#334-"May Warmth of Heart Keep Your Presence Aflame"--Week of October 13, 2025

Mon. Oct. 13: 

1) Pluto (The Transformer) turns Direct in Aquarius

There's a shift from inner shadow excavation to outer empowerment. In Aquarius, the Transformer reanimates collective renewal — systems, technologies, and communities are being reborn. You may feel the tectonic plates of your psyche moving: what inner underworld work have you done since May that now wants to express in service of the greater good?

Reflection Question:
What truth about your power or your purpose is now ready to move from hidden depth into active expression?

2) Venus (The Relational One) enters Libra

Time to reimagine relationships not as compromise but as creative co-weaving. It’s a cycle for listening with your whole being, for recalibrating the harmony between giving and receiving.

Reflection Question:
Where can you restore balance or beauty in how you meet the “other,” whether that’s a person, project, or part of yourself?

3) Venus opposes Neptune (The Dreamer)

The Dreamer stirs visions of unconditional love and spiritual union, yet the Relational One seeks clarity and integrity. Watch for projections or disillusionment that can dissolve boundaries — or open portals to transcendent compassion.

Reflection Question:
How can you stay heart-open without losing the clarity of your own truth?

Tuesday, October 14: Venus trines Uranus (The Awakener) in Gemini and Pluto (The Transformer) in Aquarius

Venus meets two agents of radical renewal, sparking relational breakthroughs, creative reinvention, and fresh freedom in connection. Something once stagnant can shift quickly now if you allow love to evolve beyond the familiar script.

Reflection Question:
What new pattern of relating or creating is ready to liberate you from an outdated way of connecting?

Thurs. Oct. 16: Sun (The Heroic Self) in Libra squares Jupiter (The Teacher) in Cancer

The Sun’s light on partnership and fairness rubs against Jupiter’s instinct to nurture and protect in Cancer. This tension can amplify generosity or inflate expectations — both reveal where growth demands a rebalancing of confidence and care.

Reflection Question:
Where might over-giving or over-controlling be blocking true mutual growth?

Fri. Oct. 17: Sun (The Heroic Self) in Libra opposes Chiron (The Wounded Healer) in Aries

Relationships mirror old wounds of independence and belonging. We explore how our desire for harmony often hides ancient fears of rejection or domination. Healing happens when we can hold both self-assertion and empathy as sacred.

Reflection Question: What old relational wound is asking for compassionate witnessing rather than defense or withdrawal?

Sun., Oct. 19: Mercury (The Storyteller) conjunct Mars (The Warrior) in Scorpio

Words pierce to the truth. This potent conjunction intensifies communication — it’s surgical, passionate, and potentially confrontational. When wielded consciously, this energy cuts through illusion and fuels courageous conversations that catalyze transformation.

Reflection Question:
What truth needs to be spoken or written from the depth of your courage, not the edge of your anger?

