Molt and Emerge: Navigating Today's Planetary Energies

Mercury sextile Mars takes center stage in today's cosmic forecast, infusing our interactions with dynamic communicative energy. This powerful alignment between Mercury in expressive Leo and Mars in balanced Libra creates the perfect conditions for meaningful exchanges, bold ideas, and clear articulation of our thoughts and desires. The influence connects to a larger kite formation with Saturn and Neptune at the apex, suggesting our communications today can tap into deeper, more spiritual dimensions.

The day features a significant Moon transition, beginning with a lengthy void of course period until mid-afternoon when Luna enters her home sign of Cancer. This shift transforms the emotional landscape, making everything feel more personal, protective, and emotionally nuanced. The Cancer Moon forms challenging aspects with Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune, encouraging us to slow down, think carefully, and approach transformation with respectful caution. Today's keyword "beyond" invites us to transcend current limitations while honoring established wisdom and processes.

Personal transformation takes precedence today as we're urged to mentally and physically move on from past situations. Like molting creatures preparing to emerge anew, we're in a process of growth that requires patience and self-awareness. The energy supports bringing your authentic vibration and unique magic to every space you occupy. Meanwhile, a creative Mars-Venus quintile enhances relationship dynamics, offering opportunities to restructure time in ways that benefit both personal needs and partnerships.

As the seasons prepare to change, we're approaching a period where different planets will occupy the position Mars is leaving in Libra, creating evolving iterations of the kite formation. This progression suggests an unfolding narrative in our lives where various aspects of ourselves—actions, words, passion, and aesthetic values—will take center stage as we approach the fall equinox. The message couldn't be clearer: change is inevitable, so make it your friend. Let go of preconceptions, learn to trust the process, and watch as new possibilities unfold beyond your current horizon.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
astrology time and let's go anyway.
It's monday, it's the 18th ofaugust, okay.
So do you remember when sesamestreet was brought to you by a
letter and by a number?
Well, today's episode isbrought to you by mars and
mercury.
Mercury is actually sextilemars, so, and it's sextile Mars

(00:25):
right when this is beingrecorded Now.
Not that that has any bearingon anything, because, like I've
told you before, these thingstend to gather steam and they've
been around for quite a bitright now, right, probably about
a week before and a week after,depending upon the relative
speed and size of the planetsinvolved.
Now, mercury-mars Mercury wouldbe in Leo, mars would be in

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Libra.
We got ourselves some stuffgoing on here, right?
We've got some communicationhappening.
We see some things that arehappening, and communication is
key.
You can take my word for it,but you should, because that's
what it's been.
Communication has been the keyto this entire week, the weekend

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and what it is that we're goinginto to start beginning anew
right Now.
It's maybe off to the side alittle bit, but it still touches
on that large kite formationthat we have with Saturn and
Neptune at the apex.
That's going to come intoprominence later on today when

(01:32):
the moon actually enters Cancerin the afternoon, that point
will be activated again and thatwill reactivate Mars and
Mercury.
So, more communication, moreideas, more everything right.
It's going to feel like yourhead's going to be full today.
Let's talk about this becausethe moon is void, of course, at

(01:54):
7.53 in the morning after allthis stuff is done right, and it
will enter cancer at 3.05 inthe afternoon.
Another long void, of course.
Moon business day.
This is perfect for changesthat we are bringing about.
The moon in Cancer is naturallyprotective and cautious.

(02:15):
Right, the moon.
Look, I did all of my big asksbefore this all happened.
Right, when the moon was inGemini.
Okay, big asks, that's afrequent office joke.
We have one woman that says Ihave a big ask for you, bert,
and Bert goes sure, I'll do it.

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And all the rest of us go a bigask, right, okay, anyway.
Yes, juvenile, absolutely.
That's what makes the workdaygo by fast, right, although I'm
leaving that environment, goingout on the road, but I got to
prepare.
Right, this is where we prepareto grow molt and we emerge.

(03:13):
I feel like we're being urged todo this slowly, that, the moon
being square, conjunct Uranussquare, square, square, square
Pluto, not Pluto, shane, saturnand Neptune right In Aries,
those first degrees square them.
That gives us that challenge,that challenges us to slow it

(03:34):
down, to think about what we'redoing.
We, those two planets, aregoing backwards and sliding back
towards Pisces.
The moon is conjunct withUranus.
Uranus is preparing to gobackwards and if it's not
retrograde already, I shouldhave checked that first, really.
But Uranus will actually goback into Taurus as well.

(03:57):
So we're focused on learningsomething new, doing it, slowing
it down so that way we canmaximize what's going to happen
from it.
Right, it's going to beelectric, it's going to be
something that's going to happenand it's going to happen so
fast that we're just not goingto realize it.
This is where it gets personal.

