Speaker 1: We are officially back.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Alice bell.
Speaker 2: I hope everyone had a nice summer or guess winter
if you're listening from another hemisphere. It was nice to
have this breakaway. It flew by so fast. But then
when I sat down to record this podcast, I realized
how rusty I was with podcasting. So this is actually
like the fiftieth take that I've done. But yeah, anyways,
my major life update from the last couple of months
is that I got a cat, so he might make
an appearance if you're watching the YouTube video of this,
he could come into the frame because he's obsessed with
messing with the wires on the microphone. But anyways, for
this new era of the podcast, the first episode I
wanted to kick things off with is talking about eclipses,
and this is very topical right now because we are
in the midst of eclipses happening. We have a Pisce's
lunar eclipse on September seventh, followed by a Virgo solar
eclipse on September twenty. First, into what eclipses even are,
what you can expect with them, and how they define
these bigger patterns or stories that unfold throughout your life.
Before we get into the main topic for the day, though,
I wanted to go over changes that I made to
this podcast because the eclipses have actually been happening in
my second and eighth houses. So it has a lot
to do with navigating changes with my own business and
figuring out how I want to pivot my offerings and
just kind of change up the way I was going
about running my business and approaching work every day. So
that's also another reason why I thought it was great
to talk about eclipses, because there are certain areas of
your chart that are going through these bigger changes at
the moment. So for me, it's with this podcast and
also stuff I put out. Just to note, with every
episode of this podcast, there is a YouTube video that's
a new feature that I've introduced, so if you want
a more visual experience with diagrams that pop up as
you listen, head over to YouTube. I'm also astrology with Alice.
There other changes to note. The day of the podcast
that it's released is now Thursday, and I wanted to
move it to Thursday because in astrology, Thursday is the
day associated with Jupiter, and Jupiter is all about spirituality
and things like astrology and learning and teaching, and I
just thought, with the new direction I want to take
this podcast in I wanted the Jupiterian themes to really
stand out strongly. So new episodes will be out every
other Thursday. There'll be two episodes a month going more
in depth on these specific astrology topics, and then at
the start of every zodiac season, so I'll kick this
off with Libra season on September twenty second, I'll be
doing monthly forecasts where I do a breakdown of the
zodiac season that's coming and what to expect with each
week and the major standout transits for the month. So
three episodes total a month, and always if you want
to go deeper with learning astrology, I'm over on substack
and I've also introduced live interactive monthly workshops on substack,
which are hosted over zoom and paid subscribers get access to.
Speaker 1: Join the workshop.
Speaker 2: Last month, we did it on planning out your week
with astrology and how to forecast for the week ahead
and know what to expect in that way, and then
you can also watch the recording on substack which I
send out the next day.
Speaker 1: So those are just.
Speaker 2: Some new features across my content. Thank you guys for
your patients with me as I figured this out. Honestly,
the whole last year has really been like I've outgrown
certain elements of my business. How do I grow into
this new version of what I want to work towards.
And actually, the next episode I put out with this
podcast will be on how to navigate these trickier career
transitions with astrology, So stay tuned for that coming in
two weeks because it's just something I've been thinking about
a lot recently, and I know a lot of other
people are probably going through trickier career transitions and I
want to talk about that more. But yeah, let's move
into the main topic for today, which are the eclipses.
