27. A Piscean Look at the Year Ahead

I was finally struck with both inspiration and a free moment this morning to put together some thoughts for you on what 2025 may bring.

I want to give it to you straight — it’s a mixed year (at best), astrologically speaking. But Jupiter in Cancer is our silver lining, and I think the big takeaway for us will be a salve composed of radical self-care that inspires radical community care, anarchist nurturing of each other, and a protective layer around what really actually matters.

26. The Astro Garden: Britten LaRue

In this installment of The Astro Garden, I am excited to welcome one of my teachers and favorite astrologers, Britten LaRue.

We discuss her discovery of astrology at a time of great personal change, how she has evolved from student to professional to teacher, her experiences becoming an author, publisher of her own work, and someone whose work is published by a traditional publishing house, in addition to many other magical tidbits along the way.

ABOUT BRITTEN LARUE

Britten spends much of her time speaking and writing as a teacher, an author, and a professional astrologer. But she feels most powerful when she listens. In her work as an intuitive guide, she has built a powerful talent as a professional listener. Her clients seek out her skill as a spaceholder not to be told what to do or to be given answers, but to see their own wisdom reflected back to them. And as someone who has learned to trust in her own self-authority, she’d have it no other way. Britten’s deepest calling is to be a midwife for those in the process of birthing their own inner knowing, healing from shame, and learning to trust themselves again with the reckless freedom they deserve.

Find Britten’s work, including her courses, books, and 1:1 offerings at brittenlarue.com.

Registration has just opened for her inaugural cohort of Unshaming Your Chart, beginning December 18th! Across 8 sessions, Unshaming Your Chart opens the way for a relationship to your birth chart that’s liberated from the shame economy — I can personally attest to Britten’s “Unshaming” re-frame being an absolutely HUGE part of my growth the past few months — it is 100% worth checking this out if you are feeling drawn to it.

Britten also generously shares on her brilliant Instagram, @brittenlarue , as well as on one of my favorite astrology podcasts, Moon to Moon.

I hope this all finds you well in this soupy, swirly astrology we are currently in the thick of. If you’re getting seasick, just stick with us a little longer. The tides are turning.

xo,

Janessa

25. The Essence of the Signs: Sagittarius

Today, on the first day of Sagittarius Season 2024, I am excited to present the first of a series of 12 teachings I am calling The Essence of the Signs, starting with Sagittarius!

In this teaching, I dive into the archetype of Sagittarius by digging into the modality, element, and ruler of this sign, and by taking a walk through the 12 houses of Sagittarius rising, examining how the journey from cardinal to fixed to mutable signs through the houses helps build a story that culminates in the essence of Sagittarius.

I’ve included some visual references below to complement your listening.

Enjoy!

Janessa

Sagittarius rising whole sign house chart, courtesy of astro-seek.com.

The Planetary Joys, courtesy of Chris Brennan, https://www.hellenisticastrology.com/the-planetary-joys.pdf .

24. You can’t help anybody if you’re hangry.

We build capacity for change and discomfort by taking care of ourselves. Today, I’m sharing my top tips for increasing our ability to help others through slow and steady feeding and care of the individual. It’s not sexy, but we need to start here.

23. The Astro Garden: Kira Ryberg

This week on The Astro Garden, I had the pleasure of chatting with Kira Ryberg about how she “accidentally” became an astrologer and how she has grown her practice to include writing, teaching, and self-publishing her own astro guidebooks. We also get to talk about how becoming a mother has since changed the way she practices and approaches things with clients.

Kira offers all kinds of options for people interested in learning more about astrology, including readings, guidebooks, extensive writing on her blog and Patreon, and a course for electional astrology over on her website, kiraryberg.com. You can also find her on Instagram @kirastrologyy and on Twitter @kirastrology, where she so generously shares her astro insight with the public.

22. She's talking about the moon again...

The moon was in the cards about ten different ways today, so we’re talking more about her on this lovely Moon Day. I share some thoughts about my moon placement and how that has shaped how I think about the moon and approach interpreting her for others.

I also announce that I will be going live over on Instagram at 10 am CT this Friday, November 1st to talk about the 4th house! Bring your questions! Hope to see you there!

xo,

Janessa

21. Mars says, "Get in loser. We're fucking going for it."

The title pretty much says it all. It’s my fucking birthday, and I’ll go big if I want to.

In this episode, I reference the episode Unshaming The Seventh House with Colin Bedell from the podcast Moon to Moon by Britten LaRue.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/153-unshaming-the-seventh-house-with-colin-bedell/id1503553925?i=1000673827040

20. The Astro Garden: Lacey Prpic Hedtke

In this episode of The Astro Garden, I welcome Lacey Prpic Hedtke, artist, astrologer, and magical shop owner for a conversation about how she got into astrology, some of her favorite books, and different teachers she has worked with throughout her learning journey.

