December 4, 2025 • 22 mins
The sky turns up the heat and hands us a blueprint. Mars in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces, and that friction shows up as the classic push-pull: urgent desire to move colliding with the demand to slow down and build it right. We unpack what that feels like in real life, from work sprints to holiday expectations, and share practical ways to steer through sharp turns without skidding. You’ll hear simple timing rules, de-escalation scripts, and how to frame a firm boundary with respect so you protect your energy and still honor what matters.
We also map the week’s Mercury action: a grounded link with Saturn for serious planning and contract clarity, a jolt from Uranus that delivers out-of-the-blue insights and plot twists, and a gorgeous trine to Neptune that fuels creative thinking and storytelling. Writers get a clear green light to draft boldly and edit wisely; everyone else gets fresh problem-solving and more imaginative options for the season. Add Venus squaring the North Node and you have a nudge toward necessary updates in love, money, beauty, and art—less autopilot, more alignment.
Underneath the tension is the gift: Mars supplies initiation and courage, while Saturn supplies structure and endurance. That combo is perfect for launching a project you intend to finish or reshaping a ritual you want to keep. We talk tactics for handling authority figures, navigating family traditions without a blowup, and starting new traditions that reflect who you are now. Press play to turn conflict into traction, insight into action, and a hectic week into a smarter, steadier path forward.
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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 everyone, welcome to the weekof December 7th through December
13th.
I'm just saying this week we'vegot the two malefics, and they
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are in an agitated state, bothof them.
What could go wrong?
All right.
You guys know I always try tomake the best of the astrology
and not because I'm just tryingto keep everybody happy.
I know I get accused of that allthe time.
It's really not the case.
I'm actually not so upbeat whenall is said and done.
(00:48):
But I do feel that astrology,the cosmos, all of this stuff is
here to help us grow, to show ushow to grow.
The reason my outro is thatwhole seize the energies thing
is because I honestly believethat every cosmic alignment has
(01:13):
a gift.
It may be a gift that's hard toget to.
It may not be fun, but there's agift.
I don't believe the cosmos isbad and mean and out to get us,
right?
This week, however, with all ofthat said, I am going to get to
the gift.
So let me let me just say, staywith me.
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It's not all bad.
There is some good stuff coming.
But on December 8th, we've gotMars, you know, the planet of
war, the one that I always tellmy clients, and I've said it on
the podcast as well.
Mars is either the noble warriorfighting for the good cause, or
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he's a psycho killer.
He can be either, um, dependingon who he's playing with and
what how they're configured.
Well, this week he's playingwith Saturn, the greater
malefic.
And how are they aspecting eachother in a square, you know, a
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square.
So there will be good comingfrom this.
And I am gonna talk to you laterabout how to use this cosmic
energy well and and in a waythat's truly productive and
good.
But I'm not gonna lie, this weekis probably gonna be some kind
of challenging, all right?
(02:42):
So just get ready for it.
Before we get into that, there'sa lot of other stuff going on.
Um, let me just give you somedates so that if you want to
look this stuff up, Google it,whatever y'all do.
On the 7th, Mercury is going tobe in a good aspect with Saturn
that's getting really seriousabout our thinking, that's
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having serious and importantconversations.
It's hard work paying off,especially when we're talking
about really uh putting hardwork into our plans and that
kind of thing.
Really, really good.
Also finalizing contracts, thosekinds of deals, really, really
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good energy.
On the 10th, we've got Mercury,opposing Uranus, and yikes.
The good thing is get ready formental breakthroughs,
breakthroughs in your ideas,right?
Unexpected thoughts.
We're just like, oh my gosh, Iknow the answer.
(03:49):
Or how come I didn't think ofthat before?
You know, it's the when you getthose inspired ideas that seem
to come out of nowhere andwhatever, yeah, that that could
be this, but it is anopposition.
So also get ready to receiveunexpected news.
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That's gonna happen.
And yeah, get ready forconversations to go in ways that
you hadn't planned and didn'tsee coming.
So the opposition is not alwaysthat much fun, but I do think
there's some really good stuffthat comes out of the Mercury
opposition to Uranus.
Also on the 10th, Venus is goingto square the north node of
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destiny.
This could bring difficult butnecessary adjustments to all
things, Venus.
Love, beauty, relationships,money, art, all the stuff.
Difficult but necessaryadjustments.
