#348-"“I So Deeply Loved the World”-Week of January 19, 2026

This week marks a quiet but pivotal turning point — not dramatic, but consequential. It’s a hinge moment where one era completes its handoff and another begins asking for our consent.

Rather than forecasting outcomes, this episode offers orientation: how to stand inside change with maturity, discernment, and care.

We explore the larger context shaping this week:

• The completion of a long Capricorn chapter and the collective shift toward Aquarius — from endurance and survival toward pattern awareness and conscious participation.

 • Neptune preparing to leave Pisces after fourteen years (2011–now), closing an era of dissolving certainties, heightened sensitivity, spiritual longing, and widespread disorientation — including life lived through screens, fear-based narratives, and inherited domination stories that thrive on confusion rather than discernment.

 • Neptune approaching Aries, signaling a change in tone from saturation to self-location — from absorbing the collective field to choosing what we are willing to embody and steward.

 • Pluto waiting at the Aquarian gate, initiating a deeper reckoning with power, responsibility, and participation in collective systems — not through collapse, but through clarity.

 • A stabilizing alliance between Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus (in supportive sextile), reminding us that lasting change does not require everything to fall apart; it asks for patient redesign rather than reactive rupture.

 • A return to last week’s New Moon at the final degrees of Capricorn — an unusually dense lunation involving all the personal planets and Pluto, harmonizing with Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune, and standing opposite Jupiter. Its message of “all hands on deck” is reframed here not as urgency, but as mature engagement and conscious participation.

This is not a week that demands action.
 It asks for orientation.

Reflective Questions for the Week

• Where in my life am I still operating from endurance rather than conscious choice?
 • What currently shapes my attention most — and does it align with what I truly want to steward?
 • In this moment of transition, what would it look like to stand more clearly in my values through steady, mature engagement rather than urgency or reaction?

This episode is an invitation to locate yourself more clearly in time — and to participate in what’s emerging with care, responsibility, and presence.

