The Cosmic Crux

EPISODE 27: Chiron Lessons

Healing, Survivor Advocacy & Reclaiming Power with Melissa Childs

Content Warning:This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse, childhood abuse, trauma, mental health crisis, shame, healing, survivor advocacy, and reclaiming power after harm. Some parts of this conversation may feel intense or activating, especially for survivors or anyone currently moving through trauma recovery.

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Please listen with care, breathe, and remember: if this conversation brings something up for you, you do not have to process it alone.

Episode Description

Welcome back to the Cosmic Crux Podcast. In this deeply moving episode, Mar Alejandra of Mar and the Stars sits down with speaker, writer, yoga teacher, former Hollywood executive, and survivor advocate Melissa Childs for a powerful conversation about Chiron, trauma, nonlinear healing, plant medicine, survivor advocacy, and what it means to reclaim your life after pain.

With Chiron preparing to move from Aries into Taurus, Mar and Melissa explore what happens when healing shifts from identity, survival, and selfhood into themes of safety, embodiment, self-worth, rest, stability, pleasure, and the body.

Melissa shares her personal journey from a high-achieving Hollywood career into a profound midlife initiation that included mental health crisis, plant medicine, legislative advocacy, yoga teacher training, and a complete redefinition of safety, success, community, and self-trust.

This conversation is a reminder that healing is not linear. It is not always graceful. It is not about performing wellness or arriving at a perfect version of yourself. Sometimes healing means circling back to old wounds as a new version of yourself and discovering that your story no longer controls you — it gives you power.

About the Guest

Melissa Childs is a speaker, writer, yoga teacher, psychedelic integration practitioner, and former Hollywood executive.

Over a career spanning more than two decades, Melissa worked in marketing and publicity for some of the entertainment industry’s most recognizable films, franchises, and talent through leadership roles at Sony Pictures, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and Amazon.

After years of helping shape other people’s stories, Melissa found herself called back to her own. In 2025, she helped pass Ohio’s Bill 322, legislation designed to protect children from abuse, transforming a deeply personal experience into meaningful, systemic change.

Today, Melissa’s work centers on professional transformation, psychedelic integration, yoga, authentic self-expression, healing, and helping others integrate the gold from their own journeys.

You can find Melissa on Instagram at @staygoldenchild.

Her upcoming podcast, Rogue Signal Radio, will explore her healing odyssey, the characters she has met along the way, and the wisdom that can emerge when we stop performing and start telling the truth.

In This Episode, We Explore

The myth of Chiron, the wounded healer

Chariklo as the archetype of compassionate witness, energetic boundaries, and sacred space

Why healing is nonlinear and why the wound does not simply disappear

Chiron returns and the midlife initiation process

The major midlife transits: Pluto square Pluto, Neptune square Neptune, Uranus opposition, Nodal opposition, and Chiron return

Chiron moving from Aries into Taurus

The Chiron in Taurus generation: late Gen X, Xennials, and Millennials

Healing themes around safety, money, embodiment, self-worth, rest, pleasure, and stability

The difference between looking secure and actually feeling secure

Melissa’s transition from Hollywood executive to survivor advocate, yoga teacher, and integration practitioner

High achievement as a survival strategy

Shame, trauma, and the prison of external validation

Plant medicine as a catalyst for reclaiming the self

The importance of discernment, preparation, support, and integration in psychedelic work

Turning personal pain into legislative action

Survivor advocacy and protecting children from abuse

The power of speaking truth to power

Outgrowing old identities, old jobs, and old relationships

Rebuilding community after deep healing

Learning to receive without performing

Returning home to the body through yoga

Why rest may be one of the deepest healing lessons for the Chiron in Taurus generation

Becoming an actor in your own life instead of a reactor

Meeting yourself beyond your résumé, titles, achievements, and survival story

Key Takeaways

Healing does not erase what happened. It changes your relationship to it.

Your wound is not the whole story. It may be the place where wisdom, compassion, service, and power eventually emerge.

The Chiron return is not necessarily a crisis. When we have already begun doing the work, it can become a rebirth.

Safety is not the same as control. Sometimes what looks secure on the outside is draining your life force on the inside.

Rest without shame may be one of the biggest collective lessons ahead.

You do not have to perform healing to be healing.

