Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
your host, Alice Bell, and today we're talking about the
astrology of pregnancy because I am pregnant. Crazy to say,
have been keeping this a secret for the past few months.
I found out I was pregnant in the middle of December,
so I'm currently By the time this comes out, I
guess I'll be like nineteen and a half weeks pregnant,
almost twenty weeks, so that is halfway through the pregnancy,
and I feel like it's flying by. It wasn't the
case at first though, But yeah, I'm really excited to
dive deeper into the astrology of pregnancy because it is
just so accurate, the timing of having something major like
this go on in your life, and also just kind
of understanding the different phases that occur throughout a pregnancy
over the nine months. But yeah, I am having a
baby girl. She is due September one, so she's gonna
be a virgo unless she comes early, still a chance
of being a Leo. But I'm super excited. And also
September one is pretty close to a pisc's lunar eclipse,
which is on August twenty eighth, So there's also a
chance she could be born on an eclipse. That would
be crazy, but we'll see what ends up happening there.
But yeah, in this episode, I want to go through
everything about my pregnancy and also just give you information
on what transits are usually taking place, like when someone
does get pregnant or when they have when they reach
certain milestones throughout that pregnancy, and also when they give birth.
So the breakdown of this episode today, I've got a
lot of notes here. First, want to talk about how
I got interested in this branch of astrology in general,
and then also I'll start off by talking about the
transits that pointed to why I wanted to have a
childled at this specific moment in time, So transits that
point to making a major life decision like that, and
also going through a bigger identity shift because becoming a
parent that shakes up your whole life, like you have
different priorities, different mindsets about who you are. Sometimes career
interest shift in a bigger way as a result, So
we'll go over that first. Then I want to get
more into the nitty gritty how I used astrology to
time the conception and how accurate that ended up being.
And then also how helpful astrology has been throughout my pregnancy,
like looking at when I was the most sick and
nauseous in the first trimester and what were the transits
that spoke to that and how it lifted eventually. Also
other timing like spending a lot of money preparing for
the baby, buying new clothes from eternity. Little things like
that that you wouldn't think are super important, they show
up very strongly with astrological transits to your chart. Also
the timing of finding out the gender that was a
huge one. And then I will end by examining the
do date and what I predict the timing of when
she'll be born might be. I will probably be wrong,
because the universe loves to surprise me, is what I've
found out. Even though I'm an astrologer and I can
predict timing of things, I still I love getting surprised
and being proven wrong sometimes. Also, I have some fun
guests I am planning to bring on this podcast in
the coming weeks coming months to talk about pregnancy further.
So this is definitely not the only time we'll be
talking about this, Like talking to other astrologer friends who
are pregnant. I'm also going to have on a spirit
baby psychic who also predicted the conception of this pregnancy,
so yeah, expect this is kind of like in this episode,
I'm talking about my personal experience and tidbits and transits
to look for with pregnancy and over in the next
few days. In the next week or so, I'm going
to be putting out a more detailed guide on the
astrology of pregnancy on substack for subscribers there, and also
I'll host a workshop that goes along with this topic too,
so that'll be super interesting for other people to share
their unique experiences they've gone through with either trying to
conceive or being pregnant. I just think with this topic,
the more examples you have the better, because it's pregnancy
such a unique experience, like to person to person, so
like what I went through is not going to be
what someone else goes through exactly. But yeah, let's talk
about how I got interested in this topic because now
I'm full blown obsessed with the astrology of pregnancy and
I can't wait to talk about the astrology of motherhood,
parent child sinistry, developmental astrology, like as my child gets
older and goes through like toddler stages and into elementary
school and middle school. I know I'm getting ahead of myself,
but it'll just be so cool to see someone like
born and how their chart plays out from like the
minute they are born, and what transits, like how transits
play out to a child's chart because things like career
that's not going to be relevant for a toddler. So yeah,
I'm excited to learn as I go about this topic. Okay,
So I first got introduced to using astrology to time
pregnancy in May of twenty twenty two. I went to Norwalk,
the Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle, and basically when you
go to these conferences, you get a brochure and you
can choose what workshops you want to go to over
a three day period, and that one just immediately grabbed
my attention, so I signed up for that. Judith Hill
is an astrologer and she taught this workshop called Fertility Astrology,
and she gave a lot of good background info on
using astrology as a framework two time pregnancy and also
maybe challenges you encounter throughout your pregnancy in different phases
it goes through. So that was really interesting. That was
only like a forty five minute workshop. When I got
back home a few months later, I ended up taking
a second workshop by her. So that gave me like
a framework to work with, like, Okay, where do I
actually need to look first? In the chart? Some things
I already knew, like the fifth house, super obvious that
relates to children in pregnancy, but she did give some
good insight on other parts of the chart to look at.
From there, I really took, like I guess, from there,
I set an intention that I wanted to learn more
about this topic, and naturally, through giving readings at events
and through people who come to me for private readings,
I started to get more and more people asking about
this topic of pregnancy, either when will I get pregnant
or I'm already pregnant, wondering about their kids. Then I
would go back and ask when did you have your child?
So gained a lot of knowledge myself just through going
about my day doing my job and collecting research from clients.
I was giving readings too, So I took what I
learned in the workshop, took what resonated, left the rest.
