle activated. The aha moment: something about letting go. Something about death and rebirth. Something about what's trying to move through.Mars is opposed by Black Moon Lilith at 2:44pm Eastern — a question not about action but about wisdom. Is the action we're taking coming from a wise place? Or are we just acting? Black Moon Lilith is a lunar point, not a physical body — she's the inner voice, the interior knowing. Are we using her wisdom to shape what we do?Friday, September 4 — Last Quarter Moon. Venus Opposes Eris. Inner Tables Turning.The Gemini Moon (out of bounds since late Wednesday or Thursday) squares the Sun — Last Quarter Moon at approximately 11:48am Eastern. Eleven: the master number, the gateway. What are we letting go of before we step through this doorway? Not one big doorway — a series of doorways. That's what this whole period is. Each week, another door. What are we releasing at this one?The Last Quarter Moon is always a crisis in consciousness — the moment of maximum tension before the letting go. In this context, coming off eclipse season, it's the inner churn before the new moon plant.Venus at 25° Libra opposes Eris — more inner tables to turn. Not out there, not yet. Going within, looking at strategy and patterns, recognizing what needs to be overturned within your own relating and your own values before you bring a new version of yourself to the world.The Moon sextiles Saturn (opportunity to let go of self-limiting beliefs, old rules we were taught to live by) and sextiles Jupiter (the curious Gemini Moon trying to make sense of it all through the lens of the natural laws).Mars meets Asteroid Lilith at 15° Cancer — the midpoint of the degree, the middle of Cancer. Mars will move ahead of her after this. But she is right there with him, saying: you are more of a protector and a guardian than you have been portrayed. Right now, at this moment — using the language of internal family systems — you are my inner protector. You are here to help me move within, do more self-care, love myself more. You are the guardian of my interior, not just the warrior taking on the external world.If your inner Mars is feeling frustrated and angry (Mars doesn't love Cancer), you can actually talk to that part of yourself: I know you're here to help me. Right now your job is to protect my inner work, not to attack everything out there.The Moon squares Mercury — information, details, adjustments, what you think. All of it inside.Venus squares Juno — we are rewriting the contracts. With each other, and with ourselves.Saturday, September 5 — Moon Into Cancer. Venus and Hekate. One Last Look at the Toxins.The Gemini Moon finishes its journey — way out of bounds — making last aspects to the retrograde planets in Aries: Pallas Athena, Eris, Vesta. Fire and air. What do I need to burn off? What ideas need to be released? What does the inner flame actually want? Intense, but passing.At 10:30am Eastern, the Moon enters Cancer — her own sign — and sextiles Chiron. The wound and the medicine. The shaman. What's the medicine I've become because of what I've been through?Venus makes a lovely unbroken flow aspect to Hekate — the way-shower, the torchbearer, the triple moon goddess at the crossroads. Venus and Hekate work together beautifully during Venus retrogrades (you'll experience this directly in the class), and this pre-retrograde aspect is a preview: pay attention to your inner voice about which paths to choose. Which direction through the woods of your inner self is being illuminated?The Cancer Moon trines Haumea — pure regeneration, the Hawaiian creatrix, the handle of the basket. She hasn't been aspected much this week, and here at the close she shows up to say: something new is being birthed from all of this. Something is regenerating. And the Moon squares Neptune — Haumea moving forward, Neptune moving back, an aspect of adjustment between the two Mars signs (Aries and Scorpio). We are moving into a more Venusian era. We cannot stay where we were.The last aspect of the week: one more look at the toxins, at what needs to be released, at what we've been carrying that belongs to the past. What more can I let go of to be a better ancestor? (If you want to go deeper on Nessus, there's a beautiful blog post from the Amalthea website — search “Amalthea Nessus” — and the author contributed to Sideways from Saturn, the book on the centaurs that I wrote the foreword for.)The Cards in DetailTwo of Bees (Swords) — I Am Tension:Proverbs: “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”This week suggests difficult choices and decisions. Your ideas and opinions may be questioned — by others and, perhaps more intensely, by yourself. You may feel mentally paralyzed as you try to navigate stress, uncertainty, and inner conflict.How do we move forward? Balance the tension of the opposites. Hold the tension of not knowing the outcome for a while. Clarity and a balanced view will make itself known. Positive choices and insightful decisions will arise from the centre of your being, once you've taken time to contemplate and listen to yourself before you act.And remember that quote when you speak to yourself this week: gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Including when you are talking inside your own head.Eight of Seeds (Pentacles), reversed — I Am Disengaged:Upright, the Eight of Seeds is productive, diligent, sowing and harvesting. Reversed this week: I feel disengaged. I feel like I've never done enough, like I'm not good enough. The inner perfectionist shows up.This is an Earth card, and its very reversal is the prescription: self-development and inner work. Not productive outer work. The shadow of Virgo — the perfectionism, the not-enoughness — can come through here. Let it be acknowledged and then gently set aside. You don't have to perform productivity right now.Ten of Bees (Swords) — I Am Revelation:Khalil Gibran: “For the bee, the flower is the fountain of life. For the flower, the bee is the messenger of love.”This is the card I was genuinely glad to see at the end of this challenging set. Here it is:We have tripped up and plummeted along the way, and now know what rock bottom feels like. It has challenged us. Self-pity, at times, has heightened our suffering.However, in reality, the rocks actually grounded us, and a relief and an understanding is starting to rise up within us. It is clear that we have been stung into waking up to some hard truths. Our ego may have been battered, and we may feel sore, vulnerable, as we reflect on what appear to be failures and endings that lie behind us.The good news is: the worst is over, for this week. The weight we have carried is finally lifting. We have survived, and our stings will heal. Our wings gently unfurl, and we start to ascend, breathing in the clear air, and dancing into a new beginning.By the end of the week, you will start to feel the call of the new moon. Not quite there yet. But coming.The Witch (Witch Oracle) — I Am Coordinating, Not Dominating:“Control. No woman alive today needs a dictionary to know what control means within a toxic patriarchy. She's experienced it a thousand different ways. It is domination and restraint.But in a balanced psyche and in a balanced culture, control can mean something else entirely.A witch experiences control through cooperation rather than competition. She is engaged with all the parts of her psyche in an attempt to coordinate rather than dominate.You are being asked right now to embrace all the inhabitants of your inner realm, because each deserves respect and a place at the table. Even the unruly, the inconvenient, the ugly. Making space for all under the banner of wild inclusion — giving voice to the shame, malice, and anger, as well as every other outlawed part of the psyche — is the way we create integrity.When your intent is to create rather than compete, you don't have to dominate. Your influence is enough. This is power with, rather than power over.Invite whatever is bothering you today into the realm of inclusion. Assert your inner authority.”Coordinate, don't dominate. Including inside yourself. This is the whole week. This is the whole work.Summing UpPost-eclipse. Waning. Brakes firmly on. The Aries retrogrades slowing everything down, saying not yet, not yet. The Earth Grand Trine pulling us down to roots and soil and body. The 13s showing up everywhere — the goddess number, the witch number — at Saturn and Jupiter and the Moon's aspects. Venus entering her pre-retrograde territory and asking us to start paying attention. Sedna stationing to dig deeper into how we adapt. The Last Quarter Moon at the gateway number, releasing before the new moon.The rocks grounded us. The wings are beginning to unfurl.Go into the woods. Slow your roll. Do the radical self-care. Talk to your inner Mars. Embrace all the inhabitants of your inner realm. And coordinate, don't dominate — inside and out.The new moon is coming on September 10th. We'll get there.— LouiseVenus Retrograde: Heroine's Journey — louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026Subscribe free on Substack. Spiral Weave / Spiral Codex — $10/month or $90/year.Code COSMICOWL20 (20% off) or COSMICOWL30 (30% off $99+) at Otter Spirit. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cosmicowlastrology.substack.com/subscribe