Podcast poem: For Presence by John O'Do

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 334 for the week of October 13th, 2025. I'm your host and guide, Sheila Miler, and thanks ahead of time for your patience with my throat. I hope that you can understand what I'm offering to you. Here is a phrase from this week's podcast poem. May warmth of heart. Keep your presence a flame. So here's an overview for this week's astrological cycles. This week, the alchemy of transformation and relationship deepens. As Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, the transformer archetype begins moving forward after months of inner reworking it, inviting us to to claim a renewed sense of power aligned with collective purpose. Meanwhile, Venus enters her home sign of Libra opening a new relational chapter. One that is immediately tested and awakened by Neptune's Dreams, Uranus breakthroughs and Pluto's evolutionary demands no messing around the sun in Libra engages both Jupiter and Chiron shining light on how our partnerships mirror our growth edges and healing journeys. The weekends with a potent Mercury Mars conjunction in Scorpio calling for bold truth telling and deep courageous dialogue. And as I've been doing with for you, as I speak to each cycle, I'm going to give you a reflection question to carry with you and maybe you check back with that question throughout the week. And do remember that? You can always find these reflection questions in the show notes for the podcast. On Monday, October 13th, Pluto, the transformer turns direct in Aquarius. After months of retrograde motion, Pluto's forward turn signals a shift from inner shadow excavation to outer empowerment in Aquarius, the Transformer Reanimate collective renewal. For systems, technologies, and communities are being reborn, you may feel the tectonic plates of your psyche moving. What inner underworld work have you done since May that now wants to express in service of the greater good? And I've always mentioned an understanding in astrology, archetypal, astrology, dear ones, that the outer journey of the planet's mirrors our inner journey. And it's not just a personal journey, it's a collective journey. Our collective psyche is sensitive to the astrological changes. So with Pluto going direct this week, we may see in our actual collective experience this change of this deep inner transformation that's been cooking shadow, material cooking since May, and then going direct means energetically that transformer says, come on, let's go forward Now, let. Initiate the changes of transformation that we need to have a deep prayer, and most of us are praying that this energy will express itself in a very positive life enhancing, empowerment way for the people. Hold fast to that vision. Here's a reflection question for this Pluto Transit. What truth about your power or your purpose is now ready to move? From hidden depth into active expression, and on that same day, Monday, October 13th, Venus, the relational one archetype enters Libra. The heart moves into a sign it loves Libra, the realm of balance, beauty, and sacred reciprocity. This passage of Venus invites you to reimagine relationships, not as compromise, but as creative co weaving. It's a cycle for listening with your whole being for recalibrating the harmony between giving and receiving a reflection question for this venous cycle. Where can you restore balance or beauty in how you meet the other, whether that's a person, a project, or part of yourself? I that same day, as soon as Venus enters Libra, it opposes Neptune, the Dreamer archetype. The tension between idealism and reality peaks, the dreamer stirs visions of unconditional love and spiritual union, yet the relational one. Venus seeks clarity and integrity. Watch for projections or disillusionment that can dissolve boundaries or open to portals to transcendent. Transcendent compassion, a rele reflection question for Venus Neptune Cycle. How can you stay heart open without losing the clarity of your own truth? On Tuesday, October 14th, Venus trines, Uranus, the awakener in Gemini and Pluto, the transformer in Aquarius. This makes what we call a grand rine, like an equilateral triangle energy in the heavens after the fog of Neptune. Venus meets two agents of radical renewal. These alignments spark relational breakthroughs, creative reinvention, and fresh freedom in connection. Something once stagnant can shift quickly. Now, if you allow love to evolve beyond the familiar script, Uranus and Pluto. Embody, empower Venus in you to wake up to new ways to love and to be empowered in that loving. Here's a reflection question for these cycles. What new pattern of relating or creating is ready to liberate you from an outdated way of connecting? And then Thursday, October 16th, the sun, the heroic or heroine self or conscious self in Libra Squares, Jupiter, the teacher in cancer. That means there are 90 degrees of angle between the sun and Jupiter. This week. Expansion meets equilibrium. The sun's light on partnership and fairness rubs against Jupiter's instinct to nurture and protect in cancer. This tension can amplify generosity or inflate expectations, both reveal where growth demands a rebalancing of confidence and care. A reflection question for the Sun Jupiter cycle. Where might overgiving or over controlling be blocking true mutual growth? On Friday, October 17th, the son, the hero heroine self in Libra opposes Chiron, the wounded healer in Aries. Relationships mirror old wounds of independence and longing. The Libra Aries Zodiac Sign Polarity illuminates how our desire for harmony, harmony often hides ancient fears of rejection or domination. Healing happens when we can hold both self-assertion and empathy as sacred. A reflection question. What old relational wound is asking for compassionate witnessing rather than defense or withdrawal? And finally, we end the week on quite an intense cycle on Sunday, October 19th, mercury, the storyteller is conjunct Mars. The Warrior Warriors advocate in Scorpio words pierce to the truth. This potent conjunction intensifies communication. It's surgical, passionate. And potentially confrontational when wielded consciously. This energy cuts through illusion and fuels courageous conversations that catalyze transformation. It's important at the end of this week to really track where your own experience of being triggered or activated or angry or resentful can unconsciously be blurted out in your communication. Count to at least 10 and really recognize what's the deeper alchemical change that wants to happen? What's the deeper truth that wants to be explored? Here's the reflection question with this. What truth needs to be spoken or written from the depth of your courage, not the edge of your anger? So there you have it. Dear Ones the poem that came forward to honor us all in this week of Astrological Change is called For Presence by John Oah. And it came especially because it has a Venus quality to it. It has a loving, compassionate invitation to be in your dignity and sovereignty amidst all the wild challenging changes, and yet to not go to sleep and bypass the deep excavation work that needs to happen for presence by John O'Donohue. Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon. Respond to the goal of your gift and the courage to follow its path. Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity. May warmth of heart. Keep your presence of flame. May anxiety never linger about you. May your own dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul. Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles. That seek no attention. Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul. May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder and go to the depth, the gift of your soul. Go underneath. Your strategic everyday mind caught perhaps in all the storylines and all the scrolling and all the stories that are too small for your soul. Pay attention and be anchored in the dignity of your soul. And with that dear ones, I wanna remind you, if you're at all drawn to it, there is still room to join my group coaching program. Reclaim inner sovereignty. It's a sixth session autumn coaching journey into identity healing, deconditioning and archetypal power. It starts this Wednesday, October 15th and goes for six weeks. It's 12 to 1:30 PM Pacific time. Join me to shed what no longer serves, honor the wounds that shaped you. And awaken the sovereign one within. Be supported by water wisdom, mythic archetypes and ritual descent practices so you can remember the ancient power that is already yours. If you're interested, go to the homepage of my website on the edges of change.com and you'll see information and a link for details and to register. Thank you for your journey and courage to continue ke to keep your heart alive in these times. Bless your journey. You have been listening to the Astrology Alchemy Podcast with your host, Sheila Lange. 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.