Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lanyadoo. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no-bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. We have so much to talk about, astrologically speaking, this week as we look at the astrology of September 15th through the 21st of 2024. We're going to get into the details, but I'm going to start off with a bit of an overview because there's a lot of details. There's a lot of transits happening⁠—seven exact transits, in fact⁠—this week, including a Lunar Eclipse. So there's a lot going on.

What I want to kind of center you in is a couple of things. The first is astrology is fascinating, obviously. We love astrology. And also, it's inherently⁠—it's intellectual, right? And this is something I've talked about before. But the practice of astrology is an analytic one, so it can have meaningful, emotional, and spiritual and psychological⁠—even physical⁠—impact on your life. But it's like an intellectual practice, right? It's like I've studied. I've taken notes. I'm interpreting. You're hearing my interpretations. You're analyzing. You're digesting. You're making plans, right? All that kind of stuff. And that is not good or bad. It just is what it is what it is. And because of the fact that it's intellectual and spiritual, and especially because of the time that we're living through, it can be used as a tool for paranoia, trying to get ahead of challenging experiences⁠—it can basically be used as an escapist tool is what I'm trying to get at.

As we gallop towards the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, it's really important to do a couple of things. The first one is to be aware of your own escapist tendencies. And for some people, escapism is just ignoring the heavy shit, ignoring the challenging stuff, and focusing on light things. But for other people, escapism is fixating on problems that you have no control over. So it doesn't feel escapist to you, because you're experiencing pain or the churning of your mind. But if it is illusionary, if it is something that is truly outside of your jurisdiction as a human in this moment, then it may potentially be escapist or avoidant. And so using astrology as a tool, using this horoscope as a tool, to navigate your lived experience instead of trying to control your lived experience, to get more present so that you can tap in and tune up⁠—that is the move.

Now, the other thing to pay attention to and to be mindful of this week⁠—and in general, but certainly this week with the Eclipse⁠—is your own willingness to experience big emotions. Now, most of us have a really hard time with big emotions. And that, again, may show up for you in shutting down big emotions, overintellectualizing big emotions, losing yourself to big emotions. There's lots of different ways it can show up. But for a human, especially in the world that we live in, it tends to be challenging to stay present with big emotions. But that's exactly what the assignment is during an Eclipse⁠—during an Eclipse, but also Eclipse Season, and also just to be an emotionally evolved and kind of mature, responsible, open human on this messy fucking planet.

So I want to just put that out there for you, and I want to invite you as you go about your week to try to notice if you know what you feel⁠—not what you think, not what you want, not what you fear, although wanting and fearing are related to emotions⁠, but what you feel. What do you feel? And if you have a hard time with that, stick to the really simple strategy of sad, mad, bad, glad. Just keep it simple. If you can't distill the complexity of your emotion down to sad, mad, bad, glad, see if you can practice it. If you had to, what would you distill your emotion down to?

This practice is not an effort to oversimplify things but instead to explore the ways in which you may or may not be overcomplicating or intellectualizing things as a way to distance yourself from what you're actually feeling because feelings are hard. And a lot of times, when things are hard, humans have the instinct to be like, "Okay. Well, what do I do about this?" And sometimes the best thing to do is to not abandon yourself. It's to be present. It is through the practice of being present, listening, staying there, not leaving, that you start to win the trust of your own insights, of your own inner world.

When you become a trustworthy, reliable, consistent friend to yourself, things change. They can't help but change. Life gets easier to live. It's inevitable. And on an evolutionary level, Eclipses come around to facilitate these things. They bring everything up so that we practice engaging with those emotions, whatever they are, and doing it in a way that is as a good friend would do. So we're going to get into all the things, but I want to just give you that little top-level perspective before we dive right in.

Okay. So let's dive. The first exact transit of this week is happening on Monday, September the 16th, at 2:29 p.m. Pacific Time. We have Venus at 22 degrees of Libra and 25 minutes exactly opposite to Chiron at the same degrees of Aries. So, when these two oppose each other, what tends to happen is we have a kind of crisis in self-worth. There is this way that you may be struggling with Venusian themes. That could be the way you look. That could be the way you feel about the way other people feel about the way you look, your own drive to play nice instead of show up authentic. This is related, of course, to your individual values, like your values system, your finances, and your relationships in general. And Chiron is kind of pulling these themes up within you to engage and activate your wounds around them. And the reason why this occurs is so that you can heal and evolve.

