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The Year’s Most Magical Astrology Begins! 🌗 10/11–10/20: Venus Rising in Power + Mercury & Mars Truths · Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch

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Hello and welcome to our weekly astrology podcast where we meet
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every Thursday. We light our candles, we grab
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our blankets, and we get cozy with the cosmos together.
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I'm your host, Sarah Posh, astrologer and coach.
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Did you catch last week's horoscope episode for that Aries
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full moon? I'm curious.
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Comment below. Tell me, what uncomfortable
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action did you take or did you feel pushed to act in a new way,
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step onto a new stage in the Aries area of your life?
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I'd love to hear this week's episode, but brings us to the
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final scene of the Virgo partial solar eclipse.
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This third quarter phase is closing out this lunar cycle and
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eclipse season with some major turning points starting to
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foreshadow a positive shift in energy with some of the upcoming
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auspicious astrology ahead. First, we have that upcoming
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Libra New Moon with a beautiful lunation to see the next
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upcoming cycle. And during that cycle, we're
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going to start kicking off the really beautiful, really magical
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Grand Water trines. Those are going to be between
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Jupiter and Cancer, as well as Saturn and Neptune and Pisces
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with all the planets moving through Scorpio.
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To be honest, this is some of the most rare and really lucky
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magical supportive astrology that we ever get to see.
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And right now, honestly, is one of the best times to book a
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one-on-one reading with a professional astrologer to
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really make sure that you can leverage and resource all of
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this rare, magical and supportive energy that's coming
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for the rest of this year. I personally have those
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astrology consultations and the bookings linked below for you,
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so you can check that out. And we just want to make sure
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that we are paying attention. We are open, receptive, and
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ready to make the most of what's ahead before we get to all of
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that exciting grand water trying energy and that Libra new moon.
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We've got to close out this eclipse season and this lunar
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cycle. I'm going to begin by just
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giving a brief overview of the major highlights for this week
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ahead. The third quarter transit
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highlights include Venus opposing Saturn, which is
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actually opening the final kite formation as Venus is going to
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ingress into Libra, starting that Grand Air trine with Pluto
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and Aquarius and Uranus and Gemini.
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We've also got Pluto stationing direct and the Sun and Libra
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squaring Jupiter. And finally, we're going to
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finish this week and the cycle with Mercury making a
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conjunction to Mars in Scorpio. With that, let's go ahead.
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Let's dive in. We start on October 11th when
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we've got Venus and Virgo making that opposition to Saturn and
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Pisces. So this transit is the final
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opposition of the parade of planets that have been moving
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through Virgo making this opposition to Saturn.
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So there's likely to be things that Venus brings up that are
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not new, but also maybe a kind of final grand finale to
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everything that we've been confronting and really sitting
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with with that opposition with Saturn.
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What I love about this Venus opposition to Saturn is that
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this is kind of the first sign of the dignity shift that we're
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about to feel with Venus. And that's because Saturn is
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currently in Pisces, the place of Venus's exaltation.
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And so while Venus is in a place where she's rather
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uncomfortable, she really doesn't feel resourced or really
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recognized. You know, she's got this
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connection to Saturn through this opposition to this place
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where she feels really exalted, really recognized, really well,
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dignified for her, expressing her natural significations,
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harmony, love, eace, cohesion, social relationship, connection,
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romance, pleasure, art. So what I've really seen with
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this Venus, Saturn opposition music is a big thing for me.
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And I was thinking of the song The Last Goodbye by Odessa,
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which is actually a combination. They went back and they got a
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record from Betty Lavette. Her original song Let Me Down
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Easy, and the reason why I think I was thinking of this is
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because while Saturn brings a certain amount of closure and
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ending, sometimes there's grief that comes up with our Saturn
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transits a certain weight that we have to sit with and process.
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When Venus comes into the opposition with Saturn, at this
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point, we're somehow opened and receptive to a new way of seeing
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this as a beautiful ending. There's this beautiful
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invitation to walk away from what it is that we're leaving
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behind, or maybe bring an end or close to certain relationships
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that feels more like we're leaving with love.
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We're leaving with more love rather than less love.
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And similar to this idea of an artist taking this beautiful
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song from a beautiful artist from the past, you know, Betty
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Lavette did an incredible job with Let Me Down Easy, and then
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bringing it forward into the present moment and creating
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something new. And they have this song called
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The Last Goodbye. And there's this beautiful
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artistic harmonization of the past with the present.
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And it's about really this honoring of the past.
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It's about recognizing the value and the beauty of what's been
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created in the past and bringing that forward and integrating
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that into creating something new.
