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?
Author: April
TRANSCRIPT Ep. 296 | Cancer New Moon: Phoning Home!
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.
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TRANSCRIPT Ep. 295 | Mars enters Virgo: To the Editor!
TRANSCRIPT Episode 295 (6.16.25) Mars enters Virgo: To the Editor! « Listen and read show notes Hello invisible friend, April here, and the date today is June 16th, 2025. Welcome to Episode 295 of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, Mars enters hardworking but perfectionistic, Virgo, and then gets …
Episode 295 | Mars enters Virgo: To the Editor!
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Episode 294 | Jupiter in Cancer: At Home in the World!
Mercury and Jupiter clash with Saturn. Venus squares Pluto, Mars squares Uranus, Mercury squares Neptune, and the Sun squares the lunar nodes, signaling the midpoint between eclipse seasons. The Sagittarius Full Moon highlights the big picture, and Jupiter moves into one of its favorite signs, Cancer. And a listener question about planets that are in difficult aspect, but in compatible signs.

The Cancer Solstice marks the year’s midway reevaluation point. Even if we’ve been underachievers in the first half of the year, there may still be time to reach our goals. But we can’t speed our way through this transition.
On Task If you have important work to complete and need some focus and discipline to help you, be grateful for Mercury’s square to Saturn (June 9, 2025, 3:48 am PDT, 00º Cancer-Aries). Nothing will focus a scattered Mercury quite like a hard aspect to Saturn, the planet that keeps us on …
Organize, Evaluate, Get to Work It’s all good and well to collect impressions and ideas; that’s what the Gemini New Moon cycle (which began on May 26) is all about. But as the Moon in Virgo makes its First Quarter square to the Sun in Gemini (June 2, 2025, 8:41 …