So I wanted to start off by going through some
basic facts that you need to know about eclipses. So,
an eclipse occurs when either a new moon or a
full moon happens within fifteen degrees of one of the
transity nodes, and the transity nodes spend about eighteen months
moving through a pair of signs. So right now, as
of January twenty twenty five, they moved into the North,
No moved into Pisces. The South, No moved into Virgo,
and they're there until the end of July of twenty
twenty six when they shift into Leo and Aquarius. So
for that period of time, you can get an idea, Okay,
the solar and lunar eclipses during that two year period
or so are going to be happening across the signs
of Virgo and Pisces. And you could think of a
solar eclipse like a supercharged new moon, while a lunar
eclipse is like a supercharged full moon. So whereas like
the new and full moons really define themes you're experiencing
for one specific month, because the eclipses have that longer cycle,
over a year and a half to almost two year
long period, these are changes that define that bigger time
frame rather than just one month. The stuff that's implemented
right now this month with these eclipses is unfolding over
that longer period of time, and you may have already
noticed the changes that we'll get into that are represented
by these eclipses starting to take hold in the weeks
or even the couple of months leading up to September
and just looking at a transit chart and noting where
you can spot the nodes and the eclipses. It's always
important to remember that the nodes move back chords through
the signs. So we just came out of the nodes,
and therefore the eclipses taking place throughout areas and Libra
are happening across areas in Libra. Now the north nodes
move backwards to Pisces, it'll move backwards again next year
to Aquarius and so on. So the nodes moved backwards
in the direction against all the other transits. So that's
just important to keep in the back of your mind
of why it's like, Okay, why are they not in
order of the zodiac. So I just mentioned that the
North node moved into Pisces, in the south node moved
into Virgo back in January twenty twenty five. But we
actually got the first lunar eclipse and Pisces back in
September twenty twenty four, and then we got a subsequent
Virgo lunar eclipse in March twenty twenty five, and now
this month we have both a Pisce's lunar eclipse and
a Virgo solar eclipse and those continue up until February
twenty twenty seven, so we're very much in the midst
of this current eclipse cycle. So it's like changes across
the areas of your chart represented by Virgo and Pisces
and planets you have there, those have already started to
be brought up somewhat over the last year, and now
you're continuing to build upon whatever realizations have already surfaced
or whatever's already been initiated. So moving up until the
start of twenty twenty seven, you can always know that
when it's Pisces or Virgo season, we're getting eclipses at
that time. So March and September really key time frames
to note throughout the year of when you can expect
bigger shifts, bigger changes, more important realizations to come up
for you. So I've kept reiterating how eclipses symbolized change
and where the biggest shifts are taking place for you
over about a year and a half to two year
long period. And right now those changes are affecting the
houseworld by Pisces in your chart and the house world
by Virgo in your chart, and also if you have
any planets or angles in those signs, like let's say
you have Venus and Pisces, or Saturn and Virgo, anything
like that, or angles, so your mid heaven might be
in Virgo or your ascendants and Pisces. You can know
that those chart placements, the themes of those are also
getting brought up in a more prominent way, and you're
learning how to incorporate that chart placement into your life better,
or the themes associated with that planet or angle are
just more relevant and they're going through changes themselves. We'll
get into more about what an eclipse in a certain
house or across a certain planet looks like, but for now,
I want to zoom out and just look at the
qualities of Pisces in Virgo and how these signs of
the zodiac in particular are being highlighted for everyone, no
matter what your chart is over the next two years
or so. Still so, when I think of Pisces in Virgo,
these are both signs that are geared towards service, and
Pisc's in particular is about having greater compassion or empathy
for people, whereas Virgo is doing like these practical acts
of service for others. But I would say with the
South note in Virgo. This time period that we're in
in general is a lot about maybe overcoming limiting mindset
you have when it comes to productivity and routine or
how hard you're working and not being so hard on yourself,
or have this need to always be working and always
being productive and leaning more into maybe your emotional side,
or developing your intuition and learning how to trust yourself
in that way a lot more. And I feel like
from talking to friends and just hearing from people in
my DMS and things like that, I'm seeing the Pisces
Virgo themes show up quite literally, and that people want
to have greater meaning in what they're doing work wise,
and feeling like they have this overall purpose that they
feel more connected to, or that maybe they're the work
that they're doing is helping.
Speaker 1: People in some way.
Speaker 2: So those could also be themes that you're working to
balance out to, or it could be that physical health
and mental health, those two areas are just popping up
a lot more and wanting to make improvements to your
daily routine and your schedules so that you don't feel
so stressed out mentally or vice versa, like working on
your inner self so that you can show up more
effectively in your everyday life.
Speaker 1: It's all about how.
Speaker 2: The external and how it's visible is being balanced out
with what's going on inside or what's more connected to
emotion or intuition. So we can look at these themes
in general, but then to take it a step further,
we can apply these general themes of pieces and Virgo
to the houses in your chart that are ruled by
pieceson Virgo, and the houses really show the area, the
two areas of your life that are going through these
bigger shifts and where major beginnings might be unfolding, but
where you may also be walking away from something that
doesn't work anymore, like an ending may need to happen
before that new beginning can take place. And the eclipses
activate these pair of houses that fall opposite to each other,
and the opposite houses the themes of those houses naturally
complement each other and they help to balance each other out.