What's important to always keep in mind when you hear about oppositions, especially by transit, is that they have a tendency to play themselves out relationally. And so this may show up in your relationship with a person, or it may show up in your perceptions or projections of a relationship with a person. That's a really different thing. There's the relationships that you have with the people in your life, and then there is the projections you have into your relationship to your ex or parasocial relationships with people that don't know you, but you know them⁠—or even your relationship to money. Money doesn't have a feeling about you one way or another. Money is a construct. But we all have a feeling about money, right?

So there is a way that this opposition is likely to trigger an important relationship that you have, or even relationships that you have. If you find that they are kind of projections onto relationships, like the ones I mentioned or any other, then you should know that it is really all about what you're bringing to the table, the narratives that you have constructed, the patterns that you are playing out. And that's not bad or good. It's not like⁠—most of the things that we experience exist in a vacuum. As an example, your relationship to the concept of partnership or to your finances exists in a much larger set of social structures.

That said, this particular transit⁠—what it triggers in you on a personal level is your shit. And so it's a great opportunity to bring more awareness to your shit so that you can be honest with yourself and in your behavior around what you actually value, what you actually believe, and center that. You want to keep in mind Venus is a planet of diplomacy, so it's like that nicey-nice impulse that we have to just get along, be approved of by other people. But it's also related to alignment, acting in alignment and embodiment of your values. So this is going to be an important transit to pay attention to, and not just because the transit is an important transit, but also because it is not going to be exact, but very close to exact, during the Lunar Eclipse.

On Tuesday, September 17th, at 7:34 p.m. Pacific Time, the Sun and Moon will be exactly opposite. The Moon will be at 25 degrees of Pisces and 41 minutes, and the Sun will be at the same degrees of Virgo. Now, you know about a Full Moon, right? Full Moons always occur when the Sun and Moon are exactly opposite to each other. And we usually have one Full Moon per zodiac sign a year, unless we've got a Blue Moon. But this is like the thing, and here we are for our Full Moon in Pisces. This one is an Eclipse.

So here's the thing. A Full Moon, typically speaking, kicks up a lot of emotions, brings them to the surface so that you release them, so you let them go, so you change. So it activates you so that you can become aware of your activation and evolve and grow. That's the general shtick. Full Moons are a great time to ritualistically release what no longer serves you. The effects of a Full Moon generally last about a month. So, every month, we have a new Full Moon, and we grow and evolve and evolve and grow. And such is life.

However, when an Eclipse comes around⁠—and they always happen in pairs. So the first one is happening right now on the 17th of September, and the next one, the Solar Eclipse, which will be in Libra⁠—that will be on October the 2nd. We'll talk about it later, okay? An Eclipse⁠—the effects of it unveil themselves over the course of six months, not one month. So it's a much bigger deal. It tends to be more evidential but also deeper. It has a much deeper evolutionary root system, if you will.

And so you may want to pause this. Look at your birth chart. If you don't know how to find your birth chart, you can go to my website at lovelanyadoo.com, and I have a free chart-drawing tool. Bada-bing, bada-boom. It will explain to you exactly where all the planets are, and you can look and see if you have anything at around 25, 26 degrees of a zodiac sign that is aspected by Pisces or Virgo to see what gets activated in your birth chart through this Eclipse.

Now, let me tell you about the Eclipse. Earlier in the day, before⁠—this Eclipse is exact at 7:34 p.m. Pacific. Earlier in the day, at 3:11 a.m. Pacific Time, the Moon and Saturn meet up in Pisces. So, as we build towards the Eclipse, the Moon and Saturn cross each other. Now, this is not something I would typically focus on, but I think it's relevant for this Lunar Eclipse because, at the moment of exactitude of the Eclipse, the Moon and Neptune are conjoined. The Moon is at almost 26 degrees Pisces, and Neptune is at 28 and a half degrees of Pisces. So they're quite close.

