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October 23, 2025 22 mins

Ever been told the “new moon” is the perfect time to start fresh—only to feel like the cosmos hands you an ending instead? We open with a crucial reframe on lunar timing, separating the balsamic dark moon of release from the first light of renewal. 

From there, we shift into a grand trine linking Mars in Scorpio, Saturn in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer. I share why Mars in Scorpio shows up as the noble warrior, ready to dive beneath protective ice and fight for what’s real. With Mercury riding alongside, the week favors intellectual honesty—drafts that finally say the hard thing, conversations that clear the air, and creative work that stops hedging. Saturn adds backbone and boundaries, turning raw drive into a repeatable path. Jupiter contributes warmth and expansion, scaling your plans with care rather than chaos so progress actually sticks.

We also track the fated feel as the North Node brushes Saturn: timely introductions, resources you needed but couldn’t name, and tools that land right when you commit. Then we forecast the late-week T-square with Venus in Libra, Jupiter in Cancer, and Chiron in Aries. It’s not destructive, but it can push “too much, too fast” in love, money, or pleasure while old wounds flare. The fix is pacing and presence—keep the optimism, slow the timeline, and let boundaries hold the container so growth remains nourishing.

If you’re ready to face your truth, build structures that honor your sensitivity, and let your life expand with intention, this is your week. Press play, align your timing, and put that grand trine to work. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a cosmic push, and leave a quick review to help others find us.

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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Pisces Moon Astrology.
I'm your astrologer, KateLeonard, and I'm excited to
explore the stars with you.
Hi everybody, welcome to theweek of October 26th through
November 1st.
And we've got another GrandShrine week coming up, and this

(00:24):
time Mars is involved.
So this is definitely somedifferent energy than what we've
been talking about recently.
And yeah, let's get into it.
First, I want to thank everybodyfor being here.
I know I've been sort of soenthusiastic in the past couple

(00:44):
of episodes, so I've kind ofleft that off to the end.
And I just want you to know thatyou are, you are never out of my
thoughts, and I am always,always grateful.
I'll be running a new specialcoming up probably in November.
I just have to kind of finalizewhat I'm gonna offer.
Prices are going up in January,absolutely, not very much, but

(01:08):
they are going up.
So if you want to get on thecalendar, even if you're not
gonna actually see me untilafter the first of the year,
lock in this year's prices.
That is my suggestion.
And before we get to the mainevent, I was talking to a good
friend of mine this week aboutsomething that happened last

(01:29):
week or over the weekend really.
And it connects to the new moonor it connected to the new moon.
And I kind of want to share itjust really briefly because I
think the moon and moon phasesis one of those really, really
misunderstood and oversimplifiedthings in astrology and in

(01:52):
witchcraft or pagan practice fora lot of people, especially for
young practitioners.
And I also want to apologize formy slurred speech.
Let's just get that out of theway right now.
I bit my tongue really, reallybadly.
And let's just say it's notworking well.
So there's nothing I can doabout the slurring.

(02:14):
Please know that I'm aware ofit.
It's just that I haven't beendrinking.
I'm recording this at like fiveo'clock in the morning.
So for real, for real, Ihaven't.
Okay, let me talk to you aboutthe um new moon that just
passed.
And very sadly, and I'm gonnatry to hold it together while I
talk about this, but I lost mybeloved dog and my best friend.

(02:35):
And for those of you who knowme, you know what animals mean
in my life.
And my animals really are myimmediate family, and um, it was
devastating.
He was a senior, he had lived avery, very long good life.
But I want to talk about theastrology, all right?
So the new moon was hitting inmy sixth house, which is pets.

(02:58):
It's many things, but one of thethings it is is pets.
And people think of a new moonas always being that new
beginning, that good positiveenergy.
And rarely do we connect a newmoon up with death.
The new moon is really amisnomer.
Okay, the new moon is actuallyat least two major phases: the

(03:21):
balsamic moon, when the moon isheaded toward the sun.
At that point in time, it's likea kazimi or a combust planet.
We talk about a lot.
When a planet is too near thesun, what happens?
You can't see it, right?
You cannot see it.
So the balsamic moon, or we callit the dark moon, that is when

(03:43):
there is no moon visible in thesky.
And that is always aboutendings.
The cycle is over, right?
At that point, we think of it aslike the spirit in the
underworld waiting to be reborn,but definitely not reborn.
All right, so that is exactlythe phase, the balsamic moon,

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when I lost my beloved dog.
And I know a lot of endingsbreakups.
The friend I was talking to hada breakup during that exact
lunar phase.
So just know that until the moongets to the other side of the
sun, that's what we really thinkof as the new moon.
When it's that little sliver,that beautiful little line, that

(04:32):
crescent line in the sky when itfirst appears, that's the new
energy.
If you're thinking about thoseintentions you want to set,
about abundance and new love andall the stuff, that's the energy
you want to get.
If you're working on banishingor shadow work or hexing or um,

(04:55):
if you're setting intentions toend addictions or cravings or
bad habits, when you want to letgo of something and send it into
the underworld, that's thebalsalmic moon.
And these happen very closetogether, but new moon isn't
just new moon.