We also discuss how her art and astrology practices cross-pollinate each other and how she merges her love and knowledge of photography into her work and research as an astrologer, particularly through the use of some specific photograpahy asteroids.

To find out more about Lacey’s work, check out her websites and social media:

www.laceyprpichedtke.com    @laceyprpichedtke

www.thefuturempls.com          @thefuturempls

www.silverrisingastrology.com   @silverrisingastrology

Lacey is currently offering a special reading for Jupiter Retrograde! You can book with her at www.silverrisingastrology.com .

If you would like to look up the photography asteroids she mentions to see where they fall in your chart, Lacey recommends using the “Manual Entry” box under Extended Chart Selection on Astro.com and copy/pasting or typing in the following asteroid numbers: 3256, 3117, 3151, 443.

Happy researching! :)

19. Tides and currents, sculptural fractals, flavors of the full moon in Aries

Listen in for Moonday downloads on the lunar cycles and how they operate within larger cycles of time. I also speak to the full moon in Aries happening on Thursday, October 17th, briefly going over which house/area of life this will take place in by rising sign and what is coming up for me with this lunation happening in my 2nd house conjunct my chart ruler, with a little detour down an asteroid rabbit hole.

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In this episode, I reference Sonia @celestiaastrology and her work with the lunar cycle. She offers monthly full moon meditations on her YouTube channel where she synthesizes all of the bits and pieces at play during that full moon. Sonia works with Moon Families to help create a fuller picture of the lunations and creates these handy infographics monthly as well. I highly recommend checking out her work and this month’s Aries full moon meditation: https://celestiaastrology.substack.com/p/rose-ablaze-full-moon-in-aries-october?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

When speaking about tides and currents, I reference NOAA’s website, https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tidescurrents.html .

18. Jupiter RX: revisiting how we grow

Happy Mercury Day! Jupiter just stationed retrograde in Mercury’s sign and I just realized part of why I’ve felt a major slowdown this week. In this episode, I talk more about understanding the lessons of Mars and being hit over the head with really obvious examples that illustrate how where we put our time/energy/money is where we get more time/energy/money.

I also mention that Practical Astros is still collecting money via her Venmo to directly go to people struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in NC. Feel free to send her some cash @christa-hamilton-geer on Venmo with “AVL AID” as the reason or donate to one of the organizations she has recommended, MANNA, https://www.mannafoodbank.org, Beloved Asheville, https://www.belovedasheville.com, and Brother Wolf, https://www.bwar.org.

Sonia of Celestia Astrology is also offering astrology readings in exchange for donations to the efforts in NC over at celestiaastrology.com.

Sending love to all,

Janessa

17. The Astro Garden: Tarah

In this episode of The Astro Garden, I welcome the brilliant Tarah Stevenson as she shares her experience of finding astrology, becoming a student, and practitioner. We talk about her research into the astrology of family dynamics, her work on the steering committee of the Astrologers' Co-Op, and using astrology as a lens to help contextualize a late-in-life autism diagnosis.

Tarah offers a variety of services, including astrology readings, astrology coaching, and astrology services for children. She has developed a specialty in the astrology of family dynamics.

For more information about Tarah’s work, you can visit her website, loveandlunaastrology.com or find her on social media @loveandluna_astrology on Insta and @lovelunaastro on Twitter.

Reflections on the Libra eclipse

Last night, I had the privilege to teach a group of women about eclipses. What they are, what they symbolize, and how to use them to look backward and forward in time. It was a beautiful evening, though it was not spared from the eclipse chaos (there were fire engines blaring their sirens intermittently for two hours straight for the open house at the fire station down the street). I eventually found my footing within all that noise and delivered a decent talk filled with great discussion and connection with the other women there.

At the end of my portion of the event, I offered up some points of reflection on this particular eclipse in Libra that could be used as journal prompts or just to be sat with. I thought I'd share them here for those who are taking in all of the recent events and energy of eclipse season.

• How can we build stronger relationships through strengthening our relationship with ourselves? When we can accept our authentic selves, warts and all, it makes it easier to accept others.

• What am I responsible for? What is not my responsibility? This can be in relationships or in life in general. One of my favorite quotes I've heard over the past few years is, "What other people think of me is none of my business."

• In what ways have I been going with the flow or being passive when I should be taking initiative?

• In what ways have I put the definition of myself in the hands of others?

• Where have I avoided conflict in favor of keeping the peace? Sometimes, this is the right move. Sometimes, we might need to address difficult things.

• Where have I forsaken my unique self in exchange for respectability?

