The Astrology of January 2025

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Adam Elenbaas
All right, let's go ahead and get into it. I'm going to welcome Alexandra and Whitney back. Hello, hello. Good to see you guys again. Are you excited to look at the first month of the new year? Happy

Whitney Kranz
new year, right? Even though we're recording this in December, Happy

Adam Elenbaas
New Year. It's fun to like. One of the things that I love about the first, the first month of the year is really that, you know, for a lot of us, the things that happen in the early part of the year sort of set the tone for the rest of the year. You can even look at that from the solstice onward, but I feel like I don't know, I going all the way back to when I first started listening to astrology or taking astrology content. And January forecasts were always my favorite, because it kind of felt like it encapsulates something about the birth of the new year. You know?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, it's always go ahead. I

Whitney Kranz
was just going to say it's like the new moon of the cycle, kind of, right? But the cycle is a year, not a month. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
and we have many big transits this year that I am excited to look at together. I mean, all of the slow moving outer planets are changing signs. We've got Jupiter moving into cancer in June. We have Saturn moving into Aries at the end of May, and Uranus changing signs into Gemini in July, what Neptune changing into Aries in late March, and Pluto's just gone into Aquarius. So, I mean, there's no shortage of major transits in the year ahead to be unpacking together month by month. So I think it's going to be really fun.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I can't wait.

Adam Elenbaas
And on that note, how was, how was the month of December? I mean, we're not as we're recording this. We're not quite finished with it. We're recording it just prior to the end of the year, around the holidays. It's a little tricky. We don't get to go through usually the full month. We record a little bit more in advance. But yeah, how has December been so far? Jupiter, Saturn, square, some of the other big transits of the month. You go first, Alexandra,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, I've, I've been really enjoying this Mars project. Okay, I don't always there, you know, even Mars at its best is is like a little chaos and is a mixed bag. But I have been really enjoying this and especially I just blinked and I looked at my calendar for January, and I have so much good, amazing stuff that's coming up that are old things that I'm revisiting that's finally the right time for. So I feel relieved that this is one of those Mars Retrogrades. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I love that. I think that's a maybe a fresh perspective on Mars Retrograde, because I don't know if we're all enjoying

Alexandra Blair
Mars is so personal. It's truly with my in my client practice, no planet creates a greater range of experience than Mars, and it's not even close. Like for some people, Mars is completely catastrophic, and for some it is totally benevolent. Well, I love

Whitney Kranz
how you created that worksheet for folks too. I mean, there's a plug for your worksheet too. Go find it, because I think it's so helpful to look back. I mean, Adam, you talk about this, right? And tracking the transits and journaling to understand how it's affecting each of the cycles in your life. And you know, personally, I I'm not in the most comfortable of places with Mars retrograding in my first house. Yeah. You know, I have been really learning and reflecting on the fact that, like, I need rest and I need space to thrive. And putting yourself first can be so much harder said than done. I mean that, and I changed my hair so that's something spicy.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, we the Mars has been in my fourth house, and in Leo, I have had so much inner work that I've been doing with especially with respect to my grandfather. It just feels like my it's in the house of the fourth often associated with the Father. And I was thinking, oh, you know, maybe some stuff with my dad will come up, or something like that, but no. So many memories and dreams and really interesting parallels I've been observing in where I'm at in my life right now, in certain respects and elements of my grandfather's life, and I'm just like, Wow. Was not expecting that. I wasn't very close to my grandfather. I you know, I loved him, I knew him, but it wasn't like, I had a super tight bond with him. So it's been really interesting to see that come up with Mars Retrograde and

Whitney Kranz
Leo. Oh, very cool. I mean, we had so much sad stuff too this month, and I have a sad stellium and so as the planets went through and I mean, currently we've got seven. On, on my Saturn Uranus, and so it's, and that's in my fifth house, so it's been, like, a lot of, a lot of, how am I putting my creativity out in the world, right? I mean, it's, yeah,

Alexandra Blair
basically, just so many clients because of the way that the Saturn Jupiter square is progressing. You know, we talked last month about how that mutable te square slash Grand Cross, depending on your chart, was really targeting Sagittarians this summer. Now it's sort of targeting, targeting Virgos. And I just have so many clients who are, like, feeling so, so stuck, like hopelessly stuck in certain places of their life. And that is part of what I'm so excited about in 2025 is like a picnic basket just shaking out, you know, a blanket, I guess not a basket, but, you know, it's like pulling the tablecloth out from under a table with all these dishes on it. I'm like, things are just gonna change that stuckness, really, I think is going to dissipate. So that's something I'm looking forward to with the progression of this square.

Adam Elenbaas
It'll be like one of those magic tricks where they can pull it out and nothing moves right, right? A

Alexandra Blair
lot of people want the entire table just out of the just move out the trash dumpster. On

Whitney Kranz
the floor. Guys, I shared about that too on social media, just under kind of the Sun square Neptune that it really feels like things are changing, but we don't. We can't exactly put our fingers on yet, just how it's happening. And I think that's because, you know, the the it's the time of the turn of the year as well. And like you mentioned, Alexandra, the Jupiter square is Saturn. So, yeah, interesting, interesting time.

Adam Elenbaas
It's also like in in my experience looking back at the Jupiter Saturn, hard aspects, their conjunction squares and oppositions. It's just hard to grasp the kind of change that you're going through. Yeah, when those two planets are together, because it's so it's so thorough the way that your worldview can change, and various structures and systems and perceptions can start to shift because of life experiences, and when you're in the thick of it, it's just hard to see

Alexandra Blair
it. I've been recommending your video with the journal prompts to everybody, everybody. It was just such a helpful take, and it's really complicated to tease out, especially in real time. It's so big,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, yeah. Well, let's Alexandra went through our grab stories. This one, we have one of our staff sort of collects all of the stories that were submitted through the grabbed series on the website. If you don't know about that, by the way, you can always share a story with us about any of the trends of the month that we cover on the channel, and you can use the hashtag, grab and just tell us your story in the comment section. Just don't share anything you don't mind us sharing again in an episode like this or a storytelling episode, or you can email your story grabbed at Nightlight astrology.com but Alexandra collected some this month that she's going to read for us that you thought were good illustrations of some of the astrology from December. Do you want to share those with us?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, absolutely okay. So starting out strong with a Mercury Retrograde, Mercury rules my third house. The day after Mercury went retrograde, I went to Les Schwab to get new winter tires put on my car. They put on the tires, but they looked really old and dusty. So I asked them, are these really new? And the tire guy reassured me they were brand new. So I went home, I Googled some things, and I learned that the manufacturing date is actually printed on the tire. Turns out my tires are almost four years old, which is practically halfway through their expected lifespan. So I called and complained. They admitted that they sold me old tires, and I'm going back on Saturday to get some real new tires.

Whitney Kranz
Wow. I mean, good for getting smart and looking at like, what I get taken advantage of. I

Adam Elenbaas
love that Mercury retrograde and sad The truth will come out I will, yeah,

Alexandra Blair
oh my gosh, another Mercury Retrograde someone put in this brief story, but essentially this mercury Jupiter opposition with mercury retrograde and Jupiter retrograde squaring this person's natal Mercury Jupiter opposition across the third and the ninth. And they actually got undergrad research funding for the first time after applying many times. So that's kind of a cool thing. Wow,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, especially when it's like a process and you've done it multiple times and then it comes up under transit like that. That makes sense.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, see, Mercury Retrograde is not all bad guys. These are great.

Adam Elenbaas
That's really totally just have to redo things until I get it right.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, the. One is is a classic Mars, classic retrograde story. Mars is stationing today, about to go retrograde. This morning, I had a very real dream that I woke up from seriously considering texting my ex, one whose relationship was four years of toxic nonsense. I even went to grab my phone and look for his number, and they say I slowly woke up in my logical mind, and what I read was all of Adam's messaging about thinking twice before I do something crazy in a retrograde kicked in, and they promptly kibosh that idea and decided not to do it, which is love. Very smart, yeah. I mean, like, we at

Adam Elenbaas
the beginning of the retrograde, we started thinking about getting a dog, and I was like, let's wait until Mercury stations Direct. And we waited all the way until Mercury station direct. And then when I talked to several breeders, then we went and saw the puppies and everything, I was like, Okay, this feels much but I just feel like in the midst of a retrograde, why not take your time? Yeah, if you can, not every situation is like that. But

Alexandra Blair
you know, Adam, I saw that, and I thought bringing like a getting a cane, course, I was a family guard dog is so Mars and cancer coated, I know,

Adam Elenbaas
good. The funny thing is that I I'm pretty sure that the the date that the puppies are due, and then how long they stay with the mom. It's like eight to 12 weeks, or something like so it'll station direct first, huh? It'll be stationing direct, and it might even be back into Leo around where we saw the dogs too, which also, to me, like a Mars Retrograde in Leo that I don't know, somehow that makes sense too. They're very regal, yep, like our dogs anyway. And they're very sweet too. They're not like predator, like people think all the worst things about massive, biggest sweeties in the world. Oh, I'm so excited for

Whitney Kranz
you. I'm such a huge dog person.

