#338-“You Are in This Time of the Interim”--Week of November 20, 2025

This week’s Theme: The Pause Between Depth and Flight

This week we stand in the still point between deep water and wide sky. Jupiter turns inward in Cancer, inviting a review of how we grow through care and belonging. Mercury retrograde meets Mars in Sagittarius—rekindling the courage to speak truth that liberates. And the Sun’s trines to Jupiter and Saturn offer calm integration after months of intensity.

Beneath it all, the long dance of Uranus and Neptune hums below the threshold—reminding us that every personal turning is part of a collective evolution.

Tuesday Nov 11: Jupiter turns retrograde in Cancer

 The Great Expander begins his inward journey through the tender waters of Cancer. What has grown outward since midsummer now asks to deepen inward. This is not contraction—it’s consecration. Jupiter’s retrograde reviews the emotional architecture that supports your growth. Are your roots strong enough to hold what you’ve been cultivating?

Re-root abundance in emotional integrity.
Reflection question: What belief about safety or success is ready to be rewritten from the inside out?

Wednesday Nov 12: Mercury retrograde conjunct Mars in Sagittarius

 The Messenger meets the Warrior(iess) on the path of the Seeker. This is the second in a trilogy of conjunctions—the first in late October in Scorpio unearthed hidden truths, this one in Sagittarius gives them voice, and the third next January in Capricorn will anchor them in mature, embodied wisdom.

Now, words burn bright. Mercury’s review asks: Can I speak with courage without aggression? Mars urges movement—but not haste. Together they teach how conviction becomes illumination when rooted in reflection.

Transform reactive speech into revelatory communication.
Reflection question: What truth needs to be re-spoken with heart-centered courage rather than urgency or defense?

Sunday Nov 16: Sun in Scorpio trines Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces

A harmonious Grand Water flow blesses the week’s end. The Sun in Scorpio—self in transformation—finds steady current with Jupiter’s inner faith and Saturn’s compassionate discipline. After months of deep excavation, emotional insight can finally take shape. This is the sweet point where intensity ripens into wisdom.

Let renewed self-trust become a stabilizing current for your next cycle.

Reflection question: What part of me is emerging from the depths now ready to live with greater emotional mastery and spiritual grace?

Nov 20: Uranus in Taurus sextiles Neptune in Pisces

The Innovator and the Dreamer meet again—the second step in a two-year initiation (2025 – 2027). The first sextile in late August sparked ideas in airy-fiery realms of inspiration. Now both planets, retrograde and grounded in Earth and Water, invite integration: How do vision and matter, soul and body, imagination and livelihood, join forces?

This is the deep-tide review before the next ignition. Reweave imagination and embodiment so the dream can hold real form.

Reflection question: Where do my material realities and soul longings need to realign to support the world I’m dreaming into being?