Saturn brings up consequences. Saturn brings up reality. It can be depressive. It can be really heavy, while Neptune, the ruling planet of Pisces, is more related to anxiety, escapism, idealism. And so there's a way that the Moon moves through the tight embrace, the tough love, of Saturn to arrive at the moment of Eclipse. As it hits that moment of Eclipse, what we have is a Moon conjunct Neptune and both of those two planets opposite the Sun. And within that, we have confusion. We have overwhelm. We have anxiety. We have uncertainty. And we have an opening, and that opening is to become more emotionally present with and in acceptance of what you feel and your own porousness as well as your boundaries.

People have a really hard time with boundaries. A lot of people have a hard time respecting other people's boundaries because it can feel, when somebody else as a boundary, like they're rejecting you or they're pushing you away or they're being mean. Anyone who's tried to articulate a boundary in a relationship, you've probably had that experience at least once in your life. And so we develop all of these coping mechanisms. We develop all of these ways of working around staying present with, holding, embodying, and protecting our boundaries.

When we're dealing with Piscean energies, when we're dealing with Neptunian energies⁠—and this Eclipse, we're dealing with both⁠—what happens is your porousness gets taken up several notches, and not just your porousness⁠—my porousness, all of our porousness. And I'm using a weird word, "porousness." What I'm talking about is your permeability, the ways in which you energetically and emotionally soak up and take in other people's energies. Let's be real. This is not just related to the people in your apartment or in your social circle or in your immediate community. We're not just talking about your close relationships, although we are talking about those things. We're also talking about collective issues because it's Neptune. We're talking about collective suffering, collective desire, collective hope, collective fear⁠.

Big emotions that thousands or millions of people are experiencing at once have their own energy field. And when you're moving through your day, there are a bazillion unconscious things you do to shield yourself from that. We all have to. We all do. Having our little pocket robots makes that a lot harder. It makes it significantly harder, but here we are. This Eclipse, you may be experiencing the impact of how you are or are not taking care of yourself around that. And I'm talking about energy boundaries here. I'm not talking about your behaviors. I'm talking about your emotional energies⁠—the Moon⁠—and your energetic or spiritual energies; that's Pisces and Neptune.

The links or line between our spiritual and emotional welfare are really meaningful. Sometimes they're really subtle, and sometimes they're really dramatic. But a lot of people have a hard time tracking the difference between a spiritual perception and an emotional perception or an intellectual one. This is where we veer into anxiety. Now, while we're going through this Eclipse, Saturn and Mercury are opposite to each other. That will happen in exactitude the following day, on the 18th. But it is, much like the Venus opposition to Chiron, a very tight aspect in this chart.

So we know that this Eclipse is asking you to confront your values systems and how you are or are not embodying them, how your fears, your insecurities, your core wounds are inhibiting you from being in alignment with your values. We also know because of the Saturn/Mercury opposition that during this Eclipse, you're more likely to be of a kind of critical, negative frame of mind. And having a critical frame of mind is not in any way a bad thing. It is not a bad thing to be a critical thinker. I would contend it's a fantastic thing. However, when we have critical thought paired with scarcity, that's when it tends to be destructive, not very productive.

So I invite you, this week in general and this Eclipse in particular, to explore the boundaries of possibility while confronted with your beliefs, attitudes, and maybe even experiences around probability, like the thing that's most likely to happen, the thing that always happens. Saturn is related to time, maturity, but also patterns. The Moon is also related to patterns. This is not terribly surprising, right? The Moon is Cancer, and Saturn is Capricorn. They're related. But we're talking about the patterns that happen over the course of your life, many, many years. Saturn has a full 29-year cycle.

Saturn opposite Mercury can put you in a depressive, scarcity-based mindset, but it doesn't have to. And if you find those kinds of thoughts emerging, this is a good time to, again, check in with your ability to stay present with whatever emotions it provokes without losing track of yourself and focusing on your thoughts, your ideas, your plans, looking for evidence to back up your feelings, to substantiate and justify your feelings. You don't need to justify your feelings. You're allowed to feel whatever the fuck you feel. Your feelings are yours. You are entitled to them without justification or defense.

What you're not entitled to is any kind of action. So, if you feel incredibly angry, I want to encourage you to be fucking angry, to feel your feelings. I do not in any way mean to encourage you to then take out your anger towards or at other people. This is where we're back to boundaries. Can you experience your feelings without shrinking them or without shoving them down other people's throats? The answer for some people is absolutely not. And you may be engaging with those people, because I know you're an angel and you would never do anything rude or untoward, but you live in the world, and there will be people, and they will be jerks, unintentional or otherwise.