So let's say Pieces and Virgo rule your Let's say
you're a Pisces rising, so PiZZ rules your first house
and Virgo rules your seventh house. This two year period
would be a lot about figuring out how to balance
your own goals, you're developing your sense of identity and
how that's working in relation to partnerships like romantic relationships,
business partnerships, close friendships in your life, like how can
you still maintain your sense of self while working on
being a better partner, learning how to communicate more effectively
in your relationships and navigating changes happening there too. Whereas
maybe with an eclipse cycle where Pisces is your ninth
house and Virgo is your third house, it would be
more about having this balance between expanding your horizons and
in taking new knowledge, but then also figuring out with
the third house themes, how to apply that knowledge in
a practical way and share information and work on your
speaking skills and communicating with people in an everyday like setting,
or like how I mentioned the eclipses are across my
second and eighth houses. Those are the houses in my
chart that are ruled by Pisces and Virgo. It's a
lot about what I value and how maybe bigger purchases
that I have to make or putting money towards savings
then affects how I navigate work and business and everyday
expenses or vice versa. How is the new work that
I'm doing increasing income or establishing new forms of passive income.
So those are very like financial parts of the chart.
So it's always like take into consideration what the themes
are represented by the houses the eclipses are activating, and
how are those themes? How might they feel almost kind
of frustrating at first, Like maybe throughout the end of
twenty twenty four into twenty twenty five, the start of
this year, it was kind of abrupt, like, oh my god,
I need to make adjustments to this area of my life.
Things don't flow as easily as they once did here.
How can I make changes to move forward differently? And now,
like I said that we're in the middle of this
eclipse cycle, you're starting to find your footing a bit more.
And then by the time this eclipse cycle finally wraps
up in twenty twenty seven, you may have a way
better idea of how to navigate these two areas.
Speaker 1: Of your life.
Speaker 2: So if it still feels kind of tricky or you're
finding your way still here, have faith that things will
continue to unfold over the next year a year and
a half. Still, it's like you're waking up to your
potential in these two areas of your life. And then
I touched upon this a little bit earlier, but I
want to spend more time explaining how eclipses might play
out when they affect natal planets in your chart. So,
especially right now, if you have planets in your birth
chart that are in Pisces or Virgo, having eclipses hit
those planets, you'll really want to pay attention. I guess
first too, does a certain eclipse hit that planet by
an exact degree, and out of all of the Pisces
and Virgo eclipses we experienced between twenty twenty four and
twenty twenty seven, the eclipse that falls like within a
degree or two of a natal chart placement, that might
be the most impactful one for you in terms of
feeling the themes of that planet or that angle come
up super strongly. But in general, when eclipses happened in
the same sign as natal char placements, you'll also feel
that theme of change or waking up to the potential
of that chart placement a lot more during that eclipse cycle. So,
for instance, let's say you have Venus in Virgo and
these Virgo eclipses that are coming up not only this month,
but throughout this whole two two and a half year period,
those are maybe having you awaken to the potential that
Venus holds in your chart, Like this could be a
time of experiencing relationship changes platonic or romantic, or it
may be that the way you think about spending your
money or how you're expressing your personal creativity, all of
that's going through this bigger transformation. Or then with a
planet like the moon, maybe all that change is being
brought into your home or your family life, or gaining
a better understanding of your own emotions, or if your
Sun is hit by eclipses, that would be really important
in terms of really developing there of your Sun's sign
and uncovering this new side of your identity where you
may have these all of these new goals and these
new interests that you want to work towards, or you're
undergoing these bigger, like more significant life shifts. And then
we can blend what we just talked about together. So
the themes of a planet affected with the themes of
a house in which it falls. So to give a
personal example, my moon is in Pisces and it's in
the eighth house. So not only do I have Eighth
House themes coming up whenever there's eclipses in Pisces throughout
this two year period. But I also have Moon like
themes surfacing too. So how this has played out for
me already is that I did move homes, which is
that change with Moon theme of home living situation, but
also the moving of homes has meant that me and
my husband have had to figure out how to split
bills more effectively and like who pays for what, and
navigating this shared living situation together, which is very Eighth
House like shared money, shared resources, and how that's being
brought together with the themes of the Moon. But then
to give another example, let's say you have a Virgo
sun in the fifth house, then maybe it would be
about finding finding greater aspects of your identity through Fifth
House topics like creativity or having children or I don't know,
just leaning into activities outside of career that make you
happy and finding yourself more in that way. And then
also eclipses to angles in your chart a huge deal,
Like if you have your mid heaven in Pisces or Virgo,
then you're noticing bigger career shifts unfold during these Pisces
Virgo eclipses, and maybe you want to go in a
completely different direction with work or set different long term
goals for yourself that maybe you hadn't anticipated before. Or
if your descendant is in those two signs, maybe you're
noticing the biggest changes coming through with relationships how you
relate to other people, but then also the dynamics in
existing relationships changing. I know this is a lot of
different moving parts to take into consideration at once. I
just want to go one step further, if you'll bear
with me. When eclipses hit a natal planet in your chart,
you will also want to look at what other houses
in your chart does that planet rule, because not only
will the themes of that planet in the natal house
in which it's placed become relevant when eclipses activate it,
but also the other houses in your chart that that
planet rules. It may feel like eclipses are happening in
those houses too, because there's change being introduced in those
two other areas of your life. So to give an example,
I have Mercury an Aquarius in my seventh house, and
at the time that I started in my astrology business,
I was confused, like looking back, because I was like, oh,
that's weird. I didn't have any major second house transits.
