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. This week, we're looking at the astrology of February 15th through the 20th, and this is some groundbreaking, future-altering astrology. Now, I don't say shit like that a lot because astrology like this doesn't happen a lot. That's just not how it goes. We're going to spend the bulk of our time this week talking about the two major astrological events that are connected to each other and yet also distinctly different and separate from each other.

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So okay. Let's get to this week's astrology. Now, I want to give you something that I don't love doing, which is a little bit of a TL;DR because there's so much to take in with the astrology of this week. On the 15th, we're going to have a transit that brings about chaos and change and, on the 16th, that promotes insight and the ability to make connections. On the 17th, a transit that requires deep emotional presence for whatever comes and, related to that presence, curiosity. And then, on the 20th, I want to tell you to stay with your body, to stay with your body. And if you can't stay with your body or if you are like, "What even does that mean?" just be curious about it. We're talking about practicing staying with your body as opposed to being perfect at it.

Now, the reason why I don't usually like to give a TL;DR, like a quickie keyword breakdown, is because when we don't work with nuance, we're missing a huge amount of the story. And when we look to oversimplify really complex and nuanced things, we end up feeling funky. So you have tools and resources through astrology or whatever else, but they don't quite apply because there is rarely an overly simplistic answer for complicated and nuanced issues. So, that said, those are your keywords for your TL;DR. And let's dive into the first exact transit of this week, which I told you about last week.

On the 15th, the first exact transit of this week happens at 9:02 p.m. Pacific Time. That's when it's in exactitude. We have a Sun square to Uranus. Now, this Sun square to Uranus is important on its own merits, but it is connected to the Solar Eclipse that we are about to undergo on the 17th. So, while Sun transits are generally things that affect us for about three days—so we would have been feeling it on the 14th, it's exact on the 15th, and then we would feel it on the 16th—it absolutely is getting drawn into that Eclipse on the 17th. So this is an important transit.

Sun square to Uranus is a transit that confronts you, and it confronts you because the Sun is your identity and your sense of self. So, when we talk about identity, some of that is forward-facing. It's who I tell you I am, the groups I affiliate with, the things I want you to associate me with. And then, on a more internal, psychological level, identity can be unconscious. If your parents told you that you were too demanding as a child, you may be a grown-ass adult walking around feeling guilty every time you ask for something, even though as an adult you're not demanding at all, or maybe you never were.

Identity is complex. Some of it is very conscious and external, and some of it is very unconscious and internal. And then there's stuff in between. When we go through a transit like Sun square to Uranus, there is an abrupt, potentially surprising, unexpected challenge to your sense of self or identity. This may occur by somebody reacting to you in a way that you just didn't expect or you getting feedback that reveals to you the way somebody experiences you that is different than you thought, or it reorients you in your relationship to yourself. This thing may be really dramatic and external, or it may be very subtle and internal.

We make a mistake. We make a mistake as humans by really fixating on and centering external things that affect other people, that other people can see and track. We have a tendency to really say that those things are important, and what's happening inside of me—that's not as important. But the truth is what's happening inside of you, how you orient towards yourself, how you metabolize your identity and sense of self, is foundational to who you really are, to how you feel about yourself, and then ultimately your access to your will, your willpower.

In astrology, the Sun is related to your will, your vitality, whereas Mars is your motivation and your action; it's your ego. These two planets are both really important, but as we're here talking about the Sun, I want you to know that your sense of self, your willpower, your sense of vitality and your ability to tap in and access your own essential energies—that's the Sun. And that is what is getting triggered this week, and in particular with the Sun square to Uranus.

Uranus is related to many things. It's your nervous system. And so a lot of people will feel just zingy on and around this date and for the better part of this week. This transit can really stimulate your nervous system so that you are having a hard time staying focused, so you're easily distracted, you're restless, you're just going from thing to thing to thing, or it could be that you are making connections that you weren't making before. It could be that you're open and exploring because that's what Uranus really wants. It wants innovation.