And this is where the opportunity becomes, can you act in alignment with your values in any situation, or are your values dependent on the context of where you're at? And in what ways is that good, and in what ways is that not so good? Do you lie to your friends, but only some friends, only certain friends? How do you justify that? These are questions to ask yourself because, listen, if you start from that Saturnian judging, punishing place, well, then you're not really going to get very far. But if you start with an open inquiry to what is and you stay emotionally present with what is, your capacity to accept whatever is present in this moment and build from this place and grow from this place and weep from this place⁠—whatever it is, because it can only start from where you're at.

And if you're projecting yourself into a place that you are not for whatever reason, then you're robbing yourself of this moment. And even if this moment sucks, it's your moment. You are here now, and there's nothing to do about it. Eclipses don't want you to do shit. They want you to feel shit. They want you to get present and, from that presence, to allow things to develop a little bit of their own accord. I'm not recommending a passivity that is netted in not taking responsibility for your engagement for the choices you do or don't make. I'm talking about really listening to yourself, listening to the world around you, listening to other people, and allowing yourself to digest, to gestate, whatever it is that comes up because the Moon is related to digestion and gestation.

This Eclipse chart also offers us a beautiful Grand Trine between the Sun, Uranus, and Pluto. It's earthy. They're all in earth signs, which is a really supportive little bucket of transits. And what it serves to do is help you to move through whatever it is that comes up with adaptability, thanks to Uranus, with depth, thanks to Pluto, and with self-awareness, thanks to the Sun. We are dealing with a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces with the Moon conjunct Neptune, which is very all over the place. And it's meant to be all over the place because it's not material; it's ethereal.

And I want to add a very important data point here, which is that that Saturn/Mercury opposition that I named⁠—well, that forms a T-square to Jupiter. And this is very important because Jupiter, similar to Neptune, similar to Pisces, is a planet associated with no limits, with bigness and expansion. And so I want to encourage you to explore possibility, to explore the boundaries, of what you feel, of what your values are, of your beliefs. Explore.

But⁠—and this is a big but⁠—rein your behaviors in a bit, okay? This is not a time for doing ritual work, as I said last week. This is not a time for doing ritual work. This is not a time for manifestation. And as with any other challenging transit, which⁠ Neptune conjunction to a Lunar Eclipse would be, this is not a time for consciousness-raising drugs, any kind of recreational drugs. Eclipses themselves are the event. You don't have to do anything to facilitate it. The thing you're supposed to do is be present.

So you're reining in your behavior, right? You're not making any massive proclamations if you can avoid it. This isn't the time to just quit your job or whatever. Instead, notice the feelings that come up and allow at least 72 hours after the Eclipse is over before you make any major proclamations because, in those 72 hours, things may settle surprisingly inside of you.

Now, life is life, and sometimes you just gotta do a thing. If you need to make a decision, don't be too superstitious about what I'm talking about. Just make sure that it's not coming out of impulse, because the energy that all these transits are provoking is not stable energy. It's not energy that you would want to build a house on. You can maybe pitch a tent on it, but that's it. I wouldn't encourage you to make it your home, this energy. This energy is for exploring. It's for evolving. It's a winding path, not a destination. So stay open to the path. In the most simple terms, practice staying present for what comes up. Navigate your boundaries with care and in ways that reflect your values and a realistic assessment of what you can and can't do at this time. That's the TLDR. I should have started with that, but okay. There it is.

Now, that brings us, as aforementioned, to Wednesday, the 18th, when Mercury is exactly opposite to Saturn. That's exact at 1:50 a.m. Pacific Time. Mercury will be at 15 degrees of Virgo and 15 minutes, and Saturn will be at the same degrees and minutes of Pisces. I've given you a solid sense of this transit already, but just a few more words to say this transit puts you in a heavy frame of mind. Mercury is in your mind. It's your attitudes and your beliefs. It's also your friends. It's your roommates. It's your neighbors, your aunts, your uncles. And Saturn is consequential. It's heavy. It can make you feel lonely. It can make you feel burdened.

