Virgo New Moon: Solitude and the Contented Heart
Where Virgo falls in your birthchart, you are complete. Here, you’re absorbed in the happy work of problem solving, figuring stuff out, and making things work. In this part of your life, you don’t need a report card from anyone else. You’re grading yourself on an entirely different (and probably much more punishing) scale….
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Episode 358 | Podathon Day #1: Moving House, with Linea Van Horn!
Episode 358 | Podathon Day #1: Moving House, with Linea Van Horn! Welcome to Episode 358 of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast, and the first day of our Seventh Annual Big Sky Astrology Podathon! In this week’s special daily episodes, April will cover the day’s major astrological news and an …
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Astrology Highlights for Aug. 31-Sep. 6, 2026: Bleep!
Coming on the heels of a hot-tempered Mercury-Mars aspect, this Last Quarter Moon is a moment to focus on and tame not only our tongues, but our busy, chattering, Mercury minds. The calmer the mind, the more control we have over what we say, and the fewer regrets we’ll have to live with in the long run.
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Episode 357 | Last Quarter Moon in Gemini: Letting Go!
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. And tune in next week for the Podathon!
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Episode 356 | A Pisces Lunar Eclipse with Uranus: Shaken, Not Stirred!
Mercury enters Virgo and comes into a scintillating cazimi conjunction with the Sun. A Pisces lunar eclipse is flavored by disruptive Uranus, and Mercury and the Sun square off with Uranus. Plus, April answers a listener question about haircuts.
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Pisces Lunar Eclipse: How to Survive Quicksand
Gentle motion, flexibility, and floating: These are your survival tools for this Pisces Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse. If there is an astrological equivalent of quicksand, a Pisces eclipse would pretty much have to be it. At times like this, surrender—not struggle—is the key.
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Lunar Eclipses and Relationships
Romantic partnerships are not the only relationships in our lives (just the ones we’re most likely to be obsessed about). What will this eclipse say about the 99.999% of the relationships in our lives that don’t involve yearning looks across a crowded room or intimate physical contact?
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Eclipse Astrology: Lunar Eclipses, Earthly Instincts
At this lunar eclipse, know that the Earth is offering you something, some smooth block of marble, a piece of wood, a section of clay. Open your instinctive mind, and ask yourself: What is it that wants to be brought into being? And what is the right tool with which to carve it out?
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Virgo: Practical Magic
Most of us are not full-time priestesses or everyday saints. We’re just people with jobs, carpools, and colicky pets. We may wish for more time to meditate, but it’s Virgo and the sixth house that represent the everyday world where we spend most of our time. Virgo asks: what if each part of your day, tasks great and small, could be a catalyst for your spiritual growth?
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Eclipse?
Though eclipses are dramatic and interesting, few of them are truly life-changing. For many of us, this Solar Eclipse will come and go with some mild emotional disruption and perhaps some unexpected developments in some area of life, and that’s about it. But watch your chart closely over a number of years, and you learn to identify its hot spots.
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