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I just want to invite everybody in this moment when we have this
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opposition with Saturn and Venus to feel into, how is it that you
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really want to walk away or leave in a way that expresses an
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admiration and honoring A reverence for what it is that
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was in the past? How can that actually add more
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beauty into what it is that you're moving forward into?
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And I just really feel like there's this opportunity for a
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deep level of forgiveness and alchemy of that pain, of that
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heartbreak of any endings or closures into a state of greater
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openness, a greater state of appreciation and just gratitude
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for this unconditional kind of acceptance and love, this idea
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of letting go as an act of freedom.
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And I think it's kind of helpful that at this point, we've got
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that Moon and Cancer Co present with Jupiter.
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So there's really this supportive emotional
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reconciliation or this emotional maturity that we're able to
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hold, this being a Saturn opposition.
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And I also encourage us to consider that, like I said, this
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is opening that kite formation. This is the kite tail, the
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release point, the tension point, and this is the final
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kite. This is the final grand air
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trying that we're going to receive through the series we've
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been receiving over this fall. So the more that we show up with
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an open heart, a mature open heart, a state of willingness to
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leave with love, or what it is that we're leaving love with,
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the more that we're going to be open and ready to receive some
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of the momentum and the exciting new beginnings that the grand
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air trines are going to bring for Venus as the week goes
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ahead. So that takes us into the next
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major transit on Monday, October 13th.
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We've got that Moon still in Cancer, and this is when Venus
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is going to shift into Libra, getting a significant shift in
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dignity. This is Venus's home sign, one
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of her domiciles, her natural place of expression, a place
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where she feels totally resourced for herself.
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She doesn't have to rely by on anyone else.
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She knows what to do here, how to show up.
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Venus in Libra is all about our social elegance, our ability to
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socially harmonize with others. Venus in Libra seeks and
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understands naturally what is equality in relationships.
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It's about fairness, it's about truth.
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It's about really seeing things in a balanced and harmonious
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way. And the first thing that Venus
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does in Libra is makes that opposition to Neptune.
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So really completing the tail portion of the astrology kite
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that's playing out throughout this week.
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And one thing to be mindful of with a Venus Neptune opposition
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is the potential for increased and amplified projections.
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Whether that's projecting our idealistic romantic rose colored
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glasses onto a situation and feeling really failed by that in
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some way, feeling let down, disappointed.
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There's a sense of potential disillusionment that can happen
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and also potential longing that can show up when we have the
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Venus Neptune opposition. And again, this is not a stand
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alone transit. It really is a Venus, Saturn,
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Neptune opposition. So tying in everything that we
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shared when we talked about the Venus, Saturn opposition and
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bringing that forward now that Venus is opposing Neptune, come
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back to the things we talked about.
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How can you show up in a way that you can really release the
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grip of the past in a way that keeps you guarded, It keeps you
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limited in your ability to express more love, to just open
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the channel for the exchange, the reciprocity of the give and
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receiving of love. How can we liberate more love?
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And part of that is letting go of these unrealistic
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expectations or projections that we might place on others or even
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on ourselves in a relationship. And this can be a really
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inspiring transit. So it might be that we had a
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sort of grounded, sobering, mature closure point with the
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opposition to Saturn. And now we're ready to open
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ourselves into a new dream, into a new vision and to channel some
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of this artistic creative capacity for Venus, Neptune to
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move into the future. On Monday we have Pluto
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stationing direct at 1° of Aquarius.
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And as Pluto moves forward over the coming months, it's going to
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start reaching new degree Marks and Aquarius, which means if
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you've got any planets in the early degrees of the fixed
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signs, this Pluto transit is reactivating.
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It's a four momentum or bringing in the next phase of your Pluto
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transit. I also, I want to just point out
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that I think there's something secretly significant about this
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Pluto station direct that we'll come back to at the beginning of
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next year because this degree happens to be the exact degree
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of the Mercury Sun Kazimi in January 2026.
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So just kind of take some notes of what comes up on this day,
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what's happening, and then maybe we'd have something to look back
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to when we get to that January date of that Mercury Kazimi.
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And that brings us to Tuesday, October 14th.
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The Moon is going to enter Leo and this is the day that we get
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that official beautiful Grand Air trine.
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Venus is going to trine Uranus and Gemini, and then Venus in
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Libra will trine Pluto and Aquarius.
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So think back to the previous Grand Air trines between the
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other personal planets. We had Mars in the beginning of
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August between August 6th through August 10th, and then we
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had Mercury around September 17th, September 18th, and the
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Sun on September 22nd and 23rd. Now we come to a final
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activation of this grandeur trine, a final layer of
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development of the storyline. Venus is all about our
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relationships, our desires. Venus has to do with our social
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contracts and also our wants and needs in our relationships.
