The Astrology of September 2024

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, I am joined by my friends and colleagues, Alexandra Blair and Whitney Kranz, to discuss astrology for the month of September. You guys have met Alexander and Whitney over the past couple of months. I'm really glad that they're back and like my regular wing women and so, so stoked to have them here and to break down another month of astrology. We are also going to be reading a few of your stories. We asked all of you to send in some stories about your experiences with astrology last month, and we gathered a few of those. Would also like to encourage you guys to do that again this month. If you have a story to share, I'll tell you how to do that in a minute here.

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You can see that on September 19, I am doing a talk on Venus's 12 Love Languages. The subtitle is Falling in Love through the Zodiac. And what I'm going to be doing is telling you the kinds of archetypal stories that Venus tells about our love lives by virtue of the sign that she is in at the time of our birth. I really think you'll enjoy this. It's a really deep dive into your Venus placement that I think a lot of people will get, get something good from.

In October, I'm doing a talk on the myth of astrological compatibility, some of the big problems that I see with every kind of common, basic way of approaching astrological compatibility. I'm going to give you what I think actually works. So I hope you guys will enjoy that talk as well. When you register, you will get the live link for the webinar, but you'll also get the recording afterward.

If you can't make it live, go to the Courses page, and you'll see the astrology for beginners course, which is brand new. The sale on that has ended, but you can still pick it up. It might be a good place to start before joining our first-year course, which starts in November, and registration will open on September 9.

So, I will be promoting that first-year program more soon. The sale for that program will begin here in another week. So stay tuned for more on that, and on that note, I am really excited to bring back my co-hosts, Alexandra and Whitney.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, this is awesome. I'm so, like, August was a huge month. We were just before we started recording, we were all off camera or whatever, or off platform, talking about the craziness of August. July had a lot of astrology. August had a lot of astrology. We're rolling into eclipse season now, so the fun is not gonna stop. But it was a big month. It was a big month for everybody.

Before we get started today, here are a couple of headlines. We have some stories that you all sent in from last month. I'm going to pick a few stories that I thought were fun and also tell you how to share stories for September's astrology as the month goes on. And then we might read some of your stories, you know, in October when we start October's overview. So that should be fun, but yeah, I mean, let's just say I'd love to hear how you guys are doing. How was August? You go first, Alexandra.

Alexandra Blair
August was an awesome, wild ride. I felt like I could barely catch a breath, and that's mainly because Mars-Jupiter was conjoining atop my natal Sun and Mercury in Gemini. And so that was just, I mean, I walked a lot. If you're following me on Instagram, I was walking like 20,000 steps a day, and I had so many fun, creative moments. I was in New York. I'm home now. It was just a cool, wild ride. And I was telling you, guys, a little bit before, but you know, we sit here and say, Oh, boundaries are going to come up, or there may be some restrictions, and then I'm always somehow shocked when it's happening to me. Whoa. This applies to me. Too crazy. It's just my own chart, which is a mystery to me. So it was fun to see the astrology be revealed to me and witness my own boundaries, where there were things that I wanted to do and I just the day would end, and I was like, That was how many hours we're in the day, and those things have not been done. And so now I will go to bed, right? Yeah. How was it for you? Whitney.

Whitney Kranz
Oh, man, I moved in August. Hi, new space; if you can recognize it, thank you. I know my wait over here; it's mirrored my rainbow bookshelf. Very proud of that styling. That's cool. No, that's the Venus in Virgo, right? Make it beautiful and organized. So you know what I was. You probably remember me telling you how scared I was that I picked the 16th to move, which was the Mars Saturn transit, and it ended up being just so helpful. We were able to work so hard and just get shit done right, so that, thankfully, we avoided any sort of volatility that was in the air and channeled it into probably the quickest move that we have ever done, which was amazing, you know? And there were some Venus aspects around the full Moon, and Venus was actually in Virgo conjunct with my natal Moon. And it all ended up feeling just very positive, like, Oh, we realize newness and beauty and security, which is kind of what we had felt like we lost from the Venus-Pluto dynamic in July if you remember that story. So, yeah, it was awesome. I'm just glad to be on the other side of the move, and now we'll see what's in store for September. Right?

Adam Elenbaas
With all of this action in the sky, I had an experience I wanted to share. The story is really quick, and then I want to share some of everybody else's stories. So around Venus's opposition with Saturn, which came in around that full moon traffic jam, um, my oldest daughter, who recently decided that she wants her own bedroom, right? So they were, she was sleeping with her sister, and she's like, I want my own bedroom. And it was a big, heartbreaking mess for my younger daughter, and like, so it was like, we finally got them into their own rooms. And then, of course, the younger one has no problem sleeping. She's out like a log with no super direction. She's gold. And the older one, who wanted her own room, is freaking out. It's so funny. It was like it was all peaking, like her amount of fear and anxiety. I was like, Oh, my God, we have to, like, medicate her like it was bad. I was, like, not gonna do, but, yeah, we were, no, we were, like, the all the herbs were out.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, I know Ashley was cooking something up. God,

Adam Elenbaas
it was a mess. And then this crazy thing happened, as those two things were peaking, right? And we were trying, like, every trick in the book, you know, bribery, if you sleep through the night so many nights in a row, nothing is working. And finally, I said we had this amazing father/daughter talk one night, and it was really cool because, I mean, to be completely frank, my girls usually really deeply open up to Ashley, and they'll open up to me too, but more so they go to mom for that right now. And I'm sure that'll maybe shift as they get older. Who knows. But yeah, so this was kind of cool because it was kind of a moment for me, right as a dad, I was like, Okay, wow, she's really opening up to me.

And so I, for the first time in her life, I shared with her a very, like, I don't know, a very abstract version of my ayahuasca experiences and about facing fear, and I just told her, I participated in some ceremonies in the jungle, and they were kind of scary and, you know, and one of the things that I liked about them was that I had to, I had to go through things that were scary, and I had to figure out what tools I had inside of me to, like, get through it, right? And so, and I didn't know if any of this would land with her or not because you got to keep it short, you know.

Anyway, the next day, she came up to me and showed me a book that she had, and what, like, a long time ago, it was kind of like the inside-out stuff. She was curious about emotions. We got her a book, and it had something about anxiety in it, right? Well, on the back of this book, there were other books the author had written. And she came and said, Look, this author wrote a book that said what to do if you have trouble sleeping at night for kids. Can I get that book? And I said, Sure, so I ordered her the book from Amazon.

You know, whatever next day delivery comes, and it's just this little book, and she sits down, and she's, like, pouring through it. She's a Virgo rising with Jupiter and Virgo, too. So, okay, you know, like she's into it. And she comes up to me, and she goes, Dad, I figured it out. And I was like, Okay. And she, in the book, there's a game, she read the whole book, cover to cover, and then in the book there was this game. And it's like you put three tickets on the door, three little tickets, and you can use those three tickets to call mommy and daddy, and they can come to the door. You have to stay in bed. You can't get up. They can't hug you or touch you, but you can call out to them, and they can come, and they can just offer a little soothing, like, it's okay, you know, you'll be okay.

Good night. We're going to bed now, whatever. But you can call three times, and if you, however many tickets in the morning that you keep right, you start adding those up. And then when you get to, like, 15 or something, you get to decide a fun thing to do with one of your parents.

So she was like, I want to do this. This is going to work. I want to do it. She became just like, bound and determined to get her tickets. And she did it. She just got the tickets, she started working on it, and then she cashed him in, and we had a daddy-daughter movie night where we just, like, ate popcorn and watched a movie together. And I was so proud of her. I was like, That's so cute. Put this together; you figured it out. Of course, Venus is in my fifth house of children, you know, opposing Saturn. And so I thought that was really kind of a neat story. And for her, that was Venus Saturn across her first and seventh, so I thought that was so sweet. Kind of a neat man. Really adorable.