Transcript

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Hello, welcome to Astrology Alchemy. I'm Sheila Bellagio, 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 338 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. This is for the week of November 10th, 2025. I'm your host and guide, Sheila Bella. Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem. You are in this time of the interim. Another phrase for this week's theme of astrological changes, the pause between depth and flight. This week we stand in the still point between deep water and wide sky. Jupiter turns inward in cancer, inviting a review of how we grow through care and belonging. Mercury retrograde meets Mars in Sagittarius. Rekindling the courage to speak truth that liberates and the sun's tryings to both Jupiter and Saturn offer calm integration after months of intensity. And beneath it all, the long dance of Uranus and Neptune hums below the threshold reminding us that every personal turning is part of a collective evolution. On Tuesday, November 11th, Jupiter turns retrograde in cancer. The great expander. It begins his, her inward journey through the tender waters of cancer. What has grown outward since Midsummer now asked to deepen inward? This is not contraction. It's consecration. Jupiter's retrograde reviews the emotional architecture that supports your growth. Are your roots strong enough to hold what you've been cultivating? I also wanna honor in cultural terms. This is a day of remembering those who gave, gave the greatest sacrifice of their love and their life to support others. Very strong cancer protection for hearth can and keth. So growth opportunity for Jupiter going retrograde in cancer, reroute abundance in emotional integrity. A reflection question, what belief about safety or success is ready to be rewritten from the inside out? On Wednesday, November 12th, mercury retrograde Conjoins Mars in Sagittarius, the messenger meets the Warrior Warriors on the path of the seeker. This is the second in a trilogy of conjunctions between Mars and Mercury. The first in late October was in Scorpio and help to unearth hidden truths. This current one in Sagittarius gives them voice and the third connection. Next January in Capricorn will anchor them in mature embodied wisdom. I recognize this is a three month journey of change, but for now, words burn Bright. Sagittarius Mercury's retrograde. Review asks, can I speak with courage without aggression? Mars urges movement, but not haste. Together. They teach how conviction becomes illumination when rooted in reflection, a growth opportunity, transform reactive speech into revelatory communication, a reflection question, what truth needs to be. Re spoken with heart-centered courage. Rather than urgency or defense on Sunday, November 16th, the sun in Scorpio trines both Jupiter in cancer and Saturn in Pisces. A harmonious grand water flow blesses the week's end. The sun in Scorpio self in deep transformation. Find steady current with Jupiter's interfaith and Saturn's compassionate discipline. After months of deep excavation, emotional insight can finally take shape. This is the sweet point where intensity ripens into wisdom, a growth opportunity. Let renewed self-trust become a stabilizing current for your next cycle. And remember, these cycles are not just personal, but they're collective a sweet point or intensity ripens into wisdom. Recent results in the United States elections. A reflection question for this cycle. What part of me is emerging from the depths now ready to live with greater emotional mastery and spiritual grace. And then looking ahead to next week on November 20th, Uranus in Taurus sex tiles, Neptune in Pisces. This is the second of five exact sextiles between these two planets in a two year period. URA is the innovator and Neptune the Dreamer meet again, the second step in a two year initiation between mid 2025 and mid 2027. The first textile in late August sparked ideas in airy fiery realms of inspiration. Uranus in Gemini, Neptune, and Aries. Now both planets are retrograde and grounded in earth and water. Uranus and Torres and Neptune and Pisces, they invite integration. How do vision and matter? Soul and body imagination and livelihood, join forces. This is the deep tide review before the next ignition. A growth opportunity, reweave, imagination and embodiment so the dream can hold real form, reflection question. Where do my material realities and soul longings need to realign to support the world I'm dreaming into being, and the world? I dream for all my beings and beloveds to share and remember, pace yourself. This is a two year initiation journey, and we're just at the beginning of it. Here's a closing reflection between the tide going out and the flame catching. There is the pause where vision roots, I let Jupiter's inward turn, Mercury's courageous revision and the son's watery harmony remind you. Growth is not always expansion outward. Sometimes the greatest evolution happens in the quiet recalibration between the next leap and the poem that comes to honor. The powerful currents of change Astrologically. Archetypally for this week is from John O'Donohue is called for the interim time when near the end of day, life has drained out of light and it is too soon for the mind of night to have darkened things. No place looks like itself. Loss of outline makes everything look strangely in between. Unsure of what has been or what might come in this wan light. Even dreams. Trees seem groundless in a well. It will be night, but nothing here seems to believe the relief of dark. You are in this time of the interim where everything seems withheld. The path you took to get here has washed out. The way forward is still concealed from you. The old is not old enough to have died away. The new is still too young to be born. You cannot claim. Lay claim to e anything in this place of dusk, your eyes are blurred and there is no mirror. Everyone else has lost sight of your heart and you can see nowhere to put your trust, you know, you have to make your own way through. As far as you can hold your confidence. Do not allow your confusion to squander this call, which is loosening your roots in false ground, that you might come free from all that you have outgrown. What is being transfigured? Here is your mind and it is difficult and slow. To become new. The more faithfully you can endure here, the more refined your heart will become for your arrival in the New Dawn. For the interim time, John o Donahue, if you can. Breathe deeply through this week. Feel yourself rooted into the earth and open to the elements and tell yourself the truth. I and my world are in the betwixt and between time. The old is over the news, not here yet, and have faith. That you and our world can navigate this interim time for the benefit of all beings on the planet, the human, and the more than human may you be able to keep the faith. Thank you. And thanks to all who continuously support this podcast with donations, with downloads, with reviews, and with passing it on to other beloveds. Okay. 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.