In this last episode of the podcast before I go on maternity leave, I have my astrologer friends Seth and Maxine back on to discuss all of the major transits happening throughout the end of 2026 and into 2027. We cover all of the upcoming retrogrades (Mercury, Mars, and Venus), having Jupiter trine Saturn across the fire signs, the upcoming eclipses as they wrap up in Pisces/Virgo and fully shift into Leo/Aquarius, and what we've already been noticing with Chiron in Taurus. You can find Seth on Instagram @thestargayzer and at www.thestargayzer.comYou can find Maxine @maxinetwigg on Instagram Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro and welcome to Seth and Maxine01:22 – The upcoming Venus, Mercury, and Mars retrogrades29:42 – The fire sign emphasis with Jupiter, South Node, and Saturn37:13 – Upcoming eclipses over the next year48:39 – Chiron in Taurus + the outer planets continuing on in their new signs**While Alice is on maternity leave, check out her archive of podcast episodes here or on YouTube.Follow Alice on Instagram or Substack.Music is licensed from Soundstripe.Podcast Produced & Edited by Julia Bell at Breaking Thru Productions© 2026 Alice Bell. All Rights Reserved.

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The Pisces Lunar Eclipse at nearly 5° Pisces is closing a chapter that's been unfolding since 2023. What have you already outgrown, even if you don't know what comes next? We explore Fomalhaut, Mercury cazimi, intuition vs. projection, body wisdom + herbal allies, followed by Akashic oracle readings for all 12 signs. ✨ You already know what's changing. Now let's work with it. Join us inside Bloom for Born to Shine + a whole library of practices to help you clear what's keeping you loyal to an old version of yourself. Come into Bloom → https://www.skool.com/bloomsanctuary/about ✨ Discover Your Intuitive Healer Archetype with this Quiz: https://bit.ly/45RqwDZ 00:00 Pisces Lunar Eclipse: What if your soul is done? 02:47 The final Pisces eclipse + a story that began in 2023 05:11 Pisces Decan I, 8 of Cups + what you've outgrown 10:25 Fomalhaut: spiritual calling, vision + self-delusion 13:52 Mercury cazimi: intuition, clarity + discernment 18:00 Uranus in Gemini + the medicine of change 21:43 What if your definition of success is changing? 27:26 When the body knows before the mind 29:51 What happens next: February 2027 + Mars/Saturn 34:09 Pisces medical astrology + herbal allies Akashic Oracle Readings by Sign 45:03 — Aries 49:00 — Taurus 54:17 — Gemini 1:00:56 — Cancer 1:05:36 — Leo 1:11:05 — Virgo 1:15:20 — Libra 1:19:24 — Scorpio 1:22:59 — Sagittarius 1:26:56 — Capricorn 1:30:59 — Aquarius 1:34:38 — Pisces Instagram | @wildlyrooted Website | www.wildlyrooted.com   

This is your daily horoscope for Tuesday, August 25, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon enters Aquarius (2am PT)Mercury in Leo conjunct South Node in Leo (2am PT)Mercury enters Virgo (4am PT)Moon in Aquarius conjunct Pluto in Aquarius (9am PT)Moon in Aquarius sextile Neptune in Aries (9:30am PT)Mercury in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (12pm PT)Moon in Aquarius trine Uranus in Gemini (1pm PT)Unlock More MagicGrimoire: Become a Better Witch in 12 WeeksBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceRevoke Stacy Turner's Medical License (Corrupt Coroner in Mississippi)Donate in Memory of Juliana NzitaHelp Honor Tasia FortuneSign the Petition + Demand Clemency for Jeffery Lee I Call Gov. Ivey + Demand Clemency 334-242-7100

This is the week Pisces eclipses end, and they are not leaving through the gift shop. Friday's full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces is the last one we'll have in this sign for many years, and it's going out in a direct square to Uranus, which is a bit like a houseguest who's been staying with you since 2023 announcing their departure by pulling the fire alarm on the way out.If you've been here a while, you know the Pisces corner of your life has been under construction for years. Saturn moved through and made you grow up there. Neptune finally left after nearly a decade of fog. Last year stacked a Venus retrograde and a Mercury retrograde on top of it all, and eclipses have been detonating in this same territory the whole time. Whatever delusions, romantic thinking, or too-dreamy assumptions you were running in this part of your life, they've been getting stripped out one by one. It has not been comfortable. It has, however, made you extremely hard to rattle here. Give me what you got. We were raised in this asylum.So yes, an eclipse squaring Uranus means all bets are off. Eclipses are unpredictable by nature; Uranus is the planet of the plot twist; putting them together means something changes this week, full stop. Life speeds up around eclipses, the landscape shifts in a matter of days, and you look up on the other side going, wait, when did all of that happen. That's the deal. You don't get a vote on the timing.Key moments of the week:Sunday, August 23: Sun in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (3:29PM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Leo opposite North Node in Aquarius (2:57AM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury enters Virgo (7:04AM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (2:56PM)Thursday, August 27: Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo (1:03PM)Friday, August 28: Lunar eclipse in Pisces (12:14AM)Friday, August 28: Full Moon in Pisces (12:18AM)Friday, August 28: Mercury in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (3:24AM)Friday, August 28: Sun in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (6:18PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

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TAURUS DAILY HOROSCOPE (Tuesday August 25 2026)

