Astrology Highlights for Oct. 20-26, 2025: Under the Layers
I don’t think we change as we age. I think we just become more comfortable being who we’ve always been. We don’t feel the need to be false—more cheerful, more accommodating than we feel—in order to make others more comfortable around us. We become our Scorpionic selves, stripped of artifice and the comforting fictions of youth.
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Astrology Highlights for Oct. 13-19, 2025: Eruptions
While Pluto is retrograde, destructive power is building under the surface. And a day or two around the day that Pluto stations to move direct is when it’s most likely to blow.
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Episode 316 | Venus in Libra and a Prima Donna Moon
The Cancer Last Quarter Moon is a time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in our recent New Moon goals. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, glides into her elegant home sign of Libra. Power issues rise to the surface as Pluto stations direct. The Sun and Jupiter might bring up conflicts in all types of relationships. Words can get hurtful as Mercury and Mars join in Scorpio.
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Astrology Highlights for Oct. 6-12, 2025: Moonlight and Fireworks
And at this particular Aries Full Moon, with the Sun and Moon connecting with Jupiter in Cancer, moonlight and fireworks illuminate the sky, and show how old patterns influence current relationships. The old question, “What about me?” gets some answers, as every important relationship is tested.
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Episode 315 | Aries Full Moon: Echoes of an Old Eclipse!
Mercury puts on its X-ray specs as it enters Scorpio, squares Pluto. The Aries Full Moon highlights the balance between caring for ourselves and others. Venus meets Jupiter and Saturn, bringing opportunity and responsibility. And a listener question about the chart ruler.
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Astrology Highlights for Sep. 29-Oct. 5, 2025: Chanticleer
Speaking up is important—but it’s worth remembering that others are just as invested in their own ideas. Mercury’s challenge is not only to crow, but to organize, refine, and distill a message so it stands out from a cacophony of voices.
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Episode 314 | Capricorn First Quarter Moon: A Plan and a Checklist!
Get to work on those Virgo New Moon goals with a surprisingly upbeat Capricorn First Quarter Moon. Jupiter comes up with a lot more ideas than Mercury can put into words. Venus’s rendezvous with the Moon’s South Node is a declutterer’s paradise.
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Astrology Highlights for Sep. 22-28, 2025: The Light Rests Warmly
When the Sun is in Libra, its light rests warmly, gently, on the fall trees changing color, the straw bales in the field, the newly-picked apples in bushel baskets. It’s a time of magic, when the softness of the light makes strangers more attractive, and the crispness of the air makes us long for the warmth of another’s arms.
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Episode 313 | Libra Season, Mars enters Scorpio, and a Battle of Will and Won’t!
The Moon is quiet (no major lunation), but the Sun and Mars are busy! Mars enters Scorpio, one of the signs of his rulership, and is strengthened for his hard interaction with Pluto in Aquarius. The Sun enters the Libra, and its equinox initiates autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The Sun opposes sensitive Neptune and combines forces with Uranus and Pluto. And a listener question about self-care and your birth chart.
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Astrology Highlights for Sep. 15-21, 2025: The World as It Is
When the Sun opposes Saturn, we want to strut proudly through our territory, but Saturn’s invisible barrier holds us in check. We may experience Saturn’s boundaries in a tough boss, a strict parent, or other authority figure. But often, what’s holding us back is simply our own internal glass wall.
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