#329-"Then Decide What to Do With Your Time"-Week of Sept. 8, 2025

We are now inside the eclipse corridor, a liminal space between what has dissolved and what is still forming. Saturn’s return to Pisces reminds us that integration is part of completion: this six-month apprenticeship asks you to gather the wisdom of the past cycle. With only a few exact aspects this week, the cosmos invites us to pause, digest, and choose daily practices that align body and spirit. This is a time to let the in-between do its quiet work.

00:00 Welcome to Astrology Alchemy

00:50 Episode Introduction and Weekly Theme

01:20 Understanding the Eclipse Corridor

01:46 Saturn's Return to Pisces

02:59 Astrological Aspects of the Week

04:42 Sun and Mercury in Virgo sextile Jupiter

• Reflection: What daily choices or practices could nourish both your body and your spirit right now?

05:42 Sun Conjunct Mercury in Virgo

• Reflection: What story about your life are you ready to edit so it better reflects who you are becoming?

06:53 Podcast Poem: The Art of Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye

Transcript

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Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy. I'm Sheila Bélanger your host for this podcast. Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of transformation. Spiritual alchemy is the process of pursuing the gold of your true nature. By transmuting the unrefined limiting parts of yourself. In this podcast, I'll offer you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal lead into gold. More resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. Hello, and welcome to episode number 329 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. This is for the week of September 8th, 2025, and I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bélanger. Here's a line from this week's podcast poem:"then decide what to do with your time." We are now inside the Eclipse Corridor. We're between two eclipses, the full moon eclipse last week and next week there'll be a new moon eclipse. This is a liminal space between what has dissolved and what is still forming. The ancients would often call this"the Betwixt and Between" time you're cut loose from the old not yet knowing what the new is. And key to this is Saturn, the responsible ones return to Pisces. That reminds us that we're in an integration as part of the completion process. Saturn will retrograde back into Pisces. It's been in Aries. It's going back into the Pisces for the last six months of its time in this sign. It asks you to gather the wisdom of the whole past cycle, and to give you a perspective, Saturn entered Aries the first sign of the Zodiac in spring of 1996. Now as it finishes, its last six months in Pisces, the last Zodiac sign in the whole cycle of 12. We are really, in many ways, bringing to completion experiences. We seeded personally and collectively early 1996. Especially in this time between the eclipses notice anything stirring the past 29 years that wants to be acknowledged, that wants to be integrated, that wants to be released. And this week only has a few exact aspects, astrological cycles. So the Cosmos is inviting us to pause, digest. And choose daily practices that align the body and the spirit. This is the time to let the in-between do its quiet work. On September 12th, the Sun and Mercury are in Virgo Sextile, and j Jupiter in cancer. Now, that's an astrological sentence. Don't worry about it if you don't understand it. I'll give you a sense of it so you can take it in with your heart and align with it. Both the sun, the archetype of the conscious self and mercury. The archetype of the storyteller or communicator are in flow with the planet Jupiter, the archetype of the wise one or the expanded one, practical clarity meets soulful nourishment. Virgo, the sign sharpens focus. Jupiter and Cancer expands empathy and care. All of these three characters together, sun and Mercury, and Virgo in flow with Jupiter in Cancer, invite you to translate vision into grounded practice, supported by heart-centered wisdom. Here's a reflection for this cycle. What daily choices or practices could nourish both your body and your spirit right now? As you have answers to that question, lean in and do those practices I. And then on September 13th, the sun is conjunct Mercury in Virgo. It means the sun and mercury are together in the heavens. The sun and Mercury join in Virgo. A moment of clear insight. It's like a spotlight on the stories you tell yourself and the ways you organize your life. The sign of Virgo asks what's useful, what's aligned, what's ready to be refined? And the sun is shining the light for you to examine your mercury energies, your stories, your narratives, how you think, how you communicate inside the Eclipse Corridor. This is a moment to write a new chapter of clarity and intention. It's a good week to be quiet and still and reflective. And listen to the insights that gently emerge from within and sometimes from without. Here's a reflection for this cycle. What story about your life are you ready to edit so it better reflects who you are becoming? So dear ones, this week is less about outer drama and more about inner cultivation. Let yourself settle into discernment and nourishment. The energy will build again next week as Venus Mercury and the sun activate powerful oppositions leading up to the Virgo solar eclipse. So take advantage of this quieter week. Get some rest, do some reflection. And remember the gift of Sun and Mercury and Virgo is to question some of your patterns, some of your ways of thinking or behaving and saying, what's a different way to do this? And so the poem that comes beautifully for this week to support you is called The Art of Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye. A beautiful poem about the art of disappearing and the art of discernment. May it serve you well. Thank you for your ongoing support. May these cycles bless you and give you some breathing time to go deeper with the integration. And don't forget to check out my website for all the resources available to you. On the edges of change.com/homepage. You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Bélanger Resources are available at the website on the edges of change.com. Thank you for listening. Bless your alchemical journey to embrace the gold of your true nature.