And usually when someone starts their own business, there is
there's like Saturn, there's Jupiter, or there's eclipses moving through
the second house or activating it in some way, and
I didn't have any of that going on at the
time I started this business. But in hindsight, I looked
back and Mercury, the planet Mercury rules my Virgo second house,
and that was getting hit with eclipses at the time
I started this business. So even though no actual transits
were happening to the second house, because Mercury was affected
by solar and lunar eclipses that year, it brought the
theme of change and transformation and new beginnings to second
house topics just because the ruling planet was affected. So
this is a way to note how other house topics
are jumping out, even if you don't immediately see that
the nodes are transiting through that area and eclipses are
happening there. It's like for anyone who has Jupiter and Virgo,
you would also want to note, okay, what houses are
ruled by Pisces and Sagittarius in my chart because it
may feel like those two houses are going through these
bigger shifts too. Or if you have Mars and Virgo
or Pisces, what houses are ruled by areas and Scorpio two?
How are you noticing you wanting to take a different
approach or make changes in those two houses and areas
of your life as well? So yeah, to recap when
interpreting eclipses to your own chart, first always look at, okay,
what houses are the eclipses falling in? So houses ruled
by Pisces Virgo, do you have any planets or angles
in those signs in those houses that you would also
need to incorporate those themes intwo And then as a
final step, if you do have planets in those houses
and signs, what other houses of the chart do those
planets rule and how were you see eclipse themes show
up in those other houses as well? Now that we've
covered chart interpretation, I wanted differentiate between what you can
expect with a solar eclipse versus what you can expect
with a lunar eclipse, because we have both coming up,
and we'll get the lunar eclipse first in Pisce September seventh,
Like I said, and then a solar eclipse follows on
September twenty first. The way I think about a solar
eclipse is that it's planting the seeds for something that
will grow over time, like maybe what's happening at the
time of a solar eclipse, so this would be September
twenty first, and in this few weeks surrounding that timeframe,
whatever you're starting now or new direction you're pivoting in.
The results you haven't really seen them yet, and they'll
continue to grow and they'll continue to play out over
the next several months or even the next year. And also,
a solar eclipse can be a very definitive ending as
you move away from one thing in one situation or
relationship or whatever it might be, as you embark on
this next new chapter in your life, represented by all
that stuff we just talked about, like the house, or
by Virgo planets there, all of that. Whereas with a
lunar eclipse, I think of that as a time of
heightened activity where whatever you've been doing the last several weeks,
the last couple of months, even that's all reaching this
turning point and it's being made a lot more visible
and there may be a lot of emotions coming up
or a lot of activity surfacing at the time of
a lunar eclipse that maybe you just don't.
Speaker 1: Get with a solar eclipse.
Speaker 2: So lunar eclipse culmination of activity, things made visible, while
with a solar eclipse it's the new steps in the
new groundwork is being laid, but you're nothing's visible quite yet.
You've got to be patient with a solar eclipse, and
then also with these upcoming eclipses and Pisces Virgo. I
want to add another layer of interpretation to this by
locating where the ruling planet of these eclipses is at
the time that the eclipse is happening. So this is
you could do this for every new moon and full
moon or eclipse that happens throughout the year. By locating
where the ruling planet of that lunation is, that gives
you further insight into maybe the overall vibe at that
time and if this is an easier lunation, if it's
a or if it's a bit more challenging or slowed down.
Speaker 1: Wherever the ruling planet is located, and.
