Professional astrologer Janet Booth joins Ryan, Lisa, and Alexander to unpack Moon Grooves, her original discovery of how new and full Moons repeat at the same degree for months at a time, and what that means for your progressed chart over a lifetime. Using Carole King's chart and her own as case studies, Janet shows how these grooves connect to career, health, and major life turning points. The conversation also digs into the USA's birth chart, comparing the Sibly chart to Washington's inauguration chart.

Reach Janet at https://astrologybooth.com/, or find her at booth #25 at UAC this September 2026.

Ryan, Lisa, and Alexander are joined for the first time by Sheila Budd, Alexander's partner and the show's usual off-screen producer, for an impromptu, unscripted conversation about humanistic astrology and what it feels like to actually live through a transit. They dig into seasonal astrology and Jung's shadow, why wintertime signs default to function over feeling, and why the shadow of a sign is its opposite on the wheel. Ryan and Lisa each walk through their current transits, from progressed Moon and Saturn to a North Node activation tied to a big life move, while Sheila shares her own story of a decision that came from instinct rather than the chart. The conversation closes on something more personal: Alexander opens up about a three-year health struggle and his own distress over current events, both read through the same Saturn-Neptune square, as a live example of astrology's core idea that inner and outer are never separate. Honest, unfiltered, and very human.

Alexander, Lisa and Ryan dig into the Mars-Uranus conjunction that turned exact on the morning of July 4th, right on America's own birthday, and trace its echoes back through four passes in Gemini during the 1940s, including the lead-up to Hiroshima. They ground the astrology in a real story: a couple who survived a lightning strike and near house fire the night before, and how that single event showed up in both of their charts. Along the way, they touch on Mars and Venus as creative partners, why retrograde Mercury is amplifying the moment, and what Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity has to do with any of it.

Ryan, Lisa, and Alexander close out their introductory series by getting personal about their craft: what drew each of them to astrology, how their own teachers and birth charts shaped their work, and what a session actually looks like when it's built around growth instead of prediction. They trace the difference between fatalistic and humanistic approaches, explore why conscious engagement with a moment matters more than knowing what's coming, and touch on what family constellation work and indigenous wisdom can teach us about structuring society. The conversation turns to the Barbault Basket, a rare alignment of four outer planets forming in July 2026 that some call a turning point for the collective, and what André Barbault's track record suggests it actually signals.

Ryan, Lisa, and Alexander dig into the astrological story of 2026: a rare minor grand trine between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, three outer planets that have all recently changed signs at the same time. They trace the history of each planet's discovery and the revolutions that followed, explore the Barbault Basket forming in July 2026, and discuss why this moment represents a 500-year marker in collective human evolution. The conversation also touches on the soul energies of the outer planets, the difference between prediction and conscious participation, indigenous wisdom as a counterweight to Western paradigms, and what it really means to be a humanistic astrologer. Curious, wide-ranging, and grounded in lived experience.

Astrology Off the Charts is a podcast hosted by three professional astrologers: Alexander Mallon, Lisa Hagenbuch, and Ryan Barrett. As friends, lifelong students, and deeply curious humans, they explore astrology as a living language for understanding the self, relationships, and the patterns that shape a life.

Astrology is the lens they use to explore the human experience. The show is grounded in a humanistic and consciousness-based approach. Rather than chasing predictions or fixed answers, the conversations lean into reflection, meaning, and how people grow through lived experience.

If you've ever felt that astrology points to something deeper than your Sun sign, or wondered how the planets might speak to the texture of your life, you've found your podcast.