The Pink Moon's Illuminating Power | Energy & Astrology Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

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Mercury finally stations direct, offering a collective sigh of relief after three intense weeks of retrograde motion. Yet we're not completely out of the woods—Venus retrograde continues, keeping us firmly in a period of deep life review, especially for those with Taurus or Libra placements in their charts.

The transition from Mercury retrograde in Aries back to Pisces has left many of us feeling like we're waking from a dream, uncertain about what's real and what isn't in our lives. This dreamlike quality lingers as we approach this weekend's Full Moon in Libra (known as the Pink Moon or Buddha Moon), which coincides with Venus stationing direct. This powerful cosmic alignment brings illumination to our relationships, hearts, and minds, facilitating soul-level healing for the collective.

This lunar illumination shines light on relationship dynamics, potentially bringing negotiations, reconciliations, or necessary endings. If you've been contemplating leaving a relationship—whether romantic, business, or friendship—the next two weeks offer cosmic support for closure. The Libran energy emphasizes finding balance in all areas of life: masculine/feminine energies, giving/receiving, work/rest. It's an excellent moment for dreaming big, visualizing possibilities, and beautification projects, though major appearance changes or significant purchases should wait another week or two until we're fully clear of retrograde shadows.

Rituals focused on releasing anger, resentment, fear, or stress are particularly powerful now. "Unfurling back to love" serves as our guiding theme—reconnect with compassion, kindness, and your center. As we move toward Taurus season, we'll experience a period without eclipses or retrogrades, bringing calmer, more productive energy around April 19th. For now, take one small, intentional step toward your desires while staying rooted in love. Remember that visualization creates pathways to manifestation, so dream your reality into being. What are you ready to illuminate and transform as the cosmic weather shifts?

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Episode Transcript

Magical Michelle Orwick (00:21):
Welcome to Living Magically.
I'm your host, magical Michelle, and this week we get to
breathe a sigh of relief, butwe're also still deep in a life
review right now.
So, happy Mercury Stations,direct stations, direct.

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For the last three weeks, wehave been in Mercury retrograde
and with that we have been in amajor, major don't do anything

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category.
But what is also happening, andwhy this was such an intense
one for everybody, is because wehad this Venus retrograde at
the same time.
Now, something else to considerwith all of this is that during
this Mercury retrograde, wewent from Mercury retrograde in
Aries to Mercury retrograde inPisces, so we feel like we're
waking up from a dream.

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So have you ever kind of beenlike asleep and you were in a
dream and you're not sure whatis real and what isn't real?
It might feel that way in yourlife right now, that way in your

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life right now, and I encourageyou.
This full moon that is coming upover the weekend is in Libra,
ruled by Venus, and later on, atthe same time, the same day as
we have a full moon in Venus, wehave Venus retrograde going
direct as well.
So what does that mean,especially for those of you who

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are ruled by Libra or ruled byTaurus, or have any of your sun,
moon or rising signs in Taurusor Libra, and everybody else too
, but especially those two signsis we're in this major life
review, especially Taurus, whosebirthday month is coming up,

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and also Aries, who's in theirbirthday energy right now.
We have the sun direct in Ariesand it's always direct, but the
sun is prominent in Aries rightnow.
It's first sign.
It's this new beginning energyand yet we're still in the

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stickiness of these retrogrades.
So what happens with that is itfeels like all your plans are
halted still.
But the good news is thatthings are starting to lighten
up.
Things are starting to get moreclarity and I expect you to get

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clarity.
The illumination of this fullmoon will probably get more
clarity, more unstuck energy.
Next week We'll see that afterthe full moon, more like the
12th and the 13th.
So now that Mercury's out ofretrograde, you're going to
start to see the movement.

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You're going to start having areview period.
You're going to be like allright, where have I been stuck
for the last three weeks?
Where have I been stuck for thelast two months?
And really all the way back toNovember?
We've had major personal signsin retrograde all the way since
last November.
So this moon, which is also thepink moon it's called the

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Buddha moon we have thisilluminating moon that's trying
to bring clarity on ourrelationships, in our hearts, in
our minds, in our soul.
Really, there's a soul levelhealing happening for the
collective.
You're going to see a lot ofnegotiation going on.

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So if you're in a relationship,try and be kind, but this is
this is the time to be in thatreview period.
I heard one astrologer talkingabout it as if you're going to
leave a relationship, you'reprobably going to leave it in
the next two weeks, like ifyou've been waiting, you don't

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need any bigger sign than thisit's time to end, and that that
might not be a marriage.
That could be a businesspartnership or a friendship.
Things are coming to a closeand that closure could just be
in different ways that we dealwith people.
But I expect money matters toget better for everybody once we

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hit Taurus.
So this is your big idea energy.
We're still in big ideas rightnow Big breakthroughs,
illumination, clarity and maybeeven just praying for what you
want.
The answer is to align with thetimeline and the choices for

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what you want, what you desire,what your heart is bringing
forward and getting away fromwhat you fear, what you're angry
about.
And please, if at all possible,if you feel angry, if you feel
resentful, if you feel caught upin that energy, fear, stress,

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whatever please do yourself afavor this week and do a ritual,
write it out, burn it, do somekind of water ceremony, get into
the water and let it go.
Whatever it is that you need topurify yourself and let go.

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We have a really big opportunityto come back to compassion, to
come back to love.
Unfurling back to love was thecard I got this morning.
I was pulling my card for theweek and it was the heart chakra
card Unfurling back to love,and I love that statement.
And I love that statement.