So another one that I don'tthink we're gonna love it so
much going through it, but it'sgot gifts.
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It brings gifts on the 11th.
Mercury is going to shrineNeptune, Mercury, communication,
all the stuff, right?
Neptune fantasy.
Writers, I I want you to hearme, all of my writer listeners.
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This is fiction.
Whether you write for the stage,the screen, novels, whatever it
is you write, stories, Mercuryis the god of writing and
Neptune is fiction.
This is inspiration.
It's beautiful.
(05:38):
So this week get ready to reallyhave breakthroughs and really go
to creative, wonderful placeswith your writing.
For the rest of us, if you'renot a writer, you still get to
have this transit.
And it really is just going toallow us to tap into our
creative thinking.
(05:59):
That can be creative problemsolving in our day-to-day lives,
on the job, whatever it is,right?
It's also maybe just this senseof coming up with really fun and
creative things to do during theholidays.
It's pretty glorious.
But, writers, did you hear me?
This is your week.
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Also, on the 11th, Mercury isgonna move into Sagittarius.
So we're gonna start putting ourfocus on long-term planning.
Mercury doesn't loveSagittarius.
Let me just clarify that.
Okay.
Mercury loves Gemini, a sign herules, right?
He likes traveling, going allover the place, a little here, a
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little there.
Let's talk about this, let'stalk about that.
He's not so comfortable inSagittarius with all that
long-term stuff, but still, it'sgonna be a time when our
thoughts, our conversations, ourplanning are gonna focus on the
bigger picture.
All right.
Hope all of that made sense.
(07:02):
Now let's get into this.
Wow, the two malefics squaringeach other.
Okay, first, let me remind youwhat a square is, right?
It's a 90-degree angle.
So that right angle kind ofthing.
So imagine you're driving alongfull speed ahead, full speed
ahead, whatever, you know, goingfast, and you've got to make a
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sharp turn, and your car canskid out of or you can run over
the curb or whatever.
It's just not easy to navigatethese angles.
So there's always tensionbetween the two planets.
So I always say this, and I'mgonna remind us all this week in
ancient astrology, any aspectwas better than no aspect,
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right?
No aspect gives us no room totalk, no room to think.
There's no connection of anykind.
So we've got nothing to workwith.
A square is not fun, usually.
We've got to slow the card downand be really careful.
And if we don't do it justright, we hit the street lights.
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I don't know.
We hit the stop sign, something.
But if you take your time, Marsdoesn't want to do that.
Okay, that's part of theproblem.
Squares are best if you'rethoughtful.
Take your time, steer your carcarefully around the turn,
right?
The problem is Mars is involved.
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Mars just wants to slice anddice.
He's got nothing to do with slowdown and be careful.
The good news is Saturn is allabout slow down and be careful,
right?
Too much, if anything, aboutslow down and be careful.
He rate, he rules time and ageand longevity and things like
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that.
So he'll help maybe, but I thinkmore it's gonna be like that's
part of the problem.
The Mars wants to go, strike, doit now, right?
The the game is on, boom, right?
Those are the kinds of that'sthe energy that comes from Mars,
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where Saturn's about stop, let'sthink, slow down, let's build
whatever it is we're doing verycarefully so that it endures.
And this push-pull kind ofenergy is gonna be at us all
this week.
Just know this isn't a singleday.
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This is gonna be all week.
The speed up to slow down, andit can be within ourselves, but
more likely it's gonna be usversus somebody else.
Look to see what houses theseare impacting in your chart.
Is work gonna be needing you togo fast and put in the hard
(10:02):
hours and boom, get stuff done,get it out there.
And your relationship is like,honey, let's have a snuggle by
the fire night.
You're like, no, I've gotcontracts to do, right?
So it is more likely that it'seither gonna be us in conflict
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with someone else, or two areasof our life that are not happy
with each other and not playingwell together.
So you really, really have tolook at your chart to see where
this is hitting you.
And just a reminder (10:43):
Mars is in Sagittarius and Saturn is in
Pisces.
Here's the other thing (10:51):
Saturn rules authority figures.
So, regardless of what housesthese two are showing up in your
chart, this could be just ageneral kind of thing that we're
facing this week.
Mars is the youngster, right?
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The young'un who is impulsiveand wants to move away.
Saturn is authority figures.
And so we might see that we arereally struggling against people
that someone that we see in aposition of authority.