Innovation requires curiosity and adaptability. It's really hard to adapt to your emotional needs, your circumstances, the world as it changes, if you are not also curious. This is because change requires some measure of innovation, even if you're changing in ways that lots of people change all the damn time. Our internal experience is really important. Your internal experience is really important. And Uranus, on and around the 15th and certainly in the upcoming Eclipse, is pushing you to adapt, to change, to evolve, but not in one specific way. It's not like there's a map; X marks the spot.

This is a time for being curious about what you're feeling, about what narratives you have for yourself, about how you identify internally and externally, and how that does or doesn't authentically reflect who you are—not who you were, not who you hope to be. Who you are. Who you are.

The astrology of this week, the astrology of this era, requires presence. It does. It requires that you find a way to notice when you are fixated on a past that cannot be changed or a future that is as of yet unknowable. The present is where you have agency. The present is where you have the capacity to really change your future and metabolize your past. The Sun square to Uranus is going to potentially challenge you to adapt and change, and sometimes, what that looks like is responding differently in the presence of old triggers. Sometimes, it looks like dealing with a curveball.

Because Uranus governs your nervous system, you or other people—because we're all going through this transit—you or other people might react in a surprising way. You may have some sort of a knee-jerk reaction where you are just like—you snap. You handle things in a way you were not planning on, you were not expecting. And again, that might not happen with you or for you, but it might happen with and for the people around you.

You cannot control everything, nor should you try. How you choose to respond, how much you are willing to grow from even your most unexpected, unpleasant, challenging, or exciting experiences—that's ultimately what defines you. This life is your life. It's your life. Who do you choose to be? How do you choose to be? These are questions to be asking yourself on the Sun square to Uranus and, as you will soon see, the Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius that we're going through on the 17th.

Okay. But that brings us to our next exact transit, which is on the 16th. On Monday, February the 16th, Mercury forms an exact trine to Jupiter. This transit is lovely. We're so happy for it. What it does is it expands your mind. It encourages open-mindedness, a willingness to consider different perspectives and learn. Sometimes, what you learn is something that you're very clear you disagree with, but understanding other ways of being, other perspectives, understanding how other people process information or other people's beliefs, is valuable. It doesn't mean you have to agree with people or that you have to let people know how you disagree with them.

Having an open mind means that you have more options. That's really what it's about. So much of this very Aquarian moment that we're living in requires a willingness to innovate, to consider different possible futures and different possible pathways that we can create, co-create, or take in order to get to those new places. And being able to go in that direction requires curiosity, adaptability.

So Mercury is details, and Jupiter is the big picture. Mercury is your friends, and Jupiter is expansion. This can be a transit that empowers you to not only have a more open mind and learn something new, but connect with people in new ways and in ways that are exciting, positive, easy. Trines are easy, and this is Mercury in Pisces, a water sign, trine to Jupiter in Cancer—you guessed it, another water sign. So there's flow.

If you want new friends, if you want to learn something new, this is a great transit for doing those things. And because this transit is just sandwiched between that Sun square to Uranus and the Solar Eclipse in Aquarius, what we know is that there is support in this Eclipse moment for keeping an open mind. So, my dears, tap into that, because the more open your mind, the more connected to possibility you are. Probability? Yeah, okay, there's lots of probabilities in the world. Let's take time this week to explore possibility.

That brings us to Tuesday, the 17th, when we have an Eclipse. This Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 17th at 4:01 a.m. Pacific Time. Quick refresher on what Solar Eclipses are—a Solar Eclipse is a New Moon. It's when the Sun and Moon are conjoined. But Solar Eclipses are not like regular New Moons in that the effects last over the course of about six months instead of one month.

When we go through an Eclipse—and we are in Eclipse Season. There's always two Eclipses, right? They come in pairs. When we go through an Eclipse, what you can trust is that the Eclipse is a lot. On an Eclipse, you never do ritual work. And the reason why astrologers tell you not to do any ritual work during an Eclipse is because they rattle you. They shake things up. They portend a time of evolutionary intensity. And so it's unwise to—I don't know—try to throw a Tarot reading in a windstorm, right?