That's usually when you're an astrologer. That's kind of how
it works. It's like you form your own opinions based
on what you do see resonating in your own practice
and what you don't, and then I built upon that
and I've discovered like other types of transits and other
important things to look out astrologically when it comes to pregnancy. Also,
it's interesting like as I've naturally gotten older, the age
of my clientele has grown up with me. Like I
remember when I first started giving readings when I was
twenty five. In the first couple of years of my practice,
when I was still in my mid to late twenty
it was a lot about dating and relationships. And as
I moved into my thirties I'm currently thirty three, people
have just naturally, like their interests and what they come
to me for readings have naturally shifted, like to where
I am getting a lot more people who are at
this stage of their life where they want to learn
more about this topic. So that's been very helpful too.
But yeah, it's something I've wanted to speak on for
the last couple of years, but something inside of me
told me, you need to wait until you experience this
yourself before you speak on it. And I'm really glad
I did because I feel like now looking back at
what I knew about pregnancy before getting pregnant, like I
obviously know so much more now, and there's so many
nuances to pregnancy and also hard things that come up
throughout pregnancy, and how you just don't feel like yourself
when you're pregnant, like these emotional I guess, like the
emotional stuff, the anxiety that comes up with the pregnant
I had no knowledge of that before it actually happened
to me, So now I could give this, I guess,
more nuanced interpretation of like how these transits are showing
up for people. And then just have to put this disclaimer.
I'm obviously not a doctor. I would trust a doctor's
advice over getting pregnant and starting that process over this podcast,
but I do want to show how astrology can be
so spot on with timing of conception, timing of phases,
and pregnancy. My next steps with this and the research
I'm doing in this area has a lot to do
with like the difficulties that come up during this phase,
so like people that encounter miscarriages or trouble conceiving, or
are nauseous and vomiting their entire pregnancy like I already
have a few chart examples all reference at some point
in this podcast and then also on sub stack for those,
but I would like to have more, just to show
again like the varied experiences that we all go through.
So stay tuned for more information on the astrology of
pregnancy coming on substack in the next few days, article
and workshop live workshop that I'll host and the replay
will be sent out a few days afterwards. Also completely unrelated,
the next few weeks of this podcast, I am going
to put out a two part episode on Urinus transit stories,
similar to the episodes I did in the past on
Jupiter transit stories, a clip story Saturn transit stories. You
guys have loved those, and with Urinus now shifting into
Jim and I fully on April twenty fifth, thought it
would be a great time to do one on this planet.
So if you have a Urinus and Taurus story, like
looking at the Taurus world house of your chart, what's
been happening, what's been changing in that house for you
over the last eight years or so while Urinus has
been in Taurus, please share that I'll read these anonymously
on the podcast. I won't reveal your information, but send
those two info at Alice Bellastrology dot com and I'll
start collecting those and those episodes will air in the
next couple of weeks. But yeah, I'm excited to read through.
And that's always just a helpful they're helpful episodes for
understanding what you can expect with this, like longer outer
planet transit hitting a certain house of your chart. Okay,
so first I want to talk about bigger transits that
spoke to why I wanted to have a child when
I decided I wanted to Because for longer listeners of
this podcast, I put out an episode last year on
the astrology of an identity shift, and I talked about
being very scared about making the decision to become a
mother and how it felt like this scary shift and
I wasn't sure if that was something I wanted to
do yet. This was the last May of twenty twenty five,
and I wasn't ready back then for contacts. I got
married in June of twenty twenty four, and I thought
I wanted to get pregnant right after getting married. I
thought it would be something that would happen in the
fall of twenty twenty four. I talked about it all
the time I was researching obgins, talking to people about
their experiences. But I noticed like the more I talked
about it, the more anxious I would feel, like I
had like such bad insomnia this time, and I would notice,
like if it was a day where I talked about
wanting to get pregnant, I wouldn't sleep that night. And
I think I was just putting a lot of pressure
on myself to do all of these major life events
one after the other, like, oh, I got married, therefore
I have to have a child now, while at the
same time, me and my husband we were trying to
move homes. So actually, in September of twenty twenty four,
I started seeing a therapist, and through working with a therapist,
I realized I needed to put less pressure on myself,
like we can do one thing at a time. Let's
not try to rush my life. And that helped give
me a lot of inner peace. I was like, Okay,
let's revisit this topic in six months, Like let's revisit
maybe thinking about having kids in the spring of twenty
twenty five, so that comes along April May twenty twenty five,
still not feeling it, like the talk about I remember,
like my husband would bring up like, oh, do you
want to like go see the gynecologist? Do you want
to like get this process started? And I just had
no desire to do that. It wasn't a priority. So
kind of felt like not the time. Also, we had
so many weddings in twenty twenty five. We had seven weddings,
majority of those were international. That would have been miserable
being pregnant at those weddings. And I also wanted to
get like a lot of travel out of my system.
I wanted to be so sick of traveling and doing
stuff that I would be content to stay at home
and rest and prioritize this new phase. I also really
wanted to feel like it was the right time. I
know people say like there's never a right time. I
didn't buy into that. Like, I wanted to feel very
confident in my decision to get pregnant and that I
was ready to be in charge of another human being.
I also didn't want to regret doing this too soon.
I didn't want to have a child and be like, wait,
I didn't get to do all this stuff I wanted
to do. So that was why it was important. I
feel like a lot of twenty twenty five was spent
restructuring elements of my business and also attending all of
these weddings in traveling, and that had to come first
before I could then focus more on like taking care
of my body, resting all of that stuff that comes
with pregnancy. One other thing that started to become a
parent over the course of twenty twenty five was that
I was starting to feel done with one phase of
my life, Like it truly felt like the energy of
that I had in my twenties, like my interests had
evolved and I was no longer living that same life anymore.