Alexandra Blair
So this one Mars, opposite Venus. I love, partial to art myself. So my partner, who I've been having a lot of tension with, recently came home in the mood for arguing. So in order to process my feelings, I went to my canvas and I started painting it out as a meditation. Typically, I do abstract work with rounded edges, but recently, I tried out a style of sharp edges, and it looks really cool to me. So last night, as Mars was opposite Venus getting into its swing, I had the idea to combine my round and sharp styles into one painting. I really love it. And as I worked on smoothing out the edges here, straightening out edges there, coloring it in a happy palette of colors that went well with the hole and placing a boundary edge of black around all of it. It felt like I was really working something out in my relationship and in my Mars Venus at the same time.

Adam Elenbaas
Nice. Love that so

Whitney Kranz
cool. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
that's kind of sweet, huh?

Whitney Kranz
Well, I just love the description too. You know, I think it's really hard to describe art, but that description, plus your beautiful narration, really, really painted it.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my gosh that Venus Mars opposition was nuts. It was right over on my midheaven and my IC and I had a wave of very aggressive emails. And, you know, like, I It's funny because, like, the the, I'd say, 90% of the people who comment on this channel or on my Instagram or whatever are just like, the world's biggest sweethearts, but under certain transits, the the mean ones, like come out of the woodworks and just start sending the worst, shitty emails and comments and whatever. And it's like, there's a lot of stuff going on in the news. When Mars turned retrograde too, and then Venus comes right in, and was like, all these emails demanding that I have a public opinion about all this stuff. I was like, I'm just gonna stay in my lane. I'm an astrologer. You can turn on the news and hear people's opinions about those things, for sure, they'll have opinions about it. So just go there. Yeah, that was my Venus Mars experience. Was it was right in my midheaven, though. So it made sense that it was like, You should say something publicly. And I was like, I'll say I'll say something publicly. No,

Alexandra Blair
you said it in the nicest way possible, Adam, I tried,

Whitney Kranz
you know, we were bound to get a little bit of tension. I mean, just in the aspect, but with Venus conjoining Pluto right before that, and then the full moon, kind of book ending, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I was relieved though that it showed up there and not in, like, my marriage, Venus opposite Mars having, like, oh gosh, or Ashley and I gonna get in a fight or something. Because Mars, Venus tense aspects are, like a Venus Pluto dynamic, you know, I've had them in the past, where it's like, there's some kind of, you know, there's like a showdown, where we have a different idea about something, and it's like a summit has to be held. And it's like, I. Well, let's not do one of those. But it wasn't. It was like everything. It was funny, because what the only thing that came up was Ashley was listening to a podcast that she shared with me, and of course, I had to remind her the transit because she doesn't pay attention to them as much as I do. But it was, it was a podcast about a woman who had gotten out of an, like, an abusive, toxic relationship to a cult leader. And it was a fascinating podcast. And it was like, she was like, listening to it and showing it to me as Mars was opposite Venus. And I was like, Oh, look at that.

Alexandra Blair
Wow. Yeah, that's so interesting. Yeah. She was like,

Adam Elenbaas
it was, it was, uh, it was like, uh, you know someone who had been in one of those, like, super, super deep south evangelical Christian communities or something. I think it was on one of the maybe it was, we can do hard things. I don't remember. It's one of her podcasts, especially so we ended up listening to it together. It was really

Alexandra Blair
fascinating. Yeah, on along those lines, I think the last grab that I have is Venus conjunct Pluto and Aquarius. This person says, Hey, just wanted to share my Venus Pluto and Aquarius story. This transit is happening in my sixth house conjunct my natal Uranus squaring in ninth house, Venus. I just finished my pistol permit class. I never thought of myself as someone who would own or use firearms, but I've been really feeling called to do it as a form of self defense. This experience has me feeling like a fish of water. Pun intended, because I'm a Pisces son. But I'm also going through it with my partner, who has way more experience here than I do, and I'm really glad to have someone to lean on for support while I learn how to handle this new Pluto esque tool. Which, which transit was that? Again? Yeah, Venus, Pluto conjunction and Aquarius.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my gosh, right. And, wow, that's, that's, that's, that's totally on target, right there, yeah, oh,

Whitney Kranz
I like the punny.

Unknown Speaker
It's natural.

Adam Elenbaas
On that note, thank you everybody for sharing your stories with us, and for making every month really memorable. With some of these stories, they really do help. So if you ever have one that you'd like to share with us and be featured on the show, on one of our episodes, grabbed the hashtag. Use the hashtag. Grabbed or email us. Grabbed at Nightlight astrology.com we use that word because one of the names for the planets were Graha in Indian astrology, which means grabber or to be grabbed or grasped or seized, as in the gods have a way of seizing us, and our work in astrology is to be conscious of those times when that happens, so that we can laugh, learn, live and reflect with the planets, rather than Being just kind of unconsciously puppeteered, which does happen when we're not, like, trying to stay conscious, and that's really what this is all about. So on that note, let's turn our attention to the astrology of January. We have a bunch of good transits to talk about this month, and we're going to start with, I'm going to put the real time clock up, and we're going to start here on January 1, the first little part of this month, the second through the sixth we have called Mars Retrograde stress test. This is Alexandra's smashing title. I love it, and it really the reason that we're calling it this is because in these first six days of the month, Mars will oppose Pluto in its retrograde. That happens on January 2, and then on this by the sixth, Mars will retrograde back into cancer, the sign of its fall, where we experience Mars earlier in the autumn, if you're in the northern hemisphere, spring if you're in the Southern Hemisphere, we already experienced Mars Direct through cancer. Now it's retrograding back into cancer. It's going to stay for quite some time. So this early part of the month, a big piece of this early part is all about Mars. Another thing that happens during this little period of time we're going to mention during this portion of the show is Venus's entrance into Pisces, where she is exalted. That's going to help a little bit, because having a really well dignified Venus can can bring maybe a little bit of ease or flow into a time that is definitely very marzy. So what do we want to say about these couple of transits? I'm going to let you guys lead off here, maybe starting with Mars opposite Pluto. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I'm, I'm happy to lead us off, you know, Mars opposite Pluto to me, um, in this moment, you know, think about it. We just ended the month with the New Moon in Capricorn. This was like a peak, and right where we know the work that's in front of us, and to me, this asks, What are we ready to sacrifice? I mean, powerful new year's resolutions are dripping all over this transit. Obviously, there's a lot of power behind Mars Pluto. So when we talked about Mars Pluto the first time around a couple months ago, you know, we talked a lot about the savagery, the cathartic qualities, the primal and ruthless nature, right? And there is still all of that, right? That's why it's a stress test. But the difference with this one is that across the Leo Aquarius axis, we're looking a lot more at the dichotomy of the self versus collective, and you know, society? Oh, I've always wanted

Alexandra Blair
to, yeah, Adam, do you care to comment on society?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, just kidding.