(05:15):
So that's why I tell everybodywhen you're doing your circles
and your intentions and your allyour stuff or your spells,
whatever it is you do, becareful about your timing.
That more than any other.
The full moon doesn't work thesame.
Full moon is full moon, kind ofthis side or that side, right?
But the new moon has quitedifferent energy when it's in

(05:39):
its balsamic phase and then inits truly new moon phase.
All right.
So I wanted to share that withyou just because it really, when
I was talking to a friend whowent through this breakup at the
same time that I was losing mybest friend, I wanted to share
that because I hear peoplegetting that wrong all the time.

(06:01):
Okay.
So that's just a little bonusfreebie for everybody right now.
And um, let's get into the mainevent: the Grand Trine with
Mars.
All right, so you already knowit's yet another Grand Trine
week, which means we've got someenergy that is flowing really,

(06:21):
really well.
Okay, I love a grand trine.
That is a circuit board that isjust charged and humming and
doing its best.
We've got Mars in Scorpio.
He's the ruler, he's the king onhis throne.

So y'all know I always say this: Mars is either the noble warrior (06:37):
undefined
or the psycho killer, right?
When he's in his own kingdom, heis absolutely the noble warrior.
And Scorpio, in Scorpio, what weget is Mars giving us the energy
and the drive to really go deep.

(06:58):
Whatever it is we're going into,we need to go deep in it.
We need to find our emotionaltruth, and we need to have the
courage to face that and to dealwith whatever that means, good,
bad, or indifferent, right?
Well, emotional truth is rarelyindifferent, but you get what
I'm saying.
But Mars in his glory will giveus the courage we need.

(07:20):
So just that alone says that alot of healing energy is
available, right?
We've got the energy to go deepand do the work we needed to
really get to the bottom ofthings, chip through the ice,
that layer of protection thatwe've put over our emotions and
our feelings and all of that,and really go in there, plunge

(07:43):
deep and do what needs to bedone.
So look at where Scorpio is inyour chart.
What kind of things are yougoing to be getting done?
What are you going to be workingon?
First house, are you working onyourself?
Are you facing your emotionaltruth so you can come out more
authentically?
You and Mars, the noble warrior,is there ready to defend your

(08:05):
truth?
I love that.
Is it in the fourth house ofhome and family, right?
Are you going into family issuesand saying, let's get to the
bottom of what's going on?
Let's defend this family andfight for it in for whatever
reason, right?
And in whatever that means foryou.
Seventh house is your primaryrelationship, tenth is career.

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So where is Scorpio for you?
What are you ready to fight for?
What are you ready to defend?
I love it.
So the first leg I want to talkabout on the trine is the trine
to Saturn in Pisces.
Saturn is not usually somethingwe're all excited about, except
in this kind of case.

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I say it all the time.
Mars is initiation.
Mars likes to start things, itlikes to fire things up, it
likes to rev the engine, right?
And then, you know, it can kindof go over here and do something
else and start another fire.
And it's right next to Mercuryfor the beginning of the week.

(09:09):
Oh, and I didn't say this.
Grand Shrine goes through thewhole week.
That's why I haven't given youdates.
We start the week with it and itgoes all the way through.
For the first half of the week,though, Mercury is right there,
conjunct Mars.
So expect a lot of intellectualhonesty this week and expect a

(09:32):
lot of, you know, communicatingthis truth.
It's not like we're gonna justgo deep and then, like, well,
okay, I have faced it, whateverthe it is, right?
It's like, no, Mercury's rightthere, and at least at the
beginning of the week, we'regonna need to speak our truth.
For artists, writers, all of youpeople, this also means going

(09:52):
into your projects, going intoyour creative energy, especially
you writers with Mercury here.
This is really about plumbingthe depths and communicating,
writing, but other artists aswell, you know, communicating
your vision.
Then we've got that trine overto Saturn in Pisces.

