Welcome back to The Essential Astro Cast.

I am your host, Veronica Perretti, and
this is the podcast that you listen

to when you want to know what's going
on up in the heavens, so that you can

dictate your fate down here on Earth.

So welcome to October.

I am recording this on October 2nd.

There is a lovely chill in
the air here in New York.

Hopefully you are feeling the
fall vibes wherever you are.

We are in Libra season, which means
the sun is in the sign of Libra

and we are still in Eclipse season.

So we had those eclipses.

We had the first one, September 7th,
and the second one, September 21st.

And we're not out of Eclipse
season until the next New nation,

meaning the New Moon or full moon
that follows the last eclipse.

So October 6th, we will have a full
moon in Aries, and that will be

the official end of Eclipse season.

So if you still feel like your head
is in the ringer totally normal.

We're still in the
vortex of eclipse season.

It's waning.

It's not as intense perhaps, but as I
said in my email earlier this week, that

went out on Monday to my email list.

And you can get on there by
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Enjoy my email community.

As I said in my weekly week ahead email,
which I've been sending on Mondays.

This week that we're in, when I'm
recording, there's not a lot happening

astrologically but sometimes when
there's some space between the

transits, we actually have a lot of
emotions that bubble to the surface,

particularly being that we're coming
off these two very intense eclipses.

So you might be finding that this
week is kind of hard because.

Because of the transits that are
happening, but also because when there's

space between the transits and maybe
there's not as much energetic distraction,

we allow the feelings to be felt.

So you might be struggling this week.

I know.

I am struggling this week.

I just really feeling like I'm.

Struggling to get it through.

I am struggling to keep
my emotions in check.

I'm struggling to keep my mouth shut,
which you might've heard about if you

listen to my Instagram stories, I.

Kind of let it rip on someone at the gym
because it was Mercury Square, Jupiter

and I just couldn't hold myself back.

And I actually thought to myself
after what happened, why did I

let that person steal my piece?

And I realized, oh my goodness.

It's Mercury Square, Jupiter.

Mercury is in Libra, the sign of
one-on-one conversations, and.

Jupiter isn't the sign of cancer.

Cancer is a very protective sign.

So when I feel offended or I feel
that other people are being, uh,

offended, I have to stand up.

That's the Aries in me.

The Aries likes to stand up for the
underdog, so I, uh, let it rip on someone

who was listening to some MAGA propaganda.

On full blast in the gym.

Anyway, all of that is to say if
you're really struggling to keep it

in check this week, and maybe you.

Haven't shown up as your best self,
whether that be with your partner

or your kids or your friends or
whoever it is in relationship,

particularly one-on-one conversation.

It could be a lot of the things that are
going on because Mercury is a Libra, which

is the sign of one-on-one connection,
and not only do we have Mercury Square,

Jupiter and Jupiter gives us excess.

It gives us more and more and more.

So it amplifies whatever it touches
and that Mercury and Libra has

some things to say, particularly
when it comes to one-on-one

partnerships or one person to another.

And we have mercury opposite.

Chiron later this week.

So as you move into the weekend on Friday,
October 3rd, mercury will oppose Chiron

who is the wounded healer in Aries.

And this means that you might be feeling
like you finally have to say the thing

to your partner, to your mom, to anyone
that you're in a relationship with.

There might just be something,
some conversation that maybe can

be a, an opportunity for healing.

But it's certainly going to be an
opportunity for expressing your feelings.

Whether or not you express them in a
graceful way or not is up to you, but.

There you have it.

This is a very Mercury week.

We only have two transits.

And those two transits are
Mercury squaring, Jupiter

and Mercury opposing Chiron.

And that's it.

That's the whole week.

Now, I'm not gonna talk
too much about this week.

I'm gonna be talking about next week.

'cause next week we move
toward that full moon.

And that's what we're gonna spend
some time talking about today.

But I wanted to just give you a heads up
that if this week is feeling like a lot

and then you're thinking, well, I read
your email and there's not that much

happening, why do I feel so overwhelmed?

Well, technically we're still in
Eclipse season, so you're in that

eclipse vortex where you feel like
you're kind of getting spun around.

You're in the psychic blender, as I
like to call it, but Mercury in Libra is

having these intense transits, you know.

And when Mercury is aspected,
it makes us want to speak and

it also provides messages.

So as much as we all wanna be opening our
mouths and being heard, a very important

part of communication is listening, right?

So God gave us two ears
and one mouth for a reason.

