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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Episode 312 | Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Virgo: A Call to Devotion!
Venus makes sweet music with Mars, enters Virgo, and finds beauty in unexpected places with Uranus. Mercury enters Libra and aspects Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. The Sun’s face-off with Saturn dominates the Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse.
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Astrology Highlights for Sep. 8-14, 2025: The Tender Mission
The Sun’s light is shining in the direction of that North Node in Pisces and its warm, healing waters, a journey toward kindness, healing, help, and forgiveness. It’s not that the South Node is inherently toxic, but rather that it points out traits that can be best used in the service of the North Node’s tender mission.
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Episode 311 | Gemini Quarter Moon Square Dance, and Mercury Cazimi!
Mercury and the Sun’s latest conjunction means it’s cazimi time. The dynamic duo also oppose the lunar nodes and sextile Jupiter, in a gentle push toward the Pisces North Node’s forgiving nature and Jupiter’s fortunate opportunities. The Gemini Last Quarter Moon do-si-do’s toward better communication as we approach next week’s solar eclipse. And we replay an appropriate listener question about the week between eclipses.
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Episode 310 | Podathon Day 5: Astro*Carto*Graphy, with Ronnie Gale Dreyer!
Today: Uranus turns retrograde, and we look at Sunday’s Pisces Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse! And today’s interview is with Ronnie Gale Dreyer, who shares her knowledge and perspectives on Astro*Carto*Graphy, including: beyond Venus and Jupiter lines, remote activation, and how your planetary lines sometimes come to you!
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Episode 309 | Podathon Day 4: Hellenistic Astrology, with Patrick Watson!
Today, a sobering conjunction from Moon to Pluto, and the drive and impatience of the evening’s Mars-Jupiter square. And today’s interview is with Patrick Watson, who gives an overview of Hellenistic Astrology! Including: Hellenistic astrology as Latin, a case for determinism, and reading the room! Plus, all the Podathon news, including how to make your donation, receive special gifts, and be enrolled in a drawing for one of six terrific prizes!
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