And I was ready to like close a door on
that one chapter and enter into something new. And I
think why I had so much anxiety leading up to
do I get pregnant? Do I not? I wasn't ready
to leave that chapter of my life behind you, And
so I wanted to wait until I was ready to
have this huge life shake up, because, as I was
saying earlier, like it's pretty obvious having a child will
do that. And when you get pregnant and have birth,
what we're about to go into. The transits happening to
your chart are the same transits that point to just
having an identity shift in general. So even if you
aren't having a baby and you had these same transits,
it would likely result in a bigger life change. So
that was the background on my mindset leading into getting pregnant.
Around September twenty twenty five, at it was like two
days before the lunar eclipse and Pisces and I have
my moon and Pisces, and as we'll talk about in
a second, the moon transits to the moon are so
important at the time of pregnancy, Like the moon is
pretty much always activated when you're getting pregnant, when you're
when you're giving birth. And that eclipse hit my moon.
It was only like three or four degrees away from
my Pisce's moon. And at that time I had this
realization of like I want to make a doctor's appointment.
I want to figure out what the next steps would
be for going about pregnancy, Like what do I need
to know? How can I get resources for when I
do get pregnant, what obgian to call? So I made
an appointment. It was so interesting. I made the appointment
like literally like September fifth, I think in the next
availability they had at the gin at the Gino practice
I wanted to go to was for like October thirtieth,
such a long wait. But what was so significant was
on October thirtieth, Mercury would have moved into Sagittarius, my
fifth house. Like that was the first day it was
in Sagittarius. So it was kind of crazy how it
ended up, like, oh, I'm not even meant to start
this journey until the fifth house transits start taking hold
and getting like talking about them more, reflecting on it,
planning for conception. That process all started around the end
of October going into November, as planets started shifting into Sagittarius,
my fifth house. So let's rewind for a second. I
want to go over the identity shift transits that are
often present at the time someone gets pregnant. These would
be I mean, eclipses are so telling. So where the
north and south nodes are transiting in a person's chart
over an eighteen month period, when eclipses happened to your
rising sign, which is your ascendant also your son or
the ruling planet of your rising, those really point to Okay,
the way this person thinks about themselves is going through
a huge change and mindsets might be different, future goals
might change in a bigger way, New interests are evolving.
So all of those themes are present when you get
eclipses to those key parts of your chart, but they're
also present at the time of pregnancy because it's like
motherhood is naturally shifting your identity in a bigger way,
and not only the way you view yourself, the way
the world views you too, and especially looking at transits
to the ascendant, which is always in the first house.
First house transits are a lot about the physical body
and health, and your body goes through this huge transformation
during pregnancy. You gain a lot of weight, you feel
like you're in a completely different body. So first house
transits are really key because it represents that shift in
your literal appearance. So in my charge, Leo Rising, my
chart ruler, which also happens to be my son, is
an Aquarius. So knowing that the eclipses were starting up
in Leo and Aquarius this year, I was like, something
bigger is bound to happen in twenty twenty six, headed
into twenty twenty seven and wrapping up in twenty twenty eight,
because that's how long we'll have eclipses across Leo and Aquarius,
so I saw that coming. Last time the eclipses were
in Leo and Aquarius was twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen,
and that was when I discovered astrology. Like that was
a total change in how I thought about myself as
a person. What I do for my career now was
a result of like those identity shifts that went on
at Leo Aquarius eclipses. And not only are the eclipses
in Leo and Aquarius, but Jupiter is also moving into
Leo June thirtieth of twenty twenty six, and that again
activating my ascendant, my first house. So I knew at
some point in twenty twenty six, most likely the second
half of the year, there was going to be a
bigger shake up to my sense of self and my
life in general. Similar to how transits to the ascendant
are often involved a time of pregnancy, transits to the
mid heaven can also be very relevant too, because the
mid heaven not only represents career, but it also is
like your status in the world, like how do other
people see you? How are you showing up? So when
you get a huge transit to the mid heaven. I'm
thinking like the longer transits Jupiter eclipses, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto,
those really change like how you see yourself as a
member of society, and like what your role in the
world is, so taking on greater responsibility, like going from
not being a parent to being a parent. Also, the
mid heaven falls opposite to the icy angle, and the
icy is about home and family, so any transits that
affect the mid heaven naturally affect the icy so it
also has this shift in home and family life going
on at the same time time. And this year, Pluto
in Aquarius is exactly squaring my Taurus mid heaven and
my Scorpio Icye. I have those at four degrees. That's
pretty much where Pluto is right now, and as at
station's retrograd it'll returned to square those angles exactly. So
that was just showing a huge transformation in how I
view myself in the world, how other people see me,
and also this huge change to my home life and
my family. And I will say I've already noticed how
pregnancy has changed the way I approach work. This second
I got pregnant, like things that just weren't energy suck
that weren't really serving me financially, like the British Vogue horoscopes.
Those had to go immediately. Like I was sitting on
the fence on making a work decision like that, like
leaving that behind, and when pregnancy came into the picture,
I was like, this isn't making me more money to
support my child in the future, Like why would I
keep doing this? It's like not helping me in that
way anymore. So I'm already kind of seeing the ripple
effect of how parenthood is shifting career in different ways.
I also want to call out Saturn transits specifically with
becoming a parent, because Saturn is a lot about taking
on greater responsibility, stepping it up, feeling more stressed out.