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So the final series of Grand Air trines ending with Venus, This
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is all about our social connections.
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Venus in Libra needs you to put yourself out there, to get
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social, to be in conversation, to be in connection.
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What can you do around October 14th to really lean into the
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momentum and the potential resource of this Grand Air
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trine? That has to do with putting
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yourself out there, has to do with speaking and claiming what
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it is that you want, what it is that you desire.
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Venus is also a planet that draws and attracts things to
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her. And so think and pay attention
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what people are starting to come into your life.
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There might be some new contracts, some new
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negotiations, some new social introductions that come in
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during this Venus grand air trine that could possibly reveal
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themselves to be a little bit more significant as time plays
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out in the years ahead, especially with that moon and
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Leo. It's very social, it's very
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collaborative. It's very much here to flirt and
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have fun and Venus is dignified. So just don't sit on this.
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Let yourself be seen. And then on Thursday, October
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16th, we've got the moon shifting into Virgo and on this
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day, the Sun and Libra is going to make that square to Jupiter
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and Cancer. This is not something new.
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This is a theme that, again, it's been repeating.
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We had Mars make that square with Jupiter back in early
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September, and then Mercury just made the square to Jupiter back
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on October 1st. So think about the things that
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were coming up. What story was developing
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between these planets in Libra and their square to Jupiter and
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Cancer around these times? And now we bring the sun into
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the storyline, into the conversation.
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This third layer of the Jupiter square with the Sun could bring
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some supportive recognition or successful transitions that are
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starting to develop or you're starting to become more aware of
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when it comes to some of those eclipse plotline changes, major
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new beginnings that began at that Virgo partial solar
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eclipse. And I also think that Jupiter
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has this ability to uplift and empower the Sun in Libra,
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remembering that the sun is in its fall in Libra, this feels
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really helpful, like an opportunity for us to see
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ourselves in a more uplifted and confident way.
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The only thing we want to be mindful of is this is a square.
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So when we're squaring something with Jupiter, we have the
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potential to have maybe too much Jupiter, right?
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So this could be an overconfidence or over
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committing or over promising where we can't actually deliver.
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So just be mindful, use this transit to regain a sense of
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hope, a sense of confidence, to feel really excited and maybe a
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little bit of propelling momentum around the direction
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you're moving forward in. Maybe it feels like finally,
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since these eclipses, this sun needs this Jupiter boost, but we
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just want to be mindful that we take this boost without burning
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out. So balance is definitely key
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here. Being mindful of what are the
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needs of the body in this moment during the sun, Jupiter square
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versus what are the needs of the part of us that are ready and
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excited to start moving forward and giving ourselves a chance to
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believe and what it is that we're moving forward into.
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All right. And then on Saturday, October
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18th, the moon is going to enter into Libra.
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And this is really exciting because the moon is actually
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reactivating and kind of reopening everything that Venus
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did during those grand air trines a few days prior.
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So pay attention over the weekend of October 18th.
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How is the moon developing that storyline, expanding the
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potential of what that wants to bring in through reflecting
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changes and your circumstances like your environment or maybe
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in your close intimate relationships?
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It's definitely not a weekend to just sit at home.
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We want to remember that this grandeur trying, it's a social
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trying. It needs us to get out there.
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It needs us to get into conversation.
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So if you don't have social plans for the weekend of the
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18th yet, I highly encourage you.
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It's time to get out there, get into conversation, and maybe get
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curious and a little bit surprised and delighted about
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where this astrology wants to take you.
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It wants to take you somewhere new.
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It wants to introduce you possibly to somebody new to our
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final transit of the week. And this is actually a heavy
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hitter. We're ending on Sunday, October
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19th with a conjunction between Mercury and Mars in Scorpio.
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And the reason why I say this is a heavy hitter is for a couple
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of reasons, but the most significant is that this is not
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a one and done Mercury conjunct Mars transit.
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Mercury and Mars are going to make a series of 6 conjunctions
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from now through April of 2026 O because of Mercurys retrograde
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cycle and the time that they're in their cycles together right
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now. This is a very rare and extended
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timeline of Mercury Mars themes. The first starts at the end of
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this week at 19° of Scorpio. This conjunction is happening at
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the degree just before Mercury enters its retrograde shadow.
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Mercury is going to be retrograde from November 9th
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through November 29th from 6° Sagittarius through 20° of
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Scorpio. This is also happening at the
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degree mark right before Mars and Mercury are going to enter
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into the first initiation, the first opening of our Grand Water
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trines. So this is a really important
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conjunction. Let's break down with the
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Mercury and Mars in Scorpio specifically is going to mean or
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things that might show up for us.
