Get ready to work. Venus Retrograde stirs up unconscious material, then while we are in the raw, swirling sensations of it, causally asks us to review whether our behavior matches our values. This Venus Retrograde asks whether our we are aware how thoroughly our inner state influences our external reality.

Venus is the planet of The Law of Correspondence: As above, so below, or in the care of this Venus Retrograde as within, so too outside of us. Interior life influences the exterior.

To apply this, I guide you to find where Scorpio & Libra fall in your natal astrological chart - then, ask "what the mirror is showing me about my internal state & how it impacts how I show up in these specific arenas of life?".

The Cosmic Sequence then carries the work forward: Venus cazimi on Oct 23 turns awareness into an embodied ethic, Mercury retrograde on Oct 24 realigns perception to support living our values, the Taurus full moon on Oct 25 asks how you care for yourself as the ground on which all of these changes stand, and the Scorpio new moon on Nov 8 brings forth the freshness of your becoming.

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INTO THE GOLDMINE > In this episode, Alyssa sits down with somatic and trauma facilitator Molly Strong to explore what happens when we stop trying to fix our coping mechanisms and start getting curious about their intelligence instead. Together they trace how over-functioning, food, and hunger can become portals into unprocessed fear and eroticism, and how "control" is often really about managing overwhelming the fear of life-force rather than the thing we think we're controlling.

Molly shares the inner workings of Sapiens, the sober psychedelic container she facilitates, along with the NARM-informed practice of holding a terrified younger part of yourself while still staying rooted in present-moment reality. The conversation lands on capacity, witnessing & permission for Molly's favorite concept, "the do-over", which reminders us that the mundane isn't about getting it right, but about staying present enough to know you can't actually get it wrong. This is how we connect with the MAGICK.

HOW TO FIND MOLLY > Offerings: The Overfunctioning Fast in August. A month-long collective pause for overfunctioners to explore the roots of the pattern together and Herself in September. Find Molly on IG @themollystrong & mollystrong.com

This episode is a collection of transits converging in mid-to-late July are all pointing at the same question: Are you your own authority? Or, are you still outsourcing it like you've been conditioned to?

The episode traces this through a personal story when an disturbing acoustic awareness landed with me on the dance floor on July 4th.

Pluto in Aquarius opposite Jupiter in Leo is the focus on this episode Jupiter entered Leo on June 29 and is now magnifying the Leo archetype — not the pop-culture "main character" version, but Leo as inner authority and creative self-actualization. It's opposing Pluto in Aquarius, the sign of the collective body, which is in the early years of a 20-year transit through that sign.

The opposition goes exact July 20, staying within orb roughly through early August. Read as: individual authority (Leo) vs. collective fragmentation/oppression dynamics (Aquarius) — an outward-facing polarity, since oppositions push internal work into social/relational expression.

New Moon in Cancer, July 14 is conjunct Mercury retrograde, conjunct the North Node, square Saturn
Falls in Gate 62 , a throat-center gate about the trap of over-identifying with thought and language, as Richard Rudd says, "it is not we who abuse language, but language who abuses us". This is framed as an invitation to let decision-making move from mind to body as to not make decisions from conditioned constructs.

We touch the moment of clarity that arrives with Mercury cazimi on July 12, the Pluto trine Uranus in Gemini) on July 17 and briefly touch on Venus conjunct the South Node, in Gate 59 of sexuality, in the last moments of the current nodal axis.
Gate 59 carries a shadow of dishonesty — read as a call to stop being dishonest with yourself as a prerequisite for reclaiming inner authority.

Forward pointer: North Node in Pisces (Gate 55) / South Node in Virgo (Gate 59) as a preview of the 2027–future nodal theme — moving from victim consciousness (Gate 55 shadow) into freedom, tied to the Hawkins map of consciousness (fear/grief/apathy/guilt/shame vs. courage as the bridge to empowerment).

MENTIONS IN THE EPISODE:

mex dj set

drip rhythm dance floor

books: fifth sacred thing by starhark & against the machine by paul kingston

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