Like that's all stuff that comes with becoming a parent,
or even having an additional child and adding that new
family member. In Saturn is in aries right now, it's
not a oh wait, yeah, sorry, I was gonna say,
it's not affecting any inner planets in my chart because
I'm mainly focused on how Saturn is opposite to will
be opposite to my fifth house ruler Jupiter in Libra
at the time, like right around the time I would
give birth, So that's just showing greater responsibility to the
topic of children. Also, I have Mars and cancer, and
as Saturn retrogrades later this year and comes back into
later areas, it will square exactly my Mars and cancer.
And that's really important because Mars rules my fourth house
of home and family. So it's showing again like probably
greater stress introduced to my home because I will now
have a child to take care of. And also Mars
is like energy health Saturn showing decrease and energy and
I've already felt that a lot. But yeah, I've seen
like Saturn to the sun, Saturn to the moon around
the time people give birth, Like that's a super common
transit because it's just you're having to step it up
in a bigger way. You're becoming more mature and responsible
throughout this process. Now let's get into some pregnancy specific transits.
So there's really I would say there's like three parts
of the chart that are pretty much always involved when
someone gets pregnant. And also it's important to look at
like transits for when you conceive and then also transits
for when you give birth. Like some of these might
be going on at one and then some others are
going on at the time of the other vice versa.
But transits to your moon are so key with pregnancy.
Transits to your literal fifth house, transits to your fifth
house ruler, and like I just mentioned, transits to your
ascendant or ascendant ruler or your son, because that's the
identity part of it. But going back to transits to
the moon, the moon, it also has to do with
like your physical body, your health, so seeing a change
happen there. The moon is literally like the maternal planet,
like becoming a mother, so seeing shifts and stubbing into
that identity for yourself. And also the moon represents your
home life, so again seeing changes happen to your home
in transits to the moon take place. So I mentioned
how I finally felt ready to start the pregnancy process,
like looking into it more actively trying to conceive once
I had a Pisce's lunar eclipse fall very close to
my natal moon, and at the time I found out
I was pregnant, the north node in Pisces was on
the exact degree of my Pisce's moon at eleven degrees.
I think I even found out and like the conception
that was successful was when the north lord was at
like twelve and it moves backwards, so it was approaching
eleven degrees, So that huge event. Out of the entire
time the north node has been in Pisce's my moon sign,
the biggest event of this transit happened when the north
node reached that exact degree of my natal moon say
my Go. For people who have their moon and Virgo
like Pisce's Virgo moons, this is kind of a bigger
period right now where fertility is becoming a bigger deal,
or you're thinking more about that even if you're not
having kids, like maybe something going on with home or
family that feels very relevant at this time. The fifth
house of the chart is the house that deals with
pregnancy and children, so there's often timing activating that little house,
either at the time of conception or closer to giving birth,
or even like right after birth, because you're dealing more
with like this new relationship you have with a child.
So looking to win major transits, especially Jupiter Saturn or
the North and South nodes are moving through your fifth house,
that would be key if you don't have any of
those coming up and this is something a process you
want to like start trying with. Also key to look
at where is the fifth house ruling planet, And for
this I use traditional rulers. So if you have an
Aquarius fifth house, I would look at transits to your
natal Saturn. If you have a Scorpio fifth house, would
look at transits to your natal Mars. If you have
a Pissy's fifth house, would look at transit to your
natal Jupiter. I have a Sagittarius fifth house, so my
ruling planet of the fifth is Jupiter, and Jupiter is
in Libra, my third house. So that's what I was
saying when that transit Saturn now being in Arees will
come into an exact opposition with Jupiter in Libra, my
fifth house ruler at the time of the DO date,
So that's showing there's a change in topics pertaining to
children and pregnancy. Also, this entire time I conceived and
have been pregnant, transit Jupiter is in Cancer squaring my
natal Jupiter in Libra. So that's another big transit that's
also been affecting my fifth house ruler. So you don't
necessarily have to have actual transits in the fifth house,
but the fifth house ruler might be involved too if
you don't have transits to the fifth And I'll go
into this further when we get into like timing of
exact conception. But when I found out I was pregnant,
I had a stellium of planets moving through the fifth House.
So even though I didn't have major transits like Jupiter, Saturn,
the North or South nodes happening there when I found
when I conceived, and also then when I found out
I was pregnant, it was a combination of Mars, Mercury, Sun,
and Moon and Venus all activating my fifth house, so
like all of the inner planets moving through that during
that timeframe. So you can use all of these points
we've talked about all these major transits, like I said,
to the time when you actually do get pregnant, and
then also the time when you give birth would be
important to note too. And I've only talked about transits
up until now because as I say, like some with timing,
it always has to show up in the transit chart
first before I'll even like look at what's going on
in a solar return chart or a lunar return chart.
But I did look at my solar return sh arts
on top of this, and they were very telling of like, okay,
pregnancy is likely to happen. I remember looking at my
one for January of twenty twenty seven, and usually I
noticed the solar return chart for the next year, like
goes into effect a few months before your actual next birthday.
So my birthday when I turned thirty four, that'll be
January twenty twenty seven. In that chart, I have like
the Sun, North Node, Mercury, and Pluto all in the
Fifth House, showing that twenty twenty seven is a fifth
House heavy year, huge involvement with children. Even if it
took a while for me to get pregnant, I was
reassured by that solar return that by early twenty twenty seven,
at the time the solar return chart went into effect,
there would likely be a pregnancy going on or I
would have a child by that point. I ended up
getting pregnant in December twenty twenty five, a month before
my January twenty twenty sixth birthday. And that solar return
chart has the Moon on the mid heaven, and that
is another key indicator in a solar return chart. In
addition to fifth house planets, when you have the moon
on the ascendant or the mid heaven, that often speaks
to pregnancy or change in how you view yourself in
the world, a change in your body, your appearance. The
moon on the mid heaven just shows like I'm being
seen as more of a maternal figure, and this topic
of motherhood is influencing my career and also like how
I don't know, just like thinking about when my baby
is born, Like how am I going to show up
to work differently? How much time do I take off
of work because I run my own business, Like these
are all questions that I've been thinking about super intensely
since that solar return chart started in January twenty twenty six.