You are not failing because your healing journey has pauses, returns, contradictions, spirals, or setbacks.

There may come a moment when staying silent to belong to an old version of yourself becomes more painful than telling the truth.

Your story does not have to control you. It can become part of how you reclaim your power.

Standout Quotes

“Healing doesn’t erase what we’ve gone through. It changes our relationship with it.”

“You can’t stay silent any longer just to belong to an old version of yourself.”

“Once you witness yourself doing the thing you thought was impossible, you become unstoppable.”

“I want to be an actor in my own life, not a reactor.”

“Safety became something self-generated. I don’t know exactly what comes next, but I know I’m going to be able to handle it.”

“We are so much more powerful than we realize.”

“You’re not failing because your healing journey has a pause, a return, a curve, or a contradiction. Sometimes you’re just living through the process.”

Chiron in Taurus Themes

As Chiron moves into Taurus, the healing conversation shifts toward the body, stability, money, pleasure, rest, worthiness, and what it means to feel safe in a real, embodied way.

This transit asks us to examine where we have confused safety with control, productivity, reliability, or usefulness.

It asks us to notice where we have stayed in jobs, relationships, identities, or survival roles because they looked secure, even when our body and spirit knew they were no longer aligned.

For the Chiron in Taurus generation, especially late Gen X, Xennials, and Millennials, this return may bring a deep reckoning with hustle culture, burnout, self-worth, receiving support, and the grief of giving up old definitions of success.

The invitation is not to perform stability.The invitation is to build a life that actually feels safe from the inside out.

A Note on Plant Medicine

In this episode, Melissa shares her personal experience with ketamine therapy, ayahuasca, and psychedelic integration.

Plant medicine and psychedelic work are not for everyone and may not be accessible, appropriate, or legal for everyone. Please consider your physical health, mental health, medications, legal realities, personal history, and support system before exploring any psychedelic or plant medicine path.

Discernment, qualified facilitation, preparation, integration, and safety are essential. This conversation is not medical, therapeutic, legal, or psychedelic advice. It is one person’s lived experience.

Connect with Melissa Childs

Instagram: @staygoldenchild

Upcoming Podcast: Rogue Signal Radio

Email: [email protected]

Reach out to Melissa for more on yoga, psychedelic integration, healing, storytelling, and working with her directly.

Connect with Mar

You can find The Cosmic Crux Podcast on Substack, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share how these transits are unfolding in your world.

For astrology readings, writing, and more, connect with Mar Alejandra of Mar and the Stars.

Closing Reflection

Healing is not about becoming perfect.It is not about never being triggered again.It is not about proving that you are over it.

Healing is what happens when you keep meeting yourself with more honesty, more compassion, more courage, and more truth.

You are already perfectly imperfect.

And sometimes the wound becomes the place where your power finally returns.

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Episode 26: Jupiter Enters Leo 🦁☀️

With Mar Alejandra and guest Renahy of Aulani Alchemy

After a six-month podcast pause, Mar Alejandra returns to The Cosmic Crux Podcast for a rich, radiant, and deeply spiritual conversation on Jupiter entering Leo.

This episode explores what happens when the planet of expansion, belief, abundance, and possibility moves into the sign of creativity, visibility, courage, play, and heart-led expression. But this is not just a conversation about being seen. It is a conversation about being seen without abandoning yourself.

Mar is joined by Renahy, an astrologer, intuitive, and Akashic Records reader, for a conversation on Jupiter in Leo, the Akashic Records, soul visibility, creative reclamation, spiritual discernment, and what it means to expand with integrity.

Together, they explore how this transit invites us to reconnect with joy, creativity, confidence, and the parts of ourselves we may have hidden, silenced, or dismissed as “too much.” Jupiter in Leo asks us to stop confusing attention with intention, recognition with self-worth, and performance with purpose.