Adam Elenbaas
I was so, I was like, I was we had some friends over, and I was like, she's so resourceful, you know, she, like, dug into her. And then, you know, she was saying, we were sitting there, and she goes, Well, you told me that you one time went to the jungle and had to find tools. And I was like, Oh, my God, she actually listened. She's recording, yeah. I was like, that's so cool. I don't get those moments all the time. So that was neat, amazing.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, yeah, how about this? This is the full Moon and Aquarius story from one of you that you shared. I like this one. I thought it was kind of funny. Full Moon in Aquarius in August; as a 30-something-year-old, married mother of two, I decided to take half an edible for the first time one night after the kids went to bed. Let's just say I zooted off to space bye, having too many to count, realizations of repeat patterns within myself, how to fix it all, blowing my mind, all while leveling my head As I lay, melting into the blankets with the worst cottonmouth, and I'm able to fully open my eyes. But in all seriousness, it has made me realize I've been in a dark place for a while, and I am a little afraid of having a beautiful life so profound.

Whitney Kranz
Oh my gosh, seeing the patterns is a bigger picture. Could it be any more Aquarian, right? And wasn't the full Moon with square Uranus, right?

Adam Elenbaas
So these unexpected insights, oh, this was a Venus opposite Saturn story. I'll share this one too, maybe one more after this, and then we'll get going Saturn, of Saturn in the eighth house, opposite Venus in the second in this woman's chart, an internal dialog of my sensual self, longing for sexual expression and connection have been held back strictly by my Saturnian discrimination, expressing itself into long periods of celibacy.

On a deeper layer, in the Saturnian side, there's some fear projection, judgment on the emotional cords created by opening up sexually to someone else, or even judgment of orgasming and being scared or paranoid to do so I'm just kind of summarizing a little bit of a jumbled sentence. Finally, I feel strengthened. Venus has helped me to start loosening up, and I'm feeling called to express more of my sexual energy. Again, I'm summarizing a number of paragraphs here. I'm allowing myself to experience sensuality without judgment, and I might even gently and carefully step into sensuality with another human being. Now,

Alexandra Blair
thought that was pretty cool. That's beautiful and probably involves some of the eighth house karmic entanglements to use your eighth house talk recently, which is something I've been thinking about so much lately. I've just seen so many clients who have a Saturn that it is hard until you're like at that age where they say Saturn matures. I don't know that I have seen that work so well for all the other planets, but Saturn most certainly has a maturation age, and Saturnian things can become a lot more beautiful later in their existence.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. I'll share one more. Does that sound okay? Yeah. Let's do it. Uh, my wife has mercury retrograde in her natal chart in the eighth house. This was when it went into Leo. Today, it is that Mercury Retrograde conjoined her natal Mercury Retrograde in Leo, and she received notice that her credit card had been hacked and 1000s of dollars spent. I. My God, that was, of course, that word that she's, he's mentioning the degree, which would have been the square to Uranus, too. So, Mercury square to Uranus, which was hitting her natal Mercury Retrograde in the eighth house, comes back with the cyber security issue. The credit card company was on it. All monies will be returned to her, but the symbolism was so striking I couldn't help but share it with you guys.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, no kidding. Okay, yeah, I know we have to get to the astrology of the month, but can I share a grabbed story about retrograde? Okay? Because I think this actually really relates to what we just heard. So this happened to me: Mercury Retrograde was conjunct with Venus in Virgo. That was earlier in the month. And, you know, Virgo, where Mercury is supercharged, is my second house, and Pisces, whose exalted ruler, Venus, rules my eighth house, right? So that was that second, eighth house connection.

On this day, I received a flurry of text messages and calls. I, of course, didn't answer the calls. I'm a millennial, and so the text messages all say something like, Hi Andrew, with an X number credit score, you could receive this as a mortgage. Hi Andy, with however many 10s of 1000s of dollars in debt, I can get you this deal for a mortgage buyout, right? I'm like, oh, no, is this credit card fraud?

So uncharacteristically, by the sixth phone call, I answer it like, what is going on here? Oh, are you not Andrew? I won't say the last name, no, but that's my ex-husband from over a decade ago. So here is Mercury giving me this little gift of insight into how grateful I am that my assets are no longer entangled with this person with a subpar credit score and 10s of $1,000 in credit card debt. Wow. So, I actually reached out to him. I texted him. I was like, What's going on here, sir? Can you remove my information from your application? He's like, I think this is phishing. Whitney. I had nothing to do with this. I don't know. My God, still hasn't been resolved.

Today, I got one of these messages. I'm like, oh boy. I changed all my passwords and did all of the things; wow. So how about that for Mercury retrograde? Well, yeah, Mercury turns, I mean, as we're recording this a little before it airs, but we're recording this, and Mercury has not yet turned direct, so maybe it'll straighten out soon.

Alexandra Blair
Maybe this recording won't exist when it's over. It's been really spicy this one. They aren't always, but, you know, Mercury gets to be its little trickster self in Virgo. And I feel that I went on an international road trip. Mercury in Virgo is in my ninth house, and so you can imagine all the mayhem. So, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
well, let's ask. Let's go around the room here and ask, what is your transit of the month for September? What do you what do you have marked as, like the epicenter of September?

Whitney Kranz
I mean, it's the Eclipse. Isn't it fair? I mean, no, okay, I will give you a real answer. Um, of course. I chose the happiest transit of them all: Venus, the Trine, Trine Jupiter. That's cute. I was like, That's a cute moment this month, and I feel like it is informing our partial lunar Eclipse, right? Because the Eclipse happens in Pisces, and this is a transit between its rulers, Venus and Jupiter, it just feels really bold and buoyant, like some grand ideas are happening.

Adam Elenbaas
I like that one. That's a really good one. What do you have, Alexandra?

Alexandra Blair
I think I'm thinking about the Sun opposite Saturn. And I'm thinking about that because we've, at this point, had three Saturn-ruled full moons in a row. So the Sun has been coming to the negotiating table of the opposition with Saturn's representative for three months in a row, and at this moment, the Sun actually sits down at that negotiating table with Saturn themself, and it's going to be relevant for the Eclipse as well because Saturn is a. Pisces impacting that Eclipse. So this is going to be the fourth lunation in a row that has a heavy Saturn imprint, which is so weird because it's summer, and we had this Saturn epic from 2017 to 2023 where Saturn, you know, was in Capricorn and Aquarius. And now we just, it's like it was quiet for a couple of months. But don't worry, it's it's Saturn girl summer all over again. So I think the sun Saturn opposition is really interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. There are so many different ones to choose from. There are a lot of aspects this month. They're not all happening in like three days, as they have been in August and July. But, um, I think that the Sun opposite Neptune coming right off from the Eclipse is really interesting, too, because it's almost as though the Eclipse is like an initial trigger for that Sun Neptune opposition. So I feel like from the Eclipse through the Sun Neptune, I'm really fascinated by that kind of Neptunian symbolism around the same time; we'll see what that looks like. But that's a kind of otherworldly signature that I don't know. It's exciting. I feel like Jupiter and Saturn are kind of fading a little bit.

Now, Jupiter Saturn, to me, was very nuts and bolts. I felt like I was getting, like the manual, a complicated piece of Ikea furniture. And like, you know, like, take this apart, put it together like it was a lot of that. And I feel like this month there's a little bit more, almost like some weird, otherworldly ashram that we might be going to like in the middle of the month. Something very imaginative about that signature that I thought was kind of neat. The other one, frankly, that I kept looking at was Venus square Pluto. I think that's kind of fascinating, given that Pluto's very last stand and Capricorn is happening. So this is the last time that we get Venus and Pluto contacting each other while Pluto's in Capricorn. So that's kind of,

Alexandra Blair
I know Venus is dignified, and there's something special there, for sure.