Therefore, a lot of people experience scarcity-based thinking, pessimistic thinking, fatalistic, nihilistic thinking⁠—kind of the opposite of all of that Piscean energy that the Eclipse is meant to stir. This is going to be an interesting moment for you to explore your beliefs around aloneness versus loneliness. You may think of this on a really spiritual level, like on an existential level. You may think of this when considering your personal relationships, the communities you're a part of or not.

Mercury opposite Saturn⁠—it's not a time when you're in the most resilient frame of mind, so it's not a great time for really figuring out where you belong in your relationships with people. But it is a time when you're likely to be thinking about those things. So a good way to make use of this transit, and in particular this transit in this Eclipse moment, is notice where your mind goes. Notice the shit say to yourself or other people. Notice the tone of voice with which you speak to yourself or others. Notice those things.

And if you're taking responsibility for how you talk to yourself and other people⁠—how you do or don't listen to yourself or others⁠—how can that self-awareness help you? How can that self-awareness empower you to be a higher-functioning adult? The only way to deal with the problem is to be present with the problem. Let's just be clear about that. So Mercury opposite Saturn can be depressive. It can be heavy. It can be a real pain in your ass. But it can also be constructive and instructive. And because of its proximity to the Eclipse, that's what I want to point you towards, the constructive and instructive nature of where your thoughts go, where your conversations go, were your communications go⁠—all of those things⁠—and how you can show up in a way that better reflects who you believe yourself to be, who you want to be.

And I already said this in the context of the Eclipse, but I will say⁠—not the greatest time for making decisions, and this is just because Saturn puts you in a bit of a heavy frame of mind. And so you may find yourself acting out patterns in your relationships. So I want to point out, if you haven't already noticed this, the 16th, the 17th, and the 18th, it's opposition, opposition, opposition, right? Venus/Chiron, Sun/Moon⁠—Sun/Moon being the Eclipse⁠—and then Mercury opposite Saturn. We will have another opposition in a minute.

All of these oppositions are likely to play out relationally. And so, if you can practice being interested and open instead of judgmental and defensive, you can grow a lot. You can gain a lot. This is the difference between probability and possibility. It's possible to stay open, to remain interested even in your own pain or discomfort. But the probable thing that most humans, especially adult humans, do is we defend ourselves from bad feelings. We defend ourselves from problems, whether they're imagined or real. We shut down, and we go about our business.

And so, this week, I want to invite you to be as open-minded, interested, as you can be and to pair that interest with emotional presence⁠, not analysis⁠—presence. And it's so simple. I mean, you hear me talk about it all the damn time, but it is so hard to do. Eclipses occur to help you to get more present, to develop the skills, and to develop the will. So the Universe is giving us all kinds of opportunities, whether we want them or not.

Okay. Now, that brings us to Thursday, September 19th, where we finally have a supportive, easy transit to talk about. This one is related to the Grand Trine I mentioned in that Eclipse chart at 7:04 a.m. Pacific Time. The Sun will be at 27 degrees of Virgo and 7 minutes, and Uranus will be at the same degrees of Taurus. So we have a Sun trine Uranus. This transit is lovely. It supports you in being open to possibility, open to experimentation, open to trying things new ways, experiencing yourself or the world in ways that you just didn't plan for.

Uranus is related to progress. Now, what I think is progressive or what is progress is different than what you think. Also, what I thought was progressive or what was progress 5 years ago, 30 years ago, is different than what I think now in some ways. So this is relative. It's relative to where you're at. It's relative to who you are. But a Sun trine to Uranus is an invitation to actively participate in the progression of your own identity, the progression of your sense of self. And that's kind of gorgeous, and it's particularly gorgeous to have happen during an Eclipse moment when things are so open and everyone's kind of feeling raw.

This transit supports you in making positive changes, in exploring possibilities, trying new things, being around different people, being just different. Uranus is difference. And so this transit can be really spectacular in its effects, and it can also just be a bit of wind beneath your wings to deal with the more challenging things happening astrologically. If you have been acting out or acting a fool towards yourself or others over the past few days and you need to make amends and acknowledge what you've done⁠, Sun trine Uranus will help you do that if you let it.

