Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lanyadoo. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no-bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. We are looking at the astrology of October 5th through the 11th of 2025. We start off the week with a very emotional Full Moon. I'm going to tell you all about it. But I want to just acknowledge that you probably are feeling pretty intense, and you're not alone. You are experiencing massive changes in the world around you, and that's separate from whatever is happening in your very personal inner life and in your relationships and your finances and all the things that are life.

You are experiencing global shifts that can be explained politically, that can be explained astrologically, that can be explained through the lens of climate or economy. The world is changing, and we're not going back to the way it was. That's not really how the world is. That's not how life is. We don't go back. We move forward. And even when we stagnate, even when it feels like there's no progress and things aren't moving forward, we're still moving forward. We're just moving forward by digging in our heels or resisting change or not meeting the energetics and more psychological, emotional, and material demands of change.

What does this mean to you? Well, it means a lot of things. It means you are a part of the whole. You're a part of the whole. And how you participate, whether you participate, why you participate in the world, in the co-creation of circumstances and developments in your own life—that's huge. Those things are really important. They're important for you, and they're important to you. And right now, you are likely to be feeling overwhelmed. You are likely to be feeling overwhelmed because there's so much happening in the world, and it's affecting you.

And even if you're somebody who's just like, "I don't think about social issues or politics. I don't think those things have anything to do with me," whether you're a person who's like, "I focus on vibes first and foremost," there's none of us that are separate from the world. You can take great pains to be separate from the world, and you're still not separate from the world for as long as you live in this body of yours. And so we are all being affected by the world, and we are all affecting the world. And we are on the tail end of Eclipse Season. So, as of the 6th of October, the Full Moon I'm about to tell you about, it's over—no more Eclipse Season to talk about. The Eclipse will still play itself out over the next five months, but Eclipse Season is over. But big emotions were stirred up. Big evolutionary developments were stirred up. At the same time, Pluto is out of bounds. We're still going to have a larger conversation about that at a time that's not so otherwise astrologically busy.

There is a lot happening. And if you feel like it's a lot, it's because it's a lot. And understanding that what you're experiencing, even if you're feeling really alone with it, even if you yourself are ultimately the one who has to make choices—which is likely given this week's astrology—you do not exist in a vacuum. And the more that you are conscious about that, the easier the weight is to bear, or at least it can be.

So let's get into this week's horoscope, starting with a Full Moon in Aries. So the Moon is full in Aries at exactly 8:48 p.m. on Monday, October the 6th. And the Moon will be at 14 degrees of Aries and 8 minutes when it's full, which means that the Sun, which is sitting opposite to the Moon in Libra, is at the exact same degrees of Libra.

So Full Moons, we know, are when emotions come to the surface and demand to be dealt with. We also know that we have, generally speaking, one Full Moon per zodiac sign a year. So this is our one time a year to have a Full Moon in Aries. A Full Moon in Aries is a time where your emotions feel urgent because Aries is the first of the 12 zodiac signs. It's fire and it's cardinal, so it's all about let's get in there and get it done.

When the Moon is full in Aries, you are likely to feel urgent. You are likely to potentially feel a sense of passion and intensity, potentially entitlement and defensiveness. Your feelings run hot. And it's not just you, right? It's everybody you're dealing with. And so, for you, those urgent feelings may be like, "Okay. I'm going to be more ambitious. I'm going to get shit done." But for somebody else, it might be like, "Okay. I'm feeling urgent. I'm going to stop everything from changing around me so that I can deal with my emotions." And that can make you feel frustrated, defensive—all manner of things.

The thing about a Full Moon in Aries is that there's often a choice to make. And the reason why there's a choice to make is because the Sun is in Libra, and Libra is related to kind of a balancing out of options. And it's not just about the balancing out of options; it's also about relationships. So Libra is a zodiac sign that is really about the way in which relationships are a mirror to the self. Now, I'm not talking about people who have the Sun in Libra. I'm talking about the energetics of the zodiac sign of Libra itself.

So the Full Moon in Aries is a time for taking emotional stock of your agency—Aries governs your agency—your capacity, and even responsibility to act, to do shit, and to do shit with purpose, intention, to be clear about your motivation. So, this Full Moon, you may be confronted by your own motivations in a way that you're like, "Ahh, that's not what I want to be motivated by, but apparently I am right now." So you might find that fear or guilt or—I don't know—power is motivating you in ways that you're just like, "Oh, that's not really aligned."