And.

We really have to make sure that we're
listening because we are still in eclipse

season, and that means that things
are being put in our path and it's

important for us to pay attention to them
because eclipses have to do with fate.

And I know that I always say you dictate
your fate, and indeed you do because

we have free will as human beings.

But eclipses tend to put things in our
path that lead to us making choices.

And the choices we make when we have
that information do dictate our fate.

So pay attention to the choices
you're making right now.

Mercury in Libra has a lot to do with
what's going on this week, but as we

move into next week, Venus and Virgo.

Has a lot to do with what's going
on in the sky and Venus and Virgo.

She's about refinement.

She likes to take what you've learned
through Eclipse season and help you do

some reflection and then use that wisdom
to refine how you're engaging in your

relationships and living your values.

Because Venus is about our
relationships, it's about our

money, it's about our resources.

And most importantly, it's about
our values and what we value.

It is everything that is important to us.

Venus is going to be very important as
we move into the weekend because she

will be in a conjunction with the south
node on Saturday at 18 degrees Virgo.

So once you have that Venus
conjunction, the south node,

the Eclipse vibes are gonna be.

Super activated because Venus will
be talking to the nodes and the nodes

are what make eclipses When the sun
and the moon come in contact with

the nodes and there's a new moon or
a full moon, that is when we have an

eclipse, and that is what happened
on September 7th and September 21st.

So now as we move into this
weekend, Venus on her own.

It will not be in Eclipse,
of course, 'cause it's not

pertaining to the Sun of the Moon.

But Venus, our planet of what
we value, will be joining

with the South node and Virgo.

And when that happens, there
is a desire to release.

Now Venus likes to beautify things
and Virgo loves to create systems

and structure and organization.

So if you're like me, you might
be cleaning out your garage and

cleaning out your storage closet
and beautifying those things and.

Maybe looking through your holiday
decorations and figuring out what

you have and what you wanna put out.

All of those things are classic Venus
and Virgo, so it's great for that.

But you might also be finding that
you wanna go through some stuff

and maybe release some things that
have some sentimentality to them.

Maybe it's time to get rid
of those yearbooks or those

pictures or something else.

Maybe it's time to release the
expectations that you had of a friend.

Maybe it's time to release some
expectations of your marriage

being your perfect vision, because
no relationship is ever perfect.

Maybe it's reorganizing
your circle of friends.

You know, there's this idea
that we have these multiple

circles within circles, right?

So you have the inner circle.

And then you have that middle circle,
and then you have the outer circle and.

This idea of sometimes you have friends
that are in that inner circle, those

are your ride or dies, and sometimes
you have friends in that middle circle

and they're pretty close to you, but
maybe something shifted this eclipse

season and you gotta take that friend
and put them on that outer circle

and put some boundaries in place.

Remember, boundaries are not something
you have to tell someone else about.

That's something for yourself.

It's a boundary, is something that you
create for yourself within yourself.

So that you can have the experience that
you need to have to protect yourself

and also to show up as your best self.

So if being with that person
doesn't really make you feel so

good right now, maybe you just
mentally put them on the outer ring.

And don't engage with them quite
as much as perhaps you used to.

There might be some reshuffling or
reorganizing within your circle of

friends or acquaintances or people
that you spend time with because Venus

and Virgo, it's Venus's relationships.

Virgo is organization, so I am
finding that in my own life.

This particular full moon that
we're leading up to is in Aries.

That means that the sun is in Libra and
the moon is exactly opposite the sun

in the sign of Aries, Aries and Libra.

That polar opposite situation, that
dichotomy is one of my favorites,

and it's one of the most obvious in
astrology, so I always call the plant.

The signs that are opposite
one another are sister signs.

My personal theory that I have come
up with that I seem to, through my own

experience of reading people's charts
and talking to people, my feeling is that

the sister signs or the polar opposite
signs, whatever you wanna call them,

they both want the same things, but
they go about it in very different ways.

Aries and Libra, they both
wanna be in relationship.

They both want to be
taken care of in some way.

They both want to feel like they
have their person, but they go

about it in very different ways.

Aries says, it's all about me and
I'm gonna stand on my own two free.

And I can say that 'cause I'm an Aries.

And Libra is like, oh,
it's all about my partner.

I'm gonna get I'm gonna put
everything into the relationship.

There has to be some
balance between the two.

Right.