This can be your boss, this canbe a parent, this can be
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whoever.
Um, depending on yourrelationships, you know, it
could be a friend, a mentor, uh,it could be a spouse.
I hope you don't see your spousethat way, but you know, hey, you
do you.
It's an authority figure.
That's Saturn.
And Mars wants nothing to dowith it.
So we've got this real clashhere, and this is where it can
start getting really, reallydifficult.
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The other thing is Saturn is thestatus quo, right?
Saturn is longevity, it's thestructure of our lives, it's
tradition, the status quo, thatthing that has always been.
And we're like, no, I have mysword out.
I want to slash it, burn it, anddo something new.
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Yeah, well, the thing about thestatus quo is it's the status
quo because it's been that wayfor a long time.
And Mars has gone around abunch, and the status quo is
still that.
It's still standing.
So it's not easy.
And this could be something Ithink it's interesting that this
is coming up during the holidaysfor a lot of us.
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I'm thinking about the crazythat can happen around family
holiday situations at the bestof times.
Are there ever the best of timesduring the holidays?
Maybe.
Or is that only my family?
I don't think it is.
Anyway, we're in a pretty split.
I don't know how to say it.
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We we've got factions in ourcountry, right?
And people are feeling stronglyabout politics.
I'm not, again, I'm not tryingto bring up politics here, but
I'm just talking about sittingaround the Christmas dinner
table.
This could be the kind of thingwe're talking about.
I know this week is notChristmas, but you know what I
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mean.
We're already starting to do thefamily, let's get together and
go shopping.
We're already starting to do allof that stuff.
And yeah, I could see some tenseconversations, but it could even
be things like, you know,Christmas or other holiday
traditions, right?
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The family always goes to AuntBetty's house for Christmas Eve
dinner, and you don't want to.
Maybe you and your friends wantto go do something different,
you know, maybe you and yourpartner, maybe you alone, you
know, you want to go on aretreat instead, you know, just
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by yourself to have somedowntime.
And it's like, no, the familyalways goes and does, you know,
Thing X on Christmas Eve, youknow, or whatever.
We always plan our holidays thisway.
And you've got to break the newsto them this week that it's
like, yeah, count me out.
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Yeah, that's not gonna goeasily.
It's not gonna go easily.
I am not in any kind of waytelling you not to have that
conversation.
What I'm telling you is plan onit being heated.
Mars is fire.
So, yeah, it's that kind ofthing.
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Going up against tradition,going up against the way things
have always been.
This can be in any area of life.
Work with the kids, you know,with parents, wherever.
Maybe you and your partner areum arguing because you have
different competing familytraditions around the holidays.
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Can be anything like that.
And it doesn't have to be aboutthe holidays.
I just see so much potential forthat kind of struggle.
I can only say it's gonna beheated.
There's gonna be some heatedstuff that's gonna come up, and
we're not gonna just sailthrough it.
So, what is my advice to you?
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Anytime Mars is involved, myadvice is cool down.
If you're already feeling tense,don't take that minute to tell
the family you're not going tothe Christmas dinner, right?
Wait till you're calm.
Maybe don't do it as aconversation.
You know, maybe that, I don'tknow, don't send an email.
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That's tacky.
But you know what I mean?
Like, like make sure you're in aspace where you're set up for
success and feel like you canmostly keep your cool while
you're having that conversation.
The problem with Saturn is it'sinflexible.
Saturn is the wisdom of age.
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So they're like unbending.
It's like, no, this is how it'salways been and always must be.
If you find that you're upagainst that, just know that
shouting them down is not theway to win.
It is not the way to win.
Can you frame the conversationin a way that honors tradition
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for them?
Like, you know what?
We have always loved that.
And in we're gonna go on ourretreat during these days.
So unfortunately, we can't be atthe family gift-giving thing.
But can we do it where we do allour same stuff, but on this
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other date?
Like, is there a way you canfind compromise?
This is that you're driving downthe road, you've got to make
this really tight turn.
What do you do?
You slow down, you steercarefully.
That's what I think you need todo here because Saturn is no
put, he's the greater malefic,all right?
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So we come out with our Marsfiery, like, I'm gonna change
the world.
And Saturn's like, yeah, bringit.
So finding a way to talk to thatperson and um stand in front of
that kind of energy and holdyour ground.
Mars is a warrior.
You don't have to lose in this.