And then one other thing I added in, like lunaric
turn charts, just to like that gives me more micro timing.
It wasn't super obvious the lunar return chart for when
I actually found out I was pregnant, But one thing
I did notice is I as I got further with
the lunar returns in twenty twenty six, I noticed around
September twenty twenty six that it became very stressful, Like
every month from September on in twenty twenty six. It
looks very stressful, looks like health is a focus, looks
like I'm just trying to get through the day. It
was like a total vibe shift right around that time,
and the lunar return right before that. I think it's
August twenty eighth. Is that lunar return chart start date.
I have a lunar eclipse in that lunar return and
the moon is in the fifth house of that chart,
so that's literally just a few days before my actual
due date. And then once we get into September in
those lunar return and lunar opposition charts, it looks kind
of like I'm sleep deprived and I'm dealing with a lot.
So that was another telling like when I was like, oh,
is this cycle gonna work to conceive on that it
would likely play out in that time frame. Now, let's
switch gears of it and talk about the astrological timing
of conception, because that's when it gets more nitty gritty,
like down to an exact date where you're kind of
having to look at the astrology transits and how they
line up with your natural ovulation. Because you can, like
the timing for getting pregnant, you have to be ovulating
pretty much unless you have some kind of surprise. But
for me, it was very like I had to keep
track of the exact date like I had ovulation strips.
I was seen when there was a surge in hormones,
and that exact date had to line up with supportive astrology,
or the supportive astrology to line up with that ovulation date.
I was very fortunate I got pregnant on the second
month of trying. I realized that's not the case for
a lot of people, and I recognized that, and I'm
so grateful that it didn't take longer because that process
of trying to conceive, even though I only went through
it for two months, it is it was so anxious,
like that two week wait between when you actually try
and then when you find out you're pregnant. Like I
was not mentally well, but at the same time, I
didn't really start trying until I saw that there was
astrology to back it up and that it would it
would be more likely to be successful at that time.
And also when I started trying, it naturally lined up
with my life stuff switching up too. Like I mentioned,
I had all these weddings in twenty twenty five. The
last wedding was early October. I ended up getting food
poisoning at that wedding, so trying to conceive like a
week later, like in mid October, was off the table,
like I felt too weak, My body was just messed
up from that. So first month November I was going
to start trying in November. Also, I know, like people
really fixate on what specific zodiac sign they want their
child to have. I didn't really go into that with
that mindset. I was more focused on, like do I
want to have a baby that has Jupiter in Cancer,
which is my twelfth house, or do I want my
child to have Jupiter in Leo, which is my first house.
And I ultimately decided I think Jupiter and Leo would
just be more of a fun match for my chart
because Leo rising, my husband also has Jupiter and Leo,
so it would be his Jupiter return. So that really
set me out like, Okay, Jupiter doesn't move into Leo
until June thirtieth of twenty twenty six, so it needs
to be like the Jude needs to be after June thirtieth.
So that rolled out a lot of the first half
of twenty twenty five even trying, so the inner planets
transiting my fifth house were the most relevant thing going
on when I conceived. Also, I found it helpful to
look at the annual perfection ruler and what it was
doing around that time. So Mars was my ruling planet
of my last annual perfection year in twenty twenty five.
So I knew that when Mars reached Sagittarius, which I
believe it went in at the start of November and
it was there until mid December. Mars being like the
most important planet to track for that annual perfection year,
I knew once it entered Sagittary is my fifth house,
that action was likely to be taken and I would
see results with Fifth House topics like pregnancy. So the
first time of ovulation after Mars entered the fifth house
was that early November time frame. I think it was
like first week of November was the first time I
tried to get pregnant. At that same time, mercury retrograde
was starting up in Sagittarius, my fifth house, so I
was like, Uh, may not be the outcome I want
because we have a mercury retrograde in the Fifth House,
throwing some confusion and maybe delays with this process, but
let's still try and see if it works. Like that
would be so fun if I had a leo. It
didn't work that time. At the end of November, found
out I wasn't pregnant. Was pretty sad about it, like
I didn't expect to be that upset, but I felt
like I had already gotten very attached to this process
and it was a very anxious time with that mercury
retrograde in the Fifth House. So next month rolls around,
We're now in early December. My ovulation for early December
I think was like December seventh or December eighth, so
was planning around that point. Mercury retrograde was over. By
that time, Mars was still in the Fifth House, so
again having the annual perfection ruler in a good position
involving pregnancy. Also, it was now Sagittarius season, so the
sun was in the Fifth House. I think Venus was
also there too, so a lot of there's a fifth
House stellium going on. And I truly believe on the
day I actually conceived it was all of those planets
in the Fifth House and the moon was in Leo
on my ascendant, trying all of the Sagittarius fifth house stuff.