Shit comes up so that you can deal with it. People complain about challenging transits, which I get and I understand. But the reason why we're confronted with hardship is because the hardship exists. So the confrontation is not the problem. The problem is the problem. And so, once you become aware of a problem or a struggle or a lack of alignment, you have the opportunity to take that awareness and grow it. And as you grow your awareness, your capacity to cope grows alongside it. Now, that's not true just with analytic awareness. I'm not just talking about cerebral awareness. We're not talking about Mercury. We're talking about the Moon. We're talking about emotional awareness. And this is why talk, talk, talk, talk is not enough if you want growth. Growth requires emotional integration alongside cognitive understanding. One without the other—it doesn't take you too far.

So okay. This Full Moon in Aries, you may have to make some challenging choices. And they are likely to show up in relationship to something or likely someone else. And that's because whenever we go through oppositions by transit, they tend to be expressed in the projected form, so in relationship, me and you, us and them. Now, because of the zodiac signs involved, it's more likely to be me and you than us and them. But look around the world, and you can see a lot of reasons to believe that it could be us and them.

Aries is governed by Mars, and Libra is governed by Venus. And so we may also see developments in terms of gender roles or the rights of people of different genders. This is an ongoing crisis, I think, in our world. But a Full Moon in Aries will bring up big feelings about that. So that may coincide with people with power making moves. It may coincide with propaganda or some sort of news catalyzing people. And it may just be really personal.

Whatever it is, check your motivations. Engage with your emotions with as much integrity and without losing alignment with your values system as you can. As you know, it's not just the Sun opposite the Moon. There's a bunch of other transits that are active in this chart. So let's talk about them.

The closest exact transit in this Full Moon chart is the Mercury square to Pluto. This transit will be exact on the 7th. Mercury square to Pluto is going to intensify your thinking during this Full Moon. So what I mean by that is it's going to intensify your tendency to obsess, to be a little paranoid, or it can intensify your willingness and ability to go deep, so to deeply understand yourself, a situation, or someone else. This requires the capacity to tolerate challenging emotions. And that's where most of us really struggle. You feel really intensely, and then your mind is like, "Okay. Why do I feel intensely?" And so you start looking for an excuse, a justification, a reason.

Pluto governs our strongest feelings, not our wisest feelings. It's our fight, flight, or fawn mechanisms. And so, this Full Moon, those mechanisms are going to be very fucking heavily online. And your assignment, whether or not you choose to accept it, is to be emotionally accountable and mentally honest with yourself first and foremost and then, from that foundation inside of yourself, with others and in your behavior—much easier said than done, right? And the ways in which you falter or fail, the ways in which you struggle with this, are not an indication of what's wrong with you. They're an indication of what needs more work, nurturance, and care, more accountability.

Another very close aspect in this chart is a Venus opposition to Saturn. Now, the Venus opposition to Saturn brings accountability and your values systems into the conversation. It's really important during this Full Moon to recognize that the ruling planet of Libra—Venus—is a little bit in distress with Saturn. And what this means in practical terms is you may have to deal with a relationship issue that kicks up serious insecurities. You may have a crisis in a relationship where it's based on your values. Now, it may be petty. It may be really superficial. But that, too, is a reflection of your values. If that's what's surfacing, then that's what's up.

This Full Moon is likely to kick up scarcity issues. "Where do I belong? Who do I belong to? Am I lovable? Am I in a relationship or relationships that are sustainable?" These kinds of questions are likely to come up because of the Venus opposition to Saturn. And then, when you add to that the urgency and the intensity and the potential reactiveness of the Full Moon in Aries, you see things can get kind of hairy kind of quickly.

Jupiter is sextile to Saturn in this chart. It's also sextile to Venus. So, luckily, what that means is that Jupiter is supporting those two planets in doing their best. There's support there to not be so focused on scarcity and security that you choose misalignment and dishonesty and safety and ruts over authenticity and alignment and living in integrity with yourself and your commitments, etc.

This Full Moon is all the things. It's activating. And you are likely to feel a lot in your body, and that's because Aries is a zodiac sign that teaches us embodiment. But when the feelings you're feeling feel like they're running too hot or galloping away from you and you don't know how to stay present with those feelings, that's when they get projected out. That's when you act out against yourself or others.

So, again, bring mindfulness and presence to how you feel your feelings, to your own motivations towards yourself and others around how you off-gas or cope with your feelings. That's a huge part of what is up this Full Moon.

