Author: April

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 299 | Mercury Retrograde: Permission to Pause!

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 299 (July 14, 2025) Mercury Retrograde: Permission to Pause! « Listen and read show notes Hello, Invisible Friend, April here, and the date today is July 14th, 2025. Welcome to Episode 299 of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, Mercury stations for its latest retrograde period. An …

Astrology Highlights for July 7-13, 2025: Big Changes on a Human Scale

Grow attached to too many routines, and you run the risk of getting bored, stale, sleepy, uninspired; of losing your temper over unimportant things that have resisted your need for them to stay the same. Uranus is anathema to routines, especially in Gemini, which revels in variety, new ideas, new messages. Without change, without disruption, forward motion isn’t going to happen. We’ll just keep telling the same old stories and doing the same old things in the same old way.

Episode 298 | Capricorn Full Moon: A Big Shopping Bag!

Episode 298 | Capricorn Full Moon: A Big Shopping Bag! This week, Uranus enters the sign of Gemini for the first time since the 1940s. Venus and Pluto examine power and control in the realms of relationship and money. The Capricorn Full Moon and its ruler, Saturn, stationing retrograde, explore …

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 297 | Venus Enters Gemini: Flirty!

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 297 (6.30.25) Venus Enters Gemini: Flirty! « Listen and read show notes Hello, Invisible Friend. April here, and the date today is June 30th, 2025. Welcome to episode 297 of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, it’s Independence Day in the United States, and it is a …

Episode 297 | Venus Enters Gemini: Flirty!

At the Venus-ruled Libra First Quarter Moon, use charm and social connections to further New Moon goals. Venus gets an electrifying embrace from Uranus in Taurus, then bounces into flirty Gemini; opportunities arise when Venus meets with Saturn and Neptune in Aries.

Astrology Highlights for June 23-29, 2025: Home Away from Home

The process of becoming part of something means that the scrappy, individualistic, Aries part of us is in some way broken down. Warriors aren’t necessarily comfortable in their own village, at supper with the people they have fought to defend. This New Moon asks the question: How much of your individuality are you prepared to set aside so you can sit comfortably at that supper table?

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 296 | Cancer New Moon: Phoning Home!

TRANSCRIPT Ep. 296 (6.23.25) Cancer New Moon: Phoning Home! « Listen and read show notes Hello, invisible friend, April here, and the date today is June 23rd, 2025. Welcome to Episode 296 of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, the Sun squared to Neptune tells a story of identity …

Episode 296 | Cancer New Moon: Phoning Home!

The Sun’s square to Neptune asks, “Who are you, really?” As the Sun conjoins Jupiter just in time for the Cancer New Moon, we learn something about traveling far to find our tribe and the wandering ways we might have to sacrifice in order to belong. And Mercury enters Leeeeoooo for a storytelling journey that involves the mentorship of Saturn, the imagination of Neptune, and the soul-bearing honesty of Pluto. And a listener question about the Part of Fortune. Plus: Phoning home, sitting at the supper table, and the stuff of legend.