This is the era of remembering that your light is not a threat. Your creativity is not frivolous. Your joy is not childish. Your visibility can become service when it is rooted in truth. 🌞

In this episode, Mar and Renahy discuss:

✨ What the Akashic Records are and how they function as an energetic library of the soul

✨ Why astrology and the Akashic Records can work together as a “dynamic duo” for self-understanding

✨ Jupiter in Leo as a transit of creativity, visibility, confidence, influence, and heart-led expansion

✨ The difference between authentic expression and performative attention-seeking

✨ Why Leo energy is not just about ego, but about vitality, courage, generosity, and creation

✨ How the South Node may bring back abandoned dreams, old creative identities, or outdated versions of success

✨ The role of Chiron in Taurus and the healing work connected to safety, worth, embodiment, and simplicity

✨ Why Jupiter in Leo may help us believe in life again

✨ The fear of success as a fear of becoming the fullest version of ourselves

✨ Future self work, quantum possibility, automatic writing, and learning to trust inner guidance

✨ Healthy visibility versus validation-seeking

✨ Why the collective may become more sensitive to inauthenticity, influencer culture, and “program pushing”

✨ The spiritual responsibility that comes with having a larger platform, more money, or more influence

✨ Jupiter square Chiron and the healing invitation around being seen, taking up space, and feeling safe in the body

✨ Jupiter trine Neptune as an opening for art, dreams, inspiration, intuition, and spiritual connection

✨ Jupiter opposite Pluto and the power struggles connected to wealth, leadership, fame, belief systems, and influence

✨ The death and rebirth of celebrity culture

✨ Why regular people, creators, artists, and heart-led leaders may rise during this transit

✨ How to work with Jupiter in Leo through ritual, candle magic, journaling, embodiment, play, and creative action

Key themes from the episode 🌟

Visibility is not the same as worthiness.

Jupiter in Leo may expand the desire to be seen, admired, celebrated, and recognized. But this transit also asks us to examine why we want visibility in the first place.

Do we want to be admired because we are sharing something true?Or are we seeking attention to soothe a wound?

Healthy visibility does not require us to abandon our values, perform a false version of ourselves, or mistake applause for alignment.

Creativity is not frivolous. 🎨

One of the strongest Akashic messages Renahy shares is that creativity is not silly, childish, or unproductive. Creative life force is deeply useful because it fuels the soul, the body, the planet, and the collective.

Jupiter in Leo reminds us that joy is not a distraction from the work.Joy may be the work.

The universe may be conspiring in your favor. 🌌

Mar and Renahy discuss the importance of deeply believing that life can support us. Not in a shallow “good vibes only” way, but in a rooted, embodied, devotional way.

This transit invites us to test the theory that when we relax, receive, create, play, and trust, life can meet us with more opportunities than we expected.

The spotlight is neutral. 🎭

The spotlight itself is not good or bad. What matters is what we do when we are standing in it.

Jupiter in Leo may open doors, bring attention, expand platforms, and create opportunities. But the real spiritual test is who we become when those doors open.

Do we become generous?Do we become performative?Do we become more connected to our heart?Or do we lose ourselves in the performance?

Expansion requires discernment. 🧿

With Jupiter interacting with Chiron, Neptune, Saturn, and Pluto throughout this transit, expansion will not be without its tests.

This episode reminds listeners that not every opportunity is aligned, not every spiritual space is safe, and not every charismatic leader is trustworthy. The body knows. The heart knows. The ick is information.

Jupiter in Leo ritual practice 🕯️

Mar shares a Jupiter in Leo ritual for courage, creativity, protection, and ethical expansion.

You may want to gather:

🕯️ A gold, yellow, orange, or white candle

🖊️ A pen and paper

💙 Blue ink for manifestation work

🌞 A personal object or talisman connected to courage, creativity, or the heart

🌿 Optional incense such as cedar or frankincense

Write down:

✨ What you are ready to express

✨ What you are ready to receive

✨ What you refuse to compromise about yourself as you expand

✨ What ethical, protected, sustainable expansion looks like for you

Then, within 24 hours, take one small action that makes the vision real.

Send the email.Start the project.Submit the application.Share the work.Speak about yourself as if the door has already opened.

Jupiter may open the door, but you still have to walk through it. 🚪✨

Akashic practice from Renahy 🌬️

Renahy offers a simple embodiment practice for reconnecting with your life force.

Before writing, creating, or stepping into visibility, take a few breaths. With every exhale, imagine yourself releasing energy that is not your own and energy that is no longer for your highest good.

With every inhale, imagine more of your own life force entering your body, filling your chest, and radiating outward.

This practice can be used anytime you need to come back to yourself.

Closing message 🦁

Jupiter in Leo reminds us that taking up space is not the same as taking space away from someone else.