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I'm not saying that at all.
But know who you're up againstand set yourself up for success.
But just expect, there's gonnabe some tense stuff this week.
I don't know how it's gonna comeup for you.
You gotta look at your natalchart, but it's gonna be tense.
Now, I promised you the silverlining, right?
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And there is one.
There always is.
First, just going through thisexperience is gonna bring gifts,
right?
We grow from these kinds ofexperiences, right?
What is that?
Grow in the face of adversity orsomething like that?
Yeah, do that thing.
But the other thing is Mars isour ability to initiate, and
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Saturn is stick to it.
Dealing with other people is notthe only way we get this energy.
Do you have a project thatyou've got in mind that you've
been wanting to launch?
Maybe this is the week whereyou're like, I've got the energy
to initiate this, I've got theenergy to take those first
steps.
Saturn's also here, giving youthe stick to it, the ability to
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climb the mountain and reach themountaintop.
Again, it's a square that's notgoing to come easily.
So even where the silver liningis, you may be like, oh, I got
started, but now I don't knowwhat to do.
There will be something you haveto do to navigate this.
But the two energies workingtogether are really, really
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quite good or can be.
So um, the other thing that'sgood, going back to that whole
holiday tradition thing, this isa good time to initiate your own
things that you want to do, likeduring the holidays or whatever,
that will become your owntraditions.
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Maybe this is the time tofinally break free of all the
old weird stuff you've beendoing with your family.
Create your own reallymeaningful rituals and kinds of
parties and who you want tocelebrate with and all the
stuff, right?
Whatever it is, that will beyour ongoing traditions moving
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forward.
That's a really beautiful way touse the Mars and Saturn.
I love that, don't you?
Anyway, I hope this made sense.
It's it's a tense week.
There's gonna be the need forskillful driving, right?
There's gonna be the need toskillfully maneuver through this
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tense energy.
And like I said, my best adviceis just don't speak if you don't
feel ready.
You know, like make sure you'regood, your feet are on the
ground, you're solid before youkind of launch into this stuff.
If you get that opportunity, itmay be that it all just blows up
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and we're gonna all figure outwhat to do on the other end, but
there will be another end and wewill grow and learn from
whatever we're going throughthis week.
So thank you for being here.
Thank you for sticking this out.
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the podcast.
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So get on my calendar and untilnext week.
Go out and seize the energies ofthe stars.
This is my wish for you always.
And yeah, we'll make it through.
I'll talk to you next week.
Bye.
Hello and welcome to Pisces Moon Astrology.
I'm your astrologer, KateLeonard, and I'm excited to
explore the stars with you.
Hi everyone, welcome to the weekof December 7th through December
13th.
I'm just saying this week we'vegot the two malefics, and they
(00:25):
are in an agitated state, bothof them.
What could go wrong?
All right.
You guys know I always try tomake the best of the astrology
and not because I'm just tryingto keep everybody happy.
I know I get accused of that allthe time.
It's really not the case.
I'm actually not so upbeat whenall is said and done.
(00:48):
But I do feel that astrology,the cosmos, all of this stuff is
here to help us grow, to show ushow to grow.
The reason my outro is thatwhole seize the energies thing
is because I honestly believethat every cosmic alignment has
(01:13):
a gift.
It may be a gift that's hard toget to.
It may not be fun, but there's agift.
I don't believe the cosmos isbad and mean and out to get us,
right?
This week, however, with all ofthat said, I am going to get to
the gift.
So let me let me just say, staywith me.
(01:35):
It's not all bad.
There is some good stuff coming.
But on December 8th, we've gotMars, you know, the planet of
war, the one that I always tellmy clients, and I've said it on
the podcast as well.
Mars is either the noble warriorfighting for the good cause, or
(02:00):
he's a psycho killer.
He can be either, um, dependingon who he's playing with and
what how they're configured.
Well, this week he's playingwith Saturn, the greater
malefic.
And how are they aspecting eachother in a square, you know, a
(02:21):
square.
So there will be good comingfrom this.
And I am gonna talk to you laterabout how to use this cosmic
energy well and and in a waythat's truly productive and
good.
But I'm not gonna lie, this weekis probably gonna be some kind
of challenging, all right?
(02:42):
So just get ready for it.
Before we get into that, there'sa lot of other stuff going on.
