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 March 29th through April 4th of 2026, and there's stuff. Surprise, surprise. There's stuff. We're going to talk all about it.

Also, this is your last week to register to join for my five-week series on alignment. Tickets are available through the link in show notes or on my website. And I'm just really excited to do this with you because I have taught many classes over many years, but I've never taught a five-week series. This is going to give me the opportunity to not only build on the information that we're sharing but also kind of go deeper energetically and in the material that we're talking about.

This class is on alignment. It's on the simple stages that bring you to alignment. And I say simple because I think, in life, a lot of times we have this conflation. We think if things are complicated, they're deep, and if they're simple, they're not. But that's not true. A lot of times, what we need to do is distill things down to their simplest form so that we can work with them. That's where the potency lies. And that's so much at the center of my work in general and specifically in this class on alignment. If you'd like to learn more about it, if you're curious, if you want to register, again, the link is in my show notes and over on my website.

Okay. So this week's astrology starts off with a Full Moon in Libra. We're going to look at the chart in a moment, but first I want to share astrology is not sorcery, and it's not magic. You may feel that astrology is magical, but it's not magic. It's a system for understanding the realities inside of you and around you. You are actually the magic. Your interconnection to all things is kind of fucking magical.

The system of astrology is one of charting our interconnection. It's one of charting where we're at, when we're at, and in context to the world we're in. When we learn about New Moons and Full Moons, as we're going to talk about this Full Moon, it's important to remember that these lunations—they articulate our emotional development, but the truth of the matter is you have to do the emotional work; otherwise, it doesn't mean much of anything except for you had x, y, or z moods.

Astrology articulates that when, for instance, a Full Moon occurs, you have the opportunity by engaging with the fullness of your emotions with things coming to the surface to evolve and change and grow. But it doesn't happen because there's a Full Moon. It happens because of how you respond to and engage with your life, yourself, others, etc.

I think of it as very similar to learning about racism or ableism. Learning about systems is not the same as interrogating and excavating those systems inside of you, the ways you have internalized racist or ableist views and attitudes and assumptions towards yourself or others. The work, whether we're breaking down systems in the world or we're understanding the complexities of astrology or psychology or anything else—the work is the work. The work is practicing living in alignment. The work is practicing showing up in the moment, for the moment, to the best of your ability, unlearning what you need to unlearn and learning whatever is in front of you, whatever it is that you have the capacity to learn that you need to learn.

Doing the work is your assignment. And that might mean learning how to play more, learning how to relax more. Doing the work is not always about labor, per se, but doing the work is your assignment. And astrology helps us to understand what the work is at this time and the best resources and our best chances of getting it done, our most likely impediments or challenges to getting it done.

Who you choose to be is your legacy. You can't control your circumstances. You can't control parts of your nature, your heredity, the systems that you live inside of. These things are outside of your control. But what exists in your control is who you choose to be. So I want to invite you to really think about how you can be true to yourself because the truth is you can't be the people you admire or your bestie or the version of you that you thought you'd be when you were 12 and thinking about you now. You can only be the person you are based on who you are, when you are, how you are.

So really practice being yourself, being true to yourself. This is not an invitation for spiritual bypassing or toxic individualism. This is an invitation to acknowledge and honor that the world is fucking scary right now. The world is really scary right now. Maybe there's really intense things also happening in your personal life. But if we look at the way that each of us as individuals and all of us as communities on communities on communities are metabolizing the fear and uncertainty—thanks to Saturn and fucking Neptune—as it builds up in the world and in your system, alongside the intensity of our coping mechanisms around survival—thanks to Pluto out of fucking bounds—we are all acting weird, feeling weird, on edge. All of us.

And everyone handles that differently. Everyone handles that differently. Some of us have more tools already established. Some of us have great tools, but we're not using them, etc., etc., etc. Practicing showing up is practicing being authentic, being aligned, which empowers you to be honest, which empowers you to sustain the best of your efforts.

This week, we're going to have this Full Moon in Libra. And if you're watching the video version, which is available on my website, on the free page of my Patreon, on YouTube, and on various platforms that support video podcasts, you are going to see all about this fucking Full Moon in Libra. But I want you to know before we get into details that it is a temperature check. It is a vibe check for your relationships because it's a Full Moon in Libra.

If you don't like how it feels, if you don't like what you are encountering around your relationships, if you don't like certain people, including yourself, it's really important that you strive to move away from good or bad, all-or-nothing thinking. That's not going to serve you. That's a maladjusted coping mechanism. Instead, give yourself and the people connected to you the gift of nuance. You are capable of recognizing what you do and don't like, what is and isn't working, without deciding that somebody is bad or good.