So the previous series of eclipses
we have, if you've been a long time

listener, you know that the previous few
years we were talking about Arias Libra

a lot, the me versus the we, protecting
the me in the we and honoring the we

as you protect the me because it takes
two people to be in a relationship

and your two inde individuals coming
together to create that relationship.

So this Full Moon will remind us of
all that stuff that we learned when

we had all those eclipses in Libra
and Aries, over the past few years.

So this Full Moon will officially end
Eclipse season and bring our attention and

awareness probably to our relationships
and also how we are caring for ourselves.

And that is because I took a look.

There's not a lot of things aspecting, the
actual sun and moon, this full moon chart.

But we do have a lot of other things going
on in the sky and we do have several other

things happening in the sign of Aries.

So you may know from earlier in
the year, Neptune is an Aries.

It's a new thing.

It's a big thing.

We're gonna be talking about it for
14 years, but he is at zero degrees.

He is moving back into Pisces soon,
but also in Aries and in a wide

conjunction to this New Moon is series.

A series is an asteroid.

She has to do with nurturing, she
has to do with agriculture and

farming and how we nourish ourselves.

So there is a Feminine
Mother Archetype two series.

You can think of her as
The Land Nourishing Us.

We take care of the land and
in turn the land feeds us.

That's a very series type idea.

Series is an Aries in a
wide ish conjunction to

this new, to this full moon.

And we also have on the other side
of the Full Moon, we have Aris,

which is the goddess of Discord.

She likes to show us where
our hubris is as human beings.

She likes to show us where the arrogance
and the hubris and the ego is, and she is.

In a long time, conjunction with Chiron.

This is something that's really going
on for like the next year, so it's not

a short-lived thing, but having the
full moon in the part of your chart

where Aries is, all of these things are
being illuminated by that full moon.

It's not exact.

These conjunctions are not tight.

But they're getting a little
glimmer of that full moon glow.

They're getting a little
bit of that light.

So the full moon in the night sky
is saying, Hey, look over here.

What is happening in
this part of your chart?

What does this mean for you?

And because Series and Aris, their
asteroids, their feminine archetypes.

Having to do with exposing the
hubris and the ego that are with

Chiron, or Aris is with Chiron.

Chiron is about our wounds, our core
wounds, usually something that goes back

to childhood, if not even past lives.

The Aris Chiron conjunction is
something I want to dive into a little

bit deeper, 'cause we're going to
be living with it for the next year.

But having this full moon here in this
spot, it tells me that it's illuminating

how you're nurturing yourself, how
you're nourishing yourself, how you're

tending to your own wounds, how you're
taking care of yourself if you are

pushing through life and not pausing.

And not putting your needs first
and not getting your needs met.

There is hubris in that.

There is ego in that Sometimes we
think that is admirable, but it just

makes us a martyr and it just creates
resentment in our relationships.

And I know because I have a mother who.

Is always the martyr.

She pushes through and, and in
that way of living, she really

is saying, it's all about me.

So when we put our needs first
and we fill our cup, we can show

up as compassionate, empathetic,

complete human beings that can actually.

Have an equal energetic exchange with
our partner, with our friends, with our

children, with our parents, et cetera.

So tending to yourself, how
are you tending to yourself?

How are you meeting your needs right now?

These are some very basic things
that I think this Full Moon is

illuminating and even illuminating.

In the collective, this
conversation that we're having

about affordability in America.

I've had two conversations, three
conversations in the past couple of

days with people that were close to
me whose work has been impacted by

what's going on with the governments.

With some of the mishegoss
happening and the arbitrary.

Pulling back of funding for this
or that, and lots of reasons.

People not wanting to travel to the states
and therefore events are not happening.

Therefore people that work, those
events are then being laid off.

Yeah.

So there's just, I've had several
conversations with people very close

to me who have lost work and lost.

Money because of what's
going on in the collective.

And this conversation of affordability
and having our needs met is being

really illuminated on the grand stage,
especially if you're following the New

York City marriage race with Zoran Momani.

And that message is really
carrying because people are

struggling to meet their needs.

So while I'm talking about this
on an energetic level, I'm talking

about this on an emotional level.

We see the parallels in the collective.

We see the parallels of what
we're dealing with internally

in the external world, right?

And so all spiritual teachings usually
lead back to the same idea, which is.

As within, so without or as above.

So below, we are all experiencing
the same thing and that energy is

playing out in different ways, but
we're all mirrors for one another.

So remembering that is my goal
for October because I lost my

peace this week and I realized I
have to remember that we are all.