Adam Elenbaas
So anyway, why don't we go ahead and get into it and roll through these? We'll tell you what we think about each of them in order, starting at the beginning of the month, as we always do. And I am going to put the real-time clock up now and get my little epic pen out. Here we go. Can you see if it says September 1?

Whitney Kranz
What kind of personality are they today that today?

Adam Elenbaas
Let's start with this September 2. We have a New Moon in Virgo. We can see it coming through here, and at the exact same time, on the same day, we're seeing Mars go through a square to Neptune. It's an interesting combination, and I'd be curious to hear what comes to your mind when looking at, you know, one of them or both of them. What do you guys think?

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, this, um, this New Moon in Virgo feels like we're planting seeds here, right? We're planting seeds out of concern for the harvest, and I can't help but notice that this happens shortly after the Moon opposes Saturn as well, right? And so I feel like, to me, this is asking us, like, how do we how do we get it right? You know, like, as we're pushing forward with this momentum, how are we getting it right? That's my quickest hit with the Moon in Virgo.

Alexandra Blair
I totally agree with that take, and I think the month kind of starts a lot more harmonious than it ends with this degree of Virgo. Interestingly, I think the Moon is exactly 11 degrees. In 2026, there will be a total lunar at 12 Virgo. And in 2027, there will be a Mars Retrograde, touching all the way back to 10 Virgo. So this is a degree that is going to be significant and important for the next two and a half, three years of development. If you have points, you know, at around 11, this might be relevant or interesting, but it looks like this new Moon is relevant in a story arc that kind of persists through some eclipses and some Retrogrades that are going to be happening over the next couple of years.

Adam Elenbaas
That's a fascinating way. Yeah, I think that's a really interesting way of thinking about it, especially if we also consider the Mars Neptune signature. Yeah. After. Because when I think of new moons, I think of a seating point, right? So, as Alexander said, the seating point has an arc that's coming with it over the next couple of years. If you think about Mars squaring Neptune at the same time, that's fascinating because it would almost suggest that there is, like, a sense of mission or purpose, that's, you know, some transcendental sense of vision or ideal, the kind of crusading quality of Mars and Neptune that is part of the New Moon in Virgo.

I think the New Moon in Virgo is, doesn't, you know, it's not like you think of Virgo and you think Crusader, you know, it's like, more like Sagittarius Pisces, those Jupiter ruled signs on the Mars Neptune square feels like Crusader. But one thing that's interesting about Virgo is that I agree with what Whitney said, that there's sometimes this feeling of like I need to do the right thing, or there's a concern with what is good, what is pure, and what is helpful or useful.

And so I wonder about the crusade being about helpfulness, service, usefulness, goodness, purity, and things like that. And then Mars Neptune's tendency to want to save or redeem, right? So could this be whether there's some service motivation to save or redeem or help, some, you know, someone, or some kind of collective feeling of needing to serve a cause or a purpose? Those are some of the themes that kind of blend together in my mind well.

Whitney Kranz
And I think that's really interesting, too, and maybe takes us into the next one right where Mars is entering Cancer. Because this almost, you know, I know I'm mixing dignities here, but it almost feels like we're getting Ooh, just like a little preview of a watery Mars, right, with a Mars square Neptune. And I like Mars entering Cancer; to me, it feels like a mama bear energy. What I mean is that we've, we've got, we're starting into this protective mothering. It's also about making connections, right? And and caring, like, unabashedly,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, that's fascinating. Yeah, Mars does move into Cancer on September 4. The reason that I feel like it's really important to highlight this one is that Mars is going to spend six of the next eight months in Cancer, with the retrograde that will come in December, where it'll take a little bit, but Mars will back from early Leo into Cancer, then spend all the way until April in the sign of Cancer.

So, in a long period of Mars and Cancer, where it's traditionally depressed, I think there are a lot of really interesting redeeming qualities that come from planets in their fall. So maybe we could talk a little bit about Mars and Cancer next. Do you guys want to share any insights that you have about that?

Alexandra Blair
What do you have about that? Yeah, I happen to have a mama bear with Mars in Cancer. She has Mars, Jupiter in the Sun, and her midheaven in Cancer. Let me tell you, she's a mama bear, not always for me. Sometimes, the mama bears against against you. You know what I mean? It's like there's a real sense with the Mars and Cancer of sometimes that energy being misplaced or misdirected, I think, in a mundane application, not in a natal application, always. But there is a real sense of harm about Mars and Cancer. It's like you bagged up 50 pillows, but there's also a knife somewhere in the bag, and you're kind of just going through it. That's like the sense that I really have about it. I think Mars and cancers can be difficult in that way. Again, mundane, natally.

There's so much else to consider. So you couldn't quite just say that, but it's, it's just a little difficult bit of astrology right here, especially because it takes so long when it stations. This is similar, in a way, to the Mars Retrograde that happened in Gemini. So you can visit and revisit those dates. It was from October 2022 through February 2023, and I think that impacted the Gemini side of things. But this also has an interesting kind of relationship to Venus over there until Venus goes into Mars, a sign of Scorpio at the end of the month, which is actually just, again, one of the ways that the month ends more difficult than it begins. So that's a little mixed bag of thoughts, but hopefully, something came out.

Whitney Kranz
I totally, totally read you. And that's really, really interesting that your mom has this placement, so you can speak so poignantly about it. Um, you know, one of the things that I could say about Mars entering Cancer is, like, kind of this bull in a china shop, china shop feeling, you know, or in and so like, or what happens when the warrior returns home, you know like there's a lot of there's a lot of energy, and we're in a small space. And are we? Are we bringing our battles home with us? You know?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, I think Mars and Cancer is one of the great signifiers of civil war, of civil strife, of discord and misfortune with respect to things like, you know, families and family karma and, you know, unity in a family setting, or anything that feels like family being sort of threatened or disturbed.

Sometimes, those disturbances need to happen for the sake of growth, so we shouldn't look at this as just some bad stuff that's coming. But the other thing about Mars and Cancer is that I've noted this a few times in my life, where I've had several different bodybuilding coaches who have been champions at very high levels, and they all have Mars in Cancer. And when they were kids, they were scrawny, and they were called scrawny and picked on for being little. And then it is as though part of the Mars in Cancer archetype, at least for certain athletes.

That is because this is the same; I think it's Michael Phelps who has it. But there's a story arc where it's kind of like I am going to rise up from a feeling of being maybe weak or incapable or not so strong, or something like that, and I'm going to demonstrate, you know, tremendous success, or, you know, I'm going to build my body, or my physique, or whatever, I'm going to become strong.

So the other thing is about, you know, you know, we can think about something like a mama bear or protecting or advocating for people who are weak or vulnerable. But then there's also that sense of like self-advocacy like I'm going to rise up and deal with some way in which I feel like I need to individuate through a feeling of emotional immaturity, or, you know, I lack something, and I've got to cultivate it like that can be a really strong motivating force for Mars in Cancer as well, for sure. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
that's such a good point. I think it. I think, like Muhammad, Ali also has Mars and Taurus specifically. And I think about, I think Mars, Mars' signs of exaltation and detriment of fall are some of the more potent teaching tools that we have because you can look at Mars and Taurus versus Mars in Cancer and see the difference between detriment and fall. I feel like the way that I explain this to clients that I work with is that Mars and Taurus is a little bit like a Navy SEAL being dropped into a ballet. And it's a little silly and out of context. But hey, like a Navy SEAL has body awareness. They have the strength to maybe do some of those ballet lifts. They can, you know, take direction.