Meet the moment as it is. Be open and curious to collaborating with your circumstances or, as Sonya Renee Taylor said to me a long time ago, colluding with possibility. This is a very challenging time, and the more willing you are to hang out in the nuance, to practice curiosity, to recognize the ways in which you're experiencing fear or unrest, and strive to understand it and care for it instead of react to it and push through it, the better.

Before I pull up the Full Moon chart, I need to give you your horoscope's TL;DR. And here it is. Thanks to that Full Moon in Libra, you want to feel your feelings so you can meet others in the moment authentically and collaboratively. Thanks to the Mercury trine Jupiter, you want to keep your mind open. And the Venus square to Pluto that's coming up will challenge you to navigate through power struggles with your values and not your insecurities.

Let's get into the Full Moon. So this Full Moon is happening, as I said, on Wednesday, April the 1st. It's exact at 7:12 p.m. Pacific Time. And we have the Sun at 12 degrees of Aries and 21 minutes sitting exactly opposite to the Moon at the same degrees of Libra. What this tells us straight out the gate is that your identity and your sense of self may feel, in a meaningful way, at cross purposes with the needs of your relationships, or you may feel that in a relationship or in some relationships, your identity is not being honored; it's being squashed. You might feel like you can't be yourself.

Now, Saturn is at almost 6 degrees of Aries, so it's sitting—it's not tight, but it's on top of the Sun. That means it's opposite the Moon. And within this, what I want to say is it's consequential. Saturn brings about the heaviness of reality, and so much of that may be about our collective conditions. There's so much fucking going on. There's so much going on, and there is so much to care about, it's exhausting and it's demanding. And Saturn really brings that up.

That said, we have a T-square with this Full Moon. With Jupiter at almost 16 degrees of Cancer, the Sun and Moon are both square to Jupiter. This expands the lessons of growth and proportion. Jupiter is such a dreamer—not like Neptune, up in the clouds, hard to know what's real. Jupiter is a dreamer philosophically, spiritually, religiously. Jupiter learns and learns and learns. It's like big picture and exploration. But Jupiter is also a gambler.

And so, when we have a Full Moon that is so much about the tension between me and you/us and them square to Jupiter, there may be something big that demands your attention, and not just your attention, but Jupiter is a planet that's very much concerned with fairness. This Full Moon may bring up issues related to the truth and fairness. You may struggle to know what's true in a relationship, whether that's about how you feel or maybe gossip or information or miscommunication that has really infiltrated you emotionally. The opportunity here is to grow. But all growth is not equal, right? We don't want, literally, a growth on the body, because not all growths actually help. Some hurt.

This Full Moon is an invitation for you to not only feel your feelings but to consider where the balance point is, where your sense of equilibrium, authenticity, and alignment lives, because as you are able to hit that Libra wisdom, it's not that you will then be able to make decisions or assess the truth with clarity. It's you will be able to navigate authentically, which empowers you to be more compassionate, more considerate, more generous to all involved. Sometimes the most generous and magnanimous thing you can do is say no, because if you can't sustain your efforts, if you can't follow through on your offer, then you're hurting others and you're hurting yourself.

This Full Moon is a little messy. Jupiter moves fast and so can create mess. Saturn wants to slow everything down so that things don't feel out of control. Saturn governs rigidity. And the combination is activating. Now, as we look to the ruling planet of Libra—because this is a Full Moon in Libra—we see Venus. And Venus is square to Pluto. It's not exact yet. That'll happen later in the week.

Venus square to Pluto kicks up some challenges. It's power struggles. It's obsessiveness. Pluto governs your survival mechanisms. And unless your survival is actually being threatened, your survival mechanisms are not appropriate. And so there might be ways in which you look at, let's say, the world, and you see how your survival is being threatened. That is not the same, however, as your survival imminently being threatened. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have feelings. It doesn't mean you shouldn't take action.

But in order to correctly respond to anything in life, we must first understand it. This is why you will often hear me say, when I'm teaching things like astrology or Tarot, you've got to ask the right question; otherwise, no matter what answer you get, it's not going to scratch that itch. It's not going to make you feel satisfied. The Venus square to Pluto brings an intensity, a compulsiveness, a level of insecurity to this Full Moon. And so know that you're not the only one who's feeling those ways. There's a myriad of ways that people navigate challenging feelings and survival mechanisms, and most of them are not very conscious.