Um, let me just give you somedates so that if you want to
look this stuff up, Google it,whatever y'all do.
On the 7th, Mercury is going tobe in a good aspect with Saturn
that's getting really seriousabout our thinking, that's
(03:06):
having serious and importantconversations.
It's hard work paying off,especially when we're talking
about really uh putting hardwork into our plans and that
kind of thing.
Really, really good.
Also finalizing contracts, thosekinds of deals, really, really
(03:26):
good energy.
On the 10th, we've got Mercury,opposing Uranus, and yikes.
The good thing is get ready formental breakthroughs,
breakthroughs in your ideas,right?
Unexpected thoughts.
We're just like, oh my gosh, Iknow the answer.
(03:49):
Or how come I didn't think ofthat before?
You know, it's the when you getthose inspired ideas that seem
to come out of nowhere andwhatever, yeah, that that could
be this, but it is anopposition.
So also get ready to receiveunexpected news.
(04:10):
That's gonna happen.
And yeah, get ready forconversations to go in ways that
you hadn't planned and didn'tsee coming.
So the opposition is not alwaysthat much fun, but I do think
there's some really good stuffthat comes out of the Mercury
opposition to Uranus.
Also on the 10th, Venus is goingto square the north node of
(04:34):
destiny.
This could bring difficult butnecessary adjustments to all
things, Venus.
Love, beauty, relationships,money, art, all the stuff.
Difficult but necessaryadjustments.
So another one that I don'tthink we're gonna love it so
much going through it, but it'sgot gifts.
(04:57):
It brings gifts on the 11th.
Mercury is going to shrineNeptune, Mercury, communication,
all the stuff, right?
Neptune fantasy.
Writers, I I want you to hearme, all of my writer listeners.
(05:18):
This is fiction.
Whether you write for the stage,the screen, novels, whatever it
is you write, stories, Mercuryis the god of writing and
Neptune is fiction.
This is inspiration.
It's beautiful.
(05:38):
So this week get ready to reallyhave breakthroughs and really go
to creative, wonderful placeswith your writing.
For the rest of us, if you'renot a writer, you still get to
have this transit.
And it really is just going toallow us to tap into our
creative thinking.
(05:59):
That can be creative problemsolving in our day-to-day lives,
on the job, whatever it is,right?
It's also maybe just this senseof coming up with really fun and
creative things to do during theholidays.
It's pretty glorious.
But, writers, did you hear me?
This is your week.
(06:19):
Also, on the 11th, Mercury isgonna move into Sagittarius.
So we're gonna start putting ourfocus on long-term planning.
Mercury doesn't loveSagittarius.
Let me just clarify that.
Okay.
Mercury loves Gemini, a sign herules, right?
He likes traveling, going allover the place, a little here, a
(06:42):
little there.
Let's talk about this, let'stalk about that.
He's not so comfortable inSagittarius with all that
long-term stuff, but still, it'sgonna be a time when our
thoughts, our conversations, ourplanning are gonna focus on the
bigger picture.
All right.
Hope all of that made sense.
(07:02):
Now let's get into this.
Wow, the two malefics squaringeach other.
Okay, first, let me remind youwhat a square is, right?
It's a 90-degree angle.
So that right angle kind ofthing.
So imagine you're driving alongfull speed ahead, full speed
ahead, whatever, you know, goingfast, and you've got to make a
(07:24):
sharp turn, and your car canskid out of or you can run over
the curb or whatever.
It's just not easy to navigatethese angles.
So there's always tensionbetween the two planets.
So I always say this, and I'mgonna remind us all this week in
ancient astrology, any aspectwas better than no aspect,
(07:50):
right?
No aspect gives us no room totalk, no room to think.
There's no connection of anykind.
So we've got nothing to workwith.
A square is not fun, usually.
We've got to slow the card downand be really careful.
And if we don't do it justright, we hit the street lights.
(08:10):
I don't know.
We hit the stop sign, something.
But if you take your time, Marsdoesn't want to do that.
Okay, that's part of theproblem.
Squares are best if you'rethoughtful.
Take your time, steer your carcarefully around the turn,
right?
The problem is Mars is involved.
(08:33):
Mars just wants to slice anddice.
He's got nothing to do with slowdown and be careful.
The good news is Saturn is allabout slow down and be careful,
right?
Too much, if anything, aboutslow down and be careful.
He rate, he rules time and ageand longevity and things like
(08:54):
that.