Whitney Kranz
I think Adam, you should comment, because I need to know where, where did the whole society outrage come from? Is that from your show? Or is it from like, like? Is it? Does it reference something?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, no, it was a I did it on my show because I there's certain words that when you repeat them, you know, three times a week when you're making horoscopes, eventually you just start hating yourself. So I'm like, God, I just, you know, so every in it, it's like searching for another word, and then when I run back into it, you know, it's kind of like society, but, but actually, it comes from a movie which is called into the wild, and there's a character in the movie, a young man who's like, against society, and going out into the wild, and he meets up with Vince Vaughn in a bar in, like, Alaska or something, yeah, and they're, and they're, they're getting hammered together, and he's complaining about society, and they're, they're high too. I think they smoked a joint. And then they both just start slamming their fists on the table, going, society, man, society. And it's one, it's one of my favorite funny moments in, you know, one of my favorite movies. And so occasionally, you know, when I feel that word being said, I'm like, Yeah, society, I could do that movie, and it's fine, because a lot of people, when I started doing it, a lot of people thought it a lot of people thought it was funny and didn't know the background of that movie. And then a lot of people were like, Oh, I love that movie, so now it's just become a legend on the channel. Oh,

Whitney Kranz
my God, thank you for telling this story, because I was one of those people like, Where does this come from? I love it. Just to wrap up my little piece on society, I think that where we can see the gold in this transit, which is undoubtedly tough, right, is that I think Mars opposing Pluto here is us mustering the bravery, like the bravery that we need for a big action or a big change, whatever we've got cooking in our own lives. On the flip side, it could very well show us where we are not brave, where we are vulnerable. And so I guess that would probably lead us right into the Mars retrograding into cancer, right? That vulnerability, um, but I'm curious to know what you guys have to say about Mars opposing Pluto this time my daughter, summer.

Alexandra Blair
Hey, summer. Hold on, hey friends, we got I

Adam Elenbaas
guess someone's at the door, and summer's home sick from school today, so I'm gonna go get the door. You guys keep going on Mars, but I'll be right back. I love it. We'll jam

Whitney Kranz
definitely, okay. But I'm also really excited that we got a summer cameo. I feel like that's a rare moment. No,

Alexandra Blair
it's so sweet. I actually think there's something that's actually kind of really tied into some of my larger thoughts about Pluto and Aquarius and what it means to have a living generation undergoing a Pluto opposition, like the Pluto and Leo generation. I think the way that we think about what we want from people like Adam public figures and, you know, other, all other sorts of public figures, but has just been changing so dramatically, and we're seeing it play out in real time. Lots I could say about that. I don't feel like it, but this transit really has me thinking, you know, I talked last time about like, the ambition and the like, Icarus quality of Mars and Leo and the yearning and the fighting and the leadership and the ambition and the cost of that ambition, and so that myth of Icarus really comes up for me around this. But I think when you boil it down to its parts, for me, a lot of this Mars Pluto looks like it's really about this. Social the dynamic and the social cost of visibility, or kind of invisibility, like I'm thinking about statues of formerly esteemed people being torn down by those angry crowds. Like that's kind of where I'm going with that. Or something that was coming up to me was this image of the crowd crush, which is such a misunderstood phenomenon, but it's essentially when the undulation and the movement of a crowd becomes such that I think people think about that as like trampling. But what the effect is actually, is that the choreography of that motion compresses individuals so tight that you struggle to breathe. You don't you can't take up your own individual space anymore, and you don't have that space in the motion of the crowd. So, you know, that's like a dark thing. And I do think, in a mundane way, this transit is a little mean, natally, not so much. But I just think, like there's some connotations about the cost of our ambitions and our individuality and the ways in which we are praised for that, or also, kind of like, whack a mole bonked back down into the crowd for standing out.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a great way of putting it. Sorry about that. We had a, I guess there was, there was someone that was a delivery person here, and my, my daughter, wisely, is, you know, don't answer the door if, someone comes smart, really smart of her. So she came and got me, and I had to sign for something.

Whitney Kranz
Hopefully it was a holiday gift, yeah, and

Adam Elenbaas
afterwards it was cute. She goes, I'm really sorry to have interrupted your recording, daddy. I said, it's okay. It's no big deal. Thank you for coming and getting me makes it more special, I know well, so one of the things that comes up for me is also the the the way in which, when I think about Mars, in in Leo, I Think about what kinds of heroes and villains we lionize like it's not surprising to me that under a Mars Retrograde, we also had a wicked come out, you know, through the theaters obviously, yeah, there's just this, there's this way in which we look at anti heroes and villains who might be heroes, heroes who might be villains, and there's some reversal of what who and what we consider to be strong or powerful. And there's also this, really, the revenge can sink its claws into our psyche. We can, yeah, we can. We can celebrate things that are like, like, mavericks and renegades and rebels. And then it can go too far. I think back also with the French and American Revolutions and the the, you know, the, what was his name? Was it Robespierre? I can't remember his name, but it was, was the guy who was, like, you know, a hero, and then he became a tyrant. There's that, like, that potential for things that are heroic to become villainous, and things that are villainous to be heroic, and conversations and debates about those things that I've already noticed happening and the way we can get seized also into looking at people as categories rather than individuals, too. That's a big one where the crowd can squash the nature of the individual, because there's something that we identify about a person collectively. Athletes, for example, yeah, that are vilified because they belong to a team that's won a lot, or something, you know, the shut up and dribble? Yeah? Yeah, exactly that. So all of those things are really interesting. I also look at Mars opposite Pluto as a point of a point of transformation, really, where you know something that you're frustrated by can become the motivation to make a change, and also something that you're frustrated by. Suddenly you realize that, okay, for example, if you're in the process of training and you find the training very grueling and difficult and taxing, and then all of a sudden you hit a breakthrough, and you go, Oh my God, it's working like something like that too. Comes to my mind. I know that during the first opposition between these two, I changed, implemented the new plan I was telling you guys about a couple months ago, with respect to how I train, I'm fully anticipating that some of my frustrations, which are really psychological, not physical, with the plan, are probably going to hit another edge under this one. I wouldn't be surprised at all, but I know. I know. I now know, because I've tracked out the cycle. This is Part I have to stick with this. This is part of a process. Let my frustration be a positive part of that process that I work with and grapple with and work through, rather than react, overreact to or get impulsive around.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think it's interesting for you. Adam it like station before it hits your chart ruler. So it's almost like, go back, pick up, pick up stuff, come back and come back through. It's doing the same for me. I have, like, some planets in Leo, so it's. Like, I don't get that Mars action back until kind of like, April. And I think what you're talking about about mavericks and, oh gosh, this transit is setting us up for Saturn and Aries. It's setting the mood. It really is. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
good, good point. And it's interesting because we have in March. We're going to have the Venus retrograde in Aries, the Mercury Retrograde in Aries. We'll have a solar eclipse in Aries and Neptune entering Aries, all in one month,

Alexandra Blair
we're gonna have a three hour show, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
you know. And what's crazy about that is, like just, just kind of jumping forward here a little bit, if you look at that, well, by the beginning of April, we're then coming into the orb of Mars hitting Pluto again. I mean, it's, it's starting to get by early April, it's like Mars is about to get into Leo again. So that you're right, they are connected. I think you're totally spot on there.

Whitney Kranz
So interesting. Can I draw one more parallel, as we're talking about Mars, retrograde, Maverick, Hero or villain? I mean, what about the I can't pronounce his last name, Luigi, the person who shot the United Healthcare CEO like talk about this. Villain who is being called a hero in some circles. I think it's so interesting that we're talking about this now, when in the time we're in right now, that basically just occurred, right? Yeah, very interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
That was the one? Well, Venus was opposite Mars, yeah, across my midheaven that I I was getting so many angry emails being like, Why aren't you saying something about the astrology of this young man who did this thing? And I was like, I'm I, I'm not going to comment. I'm just like, not, not that. I can't see the astrology around it, but I can see the astrology around it in many different reactions that people are having. And I'm more interested in that than I am in presenting my own opinion. You know, crowd crush, yeah, well, exactly. And that's, that's the thing is that, like, if you look at it from the standpoint of the crowd crush, you have a person who is murdered, who's being like, the celebration of that murder has to do with the category that the person belonged to healthcare insurance, right? And that's understandable. It's understandable that people have a lot of anger and rage toward insurance companies, right? And yet, there's something very in like dehumanizing about the way that he's put into a category not seen as a person who's murdered, right? So it can go you can go, you can look at it in many different directions. Is the point from the standpoint of the archetypes and, and also choosing to lionize a renegade is very Mars Retrograde, right, right? And, and also maybe being seduced by a revenge narrative and sympathizing with a villain who represents something of your of our own anger toward institutions that we feel have suppressed and harmed the all of it. So it was just like, wow, the astrology couldn't be any more spot on with what's happening, but I see it not so much from the standpoint of what ought to happen or what is the right or wrong reaction to the situation, and more that every every different way that I've seen people reacting and responding is a reflection of the jewel of the archetypal combination. It's just that it's right there, you know, and it's all very human to have all these different reactions. Facts,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, I felt very tied into the Saturn Jupiter square and how the conversations we had four years ago are quite different. The people that whose names are being painted and whose portraits are being painted in graffiti murals like, yeah, how much has changed in those four years? I don't think I want to step in it anymore.