They're gonna, they're gonna make the best with what they have. I think Mars in Cancer is a little like a ballerina being dropped into a Navy Seal camp. There is a very real risk, and there's like, very real harm that may come there, and it doesn't mean that success can't be had, and doesn't mean that there's not some version of victory that might come from that, but there is a very real possibility of, like, harm and inability to kind of access tools and resilience to get the job done.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I think one thing that is really interesting about the whoops is that I just went in the wrong direction. Here we go. So, one thing that's really fascinating to me is what election day this year is.

Whitney Kranz
Is it November 4?

Adam Elenbaas
Is it a Tuesday?

Unknown Speaker
Oh yeah, one day off.

Adam Elenbaas
So, like, Look at this. Like, right before the election, Mars culminates the last degree of Cancer and opposes Pluto. I think that's interesting, considering that, you know, one of the candidates is a woman, right? So I just wonder, right before the election, what topics that are unique to women are peaking?

And that could be a million different things, but it one of the things that like comes up again and again around Mars through Cancer, are like women's body, women's rights, women's choice, you know, like the relationship between the mother and the child, like all of those dynamics are often threatened in the courts, in the law, as you know, like wherever you may people listening to this may stand just from an archetypal perspective. The issues around feminism, women's rights, and women in power are often. Really pronounced with Mars in Cancer, for better or worse, sometimes you'll see attacks on, like, I think there was a Mars in Cancer period where the another, just kind of mundane example was, oh, I'm going to go back and find it. I think it was 2008 when the housing crash occurred.

Alexandra Blair
That it was in 2008 and it was, I have the dates. Actually, it was November 15, 2007, Mars Retrograde through January 30, 2008

Adam Elenbaas
Yes. So there it is, Mars Retrograde, Cancer. That's what I was thinking of. It was like the housing crash. Well, there's a vulnerability there for families, right? For domestic life. So that's what I'm getting at. I think Alexander is exactly right, which is that we don't want to like you. Don't want to, and we don't want to both smoke up anyone's ass, like Mars and Cancer can be really threatening, for it is very much more like dropping the ballerina into the war territory that I love that, by the way, and I'm going to quote you, yeah, like Mars and Cancer can bring that Really, that, that very real sense of threat to, you know, to those subjects. And the other thing, like, I'll never forget, I want to say it was 2000.

Hold on. Let me get there. I know where this is. Here it is. So, yeah, it's like, right here. So in this, you see how we're on Mars, going through just normal Mars and cancer transit. But this Mars opposite Pluto transit, for my wife, coincided because it hurt. She's a cancer rising across her first and seventh, and this coincided with her parents getting divorced.

So, like, just that separation, right? Of like, so you just see those kinds of things happening, also things like, and I don't mean to be to scare anyone, but I have seen more mastectomies in the lives. Is that what's common, that maybe mastectomy? I've seen more of those under Mars in Cancer than I can count in terms of repeatable surgery and transit, and they turn out very well, too. But you're saying like, you know, Cancer rules the breast, like, you'll see that those are vulnerable places that we go to for nourishment, that you know. So those are some of the things we have to be thinking about as Mars goes into Cancer. It's difficult. But also, like that, my favorite part about Mars and Cancer personally is the feeling that I will fight for what I am emotionally invested in. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
Adam, these are the dates that you brought up. So that previous Mars, retro and Cancer, November 15, 2007, to January 32,008, like, that's also sort of related to the, just to the political stuff that's going on. I'm a leader. But yeah, that's relevant. Yeah?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. It's so super fascinating.

Alexandra Blair
I think that's relevant. It came back up to me because you're talking about fighting for what you believe in. And you know, everyone wants to believe that about their politics.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, of course, yeah, totally. Um, okay, Whitney, did you want to add anything before we keep going? No,

Whitney Kranz
I'm just dumbfounded. And right after this call, I'm going to be digging into all of these things and how they connect. You know, I want to know, okay, wait, how does that work in my life? Too, very, very interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
Plug them into your chart. Yep, exactly.

Alexandra Blair
knows that astrologers can't read their own charts, so don't I still try, but no,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Well, on the sixth, we have Mercury squaring Uranus for the final time, as it has done so a few times in direct and retrograde motion and now again in direct motion. So this does feel like ideas that we've been working on, that have maybe been coming through in bits and pieces, and starts and stops are really going to come together around this time. I love that Mercury is retrograde or Mercury is direct. Now is the morning star. Feels very inventive and forward-thinking.

I feel like this could be a real light bulb moment going off. And I, like, I'm just gonna pair it with this really quick and then hand it off to both of you. I like that it's coming a day before the Sun opposite Saturn because often, you know, necessity is the mother of invention, and the Sun is feeling constrained, and that force of Saturnian necessity is just popping. And then we see a Mercury-Uranus Square, which I think is actually kind of a good omen. It's sort of like, yeah, there's going to be a feeling of constraint, and then there's going to be a moment of speaking liberation into existence or of an idea that we could use somehow to work through something.

On the other hand, sometimes great ideas come up, and then you're immediately feast faced with what the NO is. Well, I'm sorry, that's a great idea, but here's the impediment. But still, I like that this could provide us with some motivation, regardless of whether we're able to immediately enact something. It's like, well, maybe we just have to kind of move around an obstacle, and then we can implement some new idea. But I just think that the sequence on the sixth and seventh is really interesting. What about both of you? Think about this one.

Whitney Kranz
No, I totally agree you said it's a light bulb moment. And to me, it feels like, yes, it's another lightning strike of intellect, right? And we're getting a jolt of energy. And, you know, it's, it's just interesting to me too, obviously, with this cycle of these Mercury Uranus dynamics we've been having, you know, the last two had a lot to do with the former full moons. Wasn't this where Biden announced he was stepping down in July? Or am I confusing? I might be confused about that.

Alexandra Blair
It was on the full Moon on the 21st, but the thing about these lunations is that they had all the aspects of the lunation. Yeah, everything was baked in. It was baked in. Yeah, it's relevant still

Adam Elenbaas
Well, and we're because we have Mercury, which went back and forth three times during all of that happening this summer. So, I think you're on the right track there. Yeah, tell me more. Alexandra,

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think this, for me, was kind of the most interesting transit of the month just because we've had the Sun opposing a Saturn-ruled Moon twice in Capricorn. So we had June, July, and then in August, we had the Sun opposing a Saturn-ruled moon in Aquarius, with the Sun and it still missile, and it just feels like the Sun and Saturn are at a negotiating table. That's kind of a thing that people bring up about the opposition as an aspect, and a friend of mine, Anna Reed, recently put it in my brain.

So I was like, Okay, I'll bring this up because it's so appropriate. It's like the Sun is meeting with Saturn's representatives, and here, at this moment, the Sun is meeting directly with Saturn at this negotiating table. And part of what this brings up for me is that this Pisces Virgo access feels so much about service. That's a word that you mentioned, Adam, and serving others' personal needs; it kind of feels similar to what's going on with the Pluto stuff as well, and how it's moving in and out. It's so easy to look at this and to see Venus and Libra and the Moon and Libra, and to think like, oh, balance, balance, balance.

And there's probably some of that, but I can't tell you how many people from that mutable stuff that was happening in August are coming to me and saying, When will I get an answer or an end to this ambiguity of this situation? And you said it so beautifully in your Venus in Virgo video, Adam; you said, find oneness in duality, and that, I think, actually is the way out here. I don't think Saturn's asking us to necessarily erect a boundary or make a choice or whatever, especially when Mars is in Cancer; it's kind of like, can you sit with this discomfort? Can you find a way to be productive in ambiguity and accept it and expand to, you know, accommodate more than you already have going on? So I'm thinking a lot about strength. That doesn't look like strength training, but that looks like mobility training or longevity. Um, that's what's coming up for me.