I truly believe that was the exact day because I
remember the ovulation strips like that being the highest surge
day of like okay, it's go time. So that was
the second time trying December eighth, also the days surrounding it,
because I would never pin it to like an exact date,
even though I know the astrology. It's still like try
as much as you can in one cycle because you
never know what will stick, like if you're ovulating, do
everything in that window and see when it ends up
being So fast forward exactly a week after December eighth,
now we're at December fifteenth. This was still too early
to find out if that try had been successful, Like
I would have needed to wait until like December twentieth
for my next period to either come or not. I
have a very short cycle, like it's only twenty five
twenty six days, so I think I would have found
out a little bit earlier than other people maybe with
a thirty day cycle would have found out that they're pregnant.
But what was interesting was right on December fifteenth, this
was when Mars remember it's my annual perfection ruler, so
it's transit is so key. Throughout twenty twenty five, Mars
had moved into Capricorn, my six house. Week after ovulation,
I start to notice the first pregnancy symptoms with the
six house now activated in that way, I started gagging
at random stuff I opened the kitchen cabinet, started gagging,
started to feel like a little note. It wasn't anything major,
but it was just like, h like, why do I
randomly feel nauseous? I also came down with like a fever,
which was crazy because I think when you get pregnant,
your immune system is like immediately weekended. So I just
got sick like immediately and had like a fever. I
hit a cough and not so intense nausea but still
present nausea, and then the gagging stuff going on from
December fifteenth onwards. The days following that, I was like
gaslighting myself. I was like, there's no way at work
to like, this is only the second month of trying.
How could it be successful? I guess, And just like
it wasn't successful last month, why would it be now?
I don't know. I just like had a very negative mindset,
and I was very anxious for those several days. And
then I woke up on the morning of Friday, December nineteenth,
and my sister had texted me and she was like, hey, like,
if you have a fever, like you need to find
out if you're pregnant or not, because that could be
dangerous to a baby developing if you have like a
fever this early on in pregnancy, which I'm not sure
I never checked with a doctor on that if that
was the case, because the fever went away. But I
woke up on December nineteenth, the moon was in Sagittarius.
It was a new moon and Sagittarius in my fifth house.
That day. I had been nervous about a negative test
result because the sun in my fifth house was squaring
Saturn and Neptune in my ninth in my eighth house,
so it's like the sun looks like it's making a
very harsh aspect of Saturn Neptune. That kind of looks
like I might be very stressed out or not getting
the news I wanted. But I remember I woke up
the moon was exactly conjunct Venus in Sagittarius my fifth house,
and I got a positive pregnancy test on Friday, December nineteenth,
so this was three weeks, three days into the pregnancy.
I was shot, Like that was one of the craziest
moments in my life, Like seeing that positive test so
so emotional, just like was at a loss for words,
and it was just very literal that that happened on
like the actual day of a fifth House new moon.
So yeah, the timing of conception both tries, even though
the first one wasn't successful, still fifth House activity mercury
retrograde really messed things up a bit, But it was
fine because I also found with that first time trying
to conceive, a lot of it was figuring out what
didn't didn't work and knowing, like going into the second time,
it was like, Okay, now I should try to track
it more closely, the ovulation. I should buy a thermometer.
Like we just need to be a bit more serious
in the planning of this, Like it's not something that
just happened super easily, because I feel like we're sold
this story growing up that you could get pregnant no
matter what, like if you're sexually active, when actually, for
a lot of people, like it is hard and you
have to look at these dates very specifically for when
your body's doing it then. So now I'm actually pregnant
and want to get into the timing of morning sickness,
discomfort with my body, just all that stuff that comes
with being pregnant over the nine months. And I know
I still have halfway to go, so I'm sure I'll
give updates closer to the end of pregnancy with how
the end of second trimester and third trimester ended up
playing out. But I want to talk about this like
morning sickness, because it's not just I put that in quotations,
because it is not just the morning. I was sick
all day for weeks on end. This really emphasizes how
important health transits are to your chart at the time
of pregnancy. So in addition to those other transits I
talked about at the start, like fifth house Moon ascendant,
you also want to note like especially looking at the
first trimester, because that's usually when people are at the
their sickest as they adjust to being pregnant. The six
and the twelfth houses being activated by transits, so sometimes
this can be a longer transit, like Jupiter going through
the six or twelve. I've had Jupiter in the twelfth,
for instance, and that has spoken a lot to how
health has just been a bigger deal. A lot of
times I'll see people with Saturn in the six or
twelve and they're pregnant, or the north and South nodes
transiting the six and twelve, just because your body takes
a massive hit being pregnant, whether that's being very nauseous
or dealing with acid reflux or just not being able
to move your body when you get in that late
stage of pregnancy and everything feels very uncomfortable. And then
that doesn't even get into postpartum and how difficult that is,
like having your body heal from giving birth and maybe
dealing with like hormone in balances after that, and basically
the list goes on and on, and health is such
a big deal when you're pregnant. I have found through
talking to people and looking at charts and seeing like
who got sick versus who didn't get that sick and
had like a relatively easy pregnancy. The more six and
twelve house transits, especially like when you have the longer
ones going on during pregnancy, the more likely it is
you're gonna be dealing with the health stuff a bit
more so. For instance, I know someone who has had
two children. Her first pregnancy was in twenty twenty three.