Wishing you all lots of peace in this time of great uncertainty. May you find your footing and steadiness in the chaos.

xo,

Janessa

16. Cazimi clarity

Welcome back to The Astro Garden. Grab a seat amongst the marigolds, we're talking Libra Mercury Cazimi followed & informed by the eclipse later this week.

In this episode, I mention that one of my astrologer besties, Practical Astros, is collecting money to help others struggling in the aftermath of the flooding in NC. She is based in Asheville and in a position to help distribute water, food, and supplies to those who are not. You can send money to her Venmo @christa-hamilton-geer with a note for “AVL Aid”.

15. Homecoming: Welcoming Libra season, planetary returns, nodal returns, all the returns

Moon Day thoughts on returning home to yourself, the stories we accumulate and how we can change them, and how big things we want to do can actually be quite simple if we make them.

In this episode, I reference Practical Astros‘s decans project. I was delighted to be a guest on her Libra episode, just released on Sunday, now streaming on her YouTube -https://youtu.be/j-VWDbxzE_I?si=MbnmwJmeVPNwZfX3.

I also reference this really nurturing course I am currently taking called Moon to Moon with Britten LaRue. Doors are closing today, so sign up now if you want to go deeper with your moon and really yourself in this self-paced, layered journey. All of the info is available here: https://brittenlarue.com/course/moon-to-moon/ .

14. The Astro Garden: Camille Michelle Gray

Camille joins me in The Astro Garden to chat about her astrological journey, how she weaves bits and pieces of different traditions into her practice, transitioning from student to teacher and preparing to give her first talk at a conference, Astro Bash 2024.

I highly recommend checking out Camille’s website, camillemichellegray.com, to learn more about her work. She offers a variety of different readings there, along with lots of writing, including Neptune and the Black Condition, a self-published digital magazine in which Camille shares her research looking at Neptunian archetypes woven into the Black experience.

You can find Camille across social media platforms where she generously shares a ton of great insight @millymichelle.

13. Pisces, crazy 8s, infinity, and a surprising influence on this set of eclipses

In this episode I revisit eclipses, this time going into more detail and going back to the set of eclipses in March 2006 to February 2008, exploring general themes including other house topics brought into play via the ruler of one of the eclipse houses and the crazy “coincidence” of Pluto entering Capricorn with the north node in Pisces and Pluto entering Aquarius for the final time with the north node in Pisces (thank you, Jessica Irene, https://www.dendraletheia.com, for pointing this out).

12. Eclipses Ellipses

Eclipse season has returned, and this time, it's bringing back stories from 2015-2016-2017. I unpack a bit about some of my eclipse stories along with some tips for navigating and delineating the north and south nodes.

References:

The Astrology Podcast Episode 423 https://theastrologypodcast.com/2023/10/20/eclipses-aligned-with-pivotal-moments-in-history/

The Astrology Podcast Episode 425 https://theastrologypodcast.com/2023/11/08/eclipses-that-shaped-history-part-2/

11. The Astro Garden: Freyja Morgan

The lovely Freyja Morgan joins me for a chat in The Astro Garden. We talk about her unique path to astrology, being parents as astrologers, and what we love about the practice.

You can find more of Freyja’s work at www.freyjaastrology.com and on Instagram @freyja_astrology.

As always, you can find more of my work at www.byjoveastrology.com, @byjoveastro on Instagram, and @byjoveastrology on Twitter. My books are currently open for September, with October dates to follow soon.

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10. Mercury Day thoughts on Mars in Cancer & Pluto RX in Capricorn

(and why I am kind of excited)

Join me in this 10th episode to hear my thoughts about Mars’ long journey in Cancer (starting today) and Pluto’s final retrograde back into Capricorn.

I share a bit about the work I am doing with my dear friend Sonia and her Weekly Astrology Guide for the month of September, starting class with Britten LaRue (it’s not too late to sign up if you are interested - details here:https://brittenlarue.com/course/moon-to-moon/), and my work with the Astrologers' Co-Op! I also briefly mention the work of Kira Ryberg, one of my favorite astrologers. You can find out more about her at https://www.kiraryberg.com.

I am so grateful for everyone who has taken the time to listen. If my work is resonating with you, I would love it if you could drop me a note, leave a review, and share with your friends.

xoxo,

Janessa

9.Moon2Moon

Moon Day thoughts on my astrological studies

In this week’s episode, I speak about how I found my next astrology teacher, Britten LaRue, and one of my favorite monthly moon transits, the moon in Gemini.

If you are interested in checking out Britten LaRue’s offerings, including Moon to Moon, check out her website, https://brittenlarue.com.

I also mention my first astrology teacher, Adam Elenbaas, and you can find more info about his offerings at https://nightlightastrology.com.