The Astrology of October 2024

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today I am joined by my co-hosts, Alexandra Blair and Whitney Kranz, to discuss the astrology of October, including our big solar eclipse that's starting the month off. So we're going to be giving a little special attention to that eclipse today, and then we'll be looking at several different periods in the month that are really busy with a number of important transits, and as we go, we will be each offering our reflections and ideas about what you may see this month of October.

And don't forget, we always offer a monthly overview where we sort of take a look at the whole month and all of the major transits and focus on which ones we think are the biggest. We also do horoscopes. Dana Alex and I, another set of co-hosts, break down your whole sign horoscopes. So those are also coming this week. You can check those out and get a little bit more personalized take on the solar eclipse by your Sun or rising sign.

I am also going to be joined this week by Raphael from Reydiant Reality Tarot. He is a tarot reader with a big astrology or a big YouTube audience, and he also does astrology. He was an alumnus of the nightlight program, and he will be coming on to also do some tarot card pulls for all 12 signs. And we'll be doing almost a second horoscope reading for everybody on Wednesday. So we have a lot planned for you this week. I'm really excited about it. But today, obviously, we'll start off by just taking a look at the whole month of October. So that's our goal for the day.

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Adam Elenbaas
Yay, yay. How was? How was September for you guys?

Whitney Kranz
Man, I don't know, guys; this was a tough one. No, it's me. October really is a spooky season. But this started to get a little spooky.

Adam Elenbaas
I feel like Mars and the transition of Mars into Cancer hit pretty hard for a lot of people. I was working within my own family, like entering my third house and seeing some stuff come up with my sister. It was like, wow, this is coming on strong. It's obvious September was eclipse season two, though. So, we did have an eclipse in September that made it spicier as well. But it's just like there's just been intensity that has come up, not surprisingly, with a bunch of planets going into water signs, too.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, absolutely. I think Mars in Cancer came in a way that people were not exactly ready for, and I think it's a good reminder that the Moon is ruling that and is moving every day and changing and lighting up new parts of that transit every day. So, I guess it's a good time for people to start tracking astrology every day. If they aren't already doing that, they should look where the Moon is every day. See what's going on between now and April.

Adam Elenbaas
Yes, yeah, you have, oh, go ahead, go ahead. I

Whitney Kranz
I was just gonna say that astrology is certainly astrology like this month particularly. I just felt really, really loud, and I know I found myself almost getting. Being, you know, swept away by these really big feelings around both the New Moon in Virgo and the Pisces Eclipse, but then totally distracted by everything happening in Mars and Cancer. So we're just going through it. I

Adam Elenbaas
I thought it was interesting, like Mars is in Cancer in my third house, and two things immediately in my immediate everyday environment got totally jacked up. They're doing some kind of construction work on the road in my neighborhood, so there's a closed road, and we have to take a detour to just get out of our neighborhood. The gym that I go to every six days a week is reconstructing Lifetime Fitness, and they're going to be closed for two months. So now I have to drive, which is fine; it's really close to my house. So this is kind of inconvenient for me because now I got to drive a long ass way to another one of the lifetime fitnesses because they're reconstructing the gym. So I was like, wow, that's interesting. It's very, um, very Mars in Cancer in the third, providing, like, some inconveniences in your neighborhood. You know what? I mean?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I, uh, my Moon is at one-degree Cancer. So I was like, Oh, no. For example, I might have bad things happen to me. No, I'm the bad thing. And I happen to know other people. For a whole week, I was the bad thing, being so mean. My partner is a Cancer rising, so I was like the monster in his first house for a few days, but we're working through it. But I thought it was interesting. I shared on Instagram just a Mars in Cancer artist that I really admire, Ai Weiwei. he has natal Mars and Cancer, and this month, he had some pieces on display.

One of them was very beautiful. He works a lot with his Chinese ancestry, and so he made this beautiful porcelain sculpture out of, like, quote, unquote Chinese porcelain. And it was smashed. Somebody came in and smashed it on purpose, like in a totally martial act against him. And it happened, like, this month, and I was like, wow, that's loud,

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I saw that you posted it on Instagram, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was such an interest. I mean, it's a sad story and very reflective of astrology, right? That was, yeah, that was exponent. I found it really weird.

Alexandra Blair
It's just gonna make something of it. It's not that sad. But, yeah, yeah, of

Adam Elenbaas
course, which is what makes them special, right? Yeah, I thought it was really interesting, as an avid sports fan and consumer of a variety of different sports podcasts, that they're some of the things that I heard some journalists writing about was the performance of underdogs doing really well in the NFL during the season, and underdogs, I think, defined by like the Vegas spread or something like that. And I was like, Isn't that fascinating that there is this empowered place for underdogs, which, if you remember back when we were talking about Mars in Cancer, I said one of the things that's really unique about Mars in Cancer is the way that it will sometimes tell the story of heroic underdogs, like both of the bodybuilding coaches that I've had, who were at champion levels, Olympia, Mr. USA, they both have fallen Mars's, and they had these stories of being really scrawny and feeling sort of picked on when they were younger. And I just thought it's just really interesting how Mars and Cancer will sometimes empower teams or athletes that actually, on some level, look like they should suck, but then they don't. And so that, to me, has been something in my side hobby that has been interesting to track. But, yeah, there's also been, like, I would say, another really interesting thing for me to track, which has been the recent entrance of Venus into Scorpio toward the end of September. That transition, also being hosted by Mars in Cancer, has been nice. And I don't think it's been really spicy, as far as I've noticed. What about you guys?

Whitney Kranz
Well, I was just gonna go back to the sports thing and say that it makes perfect sense then that the Vikings are currently three and, oh,

Adam Elenbaas
It's so fascinating, the Whitney, because it can also, like that same Mars, in its debilitated condition. Can talk about lowly things rising up because the planet that's fallen has nowhere to go but up. But it can also talk about complete collapse. Like for example, our Minnesota Twins demonstration is they're just like completely falling apart at the end of the season. And that's also such a Mars in Cancer theme. Anyway. It's just funny to me that you can just have these extreme things about weakness and/or ineptitude, and then, like, overcoming weakness and stuff like that. So

Alexandra Blair
that was such a Jordan Love getting injured and then our backup actually, what we're actually making happen.

Adam Elenbaas
All right. I love that we play you guys tomorrow, so Good luck.

Whitney Kranz
May the best team win the famous rivalry, the. Made the best underdog,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, it's the underdog bowl of the year.

Whitney Kranz
Don't know what we're talking about. We're talking about the Vikings and the Packers.

Adam Elenbaas
Let me tell you, No, I worry about Jordan Love because, I mean, just as a side note, like as someone who has, he has that Saturn in Aries in his chart, yeah, and with Mars in Cancer right now, the last thing you would want to do for a Saturn in Aries would be to rush him back early from an injury because then you're looking at someone who's, it's just like, Okay, let, let's, you know, it's just such a Saturn in Aries thing, like, I'm not going to be limited by something. I'm going to overcome it. But then, in the process of doing that, you make it worse somehow. So I hope I really, personally, as someone who likes him, like as a quarterback, aside from my loyalty to the Vikings, I hope they don't rush him back. Personally.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think that's actually just good advice for most of them. I thought the same thing we were talking about Aaron Rodgers earlier. I'm like, Why in the world would you, especially because there were more eclipses happening, and that's kind of related to his injury, but, oh yeah, I digress. The Venus in Scorpio, I do agree, just to track us along, but it's felt very different. It's felt very nocturnal, and I feel like the feeling of the transition of fall is very, very present, the transition to darkness, the pull, the dark, charismatic pull. It's been very kind of sexy and nocturnal and dark in a fun way.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, there's been; it's interesting that you mentioned tracking the Moon. I feel like that is such a good observation and a wild card in the mix of what your day-to-day experience of Mars and Cancer is going to be like, right? And then, by extension, Venus because she's also ruled by Mars. So it's kind of like the Moon. Is this a hidden indicator that we could be following this month? Even I love that, yeah,

Alexandra Blair
there's a lot of sneaky Moon stuff. And when we do, you know, when you're following any astrology media doing a month ahead overview, mostly not looking at the moon aspects, just because they move so fast. It's one day here or there. Most astrology media is kind of looking at how the Moon fits into a different narrative. But from now until April, the Moon is going to be activating every part of your chart and dispersing that Mars and Cancer energy across everybody's chart once a month. It's gonna hit different things. So, right? Something to watch?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. It ought to be interesting. We're going to talk more about the eclipse in a second, but it ought to be interesting to see how this month plays out, given that all these watery planets are coming together in a very close to perfect Grand Water Trine, the symbolism of water has already been in the sky with some major flooding stuff. One of our nightlight staffers, saffron, acted like she was trying to go on a vacation. There was just flooding everywhere in Europe where she lives. We've had some hurricanes. I mean, just some of that watery symbolism is just going to grow more intense, and some of it will be literal, and, you know, some people will experience it that way.

Anyway, I'll read a few stories from September from all of you before we've said a little bit about our experience. Let's hear from you guys, and then we'll get into October. So I have one story here, and I'm not going to share the names of people who shared these. I had to show you as soon as I calmed down. But the partial eclipse in Pisces is happening a degree away from my natal Saturn. So, this eclipse landed close to this person's Saturn in Pisces. I was about to leave my apartment to go pick up some things at the corner store when I looked up and saw a literal dragon's head in the sky with the glowing Full Moon, and its eyes were Rahu himself looking down at me. This person has mentioned nothing about taking edibles or anything natural ability. I immediately took that as an omen to stay inside instead, as anyone would do if a dragon was staring them in the face. Yeah, that's a good point and a good thing I did because moments later, I heard a round of gunshots going off outside of my house, which I may have walked into. Wow, wow. Okay, yeah, I told Rahu, thanks for saving my life. Light a candle for Rahu on the altar.