Similarly, it's not a good time to try to manifest or be intentional about what you're calling in or to make major decisions. And this is because the Eclipse itself is changing you. And it's not just changing you; it's changing me. It's changing them. It's changing all of us. And if it's changing all of us all at once, then circumstances are not stable enough to try to project into. Moon transits—and the Eclipse is a major damn Moon transit—Moon transits require presence. The Moon wants you to be present, to feel your feelings.

And so this is not a time for going into big theories or making plans or, again, major decisions. This is not a time to be super in your head. I know that a lot of astrologers will have you looking at various dates and doing a lot of analytic research. I'm going to point you away from that. Eclipses are meant to be felt. They are opportunities for you to evolve. Are they portals? No. They're Moon transits, and they are meant to be felt. And the only way to meet the moment is to be in the moment. Regardless of what else is happening on and around the Eclipse but certainly on the Eclipse, it's time to meet the moment.

Now, if you're looking at the video version of this, you can see that I highlighted the key points of this chart. The Sun and Moon in Aquarius are at 28 degrees and 49 minutes. So we're calling that a 29-degree Aquarius Solar Eclipse, very peak Aquarian vibes. Let's not forget that Aquarius, the zodiac sign ruled by Uranus, governs instability, and it governs instability in a way that you can think of as creating havoc and chaos and disruptions, or you can think of it as the prerequisite for innovation.

Disruption with intention is innovative. It can be experimenting. It can be exploring. And it can be coming up with ideas and approaches that you've never had before. Because this is the Sun and the Moon meeting in Aquarius, and the closest aspect to the Sun and Moon is a square to Uranus—because it was just exact two days ago—because that's what's happening, the potential for revolution, for innovation, for meaningful change, is so ripe. It's big.

But how do you meet that moment without making decisions, without indulging your nervous system by reacting before you've had a chance to consider what you're reacting to, the implications of your behavior, of your thoughts, etc.? And as implications, I'm talking about, again, on an emotional level, whether that's for your personal life or whether or not you're being emotionally authentic.

Aquarius and Uranus—they're wordy. Aquarius is a fixed air sign, and Uranus is its ruling planet. It's the planet that governs technology. And so, when we go through a transit that's this Uranian, this Aquarian, your mind and your nerves may be really activated. This can lead to breakthroughs. This can just as easily lead to breakdowns. And these two things are not mutually exclusive. Breakthroughs, breakdowns—they often happen together. When you think about some of your greatest breakthroughs, did they not come through some sort of breakdown? This is because when the chips are down is when we are most pressed to be innovative. We don't have to be that way, but it tends to happen that way.

This Eclipse is an excellent time to build with other people. Now, building connections, community, coalitions with other people sounds great. But if, on an emotional level, you feel isolated, you feel alienated, you feel really like you're too different from other people or other people are too different from you, if you feel distracted around people in part because you don't know how to stay emotionally present, then this Eclipse is going to bring that stuff to the fore. And it's not doing that to punish you or to torture you. It's doing that because awareness is the foundation to change and adaptation. You cannot adapt something that you don't understand or that you don't even perceive.

Because Aquarius and Uranus governs the future, you may encounter ways in which you are wanting to live in the future, some future that is theoretical, because all futures are theoretical, truly, right? Part of the assignment of this Solar Eclipse is to be present. It's to be emotionally present here and now and to allow your presence in this moment to inform and lay foundations for your co-creation of possibility, what could be in the future.

And because it's Aquarius, you're not meant to do it alone. And that doesn't mean you have to be in groups all the time, but feelings of isolation are feelings. Now, you may say to me, "Jessica, I feel isolated, and I am isolated. I can prove it to you," and point to a bunch of things in your life. And that's real. What's also real is the internet connects us all. Again, Aquarius, Uranus—they govern technology. If you are feeling alienated and isolated, is there ways that are uncomfortable for you, that are new for you, but are possible for you, to connect to other people, to be a part of a community?