She's a Sagittarius rising, so at that time, the north
and south nodes were in Taurus and Scorpio her six
and twelve houses, and Jupiter at the end of the
pregnancy reached her six house, so there's a lot of
six house. And she ended up getting just stational diabetes
with that pregnancy and was just sick the entire time,
Like she said, her nausea never went away. And then
I asked, like, oh, how did your se second pregnancy
go in comparison to that, And that was when the
nodes had shifted into her fifth and eleventh houses, and
Jupiter was in the seventh house no longer in the
sixth and she said that one was so much easier,
like the sickness was nowhere near the same level. I
don't think she had gestational diabetes with that one, So
it's just in comparison, a much easier pregnancy. So if
you end up having more than one child, can be
interesting to track how did one pregnancy go versus the other,
and like what was the difference in the astrology at
those two and as I mentioned, I've had Jupiter in
the twelfth house since last summer, and even before I
got pregnant, I was getting sick more frequently. But I
will say sickness in the pregnancy was at its most
intense when a stellium of inner planets like Venus, Mars, Sun,
Mercury all moved into Capricorn at the end of December
twenty twenty five into January twenty twenty six and opposed
the Jupiter in Cancer my twelfth house. It just made
that transit a lot more intense. And I also feel
like Jupiter amplified the six house transits, making like illness
and health just feel overwhelming at that time. And I
did feel very isolated for about like two months when
all of those transits were going on in the aftermath
of them, because I was just so sick, Like the
only person I saw for two months was my husband.
Couldn't really do anything. But yeah, let me back up
a little bit, So I went into how the second
Mars enter my six house on December fifteenth, That's when
I first started to notice those initial pregnancy symptoms, and
then they just intensified, Like Mars was the first planet
to enter Capricorn in December, followed shortly by the Sun
than Venus, then Mercury. So by the time we got
to like the first week of January twenty twenty six,
there was a stellium of planets in my six house,
and with each one that went in, the symptoms got
worse and worse and worse, so like when it was
all four of those in there at once, like that
was the worst point of the first trimester nausea and vomiting.
I was waking up every single day nauseous, nauseous twenty
four to seven and never went away. Luckily I wasn't
throwing up every single day, but it was a frequent occurrence.
And what sucks is when you have that first trimester nausea,
you can throw up, but you're still nauseous, Like it
doesn't give you any relief. It messes with your mind,
just waking up every single day and being so sick.
And I cannot believe people have to show up for
corporate jobs like I had it easy jobs in healthcare,
like where you're on your feet helping people all day.
Like I work for myself. I can like be flexible
about my schedule. I can move things around based on
how I'm feeling, so I was so fortunate to have that,
and even that was a struggle. So I just like
hats go off to everyone that it shows up at
like a nine to five type job and has to
be like in an office or somewhere where they're working
all day. Like, it's crazy the sickness that can come
up with first trimester. So yeah, the symptoms were definitely
the worst when there was like that kazimi. It was
the sun Mars Venus kazimi around like early to mid January.
That was in my six house. That was kind of
the peak. I think that was week Week six is
really when the nausea like amped up. Week seven it
was super bad. It stayed pretty bad up until like
week eleven. But I would say even like week eight,
week nine, week ten, it was like every week got
a little bit easier, except during week ten, I caught
someone's kid had a stomach virus. I caught that while
also dealing with first trimester sickness. So week ten I
was knocked out once again. I couldn't leave the bed
for a couple of days. So yeah, Jupiter in the
twelfth house really did its thing, forced to slow down,
couldn't work as much, felt isolated. I will say though,
now that that sickness is over, and even during the
midst of that sickness, Jupiter in the twelfth has been
a great transit for my mental health. Like I don't
know if it's the pregnancy hormones or something else, if
it's just Jupiter there. I felt like this is the
calmest and least anxious I've ever been in my entire life.
Like I fall asleep easily, I don't worry about little
things as much anymore. I'm just like, overall my state
of mental health is like a lot more calm, which
is nice. And I do think I owe that to
Jupiter just being a more positive planet in this sign
of its exaltation in the twelfth house, which is associated
with mental health. Also, there was a new moon in
Capricorn my six house, that didn't occur until the end
of Capricorn season January eighteenth. So just when I thought, oh, great,
Capricorn seasons finally ending, these planets are about to leave
my Sex house, I'm going to start to feel better. No,
we get a new moon there, reinvigorates that part of
the chart. For the next month. So it really wasn't
until I got an entirely new lunation that had nothing
to do with health, and that part of my chart
that was the solar eclipse and Aquarius on February seventeenth.
That eclipse, like I would say, like from there on out,
that was the major turning point where like I could
eat dinner again, I could eat a variety of different foods,
I would say, like nearing the second trimester, a lot
of the sickness started to wear off, and March has
just been like a great like upward trajectory, like just
how felt better week by week by week. So yeah,
the illness really did go hand in hand with the
six house Transit's twelve house full moon followed by a
six house new moon that was like the peak intensity
of first trimester nausea. And another interesting tidbit, after the
Aquarius solar eclipse, planets started to move into my eighth house, Pisces,
and then we were building up to a lunar eclipse
in Virgo at the start of March, which was my
second house. So both of these houses are really related
to finances, and interestingly enough, that was when I started
to outgrow all of my clothes and I had to
like panic buy a whole new wardrobe. So I was
like intensely researching, like where can I get clothes that
aren't super expensive but are so cute. I'm going to
do a whole video on dressing for pregnancy because it's
been it's been fun. It's tested my creativity in a
fun way. But it just showed like that time of
spending money and how it lined up with pregnancy was
like that was when I had to buy all of
these new clothes because my body started to change. So
you could even see I don't know you could time
it like that, like if you're pregnant when you might
need to buy new clothes, or also like when you
may want to start buying stuff for the nursery. I
would also say eighth houses like stuff given to you,
so that might be like people buying you stuff off
your registry. It's fun, like even with the minor stuff
with pregnancy, it's still showing up in the transits to
your chart. What are some other milestones I wanted to
talk about that were really obvious with astrology. Oh yeah,
on the day of the solar eclipse and Aquarius and
I'm an Aquarius sun, so this was a big deal
for my chart, like an eclipse in my son's sign.