For real. So, hi, nightlight. Hi, Adam and the nightlight team. I would like to share a story about the lunar eclipse for your grab series. This lunar eclipse has taken place in my eighth house, conjoined by my natal north node in Venus and my grandfather. My grandmother passed away peacefully in her sleep just the day before the eclipse; she was 90 very kind, humble, quiet woman who passed away without causing trouble to anyone. The next day, another relative died.

It was my grandmother's niece, who was 75 years old. All my grandma's relatives were gone, and the only relative was this niece, apart from my mom. They called each other regularly on odd days for the past ten years, and her niece would often hear. The niece would often send her parcels with snacks. Their relationship was charming and tender. About two weeks before that, at the end of August, I received the news from my mom about my grandma suddenly getting very weak and that she might be about to pass. And that night, I had a dream about two beautiful, small gray birds flying around me and perching on my shoulder. Just a couple of days later, a small gray bird showed up in my parent's garden, and I have been following my parents around every day, watching them work with plants.

Very friendly, curious, and friendly bird. My dad even took a photo of it, which she attached to her email. Then this bird brought a friend, and now there are two gray birds living in our garden, chirping away and keeping company to my parents. It's quite unusual to see these birds still around in our climate. They would typically fly to warmer countries for winter. By now, I keep wondering about the two birds, and then the symbolism hit me. These two beautiful souls departed together, and two wonderful beings chose to leave this place together, supporting each other on their journey to their next destination. So that was her story, just a beautiful story. Beautiful, so

Whitney Kranz
beautiful. And I guess one of the reasons I really love that one is I actually see my grandma come back to me as a cardinal very often, like in those moments of stress. Not that cardinals are incredibly uncommon, but, oh, I love that story.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, my partner is a Capricorn rising. So, the eclipses are happening in their third and ninth houses. Did I mention they're traveling to consult with some faculty members at an Ivy League university? You can't make this stuff up. Looking at the astrology of it all has me sitting on my floor, literally crying and laughing at the same time.

Luckily, my partner is also interested in astrology. It definitely helps to joke around about the great quantum clock in the sky that grabs us and drags us along no matter how hard we try to resist. Yeah. Good point. Good point. Yeah. And I will, I will, I will say that. People sometimes say, like, what do you like? What is it like? What do you recommend? As I'm Who should I date? You know, people always ask that, like, you know, when they're getting into astrology, maybe they're single, and I always say, it doesn't matter what their sign is, just make sure that they're into astrology as well, not that they have to be, not that they have to be, like, as into it as you are, but make sure they're open to it. Because if you love astrology and you're asking this question, you know, make sure you're not with someone who thinks it's total crap, at least, you know what I mean, yeah. But anyhow, so let's take a look at this one, Mars in Cancer. I just love the description. It's not very far into this Mars in Cancer transit, but the tension has been palpable, and I feel like a disgruntled goblin. Okay, same. Actually, I think my partner knows, too.

Adam Elenbaas
I love that I've got a cancer moon on the 10th, and I'm currently a nanny for a few families. In every family arrangement, there have been emerging tensions and conflicts. This person's a Libra rising and, typically, can be cooperative and decenter my own discomforts; the internal tension has been very loud and almost intolerable. During one of my work days, I was taking the kids to get ice cream. I knew this kid had a pistachio and cashew allergy, so I made your ashes. The cashier confirmed it was good to go minutes eating the ice minutes into eating the ice cream, and seemingly really content, he started rubbing his eyes and coughing, then started crying. It seemed like an unusually rapid turn; I somewhat panicked and said, Okay, let's go. I picked him up and dramatically hustled down the street to the car where his EpiPen was. Though, in hindsight, I should have kept it with me. He ultimately had just rubbed dirt in his eyes and was tired and crappy. And I jumped to the worst-case scenario. Thank goodness it's very Mars in Cancer, though. Like, let me immediately jump to the defense of, like, a child, that's, I think, dying, you know, right? Or just fear, right?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, fear. And I think people forget because Jupiter is such an amplifier. But the Moon can really amplify things in that way, too, making any scariness scarier and bigger. Yeah?

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, you know, Mars went over Mercury in Cancer, which is my fifth house ruler in my third, and my daughter sprained her ankle. And I was convinced in the first 10 minutes of seeing her in the worst pain I've ever seen my daughter in that she had, like, broken her foot, and amputation was incoming. You know what I mean? Like, the whole thing just flipped right out. So it ended up, okay, you know it, she was back. It's funny. She got a boot, you know? Yeah, she, like, bedazzled it with, like, all sorts of shit. It was so cute. She was so nervous to go to school, and then she went to school and got some attention for it. So, yeah, it was always cute. Oh,

Whitney Kranz
that Mars, and I'll just add real quick here too, with that Mars and Cancer, one of the reasons why it was so distracting for me this month, and I shared this with some nightlight crew, but my mom went through a breast cancer scare, so I spent like, three weeks. It was just sick about my mom having Cancer. And of course, I'm looking at her chart and just, you know, not objectively, but absolutely, that she's got Cancer. I mean, how can it be that it's happening completely opposite her natal Saturn? It's got to be bad news, right? Yeah. Well, thankfully, we got the word on Monday that it is not bad news. It's not Cancer. It was just a little cyst, and we are in the clear, so glad. But that fear is real.

Adam Elenbaas
It is, yeah, and that's why we say, like, you know, I had someone who got upset when I mentioned mastectomies as one of the most common, like in worst case, Mars in Cancer, things that I have seen over the years of doing astrology and we had like three people right into email or in the comment section of that last monthly video saying they were scheduled to have mastomes under Mars in Cancer. Obviously, mastectomies happen all the time, right? But they have the power to do that. Mars in Cancer placement has the power to signify things that are tender and soft and vulnerable, potentially being under harm or threat, something like that. And so, you know, Cancer is associated with the entirety of a woman's anatomy, and so, like there, that whole realm can be part of the tender and vulnerable places that are exposed to something, you know, that's dangerous or threatening. But what's interesting about it is that the threat is often nothing more than a threat. It's as though there's some feature of protectiveness with Mars in Cancer as well. That kind of flies under the radar. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
I have a client who gave me permission to share this story, but she has a late cancer rising and an early Leo moon, and when I asked her, What are you going to be doing later this year, she was like, I'm getting a mommy makeover. I'm getting plastic surgery. And I was like, that is exactly Mars Retrograde. Yes, over that, Leo's Moon and Cancer are rising. I was like, good for you. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Even, even, like, there, there was a client that I had, this was a long time ago, who I did this example chart of an in a seminar that I taught where she had breast reduction surgery. Because, as you guys probably know that, you know, sometimes it actually can start hurting a woman's back. This is what the case was for her. And so she had reduction surgery under, I think it was 2018, want to say it was a 2018 Mars in Cancer or something like that. But anyway, it's just fascinating all the different ways it can show up. Are you guys ready to jump into October? Yes, let us plunge into the darkness.

We are. Let's go. Okay, I am. Let's see here. All right, we're gonna start off, of course, with our solar eclipse, which is the first major event of the month of October. And I am going to see where I am now. If I could find my epic pen, it would be hiding. Oh, buddy. Ah, there you are. Okay. So where did you go? Hold on, guys. Give me just a second. My epic pen is, it's like hiding from me. It sometimes does this. I'll bring it up, and it'll just be like, in some corner, why? Why were you over there? I didn't put you there. Did I? Ah, see? Yeah, here it is. It's hiding. Okay, there we go. Okay. Now, let's highlight this eclipse, which is happening on October 2. That is Wednesday of this week. And this is a solar eclipse. By the way, that is happening as the ruler Venus is in Scorpio. That spices things up a little bit. One of the key things we're going to be looking at here is the fact that Venus, as the ruler of the eclipse, is entering into a very close, but not quite perfect, Grand Water Trine. So that's a big deal. There are a lot of other little features of this eclipse that we've been talking about. So, I'm going to hand it over to you guys. What stands out to you about this eclipse, and what kinds of themes come to your mind?

Whitney Kranz
Well, I guess I can start us off. You know, in Libra, this eclipse really feels like we're feeling through, and we're leading through what is right and what is wrong for ourselves. And I think it sets this whole tone for the month. There's almost, for me, this sense of coming of age, right? Like we are yearning for what's next, we're yearning for what's more. And I wonder if we are kind of trying to sort through what it is like. What are the higher principles that we are guided toward? I mean, with this whole Trine, this whole almost Grand Water Trine happening here, I think it's really interesting, too, because we start and end the month in very similar ways. Our bookended with these two grand water trines, Venus, Saturn, and Mars, in the beginning, and then we'll get to the end, where we have Mercury, Neptune, and Mars forming. And so it's a little murky like I don't know if we know exactly where we're going, but we're going somewhere and all of this water. Don't you think it's so emo? Maybe it's because I was listening to some nostalgic tunes while I was prepping my notes. But this whole month just feels like one, like a whole dashboard confessional album. You know? It's like one big Emo, pop-punk ballad.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. I loved that in our notes. I noticed we have collaborative notes that we all share, and I noticed Whitney made a remark about Romeo and Juliet vibes, 100%, right?