Your light does not have to become a weapon.Your creativity does not have to become a full-time performance.Your visibility does not have to compromise your values.

What you create matters.What you say matters.How you lead matters.How you influence matters.And who you become when the doors finally open matters most of all.

May our visibility become service.May our success deepen with integrity.And may we never become so attached to the spotlight that we forget how to recognize ourselves when the room goes dark.

Guest 🌙

Renahy of Aulani Alchemy

Renahy is an astrologer, intuitive, and Akashic Records reader. Through Akashic astrology, she helps people connect with their guides, understand the deeper purpose of their birth charts, and return to the fullness of who they truly are.

Find Renahy at Aulani Alchemy on Instagram and through her website.

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To see how Jupiter in Leo wants to enhance your life and spiritual connection, book an Akashic Astrology experience with Renahy:https://www.aulanialchemy.com/akashic-records-sessions

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Episode 23: Predictions for 2026 with Astro Maji (Majdoline)

Welcome back to the Cosmic Crux Podcast — where we talk astrology… no fluff (okay, maybe just a little 🌌). Today’s episode is extra charged: we recorded on November 24th, freshly out of Scorpio season and days away from Pluto moving direct. One less planet in retrograde city!

And with that energy shift, we welcome back our guest, Astro Maji (Majdoline), for a deep dive into the astrology of 2026 — a year we both see as one of convergence, collapse, awakening, and breakthrough.

Because let’s be honest:2026 is not subtle.

✦ Retrograde Recap

Before diving in — we catch up on how this Pluto retrograde played out.

• Sagittarius phase = expansive reconnections, including co-leading a Meta astrology workshop• Scorpio slip-back = tech snafus, communication chaos, blocked uploads, glitchy systems• Settling phase = “status quo” for now, with hopes for stability until the end of the transit• Looking ahead to the Capricorn New Moon in the 5th — restoration, fun, and creative planning

✦ The 2026 Frequency: “Old World Collapse + New World Architecture”

We’re calling 2026 a pivotal year of the decade — defined by structural breakdown, technological mutation, spiritual awakening, and the construction of new collective systems.

2026 Themes• Structural collapse of outdated systems• Rebuilding through innovation• Collective ideological reset• Massive technological leaps (AI, aerospace, quantum, digital economies)• Spiritualization of politics and public consciousness• New social, economic, and relational frameworks

“Don’t panic at the word collapse — it’s the collapse of the old world so the new one can be built.”

✦ The Dominant Transits Shaping 2026

✦ Pluto in Aquarius

The decade-long signature pushing humanity toward decentralization, community models, civil rights evolution, bio-tech leaps, and societal transparency.

✦ Uranus into Gemini (April 2026)

The 8-year Taurus era ends. By April, Uranus re-enters Gemini for good.

Expect:• Telecommunication revolutions• Radical upgrades to software, data systems, privacy, and networks• Reinvention of currency, value systems, wealth models• New forms of community, exchange, and collaboration• Possible air-travel breakthroughs• Faster social shifts and more mental agility

“We grounded in Taurus — now we experiment in Gemini.”

✦ Saturn–Neptune Conjunction | 0° Aries

February 20, 2026A world-axis alignment marking ideological reset, spiritual uprising, and systemic dissolution.

Themes:• End of outdated institutional models• Mass questioning of narratives and authority• New spiritual or ideological frameworks• Water crises, contamination, migration• Psychological vs. material identity• Restructuring ethics, beliefs, and sovereignty

Historical echoes:• 1989 (fall of Berlin Wall)• 1953 (post-WWII restructuring)

This time: at the zero degree of collective rebirth.

“Nobody is going to save you but yourself.”