And so, if you can hold space for and be generous and loving and empathetic to yourself throughout this, it becomes a lot easier to hold that same space for others. It's not easy to be empathetic and compassionate to others when you feel threatened, when you feel insecure. It's easy when you feel good, right? It's easy to offer all your friends a slice of cake when you've got cake on cake on cake. But when all you feel you have is a teeny, tiny little cake and you just really want to hold on to it, that's when it's harder to be generous.

What happens today, tomorrow, this Full Moon—it is not written in stone. You have choice. You have agency. The Sun is in Aries, let's not forget. Aries Season, Aries energy, teaches us the power of making choices and acting on those choices. And Jupiter teaches us so many lessons, and one of the lessons that Jupiter teaches us is that too much of a good thing stops being so good. Growth, experience, openness, generosity are all beautiful things, and they must exist within a container. And hopefully, over the course of life, that container expands and contracts along with your needs.

But the truth is true whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you live by it or not. Jupiter, in many ways, governs big truths. And so, this Full Moon, this week, you may be confronted with some big truths about yourself, about the world, about your relationships or somebody that you're in relationship to. Jupiter would have us rush to jump to conclusions, but I want to encourage you instead to hang out in the experience of whatever is activated inside of you. That Venus/Pluto square would have you rush to jump to conclusions but only fear-based, insecurity-based conclusions.

So notice the narrative of your fears. Try to be curious about it. Try to be kind to yourself around it. This is a good time to tap into puppy talk rules. And this is something I've talked about a bunch in the readings of my podcast, but if you're not somebody who listens to the readings that I offer on the podcast, let me just briefly say think about how you would talk to a sweet, little puppy dog or a sweet, little kitty or a small child—whoever it is that you just feel an extra tenderness towards. And think about the tone of voice you would talk to them in and the things you would say to them, and apply the rule that you talk to yourself that way.

And if you find that you're being a total jerk to yourself and, all of a sudden, you're like, "Oh, I'm talking to myself in a really terrible tone of voice," or, "I'm saying mean things to myself," ask yourself, "How can I restate that? How can I apply puppy talk rules?" We're going to need them this week, okay?

And it's important to know that this is not just about being nice to yourself. It's about creating a relationship with yourself that is foundational and supportive so that you can show up with and for others. Full Moons have a funny way of bringing things to the surface. And so we are likely to see major developments both inside of you, in your relationships, but also in the world.

Do your best to meet the moment. That's a process. It's not a destination. Hang out in the moment, meeting it to the best of your ability now. And in 15 minutes, do that again. Just meet it to the best of your ability now—and then in an hour, and then in a day and then in a week. Don't overwhelm yourself with trying to take on everything all at once. That's going to backfire.

Okay. That brings us to Friday, April the 3rd, where we have the last two exact transits of the week. At 4:28 a.m. Pacific Time, Mercury will be exactly trine to Jupiter. Mercury will be at 15 degrees of Pisces and 57 minutes, and Jupiter will be at the exact same degrees of Cancer.

Listen. This is a fucking lovely transit. It empowers you to see the details—Mercury—and the big picture—Jupiter—at the same damn time and to kind of communicate the details and the big picture to other people or yourself. This is a great time for making plans, for learning something new, for having a real good-faith confirmation. So let me just say a good-faith conversation is when you are not just verbally—or in writing or whatever else—communicating, but you are listening.

Listening is key. It is so hard to listen to people when you don't like what they have to say, when you're scared about what they have to say. Learning how to listen through activation is such an important tool for being a fucking adult, especially for being an adult in these times. It is really hard to stay present and not jump to conclusions, rush to defend, rush to explain, but it's a really valuable skill. And a transit like Mercury trine to Jupiter is a great asset. It's a great assist for cultivating that.

This transit could theoretically coincide with good news, with kind of fun connections with people, but it's overlapping with a really challenging transit. So I don't imagine that we're going to be really getting that, unless this transit hits your chart just ever so perfectly.

Okay. So, 3:38 p.m. Pacific Time, Venus will be at 5 degrees of Taurus and 16 minutes, forming an exact square to Pluto at the same degrees of Aquarius. This transit is very challenging. So we may see something challenging or downright fucking shitty happen in regards to women's rights or the rights of gender-nonconforming, Queer, and Trans people. This is because of the tension between Venus and Pluto. And the reason why, for those who don't get it, I would include Trans people of all genders and gender-nonconforming people in general with women as related to Venus is because we live in a patriarchy. And so, in patriarchy, cis maleness exists as apex predator, and all other genders kind of become subjugated, unfortunately.