Whitney Kranz
It's beautifully tragic there. It's the yearning that I mentioned, or like a loneliness and a longing. And when we were prepping ahead of time, I was so excited to share because, you know, as an active student of astrology, I'm reading all the books, right? And so, in Renn Butler's archetypal universe, I picked out a quote that just really, really spoke to me, especially with this Venus trine Saturn. In fact, I think it's in that particular section of the Archetypal Universe. Butler calls this the hell of being unloved. Oh, yeah. And doesn't that resonate?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah? Yeah, it does. When I look at this, one of the things that comes to my mind is all of the painful Venus and Saturn dynamics. That is another way that I would say it because that's definitely a melancholic, romantic quality at work in this eclipse. We've got a Libra Eclipse, so it's in, it's in Venus's sign. It speaks to karmic balancing moments in relationships, or almost like a clearing of old cycles around relationships. And then the Venus Saturn dynamic, I think, speaks to the same kind of heartbreak, but the Trine implies that maybe this is something that we know is a good thing, even though it's a hard thing. So I think of, for example, when I was in high school, I had a couple of, you know, dating relationships where I just knew that my level of into her was not the same as her into my kind of things. And when it finally comes out, and the relationship ends, and you go, yeah, I cared more about that person than they did about me. I was right the whole time. It's so painful. And yet, there's something that makes you feel vindicated. You're like, yeah, I shouldn't do that to myself, you know. And I consider those moments in life like a similar one we were talking about in Al-Anon, a group that I attend for family members of alcoholics. That's been a big part of my life for the past couple of years. We talk about that moment where, when and when someone in your family is an alcoholic, and, you know, they're lying about something, and then they hit that rock bottom, and it's visible, the lies can no longer be lies. Everything is out. It's so painful and yet so relieving because you don't have to doubt yourself any longer, or you don't have to live with the feeling that you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Now it's dropped. And so there's a sense of relief or release, even though there's pain that comes with it. And I think about that kind of grieving but positive, maybe like a shift or a closure or a resolution that's like painful but positive.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, wow. I love that. We all had this parallel thinking. It's so powerful. And that happens because I went somewhere similar. I was really getting those feelings of self-defense, defending your personal space, defending your soft, defending your dark, and thinking a lot about the Sun in Libra and how the Sun in Libra wants to keep the illusion of harmony and peace, often at the expense of the self. So it really feels like this eclipse is pushing something underground, or like pushing something into the darkness that's kind of being punished out in the open, in a way. And, sort of cornally enough, what I was really thinking of was the TV show Buffy, which I'm watching for the first time.

Adam Elenbaas
But I was welcome for the first time.

Alexandra Blair
Thank you, yeah. But I was thinking about there's, yeah, neither had I, so I just started watching. But there are so many scenes where she goes home, and her mom's like, you were out late again, partying, and she, she has to say, Yep. But really, what she was doing was fighting vampires through the night and, like, learning maturity and like becoming a better person, and learning self-defense and reading books on history, but she has to let her mom think what her mom's gonna think about her while she's actually fighting these bad boys of Mars and Saturn, and so a lot of that was kind of coming up because they do have this supportive aspect, right? The Trine is an inherently supportive aspect, but it kind of feels like they're supporting in the way, you know, where a parent is, like, okay, to teach you a lesson, you're gonna smoke an entire pack of cigarettes to learn to not smoke anymore. You know, it's not that supportive. It's, like, actually, a little painful and nauseating. So I just got this sense of something kind of being pushed, maybe underground, or into the subterranean, a little bit.

Adam Elenbaas
that taps in. I mean, I see a parallel in the theme I was just describing in terms of, like, okay, there's this facade of something that you think it is, or you think it's been, and these watery planets are going to especially because it's a South Node Eclipse, which tends, in my playbook, to bring about the resolution of old cycles, right? So it's like a crystallization of wisdom, often a little painful in the way things get resolved. You're gathering insights. It's a harvesting and Libra, and it is about the appearances of things versus an understanding of what something is in its essence. Like, that's always a thing for Libra. If you think about even the picture of the common picture of Lady Justice with the blindfold on, it's like, well, your judgment is coming from you holding the scales. You can't even see what's on them. Or, like, the image of the heart versus the feather. We're not talking about a regular kind of weight; are we if the heart will always be heavier than a feather? So, what kind of judgment are we talking about? It's a different, deeper level of discernment. And this, to me, speaks to what it looks like, it's it is versus what it really is, and the reckoning emotionally with what it really is compared to what we've been saying to ourselves that it is, or what we've been trying to maintain as an appearance.

I love that you use that Buffy example because I feel like that's such a good example of that same kind of theme. Yeah. So anyway, I'll stop there. I just love that we have from the fourth to the eighth. Let me just progress us here a little bit so we don't spend forever here we have between October 4 and 8. Venus will then go through the trines to Saturn and Mars, and this is effectively the sort of Grand Water Trine period. You could draw this out a little bit more and give Venus a couple more days separating. And certainly, as long as they're all in whole sign trines, and we have things like Venus opposing Uranus and Venus trining Neptune and sextile and Pluto and a whole bunch of other stuff coming for Venus. The story's not over by any stretch, but it is. This is a critical period coming right off the eclipse, and the window to pay attention to, really, is the fourth through the eighth, right after the eclipse. Guys want to add anything to this piece of the month,

Whitney Kranz
really, it's just that this is all so intertwined. I mean, I really feel like this Solar Eclipse in Libra is This Grand Water Trine that's forming. I mean, this is what we've been talking about because Venus and Saturn are rulers of this eclipse. So I think, I think we're, we're right there. We've talked a lot about it. We talked about some of those dualities. And for me, what comes up here is, is it duty, or is it passion? You know, the question of Whether I follow my duties or my passions?

Alexandra Blair
You know, yeah, Venus during that Trine when she's at 14, Scorpio, that's actually the degree of the last eclipse that we had in the Scorpio series in May 2023; it was at 14. So Venus being right there feels really significant in regards to whatever was going on in that Scorpio Eclipse series for people, especially because as soon as that Scorpio Eclipse series ended, the Libra Eclipse series started. And so those just currents are in communication there. And there's so much weird rulership stuff that Whitney you're alluding to; even Libra is the sign of Saturn's exaltation.

So there's some overlapping stuff happening here. And I actually think that the next couple days, like the fourth, fifth, and sixth, when the Moon is in Scorpio, the Moon really acts like sort of a buffer because, at that time, the Moon and Mars have mutual reception, which is a major bonifying condition for both of them. By the time the Moon moves out, Venus has really separated from Saturn, so she's in a perfect trine to Mars. That is just regular reception, but it still feels a lot sweeter than that grand Trine. So, I think the Moon has a little bit of a support role right here.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a nice that's a nice point to make. Follow the nuances of the Moon. For example, you could play with the Moon in Sag right now. It's in Jupiter's sign while Mercury is forming a try to get Jupiter to speak about what your truth is. I mean, this could be a little period where we're really sort of coming to terms with what's true and real, and sort of adjusting perceptions, or something like that. That's interesting. I mean, you can keep doing that with the Moon, too, which is what makes it just a fantastic point that Alexandra made about tracking the Moon while Mars is in Cancer, especially for the long retrograde, like it's a really amazing period to actually learn about that kind of subtle dignity connection. One thing that I wanted to point out here about water, and I said this in a video that I made, it'll air, I guess later this week, I was talking about the Grand Water Trine, and I said, you know, my kids are watching this show right now, and I actually made them watch it, because I was like, trying to help them select a cartoon to watch. On Saturday mornings, they don't get to watch TV for the most part during the week or during the school week, but on Saturdays, obviously, I let them watch cartoons and stuff. And I was trying to help them find something that wasn't, like, a lot of cartoons are super violent. It's still like, and I'm like, Okay, I gotta find something. So I was like, you guys, have you ever, you know, you guys want to watch this show? It's called Avatar, The Last Airbender.

I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. It's one of my favorite cartoons, and I actually watched it when I was 30. Like, it's, it's, it's really interesting because one of the reasons I loved it so much is because it's all about the manipulation of the elements. There are water benders, air benders, earth benders, and fire benders. In order to learn how to manipulate the element, they have to learn the deeper, sort of like Tao of the element, and they have to learn it within their character. And I just love the show. It's fantastic for people out there who want to expose their kids to a little astrology and spirituality while also like an enjoyable Kids Cartoon avatar. Love it anyway. Cool water bending. I think that this is also, like, I was looking at this Water Trine, and I was thinking, like, you know, like, what does it mean for us to water bend? How do we actually manipulate the element of water? And one of the key things that I took away from that show is that water has so much to do on an elemental level. We think about literal water, and then we go; it means emotions. Everything is going to be so emotional. And like, yeah, okay, so there's that, but at a more basic level, and Jung actually talked about it this way as well. And I wonder if that wasn't informed by his reading of, say, the I Ching or something like that. But water in Avatar, The Last Airbender, is talked about in certain places as being about environmental and instinctual awareness. For example, when someone walks into a room and suddenly you get a bad feeling, it's not the feeling that's the water. It's the conduciveness or receptivity that you have to recognize the emotional shift caused by the person entering the room, right? And I thought that's a really interesting distinction because, in a sense, we think about water too much as emotion when, on this, even more basic level, emotion is sort of the byproduct of this level of environmental sensitivity and responsiveness. And so one of the things I thought about is, you know, what also might be coming to the surface, for example, is things in our environment that we are now when a Grand Water Trine forms, it's like there's awareness.