Adam Elenbaas
It's a great point. And again, like what, I think that what's it for me, as an astrologer who's really here to facilitate a meaningful connection to a sacred Cosmos, is not so much to tell people how to think or what is the moral or immoral way to think, or what is the pure, impure way to think or feel or respond. It's more to say, notice the archetypal, notice that we're so easily just right in the midst of the archetype, and we think sometimes that we're not, you know what I mean, and it's just that recognition that can really give us more reflective space and allow us flexibility and compassion for people whose views or experiences of such events may be different from our own. And that's really what I'm mostly interested in.

Alexandra Blair
This kind of like dovetails nicely just to touch on Mars when it goes into cancer, which we haven't kind of said explicitly, but once Mars moves into cancer, we're really going to have to start tracking the moon. And if you are interested in tracking astrology daily, but you can't figure out a good time to do it. I feel like this is the perfect time to do it. It's like six ish weeks from January, 6 through February, 23 everything Mars does will be kind of governed by the moon and reflected by the moon Adam. You talk about the moon as a weaver, amazing analogy, and we see that a few times later in the month. But there's it also teaches us something interesting about dignity, because there are times when, say, Mars and the Moon have mutual reception, but there's a real question of, like, does this make it nicer? Question mark, because the core of dignity is that it actually just empowers each planet to, sort of, like, accomplish their agenda more seamlessly. Does that make it nicer? Does that make it more difficult? It's going to be a mixed bag. Natalie, I think, for people, and I do think there's an optimism to it, though, that I'm seeing. I couldn't see it when we talked about it first, when Mars was first in cancer. But for a lot of clients and people I've talked to, there's this like emergent sense of ferocity and desperation and excavation, like fingers in the dirt, digging trying for like just to find the thing that they are wanting. For some clients, it's to feel alive this way, or to feel invigorated this way, or a sense of self or empowerment. But there's like a real for feral quality to this Mars Retrograde that I think actually is quite optimistic. After all, what do

Adam Elenbaas
you want to say? Anything? Well,

Whitney Kranz
I just love when Alexandra talks about optimism. I'm like, what? Yeah, no, I um, I think what, really, what? What I'm thinking about with Mars, retrograding back into cancer is the wounds that have been opened. How are we healing them? So I'm right there with you on the optimistic side of it. And I think anytime we experience something again for the first time, we've learned the first time around, right? So we're taking our lessons and we're working through them, um, you know, it's not to say it might not be uncomfortable, right? I think when Mars dials back the heat and we turn up the emotion and the sensitivity, it's bound to get a little bit uncomfortable, right? But so is all of our work.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. I know that one of the things that I I suspect will come back will be a strong connection to things that are familial and ancestral, domestic, that sensitive, sweet home space of cancer. I saw a concentration of clients and and students, obviously, in our in our roots and spheres, monthly Moon circle, which shameless plug, by the way, if you want to track the moon cycles, you know, come join us for the moon circle starts in January. 2. You can get that through the Kickstarter as well. A number of women dealing with, you know, issues with their menstrual cycles or just that kind of Cancerian space, had a few clients that were in the process of mastectomy or of hormone therapy, or someone who's transitioning, right? So, just the the that just kind of delicate space, right? Um, where rhythms in the body which are so lunar. I mean, one of the reasons that the moon is connected to the body in ancient astrology is because the body is seen as, um, a kind of ecological system that moves in rhythms and patterns and cycles. And the moon was the the planet most closely related to the ebbs and flows of fortune and life in biological, embodied life, and we sing it. Think of the sign of cancer. It's called the gateway of mankind, and the sign through which the sun starts to descend in its yearly path down toward the southern horizon. And that was seen as a descent of Spirit coming down into matter. And so the embodiment of spirit in the material world was considered lunar, which is why the Moon ruled over the realm of the material and matter and Mater and mother all share the same roots etymologically, and so we have a connection with this sign and a very vulnerable place which is the ground of our body, the ground of our biological existence. And for most of us, that's connected also to a feeling of safety regulation, emotionally and physically at homeness. And what I see as the benefit of this transit, along with Alexandra's optimism and Whitney's cautious advice, is that the promise of this is that if there needs to be some kind of adjustment to rhythms and regulations emotionally. Physically, environmentally, this, this is a transit that can create an awareness around that, and then the action that Mars brings to to change, so change something so that you feel safer. You know, I thought this was remarkable. So Mars was retrograde in cancer, and there was a story that came into my awareness through someone of someone who dealt with a situation of attempted burglary, and then immediately one of the questions that they had was whether they should own a gun, or whether they should have a guard dog or or a guardian breed dog or whatever. And I just thought that's So Mars in Cancer that the question would come up around my safety that's a pretty extreme example. I only heard of one, you know, pretty extreme example like that during the Mars and cancer period. But the point is just that an opportunity to assess what it means to feel safe, comfortable, rhythmic, healthy, connected, and, by extension, how some of those same questions may come up within a broader family constellation or community or village. Constellation Cancer kind of connects us to village life, family life as well. So I think the benefit would be, here's what needs to change so that you can feel safer, happier, smoother, more rhythmic. But as to what Whitney was saying too, like the fact that Mars and cancer can, kind of it can. It's like the waters are troubled a little bit. And that part, it might be part of how we become aware of what needs to change. So I see those as some of like the the light and dark side of the transit, but it's certainly like, once it's back into cancer, it's going to be a distinctly different mood from

Alexandra Blair
Leo. Yeah, I think I mentioned at the beginning, but no planet creates a wider range of experiences, and, like, the lives of my clients. It's just, if you're interested in that, I would recommend going back and looking at previous Mars Retrogrades. Obviously, as Whitney mentioned, I put out a worksheet. It tracks all the Mars Retrogrades through 1960 it's free and it's just a Google Doc. But even if you just do it on your own, and you like look into the previous ones, you can really start to get a sense of some patterns and some stuff emerging. So it might give you a heads up, because this is one of those transits that just dramatically impacts people very differently. For some people, catastrophic. For some people, really good and everywhere in between. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
it is true that, like for some people, Mars is going to initiate, incentivize, motivate. Like, it really moves shit, and for many people that will be experienced as like, like, I still remember like, I told you guys last time we were talking about this, you know, the Mars Retrograde that was in Gemini, which happens to be my home. Mars sign was what catalyzed a huge shift in my life with respect to my health journey, my, you know, weightlifting regimen, like everything, that was one of the most positive shifts in my life, that was a Mars Retrograde. So, you know, just goes to what you're saying, and also, like, watch the Moon. I think that's the great piece of advice. Is that this retrograde is going to be a little different every day depending on what the moon is doing. So big, big lunar days become important. On that note, should we transition into full moon energies totally let's do it all right. Well, we're gonna go to the full moon in cancer on the 13th, but two quick transits to talk about on the 12th and 13th, right before the full moon, we have two interesting trines. The first is going to be Mars, trining, Neptune. Now, we had this before, right earlier. I think it was, what was it, September, October. But this, this transit connecting Mars and Neptune can be, in my experience, sort of heroic, and it can be emotionally charismatic. It's, you know, a nice a Trine is generally very supportive. A Mars Retrograde trining Neptune could be the motivation to revisit something or to look at something that you've been avoiding, and the emotional wherewithal to say, You know what? I can do this. I can look at this. I can I can explore something or go into something that's been overwhelming for me in the past, and maybe find some way of dealing with it. It might also be just an outpouring or out or flowing of emotional energy that's healing and somehow supportive and motivating. Those are some of the positive things that I think about with this. One you guys want to add a few more onto this, onto this transit. 100%

Whitney Kranz
I'm getting, I'm getting sacrifice with this one. It feels to me like a sacrifice for spirit and what came up when I thought about what happens when Neptune Trine Mars was actually Joan of arcs, vision. From God, right? And that was an act to save her own country. And I see that kind of coming up again later in the month, but I'll hold the drama there. I just wanted to add that beyond the kind of typical, like slicing through the fog or burning off the fog, right? I think there's even something more profound here. And we talk about spirit when we talk about Neptune, right? And I've experienced that myself under Neptune transits, really poignant downloads, and I think we have potential here with with this helpful Trine, like you mentioned in Pisces and Cancer, water signs, right? So that's, that's what I have to add. Alexandra, what? What are you thinking? Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
I'm similarly sort of feeling optimistic about this one. I love that the moon is trining Venus well on this day, and I think a little bit about Mars's functionality of like cutting through, and Neptune's one of Neptune's functionalities of like dissolving. And so this feels like maybe a surging, emerging sense of optimism and clarity that's sort of buffeted by that moon Venus aspect, Venus Saturn, which kind of perfects later applying to so it's kind of like the the fog and the water, and it's like, oh, seeing the thing. It was reminding you of, like scenes in a video game or a movie where you're like, scuba diving, and it's like, all obscured, and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, there it is. That's the thing I need. And you kind of can head that way.