I found out the gender of the baby, that she's
a girl, and that was interesting because the test to
like the blood draw to figure out the gender and
all that stuff was actually pushed back a week because,
like I mentioned, I got I got the stomach virus
from someone's child, so I couldn't show up to get
blood drawn because I was so weak from contracting that
virus on top of already being sick that the testing
and then finding out the results got pushed back like
a week to ten days. So that was really interesting
because it ended up lining up with the solar clips,
like I feel like it was meant to be pushed
back all along. And then also like there's various ultrasounds
you have throughout pregnancy, and I'm always looking at what
are the transits for these different doctor's appointments and alter sounds,
and will I be anxious at these, Like how are
the transits to my chart? How am I going to
feel after these appointments? For the most part, like they've
been very positive. The astrology, how it lines up with
these days and it's also just interesting how fifth house
fifth house ruler ascendant even activated at the time of
these appointments throughout pregnancy. So I remember the first major
ult sound we had was at twelve weeks of pregnancy,
and that was the like nukele ultrasound to check like
I guess the spine but I don't know, just to
like track the baby. And at the exact moment I
went in to the ultrasound appointment, the moon was an
aries to the degree opposite to my Jupiter, my fifth
house ruler, so it was like my emotions were tied
to something involving the fifth House at that moment. My
next major ultrasound is literally tomorrow, April tenth. That's the
anatomy scan. That's like a huge, like really long ultrasound,
just to check like is everything okay with the body
and is the baby developing correctly? And that has come
right after this full moon in Libra, which has activated
my fifth house ruler Jupiter and Libra like to the degree. Basically,
I also announced the pregnancy and made it public news
the time of a full moon at the time of
this past full moon and Libra to my fifth house ruler,
so like this full moon activation to the fifth house
ruler has been a big deal. I'm curious to see
what the full moon and Sagittarius in a couple of
months to my actual fifth house, if there's something important
that happens around that time too. I think that maybe
time to the middle of May. I need to check
the date on that full moon and saj But I
know my next major appointment is like May fifteenth, and
that is the glucose test where it's checking if I
would have gestational diabetes or not. And I think that's
right in the lead up, no is it? No? I
think that's closer to new moon and Taurus, but it
is getting close to the full moon and my fifth
house Sagittarius. So I'll keep you guys posted if anything
significant happens with fifth house and ascendant stuff. I'm having
my baby shower when the sun moves into my first
house and meets up with Jupiter and Leo there. So
it's very literal like the I don't know, getting different
attention for the pregnancy, seeing developments happen in the pregnancy
and dealing with these various like emotions and physical stuff
that comes up. I'll give an update about like how
third trimester goes, but I do expect it to be
difficult because I'm gonna have a lot of twelfth house
transits closer to the end of the pregnancy cancer season.
There's a mercury retrograde in my twelfth house. I know
I'll be like slowing down a lot and just be
super low energy once we get into like July August,
and then looking at the astrology of the actual due date,
which is September one moons and Taurus. I mean, it's
very rare for a child to be born on their
actual due date. I mean, it's not impossible, but it
would be kind of crazy if she was born on
literally September first. I'm just putting it out there now.
I could be wrong. I think the birth is going
to be between August twenty fifth and August twenty eighth,
when the moon is an Aquarius or Pisces, just because
a lot of planets in my chart are there. Also,
it would affect my husband's chart in a big way,
like his fourth house's Pisces. That's where his icy angle is.
He also has Saturn in Aquarius, Jupiter and Leo Jupiter
rules has Sagittarius rising, so like anything with like Aquarius
Pisz's Leo, like that stuff is a big deal for
both of our charts, and I could see I want
to go further into like parent child sinistry at a
later date, but like I could see just the connection
being lined up in that way. But yeah, who knows.
I think what I've learned the most of pregnancy expect
the unexpected. I will say though, knowing the astrology to
my chart has helped a lot with like not getting
anxious about miscarriage and just like staying calm because I
just have that reassurance of like, Okay, it looks likely
that I am given birth. So it's helped a lot
in that way. I'm also just looking at the due
day astrology, the bigger transit's going on. I set a
few of these at the start, but like Jupiter's and Leo,
it will be at the degree of my ascendant on
the do date and in the few days that lead
up to that. Also, a Piscey's lunar eclipse will just
have occurred a solar eclipse in Leo, so it's like
I get a solar eclipse on my ascendant followed by
a lunar eclipse in my moon sign. Wanted to point
that out, like just again going back to like the
astrology of these bigger life events is not random. There
will be huge pointers in a transit chart showing that,
like this is a big time for you, whether that
is giving birth, or getting married, or moving homes or
changing careers or something else that just feels more significant
for you. It's cool to think about how the transits
to my chart on the day I give birth will
be my child's birth chart. So like the energy I
feel myself at that time is like representative in my
dynamic with her. I'm just so it's so fascinating, like
I could do. I need to do a whole course
on this, to be honest, but I'm excited to talk
about it more over the coming months and after she's born,
like the coming years, like astrology being a mom. Yeah,
everything I talked about at the start. So thank you
guys for listening. This is we're all in things. If
you want more info on the astrology of pregnancy, stay
tuned for that coming to sub Stack within the next
few days at least the next week at the most.
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