(10:14):
Look where Pisces is, that'swhere Saturn is.
So we're talking about whereyou're doing the hard work,
where you're setting boundarieswith the North Node, very
destined placement.
So Mars is training that Saturn.
Saturn brings the ability towork hard, to set a high goal.
Okay, I've gone deep into myselfand I've faced my truth, I've

(10:40):
defended myself, whatever thatis in this situation.
And now I'm going to firm up myboundaries if that's what I need
to do.
And I am going to um stick toit.
I'm going to set a very highgoal.
Saturn rules Capricorn, themountain goat who climbs to the
top of the mountain, and I'mgoing to reach these goals.

(11:02):
And nothing is going to stop me.
Because when you get Mars, thenoble warrior and Saturn, that I
will get my prize, right?
I'll get there.
When you've got these twotogether, I dare somebody to get
in your way.
Bring it because you're notgoing to stop us, right?
I love this.

(11:24):
And just to drive this home, asif we needed any more, because I
just like that trine alone, theyboth then finish the triangle,
make the other two legs of thetriangle to Jupiter, the greater
benefic, still exalted, that'sas strong as Jupiter can be up

(11:46):
in cancer.
So what is cancer?
Nurturing.
So this isn't only warrior.
This really is bringing to Marsthat noble warrior, but there's
a nurturing quality.
We will take care of whateverthis situation is.
So we've got the goal, and nowI'm going to add some nurturing

(12:08):
to that.
Yes, I'm going to be thewarrior.
Yes, I'm going to be the Saturnstick-to-it boss, right?
I'm going to be the Saturnadministrator, right?
CEO or whatever that is.
But I'm also going to nurturethis along.
It's not going to be so cold.
Mars and Saturn together, eventhough Mars is fiery, but still,

(12:30):
it's that yang energy, ortraditionally we call it the
male energy, right?
And again, that's for any genderidentity, whatever.
That's just that old language weuse.
Let's think of it as yang,right?
Mars and Saturn are so, so yang.
And Jupiter in Cancer bringsthat softer edge.

(12:50):
Does that make sense?
It's gorgeous.
Also, Jupiter always expands.
So whatever we're doing,whatever we're putting our
energy into this week, we aregoing to be also making it big.
So whatever this truth is youface, you may find that your
life somehow just gets bigger.

(13:12):
The plan gets bigger, the goalgets bigger, the relationship
gets bigger.
You're writing your book and nowyou're planning the sequel,
right?
There's something aboutexpansiveness.
You may find that this energythat you're bringing to
yourself, your own personalrelationships, whatever, you're

(13:33):
sort of sharing with others andit's becoming a little
contagious, even, you know, andother people are like, yeah, I
want some of what you've got.
Not in the bad, weird, jealousway, in the like your
motivational kind of way.
I hope that made sense.
And again, the north node isvery close to Saturn.
And so there's a destinedquality in whatever we're doing,

(13:56):
right?
Anytime we throw a node into thepicture, you know, we've got
that sense that this is faded.
So also expect that there aregoing to be faded connections.
Grand Trions are all aboutconnecting things, right?
It's a triangle connecting threeplanets.
Got the north node there.

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Expect faded connections.
Like you're trying to getsomething done, you've got your
eye on the goal, but there'sstill the how-to, right?
There's still the like, what arethe nuts and bolts?
I want to achieve this giantgoal and I know I will, but how
though?
You know, like what are thespecific things that I need to
put in place?
Or what tools do I need?

(14:39):
That's where the north note isgoing to come in.
And just bring faded meetings,tools falling into your lap,
gifts that just come along outof who knew?
So it's super, super good, superfaded.
I think this is an importantweek for all of us.
And I'm very, very excited uh toget into it.

(15:01):
I as far as the grand trinegoes, I don't really have any
negative, you know.
You know how we I always havethat warning at the end that,
well, but okay, in all honesty,I do have it.
It's coming right now, but it'snot about the grand trine.
I really honestly do not see anybad thing.

(15:23):
I don't see any warning.
I don't think, you know, Jupiterhas that tendency to make us go
over the top.
It can make us too exuberant,except it's trining Saturn.
Saturn is not a festive guy.
Saturn doesn't do exuberant.
He's gonna give that stabilityto Jupiter.

(15:44):
So while we're gonna beexpansive and big and
optimistic, Saturn will anchorus and not let us get wack-a-doo
with it.
So I really, the grand sine, I'mtelling you, I don't see
anything bad here.
I think we're gonna be focused,I think we're gonna be
goal-oriented, and I think we'regonna make stuff happen.