All of a sudden, you are going to be very aware of things in the environment that have been creating patterns in your life. So water bending, in this case, might be equivalent to saying, Wow, I'm becoming aware of how something is making me feel, about how someone or some environment is affecting me, or my body or my moods or my relationships is being affected by this or that. So one way that I've been kind of having fun with this Water Trine is by thinking about how a growing awareness of what affects us and how it makes us feel might be at play,

Whitney Kranz
absolutely what it's like the subterranean well that springs forth, right, right?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, absolutely, we're all going to become water benders. Is that the thing? Well, the next major period that we're going to look at is Pluto stationing direct and Capricorn right around the 11th.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, this is so interesting because, again, the Moon is acting a little bit like a buffer, right? You can see if you put it back a couple of hours. Uh, Pluto stations direct, and the Moon is right on top of Pluto. Like, what, you know, what's going on? Like, there's so much Moon stuff happening this month. And, you know, I will confess, like I only thought of it because it happened to me when the Moon came into that Cancer. And that's where my natal Moon is, and obviously Mars is. There is just a two-day span of the weirdest little things happening. A balloon popped in my face. I stepped on a broken glass thing and broke it. I was like, Okay, what's going on? And I pull it up, and it's like the Moon is activating this, so it's really gonna change our felt experience. I love the way you talk about the Moon, Adam, but, like, the Moon is really gonna bring things here into our material experience.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. The Moon is the realm of fortune. It brings about circumstances that are expressive of some kind of underlying, archetypal, or karmic themes. It's like now they're manifest. Here they are. I like thinking of the Moon as a web Weaver who takes the archetypal fields and weaves them into material reality,

Whitney Kranz
we feel things so much more potently because of the Moon, right? Yeah, yeah.

Alexandra Blair
I think something that's important, and that stood out to me here, is that there's a sort of building Plutonian tension, which is, I guess, a little on brand for the Scorpio of it all, but Pluto is going to be activated by a Mars opposition, like three Mars oppositions, and then as soon as that's over, there's solar conjunction, and then there's a Venus conjunction to Pluto in the next you know, five, six months for me, in a mundane way, this is really setting a scene, because the US natal Pluto is at 27 degrees Capricorn.

So, you know, there's just some mundane stuff going on there. And I think on a personal level; this is super important for anyone who has Capricorn placements or a Capricorn part of our chart, which is all of us because this cat part has been going through some Pluto stuff right for 16 years. So I think there's a real stepping into reclaiming a little last shred of personal power. And this is really one of those fields of energy that we can engage with intentionally and say, Hey, what do we want Pluto to not leave here without? Please take this with you, too. When you get out of here,

Adam Elenbaas
it is definitely the approaching Mars opposition to Pluto, which we will visit later as well. But like that opposition, right? You know, just preceding the election is a big deal, like we don't. You guys know me on my channel. I don't like that I don't directly report on or try to predict collective, historical, mundane, or political stuff. However, this is clearly related to some of the cycles playing out in the United States, going back to the Jupiter- Saturn conjunction. We're in the square now, the last hurrah of Pluto in Capricorn, with Mars opposing right before the election. I mean, it is a very long time.

This week, I'm recording a podcast. I got an invite from a former nightlight student named Lori Lothian, who has her own channel. I think her channel is called lunatic astrology, and she covers a lot of mundane and collective stuff. And she, I came on to talk about the Jupiter Saturn cycle, and she invited me to; I always cast a horary for the election. I decided this year I'm not going to be covering that hourly on my channel; I'm just trying to stay true to my brand, you know. But she invited me to share it on an election panel that she's doing. So I'm like, Well, you know if people really want to see my take on the outcome, not hear my personal political bias. But if you just want to hear what I think about the election, you can tune into her election panel that she's doing. But needless to say, one of the things that I was looking at very closely when doing my own little research into, you know, making my prediction, is this, this Pluto stationing the Pluto turning direct, and Mars opposing, like, right at the time of the election.

Alexandra Blair
It's just so well; I'd say it was a coincidence, but certainly not that the Moon is. Is there just amplifying that, too?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. You know, it's funny because one of the things that I always recommend for people, they're always like, how should I take it? How should I take an outer planet stationing director retrograde? And I'm like, it's not like Mercury, Venus, or Mars, in the sense that those faster-moving planets Mars is a little bit different. But for sure, Venus and Mercury, when they station that day or two, where it's like stations, and it's just not moving, and it's turning, you will feel it, and you will usually see the manifestations of that shift of direction, whether it's delayed or just like static in the normal Venus expression, or whatever it is, you'll notice it when it comes to the outer planets changing directions. What I've noticed is that it's more like a wave pattern because they take such a long time. Time to slow down, and then they take a long time to turn and get moving again. That whole process of the station and direct sometimes you get manifestations on the day. I wouldn't be surprised, especially with the Moon hitting here, that we see it. But I would also look for the upcoming aspects, for example, a couple of days after Mercury squares Pluto, that's going to help reiterate it. Mars opposing Pluto is going to help reiterate it.

You'll notice exiting Libra right there, right? It'll hit; I hit this square, too. And so, like, just in general, I feel like, if you wanted to track the turn of Pluto in your own chart, look at that whole sign house, and then give it, like, give it several weeks and watch those transits to Pluto that keep happening, and those will give you more usually, I think that those will give you more clues as to what that turn is in terms of the circumstances. Because it's, I've just noticed that without our planets, it usually isn't like a Mercury station day where it's like my computer's on the fritz, or, you know, like, it's a little bit like more, there's a longer, like, bigger narrative arc to it. Usually, anything we want to add about Pluto, stationing, direct what? Anything else that comes to mind,

Whitney Kranz
I guess that is the only thing I would add, and I think we covered it, too. I mean, with the with the Moon here, of course, yes, but this is happening in Capricorn, in Saturn. Sign and Saturn have been incredibly involved in this eclipse season so far, right? And so I just feel that these stories are really connected here and just at the most basic level, Alexandra, what you've said about being intentional about what you want to leave behind. I think that is so smart. And then also, what sort of discipline have we learned? What endurance are we taking into this new chapter, just on a very personal level, right? Like we've done this work, and now we're going to take it forward. I think it all intertwines with this eclipse season. It is beautiful.

Alexandra Blair
point. I have so many clients with Capricorn placements who have just been so atomized by this Pluto transit, and their sense of personal agency and power and their ability to impact the environment has been so fragmented, and so that's something I think anyone with Capricorn placements can and should really think about over the next month. It's like, this is an opportunity for you. This is the last one in our lifetime. You know, for Pluto to be there and for you to kind of hang on and get whatever agency you can back out of this, this situation,

Adam Elenbaas
I will share with you guys something that I think you'll find interesting around this Pluto station moment. So, literally, I think it's the day before or the day of the Mars-Pluto opposition that's approaching right after Pluto turns direct. My father, who is a 29 Capricorn rising, will be having knee replacement surgery. And I'm like, you know, like, first of all, Capricorn associated with the knees, so I found that really fascinating. There's a number of, I know, right? There are a number of other interesting things that are culminating in his life. I'll keep those private, but it's as though this physiological, surgical moment is also connected to a culmination of a long process that we've just been talking about with Pluto and Capricorn for so many years. And yet, here's the interesting thing, just to throw a little twist in it: he has a blood clot in his lower leg, and so he has had a hard time finding a surgeon that will perform the knee replacement because it is a highly it's a very risky surgery when you have a blood clot just below the knee you're operating on. So he just said, no matter what, I want to get my knee replaced because I'm not able to walk. So I'm like, Oh, this should be interesting. Mars will oppose Pluto while it's on his ascendant, and he's having a very risky surgery on his knee at this time. So I'm like, you know, it was interesting, though, because I feel in the way he's approaching the surgery, that this represents a shift in what he is seeing as a complete remake of his whole life, and in really, I think, a pretty positive way, yeah, yeah. But he's willing to possibly go to those dark Pluto places.

Adam Elenbaas
Isn't that crazy? Yeah, I was like, man, yeah, I do get it, yeah.

Whitney Kranz
And here's my question for you then, Adam, because I feel like a lot of us might need to hear this. How are you not freaking out, you know, like I freaked out about Saturn opposing my mom's, you know, Mars and Cancer and all of that, right? Right? There's, like, this Astro anxiety that just comes with it.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, I'll tell you, I was born with the Sun in an applying square to Pluto within two degrees. My dad has; I have gone through my dad's death so many times already, you know, like, and this was the first chapter of the book I wrote. So it's not like this shocking if anyone's read my book. But, you know, I came into the bathroom when he was suicidal and had chopped his whole arm up with a knife, you know, and rehab and his mental health falling apart. And, you know, the every like, he has just had such a downward spiral of his mental health. And I really see what he went through as generational because he got the crap kicked out of him by an alcoholic father. So, like, I have so much compassion. I've gone through so much healing work with my dad. I was really, like, literally, the topic of my first book. So I get a lot my dad and I are in a good space right now, but when I look at everything that's happened, there have been so many times where I thought he was dead, yeah, and so I've had to work through that with a son, Pluto, in my chart, so many times already, that for me, it's like, I just trust that his life is in the hands of the universe, and I'm gonna love him, and when it's his time, if it's the surgery, or whenever it el it is, I know that it's okay because I've already had to kind of go to hell a few times with him if that makes sense. Yeah, that's really.
Profound.