Now, one last thing I'll say about this Full Moon chart—Mars, the ruling planet to the zodiac sign of Aries, is just hanging out. It's in Scorpio, but it's not aspecting anything at this time. And that is not bad. That is not good. It is just worthy of note. The meaning that I'm extrapolating from this is the risk of Mars reinforcing this feeling of, "I alone am dealing with this. I alone am feeling this. I alone am the only one who can do something about this."

You are not a rock. You are not an island. You are a person. And you are a person with a myriad of contexts. You have a past. You have a present. And you have a future. Check in with your motivations. Be honest with yourself. Notice how you feel in your meat suit. Your body has a lot of information to share with you about you, and it is your job as a person to continue to check in with it, to honor it, to care for it in whatever ways you can because the body and the emotions are really linked. A lot of times, our emotions show up in the body, or things that happen to the body spark big emotions.

And in our world, it can be so easy to just focus on our thoughts and our ideas and kind of ignore the rest, shove it all down. We can play video games or do other things that engage the mind so much that we unplug from a lot of our feelings and sensations in our bodies and in our hearts. Whether that is something you're doing or not, whether that's good or bad, is not the point. The point is this is a time to bring awareness to your coping skills, to how you're showing up, to how you're living, and to, as best as you know how, navigate that with honesty and care, to grow.

You know I've said it before, and I'll say it a million times again: progress is fucking progress. A little bit of progress is still progress. So you can backslide and also make progress. And it's important that you own and hold space for and validate and embrace the progress as much as you do the backsliding. Be nice to yourself. Be on your own team.

On Tuesday, October the 7th, at 7:41 a.m. Pacific Time, Mercury will be exactly square to Pluto with Mercury at 1 degree of Scorpio and 23 minutes and Pluto at the same degrees of Aquarius. This transit is hard. It is challenging, and it is confronting by nature. Add to that that we're dealing with fixed-sign energies. So fixed signs are Scorpio, Aquarius, Leo, and Taurus. And it is what it sounds like. It's fixed. And so this transit already kind of activates extreme conspiratorial, paranoid, insecure thinking. And because it's with fixed signs, in particular, it does this with our beliefs and attitudes that are fixed, that are entrenched, that feel evident and impossible to refute because of how they feel, not because it's true.

Pluto is your survival mechanisms. Our survival mechanisms are established through trauma and crisis and difficulty. And the reason why we have survival mechanisms is to help us survive. But what happens when your survival mechanisms are activated when your survival is actually not at stake? That's when we act out against ourselves and/or others, depending on the situation. An example of acting out towards yourself is rumination and obsession on ideas and projections that hurt.

So fixating on or obsessing on a person or a relationship or something you said that is in your past—those things create self-harm because they're not constructive. They don't move the needle. They don't help you to develop a deeper understanding or new coping mechanisms. So, if you catch yourself in the throes of that kind of thinking, be like, "Okay. That's the fucking transit. How can I shift the conversation in my thinking?"

And when you're in a state of Plutonian activation to your mind, the best thing to do—and Mercury is your mind, hence Plutonian activation to your mind. The best thing that you can do is not go from a negative obsession to something positive. That's not realistic. Instead, you go to a neutral state. And this is where something like a mantra, like repeating the word, "Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream"—I don't know. Maybe you're lactose intolerant. Maybe you hate ice cream. That's a bad idea. Maybe it's, "Pink ponies. Pink ponies. Pink ponies." You can just repeat a word or an affirmation or a mantra that is positive or neutral that helps shift your conversation.

When you are in a state of mental activation, when you are anxious, when you are obsessing, when you are paranoid, when you are defensive, that's not when you're going to find the answer. That's not when you're going to find the answer. Instead, that's when you want to tend to the activation in your mind. And when you are in a more neutral state, that's when you're more likely to find a constructive, progressive answer.

And the truth is progressive, constructive answers are totally possible with this transit. This transit empowers you to go deep and to come to a greater place of understanding, either psychologically or spiritually, but also in trying to understand—I don't know—something you're learning, something about the world, something about a topic that's meaningful to you.

This transit is confronting. It's supposed to bring up challenges to your thinking. And a lot of times, that happens through conflict with other people. That's a little bit of a theme this week. Here's the thing. You may be dealing with somebody who is coercive, who is manipulative, or who is straight-up mean. And it may bring out those same qualities in you. You may be that person who's poking the bear and thinking that they're not going to roar at you, but then they do. But then they do. This is not the time for starting shit unless you want to deal with shit, okay?