Adam Elenbaas
It's not a shark, it's a treasure

Whitney Kranz
chest. Yes, let's let's hope so. The other one I got was like a, like a, like a ship at sea, right? And the sirens call, so don't get too entranced by the sirens call.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, I feel like there's a lot of charisma and a kind of big emotional energy around the full moon because of that Mars Trine Neptune the full moon comes through on the 13th, on the same day that the sun is trine to Uranus. So we get Mars Trine Neptune on the 12th, Sun trine Uranus on the 13th, with the full moon in cancer on the 13th, also sex tiling Uranus and basically in applying conjunction with that Mars Neptune dynamic, which is still just separating. When I look at that together, I go, okay, there. This is a very dynamic full moon that has this kind of, you know, that, that kind of Uranian sense of I'm going to do things differently, or I'm going to seize an opportunity to kind of choose a radically different path or an alternative or kind of a little revolutionary energy, and then it's fueled by the kind of idealism and emotional vigor and charisma of the full moon and the Mars Neptune dynamic. So it's a very emotionally potent and I just can't help but wonder if this isn't sort of like one of the bigger one of the bigger kind of, what do you call it? Like an accent or highlight over the Mars Retrograde period itself? It's like, this is a big moment for Mars is retrograde. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
the, you know, Mars Moon is also trining Neptune, and Neptune is sextile in the sun. So it's like this bow tie of support that's going on and on this day, or really, on the 12th of January, Mars will be the closest to Earth it ever gets in its cycle. It will be just about half the distance it normally is, which is so close. So first of all, definitely go outside. I use this awesome map called Sky View light. Yeah, it's called Sky View light. It's free. You just go outside and it does it augmented reality, so you can see what stars you're looking at. It's amazing. Highly recommend. This is one of those opportunities, I think, where the moon is like being the weaver. The luminaries are sort of like at odds with Mars, but they're both in these supportive aspects. And Whitney was talking about this protective quality of water. That's totally what I was thinking of. This being a huge moment in the retrograde, maybe even like the energetic peak, because that's how we normally think of a full moon. Some people do. But this was get this was reminding me of in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, when Ichabod Crane is, like, in his mind, he's like, if I can just go across that bridge, go across the stream, the Headless Horseman can't cross the running water. And that's sort of like an adage about spirits, like, they can't cross running water. And so I was thinking about that protective nature of water, or, like, water that's a moat, like we talk about. I. Lord of the Rings a lot on this program. So, you know, thinking about the Battle of Helms Deep, which in the books, like there was a moat and a dike. And so it's like they they were treated back within the safety of those water features that were going to give them safety. And so I was really feeling about that safety, feeling of water, or the questions, anyway, not always safety, but maybe questioning and feeling unsafe and trying to find and locate your protection.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, love that. It's, it really, it feels like a pretty auspicious time, like it's a, it's, there's, there's a lot of poignancy. And when, whenever there's poignancy, I don't think of everything being totally easy, like Mars Retrograde. The, you know, a full moon is a very big, energetic, kind of vigorous moment, and Mars Retrograde is in the mix of it. But I do feel like it's an effective moment. It's a it's supported. And then a little extra testimony to that. To that effect, you look at the next day, January 14, and the benefics are coming together in a square. You know, whenever the benefics are together in squares or oppositions, it's not nearly as challenging as just about any other type of athlete. Anytime the benefics connect, it's there's usually some good vibes. So I like that Venus and Jupiter are connecting right after the full moon. That feels that feels good, that feels like some things are conspiring on both practical levels and sort of broader cosmic levels to affirm, confirm support. So I love that transit and then this. But this goes to what we were just saying as well, which is it's still a very dynamic time, because then we have on the 15th, right after the full moon, of course, then we have the sun opposite Mars. And let me just push this forward one day, here we go. So January 15. It's right around here. So this is the 15th. It's on the 15th. You're just a few hours short, but there it is, the sun opposing the sun opposing Mars. One of the ways that I think about the opposition, which is always happening right during the middle of Mars's retrograde, is that this is an opportunity for clear differentiations to be made. And also, when there are clear differentiations, sometimes that can mean separation of things that have been joined, but maybe we understand that they need to be separated or differentiated somehow. But then the other thing that's there is sometimes things that we have been that we have separated, or that we've been polarized by, when you can see them really clearly, sometimes there's a unique opportunity for synthesis. I find that's the case in almost all oppositions, that oppositions can clearly distinguish and differentiate, which sometimes we need. Like, if my identity is overly if I'm overly identified with something in my life, like my job, it helps to get some space so that I go, I'm not my job. I have a job, you know. And similarly, oppositions like this can create a clear sense of what is mine, what is not mine, what is me, what isn't me, or what my values are and what they aren't and that may create some divisions or separations, and things can get amplified around that. But then, on the other hand, wherever a clear understanding of oppositions exist, sometimes there will also exist an opportunity for synthesis, mediation, resolution, because opposites have a secret way in which they can lead to union or conjunction. There the two are a part of each other. So I think this is a really important moment within the over overall arc of the Mars Retrograde story. I love that it's coming around all these full moon energies that feature trines, that feature connections between the benefics. It it feels like things are conspiring for a healthy moment of clear distinction differentiation, and that even if it's difficult, will be the right thing somehow. But those are just some, some of my impressions. What do you guys think? Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I absolutely agree with everything you both have said throughout this entire little Full Moon portion. These several transits are absolutely all weave together, and I think we're going to feel them kind of in that jumble, right? And it's just as you said, this moment feels like a helpful reorientation like and reflection as well of how far we've come, and with that, we have this emotional grounding that supports our work. And you know, if we take it back to Joan of Arc, and this vision from spirit, right? This is where that vision integrates into our goal, specifically with the sun opposing Mars. And so I appreciate Adam that you talk about. The constructiveness that can come even from a hard aspect, like an opposition, you know? And I think that's echoed with the Venus square to Jupiter too. Yes, it's a square. It's a hard aspect, but in fact, it is helping us get somewhere by bolstering this attitude and activity, right? So that's I'm excited about this. And I think that the month just January, gets better as it goes along, in my opinion.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I mean also the thing that comes to mind, like a cap Sun opposite Mars and cancer the caps on is like, there's one way up the mountain, and it's decline, get your stick, you know. And the Mars in Cancer might be like, there's another way up, and it's with compassion and love and caring people on stretchers who can't walk. And I feel like the question of, you know, Capricorns way of thinking and doing things might be pitted against a more, a more sensitive approach that is challenging Capricorns way of thinking too, a can of, kind of an argument between, like, a patriarch and a matriarch, who are both good people. Do you know what I mean? Like you'd imagine that you have the good version of whatever a patriarch looks like, the good version of whatever a matriarch looks like, and they're having a council dinner together, discussing how to deal with a problematic person in the village. That conversation is interesting. With this, if you look at it from that standpoint, I just feel like this could lead to a compromise of how the masculine and feminine qualities, which I really see both signs are feminine, but sun and Mars together have a kind of masculine quality. So I feel like you could look at the conversation as one that has to do with the yin and yang of a situation and how to bring those needs and dimensions of action together.