The Eclipse Portal ClosesWe are at the closing of the eclipse portal.The total solar eclipse of August 12 seeded a six-month arc. This week the companion lunar eclipse in Pisces completes the portal. What was seeded is being illuminated. What needs to dissolve for that seeding to take root is now being asked to release.Key Cycles This Week:Tuesday, August 25: Mercury enters Virgo and trines Chiron in Taurus. Mercury in Virgo's precision meets Chiron, the Wounded Healer in the earth sign. Language becoming medicine. The capacity to name what has been wounded with enough care that the naming itself begins the healing. Let this quiet contact do its work before the eclipse arrives.Thursday, August 27: Full Moon lunar eclipse at 5 degrees of Pisces. Sun conjunct Mercury in Virgo. Eclipse squares Uranus in Gemini. The portal closes on the axis of dissolution and discernment. Pisces dissolves, the membrane between your feeling body and the larger collective field thins. What moves through you in the days around this eclipse may not be entirely personal. Stay close to your body and the Earth. Let what arises move without needing immediate explanation.Sun and Mercury in Virgo hold the other side with grounded precision — finding specific truth within vast feeling, naming what can be named, holding with spaciousness what cannot yet be articulated.The square to Uranus in Gemini adds an awakening current. What is being released is not dissolving back into the familiar. Watch for a quiet but undeniable shift in understanding. That is the Uranus thread making itself known.On the Horizon — Monday August 31: Jupiter Trine Saturn The two social planets move into harmonious trine within the twenty-year cycle seeded at the Winter Solstice of 2020 and the two-hundred-year shift of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions into air signs. A deeper exploration coming next week. Let the eclipse do its integrating work first.Podcast poem:  It is I Who Must Begin by Vaclav HavelReflection QuestionsWhat is moving through you around this eclipse that may not be entirely personal, and how do you stay grounded while remaining open to what the larger field is carrying?Where is Virgo's devoted attention being asked to name something difficult to articulate, and what becomes possible when that naming arrives?As the portal closes, what has been seeded in you, and what is being asked to dissolve so that seeding can take root?If you resonate with these cycles of grounding and discernment, The Root in the Sacred taster workshop replay is available as a free resource — an experiential introduction to the grounding and embodied wisdom of the Earth elemental spiral.You can find it at the Home page of ontheedgesofchange.comSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comThis episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

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TAURUS DAILY HOROSCOPE (Monday August 24 2026)

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TAURUS DAILY HOROSCOPE (Sunday August 23 2026)