Pick your battles wisely. If you are mad at your mom, don't pick a fight with your grocer. You know what I mean? Instead, turn to your dear diary or your best friend or your favorite shrink and process through the feelings and the thoughts until you get to a place where you can assess whether or not to talk to your mom, how to talk to your mom, what's a reasonable expectation for you to have from yourself, from your mom.

Because this transit activates Plutonian thinking, there's a real risk of propaganda, scary news, big, violent declarations on the world stage. Whether or not the point is to strike fear in people's minds and hearts or we are actually getting bad news that will be acted upon, time will tell. But Mercury square to Pluto is meant to be activating. So the more conscientious you can be about where your thoughts linger, about the tone of voice you use whether you're texting, emailing, or speaking to someone, and what you say—this is really important.

The odd thing about Mercury square Pluto, depending on your nature, is that you may ice people, or somebody may put you on ice. Withholding information is very Plutonian because Pluto is fight or flight. So it's data dumping or withholding. It's extreme, one way or another. Make sure you're not being punitive with basically not communicating with other people. Again, that's starting shit. It's a passive-aggressive way of doing it, but starting shit is starting shit regardless of the style.

And you will have more peace inside of you, you will be more impactful and effective, your life will be easier long term—not short term; long term—if you are accountable to what you believe to be right, if you sort through your impulses and your fears and your triggers and activation—if you do those things conscientiously, with care, taking responsibility even when you can't fix things or whatever.

This is not a great time for fighting with people. I mean, it's a great time for fighting with people if you want to fight with people. But it's not a great time for resolution because it's so activating. Because you're so activated and I'm so activated, we are less likely to find a middle ground. When you're activated, it is harder for you to truly listen to other people. And if you're activated and I'm activated, then neither of us are truly listening. And now what are we doing? We're just fighting for what? Again, I say unto you choose those battles wisely.

This transit is active during the Full Moon, so we're going to feel, from the Full Moon on Monday, the 6th, this dynamic of the Mercury/Pluto square is being pulled into the first half of the week, but certainly here today on the 7th. So communicate with as much intention as you can.

That brings us to the 8th. On Wednesday, the 8th of October, at exactly 4:41 a.m. Pacific Time, Venus is sextile to Jupiter. This transit is exact at 4:41 a.m. Pacific Time. Venus will be at 23 degrees of Virgo and 19 minutes, forming an exact sextile to Jupiter at the same degrees of Cancer. Venus sextile to Jupiter is a fucking lovely transit. It gives you this spark of energy, and that energy is between Venus and Jupiter. So Jupiter is growth, and Venus is your relationships. It's love. It's your values.

This is a great time to stabilize your relationship to your values system. It's a great time for dealing conscientiously with your finances. It's a great time for letting someone know you like them or you love them. Now, in context of a Mercury square to Pluto, what it's most realistically going to do is help you to connect to the bigger picture—Jupiter. It will help you to connect to your values systems—Venus—to act in ways that are in alignment with what is authentic to you—Venus, Venus.

Jupiter makes it easier to be generous of spirit. Jupiter makes it easier to not get so wrapped up in, like, "This person did this thing at this moment," but instead to be more connected to the big picture of, "Okay. Maybe this person's in a bad mood or acted out of pocket, but overall, this is not a bad person who's attacking me." Venus sextile to Jupiter is a lovely transit that you want to tap into as it overlaps with the Mercury square to Pluto. Capisce? Capisce.

My friends, that brings us to the last exact transit of this week. On Saturday, October the 11th, at exactly 4:11 a.m. Pacific Time, Venus will be at exactly 27 degrees of Virgo, and guess what: Saturn is at exactly 27 degrees of Pisces—0 degrees, 0 minutes. Venus opposite Saturn is a challenging transit. Venus and Saturn are the two most security-oriented planets of the zodiac. Venus and Saturn both care about other people liking them a lot. Saturn is concerned with overall reputation. Venus is concerned with overall likability.

So, when these two planets are opposite, it feels sad. You can feel isolated or lonely or like, "Why don't I have friends?" or, "Why don't I have the right kind of friends? Maybe people only like me because I do x, y, and z for them." You may be feeling insecure or shitty about the way you look and the meaning that it holds to other people or in your life. Venus opposite Saturn is a heavy transit. Saturn is always heavy, but so much of our lives have to do with our relationships.