Alexandra Blair
Gosh, I was just watching the movie Moana last night with my son, which I had never seen before. And it's about a young girl I know she wants to go out into the ocean, like, that's that Mars in Cancer, right there being like, I have this dream, I have these ambitions. I have these goals to go past the reef. And her dad's like, No, you're going to be the leader of this tribe someday, and you need to put your rock on top of the mountain. And ends up continually finding herself wanting to go out into the ocean. So that's spot on. Adam,

Adam Elenbaas
well, and if you the second one was pretty good, I like the first one better, but we did go and see that as a family after Thanksgiving, and the adventure continues. And like, I just, I, you know, I live with, like, I have some friends who are in animation, and I live with what feels to me at times, like really cliched storytelling. Like, how many times you're gonna have a main character in a Disney Yeah, start off with one of their parents dead or something, right? So many things like that, but, but I will say that there are some some Disney movies that have been really well done. The storytelling I really love, and Moana is definitely one of them. It's

Alexandra Blair
been really sweet, because when I was young, my dad was very into art and culture. I am not. You know, I joked last month about being the reference queen? No, my dad was the reference queen. Okay, so when I was old enough, you know, meaning 12, he was like, sit down. Let's watch the godfather. Like, I think the only Disney movie I ever watched was Old Yeller. That was his idea of the Disney movie. So part of this Mars Retrograde for me has certainly been part of part of it has been carving out my identity as mom and what that means and who I am now that I'm a mom, because I have the cancer moon and going back and watching these movies, and I've never seen any of them, not any of the classic ones, not any of the new ones. And I'm just crying every night with my son, like every night we sit down to watch this. I'm just crying new and, yeah, have you seen Mary Poppins yet. I don't think I've ever seen a girl. I have so many classes.

Adam Elenbaas
Sincerely, the original Mary Poppins, the Mary Poppins returns, is good too, but the original Mary Poppins, that has to be one of my favorite Disney movies of all time. So good.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, let me know in the comments, like what I need to do. I'm very new to this, but it's really healing my like inner child to be seeing him get excited about this stuff. It's actually so sweet. Well,

Adam Elenbaas
at some point I feel like you probably have seen like, have you seen like, the Miyazaki movies? Like, Spirited Away and, okay, the all of the Miyazaki movies, one for a little one would be like, Ponyo, okay, o, n, y, O, it's about a little fish. It's kind of almost like a little mermaid story. It's really all of Miyazaki anime films are awesome for kids imaginations, but My Neighbor Totoro, that's like one of the best movies of all time. Okay, okay. Anyway, I'm taking all right. Let's go on to Venus, conjoined Saturn, speaking of the little mer. Mermaid this couldn't be like more of a classic. The classic mermaid tail is a little dark. It is, by the way, but yeah, so Venus conjoins Saturn in the sign of the fish on January 19, and just a couple days after that, on the 21st these are mid month transits. I put that little graphic up just a second ago. Mid month transits, 18th, Venus conjoins Saturn, 21st Sun conjoins Pluto. Those are heavy hitters coming back to back within just a couple of days. Venus conjoins. Venus conjoins Saturn, while Venus is exalted in Pisces, I will say, is not the worst thing in the world. There's a quality to the Venus Saturn conjunction in Pisces, where Venus is exalted where there's like a almost like a high romance quality, because you have to have just a little bit of the bitterness of Saturn with the exalted romantic qualities of Venus to get to some of the most refined senses of like beauty and art and poetry and music and sensuality. And so I think that I don't, I'm not super worried about this Venus Saturn dynamic, although, of course, challenges in relationships, or hitting a roadblock with the lover, or like all the classic Venus Saturn stuff could come up. But Venus exalted here, to me, feels like we could also be dealing with, like high drama, but also like some some high romance.

Whitney Kranz
Okay, listen, so after Venus squares Jupiter, this is like Venus, she's getting to work, right? And so we're, I again, the period of integration, right? But look at this. We have Saturn and Venus, and we also have Neptune in Pisces. And Neptune is trining Mars. And so with all of this loosely configured, it definitely feels you've said the romantic qualities Adam and yeah, I we've got some star cross lovers vibes happening with under this configuration, for sure. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
it was the, I believe it was the original, not the original, the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet that was being filmed. It was either being made, or it came out when Saturn was in Pisces they were in production, or it actually came out when Saturn was in, but I can't remember which, but anyway, I thought that was really fascinating. Avatar

Alexandra Blair
did too, and maybe Titanic, like, maybe, maybe I'm off on those things. But no, maybe I'm not. I'm thinking of this as, like, like Venus and Saturn is like conjuring up like a beautiful ballet and in Pisces in my head, or like the imagery of the rose encased in ice, or like the oyster in a pearl situation. Like, it's really bringing up these beautiful images. I think it's actually so sweet. And there's something about this that also is tying in the moon as the weaver, because the moon at the exact moment of this transit is in Virgo, uh, opposite, but it's, you know, Virgo is ruled by Mercury. Mercury's in a trine to the moon. So it's kind of like, there's just a really interesting Moon weaving happening here as well. But I think the Venus Saturn, it's like core sitting. It's just something like really beautiful and delicate but rigid about about this that I think is really nice. That's

Adam Elenbaas
interesting. Because the thing, the other Venus Saturn thing that comes to my mind in Pisces would be, you know, other a celebrity that had the Venus Saturn conjunction in Pisces was Kurt Cobain and his, it was in his seventh house of marriage. And of course, you know, heroin addiction came in through the marriage and played a role in his downfall and so forth. Then I think of that, and I think of a movie like Black Swan. Did you ever see that movie? Oh, yeah, ballet, right. And it's like, where that level of perfection and idealism around grace, beauty, art had, like, this maniacal side where there's eating disorders and there's, you know, that movie was so, oh God, it was. That was a hard one, like, I'm not like saying that it'll be as dark as that, but the potential isn't you mentioned the Moon in Virgo, the moon will as these two planets are separating, Moon goes into Libra, where Saturn is exalted and Venus rules. So, yeah, I feel like the classical form of music comes to mind right, where there's a structure and there's a rigidity, or the ice and the rose you mentioned, and there's some really interesting themes that come around, um, you know, like even Beauty and the Beast is, can be very Venus, Saturn, with respect to, yeah, the, you know, like the the claws, even the thorns on a rose. And I believe in Beauty and the Beast in the Disney movie, anyway, there was a rose that was like falling apart, and she had to do, remember that, yeah,

Whitney Kranz
encased in glass. Like your eyes. Last

Alexandra Blair
thing, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I think interesting, something

Alexandra Blair
to know, and I did just look it up, and neither Titanic nor avatar, was released with Saturn, ignore me, but

Whitney Kranz
sucking yourself,

Alexandra Blair
not always, but this Venus, Saturn thing, this dance between the two of them is going to be going on for literally the entire month of April, because she turns retrograde in March, as Saturn is direct. And so they kind of like just pass each other. Venus gets to 24 Pisces, and Saturn, at that point is at 25 Pisces. So they are dancing with one another in the really beautiful way, all the way through until May, basically, when Saturn and Venus kind of both head out. So if

Adam Elenbaas
we track this forward, just to show you what Alexandra is talking about, thank you. They're going to come Venus goes retrograde in March, and then in April comes into the end of March comes back into Pisces, conjoins, Saturn stations, turns retrograde in a basically a conjunction with Saturn, goes forward across Saturn again by the end of April, and then both go back into Aries. So, you know, yeah, that's really beautiful, yeah. And it's a dance that starts right now. That's and that's the ballet.

Unknown Speaker
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Alexandra Blair
think it's a beautiful dance. It's really beautiful to me. I think that those two are doing something, something sweet together that then, you know, gets weird because they're both not happy in Aries. But for now, it's really sweet. Well, one of

Adam Elenbaas
the things that I also think about is the fact that during this time, we're also getting, let me just some, let me get my everything back up on the screen here. Okay, so one thing that's also taking place right after they conjoin, like, you know, here we go. I have it as the the mean nodes by the end of January, change signs into Virgo and Pisces. We now have a long period of time in which Venus is going to do her dance with the North Node in Pisces and in March. One of the things that's really interesting that happens is we get this eclipse that comes through in Virgo. So the Eclipse while Venus is retrograde, heading back to Pisces on March 13, just a couple weeks before all of that happens, we also have an eclipse in the polar opposite sign of virgo. One of the things that I would connect to this is that Venus represented daughters and young young women within the context of a family. You could identify as Venus in a chart, if it was necessary, a horary chart or something like that. Venus could represent a sister or a particular female friend or something like that. And I'm not saying it's limited at all to daughters or young women, but Virgo is quite literally the image of a young woman as a constellation, a young girl, sometimes with a bird on her shoulder or with angel wings. In some of the constellational art, Venus, Saturn, is a hard standard for any earthly human girl to live up to, and I would also wonder about the one of the things that I've noticed about the polarity between Venus and Virgo will be about approximating heavenly or divine forms of Aphrodite while also living with earthly reality. I have a body. I'm limited, I'm mortal, I'm I have, you know I have beauty marks, do you know you know what I mean? Like I'm, yeah, I'm an imperfect person that has to live with flaws and that can be excruciating. And one of the one of the tensions that we often explore when Venus is in Virgo will be the challenge to carry, to carry that sense of imperfection and to live with it as a beautiful thing, not a bad thing. So I wonder about some of those tensions coming across with Venus Saturn too, given that the nodes are shifting and we've got this past karma trying to resolve itself in the sign of virgo at the same time.