Adam Elenbaas
Love it, yeah. One thing that I'll add to this that's coming to, um, it's coming to my mind. Is something that my Jungian therapist said ever since I started, I guess, started, like, realizing at a certain point in my astrological consulting journey that I needed to talk to someone myself regularly because it's just, yeah, you know, talking to so many other people like, Okay, I need to do this myself.

So, I started speaking with a Jungian back in 2017, and I've been working with the same guy ever since. And recently, I was talking with him about feeling mired in ambiguity, so I love that you're bringing this up. And he was telling me about something that Jung taught that you know, kind of might be a helpful way of thinking about how we work through periods of ambiguity. And he was saying, oftentimes, ambiguity is waiting, like, because it'll just describe so, like, I've got this situation where I have to make a choice, and I've got my pros and cons equally weighed out. And so I'm like, it's very Jupiter and Gemini, right?

Adam Elenbaas
In my Virgo list, I've got the pros and cons. And you know what? I can make a case either way. And I feel just like I'm in. I feel mired in ambiguity, not knowing what to do, not necessarily caring what to do, and feeling compelled by both sides of something. And he said, you know, young said that we were we would sometimes be waiting for a. Uh, the, I think he called it the transcendent function, it's like, all of a sudden something completely unrelated to the problem, at least on any literal causal, you know, obvious logical level, will occur, and it takes you into an understanding of what you think you're looking at that has nothing to do with the way you thought you were looking at it.

You know, it's like something totally unrelated, like a conversation with a friend or a dinner with your family members or something. And it'll be something completely unrelated, and you'll have a shift of consciousness in that situation that will suddenly bring you into a totally different way of viewing the thing you felt so ambiguous about, or that's felt so ambiguous, and then you'll have a different way of moving through it, and we're waiting for something that is like what might be described as irrational, to actually help guide us through a situation. And that was what I was hearing you say a little bit of, or at least that was what was what was coming up for me. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I see that. I mean, absolutely, with the Mercury squaring Uranus at the same time, too. It was a very, very good example to join the show. Is he an astrologer?

Adam Elenbaas
I'm not kidding you, like there will be times where something that is happening, I don't let's just use an example of, like, my rescue dog, Hilda, who is, like, working with a lot of anxiety and stuff like that. And I swear to God; there'll be times where, like, I'm just like, hanging out with her, working with her, learning how to be, you know, the best dog owner for her, and like, something in some other totally unrelated piece of my life will just, like, click into place. I love it when that happens, but I've had that happen multiple times where I've, like, had ideas for podcasts or archetypes, understanding of an archetype pop through while, like, hanging out with my dog because that relationship is allowing me to experience an archetype that's at work in some other place, but it's giving me an objective medium, you know what I'm saying? So, right? And space for creativity,

Alexandra Blair
I think this is, this is very relevant in relation to the fact that there is going to be an eclipse across this axis just a few days after this transit.

Adam Elenbaas
So, yeah, I think whatever needs to be revealed will surely be revealed. When we get to the 12th,. The Sun will square Jupiter, both in Sun and Jupiter in Mercury-ruled signs. Well, Mercury is now not only the Morning Star but exalted and in its own domicile. So that feels like perhaps some really nice, um, yeah, like the material resources, whether that's on the level of mind or skills or data or information or communication, seem abundant at this moment and able to create maybe a really nice connection.

Whitney Kranz
Well, I was just going to say this: like Sun Square, Jupiter feels like priming the engine. You know, where we're, we're getting ready to grow our power and ready ourselves for some of these more expansive ideas. And like Earth shifting changes and, you know, even though it's a it's a square, I with Sun and Jupiter, I see like positivity here, like reinvigorating a lust for life, you know. So that's what I'm reading from Sun Square Jupiter.

Alexandra Blair
I totally agree with the specifically that you were talking about revving the engine. That's the kind of pressure to do. It's like the pressure to go. Let's go hear some juice for you. So I, I'm with you, Whitney,

Adam Elenbaas
I could also see this as a moment of empowered speech, like, I wouldn't be surprised if we find ourselves capable of saying or articulating things that aren't necessarily easy, especially given the little sextile between Mercury and Mars, Mars and Cancer, right? Like difficult emotional truths that can be clearly articulated, it seems like a benefit of that moment. It could also be a moment where we're seeing more pointed things being said, you know, publicly in the political discourse. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those shocking things that people have said, like drama. Yeah, exactly.

Alexandra Blair
That's it; it definitely looks more like it is possible here. I mean, usually, I would look to a Mercury Casini, but the one that happens at the end of this month, the Sun is in its fall, and then they're being hosted by Venus, and Venus is in Scorpio unhappy. It's like, No, this is definitely the time period right here where that stuff is going to happen.

Adam Elenbaas
If we go forward a few days, we have, I think you, just like Alexander, describe the trances that she likes as cute, and I think it is cute. Okay? Ah, what do you like about being a Venus Trine? Jupiter reconnected here.

Alexandra Blair
It's Whitney's transit of the month. Take us away. Girl, sure. I will.

Whitney Kranz
Okay, no, I do this. I think I said generative with the Sun square Jupiter, and I feel like this really brings in that generative power and some expansive ideas for us, like these are our grand ideas, and I mentioned earlier how I mean this really helps inform our lunar Eclipse and Pisces that comes next. And so I feel like there's something here with these, like grand gestures and grand ideas, that help galvanize transformation and transcendence beyond certain limiting beliefs. And honestly, It's cute. Like Alexander said, it just feels buoyant. And, you know, I want to schedule a date on this day.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, when Venus and Jupiter are trying each other in air signs that were called, you know, humane, you think about people becoming good resources for each other. It's like, Yeah, I'm here to help you. You're here to help me mutually, like, reciprocally, you know, mutually beneficial relationships or exchange of ideas or information or services or connections of people that are being made. I love this for networking. I also feel like Venus in Libra is very calculated because it's Saturn's exaltation. And there's an interesting form of mutual reception between Venus and Saturn. You know, Venus is in Saturn's exaltation. Saturn is in Venus's exaltation.

I feel like to be able to really consider the complexities and nuances of other people's realities and needs, and then to find ways, very Jupiter and Gemini to do more than one thing at, you know, to do a few things at once, where it's like that, you know, two things can be true, and I can make those two things be true while making sure that People feel accommodated and and safe or happy or harmonious?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think it is a nice counterpoint to the heavy questions of that Virgo Pisces axis, which are saying, How am I serving people? Who am I serving? Am I serving myself? What's going on? I think this moment is a reminder that we can get very zoomed into our own situation and agonize about when ambiguity will be resolved, etc. Don't forget that you don't live in a vacuum. You have friends, you have people that you can talk to, that you can rely on.

You can expand yourself to take in new ideas, kind of like you were talking about Adam actually expanding our idea of what's possible relating to a situation. This feels like a really good time for that. And with these transits, I always tell people, the transits aren't necessarily things that just happen to you. You can take advantage of them. And so this might be a good day to ask yourself, Who could I talk to about this? Is there someone who might have a fresh idea or fresh perspective, like you were saying, Whitney, is there some way I can expand to transcend what feels really limiting right now? So you can kind of do that on purpose, even on this day,

Adam Elenbaas
nice, that takes us right into our lunar Eclipse on the 17th. This is our first Eclipse in Pisces, right? We got the nodes changing signs somewhat imminently by the beginning of the new year, and we're going to see the first this is out of sign Eclipse. The North Node is in Aries, but the lunar Eclipse is in Pisces.