Now, the Universe giveth and she taketh away because on Friday, the 20th of September, at exactly 5:17 p.m. Pacific Time, the Sun will be at 28 degrees and 31 minutes of Virgo, and Neptune will be at 28 degrees and 31 minutes of Pisces. So the Sun opposition to Pisces is in exactitude, but we experienced on Tuesday, the 17th, the opposition of Neptune and the Sun through the Full Moon, through the Eclipse. So this transit's basically been dragged out all week. We've been feeling it Monday all the way through the weekend. Fun.

Okay. Sun opposite Neptune⁠—honestly, not one of my favorite transits. It's a bit stressful. The reason why it's stressful is because the Sun is related to your vitality, your sense of self, and your will. It's your psychological vitality. It's also your physical vitality. 'Tis your spoons in many ways. And Neptune is ethereal. It is energetic. It is not material. And so the effect it tends to have on the Sun and Mars in particular, two very vital planets, is it works like a sieve. It drains your energy. It puts holes in the auric field. It intensifies sensitivities. It intensifies nuance and paradox and therefore intensifies confusion, susceptibility to negative energies, to anxieties, to gullibility, like propaganda, gossip, bullshit.

This transit can coincide with some really messy dynamics. So here's what you gotta know. The Sun opposition to Neptune is a transit that accentuates what you don't know. It can trigger anxieties. As a result of that, you can act in ways that reflect weird, hard-to-stay-with emotions instead of clarity about who you are, where you're at, and what's actually happening. Or you may not experience any of this, but other people are likely to be feeling that way and acting from that place.

So this is where the messiness comes from, right? This is where the messiness comes from because the transit triggers insecurity. It triggers uncertainty. And that makes everything a little bit more confusing and hard to navigate. You may feel particularly tired or exhausted, depleted, discouraged, just kind of off center with this transit. Now, the thing that you're supposed to get out of it is, again, awareness, greater awareness about where you're at, and to use that awareness to cultivate greater boundaries, healthier boundaries. Boundaries are not meant to block you from the world or from other people. They're meant to help you be self-contained, to help you to have access to all of your energies and to be able to use them in ways that help you to be more aligned.

This is a terrible time for, again, making major decisions or doing something that requires a great deal of strength because, again, this transit can make you feel depleted. So do your best to be reflexive and responsive without jumping to conclusions or rushing to fix problems you don't really understand or come to an assessment of clarity that you're not ready for. This week, especially the Eclipse and this transit, articulate how we're not supposed to have answers. We're not supposed to have certainty. We're meant to explore and to practice self-awareness, presence, and boundaries.

We've got two more transits to go. On the 21st, Saturday, we're still feeling that Sun/Neptune opposition, but we've also got a Mercury square Jupiter exact at 1:50 a.m. Pacific Time. Mercury will be at 20 degrees of Virgo and 48 minutes, and Jupiter will be at the same degrees of Gemini. And then, later that day at 11:12 p.m. Pacific Time, we've got a Sun trine to Pluto. The Sun will be at 29 degrees and 44 minutes⁠—very anaretic, very demure⁠—and Pluto will be at the same degrees of Capricorn because, lest we forget, Pluto is back in Capricorn.

Let's unpack this. And we're going to start with the Sun trine to Pluto, even though its exactitude happens a little later in the day. This transit is fortifying. It can bring about intense self-awareness, depth, and profundity. It helps you to do investigative, deep healing work, should you desire such a thing. This transit is great for research or digging deep. How many times do people say, "Do your own research"? Well, Sun trine Pluto helps you to do that. The Sun opposition to Pluto that we're still feeling⁠—not so much. But Sun trine to Pluto grounds that energy, which is really wonderful.

And of course, because both of these planets are at the anorexic degrees of their respective signs, it strengthens and intensifies the energies of Virgo and Capricorn, those two zodiac signs. So this is really, really grounded and grounding energy. It can help you to deal with whatever is up in the world, in your life, or inside of you. Sun trine to Pluto empowers you to stay focused and go deep. And so the only challenge associated with that⁠—and it's not from the transit; it's from the context of the rest of the transits⁠—is that you focus on the right things. As you've heard me say countless times, your strongest emotions are not reliably your wisest emotions. And the astrology of this week is challenging you to focus on what's most important instead of what's loudest inside of you or outside of you, whatever it may be.