Whitney Kranz
Wow, Adam, I'm like having a physical reaction to what you just said about the perfection and the related to the full moon eclipse in Virgo, it just so happens that may have been a personal reading, because that Eclipse takes place on my moon.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, wow. Okay, yeah, totally right. It

Alexandra Blair
takes Whitney, like, right on your it's literally at 23 and I think that's like, your node,

Whitney Kranz
yeah, yeah, I love that Venus direct

Alexandra Blair
at 24 Pisces. So it's like, truly having that conversation right there,

Adam Elenbaas
wow, yeah. Well, that is, it's amazing when the astrology hits like that. And I have, like, some of these transits are really like, the Sun conjunct Pluto, for example, is happening as Pluto is going right onto my own south node of the moon. So some of these transits I'm looking at and going like, oh, wow, yeah, that's coming. That'll be interesting. The 21st the sun conjoins Pluto. It's, it's a small moment, like, it's, you know, these transits. Are pretty quick. But if you have anything in the early degrees of fixed signs, and you're receiving a square in opposition, a conjunction from Pluto in like early Aquarius, early degrees of fixed signs, again, this will be a powerful moment within the life of that aspect that you're living with right now. For sure, I think of Sun Pluto moments usually as moments in which there's a strong surge of motivation, a willingness to look at difficult things, sometimes a heroic willingness to let the unconscious show itself, or to like I have found so frequently that some of my best moments as a dad where I can really look at my own shit and go, Okay, I'm not gonna pass that on to my kids. I'm gonna change something about myself that could get a little bit better as a parent, I have found those under sun Pluto, little transits in the sky, just like this many times, where just some little tweak that needs to happen as my, with my, within my role as a dad, you know? But there's so many other things that can come to mind with sun Pluto. What do you guys think about

Whitney Kranz
it? Well, I really like that too, because the son is archetypally fathers, right? It is also leaders and leadership. And I cannot we have to mention that in the US, this day is Inauguration Day, and so there's definitely something happening here, right especially, I think back to late July, right before the sun, opposed Pluto. We had, we had that Capricorn Full Moon, and that's when Biden stepped down. And so there's, there's definitely some cyclical connection happening here, for sure. And you know, I don't know if we want to go into that whole debate here and now, but I wanted to point out that, yes, while it is a quick transit, it feels really, really powerful from a power and leadership perspective,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, it tracks as a transition of power, right? And you can

Whitney Kranz
new regime, death and rebirth of a power structure. Could we not get more literal?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, for sure, yeah. I think Adam to your point, Natalie, like if you have planets in, if you have stuff going on in Aquarius or in the fixed signs like this moment is really going to tell you a lot about the quest Pluto's quest for you over the next number of years, 19 of them, or 18 by 2025, but I think this kind of, for me, connects back To the way you were talking about the Mars Sun opposition, and that, for me, also felt like Unity in the even though it's an opposition, it's like a point of contact. And I just have this whole elaborate like metaphor that I will save everybody, this tortured thing, but of them as like CO conspirators, right? Because all this stuff's moving into Aries, which is a place that is both solar and Marshall next year. And like, this is a moment where they're like, looking at each other from across the room, like, you good? Like, are we doing the plan in that opposition? And they're like, yep, they wink, they give each other the secret signal. And the sun's like, Okay, I'm going dark again. I gotta go, you know, finish the plan and whatever we're going to accomplish. It's a deeply personal thing for every person. But this really feels like, Okay, I'm going in. I'm doing I'm going to go do it.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, let's move into our late MONTH transits next. The late MONTH transits that we have are between the 23rd and the 26th with a little bit of New Moon energy at the very end of the month. On the 23rd mercury will oppose Mars. This is one of a couple of transits that happen right in a row. Venus will then Trine Mars on the 25th and then there's a curious little sextile between Venus and Uranus that Alexandra is going to talk with us about. For sure. Let's start with mercury opposite Mars on the 23rd I think that in echoing the full moon energy, where the sun got into the opposition with Mars two days after the full moon on the 15th of January. Now we see Mercury and Mars exchanging across the same axis, and it's almost as though we're revisiting a conversation that was taking place around the full moon, maybe that Capricorn and cancer patriarch matriarch meeting in in the you know, about what to do with the, you know, the problematic thing or person or whatever it is, is happening again. But also, I would look at this as different modes or methods of communication and of action that are having some kind of, you know, there's either a confrontation or a budding. Heads, or a real difference in how people are thinking or communicating, and that might be something that's a little frustrating to deal with, or, you know, it could be that, you know, you're tempted to think that there's only one way of doing something, or that only one emotional response is the valid response. So I would just be careful about like extremes around this in thinking and emotions and communication, and then again, remembering that there's maybe an opportunity in every opposition for some melding of perspectives or some or some recognition of the other that is initially hard to do, but if you're able to do it, might and bring something more constructive about

Whitney Kranz
I totally agree. I mean, the only thing I really have to say here is a small PSA, just, you know, be conscious of what you say and what you're putting out there in the world on this day. You know, make sure that it is true to you and you know, aligned, aligned with yourself, because I think there is, like you mentioned, Adam, a real chance for anger, outrage, sharp reactions, and you don't want to deal with those unless you know you really believe in what you're talking about.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. Sometimes we think I'll do them a favor and give them the truth, yeah, yeah, and be careful of that.

Alexandra Blair
Totally we also have, you know, the moon as we were here, trining Mars from Scorpio sextile mercury. So I think that's important. And something that just jumps out is that both Venus and Mars, again, are coming back exactly to these places in just a little bit, right? Venus is going to retrograde, Mars is going to go direct. And so for me, these are this, seeing that Symphony like we're talking about it this whole episode. We're like, well, this is going to kind of play out. This is a story that plays out. These are those moments for me, as an astrologer and someone who's deeply spiritual, tracking astrology, like I'm like, these are those like little stories that you see emerge that feel like fate. It just feels like there's something going on where a part of it, you can see the machinations. You can see things moving on, playing out, coming back, and there's too many layers. Adam, I love your phrasing of like the beautiful mandala of the signs and the planets and the things that are going on. It's like they're touching in too many points. It's like a really beautiful machine. And I love seeing these moments where you can for a minute, you see the machine at work, and you're like, Whoa. And then you go back into the mystery of being alive, and in this place, which I think is so lunar, as you mentioned. But basically, like Venus is sextile and Uranus. Here that sextile plays out the entire month of April as well, because Venus comes back in so she's dancing with Uranus, she's dancing with Saturn, she's dancing with Mars. It's just such a beautiful and dynamic, like series of movements that just feels like a ballroom dance that, I mean, I don't even know that I have a ton to say about it. Analysis wise, I'm just sort of these are those moments where I really marvel about the complicated machinery that we get the privilege to sort of spend each month waxing on about, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I as as much as that mercury opposite Mars moment is sort of a little confrontational, and it could be like mental and verbal altercations, that's a very Mercury opposite Mars thing. Another thing that we can say about Mercury opposite Mars that was said in some of the ancient astrological delineations and texts was that the two put together are very scientific, very analytical, very executive in their thinking, or mathematical the skill needed to do surgery is Mercury, Mars or to you know, even baking or alchemy or use of knives in the kitchen, like there's so many things that require precision and exactness. And I wonder if something isn't being articulated that needs precision around this time, and that, you know, when you're in a space where you need to be really accurate with something, isn't it nice to see Venus trining Mars, Venus sextile and Uranus creating, instead of disruptions that are chaotic and could take an opposition where there's a razor's edge between doing something correctly and maybe cutting something and providing a little grace, a little flow, a little support, a little ease. So I love this as a like a pressure point, but one that's got these little Venus inflections around it that seem to provide a little smoothness,