So the other thing that's interesting about this lunar Eclipse is that it's in the three-degree engagement with Neptune, and the Sun's move into the opposition with Neptune, and that Sun opposite Neptune happens within three days of the Eclipse on the 20th, so I was mentioning this as my kind of takeaway of the month, so it's okay with you Guys. I might just start saying a few things about things about that. Yeah, go for it. All right, good.

So, first of all, I feel like the goodness of a Moon in Virgo, right? Like a New Moon in Virgo, and the concern with purity, which is like a hallmark of the sign of Virgo, it's like, is this good? Is it pure? Is it useful? How will it be judged? How will it be evaluated? That kind of anticipation of the harvest that comes at the Fall Equinox that Virgo is so hyper-aware of, sometimes to its own detriment, right? That the counterpoint of Pisces is this sort of non-do? Visual space where good and bad are. There's something that goes way beyond them, that goes way beyond good and bad. It's the multiverse. Yeah, exactly. It's everything everywhere, all at once. You know, it's like that. And so I just, I look at this, and I sometimes go, despite our best efforts to be good, and we're gonna fail, or we're not.

It's we're Virgo is like one of the lessons that Virgo is always learning, in my humble opinion, is that in order to be good, you also have to have experiences of having to forgive, right? Like, you know, goodness without knowing the need for forgiveness is sort of just like, you know, someone who passes a test but has no soul, you know, it's like, it's like, so, so I think about that. I think what the Pisces Neptune dimension of experience provides us with is that thing that is so big and so vast that the only way of making room for it has to go beyond good and bad. It needs compassion. It needs mercy. It needs forgiveness. It needs grace. It needs mystery. It needs bliss. You know, it needs things that go beyond our moral efforts on Earth.

And so I feel like this is a really interesting eclipse in so far as I think it's really going to bring up within us. You do your best, you just do your best, and remember that you're always okay and perfect, exactly as you are. There's this bigger, huger perspective that's sort of coming in at the exact same time that we're there's a lot of effort in this cycle to do the right thing. Venus in Virgo with the South Node, there's or Venus in Libra, with the South Node, there's an emphasis on like rightness and morality and justice and fairness, and the emphasis on Virgo, again, a lot of concern with purity and so forth. But I think there's some bigger perspective that we're being given that might allow for grace and forgiveness to come in and not be so hard or so strict, or it's okay if we're not getting everything right, you know, we're learning.

Whitney Kranz
here, here, I know that it, I mean, it this one, this one feels, I mean, I just think Transcendent is such a good word for Pisces in general. But you know, like you're talking on this Pisces Virgo axis, there's a mingling of opposites here, right? It's like, okay, what are our dreams versus reality? Like? Where are our pleasures versus our pain? And I think that we could absolutely be feeling some of that come through with this, with this lunar Eclipse,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, Adam, on your point of, like, purity and seeking what's good, I think the Piscean quest sometimes is a lack of concern for that, you know. And I feel like I know Pisces people, but it takes them six weeks to figure out that they didn't like a conversation they had, you know? Yeah, sure. I think there's some of the like.

That's a little bit of what Saturn's been asking of Pisces people during its tenure there, and that might be illuminated a little bit by this. I think this Eclipse, on a personal level, natally, will really depend on your specific relationship with Saturn or people's planets that they have. Pisces, I just wanted to mention that because we had talked on previous episodes. Just the difference between mundane and Natal. If you're tracking in a mundane way, eclipses have a very specific meaning. But if you're tracking personally, you know you don't want to get sort of wrapped up in the catastrophic thinking there.

If you have planets in Pisces, I think when that, when I'm looking at this for natives, it's, it's often the house of Pisces has activity, but way more often the planets that are being activated and the houses they rule have some activity. So, if you have planets in Pisces, you're going to want to look at that. That was just a random note. But this spring, this degree of Pisces. Here I am with my degrees, but is going to be the site of both Venus and Mercury Retrograde this coming spring; Venus will go from early Aries back through late Pisces and Mercury at the same time and will also go from early Aries back through late Pisces. This is also significant because this is the only Pisces eclipse that will have Saturn here. So this is like the start of this eclipse cycle in Pisces, and it is going to feel significant, near loud, and relevant for the next few months period.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I feel it's interesting to note what's being sandwiched in between. A couple of days after the Eclipse, you have the lunar Eclipse, followed by Mercury opposite Saturn, followed closely by the Sun trining Uranus here, and then the Sun going right into opposition with Neptune. So this, you know, is a few trans, and it's all happening in a couple of days. I mean, you could have a little bit of space between each one, which is nice, but yeah, it does. It speaks to me about things like what I should care about and what I should let go of, right? Or what I can control, and what's way beyond what I can control, and maybe also some breakthroughs that we have.

Like, it's a really big deal to realize, Hey, I didn't like that conversation, and I need to tap in and ask myself, you know, what am I feeling? And that's an interesting thing. I'll mention this as an aside. So one time I was talking to my therapist, and I was telling him, like, well, you know, I feel terrible if I have two cups of coffee, and I was like, and I was like, this is so stupid. Like, I should be able to handle two cups of coffee. It's such a little thing, but I feel like a crazy person if I have a second cup of coffee and blah, blah, blah.

And then I was talking about several other things, and I kept calling them. They're little things. And he was like, Well, who are they little to you? Or, like, what do you think other people think of them, you know? And I was like, Oh, that's interesting. And he was like, Look, if a second cup of coffee throws you off, then it's a big deal to you, even if one cup of coffee you're calling a small thing, right? Yeah, so that, like, to me, that's kind of a Virgo Pisces dynamic. In so far as we may be discovering a higher sensitivity to what makes us feel good or what makes us not feel so good,

Or, you know, we could talk about that as boundaries, but I think it's also about just tapping into how I actually feel right now. What is, is this making me feel good? Is this person in a situation? Is this pattern or habit making me feel good? And if not, it doesn't matter what other people think, if it's a big deal or if it's a small deal; it's just about what I feel.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, right. I have a mutable Sun, Mercury. And I am not exaggerating when I say that if I go out to dinner, I take a picture of the menu, I go to the bathroom, and I go decide in private what I want to eat because I have a lot of I'm very like anti-inflammatory with my eating. If I am sitting at a table with ten other people, I don't even know what I will order. It will arrive to me and be a mystery because I'm so, like, just caught up in everything everybody else is doing. I have to go have a private moment and order my food in private. It's, yeah, it's really bad.

Adam Elenbaas
Is that what you attribute that to? Did you say to your Gemini planets?

Alexandra Blair
Yes, I have the Sun Mercury and Gemini in the sixth, and I do, like, anti-inflammatory, clean eating, but there's so much cultural messaging that is different. And then when I'm seated at a table, and people are talking, you know, the way people talk about food, and so I'm just, you know, I'm gonna go away and just check in with myself and do what's what honors my sixth house. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
That is so awesome. When did you just discover one day how you came up with the idea to do that? Oh,

Alexandra Blair
gosh, around the great conjunction, I really started getting very, very clean, and I started working with a very talented holistic nutritionist. And I found that every time I was out, I was just making decisions that I would come home and be like, Why did I make that decision? Right? And I just am very susceptible to other people, and it's a superpower, and sometimes it's a little flaw I have to accommodate for. So, yeah, I just started doing that a few years ago. It really helps, nice.