This is not a transit in the zodiac sign of Leo. Leo is the opposite zodiac sign to Aquarius. So this is not the time for indulging main character syndrome. This is not the time where you want to center attention over intention. Striving to be intentional about where you're at and how you're participating both with other people on an interpersonal level but also on a community-wide level is a part of this transit. The Solar Eclipse in Aquarius wants you to be true to who you are. Easier said than done, right? But that's the assignment.

Because Uranus is squaring the Sun and the Moon and the Sun and Moon are in Aquarius to begin with, this is a nervy Solar Eclipse. So you may find yourself irritable. You may find yourself activated. You may find yourself restless, distracted, or excited, engaged, curious, adaptable. It can kind of go either way, or for a lot of people, it'll go both ways; you'll have all of it all at once.

Uranus speeds up the tempo of things, so you may have a ton of shit cross your desk at work. You may have a bunch of things happen socially, interpersonally. There's a lot going on, and it's not just you. Remember it's happening to every person on the planet, which means it's happening to the collective. And it will be reflected in the collective.

When it comes to Eclipses, the reason why it takes about six months to play out is because not everything is on the surface with the Moon. The Moon affects the tides. The Moon affects cycles. And so this Solar Eclipse is putting a cycle into motion. And we may see something material immediately, and we may see the consequences of this play out over the next six months. My guess is it'll be a little bit of both.

The Moon is related to boundaries, and it's related to borders. So a sense of nationalism is associated with the Moon on a social and collective level. So we may see some developments there that, again, play out over the next six months. I want to encourage you this Solar Eclipse to practice being hopeful, not in spite of your current realities, not in spite of our collective conditions, but because of them.

Actively engaging in putting in place new systems, in connecting with other people, in innovating new ways of protecting your humanity and the humanity of others—this is a huge part of the assignment of Aquarius in general and of this Solar Eclipse in particular. And that is inspiring. It's your assignment, and it's my assignment. And you don't have to be perfect. The term "assignment"—I really like it. I mean, I'm a Capricorn, so of course I do. But I really like it because what happens in school when you're assigned something? You are in process with it. The point is to learn. It's not to perfect. It's to learn.

So stay in process with yourself this Solar Eclipse. And you don't need to do anything. You don't need to jump-start anything. The only thing you really need to do is practice being present and responding to the best of your ability to what comes up. On a collective level, we may see some sort of developments with technology, which, of course, today in 2026 has everything to do with AI and its developments. We may see communities weaponized against each other because the Moon, again, is around nationalism and tribalism, and Aquarius is very much about community.

And so we may see certain communities pitted against others. Don't fall trap to that. Don't fall trap to that. Do your best to align your social, political, humanitarian drives towards what you love, towards what you want to invest in and protect, instead of against what you hate and against what you want to see go away because, as cheesy as it sounds, love is a much more sustainable motivation than hate. It just is. You do you, but there it is.

Now, there's something that I haven't mentioned yet in this Solar Eclipse chart, which is that Neptune and Saturn are almost perfectly exactly conjoined during this Eclipse. And this speaks to how we are at the seed-planting, profound, evolutionary moment of a Solar Eclipse while we are also on the precipice of a whole new era in humanity and, therefore, in you because you are a part of the human condition. We are all connected to each other.

And so your ideas and ideals may be really tested, and we may experience political instability as groups shift and realign. Aquarius, as I said, governs instability and also the innovation that is required for reinvention. Within this, communities can be weaponized against each other, or we can focus on systems. And that's really, to my way of thinking, the best thing to do. We can focus on individuals that do shitty things, and of course, there's value in that. But there's also value in focusing on the system that propped that individual up and that empowers that individual to get away with shit.

Spiritual convictions, spiritual fervor underpins much of the worst things that humans do to each other and even to the planet. Because Saturn and Neptune are almost exactly conjoined in this Solar Eclipse chart, we know that the Saturn/Neptune conjunction is activated here. And that activation will engage, is meant to engage, your spiritual convictions, your understanding of and relationship to reality, whatever the fuck that means to you. Also, Saturn governs depression, and Neptune governs anxiety. Put them together, and overwhelm, collapse, demoralization can occur.