Whitney Kranz
absolutely. I'll just add that this, this Venus Mars, Uranus dynamic, in addition to Mercury Mars, feels like a moment where we can nurture, you know, and it's maybe. Maybe nurturing our hurts that have come up at that time. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
it's completing something too, isn't it? As the dark moon coming through, it's like, I think of that's a good word, nurturance and devotion and seeing something through that comes to my mind too. Like, you know, it's, it's, I swear to like, if I had to describe one difference between me and my wife, is that, when it comes to bedtime, my wife will see it through, because she's a nurturer, you know, she's cancer rising, I guess, to a certain point when my kids come out and they have they're complaining that they have the world's worst disease, and it's the third disease on the list. You know, after 30 minutes of saying all of our good nights, and Ashley is very patiently talking through everything. I mean, most of the time. She loses her shit sometimes too, but all right, she will see things through. And I think there's something very persistent about Mars and cancer too. It's like, I'm gonna see this through. There's like, if you think of Mars as the vows of a night, this is the night that's the Mom, this is or this is the night that's the healer, or that will stick to their vow and see something through. And I like that as this moon cycle is coming through to that Mars at the moment like this, this moment, while Venus is trining, Mars in Cancer, the moon is in Sagittarius, and it's kind of a dark moon. It feels like completing a Quester or something like that. Anything? Sorry, did you want to add anything?

Alexandra Blair
No, no. That one was for me, because I finally got in to a jewelry making class to make astrological talismans that I've been trying to get into for ages, so all of January. That's my Venus, Saturn, Mars story. Oh, that's amazing.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's great, yeah. And you can, you can probably, yeah, you'll have, like, the the tools,

Alexandra Blair
I'm gonna be, like, with the crucible, like, casting, carving. It's gonna be amazing. I'm excited. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
you've got it, um, Mercury conjoins Pluto on the same day as the New Moon on january 29 so it's just a little transition between the the 29th when Mercury conjoins Pluto and then the new moon comes through powerful Aquarian New Moon to end the month. Anything you guys want to say about this new moon, other than I feel like it's, it's kind of really saying, like now Pluto and Aquarius,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, totally, totally right, both the luminaries, like spotlight, like the dark theater. Totally good. Good one.

Adam Elenbaas
My, here's my one, very like silly prediction, because I don't make predictions. But if I had to guess when we might see things really reaching some kind of peak moment this year, with respect to the drones, quote, unquote, or orbs, or whatever the hell they are, all of the stuff that's been happening around aliens, UFOs, I wouldn't be surprised if it's within this Aquarian moon cycle as Mercury crosses Pluto and the messenger brings things from the invisible portion of the fixed sky, right? I mean, thinking of the what is the underworld of the sky? It's the invisible realm that we can't see that somehow also connects us to sky. And I really feel like, you know, I did a rewind episode recently where, back in 2020 we were talking about Jupiter and Saturn coming together, and Pluto eventually coming into Aquarius, and looking at the phenomenon of aliens and UFOs. And I rewound that talk, and I was like, it's crazy to say i i knew that probably this subject would come up, but not as like, kind of vividly as it has. So I wouldn't be surprised if the whole conversation about aliens really ramps up quite a bit. Um, under this moon cycle,

Whitney Kranz
okay, you know, I love this conversation. You know, I love this new moon because I am an Aquarius. I'm excited. Uh, selfishly, yes, this one, this new moon is on my son too. So I'm like, what is happening? We've got a lot here. Um, it's funny though, because when we were when we intro the show, we were talking about the change that we can all feel coming right now, here at the end of the year. And what I really like about this Aquarius New Moon is that this feels like that 1000 foot view that can help us get perspective on the changes that have been happening in our lives. And, you know, maybe it's the view from a spaceship when we, you know, get the get the invasion, or, I don't know,

Adam Elenbaas
they're peaceful visitors. They're here to teach us about a game that we've never played. It's kind of like a Rubik's Cube, but different. I. I'm just kidding.

Whitney Kranz
Let's be real, they're already here. No,

Adam Elenbaas
I'm not. I actually it was, like a big part of my Pluto webinar that I did where I was saying there's so many things that are alien or other to us that are right here that we don't even realize. Deep I love that.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, that lens of Saturn ruling all this from Pisces is like, don't forget, you could terrify yourself just looking into Marianas Trench videos, exactly right?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, like the aliens of the deep BBC Earth episode. It's like, my favorite, and it's funny because there have, obviously, there's, there's some of this surrounds the ocean, and phenomenon in the ocean that is clearly the influence of Saturn in Pisces ruling the Aquarian planets, and also, obviously Neptune there. So, yeah, wow. It's, you know, the other thing that I would comes to my mind is the potential to romanticize the ideas that we're most attracted to under this moon cycle, because of the fact that the simultaneous, there's trines to Jupiter and then Venus Neptune. Venus Neptune Exactly. So I just feel like could the ideas that we're getting captured by, even if they're good ones, we might be a little high on our own supply, you know.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, this one's like, pretty personal for me too. So I was thinking about my chart rollers. Saturn is at six, Aquarius. So I'm like, okay, just in my own thinking and prep this February, February 2024, was like such a weird little preview period. I've talked to a lot of people who had Aquarius stuff. Like, February was just, it was like a window appeared and you could see into some other thing. And it was like, Oh, if I chase, if I grind, if I do some stuff, maybe that could be my life. I've had a few other Aquarian friends who had a similar kind of experience. So I'm kind of connecting it back to the previous New Moon that we had in Aquarius with Pluto there. That was the first. It was February 2024, and that one was at 2020, Aquarius, although I don't the date exactly is escaping me. Let me look February 9. And so I'm kind of like tying it back to there. So if you have Aquarius parts, maybe revisit old journals.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I mean that that new moon, I remember very distinctly, because Pluto was around that time, also coming toward my south node, and we had this big change in transition in our staff, which set back the process of launching the affordable reading service. By some time, we finally got finished, finished that in the fall. It was that was the catalyzer of a lot of change at night,

Alexandra Blair
same Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
So anyway, we have made it all the way through the month of January. This has been a really fun conversation, and I want to tell people how they can stay in touch with both of you. So if you want to get in touch with Whitney, you can find her work on Astro arcana.com where you can book a reading with her. And I highly recommend doing that to start the new year, you can get a good reading and take a look at the year ahead with her, or follow Whitney on Astro dot Arcana, dot astrology on Instagram, and you'll find her sharing astrological content there as well. Alexandra, you can find her at nine lives astrology.com and Instagram is going to be nine lives astrology. Also book a reading with her on her website at nine lives astrology.com good one to check out would be like, let's look at the year ahead. In January, something like that. I know that you have an event coming up, Alexandra. Do you want to tell us

Alexandra Blair
about that real quick? Yeah, on the 12th and 13th of January, friend Sarah posh and I were doing a live year ahead astrology workshop. So on Sunday, we're going to spend a few hours going through the transits, and then on Monday, we're going to do horoscopes for every rising sign. This is a crazy project. I'm very excited about it, and we decided to, instead of like, talking about mundane stuff, like just there's enough people talking about that we're really gonna ground everything in NATO, personal astrology stuff you can use in your real life. So if you're interested in that, check out my Instagram. It's on there, you know, links in all the usual places.

Adam Elenbaas
Nine Lives astrology is the Instagram where you could find that event, right? Alexandra, yeah. Okay. Perfect. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you so much for being here. As you all know, as we close today, we are in the last days of our annual Kickstarter campaign. We still need the support of quite a few backers. So if you have already donated, a big thank you. If you haven't yet donated, I am going to remind you that the link is in the comment section of this video, the description of this video, and on the website, Nightlight astrology.com and after I log off, here, you can stick around to hear about the rewards that are available when you support the channel, including all of the best discounts we offer for our online training programs and some exclusive content. There's eight hours worth of horoscopes for the year ahead. And. And the astrology of 2025 there's a calendar we have you want to track the transits that we're looking at through the year, so I'll tell you about those next All right, that's it for now. We'll see you guys again next month. Thanks everyone.

Whitney Kranz
Bye, thank you. Bye. Bye.