Adam Elenbaas
I love that. And, you know, it's funny because I'm not so, like, I can do that, but I have Mars in Gemini, and when I'm in a busy place that's like, bustling and noisy, I get when Adam's in Vegas. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, one thing I want to mention about this little T square energy of, like, uh, my whole sign that we have Gemini, Virgo, Pisces, here we are again, right? These signs were very active in August. They're very active in September, and they continue to reflect just that general, mutables, double-bodied reality of transitional spaces. We learn a lot in these spaces. We think new thoughts. We change perceptions. We work through old problems with different perspectives. We make our list of pros and cons. I feel like these spaces are very liminal spaces. We can learn a lot and think through a lot of things. So I want to just broadly qualify this area of the month, which is very, very beneficial for that kind of thing.

Whitney Kranz
Oh, one. 100% this, this Mercury square Jupiter action on the 21st feels like, like, like we're seeing the bigger picture, you know. And I can't also help but see that during all of this. I mean, we talked about the Sun trining Uranus, while the Sun opposes Neptune. And then isn't it the next day here, what on the 22nd, that the Sun trines Pluto as well? And so all of a sudden, we have all of our earthy houses activated in this Trine. And it feels like we are starting to really move the Earth around us. And how is reality shifting? You know, and and opposite Neptune, you're like, Okay, wait, am I going the right way, but, but we're starting to see it. That's what's happening here. And I feel like this will be a slow and steady progression of those movements.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, the outer planets are all in support of one another, too, right now. So there are two sextiles in the Trine, which you talk about the ground moving. I mean, I see that in those outer planet, aspects for sure, while Pluto is back at 29 Capricorn.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, there's a confluence of the outer planets that is really fascinating. And it does feel to me that that final push of Pluto in Capricorn is, let's if it's on a dis on its deconstructive side, let's finally dismantle something that we've been in the process of deconstructing for a while. Yeah, and like, let's take a big step and maybe even a final step.

And then, on the other hand, it's, if you've, you know, it's not so much on the deconstructive side, but on the constructive side, it's like, let's, let's get the momentum to finish things or to bring something fully into form that's been developing. So either finishing a process of deconstruction or completing a process of creation, but it comes into form, and also there's this, like, almost like, you know, that feeling of having seen something through some larger vision that is, is reaching a point of blossoming or fruiting, I think, for example, of the fact that you know, with Neptune in the mix.

And these planets coming together, like, I'll be on the home stretch of the book that I'm writing and like, so this, this kind of, you know, for me as a writer anyway, and I'm sure like all sorts of creative people can relate. You're getting close to completing a creative project, the vision you started with gets really bright in your mind, and you're like, Wow, this thing that started up here is now here. Yeah. So anyway, so that's a cool way of thinking about it.

Alexandra Blair
Maybe Absolutely.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, let's go on. We're skipping a little bit ahead here, but let's go to Venus Square Pluto. I think that's a really interesting transit. It is Venus at the 29th anaretic degree of Libra, about to go into Scorpio and squaring Pluto in Capricorn. The last time that Venus meets Pluto is in Capricorn.

Adam Elenbaas
And the Sun, at that point, will have entered Libra and just finished a trine with Pluto.

Alexandra Blair
It trines with blue, yeah, exactly. It's like, whoa. It's kind of like a karmic gas pedal. Is that what that's giving me?

Whitney Kranz
But, also maybe, like, overburdened, like a karmic gas pedal, but oh my gosh, I like the car's too big. You know, we're carrying too much. I don't know. I can't help but have just a little personal Astro anxiety over this one with the recent Pluto or Venus, Pluto dynamic, Pluto contact,

Whitney Kranz
Yes, in my own chart. So I'm just, you know, I'm gonna choose to see the bright side here, and we'll talk about some passionate disruption, right?

Alexandra Blair
I was just gonna say I'm on, kind of on the opposite end of that, because I've had Pluto and Capricorn in my first house, and that's been asking me, like, can you dissolve, can you get smaller? Can you dismantle yourself a little further? And so, on its way out, I get a little Venus support on my midheaven. It's, like, cute. Give me that. So I'm. Now, yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I can't wait to reflect when we come back for October as astrology and see how I know how these landed for us. And

Alexandra Blair
there might be another Eclipse happening in Libra. Excuse me, sorry, Adam, in October too.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right, yeah. So it's gonna say we're gonna be visiting like there's going to be a solar eclipse coming up, and this, to me, is probably setting the table for that certain relationships are going to end, and then with a Solar Eclipse in Libra, new relationships will begin, right? I feel like that's a very simple interpretation because Venus-Pluto will often be about the death or transformation of various relationships, working relationships, friendships, or whatever. That doesn't mean that they have to end in a bad way. It's just that expiration dates are sometimes reached in different relationships, and that's natural, but then the solar Eclipse is coming on the heels, and Libra, to me, would suggest that this ending is tied to wanting to go in a new direction.

The other thing is, to me, that Venus-Pluto in Libra and Capricorn is sort of like because Venus is in the superior position. I don't always use that with outer planets, but I think it's interesting to do so in this case because Venus overwhelming or overcoming Pluto, to me, is like the picture of a velvet glove over an iron fist. There's a little bit of a, like, I wouldn't be surprised to see what they are. You know, like something scandalous being dropped in a in a sort of politically savvy way around this time,

Alexandra Blair
yeah, or art, there are so many incredible artists and musicians who make really beautiful and a little subversive art with this Venus in Libra, you know, touching that Pluto,

Adam Elenbaas
That's such a good point. In fact, I would recommend you all; I'll tell you how to follow Alexander at the end and Whitney, but Alexandra, I hope you'll be posting some of that art, like last time, because that was super cool. I mean the, so I think about this, and I think about it also is like Venus-Pluto is a little bit like, oh, the crappiest image that comes to my mind is, like, the kind of conniving stuff that you see from people on reality shows, where they're, like, all trying to win something, and they're, they all look so nice, but they're also very Sharky, and, like, you know, a little bit of that energy, maybe

Whitney Kranz
a bachelor, like 20 women all fighting for one dude, yeah, or, like, whatever is really worth it.

Adam Elenbaas
Or remember the real world, like he was in the real world too, like, all that kind of stuff. So anyway, I just feel like, you know, Venus is very beautiful and poised and controlled in Libra. And I think he's going to be doing some very wise, profound transforming. And then also, I would watch for some of the seeking of power in Venusian ways, which can kind of fly under the radar. Sometimes,

Alexandra Blair
I think the flip side of that coin is social cohesion overcoming a blatant power move or some kind of threat that is being overcome by a social banding together. Oh, beautiful.

Adam Elenbaas
I love that. That's great, yeah, nice. That's really cool. Yeah, that's that's hopeful, too. I like that. Well, let's go. We have a couple of quick little aspects. We have another Mercury Uranus aspect that will be taking place on the 24th, where Mercury in Virgo will trine Uranus in Taurus; feels very productive, intuitive, and practically useful. I just feel like this is useful energy.

Whitney Kranz
Oh yeah, I'm getting like Practical Magic, you know, like, let's play the game.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I like this one; maybe it is a touch deceptive. I don't typically think of Mercury in Virgo as a deceptive type of Mercury, but it is the opposite of Neptune. So I feel like, could there be some practical magic? It is a great way of putting it right because that contact with Neptune is a little magical, and it is a little like using your rational side but using your magical, intuitive side at the same time. Well, right?

Whitney Kranz
And with that Neptune opposition, could it also be very potent psychically for those of us who are just a little more attuned in that way, right? I mean, I think there's some definite possibility for that here, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
I mean, it's going to trine Pluto on the 25th, a couple of days later. It's like, we're, yeah, if you,

Alexandra Blair
if you're the kind of Pluto's trining Uranus, too. So it's, right, yeah, this is connecting.

Adam Elenbaas
To all those outer planets that are interconnected. As Alexander was pointing out, they're trying again. It's like, you know, hey, this little in this little field, it might be that what is sometimes intangible about those outer planets is becoming, like, cognizable.