Feeling bad doesn't mean that things are bad. Feeling bad doesn't mean that you are bad. Feeling bad means you feel bad. Innovating ways of coping with your feelings that doesn't require squashing them down or reacting to them mindlessly is part of the assignment of this era, of this moment. You may want to struggle against your circumstances or people or the world. You may be fighting yourself. You may be just really in messy emotions this week and in particular on the Eclipse. That's okay. It's not awesome, but it's okay.

Choosing to explore different ways of engaging with your feelings and your circumstances is the assignment. So, if you think you're stuck, if you feel stuck, if you feel enmeshed in a struggle that you don't know how to get out of, the best way to engage with that is by being curious and doing whatever you can to soothe and nurture your nervous system, which is likely to be really activated throughout this week and certainly on this Eclipse.

And that, my friends, brings us to Friday, February the 20th, when Saturn and Neptune are both at 0 degrees of Aries and 45 minutes. This will occur at 8:53 a.m. Pacific Time. Saturn conjunction to Neptune is incredibly consequential. If you've already seen my webinar on the astrology of 2026, then you've heard me talk a lot about it. And if you haven't yet seen it, it is available for purchase on my website on the shop page.

Now, Saturn and Neptune meet approximately every 36 years, in different zodiac signs all the damn time. Neptune takes 165 years to move all the way through the zodiac signs. And so, whenever we have transits that involve Neptune, they're important to pay attention to. Saturn and Neptune, though they meet approximately every 36 years, they've not before met at 0 degrees of Aries. Now, in astrology, 0 degrees of Aries is a very important point, and certain astrologers—in particular, I believe evolutionary astrologers—really focus on this point. That's not the centerpiece of my practice, but it is an important point in astrology.

Saturn and Neptune have never before met at these degrees. Now, I have heard one astrologer—and I'm really sorry that I'm forgetting who right now—who said that this did happen in the year 4361. But I haven't been able to personally verify this. So I and most astrologers are treating this as a novel cycle.

Now, when we go through something brand new, we don't know exactly what's going to happen, right? The reason why we can make predictions with astrology is because we are studying cycles and patterns. So we understand how Saturn and Neptune function when they meet up, and then we also understand how they function when they meet up in various zodiac signs at various points. Because this has not happened before, we cannot look at what happened historically to understand what to expect in the present. And that, depending on how you want to hold it, can be a little scary and a little exciting.

As I said before, Saturn governs reality. It governs structure and systems. It governs hierarchies. Governments and other hierarchical, structured organizations are Saturn. Neptune is ethereal. Neptune is fog. You can't quite put your hands around Neptune. Neptune governs fervent conviction, spiritual in particular. It's the, quote unquote, "high arts." Neptune governs anxiety, escapism, idealization and idealism, and fantasy. Saturn, again, just likes to make plans, keep its head down, and deal with reality.

So, when these two planets come together, we tend to have moral crises. We have to seriously consider the systems in place and what they serve for humanity because Neptune is deeply concerned with humanity. It's concerned with empathy and care. And also, when we think about cults, whether we're thinking about the cult of personality that can happen in a parasocial dynamic, whether we're thinking about cults like QAnon or MAGA, when we think about the cultish fervency with which many people engage with horoscopes and astrology, that's all Neptune.

Neptune believes without any evidence. And that's not inherently bad, but it sure is not inherently good. When we abandon our critical faculties, we can get into some soupy stuff, whereas Saturn, by contrast, is all about critical faculties. That's all it does. It's, "Is this practical? Does this work? Is it functional? And Saturn also is conventional. That part of you that's like, "Will other people judge me if I'm different than them in x, y, or z way, if my life doesn't hit certain benchmarks at certain ages?"—that's Saturn stuff.