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Edited Transcript Below for Readers on Substack. A pivotal astrological week centered on the Lunar Eclipse on August 28 and a rare sequence of personal planets (Sun, Mercury, Venus) crossing the South Node and Regulus at 0° Virgo — a pattern Louise frames as accelerating the "fall of kings" and a long-term paradigm shift toward humility, stewardship, and inner work. The overarching theme is surrender, self-care, and transformation amid heightened emotional intensity.Venus Retrograde Heroine's Journey 2026 https://www.louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026Features and Press ReleasesUSA Today! https://www.usatoday.com/press-release/story/39476/louise-edington-launches-landmark-venus-retrograde-program-as-she-approaches-15-years-in-business/https://www.womansworld.com/contributors/louise-edington-fear-astrologyhttps://feedvoice.com/louise-edington-on-why-midlife-women-are-turning-to-astrology-for-self-trust-instead-of-self-improvement/International Business Times https://www.ibtimes.com/louise-edington-reclaiming-language-stars-through-intuition-embodiment-matrifocal-wisdom-3803596Wellness Voice https://wellnessvoice.com/louise-edington-on-reclaiming-the-language-of-the-stars-through-intuition-embodiment-and-matrifocal-wisdom/Red Seeds Tarot https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheRedSeedsW.I.T.C.H. Oracle Deck https://a.co/d/0bOgiJsrBefore We Dive InA few things before we get into what is — still — an extraordinary week.AstroTheoros has been adding features since I last mentioned them on the lunar eclipse video: chart import (from nearly any source) and export (to CSV), chart folders, chart notes with a timeline, and lovely PDF print options. More is in the works. If you're looking for affordable, cloud-based astrology software that works on any device, go and check it out. Code COSMICOWL at astrotheoros.com — one free month on the monthly plan, or one extra month off the yearly plan.Venus Retrograde: Heroine's Journey — we now have 50 people enrolled. First call is October 1st. The price is holding through the end of August, so this week is your last chance at the current rate. And — this matters, so I'm saying it clearly — I offer partial scholarships. If you genuinely cannot afford the class, please email me at louise@louiseedington.com with a “pay what you can” offer. I do believe in some form of exchange, but I believe even more in this work reaching the people who need it. Please be in integrity — you don't need to give me your life story. Just be honest. louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026My article — “Can We Let Evolutionary Astrology Evolve?” — is on Substack now. I'm not calling for anyone to cancel evolutionary astrology as a whole. I'm calling for patience, grace, and recognition that the practice itself is already evolving — which is rather fitting. I've had people come out of the woodwork in response to it, in good ways, and there will be follow-ups. Subscribe free on Substack to get it in your inbox.Spiral Weave / Spiral Codex membership — $10/month or $90/year — is where we go deeper together. Live calls, community, and the monthly Ask Me Almost Anything. Link below. Membership is OFF Substack going forward.The Big Picture: Three Planets Cross RegulusBefore we move into the week, I want to give you the context that has been building for months — because it reaches a significant milestone this week.Regulus — the Royal Star, one of the four great fixed stars of the ancient sky — moved from Leo into Virgo from our perspective in late 2011. Before Virgo, it spent approximately 2,160 years in Leo. Before that, 2,160 years in Cancer. And before that, Gemini.The astrologer Michael Lutin — rest in peace, a truly lovely man — apparently wrote about Regulus's ingress into Virgo in practically every post after it happened. His words, which I keep coming back to: “Long after this foolish war is over, Regulus in Virgo will produce beings — the future stewards of the Earth and planets. The goddesses.” And he also said: kings in rags.Now here is where we are this week: the three most personal solar system bodies — Venus, the Sun, and Mercury — are all crossing the South Node and then Regulus, one after another, for the first time since the South Node met Regulus at 0° Virgo.Venus crossed first. The Sun crossed last week. And this Tuesday: Mercury crosses the South Node and then meets Regulus.These are the three bodies closest to the Sun — the inner solar system, our most personal planetary energies. In order from Sun outward: Mercury, Venus, Earth. All three crossing that symbolic drain and meeting Regulus in its new sign. Not kings. Something different. Something more humble, more curious, more meaningful, more Virgo.I also want to mention the larger wheel. I believe the turning of the ages began in 1781, when Uranus was discovered — that moment of collective breakthrough also marked the start of the Industrial Revolution. It takes a very long time to turn the great wheel. We are roughly three ages back from when the descent began — Gemini to Cancer to Leo — and now, with Regulus in Virgo, we are at the point between the descent and the return. Beginning to push back up. That is where we are.Three Out-of-Bounds Bodies — and a PrescriptionThis week, the Moon, Mars, and Pluto are all out of bounds simultaneously. That is not nothing.The Moon out of bounds means our emotions are running beyond the normal range — heightened, eccentric, more extreme in some direction.Mars out of bounds (since August 3rd) means protective instincts and defensive reactions have been especially reactive. Mars in Cancer is already sensitive and protective; out of bounds, it's been operating well beyond convention. The good news: Mars comes back in bounds on Friday the 28th, the eclipse day.Pluto out of bounds happens for about three months around this time of year, and will continue until 2035 — after which Pluto never goes out of bounds again in any of our lifetimes. Rosie Finn's book Persephone's Revolution documents the pattern: Pluto out of bounds to the south has historically coincided with people rising up, more peaceful collective energy. Pluto out of bounds to the north coincided with the Second World War. We are in the south-running period. That is, in Rosie's words, the revolution.The prescription for all of this: radical self-care. Not the usual amount. More than you'd normally think necessary. Out-of-bounds planets go beyond the norm — so your self-care needs to go beyond your norm too. Keep your boundaries. Retreat when you need to. Do what genuinely restores you.The Cards — A First GlanceFrom the Red Seeds Tarot and the Witch Oracle: The Hanged Goddess (upright!), Two of Bees reversed, Queen of Seeds reversed, and The Companion.Pause. Inner turmoil. Inner pillars. And your body as the cauldron. Every single card is pointing in the same direction: inward. More at the end.Day by DaySunday, August 23 — Sun Meets Regulus. The Third Great Crossing Begins.The Moon in Capricorn, out of bounds, opens the week by opposing Ceres — the Great Mother, the one I wrote my book on. Self-care first. What are your needs right now, really? Then the Moon squares Neptune — forming a mutable T-square that forces change and says: surrender. Let go. Trust the flow.At 3:12am Eastern, the Sun meets Regulus exactly at 0°11' Virgo. Venus is already past this point, heading ahead. Now the Sun has joined her. Two personal planets past the drain, past Regulus, heading toward what comes next — including the Venus Star Point, the Cazimi in Scorpio, on October 23rd. (That Star Point, incidentally, squares 20° Aquarius — a potent point I'll speak to more in the Venus class.)Venus is now falling in the sky — every morning in the east she rises closer and closer to the rising Sun, descending back toward conjunction. We are in the falling phase of her cycle. The invitation: more humility, more curiosity, more meaning, more Virgo. Less performance, less pedestal energy. Let it go.Happy birthday, Virgo humans. Your season is carrying something remarkable.Mercury in Leo trines Eris — the messenger meeting the original table-turner. Eris does not like artifice. She does not like the glitz and vanity and pedestal energy of shadow Leo. She is the one who says I was created equal and I will not submit — and she says it again now through Mercury. Expect more news of people falling from pedestals. More truth being spoken. More of the old guard losing its grip.The Moon opposes Mars (both out of bounds — very heightened), then conjuncts Asteroid Lilith (talk to the hand, enough) and Pholus (Pandora's box wide open). We've had enough. The lid is coming off more things. There is grief in all of this. There is loss. People are going to be feeling it this week — whether it's playing out in their personal lives or in the collective. Both are real.The Sun in Virgo trines Chiron — an Earth trine. Healing the wounds around being human. Around how we've treated each other. Around our severed relationship with the Earth itself. This is an ongoing theme for the Chiron-in-Taurus years, and the Sun newly in Virgo is making it tangible.The out-of-bounds Moon squares Saturn retrograde — initiating, letting go of old institutions, old rules, old self-limiting beliefs. The structures that are stagnant. They are going.Monday, August 24 — Capricorn Moon. Radical Self-Care. The Inner Crossroads.The Moon is still out of bounds in Capricorn all day — and Capricorn Moons can feel a bit cold, emotionally blunt. With everything going on right now, you or people around you may seem more shut down than usual. That's self-protection, not coldness. Give yourself and others some latitude.The prescription is clear: more self-care than you normally think you need. Out-of-bounds planets go beyond the norm. Match that.The Moon squares Venus — both out of bounds, both in their own way asking: what do we value? What are we creating? What relationships, contracts, and connections need new boundaries? Where are we letting go of the old and building something genuinely different?Mercury trines Vesta — the messenger in conversation with the inner flame. This isn't coming from outside. The flame is within. The article I wrote on evolutionary astrology (link below) speaks to this — the turning of astrology toward helping people explore their interior landscape, rather than telling them what it means.The Moon sextiles Nessus — seeing the toxins within and without. Bloodletting the inherited poisons, the patterns that have been running. Then the Moon squares Pallas Athena — wise strategy, wise justice. How are we going to fight for this? And how do we find the strategy within ourselves first?Mercury opposes Hecate at 28°57' Aquarius. Hecate — the torchbearer at the crossroads, the triple moon goddess — is in the sign of the future, the collective, the Aquarian North Node. Mercury opposing her says: the crossroads is within. The way forward is through the interior, not through the external drama. Tune in.The Moon squares Eris to close the day — tables still turning, within and without.Tuesday, August 25 — Mercury Crosses the South Node. Mercury Meets Regulus. Vesta Stations Retrograde.Three major events. One day.At 5:01am Eastern, the Moon enters Aquarius — back in bounds, or very close to it, stepping into the sign of the future.At 5:04am Eastern, Mercury conjuncts the South Node. The drain. The third major personal planet to cross this threshold since the South Node met Regulus at 0° Virgo.First Venus crossed — love, values, our relationship to all things, our social and material world. Then the Sun — the very core of our solar system, our identity, the ego and the heart simultaneously. Now Mercury — the mind, the voice, communication, the messenger between worlds.Three, in succession. All releasing through the drain. All letting go of old ideas, old beliefs, old ways of thinking about leadership and hierarchy and who gets to be on a pedestal.And then: at 7:04am, Mercury enters Virgo. Crossing from Leo (the voice of the heart) into Virgo (the meaningful, discerning, humble voice). Mercury is strong in Virgo — curious, detail-oriented, wanting to find the meaning, wanting to get it right not for praise but because doing the right thing matters.At 9:26am, Mercury conjuncts Regulus at 0° Virgo.Three planets. Venus. Sun. Mercury. All having now crossed Regulus in Virgo for the first time since the South Node met it. All going down the drain of the age of kings, and emerging — more humble, more curious, more Virgo. Kings in rags. Future stewards of the Earth and planets. The goddesses.I am just like... I love astrology. And I love Michael Lutin for seeing this.The Moon in Aquarius then squares Haumea, trines Sedna (adapt or die, but also — so many kinds of death), and conjuncts Pluto — the basket activation again. The Moon carries the collective emotional energy through the 4° basket degree, four legs of stability, and we are held.At 2:01pm Eastern, Vesta stations retrograde. Vesta — the inner flame, focus, commitment, sacred devotion — goes retrograde. And look at the Aries cluster now: Neptune retrograde, Manwë retrograde, Saturn