So he'll help maybe, but I thinkmore it's gonna be like that's
part of the problem.
The Mars wants to go, strike, doit now, right?
The the game is on, boom, right?
Those are the kinds of that'sthe energy that comes from Mars,
(09:17):
where Saturn's about stop, let'sthink, slow down, let's build
whatever it is we're doing verycarefully so that it endures.
And this push-pull kind ofenergy is gonna be at us all
this week.
Just know this isn't a singleday.
(09:39):
This is gonna be all week.
The speed up to slow down, andit can be within ourselves, but
more likely it's gonna be usversus somebody else.
Look to see what houses theseare impacting in your chart.
Is work gonna be needing you togo fast and put in the hard
(10:02):
hours and boom, get stuff done,get it out there.
And your relationship is like,honey, let's have a snuggle by
the fire night.
You're like, no, I've gotcontracts to do, right?
So it is more likely that it'seither gonna be us in conflict
(10:26):
with someone else, or two areasof our life that are not happy
with each other and not playingwell together.
So you really, really have tolook at your chart to see where
this is hitting you.
And just a reminder (10:43):
Mars is in Sagittarius and Saturn is in
Pisces.
Here's the other thing (10:51):
Saturn rules authority figures.
So, regardless of what housesthese two are showing up in your
chart, this could be just ageneral kind of thing that we're
facing this week.
Mars is the youngster, right?
(11:12):
The young'un who is impulsiveand wants to move away.
Saturn is authority figures.
And so we might see that we arereally struggling against people
that someone that we see in aposition of authority.
This can be your boss, this canbe a parent, this can be
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whoever.
Um, depending on yourrelationships, you know, it
could be a friend, a mentor, uh,it could be a spouse.
I hope you don't see your spousethat way, but you know, hey, you
do you.
It's an authority figure.
That's Saturn.
And Mars wants nothing to dowith it.
So we've got this real clashhere, and this is where it can
start getting really, reallydifficult.
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The other thing is Saturn is thestatus quo, right?
Saturn is longevity, it's thestructure of our lives, it's
tradition, the status quo, thatthing that has always been.
And we're like, no, I have mysword out.
I want to slash it, burn it, anddo something new.
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Yeah, well, the thing about thestatus quo is it's the status
quo because it's been that wayfor a long time.
And Mars has gone around abunch, and the status quo is
still that.
It's still standing.
So it's not easy.
And this could be something Ithink it's interesting that this
is coming up during the holidaysfor a lot of us.
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I'm thinking about the crazythat can happen around family
holiday situations at the bestof times.
Are there ever the best of timesduring the holidays?
Maybe.
Or is that only my family?
I don't think it is.
Anyway, we're in a pretty split.
I don't know how to say it.
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We we've got factions in ourcountry, right?
And people are feeling stronglyabout politics.
I'm not, again, I'm not tryingto bring up politics here, but
I'm just talking about sittingaround the Christmas dinner
table.
This could be the kind of thingwe're talking about.
I know this week is notChristmas, but you know what I
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mean.
We're already starting to do thefamily, let's get together and
go shopping.
We're already starting to do allof that stuff.
And yeah, I could see some tenseconversations, but it could even
be things like, you know,Christmas or other holiday
traditions, right?
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The family always goes to AuntBetty's house for Christmas Eve
dinner, and you don't want to.
Maybe you and your friends wantto go do something different,
you know, maybe you and yourpartner, maybe you alone, you
know, you want to go on aretreat instead, you know, just
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by yourself to have somedowntime.
And it's like, no, the familyalways goes and does, you know,
Thing X on Christmas Eve, youknow, or whatever.
We always plan our holidays thisway.
And you've got to break the newsto them this week that it's
like, yeah, count me out.
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Yeah, that's not gonna goeasily.
It's not gonna go easily.
I am not in any kind of waytelling you not to have that
conversation.
What I'm telling you is plan onit being heated.
Mars is fire.
So, yeah, it's that kind ofthing.
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Going up against tradition,going up against the way things
have always been.
This can be in any area of life.
Work with the kids, you know,with parents, wherever.
Maybe you and your partner areum arguing because you have
different competing familytraditions around the holidays.
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Can be anything like that.
And it doesn't have to be aboutthe holidays.
I just see so much potential forthat kind of struggle.
I can only say it's gonna beheated.