When these two planets come together, in particular at 0 degrees of Aries, we can expect on a personal level that you are likely to be dealing with some sort of a struggle that doesn't have a clear answer or approach. It's like this soupy thing where you're like, "I don't know what I'm supposed to do about this." There's no practical way forward.

Moral quandaries, fantasies without plans, escapist urges that are deeply consequential, rigid approaches to that which requires more spaciousness and faith—this is what we are going to experience under the Saturn/Neptune conjunction. And it's not like it's over on this date. This transit will occur a couple of times in exactitude. And what's really important to know is that we may experience immediate evidence of this pairing, of Saturn and Neptune meeting on the 20th. And it may not be apparent that things have happened or changed in any particular way. You're going to experience this in your body.

Now, a lot of us are not in our bodies. When I ask people, "Where do you feel that in your body?" a really common answer is, "I don't know. I don't feel things in my body.  I don't know how to locate things in my body." The zodiac sign of Aries is about embodiment. It's also about assertion and motivation and making things happen. It's competitive, and it's competitive because it's—competition is not just about me. It's about me in contrast to you.

What I want to point you towards at the dawn of this transit and this new era that it invokes is to locate your body, to sit with the things that don't have clear answers, to understand that you may need to work on dissolving or releasing attachments to structures, habits, convictions, and affiliations that no longer serve you. You may need to believe in yourself or others, to cultivate faith in ways that support how you live your life, or you may need to question some of the things that you have faith in.

Again, this is a novel cycle. It is a deeply consequential transit. And it's happening so close to a Solar Eclipse. And so this is emotional. I cannot stress to you enough how important it is to practice staying with your body when the emotions hit. Saturn and Neptune have major implications for mental health. So that burnout and overwhelm and demoralization that so many of us are feeling as we watch, often helplessly, on our phones terrible fucking things happening to people all over the world—that feeling of demoralization is salient for so many of us. And you are not helpless in the presence of it.

Understanding struggles that you're having means that you can start to innovate different ways of engaging with your mental health, engaging with your behaviors, that are more sustainable, not just so that you feel better, because that's not the only and most important thing. It's so that your efforts are sustainable. Saturn does govern sustainability, and Neptune is empathy and humanitarian convictions. Now, Uranus also governs humanitarianism, but Neptune governs the concept that we are all cousins; we are all siblings. We are connected to each other.

When I say to you this thing that I have said many times, which is we are all different threads in this massive tapestry of humanity, of life, that's a deeply Neptunian conviction that I hold and concept that I'm communicating. We are connected. We are not all the same. But we are all valuable. We are all deserving of care and empathy. And finding ways of navigating your own mental health, your lived experience, your realities that you are living within, that doesn't cost you your humanity—that's part of the assignment here. That's part of the opportunity of Saturn conjunction to Neptune.

Under the influence of Saturn/Neptune conjunction, we may see either greater environmental protections or the dissolution, the breakdown, of environmental protections. And I don't need to tell you what the consequence of that will be over time for the environment and just about every living thing as a result.

Saturn conjunction to Neptune in Aries can coincide with militarization fueled by spiritual fervor, deeply held beliefs, "us against them" shit, and, because it's in Aries, because Saturn is involved, peak patriarchal bullshit on the rise. Now, we've already been experiencing this because Saturn and Neptune were both in Aries in 2025 for a minute. Now, they weren't exactly conjunct as they are now in this moment, but we've been in the soup. We've been in the vibes. So this will get more intense.

And so locate yourself in reality. What's real? What's real for you about how you feel, about where you're at, about what you are or aren't doing? What's real in the world, in your community, in whatever context you want to apply this? Working with reality and infusing it with meaning—that's the best parts of what Saturn conjunction to Neptune can be about.