retrograde, Pallas Athena retrograde, Eris retrograde, and now Vesta retrograde. All those Aries energies — the new beginning, the identity in the emerging aeon — going back, reviewing, revisiting. We are not finished with what Aries has been teaching us about who we are becoming. The retrograde does not cancel the flame. It turns it inward to assess what it's actually devoted to.Mercury in Virgo trines Chiron — and I want to sit with this one. Virgo, in the older traditions, was the healer, the witch, the medicine carrier, the one with the pouch of herbs who knew how to tend bodies and communities. Chiron is the wounded healer, the shaman, the one who becomes medicine through the wound. Together: be the medicine. Not just know about healing. Embody it.The Moon then trines Uranus — the basket activates again, and we are held in it. Still. Despite everything.Wednesday, August 26 — Moon Opposes Jupiter. The Pedestal Shadow.The Aquarius Moon opposes Jupiter and Hygieia in Leo — and I find this potent. Jupiter in Leo is the expander in the sign of kings, of leaders, of the performer. And now the Moon — the people, the collective emotions — is directly across from it, in the sign of the future.What we're starting to see, I think, is not just the fall of individual gurus and leaders. We're starting to see the shadow of how we've participated in putting them there. Not just in them, but in us. The energy of wanting someone to tell us the answers. The hunger for authority figures. The guru culture, the cult-of-personality culture, the tendency to surrender our inner judge to someone else's version of truth. Jupiter expanded all of that. Now we're looking at it clearly.Jupiter will go retrograde at some point soon, which means it will turn back to review that Leo territory more carefully. Watch that.The Moon sextiles Saturn — self-limiting beliefs, old structures. Let them go. And Mercury sextiles Haumea — the Great Mother of regeneration. All three personal planets are now moving toward Scorpio, toward the Venus Star Point, toward the Venus and Mercury retrogrades. It is going to be intentional. The Venus class exists to help you work with this from the inside out — the meditations are channeled, not scripted, so each journey is genuinely different.Thursday, August 27 — Moon Into Pisces. Mercury Cazimi at 4° Virgo. Moon Conjuncts North Node.The Moon moves through Aquarius — sextiling Pallas Athena (strategy), conjuncting Chariklo (the cosmic doula is holding space for the story we're weaving), sextiling Eris and Vesta (burn things off, from devotion and inner flame) — and then meets Hecate at the crossroads. Always. She is always there.And then the Mercury Cazimi — the Sun and Mercury meet exactly, in a superior (exterior) conjunction at 4° Virgo. Mercury is behind the Sun from our perspective, meaning it's on the far side — gathering information from outer space, which it then channels through the solar core. These exterior Cazimis are often moments of receiving rather than transmitting: something is coming in that Mercury will carry forward toward the coming retrograde.4° Virgo. The basket degree, again. Four legs of the table. When the basket peaked in July, the Moon at 4° of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn each activated the whole configuration in turn. Now Mercury and the Sun meet at 4° Virgo. The messenger is filled with what it needs to carry toward the Venus retrograde and then into its own retrograde in Scorpio. Information from the far side, encoded in the cauldron, to be distilled in the descent to come.At 3:03pm Eastern, the Moon enters Pisces — and the emotional waters deepen as we move toward the eclipse tomorrow. The Moon sextiles Chiron and trines Haumea — a water grand trine still operational, eroding, regenerating. The Moon squares Sedna — adapt, or be changed. The Moon conjuncts the North Node — the Aquarian future, the care-for-each-other energy, the people rising up. Forget the labels. Just vote for the person who genuinely wants to care for people. They are human. They will not be perfect. But listen to what they say.Friday, August 28 — Venus Day. The Lunar Eclipse. Mars Back in Bounds.The full lunar eclipse post and video cover all the detail — please do go and read/watch those. But here's what matters from this forecast's perspective.The eclipse is at 4° Pisces/Virgo — the basket degree, the number of stability. Four legs. We are held.Mars moves back in bounds on this day. He's been out of bounds since August 3rd — erratic, sensitive, defensive, more extreme than usual. Now, at last, he comes back within the established range. You may notice a very slight settling of some of that reactive, overly self-protective energy. Mars in Cancer at its highest is the fierce guardian — protective of home and family, yes, but from love rather than fear.Mercury square Uranus exactly at 5° — number of change. Radical shift in perceptions. Could come as shocking news, shocking falls, or shocking good news. The Uranian energy doesn't telegraph which. Stay awake.The Moon in Pisces trines Ceres — amid eclipse energy, Ceres in Cancer says: meet your needs. Take care of yourself. Your family and community. There may be grief around ancestors, around family, around inheritance. Let the water move through.The Sun in Virgo sextiles Ceres and squares Uranus — more eclipse activation, more radical change in the practical, meaningful sign of Virgo. This is the call to do things differently in the everyday, the ordinary, the somatic. Virgo is the medicine carrier. Be the medicine.The Moon trines Mars (now back in bounds) — water to water, Cancer and Pisces. The guardian and the depths. The eclipse is very emotional. Let it be. Surrender. The Hanged Goddess is upright this week precisely because we need her permission to pause.The Moon also trines Asteroid Lilith — talk to the hand. We are not going back to the old way.Saturday, August 29 — Quiet Close. Moon Into Aries.The Moon in Pisces closes the week quietly — meeting Nessus (the poisons, the inherited patterns, a last look at what we're releasing in this eclipse), then sextiling Juno (contracts, the renegotiating continues).And then, at 10:37pm Eastern, the Moon enters Aries — and we end the week with the Moon about to move through that entire retrograde cluster: Neptune, Manwë, Saturn, Pallas Athena, Eris, and Vesta, all revisiting, reflecting, reviewing, in the sign of new beginnings.As the week closes: Venus, the Sun, and Mercury are the only major planetary bodies on the Virgo side of Regulus and the South Node. All the rest are still coming. It will take a while. This is a turning of a great wheel, not the flipping of a switch.But the three most personal planets are leading the way. Be more meaningful. Be more curious. Be more humble. Be the medicine.The Cards in DetailThe Hanged Goddess — I Am Paused (upright this time):In the Red Seeds Tarot by Linda Hill (find her on Etsy, UK), the Hanged Goddess is Demeter — the Great Mother who, in the myth, became weary of both mortals and gods and withdrew to her newly built temple, closing the door to everyone. She knew that to invoke the powers of healing, she would need silence and isolation. And so she paused.“A change of perspective is much needed. The complexity of life can imbalance us at times, leaving us feeling lost, drained, exhausted. Confusion surrounds us, and we can't see the wood for the trees. Have we forgotten who we are? What has brought us to this point? Is it time to stop and pause? Old cycles, habits, poor self-care may have blocked our way. It's time to surrender to the self and allow the depths of our being to open gently. It is not necessary to hurry or try to direct what should happen next. There is really nothing for us to do but wait. Such a position helps us to see things in a very different light. New perspectives will arise. There is much to come from this.”Herman Hesse: “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”This is Demeter closing the temple door. This is the invitation: close the door. Just for a while. Let the silence in. Let the new perspective arise.Two of Bees (Swords), reversed — Inner Turmoil:This week there may be anxiety, inner turmoil, indecision. Everything feels tense inside. Reversed, this card asks for all the inner work — going within rather than pushing outward, balancing the nervous system, retreating, doing the self-care. The Hanged Goddess gave you the permission. Take it.This is strong energy. The eclipses are strong. You do not have to perform having it together right now.Queen of Seeds (Pentacles), reversed — Inner Pillars:In this deck there are two Queens of Seeds, and they both came out this week. They embrace the Divine Feminine — nurture, healing, generosity, intuition, stability, and service. Like the Caryatids — the sculpted figures from the Eleusinian Mysteries who literally held up the sanctuary — these queens hold things up.“We can be supportive and in service of those in need, whilst always remembering to nurture, support, and stabilize ourselves first. This feminine energy has agency: self-sufficient, strong, kind, empowered, and belonging to no gender. These queens held up the Eleusinian sanctuary for many years, on many levels. These queens hold us up. Know that we are supported and always cared for.”Reversed this week, I read these Queens as pointing you toward the inner pillars of support — the ones that don't require anyone else's permission or presence. And to remember Michael Lutin's words: future stewards of the Earth and planets, the goddesses. That doesn't mean only women. It means the goddess energy — the nurturing, supportive, reciprocal, holding energy — within all of us.The Companion (Witch Oracle):Your body. The cauldron. It has appeared before and it keeps appearing because the message keeps being needed.“Your body, like a cauldron, holds the energy of what you put into it. Are you putting shame, diminishment, or rejection into it? Or acceptance, appreciation, adoration?Science would have you believe your body is an experiment. Religion would have you believe your body is a sin. A witch would have you believe your body is a marvel — a cauldron of celebration, home to spells of delight, healing, and wonder.Your body is a sacred companion. She is the one entity that will never leave you during your journey as a human. She is always working on your behalf to restore, heal, and create the balance that allows you to participate in this life. This kind of loyalty deserves devotion, not diminishment.Shed the weight of expectations. Trim down the thoughts of too much and not enough. Dance like your hips move mountains. Put some magic of unabashed self-approval in your cauldron, and witness how the steam of that self-esteem wafts out into the world — passing on permission for others to feel the same about their unique shape.A witch understands that liking and loving herself, her body, just as it is, in a toxic patriarchy, is an act of rebellion.Be the rebel.”And here is what I want to add: your body is also the cradle. It is the basket. It is the cauldron that is being held in the larger cauldron of these four great outer planets at 4°. You are held. Your body is held. The transformation is happening inside it, and through it, and because of it.Summing UpMercury crosses the South Node and meets Regulus. Vesta stations retrograde, joining the entire Aries cluster in reflection. The Mercury Cazimi at the basket degree of 4° Virgo brings through what needs to be carried toward the Venus and Mercury retrogrades. Mars comes back in bounds on eclipse day. The lunar eclipse arrives at 4° Pisces — held, stable, held.And four cards all pointing inward: pause. The turmoil is real, and it belongs inside where you can work with it. The inner pillars of support are there. Your body is the cauldron, the companion, the sacred rebel.Three planets have now crossed Regulus in Virgo. Kings in rags. Future stewards of the Earth and planets. The goddesses.We are in the birth canal, and we are pushing.Go close the temple door for a while. Let the new perspective arrive.— LouiseVenus Retrograde: Heroine's Journey — price holds through end of August. Partial scholarships available: louise@louiseedington.com. louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026“Can We Let Evolutionary Astrology Evolve?” — now on Substack. Subscribe free for all posts.AstroTheoros — chart import/export, folders, notes, PDF printing, and growing asteroid support. 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This is your daily horoscope for Sunday, August 23, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon in Capricorn opposite Mars in Cancer (6am PT)Sun in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (12:30pm PT)Moon in Capricorn square Saturn in Aries (6pm PT)Moon in Capricorn square Venus in Libra (11:30pm PT)Unlock More MagicGrimoire: Become a Better Witch in 12 WeeksBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceRevoke Stacy Turner's Medical License (Corrupt Coroner in Mississippi)Donate in Memory of Juliana NzitaHelp Honor Tasia FortuneSign the Petition + Demand Clemency for Jeffery Lee I Call Gov. Ivey + Demand Clemency 334-242-7100