Podcast poem:  All This by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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. Welcome to episode number 348 of the Astrology Alchemy Podcast. This is for the week of January 19th, 2026. I'm your host and guide, Sheila Che. Welcome. Welcome. Before we begin, I want to name something briefly. You may notice that the way I'm offering astrology continues to evolve less about forecasting and listing every astrology transit or cycle, and more about holding the larger context we're living inside of. This reflects my own listening to these times and my respect for the trust you place in me when you show up here each week. I am still gonna name the cycles that matter, but I'm holding them more as guidance rather than prediction as a way to orient ourselves to change with maturity, care and discernment. Recognize there are many brilliant astrologers who offer their forecasts in a more detailed way, astrologically. So don't be shy. Go and find other more technical resources if you like. Thank you for the way we continue to walk this together. Here's a phrase from this week's podcast poem. I so deeply loved the world and a special honoring that this week begins with the day in the United States where we honor Martin Luther King. An incredible gifted change agent and one who called us to deeper truths of connection, of activism, of letting love being be the great systems changer. Now, this is one of those weeks where time can feel very different. It's not louder. It's not more dramatic. But it's weighted as if something essential is shifting beneath the surface, quietly changing how we stand, how we choose, how we participate. This is not a week of spectacle. No matter what mainstream feed is happening for you with news or internet, it's not a week of spectacle. It's a hinge, a moment where one era finishes handing something over and another begins to ask for our consent. Many of us can feel it, a kind of internal recalibration vibration. Old structures no longer hold the way they once did. Yet the future isn't fully formed either. We are standing between worlds, not in crisis, but in responsibility. This week does not demand urgency. It asks for orientation. It asks us to notice what we are still carrying out of habit rather than truth. To recognize which forms of authority, internal and external, no longer deserve our alliance, our allegiance, and to sense what is quietly insistently asking to be built differently. Astrologically, this moment in time arrives as the old structures of Capricorn loosen. Aquarius opens its gate and Neptune prepares to leave the waters. It has ruled since 2011 signaling a collective shift from endurance to conscious participation. This is not the week where the world changes. It is the week many of us realize we are no longer waiting for permission. So as we begin, I invite you to listen, not for predictions, but for posture, not for answers, but for resonance, and to let this moment orient you gently, clearly. To the kind of choices that shape not just the months ahead, but the kind of ancestor you are becoming in uncertain times. Let's take a moment to honor the ones not yet born who will thank us for the choices we are making now and to honor. The ones who are behind us and the important choices our ancestors made to bring us to this place in our lives. Let's step into this week together. First, let's review Neptune in Pisces from 2011 until now. To understand why this moment carries so much weight, we need to look back, not analytically, but experientially to where we've been standing for the past 14 years. Since 2011. Neptune has been moving through Pisces, the Zodiac sign it rules. And for many of us, that period has felt like living inside dissolving boundaries, certainty eroded, old authorities lost their credibility, spiritual longings, intensified sometimes as genuine, genuine awakening sometimes as confusion, projection, or escape. Collectively, we watched shared narratives, fragment truth becoming very slippery. Meaning was harder to anchor. Many people felt unmoored, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, collectively without always having language for why. On a personal level, this era asked us to feel more than we could name to trust intuition without reliable maps, and to sit with grief to disillusionment and longing that had no clear object. For some this era of Neptune and Pisces opened compassion. Imagination and spiritual sensitivity for others. It brought exhaustion, overwhelm, and a deep fatigue with ideals that never quite touched the ground. Often. It did both at once. I, as Neptune, prepares to leave Pisces this week. It's also important to name how this long passage. Coincided with an intensification of life lived through screens, endless scrolling, algorithmic rabbit holes, fractured attention, and the subtle erosion of presence. I, many of us have been living inside overlapping spells, fear-based narratives, amplified outrage. Manufactured urgency and inherited domination. Stories that thrive on disorientation rather than discernment. This isn't about individual failure or moral weakness. It's about systems. Patriarchal, supremacist, extractive systems. Learning how to metabolize uncertainty by keeping people ungrounded, reactive, and disconnected from embodied. Knowing Neptune and Pisces makes us exquisitely sensitive, but it also made us vulnerable to confusion when sensitivity wasn't paired with anchoring context and inner authority. What's ending now is not awareness or compassion. It's the era of being undifferentiated inside the collective field, the era of mistaking saturation for truth, the era of absorbing fear without remembering that we can choose where we place our attention. What comes next will not ask us to feel more. It will ask us to locate ourselves more clearly. It's now on Neptune approaching the Zodiac sign of Aries as Neptune prepares to. Cross formally the threshold into Aries. On January 26th, the quality of the collective field begins to change, not abruptly, but unmistakably. The waters of Pisces start to recede. The fog thins ends. What has been diffused begins to gather heat as Neptune enters a fire sign. Neptune in Aries does not ask us to feel more or to dream harder. It asks us to stand somewhere after years of permeability and saturation. The question shifts from what am I absorbing to what am I willing to embody from the. What story am I caught inside to? What story am I choosing to live from? This transition does not reward reactivity. It does not favor urgency. It calls for clear intention, rooted action, and a willingness to be seen by ourselves first. If Neptune and Pisces taught us compassion through dissolution, Neptune approaching Aries will ask for courage through clarity. Not the courage of confrontation, but the courage of self location, knowing where you stand, what you will no longer consent to, and what you are willing to steward into form. This is how a new cycle begins. Not with