Thank you for sharing, and obviously, good luck. Yeah, as well,
I do too well, you know. But the thing that I really wanted to highlight was just the lengths that we're willing to go to with Pluto to transform when we know it's culminating 29th degree Pluto Mars is coming. The only downside to this that I could see, and maybe I'm just getting too dark here, is that, like when you're in a political season where people perceive the opposition as people that need to be overthrown at any cost whatsoever. We already have a few assassination attempts. You know, like that kind of thinking is so malignant and so problematic that what we don't want to see, you want to see, I will be willing to transform at all costs. That's a great impulse with Pluto, in my opinion; it's just that willingness to go and go into the cave, you know. But when it comes to I will take power at any cost, or I will win at any cost with Mars opposite Pluto, that's the thing I think we all have to be careful of within ourselves is like some kind of impulse to transform, or get something in a way that's not really healthy for us or and I think for most of us, it's probably, you know, just something like Be careful of emotionally coercing yourself or other people, or it doesn't have to be super dramatic. But yeah, when you think about it on the political and collective stage, I get a little bit more worried about it.

Alexandra Blair
I think that I really saw that from the eclipse, like when I'm talking about things getting pushed underground, I do feel like that's something we should all kind of be thinking of and looking for in our loved ones as well at that time. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Well, this is an interesting period. No doubt. We're going to move on to our mid-month period, which happens between the 13th and the 17th. What you guys see during this period stands out. Gosh, we've got a lot of loud astrology here now.

Alexandra Blair
We have, like, an air trine with the Moon again, the Moon playing in, and it's crazy. And I just, I can't help but see all of this, like on the 13th, the Oh, the big arrows out.

Adam Elenbaas
Okay, come on, big arrow. Yep, we've got the Sun trining Jupiter, and we've got the Sun squaring Mars, all at the same time that Venus is opposing Uranus and Venus is trining Neptune. This is all happening in the space of about two days here, right as we lead up to the full Moon, and it's telling this story. If we were feeling bad, look at all those arrows on the screen. Seriously, like if we were feeling really in our feels at the beginning of the month, like whatever those feelings were about, maybe the ambitions were bringing forth just really loud, and honestly, it feels a little reckless to me or a little frenzied, almost like, especially, what the Sun is doing here, trining Jupiter and then squaring Mars. Do you know what image came to me as I was preparing? It's like the drive and the ego of the Wolf of Wall Street. Did you guys walk? That movie with Leo DiCaprio, yeah, his like belligerence and mania, you know, like an

Alexandra Blair
inability to, like, see himself, really, and see how other people saw him, yeah, yeah

Whitney
exactly, almost like I could also see this as, like, starving for an argument, you know, just to break the silence and the emotional heaviness. So I guess in the kind of initial period here, that's, that's what I'm seeing, especially with the Sun, the Sun happening there,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, this is. I mean, it stands out to me if we just roll forward to the 17th we have, and I'm going to take out all these arrows, just so we don't all go insane. How do you survive the anxiety of these transits? I just take aspect lines out of the middle of the wheels. They are beautiful, and I try to stop looking at all the charts. Oh, I'm just kidding. So, um,

Alexandra Blair
The Moon is actually making those squares, too. Yeah. I hate to moon you up on it, but the Moon is so loud this month; it's crazy.

Adam Elenbaas
This is, this is within seven degrees total of a cardinal, Grand Cross, right? Yeah.

Alexandra Blair
But I actually really like this. This Moon is in Aries for mutual reception again. So the Moon has some important mutual reception at the start of the month, but the Moon in a Mars sign, Mars and the Moon sign actually feels so much nicer than Mars there with no dignity, no reception. So I think there's definitely still stuff building, right? All the other stuff that we're talking about. But I think Whitney's point about ambition is very clear here. There are some, I mean the Sun and Mars, together, and then Aries is activated through the Moon. There are some questions of ambition and drive in that way. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. It's funny because you've got an eclipse and a cardinal sign, right? And then there's just this, there's like a deluge. And I just feel like all these, you know, these watery trines, they don't meet, they don't make you feel like a cardinal Eclipse. That's like kicking the door open to start some kind of new cycle. But when we get to the full Moon, it does, yeah, get to the full Moon, then it's like, okay, I feel like we've seen some kind of emotional like a just a very fertile but very gestational place, like emotionally, environmentally coming off the eclipse, you get into this space, and all of a sudden now it just feels like things are popping. And you got that real Cardinal kick that you should feel after a cardinal Eclipse. It doesn't come through right away. It seems like it sort of waits to really start blowing up around the full Moon.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think the Sun-Mars is always pretty ambitious again, especially with that Aries activated, but the Sun is in Libra, and so again, the one thing I feel about this is there's some like it's like a blocked horror or something. You know, the ability to express as an individual, to put your views and ideas and beliefs and ambitions out there, is being punished or blocked in some way that I think contributes to some of the the darkening of the year.

Whitney
That's what's interesting. I took a similar take, but in a slightly different way, like as we culminate to this full Moon, it almost makes me wonder if we're, like, a little tired of playing by the rules, so we just, like, completely abandon them.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, Mars can be such a One of the words from Mars that I sometimes use is like Maverick, you know, like, just gonna do my own thing. And I feel like, yeah, there's especially if you have the strength of your emotional convictions behind you right then it feels like I don't know emotions are such a powerful thing to act on and from for a lot of us. And I feel like Libra is the kind of cardinal sign that starts things, but according to something well crafted and designed, like something that's been architecturally looked over, you know, the lines are all perfect. And I'm just not sure that that plan is the one that gets enacted completely. If the plan in our mind, or the image in our mind, is the one that gets acted upon, as Whitney was saying, we're going to be feeling some push ambitions that are driving us; I feel like they could be driven by some need to take greater account for the way we're feeling. About things, and let that also modify and speak to the ideal plan that we're laying out.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, yeah. And you know, with that, the mutual reception between Mars and the Moon here, I think we still have that very emotional tie to whatever is happening here and those ambitions, right? And I guess I would just take a word of warning to direct your aggressions carefully. You know, like, I think, I think there may be some of this aggression, assertiveness right in the air. And there are ways to use that constructively, and there are ways to use that destructively.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right, yeah, yeah, it kind of Oh, go ahead.

Adam Elenbaas
No, go ahead. Go ahead.

Alexandra Blair
It just reminded me of a song by Ben Folds Five, maybe Ben Folds or Ben Folds Five. Either way, it's called Underground, and it's basically about kids, punk rock kids, finding underground spaces where they can actually be themselves like nobody understands, but we can be happy underground. And so that kind of was coming up for me. It's like, okay, the overculture doesn't understand. I'm gonna go find my people. And that kind of relates to those scorpionic themes and the blue tonic themes, just like, Okay, I'm gonna go find my little space where I can be a freaky punk.

Whitney Kranz
Alexandra's on the emo train.

Adam Elenbaas
Love it. This is interesting. This is something that I overlooked, and it's coming to my mind right now. I just need to say yes, okay, so let me just find out I've got a. I want to make sure that I don't talk out of my ass. So give me a second here. Where are you okay?

So the other thing that's really interesting is that I've just been taught a workshop earlier this year on the fixed stars, and there is a really interesting fixed star called vindemiatrix, which sits at about 956 of Libra. I'm going to bring this into, like, our full moon space here that we're looking at, but I want to go back first, just to the Eclipse, and so you'll notice, yeah, it's like, right there. So, the Eclipse happens at just over 10 degrees of Libra. So, vindemiatrix is, according to Astrology King, which is a fixed star website, looks like it's, yeah, around 10 degrees, just under 10 degrees, maybe, of Libra. So this would be, in other words, an eclipse that is conjoined with Vindemiatrix, one of the names I know this is going to sound like. Doesn't anyone get freaked out?

Because let me just tell you, if you start doing a little bit of research on fixed stars, everyone's getting their heads cut off. Yeah, good God, it's like, but this was a star that was called the widow maker, and it was associated with deaths that happen in dramatic fashion, and often that there is a connotation of someone or something being left behind, and that it's sort of like a shocking death where someone or something is left behind.

That's why it's called the Widowmaker. Called the Widowmaker. But it's not necessarily just associated with the death of a spouse. It also has the connotation of a death that can be somehow, like, I'm just going to give you a terrible example, right? But, like, in the case that someone departs early, it's unexpected, but somehow, let's say there's a really generous life insurance policy that is going to be this kind of silver lining that's like a lot. I've had a lot of client experience over the years.

So Vindemiatrix also has this association with not just deaths but losses, which are difficult things that come, and it's like, wow. I wasn't expecting that, and they almost leave people behind to have to deal with something in a state of loss, but then they also often impart a gift. And so I just thought this is a really specific fixed star. Now, in my experience with fixed stars, not all fixed stars are going to be relevant for all people. It really depends on how things are configured in your birth chart; I would say first and foremost, right? And I also don't want people to get scared because sometimes this can be very, very mundane like you can take it way down from the level of a death right to something like your furnace, your furnace dies, but you have a warranty, or whatever it's called, so it like, literally, please don't hear this and get all freaked out.