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So first of all, Scorpio, we're talking about a domicile of Mars
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in the dark part of the year where it just keeps getting
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darker and darker. Mercury, Mars in Scorpio, it
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wants us to go under the surface.
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It wants us to get to the truth, to get to the bottom of the
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matter, and it's fearlessly willing to dig deeper and deeper
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until it gets to that point. There's one thing about Mercury
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Mars that can feel very cutting. There's a potential for our
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words to be destructive, our words to be swords or weapons in
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Scorpio, it's more like that energy of the Scorpio process of
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drawing you in before it goes to attack.
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So there's almost like a whisper, a whisper of desire
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that's calling you in. It's calling you closer.
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Or it could be that there's a whisper of curiosity or a
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skepticism where there's something you're like, wait, I
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want to look a little closer at that.
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I want to dig a little deeper. And one thing to be mindful of
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is that if you dig too deep, if you come to, let's say,
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compulsive about getting to the center of the matter or getting
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to that desire, then it can become your own enemy or it can
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weaponize itself against you. What I mean by that is being
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mindful of compulsive rumination of fixation on a certain idea or
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certain topic or certain perspective or sense of
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certainty. This can definitely show up,
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especially in that sign of Scorpio.
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But this can also be a time where there's this deciding
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power of Mercury, Mars in Scorpio.
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And I really think about holding in perspective that greater
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timeline of those six conjunctions taking place from
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the darkest part of the year and ending culminating in the part
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of the year where light is taking over light in areas, both
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Mars signs. It feels like this Mercury, Mars
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is an opportunity for us to have that sort of deciding power
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where we have this no going back sort of discernment of what it
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is that we're saying yes to for the long term.
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And once we anchor that decision into our plan, into our
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strategy, this has the power to carry and guide through the dark
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of the unknown. This can also be a powerful
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transit where we plant our seeds of intention, maybe writing them
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on a piece of paper and then planting them literally into the
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ground or putting them somewhere and not speaking them anywhere
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out loud, letting them rest in the soil underneath of the
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surface. And the soil of silence.
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This Mercury, Mars, and Scorpio could also bring a piercing,
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honest realization, almost like there's an uncovering of
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something that was hidden before.
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Like I'm thinking of a truth bomb that suddenly goes off,
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even if it's hard to swallow. What if it's the exact thing we
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needed to hear? We need to know, we need to see
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so that we can move forward with more clarity and a better
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strategy. And then the final word that was
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coming to me for this transit is surveillance.
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It feels like it's installing surveillance so that as Mars
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moves forward, we're going to have Mercury putting some sort
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of installation, some sort of surveillance camera or system of
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observation that when we get to the Mercury retrograde, we've
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got some footage, we've got some data to go back over and review.
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Remember, this is the first conjunction that's setting off a
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series of 6 total conjunctions between these two planets.
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So this is not a final deciding moment.
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This is not the final decision. This is the beginning.
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This is some sort of clarity, some sort of deciding power
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that's actually starting a series of decisions, a series of
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turning points in negotiations and contracts that will not come
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to completion and actually hit their official beginning come
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Aries season in April of twenty 26th.
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I'm really excited to go deeper into this timeline.
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This series of 6 conjunctions between Mercury and Mars I'm
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actually going to break. Break that down in the focus
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topic episode for next month's lunar cycle in a couple of
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weeks. So stay tuned.
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Make sure again, if you're here, if you're enjoying any of this
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content, it really helps the channel so much.
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What is it that you're most excited about this final week of
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eclipse season and this lunar cycle?
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Is it the Venus grandeur trines? Or maybe it's that Mercury, Mars
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conjunction, and Scorpio? I secretly think that might be
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the thing I'm most excited about.
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I love hearing from all of you in the comments and hearing how
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this astrology is really impacting you, what you're
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feeling, what's coming up. So please use those Venus
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grandeur trines. Put yourself out there.
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I'd love to connect comment below.
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And again, if you're somebody who's looking for more of that
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one-on-one guidance and support for how to make the most of the
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astrology right now, check out the links below for my
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offerings, including my Spotify playlist curated for each lunar
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products. We've got a Saturn and Aries
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digital product as well as a few other things.
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So make sure to check any of that out if it interests you.
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And I'll be here with you next week where we're going to kick
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off that Libra new moon. It's so gorgeous, I love it.
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I can't wait for the cycle. I am literally on the edge of my
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seat just trying to use it as motivation to get through these
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final days of eclipse season and this incredibly challenging,
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feels like forever lunar cycle. Thanks again for being here with
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me, for getting cozy, for talking Cosmos.
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My name is Sarah Posh and I will see you all next week.