✦ Elemental Focus: Working with Heavy Air

For charts lacking Air:• Treat Air as creative fuel• Stay flexible, curious, communicative• Learn, network, brainstorm, share• Let ideas move you• Practice saying yes to innovation

For charts with too much Air:• Ground through nature, meditation, journaling• Slow down mental spiraling• Focus on embodiment and present-moment awareness

✦ Stellium Periods of 2026

1. January 4 — Sun/Venus/Mars (Cap–Aquarius)

• Economic recalibration• Policies & financial restructures• New models of power & partnership• Technology used within justice and surveillance systems• Shifting social contracts• Collective value resets

2. January 21 — Sun/Mercury/Pluto (Aquarius)

• Breakthrough tech• AI regulation & acceleration• Decentralized finance upheavals• Whistleblowing• Medical and anti-aging advancements• Power vs. people

3. March 6 — Venus/Neptune/Saturn (Aries)

• Spiritual global movements• Artistic renaissance• Ideological austerity• Dissolution of geopolitical and cultural boundaries• Governance reinventions

4. April 19 — Mercury/Saturn/Mars (Aries)

• Protest cycles• Authority conflicts• Cyber-or-digital war patterns• Policy crackdowns• Harsh truths surfacing• Aggressive political restructuring

✦ July–August 2026: The Turning Point

A rare layering of wedges, a Kite, and a Mystic Rectangle.This marks the cultural crescendo of 2026.

July–August Wedge Patterns

• Major tech breakthroughs• Robotics, aerospace, biotech, quantum• Political restructuring• Decentralized vs. centralized power• Economic law changes and global agreements

August 10 Kite Formation

• Reinvention of financial systems• Cultural renaissance• Diplomatic evolution• Tech-human integration• Fated opportunities

August 10 Mystic Rectangle

• Spiritual healing• Temporary peace, breakthroughs, or unity• Diplomatic resolve• Integration of karmic threads

A moment of equilibrium inside the chaos.

✦ T-Squares: Catalytic Pressure

September 30 & December 7

Expect:• Political intensity• Heated public discourse• Privacy wars• Data battles• Market volatility• Burnout• Revelation cycles

These are ignition points — stress that forces transformation.

✦ December Trapezoid

Venus–Pluto–Uranus–MarsThemes:• Alliances and treaties• Feminine leadership• Financial restructuring• Economic value overhauls• Activism and collective pressure• Collapse → Reform → Collaborative innovation

✦ Jupiter into Leo (June 30, 2026)

Main-Character Energy.

• Creative renaissance• Public figures ascend• Bold leadership• Artistic movements• Lux culture• Celebration & self-expression• Visibility

Shadow:• Ego theatrics, overspending, attention addiction

✦ Nodal Shift: South Node in Leo | North Node in Aquarius

Release: ego-driven fame, individual entitlement, performance identityEmbrace: innovation, collectives, community, humanitarian technology

The Aquarian world emerges.

✦ Cultural Mirrors of the Transits

Gen Z as a social force• Rejecting outdated labor systems• Demanding ethics, purpose, accountability• Independence through entrepreneurship

Celebrity culture fades• Rise of value-driven creators• Focus on health, wellness, mental healing• Public fascination with authenticity over idol worship

✦ Public Figures Under 2026 Transits

(Full breakdowns given in episode)

We discuss celebrity arcs for:• Jennifer Lopez• Madonna• Dua Lipa• Beyoncé• Timothée Chalamet• Angelina Jolie• Taylor Swift• Selena Gomez• Kylie Jenner• Jennifer Lawrence• Michael Jackson legacy era• Zendaya

Key repeating themes:• Reinvention• Public identity resets• Financial restructuring• Legacy revision• Career renewal• Partnerships, family, and motherhood cycles• Spiritual or psychological transformation

✦ Political Notes: Trump & Vance

Astrological signatures suggest health strain and structural destabilization around Trump due to:• Mars–Saturn & Mars–Neptune squares• Eclipse activations• Natal YOD routes• Pluto opposition themes

Rising attention around Vance’s chart and potential power transfer signatures.

“This isn’t about rooting for one over the other — the astrology is loud.”

✦ Personal Charts Always Come First

The collective chart sets the weather —your natal chart determines how you experience it.

Some charts are built for 2026.Others deepen through it.

✦ Where to Find Astro Maji

Majdoline is celebrating 5,000+ orders (!!!), a Meta astrology event, upcoming women’s leadership astrology presentation, and continuing her beloved live tarot and Tarot Tuesdays.

Bookings:Promo code: EOY3030 for 30% off all services until Jan 1, 2026

Follow and connect for:• Astrology sessions• 2026 predictions• Corporate/Group workshops• Collective reiki• Tarot lives

✦ Closing Message

Thank you for listening and supporting this cosmic community.We want to hear from you:

How are 2026’s transits unfolding in your world?