And because this is an opposition and it's likely to be expressed between me and you or us and them—and it may be us and them because, again, Saturn is an outer planet—there's a real risk here that fear, insecurity, loneliness, feeling like you don't know how to be yourself around other people and now it's costing you feeling okay in your own skin—all of that shit is activated. And it provokes the risk that you will make choices, whether it's in how you talk to yourself, what you believe, how you behave, etc.—you'll make choices out of fear, out of scarcity. And when we make choices where we center fear, insecurity, scarcity, we tend to actually be investing in the very things we're scared of. It doesn't feel like that in the moment. It never feels like that in the moment. But that's what it tends to be.

I'm not saying don't be scared. I'm not saying be fearless or have no insecurities, obviously, because you wouldn't be a person. And also, this transit literally kicks those things up. So, if you're feeling those things, it's because the astrological weather is saying, "Feel these feelings." But it's important that you cope with these feelings in as authentic of a way that you can, that you cope with these feelings with integrity. What is integrity? It's acting in alignment with what you value, your convictions, what you believe to be right and wrong.

Your feelings are completely valid, whatever you're feeling. Your feelings are valid, but the narrative that you attach to your feelings—not necessarily. Probably not, even. Understanding that feelings are valid and the feelings you feel entitle you to cope with those feelings, to support yourself through those feelings—but that is not the same thing as feelings are facts. Feelings are not facts, and facts are not feelings. And you can have feelings about the facts, but feelings are not facts.

So being able to sit in that messiness is so hard for Saturn. It's so hard for Saturn. And it can be hard for Venus in Virgo. But it's the assignment. Hang out with your discomfort, with your uncertainty, with not knowing where you belong or who you are or if you have enough, if there will ever be enough. That's very human to feel that way, and this transit kicks up those feelings.

You may not be able to avoid a relationship issue, a relationship conflict, a relationship difficulty. But I will say this really clearly: don't create problems out of your feelings. You may be feeling triggered by your bestie, your partner—whatever. And your triggered feelings are very valid and real. Your triggered feelings might make you feel, oh, I don't know, like you're not loved enough. But if in fact that is not what is happening—it's just the feelings you're having—then by saying to someone, "You don't love me enough. You need to prove more to me"—all of these kinds of things—you may be creating a problem in your relationship when what you really need is to be saying to your bestie or your partner or your sister or whatever, "I feel sad and insecure and weird and off. Can you give me extra love and attention right now? Because I feel fucking off." One is more honest than the other.

The thing is, a lot of times, when we feel insecure and when we feel sad and bad, and especially when we feel lonely and stuck—because Venus opposite Saturn can make you feel really stuck, or it can kick up the parts of your life or your relationships that are stuck. But when we feel that way, we often get dishonest—not intentionally. It's not like we're like, "Oh, I feel bad. Therefore, I'll lie." It's that we get dishonest as a defense mechanism. You feel like you have to defend yourself because you feel shitty.

So strive to not be so quick to defend your feelings—instead, to understand your feelings so you can be accountable to yourself. And being accountable to yourself is the only way you can be accountable to other people because if you can't tolerate your own emotions and you're asking other people to take care of emotions that you don't know how to sit with, sometimes that ends up creating the very problems you're trying to avoid.

The other thing that can happen with Venus opposite Saturn is that you are confronted by money problems. So these money problems might be like you overspent, and now you're having to deal with the consequences. Venus is your liquid resources, and then Saturn is consequences. Sometimes it's constriction. You may have an unexpected expense emerge, especially if you have something at around 27 degrees of a mutable sign in your birth chart. So the mutable signs are Virgo and Pisces, Gemini and Sagittarius.

This is a time for accountability. That can suck. This is certainly not a great time to overspend as a way to try to buy yourself some happy. Don't buy yourself happy at the second half of the week, okay? It's not going to work. It will have consequences. Unless you can afford to buy the thing, don't buy the thing. And if you are going to be investing a large amount of money, this transit is challenging you to make sure that you understand that wherever you're putting your money is a reflection of your values. And it will have big-picture impact on you one way or another. So be intentional about how you engage with your finances.

And that, my friends, is your horoscope for this week. A quick recap of the transits—on Monday, the 6th, we have a Full Moon in Aries. On Tuesday, the 7th, Mercury forms an exact square to Pluto. On the 8th, we have a Venus sextile to Jupiter. And then, finally, on Saturday, the 11th, Venus is opposite Saturn, which is such a bummer, but whatever. It is what it is.

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I thank you so much for joining me this week and every week for Ghost, and I hope you take really good care of yourself and others.