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Listen to the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru417-aliza-einhorn-reads-vanessa Rendering Unconscious is now at Substack: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU418: ALIZA EINHORN READS VANESSA SINCLAIR'S NATAL CHART UTILIZING ASTROLOGY & TAROT Rendering Unconscious welcomes Aliza Einhorn back to the podcast! She's here to read my natal chart. Rendering Unconscious episode 418. On this episode, Aliza reads my natal chart. We delve into my astrological profile, focusing on my Cancerian traits. Aliza highlights Jupiter's transit from my 12th house of Cancer and the unconscious to my 1st house of Leo and the self, and its significance, as well as my being a Leo rising, born on a full moon in Capricorn in the sixth house of work, plus having Venus, Mars, Chiron and Midheaven in Taurus in the 10th house, indicating career success. We also discuss Aliza's book Tarot of the Unconscious. https://amzn.to/4gINByi Aliza is a Tarot reader, Tarot teacher, astrologer, and lifelong writer (and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop). She's the author of the brand new Tarot of the Unconscious: Uncovering the Hidden Link Between Psychoanalysis and the Cards (2026). She‘s a psychoanalyst-in-training in New York City. And, yes, she does do readings and is also available for in-person psychoanalytic treatment. https://alizaeinhorn.com https://www.instagram.com/psychoanalysisbookshelf/ https://moonplutoastrology.com Be sure to check out RU406: ALIZA EINHORN ON TAROT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS You may find your favorite RU Podcast episodes and guests here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/episodes News & events: Next up at RU Center, The Poetry of Psychoanalysis series with author and astrologer Emmalea Russo continues September 6th on DH Lawrence and his Fantasia of the Unconscious for the Autumn Equinox: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2315469 September 12th is the final class in my Intro to Psychoanalysis year long course! We'll focus on Frantz Fanon and liberation psychology, and take a look at Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement, as well as Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome. That will set us up nicely for what we're diving into next: a close reading of From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (2026) by Dr. Lara Sheehi. Paid subscribers at RU Center for Psychoanalysis Substack gain access to these and all RU Center events! https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ As always, huge thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for providing the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/CarlAbrahamsson The song at the end of this episode is "Open the Portal" from the album "Indulgence, Not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/indulgence-not-abstinence-12 Support indie artists and musicians! Visit Pete's Bandcamp: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com Our music is also available at Spotify and other streaming services. https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xKEE2NPGatImt46OgaemY Links to everything can be found at: https://linktr.ee/renderingunconscious Enjoy! Thank You.