Whitney Kranz
Your boss quits, and you get a promotion. That's right, exactly, initially,

Adam Elenbaas
You could feel like you're left with a shit ton of work, and if. It feels like misfortune, but then suddenly, you're promoted from within. So it's that same kind of, like, kind of a silver lining that comes with a loss that also leaves you feeling like suddenly you have a lot on your plate that maybe someone else had, or something that's an interesting, very specific thing. Anyway, the reason I want to point that out is because let's go back to this moment. Okay, so here we are at the hour of the full moon. Am I in the right space here? Yeah, yeah. Okay, good. I just almost lost myself. All right.

So one of the things that I find to be really interesting about this is that one of the things that's happening, like almost right after the full moon, which in many ways what we're saying, could be a trigger point for some of the release of the effects of the Eclipse. I was thinking about Vindemiatrix, and all of a sudden, I went, isn't it interesting that at what I consider to be maybe one of the biggest manifestation or release points for the Eclipse energy? Right at that same time, Venus enters Sagittarius, and one of the things that is associated with Venus in Sagittarius is the being in the sudden receipt of something very beneficial. And now we have Venus, who rules the Eclipse, going from a state of stress and shock right after the full moon into a place where she often receives boons, blessings, and benefits. I just thought, wow, that's really interesting.

Where I almost want to tell people, like, Look, if things look kind of gnarly after the Eclipse, and I would watch for, like, around the full moon, and right after the full moon, it's possible that the energy shifts and some kind of relief or help or blessing or something that just makes things a little bit easier start to come in, because that's kind of the symbolism of a Vindemiatrix Eclipse cycle, as far as I can tell.

Whitney Kranz
Well, that's so interesting. And I have to admit that I was over here googling Vindemiatrix because, literally, I've never heard about Vindemiatrix before. So thank you for all sorts of lessons today, but it's so interesting. It goes back to what a lot of your lessons, Adam, even on the outer planet, say: These themes often echo each other. You know, we probably don't have to look for every particular fixed star placement, right? But that is present in everything that is happening at the same time as well. And I'll tell you, I'm looking forward to Venus entering Sagittarius. I love that you use the word relief because I made one note for this particular movement, and that was sweet relief.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, it really changes the nature of the month that transit. It really takes the difficulty in a different direction. It moves into that Scorpio Mercury stuff, which kind of relates to the point that you were saying. That's so brilliant. There is. I have a previous data point. If anyone wants to dig back in their personal biography, another one of these eclipses happened at 10 Libra on October 3, 2005, so if anyone wants to dig back, you can see another Vindemiatrix; of course, the other astrology is quite different. But relating to your point, Adam, I think this is where the moon tracking may really, really, really come into handy. If things are still tough for you, and if Mars and cancer are really tough, and the Eclipse is happening in a way that feels tough, look for those points in the month where the moon is making things nicer, better, sweeter, buffering. That can really, really help. That means that for the next few months there it's gonna life is gonna be happening on more of a weekly basis for you, and so that can help.

Adam Elenbaas
You know, it's interesting that you mentioned October. I have to tell you this story because I did not know. First of all, I did not know that I love that you're such a data nerd that is like it. I just love it because you bring stuff up, and I'm like, I have a good memory. So as soon as you do, I'm like, Oh, shit, that's my favorite thing. That's awesome. Um, so in October 2005, you said it was right, yeah, yeah. So, in October 2005, this is literally what happened. It was right before Halloween. So it would have been right after that Eclipse, I guess I had. I was maybe six or seven months into sobriety, having done Ayahuasca in South America as a way of kicking opiate addiction. And so sobriety was brand new for me, and there were temptations to relapse or regress, happening quite regularly, and I was doing pretty well.

Like there was, I think there was one or two over the summer where I drank or did some hard drugs or something, and the feedback was like, this is no longer it for me. And so it was all. All things considered, my path to sobriety was relatively quick, and I was able to not rebound suit in any super hard or bad way. But there was this person who I regularly did drugs with, who was calling me, like quite regularly, and he was a source of temptation for me, and I'm not this is going to sound shitty. He died. He died that October. He died of an overdose, and

Alexandra Blair
that is very on, I mean, the parallels for the discussion we were just having there, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
And when I heard that he died because a friend called me, first of all, I was just heartbroken, because it was a friend, and even if we were Druggy friends, which is like a weird, particular type of friendship, it was still a friend. And he actually fell off a roof while intoxicated. He was so intoxicated with drugs that he fell off a roof and died. And it was terrible. And yet this was a very dominatrix moment for me in that this was this terrible thing, and it left a gap in my friendship, for sure, but also the blessing was that my biggest temptation for relapse was no longer a part of my life, and I had such a hard time feeling this weird combination of grateful that I wouldn't have to deal with that temptation, and also horrible because it involved the death of someone that I cared about. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that was a Vindemiatrix eclipse in October. Then that's what happened, wild. That's incredible. And I think we're tapping into some sort of regular magic here. I mean, that was what happens when you're like, Hey, look at this state where the same thing happened. It's just magical. I love that you do that research, Alexandra; that's really fun.

Alexandra Blair
And if you guys want to do this kind of research, Adam is currently taking students a new round of classes. Yes, this has all been an elaborate ad. Yeah, yeah, let's,

Adam Elenbaas
Let's move into our next piece, which is the sun square to Pluto. And by the way, do that work? What I just did, like some, for some of you, like, Yeah, remember in my chart, also, by the way, I happen to have a planet closely configured to 10 Libra that rules the house of friendships in my chart. So there's a little bit that's specific, right? So, it may or may not show up for you, depending on the configurations of your chart, but it's not. It's not a bad idea to look back at October, November, and December of 2005 just to see you know what was going on.

Whitney Kranz
I didn't have an iPhone. Then how am I going to look back at it exactly? How do you have such a Facebook?

Adam Elenbaas
Oh,

Whitney Kranz,
oh, yeah. 1005 is a total Facebook era. I

Adam Elenbaas
Think that was kind of close to the beginning of Facebook in my life.

Whitney Kranz
Oh, it definitely is for me, too. Wow. You have a crazy, crazy, accurate memory. Adam, that's

Adam Elenbaas
We weren't even at Blackberry phones. Yet, were we in 2005

Whitney Kranz
actually, probably five. I might have been using a Motorola. That might have been my race.

Adam Elenbaas
We didn't have pagers where we said 911, call me. You guys have those. I had them in high school. Sorry, you're too old. Okay. I missed the pagers. Yeah, I had my metallic pink razor.

Adam Elenbaas
I just beat this very difficult level in James Bond Goldeneye's texting. It's an emergency page. I'm paging you call my house phone. I could just call you too, but no, I'm paging. Okay, well, Sun Square Pluto on October 22, this is oops. Let me get it right. There we go. Sun square Pluto on October 22. I feel like this is another really important moment for understanding that change of direction for Pluto that we were talking about earlier. But what do you guys think about this one?

Alexandra Blair
Well, I think this is, you know, we talked about this time of the year and how we go from sort of the light half of the air to the dark. And I think it's interesting, and people struggle to, like, feel how Libra is a part of that because I think most people associate Scorpio with that part of the year. But the entire month, the entire spooky month of October, is Libra season. How can it be? And I've been thinking a lot about how Libra really feels like the public image of everyone's breaking out their sweaters, and it's like cozy weather and the pumpkin spice, exactly. But what's happening is that there's there's a chasm opening under us, underfoot, in a way that's going to take us to the underworld. Going to take us into that darkness, into the stuff that we all kind of associate with, that and this, I mean, really kicks off right here as the sun squares Pluto and then immediately enters Scorpio, which Pluto and Scorpio have a special relationship. They just have a lot of synastry, their energy fields, and their archetypes. So there's, again, just this feeling of increasing as the month goes on the slow trod and eventually plunging into the darkness archetypally. And this contact, really, I feel like sends us sends us off. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I love that. I am. I saw this kind of in context with that previous full moon, and, you know, I was hinting at maybe a little bit of aggression toward our ambitions. And I wonder if something about this sun square Pluto is a bit of a reckoning around that, you know, like, are we dealing with the consequences of possible rash actions, you know, putting all rules aside and driving straight forward? That was really coming up for me, I think, from a, you know, more glass-half-full type of view; this could also ask us how those ambitions are transforming us, you know, how are our goals becoming realities? And I can't help but feel, with Mars in the mix, like a little bit of pressure here, you know, a little bit of pressure to do what's right. Are we feeling pressure from our own inner voice? Are we feeling pressure from leadership? These are some things that came up for me around Sun Square. I

Alexandra Blair
I love that you connected it back to the full moon because you see that the Moon and Mars are together again. Oh, it's like the moon kind of goes from a Mars-ruled sign back into that embodied space, bringing those things to fruit here in the material.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, like I sometimes do, what I like to do when I see a square is think about what kind of relationships the planets that rule the signs have with each other on an abstract or archetypal level, right? So what I think is interesting, though, is that here you could actually say that what Libra and Capricorn have in common is Saturn. Yeah, I'm like, oh, that's an interesting way of looking at it, where we don't always think of the Sun in Libra as ruthless. Pretty much nobody, when you first learned astrology, would think, Oh, the sun in Libra is ruthless. No Capricorn. Yeah, sure. You could think, oh, Capricorn, so ruthless. They'll do anything to get to their goal and so forth. But one of the things that one of the shadows of Libra can be, let's call it like, a, and I think I usually used this phrase last time. It's like a velvet glove over an iron hand, you know, and so, and I'm not saying, I'm just saying this is a shadow that's there in Libra because of the Saturnian exaltation, and Saturn's dark side, obviously can be things like control in Libra that can be cloaked in something like perfectionism, right? So you have an idea that's beautiful and lofty, and you could even say you could convince yourself that it's noble. Well, I think, think if you think about, like the ruthlessness of a character like Kevin Spacey and House of Cards, or Robin Wright Penn with, I think who played his wife, that kind of that looks like a very it's like a veneer of civilized, refined behavior. But there are designs, there are plots. There are plans behind the surface that are very calculated. You know, perfectly drawn lines and angles are formed. I think a little bit about that as a dark side of this transit. I think there are other potentials, too, like the potential to transform a situation through emotional sensitivity and useful diplomacy or something like that. One of the dark sides could also be that we're starting to see something very political, very calculated, and sort of darker than it appears on the surface. I expect to see this personally. It really brings to my mind stuff that's happening probably close to the election and in the collective right. You know, just political gamesmanship is what I'm getting at. But a more constructive for me, a more constructive version of this would be like with Mars and the Moon. And cancer involved, it would be sort of like when your plan needs a dose of greater sensitivity or care or emotional intelligence added. It can't just be a purely rational or calculated, ambitious mood. There are greater emotional realities and truths and care and concern and nurturing and things like that that need to somehow come into the