(16:05):
It's good, it's good, it's good.
I love it.
And just a little thing happensfor the end of the week.
We do get a T-square.
You know how the Grand Shrine islike the very best thing?
Yeah, the T-square is probablythe most difficult, and we get
one.
Let me just touch on it very,very briefly.
It is not going to negate thetrine, but I do want to make you

(16:27):
aware of it because you guys arevery good about always getting
in touch with me later about youdidn't warn me about XYZ.
It's like, I know I can't touchon everything, but yeah, that I
would feel a little guilty if Ididn't warn you about this
square coming up.
This is starting on the 29th,and then it actually picks up

(16:51):
energy to as it moves throughthe end of the week.
And actually, I think it's gonnabe at its strongest probably on
the weekend.
So happy beginning of November.
At this point, we've got Venusin Libra, so a strong Venus
making a square to um Jupiter inCancer.

(17:13):
So again, those are the twobenefic planets, and they're
both strong.
Jupiter exalted, Venus inrulership.
We would think that that's onlygood.
And ultimately, I have to tellyou, I do think it's gonna be
good.
It's just gonna take somenavigation.
And then we've got Jupitermaking a square to Chiron, the

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wounded healer.
Think trauma, emotional pain,that kind of thing.
In Aries, the self, theindividual.
And then Chiron is making anopposition, that is exactly what
it sounds like, to Venus.
So the good thing is the twobenefics are strong and they're

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in this triangle.
So this is not going to bedevastation.
I'm not predicting like thingsblowing up, but it is stuff
that's gonna need navigated.
When you've got squares thataren't like the worst squares in
the world, like you've got thesetwo good strong planets
involved.

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It's not going to be bad, butit's gonna, there's gonna be
some friction that we have toget through to get to the good.
So Venus and Jupiter together,that's exalted love, that's
expansive love, that's growth inrelationships, that's new
relationships.
It's all good things, right?

(18:40):
Except there's some tension herebecause of this square.
So there may be some things thatneed to come to light with
Jupiter and Cancer.
It may be that you're asking toomuch of someone or someone's
asking too much of you, and youhave to kind of calm things
down.
It's this kind of thing, allright?
You meet a new potential partneron Wednesday.

(19:04):
And by Friday, this person wantsto run to Vegas and get married
because Jupiter gets crazywack-a-doo expensive.
So you just met this person,they want to go to Vegas.
You are very interested in thisperson, but maybe not marriage
in Vegas today.

(19:25):
You know, like maybe you couldeat a pizza together first or
something, you know what I mean?
Take a little minute.
Um, so it's that kind of thingwhere it's not bad.
You just might have toconsciously slow down.
You might have to consciouslyrein in Jupiter.

And here's the thing (19:43):
y'all know how you are, how we all are when
Venus comes in.
I am a Taurus ascendant, Taurusrising.
So Venus is my ruler.
I want sugar.
I want it always.
I want a lot.
I'll eat three Snicker bars, thevegan ones.
And you know what I mean?
Like reining in my sugarcravings, I will hurt you.

(20:06):
I will hurt you if you get inthe way of my Snicker bar.
Okay.
So it's that kind of thing.
Venus also likes luxury andlikes feeling good and all of
that.
Jupiter's like, let's do it.
And you know, somebody's got toget sane and say, let's do it
maybe next week, that kind ofthing.
So it's not the worst, but youknow, be aware.

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And then we bring Chiron into.
Now, this is where it gets alittle more serious.
We've got Chiron who's going tobring up old hurts, old baggage,
old traumas that you might haveto navigate while you're going
through whatever this sort ofexpansive thing is.
You might have some old issuescome up.

(20:51):
So let's go back to the story ofthat new lover who wants to run
off to Vegas.
This may be bringing up somethings out of your past, like
the last time you thought youwere getting close to that uh
big event and it fell through atthe very end, and you carry some
trauma.
Could bring that up, and youhave to use that Jupiter in

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nurturing cancer.
You might need some nurturing toget through it.
Okay, so that's all I've gottime to go into with this.
It is gonna be good andultimately healing, but there
could be some tension involvedwith it.
Just expect that at the end ofthe week and try to avoid
running off to Vegas.

(21:36):
All right, I'm gonna leave itthere because this has already
gone way too long.
I hope this has been helpful andmeaningful.
And um, yeah, thank you againfor being here.
And as always, go out and seizethe energies of the stars.
This is my wish for you always,and I will talk to you next

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time.
Bye.
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