Venus opposes Saturn on Friday 21 August 2026, and it's the day a price, a payment term or a boundary stops being theoretical, so the one move that matters this week is deciding your number before the conversation instead of during it. This is your CEO Brief for the week of 17 to 23 August: the standing weather (Saturn retrograde in Aries handing back the terms you agreed to when you were a smaller business, Chiron retrograde in Taurus on your worth) the one job (draft it, don't sign it, because you are still inside the eclipse window) and the two days that actually count: Monday the 17th, which holds your single four-hour build window, and Friday the 21st.  Plus the Sun into Virgo on Sunday the 23rd, when the month switches from being seen to being run. Chart-based strategy for founders, not horoscopes. Come and sort the week with the room. Free monthly calendar for the month: https://hollybray.kit.com/august 

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You've heard the saying: When you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. This is the frequency of the transition of Leo to Virgo, where the Sun transits this week. Along the way are seven other transits that are supporting you on your journey. Plus, insight into why Sarah McLachlan can put my babies to sleep. (12:35) Mercury in Leo Trine Saturn Retrograde in Aries 14° – August 16 – 18 (Sunday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 17.(21:58) Venus in Libra Sextile Jupiter in Leo 10° – August 14 – 18 (Friday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 17.(28:16) Mars in Cancer Square Neptune Retrograde in Aries 03° – August 14 – 18 (Friday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 17.(34:15) The Sun in Leo Square the Moon in Scorpio 27°07' at 7:45 PM PDT on Wednesday, August 19.(38:32) Venus in Libra Opposite Saturn Retrograde in Aries 14° – August 18 – 22 (Tuesday – Saturday) – Friday, August 21.(41:13) The Sun in Leo Opposite the North Node in Aquarius 29° – August 20 – 22 (Thursday – Saturday) – Saturday, August 22.(44:51) The Sun in Virgo – August 22 – September 22, 2026.The Sun transits through Virgo every year from August 22/23 until September 22/23, depending on what time it is and where you are on Earth.(51:12) The Sun in Virgo Trine Chiron Retrograde in Taurus 00° – August 22 – 24 (Saturday – Monday) – Sunday, August 23.Check out my interview on the Ultra World Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theweeklytransit.com/

Inside the Eclipse PortalWe are between eclipses. Inside the portal.The total solar eclipse of August 12 has seeded its arc. The companion lunar eclipse in Pisces arrives August 27. Between these two thresholds, in the compressed heightened field that eclipse seasons create, we are living this week.Three personal planets activate simultaneously on Monday, the instinctual body, the creative voice, and the relational field all in motion together inside the eclipse field. A week to stay close to what is real, let what is surfacing be seen, and resist premature resolution when honest presence is what is actually needed.Key Cycles This Week:Monday, August 17: Mars in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries. Mercury in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo. Three significant contacts on one day holding the full register of the eclipse field.Mars squaring Neptune brings the instinctual protective force of Cancer into tension with the Dissolver. The protective impulse — for community, for the vulnerable, for what is genuinely threatened — is real and necessary. But Neptune can blur the picture, amplifying fear and making real threat difficult to distinguish from projection. Act from what you genuinely know and feel. Hold lightly what is not yet clear. Let the blur settle before making decisions from it.Mercury trine Saturn offers grounding alongside that complexity. The creative voice finds honest structure. What has clarified in the eclipse field finds form and commitment. A good day for writing, for honest conversation, for bringing eclipse insights into grounded commitment.Venus sextiling Jupiter offers genuine grace inside a portal that can feel intense. The relational field and the creative heart in easy generous conversation. Real warmth in relationship becomes possible. Let that be felt.Friday, August 21: Venus in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries. The relational field meets the reality principle directly. Where has the longing for harmony been papering over something needing more honest attention? Where has relational beauty been asking less of a situation than it actually requires? Inside an eclipse portal, this honesty carries more weight than usual. What does right relation actually require, beyond what is comfortable or convenient?Saturday, August 22: Sun enters Virgo. After Leo's warmth and creative expansiveness, Virgo arrives asking the practical question: how, specifically, do you want to live what has been seeded? Not as ideal or aspiration but as actual grounded daily practice. Virgo does not deal in abstraction. It deals in the specific and the real.The Sun entering Virgo also begins the final approach to the lunar eclipse on August 27, the Sun in Virgo opposing the Full Moon in Pisces. The axis of discernment and dissolution. That opposition is already gathering. A sharpening of what is actually here, a clearing of what is no longer needed, a preparation of the ground for what the lunar eclipse will illuminate.Sunday, August 23: Sun in Virgo trines Chiron in Taurus. The Conscious Self freshly arrived in Virgo makes its first contact with the Wounded Healer. Virgo heals through attention, the careful devoted noticing of what is actually present, the willingness to see what is wounded without flinching or dramatizing. You might notice something that has been tender becoming slightly more workable. The trine does not complete the healing. But it confirms the healing is moving.Larger FrameThe eclipse portal accelerates what is genuinely in motion. In the collective field that acceleration is visible. What is breaking down is breaking down more visibly. What is trying to emerge is pressing more urgently toward form. The three great cycles remain active and inside an eclipse season their movement is more feelable than usual.Stay close to what is real. Stay connected to the body's knowing. Stay in genuine relationship with others in the ways that cannot be automated or performed.The lunar eclipse on August 27 is approaching. Let this week be the honest grounded preparation it is asking to be.Reflection QuestionsIn the eclipse portal's compressed and heightened field, what has surfaced this week that would ordinarily have taken longer to become visible, and what honest attention does it need?Where is Venus opposing Saturn asking for more honesty than comfort in your relational field, and what becomes possible when that honesty is offered?As the Sun enters Virgo and trines Chiron, where is the healing seeded at the solar eclipse beginning to touch the wound?Podcast poem: Threshold by Mark ColemanIf the depth of these cycles is stirring something in you, get more support for your transformation journey at ontheedgesofchange.com.Support the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comThis episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