Divine sparks of light.

Even if some people's light
is really, really shrouded in

darkness, it is deep within there.

Many people who do dark things have had
their light so, so long extinguished

because of whatever their, whatever
their nurturing was, so we have

to continue to hold compassion and
empathy even when it is hard to do

so, and that is something that I'm
trying to remind myself this October.

I took a little tangent there, but
let's get back to the full moon.

So the full Moon is illuminating.

How are you nurturing yourself?

How are you nourishing yourself,
and how are you tending to your own

wounds, taking care of your stuff?

You know, when I got married,
I went back into therapy.

I hadn't been in therapy for several
years because I was doing really

well and feeling really good and
not feeling so anxious anymore.

And then I went back to therapy and the
reason I went back to therapy before

I got married was because I wanted
to clean up my side of the street.

I wanted to make sure any of the
stuff that I was, any of my habits

and behaviors that were ingrained
those path, that those pathways in

my brain that I was just continuing
to work through without realizing it.

I wanted to be aware of them.

So sometimes.

These full moons.

You know, these can be just little
opportunities to illuminate some of

those perhaps ingrained behaviors that
we haven't been able to look at before.

And it's always helpful to take a moment
and notice how am I caring for myself?

How am I caring for
that inner child within?

Am I tending to my own wounds?

Am I parenting myself?

Aries is the infant of the zodiac.

It's the first sign in the zodiac.

It's the beginning of the
zoia year, the spring equinox.

So a full moon in Aries is gonna
illuminate that inner child.

Okay.

All right.

The full moon chart, while it is
not aspecting the full moon Exactly.

We have Jupiter in a square
to Chiron now that is.

Gaining strength, it's going
to perfect October 23rd.

That feels like a long time
away, but it really isn't.

'cause these are slower moving
planets so that Jupiter Square,

Chiron is felt in this chart and
will be felt over the coming weeks.

Things are feeling really emotional
and this is an emotional time.

There's a lot of Chiron happening.

There is a lot of Venus.

There's a lot of, there's a lot of
emotional feeling stuff coming to the

surface, and eclipses always amplify
our emotions, and as I said, we're

still in eclipse season, although this
full moon will be the official end

to eclipse season, thank goodness.

Okay.

Something that's really helpful
to this full Moon is that we have

Venus in a nice sex tile to Jupiter.

That is really helpful because
that offers social support, that

helps us focus on what's important.

That increases our ability to
find joy and to seek pleasure.

It increases our creativity.

These are all lovely things that
is going to perfect on October 8th,

which is Wednesday, but it is still
present in the air with the full moon.

Mercury is also up to some
stuff around this full moon.

So while the full moon will take place,
it will take place exactly at 11:48 PM

Eastern Time on Monday, October 6th.

Again, it's 14 degrees Aries,
so all of you Cardinal signs.

My fellow Aries, Libra friends,
Capricorn friends, cancer friends.

We are all gonna be feeling this full
moon, particularly if you have personal

planets in the middle of those signs.

So because this full moon is happening
at 14 degrees, if you have planets

in the middle of those signs,
you're gonna feel it even more.

Or angles could be your
ascendant, mid heaven, et cetera.

Before the full Moon perfects.

Mercury will move into Scorpio on Monday
at 12:41 PM Eastern Time, so Mercury will.

Be in Scorpio at zero degrees
Scorpio, when we have that full

moon Mercury in Scorpio will be
answering to Mars also in Scorpio.

This moves us into a place where our
communication is going to be about

reading between the lines, Scorpio.

A Mercury and Scorpio likes
to look below the surface.

They don't just hear what you're saying.

They're feeling what is
underneath what you're saying.

They're reading between those lines.

So we're all gonna become little
investigators when Mercury moves

into Scorpio on Monday the sixth.

On Tuesday the seventh,
mercury will square Pluto.

So this is intense and this is amping
up the intensity of this full moon.

And I know that we're so happy that
this full moon is gonna kick out

Eclipse season, and that's wonderful.

But this is an intense full moon.

I mean, the full moon itself doesn't have
intense transits impacting the sun and

moon, but the transits going on around it.

The transits that are going.

Around it throughout next
week are gonna be intense.

So we've got Mercury Square, Pluto.

Pluto is an Aquarius.

Pluto is out of bounds.

So I mentioned this I think
on last week's podcast.

