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Essential Astrocast

Get the essential astrology download for your week! Your host, Veronica Perretti, delivers the forecast with humor and clarity so that even the newest astro-phile can follow along. Discover how current events are impacted by the movement of the planets. Find out what's happening up there in the heavens so you can dictate your fate down here on Earth.

EP 135: Lunar Eclipse + Mercury Cazimi
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EP 135: Lunar Eclipse + Mercury Cazimi

Eclipse hangover anyone? The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio last Sunday was an intense excavation of your emotional state. Scorpio can be secretive and private. The energy of the Scorpion doesn’t show all its cards, so we might be unpacking this one for a while.

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EP 134: Jupiter in Aries + Mercury Retrograde
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EP 134: Jupiter in Aries + Mercury Retrograde

Jupiter enters Aries for the first time since 2011! I mentioned in April that you’re preparing to embark upon a heroine’s journey… Well, it’s finally arrived. Sort of. You see, we’re still in the eye of the storm, aka eclipse season.

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EP 133: Venus in Aries is coming in hot
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EP 133: Venus in Aries is coming in hot

On the heels of the Solar Eclipse, Venus enters Aries, and she’s coming in hot! This is not her favorite sign, as Aries is the sign of the warrior, not the lover. You can expect tempers to flare and passions to fly as Venus in Aries can be impulsive or aggressive.

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EP 132: Eclipse season, it’s all happening
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EP 132: Eclipse season, it’s all happening

Every 6 months we get to go on a magical, mystical ride courtesy of the eclipses. They come in pairs (sometimes triples), and always are a force for change. Sometimes the change is an internal shift, an aha moment. Sometimes the change is an obvious life event.

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EP 131: Jupiter meets Neptune + Libra Full Moon
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EP 131: Jupiter meets Neptune + Libra Full Moon

Jupiter and Neptune join together in Pisces for their every 13-year meet-up, but this is the first time since 1856 they are meeting in the sign of Pisces. This transit inspires you to dream bigger, feel deeper, and surrender even more. Easter weekend brings a potent Full Moon in Libra opposite the Sun in Aries, creating a T-Square with Pluto in Capricorn. Whenever Pluto is involved we’re invited to shed an old skin.

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EP 130: Small steps take you far
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EP 130: Small steps take you far

The theme of the week is small steps in a particular direction will take you far. This week began a new 2-year cycle thanks to Mars and Saturn. When these two planets join they favor concentrated efforts and small steps in a particular direction.

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EP 129: New Moon in Aries
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EP 129: New Moon in Aries

This is the week our astrological New Year starts to get going. The zodiacal year technically begins at the Spring Equinox, but we don’t really feel that Aries style “get up and go” until the New Moon in Aries occurs. What adventure or challenge are you preparing to take on right now? What will be your heroine’s journey?

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EP 128: Aries Season + What’s a Solar Return?
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EP 128: Aries Season + What’s a Solar Return?

Spring has officially sprung! The Sun entered Aries on Sunday and a new zodiacal year has officially begun. But before you get too excited, we still have Mercury caught in the waves of Pisces flow.

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EP 127: Full Moon in Virgo + Spring Equinox
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EP 127: Full Moon in Virgo + Spring Equinox

Feeling foggy, spacey, caught in a time warp? Yup! It’s Pisces season, but not for much longer. This Friday the Full Moon in Virgo puts a final exclamation point on the season of the two fish and Aries season kicks off on Sunday.

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EP 126: In the fog of Pisces season
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EP 126: In the fog of Pisces season

Pisces season is the time for rest, meditation, and recalibrating your nervous system. In plain speak, we’re preparing to crawl out of winter hibernation, rub the sleep from our eyes, and take in the first signs of spring.

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EP 124: Pisces season initiates endings
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EP 124: Pisces season initiates endings

The first full week of Pisces season might inspire you to let go of whatever is feeling heavy, burdensome, or even dead energetically. With every ending, we make space for new beginnings and with Mars and Venus joining forces with Neptune, you’ll have the power to bring your dreams to life, assuming you have the faith to cast the vision.

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EP 123: Full Moon in Leo + Romantic Compatibility
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EP 123: Full Moon in Leo + Romantic Compatibility

Do you smell that? It’s love and commitment in the air this Valentine’s week! The Full Moon arrives in the sign of the heart, Leo. And on the same day, Venus meets Mars in the sign of commitment, Capricorn.

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EP 122: All planets direct + USA Pluto Return
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EP 122: All planets direct + USA Pluto Return

This week we get an electric current pushing us into the future, thanks to Mars in Capricorn working with Uranus in Taurus. With the ruler of our muscles working with the ruler of our nervous system, it might feel like you can do anything you set your mind to.

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EP 121: New Moon in Aquarius
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EP 121: New Moon in Aquarius

This week kicks off with a fresh New Moon in Aquarius giving you the restart you’ve been seeking. This is also known as the start of the Lunar New Year. We say goodbye to the Metal Ox, a representative of Saturn, and say hello to the Water Tiger, a representative of Uranus.

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EP 120: Aquarius season begins
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EP 120: Aquarius season begins

If you’re feeling all the feels and simultaneously feeling so over it all, well then, you’re human. This week started with the Full Moon in Cancer and then we made a hard left into Aquarius season, a time for emotional detachment and gathering a rational birds-eye view of the situation at hand. Not to mention Uranus stationed to go direct. Did you feel the electric current of change on Tuesday? That was him, along with the nodes of fate, changing signs for the first time in 18 months!

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EP 119: Mercury Retrogrades in Aquarius
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EP 119: Mercury Retrogrades in Aquarius

It’s that time again! Mercury retrogrades in Aquarius on Friday while in a square to tech ruler Uranus. Back up your phone, expect miscommunications, and give yourself the extra 5 minutes to get to your appointments. This week has a lot of Neptune activation adding a level of confusion and fatigue to the Mercury slow down. On Monday the 17th, the Full Moon in Cancer arrives. Let the ugly tears flow.

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EP 118: New Moon, New Year
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EP 118: New Moon, New Year

This week kicked off with a New Moon in Capricorn, just 2 days into the New Year. It’s a perfect time for a reset, but I don’t blame you if you’re still recovering from an emotional hangover. Venus is currently retrograde and Mercury is gearing up to retrograde on January 14th. This is a fantastic weekend to set your 2022 intentions. The Sun conjunct Venus illuminates what really important to you.

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EP 117: Full Moon in Gemini + Venus Retrograde
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EP 117: Full Moon in Gemini + Venus Retrograde

On Saturday the last Full Moon of 2021 arrives in Gemini and helps us say goodbye to eclipse season. It also brings you one final opportunity to forgive someone or release something that has been on your mind since the North Node entered Gemini in Spring 2020. Venus will retrograde in Capricorn on Sunday. She is stuck in a conjunction with Pluto that is putting quite a damper on this festive season.

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EP 116: Venus + Pluto join forces
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EP 116: Venus + Pluto join forces

On the heels of last weekend’s Solar Eclipse, we get some fresh, optimistic, and motivating energy. Venus joining Pluto on Saturday could give you the strategy to win the long-term game and Mars squaring Jupiter could give you the impulse to get it going.

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