Now, the other transit that's happening earlier in the day, the Mercury square Jupiter, is a little messier. Mercury governs details. Jupiter governs the big picture. And so, when these two planets are at a 90-degree angle, a.k.a. a square, what happens is you may be messy with the details so you can focus on the big picture or get so fixated on all the details that you lose track of the big picture. This transit brings about optimism, resiliency, exuberance, excitement, adventurousness⁠—very, very exciting.

But the problem is, in the context of these other transits, that further inclines you to be really close to the edge of a cliff of reality. You may hear the term "reality" and be like, "Reality? Who needs her?" But reality just happens to be where you live. It's where we all live, one way or another, for as long as we're in our meat suits, anyways.

And so it is important that you don't make connections that simply don't exist. Do you know what I'm saying? That you don't lose your energy and your attention chasing waterfalls. I don't know. Actually, chasing waterfalls sounds kind of fun, but you see what I'm saying, right? This transit can basically boil down to you being distracted from the things that actually matter to you. And that would be a total shame, partially because of the importance of the astrology of this week, the opportunity that you and we all have to be really present and interested and to expand our thinking, to expand our feelings, to expand ourselves.

But Jupiter has a tendency to overdo it, so you may take on more than is healthy for you. You may find yourself telling a story and filling it in with colorful details, a.k.a. lying. You may be overextending yourself or basically just caught up in lies or self-deception. And so those are things for you to pay attention to. Now, the fact that this transit overlaps so tightly with the Sun trine to Pluto is fortifying. It's wonderful, very helpful. However, it also overlaps with the Sun opposition to Neptune. And so it kind of furthers the energy of the Sun opposition to Neptune, that messiness, that anxiety.

The best way to make use of this transit is to practice being interested without being conclusive, to explore ideas without abandoning your Moon, a.k.a. your emotions, without abandoning whatever is present here and now. If you can practice doing that and staying grounded, which⁠—luckily, the Sun trine to Pluto in Virgo and Capricorn is very supportive to this, right? It's getting grounded and going deep. If you can tap into those energies, you will be able to make use of them so that you can invite what's possible into your life without abandoning this very moment.

Now, my dears, I know that it's a lot. I mean, it is a lot. I want to reiterate don't get too in your head. You know what I mean? This is not a time to get too in your head about it. Your head may be swimming. You might want to relisten to this or come back to the transcript after some of these transits pass as a way to kind of check in with how you handled the energies that got activated in your life, in the world around you, that kind of stuff. As always, we're having ongoing conversations about the themes of this moment over on my Patreon, so you can join me there if that's something you're interested in.

Now, let me give you the list. I'm going to run down all the transits. On September 16th, Venus is exactly opposite to Chiron. On the 17th, at 7:34 p.m. Pacific Time, we have a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. On the 18th, Mercury is exactly opposite to Saturn. On the 19th, the Sun is exactly trine to Uranus. On the 20th, the Sun is exactly opposite to Neptune. And then, the 21st, Mercury will square Jupiter, and the Sun will trine Pluto in exactitude.

It is worth naming that this week, we may see breaking news, breaking developments that may be fact or fiction. There may be overzealous reporting or really confusing information or some sort of serious propaganda that is released into the world or that somehow goes viral. So we want to maintain media literacy in all things at all times, but certainly during a Pisces Eclipse time, for sure.

Whatever you do, whatever comes up for you this week, remember that astrology is just a way of understanding the world and understanding life. It's a way of understanding yourself. Don't get too superstitious or weird about it. Use it as a tool to support you in living to the best of your ability. When you fuck up⁠—and you will fuck up because we all fuck up. When you fuck up, learn from it. Keep on going.

With this Piscean/Neptunian energy, it would be easy to kind of lose yourself in demoralization or overthink consequences and kind of get mean to yourself. But life is just a series of choices, actions, inaction, consequences for those things. Life is also a series of random, completely unfair, nonsensical events. It's life. And all you can do is your best to be present in the present and navigate from there. That's my hope for you this week and every week.

All right. I hope you are taking really good care of yourself and others and that you'll tune in to the midweek episode, where I give one of my beloved listeners a reading. I'll talk to you in just a couple of days. Buh-bye.