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The moon in Cancer makes itvery personal for us and it's
going to be to our benefit.
Now I feel like we're beingurged to do this in a highly
grounded fashion.
Probably already said that thisis a point of great opportunity,
but there's learning that hasto be done and we have to do
that.
We have to respect the old waysand let the mastery of them

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lead us.
Today's keyword, beyond.
This is where we have to gobeyond.
The color is a white cat, theLeo vibe that's filling us with
pride.
Right, you should have mentallyand physically moved on prior to
today.
You really should have.
That should have been somethingthat you should have physically
set out to do, so you couldspend this whole day in that

(05:04):
experience of beginning to, tomolt, to grow, to be able to do
the things now.
Is it going to be easy?
No, because the moon's going tobe conjunct uranus in gemini,
personal tech issues things,things like that.
I anticipate probably spendingmost of the day on the phone

(05:27):
with tech support becauseclearly they're going to mess up
everything that's supposed totransfer, everything that's
supposed to be done.
I'm not going to have fullutilization of the devices that
I have under my control now andmy old devices will still be
attached to me, and that's gotto be something that's got to go
away.
That's germane to my particularsituation.

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Your situation is going to betotally different, but you
should know this we should havephysically and mentally moved on
.
You should be bringing your vibeand your magical touch to every
space you enter and occupy.
That's right.
If you're leaving one space,bring that vibe with you to the
new occupy.
That's right.
If you're leaving one space,bring that vibe with you to the
new space.

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It's a good thing to do.
Bring it out, bring it with you.
Carry the things that you needto carry.
Yes, my clear quartz.
If I have to carry that, Icarry that, and I do practically
every day.
That's something that I do.
Call it down to you.

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The moon is more than happy towrap her arms around you if you
let her go in order to moveforward.
It's like those trust exercises, right?
Only you're doing it with themoon.
You're just falling backwards.
Not everyone is willing, norare they able, to do this.

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Let go of your preconceivednotions.
Learn how to listen and vibe ina live environment.
It's a good thing to do, right?
I got a lot of finger pointingtoday.
I've got to find a differentgesture because I'm really this
is spot on.
This is something that isaffecting me directly and I just
want to pass along to everybodylistening and get from you what

(07:17):
you're experiencing and how youare experiencing this kind of
energy that I'm feeling quitepersonally right now.
There's more things going onthan just that, and they're
really for the better.
So you have to understand.
There's two trains, two tracks.
Got a third track, right,happened.
It did.

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It's not necessarily an incometrack, but it will certainly do
two things.
It will enhance the house.
Jupiter and Saturn right,jupiter and Venus conjunct in
Cancer, uh-huh, enhance thehouse and it enhances our lives.

(07:57):
It enhances everything.
Right, we have Mars and Venusin a quintile.
That's that 72 degrees.
This is a creative time forcouples, for your significant
other.
That's a good thing.
Add that to the equation.

(08:20):
We're going to be looking atthat come the next couple of
days and that creativity isgoing to take us into some very,
very nice things, right, nicethings.
We get to restructure our time.
We're going to find things thatare going to work for us.
We're going to be able to maketime not only for ourselves but
for each other other.

(08:40):
That's an important point too.
Just consider that.
Keep that in mind.
Okay, it's not a feature oftoday, but it's coming now.
We ask you to listen to vibelive.
We're on the verge ofrebalancing everything we really
are.
We've got that whole mars inlibra just getting ready to
leave.
But as soon as mars leaves, inLibra just getting ready to
leave, but as soon as Marsleaves, as the seasons change,

(09:06):
we're going to find ourselveswith different planets in that
position, that Mars occupied,mercury will be there, the Sun
will be there and Venus will bethere eventually, that's right.
So we have different iterationsof that kite, with a different
thing anchoring us.
First, it's our actions.
Will it be our words.

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Next, will it be our passion.
Next, will it be our commitmentto art and beauty, or will it
actually be how we want toexperience and express ourselves
, how we want to expressourselves with the coming fall,
equinox?
That's a point.
Now.
Change is inevitable.

(09:48):
Make it your friend, alright.
So let's just sum this up alittle bit.
Our event is in 1817, there wasa 60 to 70 foot sea serpent that
was sighted for years off thecoast of Gloucester in
Massachusetts.
They call that a little bit ofMassachusetts Cape Ann.
It was pretty prevalent outthere.

(10:09):
It's been seen as recently as1980.
So, whatever's out there, it'skind of interesting.
Some skeptical website saysit's a fleet of narwhals.
The people who have seen itwould beg to differ.
And in 1952 we have a birthPatrick Swayze, an American

(10:32):
actor and dancer from DirtyDancing and Ghost.
He's a singer-songwriter aswell, born in Houston, texas,
and he died early, unfortunatelyin 2009.
And that's all we have for you.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you for coming by.
I appreciate and love everysingle one of you.
I love the fact that you tendto save these and then go back

(10:56):
and watch them over again.
It really boosts my algorithm,particularly on TikTok, where
growth has been crazy and I'mjust looking forward to even
crazier growth with all of youbeen crazy and I'm just looking
forward to even crazier growthwith all of you.
So many people just thank mefor this and they say this was
very much needed today and Ihope it was needed for you.
Thank you so much, appreciateand love every single one of you

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.
Our color is a white cat andthe key word is beyond.
We're moving beyond what ourlimitations are and into new
ones.
We're moving beyond what ourlimitations are and into new
ones, but we're doing so with arespect for what it is we have
to do, and what we have tomaster today is a 5 happy
astro-catting.