There's gonna be some heatedstuff that's gonna come up, and
we're not gonna just sailthrough it.
So, what is my advice to you?
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Anytime Mars is involved, myadvice is cool down.
If you're already feeling tense,don't take that minute to tell
the family you're not going tothe Christmas dinner, right?
Wait till you're calm.
Maybe don't do it as aconversation.
You know, maybe that, I don'tknow, don't send an email.
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That's tacky.
But you know what I mean?
Like, like make sure you're in aspace where you're set up for
success and feel like you canmostly keep your cool while
you're having that conversation.
The problem with Saturn is it'sinflexible.
Saturn is the wisdom of age.
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So they're like unbending.
It's like, no, this is how it'salways been and always must be.
If you find that you're upagainst that, just know that
shouting them down is not theway to win.
It is not the way to win.
Can you frame the conversationin a way that honors tradition
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for them?
Like, you know what?
We have always loved that.
And in we're gonna go on ourretreat during these days.
So unfortunately, we can't be atthe family gift-giving thing.
But can we do it where we do allour same stuff, but on this
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other date?
Like, is there a way you canfind compromise?
This is that you're driving downthe road, you've got to make
this really tight turn.
What do you do?
You slow down, you steercarefully.
That's what I think you need todo here because Saturn is no
put, he's the greater malefic,all right?
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So we come out with our Marsfiery, like, I'm gonna change
the world.
And Saturn's like, yeah, bringit.
So finding a way to talk to thatperson and um stand in front of
that kind of energy and holdyour ground.
Mars is a warrior.
You don't have to lose in this.
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I'm not saying that at all.
But know who you're up againstand set yourself up for success.
But just expect, there's gonnabe some tense stuff this week.
I don't know how it's gonna comeup for you.
You gotta look at your natalchart, but it's gonna be tense.
Now, I promised you the silverlining, right?
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And there is one.
There always is.
First, just going through thisexperience is gonna bring gifts,
right?
We grow from these kinds ofexperiences, right?
What is that?
Grow in the face of adversity orsomething like that?
Yeah, do that thing.
But the other thing is Mars isour ability to initiate, and
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Saturn is stick to it.
Dealing with other people is notthe only way we get this energy.
Do you have a project thatyou've got in mind that you've
been wanting to launch?
Maybe this is the week whereyou're like, I've got the energy
to initiate this, I've got theenergy to take those first
steps.
Saturn's also here, giving youthe stick to it, the ability to
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climb the mountain and reach themountaintop.
Again, it's a square that's notgoing to come easily.
So even where the silver liningis, you may be like, oh, I got
started, but now I don't knowwhat to do.
There will be something you haveto do to navigate this.
But the two energies workingtogether are really, really
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quite good or can be.
So um, the other thing that'sgood, going back to that whole
holiday tradition thing, this isa good time to initiate your own
things that you want to do, likeduring the holidays or whatever,
that will become your owntraditions.
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Maybe this is the time tofinally break free of all the
old weird stuff you've beendoing with your family.
Create your own reallymeaningful rituals and kinds of
parties and who you want tocelebrate with and all the
stuff, right?
Whatever it is, that will beyour ongoing traditions moving
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forward.
That's a really beautiful way touse the Mars and Saturn.
I love that, don't you?
Anyway, I hope this made sense.
It's it's a tense week.
There's gonna be the need forskillful driving, right?
There's gonna be the need toskillfully maneuver through this
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tense energy.
And like I said, my best adviceis just don't speak if you don't
feel ready.
You know, like make sure you'regood, your feet are on the
ground, you're solid before youkind of launch into this stuff.
If you get that opportunity, itmay be that it all just blows up
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and we're gonna all figure outwhat to do on the other end, but
there will be another end and wewill grow and learn from
whatever we're going throughthis week.
So thank you for being here.
Thank you for sticking this out.
I would love it so much and beso grateful if you would share
the podcast.
That would help me out more thanI can even tell you.
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And don't forget, my prices aregoing up in January.
So get on the books now.
Anything you book, you can bookall the way into next year, 50
sessions if you want, and youwill get the old prices.
But anybody booking from Januaryon, you're gonna get the new
prices.
(21:34):
So get on my calendar and untilnext week.
Go out and seize the energies ofthe stars.
This is my wish for you always.
And yeah, we'll make it through.
I'll talk to you next week.
Bye.
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