Alexandra Blair
equation. That's such a good point. I think you kind of to your point about ruthlessness. I'm also thinking about Mars in detriment there, and that's part of why, whereas Mars is exalted in Capricorn. So these three signs also have something martial in common, though it's different. It's not that they're sharing a Mars expression. It's, there's something disjointed and sharp

Adam Elenbaas
There, right? It's like, yeah, that's a great point. I love that, by the way. I'm still waiting for you to drop a ballerina into it. I need that again, and I'm trying to repeat it. I ended up sending people to weird places. I'll write it down for you.

Adam Elenbaas
So, yeah, but Sun-Pluto, obviously, is like paternal karma on a super basic level. You know, leaders, fathers. Anyone who acts like a head of state or whatever can go through that process of transformation. Also, one of the great things about the sun, Pluto, is just the illumination of unconscious material. It just catalyzes some ability to bring things up from a more subterranean space into the light of awareness or something like that.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, that's a thorough line to our point about working with this Plutonian-like Pluto in the last degree of Capricorn thing. This is the last time; by the time the sun comes around to conjoin with Pluto, Pluto will be an Aquarius, so if you have any unresolved dad stuff from the past 16 years, for example, or claiming of personal agency, or stepping into that ambition and power. These are good times for that on the positive as well. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
Great. Our final segment for the day is the 28th through the 31st, which is a tough end of the month. I will let Whitney know. Do you want to start us off here? Anything that comes to your mind during these last couple of days of the month? Do month?

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, you know, I'm thinking about this chronologically, of course here. So what do we have on the 28th there? Thank you. The little arrow is Venus square, Saturn. And you know, of course, Venus here in Sagittarius does lack dignity, but like we've covered, she's in a lot better place than she was before in Scorpio, and we have both planets in Jupiter signs, so it's just not quite as heavy that said, this feels really melancholic to me. I think that we're taking some of this back to the beginning of the month when these planets were engaged in a Trine, so there's a little bit of an echo happening with this square. And so if we were feeling at the beginning of the month with the Eclipse, some of these feelings for yearning, I think that a lot of that might be coming back up here as a like desire for more, and a really potent example that I visualized was like, we're left outside the gates, and we are on the outside looking in. And so what do we do with that? You know? How does that make us feel? I don't know. In Jupiter signs and with Venus now and sad, like, maybe we're just going to jump the gates, and maybe that's what happens, right? But that really came up for me with that particular transit, you know, we've also got it, and I don't know, maybe this would be a good time to let you all in as well to share Venus and Saturn. But this is also obviously happening just before Mercury opposes Uranus and Mercury is trining Neptune. This is happening on the 30th and the 31st, and actually, this is where Mercury is trining Neptune; we have another Grand Water Trine forming with Mars that will actually exact in the very beginning of November. But something that came up for me with this is, like. Yeah, I got an image of the four cups right in the tarot. And I wonder if, with the Mercury opposing Uranus and This Grand Water Trine forming, we're not recognizing kind of what we've been ignoring in our consciousness, like that shifting of a mindset and or fear of exposure, you know, like, I think there's a risk here of maybe becoming fascinated or enchanted with a shiny object and escaping reality as well. So that was kind of like word vomit about all of this at the end of the month. It's just, you know, a little melancholic, a little mercury. Wow, that's murky for Mercury. Oh, look. And there we have the four cups. Thank you for the visual. Adam,

Adam Elenbaas
I like that you brought it up. It's such a great association with the idea of there being something that is offered, and are we somehow closing ourselves down to it, which feels like a very complaint Saturn in Pisces, like not accepting the joy that Venus is bringing on through a superior square? Like, here, I'm here with Jupiterian Love, and I can just, I just feel like, oh, there's Saturn in Pisces, being like, I'm sad, or I'm whatever. I just like that's a great association with a Venus Saturn square, especially considering Venus's position in sag and some of the other things you said; I think it connects nicely as well. But I just thought everyone, if they didn't know the four cups, here's what you were talking about. Let me put the beautiful.

Alexandra Blair
I thought again, some parallel thinking, because when I see the sun, Pluto stuff like, to me, that is the hero's journey, and the closing square of that is kind of like the moment where you return changed in the hero's journey. So you found out that this whole other world and this whole other calling exists, and you have this epic experience, and then you return home changed. And to me, that kind of spoke to Saturn and Pisces, as well as Venus and Sagittarius. It's like the longing for that adventure that you had in the big world. We think a little bit about Bilbo and the Shire, and it's like Saturn saying, No, you can't escape. You have to come back home and integrate the things you've learned back into your daily life. You have to return changed, and Venus is just sitting here, kind of romanticizing about it. I don't need this. I could just go back on the road. I don't have to be here in my dumb, old house with my silly family. I want to go back on the open road. So that kind of was that tension, that very natural tension, kind of showed up to me here with that, too.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah. Alex will be proud that we brought Lord of the Rings into the conversation.

Adam Elenbaas
He will absolutely be thrilled

Adam Elenbaas
You're fine. I like the Venus Saturn moment as well as anything Venusian; I mean, obviously, you have the death of Venusian things, right? That's like a dark, heavy symbolism where you, again, death card, almost never literal, right? So it's like a figurative death. But that kind of Venus here is reaching a point of greater maturity, the encounter of Venus and Saturn in things like mortality or painful events, especially in love and relationships. It might have to do with the pleasure body and refinements of how we understand pleasure and how we pursue it. Do we even allow ourselves to pursue things like that? I think Venus and Saturn also like that. I think it was a Frank Sinatra song, Autumn of Our Years. It's like late life. Love Venus Saturn. Venus Saturn is kind of like wine, which takes 100 years to reach its perfect moment or something. So, things that are good Venusian quality often also take time. And so when you think about Libra, a sign that is CO ruled by Venus and Saturn, I also think about whatever Libra is asking us to mature. You know, however, Libra is asking us to grow up, grow wiser, grow into something refined, this idea of crystallized insight or wisdom from the south node, well, this is a great inflection point to actually be sort of gathering some of those insights or lessons from the Eclipse, right? This is because the CO rulers of the Eclipse are getting into a conversation with one another. And I. This is like Venus overcoming Saturn, which is important here because this is not a moment where Saturn wins. I don't think I agree. You know, it just doesn't feel that way. And Saturn is also in Venus's exaltation. Yeah. You know, the benefics, although they're opposed to one another, have rulership over Saturn by domicile and exaltation. So I feel like this is a moment where there's something that's being crystallized, but it might be quite beautiful, and maybe it's a little like melancholic, or maybe there's a little element of, like, the pain that was behind the growth or something, but a little bittersweet, maybe. But I like this moment for Venus and Saturn.

Alexandra Blair
I think it actually reminds me. Ashley shared the sweetest picture of your daughter creating a beautiful little poultice on a tree branch that was recently cut. During the past couple of months of astrology at the grant, the T square business was so hard for people with Sagittarius placements because that T square was a Grand Cross for them. So I've seen so many clients with, like, a Sagittarius moon or something for the past couple of months that were really hard with all that mutable stuff. And so this Venus coming through feels like a little poultice, like that little balm on the owy. That's just gonna be like, I love nice things here, too. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure. You know it. It's it's interesting to me. I can't help but stare at the moon and look at this. The moon will be configured for the four planets and the mutable signs around that time, too, in Virgo. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
it's crazy how significant it is. I wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't lived it. And now it's like, Oh no, the moon is going to be so significant over the next few months.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Well, we have, like, the other thing that I wanted to say something about, and I want to get Whitney, wasn't it? You who said that Mercury, you know, is Mars Uranus that you compared to swashbuckling Johnny Depp and pirate? Yes, yes. But, like, I really Water Trine, God, yeah, We have this Water Trine coming in as Mercury opposes Uranus. What do you what do you think about that? Whitney?

Whitney Kranz
Well,

Adam Elenbaas
I put you on the spot.