When it comes to Neptune, if you don't experience a sense of meaning, of real spiritual meaning, then there's feelings of anxiety, escapism, and demoralization that occurs. And so, if you're feeling that way, ask yourself what in the habits of your life, what in the structure of your life, needs to have more meaning associated with it? Or if that's not possible, if you're just in a job you don't fucking like, stuck in dynamics that just don't give you that sense of meaning, what can you add or subtract? What can you adapt? Now, again, in this moment, the Eclipse is helping you because it's all about innovation. It's all about curiosity and adaptability. So we want to bring that energy to your consciousness so that you can work with it intentionally.

Now, I dropped on my Patreon on the free page—so there's no cost to access this video. I dropped a video where I answered a bunch of questions about Neptune in Aries. And I think that that's a really valuable thing for you to check out if you're interested in learning more about Neptune in Aries because it's much more unusual than Saturn in Aries. Saturn was in Aries approximately 29 years ago. So, if you're under the age of 35, then you don't really remember it, probably. But it's worth looking back. What happened in your life during Saturn in Aries? Now, we don't want to be too reductive and simple because you may have been going through ten other really intense transits. And so not everything you were experiencing the last time Saturn was in Aries or the last time you went through a particular transit is the whole story because usually we're going through multiple transits at a time instead of just one.

But you can look at what was happening in the world or what was happening in your world if you want more information about this. If you want to figure out where this is hitting your birth chart, you don't look to your natal Saturn or your natal Neptune. Instead, what you do is you look at where around 0, 1 degrees of Aries falls in your birth chart, and you will then have a sense of what gets activated in you, in your nature.

But honestly, don't do that this week. Don't do that this week. Stay in your body. Stay with your emotions. That's where the real value of astrology lies right now, not in trying to get ahead of things, not in trying to figure it out, but instead in recognizing, "Oh, these are the challenges I'm likely to encounter if I stay present." But the assignment is to stay present. So stay present, and analyze it later. Give it a couple weeks, okay? Mercury is about to go Retrograde, and when Mercury goes Retrograde is a great time for review and reflection. Why don't you wait till then?

This week, strive to be present. Strive to be present, even when it's challenging—maybe, actually, especially when it's challenging. Creating a life that reflects what you care about, what you believe in, is really hard to do, but it is a worthy endeavor. This Saturn/Neptune conjunction is an opportunity for you to explore that, to think about it, to feel it. And if you find that you really don't like where your life is at, as much as that sucks—and that does suck. As much as that sucks, that's the information you need to start to be able to unpack how you got here and make plans for changing, keeping in mind that this transit tends to kick up, as I said, unsolvable-feeling problems and moral quandaries.

Now, one last thing I'll say about this transit for now—don't worry; just for now—is that this transit can be associated with the rise of strongmen leaders. And we know what's been happening in the world, and it will probably continue to happen. This is where the very Neptunian concept of acceptance becomes really important. If you can accept the timeline you're living in, the person you are with the struggles and resources that you have, if you can accept these things, then you can start to build internal awareness, resources, external dynamics, whatever it is. Then you can start to build.

But acceptance is a real struggle. It's a real struggle. It is a worthy one, though. So strive to notice where you're struggling with acceptance. It might feel like a futile practice, but it creates  foundation inside of you that will build in its own time. It will build in its own time.

And that's your damn horoscope for this very consequential week astrologically. I'm going to quickly run through these transits for you. On the 15th, the Sun forms an exact square to Uranus. On the 16th, Mercury is exactly trine to Jupiter. On the 17th, we have a Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius. And then, on the 20th, Saturn and Neptune conjoin in Aries. It's a fuck of a lot.

And I really hope you're taking good care of yourself. You know, I love astrology so much, obvi, obvi. But my primary objective through my work is to help you cultivate emotional awareness and emotional intelligence. And one of the ways that I have figured out to do that is through this podcast, and another way is through the ongoing conversations that I have with folks over on my Patreon. And I just want to say that regardless of cost, whether you want to join for free or on a paid tier, that I drop a good mount of resources over there, and it's a place where you can ask me questions and go deeper with me to learn about how to work through the shit we are all living through. So feel free to join me over there.

And as always, I thank you for joining me here at Ghost of a Podcast. And I will talk to you in just a couple of days.