Speaker 2: How if it's in a sign it rules, or if
it's exalted in that sign, then maybe that's an easier lunation,
whereas if it's in the sign of its fall or
determinent or making aspects to like Saturn or Mars or
other challenging planets, maybe that lunation just feels not the easiest.
So for this upcoming Pisces lunar eclipse, we'll want to
look at Jupiter because Jupiter is the ruling planet, the
traditional ruling planet of Pisces. And where is Jupiter falling
at the time that this Pisce's lunar eclipse is taking place.
Jupiter's currently in cancer. That's a sign it's exalted in
it can function to its full capacity, which is great
news for the eclipse that's coming up. But also knowing
that Jupiter's in cancer, you can know that the themes
associated with the cancer Wruld house of your chart, where
Jupiter currently is moving through the themes of that house
may be coming up more strongly right around September seventh too,
So you could blend the Pisce's world house with the
cancer world house to get a bigger picture of what
to expect. And it's also interesting to look at the
trajectory of Jupiter throughout all of the Pisces eclipses that
are occurring during this two year period. So with the
first Pisce's lunar eclipse last September, Jupiter was in Gemini.
Now it's in Cancer for this one, and the final
Pisce's lunar eclipse that happens this time next year in
the early fall of twenty twenty six, Jupiter will be
in Leo. So even though it's three eclipses across Pisces,
same house, same same sign, same house of your chart,
the ruling planet is in different positions for all three
of those, so you may get a different vibe with
each of these Pisces eclipses and not the same exact
thing is happening. And honestly, I expected this Pisce's lunar
eclipse to be felt in an easier way than last
year's because last year's Jupiter was in Gemini, a sign
it really doesn't function well in, and now it's in Cancer,
the sign of its exaltation. So the growth and the
opportunities brought up by Jupiter can be felt a lot
more than they were at the time of the September
twenty twenty four Pisces eclipse, so yeah, Jupiter is a
key player to watch this month. And then also for
the Virgo solar eclipse, the ruling planet's Mercury. Mercury will
be in Libra, kind of a neutral sign for it
to be in on September twenty first, But then if
we fast forward to the next eclipse in Virgo, which
is next March, Mercury the rolling planet will be in
Pisce's retrograde. So out of those two, like this Virgo
eclipse probably going to be more productive and I don't know,
felt in an easier way than the next Virgo eclipse,
but still important to keep in mind themes coming from
the Libra ruled house at the time of the Virgo eclipse,
so House Rold by Virgo, but also House World by
Libra because Mercury is currently in Libra. Those are the
two houses you'll want to watch with the solar eclipse.
And finally, I want to wrap up with something I
find just so cool about astrology in general, is the
ability to track patterns that happened throughout your entire lifetime.
So I've brought this up so far, but like with
this current eclipse cycle across Pisce's Virgo. Whatever's happening now
is kind of building up on whatever may have come
to you last September or this March when the first
eclipses and these two signs happened. And then finally, I
want to wrap up by talking about one of my
favorite aspects about astrology, which is how you're able to
track patterns that keep popping up throughout the entire course
of your lifetime. So with the eclipses specifically, we can
note how similar patterns are coming up now that were
last fall in September twenty twenty four with the first
pieces eclipse, so we can do it on a more
minor level like that, and how patterns keep repeating every
six months while the eclipses are still in these two signs.
But then also we can zoom out and look at, Okay,
the last time the eclipses were in Pisces and Virgo
was twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen. How are we building
upon what we learned back then? Or is how is
something similar coming up? But now that we're older and
have a different perspective, how are those things playing out
a bit differently? We could go back even as far
as two thousand and six, two thousand and eight. You
can go back in nine year increments with the eclipses
and see how those themes keep popping up over time,
like over and over again, you keep getting the lessons
of those particular parts of your chart. But what I
love is like how with each turn it's like, Okay,
I have learned a lot more since that last transit
took place, so now I'm going to approach these changes
or this transit in a completely different way, with a
different approach to my life. I just love how astrology
allows you to see life development in that way. So yeah,
that's all I have on eclipses today. I hope this
helped and gave you a better understanding of what to
expect coming into September and what themes you want to
stay focused on. And if you want an in depth
written reading about what the eclipses mean for your rising sign,
that's what I do over on substack with my monthly forecasts.
And i'd also don't talk about all the other big
transits happening each month.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thank you again for listening, and I'll see
you back here next time.