I really recommend you go back and listen
to it I talk about this idea of Pluto

being out of bounds and how we've never
experienced this, at least not in my

lifetime, 'cause I'm born in the eighties.

But if you were born, in
the thirties, forties, early

fifties, you have experienced it.

'cause we haven't had this since 1953.

But most of us, most of the
people listening to this have not

experienced Pluto out of bounds.

And we are experiencing that now,
and we will be experiencing that

off and on for the next 10 years.

So that is kind of a big deal.

I do a mini deep dive on that in
maybe two episodes ago, so you

can go back and check that out.

I think Pluto Out of Bounds is
in the title of that episode.

But the mercury squaring
Pluto out of bounds.

This has a quote digging up
the dead body's feelings.

So I mentioned Eclipse season was gonna
come for the Jeffrey Viles, and it did.

There's been, I know there's
a lot of news, so it's hard to

even track one's story, but that
is something that is not dying.

I think with this Mercury Square Pluto,
we're gonna be digging up some more.

Dead bodies for lack of a better way
of putting it, or the stories of those

dead bodies, meaning his stories and
how it links to lots of powerful people.

We're gonna be continuing to hear
more of those stories but we're

continuing to hear lots of things.

So there's lots happening.

There's no shortage of news that is
for sure, but you are gonna be feeling.

That you're learning some
stuff in your own life.

This is a day or a week where you
might be finding out some information

that you weren't expecting.

Pay attention and keep your ears
peeled With that Mercury square

Pluto on Tuesday and throughout the
week, later in the week, we get into.

Venus opposite Saturn.

That will be on October 11th, but of
course we'll be feeling it as we lead

up and we'll be feeling it afterward.

This is a really tough transit.

I have this naly in my
chart, Venus off of Saturn.

It's just not fun.

It feels like a wet blanket.

It feels like there's some sort
of restriction being put on you.

It might feel like you are
being restricted by someone

in a position of authority.

It might be.

Feeling like you are restricted
by your funds, how much

money you have in the bank.

It might be that you are restricted
by some inherited beliefs that

you're still holding onto, and you're
still judging yourself by what you

can do to alleviate some of that.

Energy that's depressing
is seek stability.

Saturn can be a downer, but it
also can be a source of stability.

So seek grounding ground into your
values, remember what's important

to you, and move toward that.

That is my recommendation.

So this is, you know, we're going
through a lot of Mercury stuff this week.

Early next week, sixth and seventh,
it's gonna be some more mercury

stuff, some more messages coming in.

And then as we move into, really
from Sunday on through next weekend,

we're gonna have a lot of Venus, a
lot of bringing our awareness back

to what's important, how can we
reorganize or refine the things that

are most important to us in our life?

And.

In the process, increase our own joy,
increase our own pleasure, increase our

own experience of life and living in our
state of joy, whatever that is for you.

Because I know Venus and Virgo can be
like, oh, I gotta do all this stuff.

I gotta get through my list.

But the full moon in Aries is
saying, Hey, what do you need?

What do you need to care for yourself?

What do you need to feel nourished
and nurtured and to make sure that

you can show up as your best self?

So anyway, I hope that's helpful.

Um, I went through next
week because next week I.

Don't have childcare, so it
is very possible that I will

not be able to get on the mic.

So I wanted to make sure
that you guys were prepared.

Just so you know, you can always
join my email community by going to

my, website, Veronica perretti.com.

And when you're on my email list,
you always know what's going on.

Right now, I'm sending two emails a week.

I'm sending an email on Monday with the
week ahead, like what to expect from the

transits of the week so you can prepare.

And then I'm sending another email
when this podcast drops because it

has been dropping midweek, it has
not been dropping early in the week.

That's the deal.

That's what's going on right now.

Cosmic conversation is still happening.

So our next cosmic conversation
is coming up in a couple of weeks.

So make sure you're on the email
list so that you are aware of that.

I think it's going to be not next
week, but it's going to be either.

The 15th or the 17th.

So go check my website,
veronica pertti.com/events

and you will find out when
Cosmic Conversation is.

That's my free offering.

We gather on Zoom and we talk astrology.

And it's great.

So much fun and it's such a wonderful
group of women that comes and we always

have really interesting conversations.

So even if you feel like you're an
astrology novice and maybe you don't

understand all of it, it's totally cool.

You can come and listen and take
what you need and leave the rest,

and I'd love to see you there.

So that's all I got for you.

Have a wonderful full moon and
Aries and I will talk to you soon.

Bye.