certainty, but with orientation. And that is what this week quietly prepares us for. And then there is Pluto at the aquarium gate, the great transformer initiator. Waiting at the threshold of the Zodiac sign of Aquarius is Pluto, not as an omen, not as a threat, but as an initiator as the personal planets, sun, moon, mercury, Venus, and then Mars next week. Cross into Aquarius. Each one meets Pluto. Almost immediately, a series of conjunctions that mark this passage, not as symbolic change, but as initiation through contact with power itself. Pluto, Pluto, and Aquarius is not interested in surface change or symbolic progress. It is concerned with power, how it moves, who holds it, and what systems quietly shape our lives without our consent. Pluto does not punish. It reveals it exposes where we have outsourced authority to systems, to ideologies, to technologies. To fear and asks whether that arrangement is still livable for ourselves, our planet, the creatures, our descendants, and Aquarius Pluto presses on collective structures rather than personal identity alone. It asks uncomfortable but necessary questions. What forms of power are no longer legitimate? What systems are sustained by conformity rather than consent. I. Where have we adapted, to distortions simply because it felt inevitable? This is initiation through clarity. Not collapse, not annihilation, but the stripping of way away of what cannot ethically continue. Pluto at this gate does not demand perfection. It demands participation. It's in the sign of Aquarius, which is about the collective, about collective change in liberation. And yet, this is not a call to outrage. It is a call to responsible presence. Your outrage can fuel you to step into this. This is the deeper initiation of Aquarius, not idealism, not rebellion, but mature collective responsibility. And then this week we have Saturn and Uranus, the Quiet Alliance. What studies this initiation and what makes this moment far less volatile than it might otherwise be? Is a quieter, often overlooked alliance forming in the background. Saturn in Pisces is in a supportive sex tile with Uranus and Taurus, meaning they're 60 degrees away from each other in the heavens. Archetypally, this matters. Saturn represents structure, responsibility, and the slow work of building something that lasts. Uranus represents disruption, innovation, and the breaking open of what has grown, rigid or unjust. When these two are in conflict, change comes through rupture. When they cooperate, change comes through redesign. This week, they are not at war. They are listening to one another. This signals a deeper truth about the kind of transformation underway now, it does not require everything to fall apart in order for something new to emerge. The future is not asking for collapse, it is asking for adaptation. This alliance supports change that is patient rather than performative, rooted rather than reactive, capable of holding tension without needing immediate solution. It favors those willing to work within systems long enough to reshape them. Rather than abandon them in moments of frustration, Saturn and Uranus, the builder and the maverick together remind us what endures is. Not what is loudest, but what is well-formed. Formed. Now I wanna bring you back. To a really strong new moon. We just happened. We just had that really opens this passage. The New Moon at the final degrees of Capricorn on January 18th, which I spoke about last week in the podcast, is caring and unmistakable all hands on deck quality astrologically. That new Moon was unusual in its density. It formed together, sun and Moon, lunar solar, yin Yang, in close contact with all the personal planets, with Pluto also present, and a rare convergence that brought personal choice, collective power, and long-term consequence into the same moment. That New Moon was also in a web of supportive archetypal relationships, harmonizing with Uranus, the Maverick. In conversation with Neptune, the Dreamer, and Saturn, the builder, while standing in tension with Jupiter, the teacher expanded. One expansion was present, but not unchecked. Vision was available, but only if it could be grounded. Can you feel this? That's why the all hands on deck metaphor was never about urgency. It was about participation with awareness. It still in the cycle of that new moon that was seeded this new moon did not demand answers. It clarified stakes. It remind us that Rod reminded us, reminded us that we are already participating in the future through what we reinforce, what we withdraw from, and what we are willing to steward patiently over time. Not pressure, not acceleration, but mature engagement. As we come to the close of this week's honoring of the archetypal chemical choices here, I wanna offer you a few reflection questions. Not as something to solve, but as invitations to carry with you. Of course, you don't need to sit down and answer them all at once. You might notice one of them returning as you move through your days or surfacing quietly in a moment of pause, or you might not remember that I'm all at all, they're just there with you. That's enough. These questions are simply here to help translate the larger patterns we've been exploring into the texture of everyday life where. Deep choices are actually made. So here's four reflection questions for the week. Where in my life am I still operating from endurance rather than conscious choice? I what currently shapes my attention the most? And does it align with what I truly want to steward? In this moment of transition, what would it look like for me to stand more clearly in my values, not through urgency or reaction, but through steady, mature engagement. And what is one small, tangible way I can embody that posture this week. Thank you and thank you for being with me as I adapt and change my style of supporting you astrologically through these times. The podcast poem I bring you is so poignant to me. For these times because it carries both a big archetypal perspective and a very grounded personal engagement with these times. It's called All This by Rosemary Wala tro all this after the killing of Renee Nicole. Good. Into the woods, I carried my broken open heart, knowing it rhymed with millions of other broken open hearts. And there in the silence of spruce trees and new snow and cloudless blue sky. The heart gaped with its relentless ache. I so deeply loved the world, and I was so terribly upset by the world. All this, all this, the snow was impossibly peaceful. It softened every broken rock, broken stick I felt at the same time. The raw wound of injustice and the infinitude of primeval peace, both of them saying, remember, remember, remember all this? Thank you. For being together in this threshold of deep change, may you be resourced, grounded, supported, resiliently loved as you travel this path with your family and beloveds with the collective human experience with the more than human experience. All of this. 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.