So, when Venus square to Pluto occurs, we can see either a reveal of some sort of abuse of power, which could be the result of something that's already happened or the enactment of something new or more dastardly. So we definitely want to pay attention to what's happening in the world and do our best to be the change we wish to see in it.

On a more personal level, Venus square to Pluto is fucking activating. What this means is that you may feel jealous, fucking obsessive, vengeful, possessive, like you want to control things, like you are so sensitive to power dynamics and it feels really bad to be on the top or on the bottom or whatever it is.

This transit kicks up those feelings because those are deeply Plutonian. And Venus is, of course, your relationships. It's also your relationship to the way you look, to your personal finances, and to your values systems in general. It is really important to note that Pluto is your survival mechanisms. It is, therefore, connected to insecurity. It is so important that you strive to act in ways that reflect your values and not your insecurities and your fears.

No matter how much you think the other person deserves poor treatment, when you treat somebody else like shit, that is you. That is who you are. That's who you're choosing to be, and it fucks with you. The best revenge is truly living well. The opposite of hate is not love. The opposite of hate is not caring at all.

If you want to strip power from something or someone, don't give them your energy. Now, don't apply this to politics and systemic issues. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about on a personal and interpersonal level. If there's somebody who hurt you x amount of months or years ago or whatever, continuing to fixate on them and obsess on them—it hurts you. It doesn't actually hurt them. Now, if somebody is using systemic power to harm you or others, okay, it's different contexts. Not all things apply to all things in all ways.

This transit is driving. So you may be feeling fucking intense for half the week, really. Or you might not be feeling it at all; however, you may be living in the world, where other people are feeling that way. And when other people are feeling that way, they may act in ways that really fucking mystify you, like, "Why is this person being so rigid?" or, "Why is this person being so defensive?" or, "Why is this person bending over backwards, being a weird people pleaser?" because we all respond to activation in our own unique ways that are a reflection of our uniqueness, our culture, our age, and other various parts of our context, including our trauma history.

So try to be curious. Try to hold space. That doesn't mean don't have boundaries. It doesn't mean abandon yourself. No, no, no. It just means be curious and hold space for people to be wonky, for things to be intense, and for you or others to act a little out of pocket. Within that, you have agency. You have choice. Make good choices to the best of your ability, and define those good choices with your own values system. It is so tempting to look outside of yourself for answers, to see what other people think of you or what other people feel about you as really empirical evidence of your value. But that is not the case.

When you're constantly looking outside of yourself to determine your value, what ends up happening is you feel like shit because there's never enough validation. The validation never holds long enough. Your home is you. The relationship that you are really here to figure out how to be in is the one that you have with yourself. That's not instead of relationships with other people or relationships with community. It's as a foundation to those things.

We don't want to spiritually bypass. No, no. We don't want to be toxically individualistic. No, we don't. No, we don't. Instead, what we want to do is recognize that accountability starts with your relationship to yourself. And accountability and your relationship with yourself create a foundation inside of you. And from that foundation, you can build and grow and expand and invite more people and challenges and opportunities into your life.

The worst thing you could do with this Venus/Pluto square is try to control or coerce other people. Don't be a jerk. It'll come back at you. Even if you think that coercing and controlling other people is for their best interest, it's not the right time for it, my friend. It's just not the right time. So rein in any impulse you have to focus healing and transformation on other people.

Now, that's it for this week. This week, we have these three really important transits. On the 1st, we have our Full Moon. And then, on the 3rd, we have our Mercury trine to Jupiter and our Venus square to Pluto.

As always, if you want to go deeper into any of this astrology or learn more with me, I invite you to join me over on my Patreon, where I drop a ton of wisdom on all manner of topics, from animal communication to astrology to Tarot to just—my most recent post was thoughts on progress and how we can really identify progress and work with the idea of progress in our lives when we live in such a material outcome-oriented world.

If you'd like to learn more structured astrology with me, I have classes available on my website, where, again, you can find registration for my five-week series on alignment starting April 5th. If you are interested in joining but you're like, "Oh, I don't know if I'm available all five Sundays," don't worry about it, because every registrant will get an email with the recording of each week's class in their inbox, and you won't have to be there live for every session in order to get value from it.

As always, I thank you so much for joining me here on Ghost of a Podcast. And I hope you take really good care of yourself and others, and I will talk to you in just a couple of days. Bye.