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How do we become love?
How are we spreading kindness,spreading love, spreading the
change and you know this isruled by Venus.
Libra moon is all about findingbalance Balance of the masculine
and feminine, balance of ourday and night, balance of our,

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our, um, our time.
Are we over giving?
Are we under giving?
Are we sharing enough of ourinformation?
And I expect communication toget better this week, but not be
really perfect for at least twomore weeks, because we're still
going to be in retrogradeshadow Mercury retrograde shadow

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and Venus retrograde is stillabout reviewing those
relationships.
So if it's time to make thatconversation, have it.
Have it next week.
If you're if you're like, havea really big conversation, have
it next week.
If you're like, have a reallybig conversation, have it next
week.
But if you're ready to juststart brainstorming or getting

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ideas, this is a good week.
It's a great idea for the bigpicture.
It's a great idea for dreaming.
It's a wonderful time to startdreaming things into possibility
, sharing what is possible andjust knowing that everything is

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possible.
Okay, and with every ending isa new beginning.
And so I feel like there's this, this big expansive opening
happening, big expansiveopportunities.
So if there's this, this bigexpansive opening happening, big
expansive opportunities.
So if there's some um, someopportunity for you to be kinder

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to another person, do that.
If there's an opportunity foryou to rest and recalibrate and
renew yourself, do that.
If there's a chance where youwant to beautify your home or
your office or your yard, dothat.
But I have heard it's not areally good time to make big
physical changes to yourappearance that you cannot

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change.
Venus retrograde, isn't thetime to get bangs.
If you have beautiful long hair, not the time to cut off your
hair.
You can get maintenance beautyitems something you were already
planning, maybe if you have atattoo that you've planned on
having forever, maybe that.
But if you can wait anotherweek to make any big, massive

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changes, do that.
But beautification process,planting oh my goodness, plant
your seeds, get your gardensgoing and certainly, create and
envision and dream and journal.
Take long baths.
Rest is an absolute anything.

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Luxury is an absolute wonderfulthing to do.
And if, if you are looking forlove, if you are looking for a
new relationship, this is a goodtime to go out and meet some
people.
If it is, if you are lookingfor, um, bettering the
relationship you have, this is agreat time to take your wife

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out to dinner, take your husbandout to dinner, spend quality
time with your kids or yourpartner.
If there is someone that youhaven't spent time with that you
really, really want to embrace,this is a great week to do that
.
There's going to be an I loveyou energy too.

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This week.
I love you, I appreciate you.
Do those little things thatshow that you care, show that
you take that extra little pieceand show that you are ready to
make that next little.
I love you and here's.
Here's something nice that Ican do.

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I wouldn't necessarily go intopresents or spending our money.
You, you might regret spendinga lot of money.
This isn't the week to to makebig purchases.
I'd still wait another week ortwo before I did that.
But if there was like justsmall gestures of love and
appreciation, this is the weekWith that pink moon.

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It's a great time to gather.
So I know there's a lot of fullmoon gatherings.
I'm having one for my school onSaturday night, online.
I'm also, if you're local toOrlando and you want to come to
our Compassion Circle at theAshram, this is happening on

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Thursday and, more important,I've been really really
recognizing that this is thetime.
If you're going to come with meand Marissa to Egypt, we have to
kind of settle out how manypeople are coming in the next
month, and so we are going toEgypt in September for my dream

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trip.
We're going to be going downthe Nile, we're going to be
going to the Sphinx, we're goingto be going to the pyramids,
all of the things, and so if youare interested in doing that.
Please get with me.
This week.
We have a beautiful tripplanned with our amazing people

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on the ground there Hatem andNoha.
We'll be going to our oiltemple to learn about oils with
Gamal.
It's just going to be anincredible trip as well as, if
you've never been to Jordan,maybe you've been to Egypt, but
you've never been to Petra inJordan we're doing an extension.
So if that's something you'reinterested in, they're two

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different trips.
You can combine the two or youcan go to one or the other,
including, if time or money isthe problem and you want to
narrow it down to a shorter trip, we have a highlights tour
which gets you the big stuff.
It gets you Luxor and Cairo andgets it all in and under eight

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days.
So please let me know if I canhelp you journey on that dream
trip to Egypt.
So what are you dreaming about?
What is it and how do you makethat come to reality?
This is the week about dreamingyour life into being remember.

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When we visualize somethingcoming true, the way becomes
made possible.
This is the theme right now,with this illuminating full moon
.
Listen to this beautiful,beautiful sound of the bells,
the wind chimes instead of theroad noise behind me, so I

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wanted to be outside.
It's such a beautiful day here,but I do apologize for the
street noise all of a sudden,there we go All right In the
meantime compassion, love,illumination, balance find your
way, waking up.

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It's like you're waking up froma dream and I still continue to
invite you to dream.
Dream yourself into a realitythat you choose.
Do not get caught up in thefear, don't get caught up in
what's going on outside of you.
Unfurl your heart back to love,come back to the center, find

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your center, find your dream.
Find your center.
Find your dream.
Take one step, take one littleaction.
Step back to love, back to whoyou are, and we'll see, as this
full moon illuminates thatbigger opportunity to move more

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strong, more fully.
In the coming months, as we seeTaurus season, we're going to
have a period of time withouteclipses and retrogrades and
you're just going to see alittle bit of of an opening
coming up.
After this week and and abouttwo weeks now, around the 19th,

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you're going to see things get alittle bit calmer, a little bit
easier.
But remember, with all the firethat you have, take one action.
Step with this, make movementas the wind opens up, make
movement, take a deep breath,meditate, be compassionate, and

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I wish you all an absolutelymagical, loving, compassionate
week, and I'll see you againnext week.
Live magically you.