Whitney Kranz
No, I love it. I was kind of hinting at this before, right, but I feel like there are a couple of different ways that we could go here, and the Grand Water Trine, to me, feels like, on a positive note, we're in a dream world. It's like mysticism and depth of spirit, right? At the same time, they oppose Mercury. I mean, okay, here we are again, like mercury Uranus, we're gleaning unexpected insights, but that's what the astrology is saying, right? So, is there a deeper connection to the Oracle here? Right? We are gleaning these insights from our depth of spirit and what we have been, you know, searching for in our journey. I think that's the really positive side. And I think that they're depending on how this falls in your chart, right? From a collective perspective, this is really setting us up for the election. I think there could be a chance here of, like, escapism, maybe some subversion, you know, like Secrets Revealed, etc. So that's what's really coming up for me if you're putting me on the spot. But you know, I prepared. So,

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I am so, like, I wanted to hear what you guys thought because Uranus will be on my ascendant, so that mercury Uranus will be across my ascendant descendant, this big watery Trine. So I'm, like, always.

Alexandra Blair
wants a free read. You know, Adam,

Adam Elenbaas
What's gonna happen to me? Whitney

Whitney Kranz
Adam the Oracle is speaking another plug. You

Adam Elenbaas
Now, what I find really, like, super interesting about this, though, is that I really liked what you said about it being deep and mystical and that kind of surprising, unexpected. Mercury Uranus dynamic feels, I don't know, so much less, like it just seems to me, with all the water in the air and Neptune and so forth, like it's not a fender bender, or the very least, it's a mystical fender bender, if you're in anything's gonna happen, that's sort of like disruptive and kind of jarring, you know? And I. Use offender Bender as an example. This is one that has a lot of emotional depth and power behind it, whereas, as you said, if you're someone who pays attention to things, you pay attention to astrology. This isn't going to be missed, and this probably serves to deepen your instincts and your intuition and maybe give you really valuable feedback. So even if there's a little surprise around this moment, I just feel like what you said about the mystical depth of the moment is going to be profound enough to probably provide some silver lining as big grand trines do, right? They're all trines, and I think the silver lining might be kind of mystical and a little heavier on an emotional level, but it's there. Absolutely love it. Yeah, I

Alexandra Blair
feel like, from a mundane perspective, at this point; we have Mars entering into that opposition with Pluto. But there's so much stuff going on with the outer planets, too, right? So Uranus and Pluto are in a trine. They're both sextile Neptune. There's so much big stuff. It feels like atmospheric tension and pressure at the end of October when you're talking about the mystical. You didn't say fog, but that's what I was thinking of, as it feels like atmospheric tension and pressure at the end of October. No surprise. We know what's going on. We know it's going to be coming. But I think there's, you know, I like to be optimistic, like, I don't think we need to always be pessimistic all the time. We need to be realistic in that the atmosphere is going to be quite electric, quite obscured, and quite dense, with just really inflammatory rhetoric. And then, you know, there are things that we can do, namely, being aware of it, right? But like to de-escalate that, to know that that's not everything that's happening, that that's not everything that's happening in your life. And that is kind of atmospheric. I'm just imagining those electrical storms going on around that time.

Adam Elenbaas
And there could literally be, seriously, literal trans, uh, transmissions of like, water, like, or like, Uh, excuse me, appearances of water. It's something that I'm always like, well, let's not take it too literally. And then a Grand Water Trine comes through, and there's the biggest flood that's ever happened. And, yeah, you know, it's crazy how the literalness of the water can sometimes actually show up.

Unknown Speaker
Oh boy, we better start sandbagging her.

Adam Elenbaas
You know, it's funny to me how the water, like Mars, and cancer went over Mercury. My second house ruler, my fifth house ruler. So I had a daughter with a sprained ankle, and then there was a bill because of our dish. What do you call it? Dish, the disposal? What is the disposal? Disposal? Yeah, right, in the sink, yes. Okay, so I couldn't remember its name. No garbage in there. Hand In there. Like my kids are learning to wash. Do not put your hand in there. So, yeah, like, I had to pay for a new garbage disposal in the sink, right? As you know, Mars in Cancer was on Mercury. I'm like that. That's stupid. Literal. You know what I mean? What I always take is a challenge, and I don't like it, but it doesn't always work. But if I go, what does garbage disposal represent? Like, is there trash I need to take out? Is there something that I'm unable to take out? I start looking at the literal manifestations in terms of others, like psychological symbolism, and sometimes, you can find interesting correlations going on in your life.

Alexandra Blair
That's going to be so true with these Moon things going on. You talk about this in your lectures and in your classes, as if there are two points of the mandala meeting the symbolism somewhere in the circle, touching. And that is really how it feels like I told you when the moon entered cancer this past week, it was like a balloon. I was holding a balloon for my son, and it hit my head and popped on my face, and I had a big red, angry mark on my face. And then my son almost fell, so I lurched to catch him, and I stepped onto a picture frame with, like, family pictures and broke the glass. Like I was like, Yeah, okay, this is this is not me. This is the mandala touching itself like there's some physical thing happening here. So I think that kind of symbolism is going to play into things a lot, yeah, in the next few months. Whitney, anything

Adam Elenbaas
You want to leave us with before we sign off today. And the same thing for you. Alexandra,

Whitney Kranz
Oh gosh, just that, you know, hang, hang in there. Folks. We've got a bit of a watery emotional ride. And we are, you know, just buckling up for the rest. Of, you know, especially Mars and cancer season. I feel like, Isn't that funny? We have talked probably 12 different times today about Mars and cancer. It feels so potent, and we will probably continue to do so in November as well. That's all I've got except, you know, thanks again. And I just love this. I honestly think we could keep going. I know we're already at, like, an hour and 40 minutes, but we could, I could keep going. This is so great.

Adam Elenbaas
For sure. And if you guys want to connect with Whitney, you can connect with her at Astroarcana.com, where you can book a reading with her, and on Instagram, Astro.Arcana.astrology, where you can follow all of her latest posts. I will say, Whitney, after you mentioned us talking all about Mars and cancer, one of my favorite parts about Mars and cancer transits is that you have really super reactive, emotional people in the comments section telling you that you have no fun with Mars and your favorite part, I just think it's funny because I'm like, but you're doing it.

Adam Elenbaas
No, we try very hard. I think we have done a good job. Honestly, I think we've done a good job at saying how amazing this placement can be, and we understand why it's difficult, but it's, it's easy to talk about because this is really a climate in cancer that, like, brings change, and it brings good changes, but sometimes they're just a little charged. You know, Alexandra, what are your last thoughts before we go?

Alexandra Blair
No, I mean, I agree. It's fun to watch the comments, and there are a lot of really awesome ways that Mars and cancer can present natally or mundane. I've been posting some of that on my Instagram page so you can check it out. But I just want to say that, you know, like it is, it does look kind of tough, and it's so easy to, like, we talked about a few times using astrology, and I get really anxious and feel this escalation. Let's all kind of keep that in mind, that the rhetoric and the atmosphere is one thing, and we can retreat from that when we need to care for ourselves. Think that's a big lesson of the Mars in Cancer is like defending your your space to rest and to care for yourself, even if it feels radical or a departure from who you have normally been. Oh, that's

Unknown Speaker
an important reminder right now,

Adam Elenbaas
That's good advice. Yeah, yeah. I read an essay last week from a mentor of mine, Jeffrey Cornelius, who recently passed, and in his essay, you know, he was talking about the fact that in order to maintain some sense of cultural or social legitimacy, we sort of cloak astrology in this objective, pseudo-scientific language. His point was always to insist that what we're working with are signs and symbols, and our poetic use and interpretation of them is at the heart of what we do. And so you know, our goal is always my goal. Our goal, all three of us, is always to present you with multiple poetic possibilities, not so much to tell you what's going to happen but to give you ways of understanding things as they unfold that are useful. If in that process, it's making you anxious. It's not going to offend me; it's not going to offend any of us. It's not going to offend the gods. If you need to just not listen for a minute, especially during Eclipse seasons, when things are really intense, or if you're going through a particularly intense period of your life, take what nourishes you and set aside the anxiety because this is not some kind of objective, like causal model that's just blindly and mechanistically laying out things that you're meant to suffer through, right? It is a system of signs, omens, and patterns that we look into as a way of helping guide ourselves through different seasons of life. This is a season of life in October that we're all going to go through and experience. We can do it together on a channel like this, and we can reflect in different poetic ways. That's why I have two wonderful co-hosts to help me reflect and bounce light off the jewel at different angles. And we hope that you'll share your stories with us. If you have a story to share, you can use the hashtags grabbed@nightlight and #grabbed, and then tell us your story in the comment section or email us. Grabbed@nightlightastrology.com and we will bring your story to our next episodes.

When other people hear what you're going through and how you reflected and responded, what you learned, what the internal meaning was for you, and some random event that was so like, it's off the radar. It's like, why would you believe this? You know, I saw Rahu in the clouds and then avoided gunfire outside. Like, that's crazy. We love hearing your stories anyway, so please share them. You want to hook up with Alexandra for a reading at 9livesastrology.com. It is the place to find her work and book a reading with her. And if you would like to connect with Alexandra in terms of her regular astrology content on Instagram, it's also 9Livesastrology, and I have I also really enjoyed a post that you did exploring some of the archetypal symbolism of Mars and Cancer in relation to Stephen King. That was because I love him. I use his chart in some of my classes. I love that post. And I also loved the way that you've been working archetypes in relation to things like art and stuff like that. Whitney and I are both great followers on Instagram.

So make sure that you guys follow them if you want insight into how some of these things are affecting you; because you feel a little anxious, you are in good hands with these two ladies who will just give a lot of care to you and where you're at if you want to look at these things in an actual reading too. So check that out. That is it for this month. We will be back next month for more and more stories to share and things to reflect on. So, we hope that you have a great month, and we will see you all again in November. Bye, everyone.