Alexandra Blair
Somehow, the one thing that gets me about the end of this month is just the Sun entering Libra as Venus exits. And so it just feels like, again through the summer, all these questions about how the one fits into the many. And I think we definitely are seeing that discourse play out culturally right now, just about how our personal preferences get eaten up by a machine, the machine of culture, and so on, social dynamics.

But the Sun in Libra is just not able to be the Sun. It's it's trying to be harmonious. It's trying to keep the peace. And then we've got Venus in Scorpio. And that's, there's, it's like, it to me, this combo right here is, like saying something, just to get out of a situation, and then filing that away for later to actually kind of come back to,

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah. It is. It is as if we're approaching this point. We're the Sun's entered Libra. It's the host. Venus is in a slightly difficult spot in Scorpio. I want to hear your analogy for Venus and Scorpio, as opposed to Venus and Virgo, as you did for the ballet.

So you got to come up with that. But yeah, I feel like Venus and Scorpio. You know, hosting the Sun is probably creating some difficult diplomatic situations where it's hard to separate what the fair or balanced thing is from our deepest desires and the most complicated emotional entanglements we have. Mars is in Cancer, you know.

So I can say there's a lot of water starting to pour in right now. We're going to start getting this early Grand Water Trine, that sort of building. And so, yeah, it's like the Sun in Libra is going to have a hard time being really objective, rational, clear, and balanced when it's hosted by a Venus who's getting into these very watery and charged dynamics. Oh, yeah.

Whitney Kranz
I mean, the Sun in Libra just wants these high standards, right? And Venus is entering Scorpio, and we're, like, too hungry to care.

Adam Elenbaas
I love that. That's great. Yeah, we have Mars trine Saturn at the end. We'll just try to wrap things up here. Mars will trine Saturn in Pisces. And to me, this is at its worst. This is like leveraging an emotional situation in ways that are not so healthy or good. For example, when these two planets come together, you see two people who have similarly destructive needs helping each other out. You know, it's like,

Alexandra Blair
sorry, go ahead, they're good. Well, it's just like Venus getting involved. Just, you know, I think that technically happens in October, but there's basically a Trine here. So it's like the two people with these bad intentions are conspiring together in the supportive aspect, and both sort of like goading, in a way, Venusian,

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, this is definitely complicated, and it's going to be again. I think Mercury is in Libra. And so there, this is a karmic moment for relationships that are starting to form key relationships and questions about, you know, balance, and there's, it's a very karmic moment that we're entering into with an Eclipse in Libra, with the south node that tends to harvest and crystallize lessons you know that have had history behind them. So, yeah, it's a pretty powerful end of the month with Mercury. Exactly. Yeah, let's end it with that. What do you think about that one? Guys?

Alexandra Blair
I think the mercury cazimi happens at eight Libra. The Eclipse A few days later happens at 10 Libra. Yep, that's what I have to say so far.

Adam Elenbaas
All of them together. Well, like one thing that well, Whitney, what do you think?

Whitney Kranz
I'm really interested in hearing what you have to say. Because I don't I, you know, with Mars in a trying to Saturn, while Mercury then comes Kazimi like this. I think we could read this as if it could go both ways. We talked about some of the negative aspects, right? And how are you? Mean, I almost worry about, like some sort of, like, domestic dispute, right? Is, is how that Trine is feeling, you know, from maybe a shadow side. But I could also see, like, hard work, reaping the rewards and fortune, right? Like I just went through the Mars square, Saturn, obviously, in different signs, but that, you know, that came out so positively for me.

So, you know, I ask, like, do we have the power to push beyond our boundaries? Then Mercury Cazimi could be like, Yes, I know just how to do it, and that's where we go. But I'm really, I'm really interested to hear more about how this feeds into the Libra Eclipse because I haven't quite gotten that far yet.

Alexandra Blair
Well, I think with the Go ahead. Adam, no, no, you go ahead. I'm so bad at the crosstalk today. Good God, maybe I want a little lag. You're fine. Um, yeah. I think with the Libra Eclipse it, once the Moon enters Libra, it actually does get a little better. I think. I mean, triple mutual reception is not a textbook thing, but it is kind of a living astrology thing, and so it will feel like the pieces do fit together in some way. That's always better than if they don't. And I don't think that Venus is, you know, Venus in Scorpio; she can make stuff happen there, regardless of whether she's in her favorite place.

So this just gives a sense to me of the support that we thought was there, or the harmony that we thought was harmonizing is not being being made aware in some way of, Oh, something, some foundation that I was relying on to keep the peace in this situation, or to give me balance, or some part of the foundation is actually holding a grudge or kind of stewing in some way, or has been hanging on to something for a long time that may now come back up to the surface.

Adam Elenbaas
I look at the I mean, we're going to talk about the Eclipse next month, but the fact that mercury cazimi is coming at the very end of the month, and then it's followed under a dark moon, and then it's followed immediately by this solar Eclipse while the host is Venus in Scorpio. To me, I would say that some of the underlying motivations, or maybe the subtext within certain relationships, is that there's karma around that's like being harvested right now it's in so the way I think about it, for example, would be, I'm one positive way of looking at this would be that the Mercury cazimi and Libra gives you insight into underlying patterns, in relationships Venus in Scorpio, underlying desires or conflicts or edges.

And there's just a clear, rational understanding of it that doesn't necessarily make it any easier, but at least there's some airy space where you can see the pattern, and then it but that I would imagine that this pattern is deep and complex and historical, because it's connected to Saturn in Pisces and Mars and Cancer, that it's not just a pattern in a relationship. It's, you know, when you're in a relationship, and you recognize a pattern, and you realize that that part of your partner's pattern comes from their dad or their mom or their background, and there's a mix of this person needs to grow for our relationship to grow, and I also have to have compassion with how complex and historical that problem is and that it can't be solved overnight. And so those are the kinds of things that come to my mind.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, it ties really, really neatly back into kind of some of those themes we identified for the month of service, and what we do for others and how we give to others, and the ways that we need that to come back and identify things that make us uncomfortable, hopefully in the moment that they happen and not six weeks later.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's great. Well, any final thoughts that either of you would like to share before I tell people how they can get in touch with both of you and your work and your readings?

Whitney Kranz
No, nothing left for me. Just thank you so much for having us back. I love this community.

Adam Elenbaas
If you would like to get in touch with Whitney, you can find her at Astro arcana.com and on Instagram at Astro dot Arcana dot astrology; the website is where you can book a reading. Is that correct? Whitney? Yes, that is correct. Awesome. So be sure to book a reading with either Whitney or Alexandra if you want someone to help guide you through. Some of the transits of the month are great investments, and you're going to get some very specific guidance with respect to the house locations and the aspects and things like that. So I couldn't recommend it more highly. Alexandra is www.ninelivesastrology.com and on Instagram. Is Nine Lives astrology, and with all of this fun stuff happening, I also highly recommend following them both on Instagram because they also make content that will often comment on the aspects as they're happening as the month goes on. It's so good to stay in touch with them.

If you enjoy this, that's where you can find their information. Don't forget that you can find transcripts of today's talk or any of our daily talks on the website nightlight astrology.com, and you will also find our courses on the website. Our first-year course opens for enrollment on September 9, so we'll be promoting that again soon. And yeah, we wish you all the best this month. If you have stories to share, use the hashtag grabbed in the comments section of this video, and come back and tell us your story as the month goes on.

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Whitney Kranz
All right, back at you. This is totally the highlight of my month.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, thank you for having us. Thanks, Whitney, and Thanks, Adam.

Adam Elenbaas
All right, take it easy, everyone. We'll see you again soon. Bye. You.