Masaki Miyagawa returns to The Cosmic Switchboard Show to discuss China, the Mandate of Heaven and a possible lockdown in China as early as next month. Masaki lays out what he sees as the collapse of the post-World War II system, and the idea that most modern nations, from Japan and Germany to Israel, are post-war constructs that are now coming apart. He walks through the contest between China and the American-Israeli bloc as a fight over shipping lanes and chokepoints: the Strait of Gibraltar and the migrant surge into Ceuta, the Strait of Hormuz, the Panama Canal and Colombia’s historic claim to it, and the Strait of Malacca. He also describes conditions inside China that rarely get reported in the West, including catastrophic flooding in Guangxi with mud reaching the second and third floors of buildings, questions about the country’s real population after COVID, half-empty cities and villages, and why the Chinese government cannot afford to report on the floods given the cultural weight of the Mandate of Heaven. Masaki connects the timing to generational astrology, with Pluto’s move out of Leo and into Aquarius marking the end of the boomer-era order, and argues that the BRICS system and the Western new world order want many of the same things, a cashless society among them. He closes the first segment with practical advice about keeping basic supplies on hand. In Part 2 Masaki Miyagawa discusses the astrological perspective and the role the transits of planets have in helping understand what is going on here on Earth and its relation to the Economy, Geopolitics, War and epochal changes that are in the works. Masaki turns to the precious metals markets and argues they are heavily manipulated, giving his outlook for silver over the next several years and explaining the Chiron in Taurus transit as a roughly seven-year stretch in which housing, food and basic material needs stay unstable. James and Masaki then work through the widening regional wars: the Yemeni closure of the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, Iranian fire on a ship in the northern Red Sea threatening the Suez Canal, and what happens to Saudi oil exports with both ends of the Red Sea shut. They discuss the Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi arrangement, the exposure of the Gulf states now that the American protective umbrella looks thin, the socialization and demographic decline of Europe, and the argument that America itself is meant to be balkanized. The conversation ends on a personal note, with Masaki on the Uranus in Gemini transit, the mental instability he says he is seeing in people around him, and why grounding and clearing work matter when events start moving quickly. Masaki Miyagawa – Website Part 1 Video: [This post contains video, click to play] Part 2 Video: [This post contains video, click to play] Part 1: https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Masaki-Miyagawa-Interview-with-James-Bartley-on-thecosmicswitchboard.com-Part-1.mp3&Download: mp3 Audio Part 2 – Members Only: https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Masaki-Miyagawa-Interview-with-James-Bartley-on-thecosmicswitchboard.com-Part-2.mp3To Play or Download: Login or Join To Download Use the link under the player for the part you want to download. The post The Collapse of the Post-War Order & Mandate of Heaven – Masaki Miyagawa Interview with James Bartley appeared first on The Cosmic Switchboard.

This is your daily horoscope for Wednesday, August 12, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon in Leo trine Saturn in Aries (1:30am PT)Mars in Cancer sextile Chiron in Taurus (7:30am PT)New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo (10:36am PT)Mercury in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (2pm PT)Unlock More MagicGrimoire: Become a Better Witch in 12 WeeksBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceJustice for Nolan Wells: Send Support to His FamilySupport Karmelo Anthony I Message Him or Donate (SID #: 21558442; Facility: TDCJ - PACK)Sign the Petition + Demand Clemency for Jeffery Lee I Call Gov. Ivey + Demand Clemency 334-242-7100Justice for Cyrus Carmack-BeltonSupport the Free Alabama Movement

This week we're working with twelve transits, and we're hammering them hard right out of the gate. Ten of them land in the first three days. Two headliners set the tone: Mars moves into Cancer, the Sign of its fall, pulling us back toward home, family, and the past for six weeks... and the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo at 20°, the Scorpio degree, asking us to open our hearts and look honestly at the intimate relationships that shaped us. Running quietly beneath all of it is a single question: do we have the courage to actually listen, to sit with a perspective that isn't our own, to feel what it stirs up in the heart, and to stay in the conversation anyway? We'll slow it down, reflect on our roots, and see what's ready to be released.(19:33) Venus in Libra Trine Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius 03° – August 8 – 11 (Saturday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 10.(24:40) Venus in Libra Opposite Neptune Retrograde in Aries 04° – August 8 – 11 (Saturday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 10.(28:18) Mars in Gemini Trine the North Node Retrograde in Aquarius 29° – August 7 – 11 (Friday – Tuesday) – Monday, August 10.(31:52) Mercury in Leo Opposite Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius 03° – August 10 – 12 (Monday – Wednesday) – Tuesday, August 11.(39:50) Mercury in Leo Trine Neptune Retrograde in Aries 04° – August 10 – 12 (Monday – Wednesday) – Tuesday, August 11.(42:27) Venus in Libra Trine Uranus in Gemini 05° – August 9 – 12 (Sunday – Wednesday) – Tuesday, August 11.(46:03) Mars in Cancer – August 11 – September 27, 2026. Previous Mars in Cancer transits: January 6 – April 17, 2025 (29° – 17°) September 4 – November 3, 2024 March 25 – May 20, 2023; April 23 – June 11, 2021May 15 – July 1, 2019.(59:10) The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo 20°01' at 10:37 AM PDT on Wednesday, August 12.(1:07:30) Mercury in Leo Sextile Uranus in Gemini 05° – August 11 – 13 (Tuesday – Thursday) – Wednesday, August 12.(1:08:40) Mars in Cancer Sextile Chiron Retrograde in Taurus 00° – August 11 – 13 (Tuesday – Thursday) – Wednesday, August 12.(1:10:47) Mercury in Leo Sextile Venus in Libra 07° – August 12 – 14 (Wednesday – Friday) – Thursday, August 13.(1:14:20) Mercury Conjunct Jupiter in Leo 10° – August 14 – 16 (Friday – Sunday) – Saturday, August 15.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join ⁠my Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theweeklytransit.com/

The terms that describe the phases of the Moon can be a little confusing. Take tomorrow morning, for example. From most of the United States, the Sun will light up one-quarter of the lunar hemisphere that faces Earth. You might think that would make it a “quarter” Moon – but no. A “quarter Moon” doesn’t describe the Moon’s appearance – it describes the position in its month-long cycle of phases. The cycle begins when the Moon is new. The Moon crosses the line between Earth and the Sun then, so it’s hidden in the Sun’s glare. A bit more than a week after that, the Moon is a quarter of the way through the cycle – it’s at first quarter. It lines up at a right angle to the Earth-Sun line, so the Sun lights up half of the visible disk. A week later comes full Moon. And a week after that comes last quarter – three-quarters of the way through the cycle. Once again, half of the lunar disk is illuminated – but it’s the opposite half from the first-quarter Moon. Then the Moon rolls back around to new – starting a new cycle. The next cycle starts on Wednesday. And this time it brings a rare treat – a total solar eclipse. In the meantime, look for the Moon passing through Taurus tomorrow. Aldebaran, the bull’s bright eye, is to the right of the Moon. Elnath, the tip of one of its horns, is closer to the lower left of the Moon. As a bonus, Mars is below them, and the Moon will pass close to it on Sunday. Script by Damond Benningfield

P.M. Edition for Aug. 3. Ford spent decades producing ho-hum workhorse cars–the Taurus, the Focus. WSJ autos reporter Ryan Felton explains why the company is hitting reverse. Plus, Michigan public health officials say two people have died in connection with the cyclosporiasis outbreak. And WSJ business reporter Natasha Khan discusses why Kimberly-Clark is embarking on a moonshot effort to make paper towels and toilet paper out of a spiny desert plant called hesperaloe. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.