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🌟 Cosmic Crux Podcast · Episode 22

Mercury’s Fire and Depth: The Sagittarius–Scorpio Retrograde of RevelationRelease Date: October 29th, 2025Host: Mar Alejandra · @marandthestars

✴️ Episode Overview

Mercury, the messenger between worlds, blazes into Sagittarius, and the collective mind exhales after weeks of Scorpionic depth.We crave laughter, learning, and direction again—but this isn’t a simple reset.

Between November 9th–29th, Mercury retrogrades from 6° Sagittarius → 20° Scorpio, tracing the line between faith and fear, conviction and confession.This entire cycle is the Scorpio story: one long initiation.Mercury lights the torch in Sagittarius so we can see what’s been buried in Scorpio’s shadows—truth revealed through fire and water.

🪶 The Arc of the Transit

Mercury enters Sagittarius: Oct 29, 4:02 a.m.

Retrograde: Nov 9–Nov 29 (6° Sag → 20° Sco)

Mercury direct + re-enters Sagittarius: Dec 11 – Jan 1, 2026

🔥 Key Cosmic Activations

Oct 29th — Mercury Opposite Uranus: lightning revelations, truth shocks, mental breakthroughs.

Oct 30th — Mercury Sextile Pluto: grounding meaning after chaos; data turns to wisdom.

Nov 12th — Mercury Rx Conjunct Mars: fire meets friction; speak from integrity, not reaction.

Nov 17th — Mercury Rx Sextile Pluto: hidden motives surface; reclaim your mental power.

Nov 19th — Mercury Rx Opp Uranus & Trine Neptune: truth with compassion—healing through clarity.

Nov 20th — Sun ☉ Mercury Cazimi: divine clarity; revelation from the heart of shadow.

Nov 22nd – 24: trines to Saturn & Jupiter, then conjunction with Venus—structure, integration, and grace.

Nov 29th — Mercury Stations Direct (20° Scorpio): the mind exhales; truth integrates.

♈ Rising Sign Forecasts

Aries: Faith redefined — wisdom through humility.Taurus: Truth heals intimacy — speak it.Gemini: Dialogue transforms — clarity through compassion.Cancer: Burnout clears the path — devotion begins within.Leo: Heart revision — forgive, then create.Virgo: Healing words mend lineage.Libra: Reclaim self-worth through your voice.Scorpio: Identity rebirth — honesty with the mirror.Sagittarius: Inner retreat brings outer truth.Capricorn: Boundaries cleanse community ties.Aquarius: Purpose rewritten — success meets soul.Pisces: Belief reborn — faith beyond dogma.

🜃 Collective Reflection

This retrograde writes in fire and edits in water.Sagittarius exposes exaggeration; Scorpio reveals motive.Each planetary ally—Mars for courage, Uranus for awakening, Neptune for empathy, Venus for closure—guides us through the truth-telling.By the time Mercury moves direct, the mind is quieter, the heart steadier, and our words carry light instead of noise.

🪞 Closing Reflection

Mercury’s retrograde isn’t a detour—it’s initiation.It strips illusion from language so that meaning can live again.When Mercury re-enters Sagittarius on December 11, you’ll notice:conversation breathes differently, silence feels sacred, and the story you tell about yourself rings true.

Fire reveals. Water cleanses. Truth liberates.

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🌒 Cosmic Crux Podcast · Episode 21

The 19-Year Libra Cycle Begins: Your Rising Sign Guide to the New Moon

Host: Mar Alejandra of Mar and the StarsDate: October 21, 2025 · 5:25 AM PSTMoon: New Moon at 28°22’ Libra

✨ Episode Overview

Welcome back to Cosmic Crux Podcast, where we talk astrology — no fluff (okay, maybe a little).In this episode, Mar Alejandra unpacks one of the most significant lunations of our time: the New Moon in Libra, which initiates a brand-new 19-year Metonic Cycle that won’t repeat until 2044.

This is not just another lunar reset — it’s a cosmic contract between self and collective. Libra’s energy of harmony, justice, and sacred balance asks:

How will you create balance — not by avoiding tension, but by dancing with it consciously?

🌕 Key Themes

What a Metonic Cycle is and why the Libra one is rare

How this New Moon seeds 19 years of relational and societal evolution

Libra’s deeper invitation: harmony as movement, not perfection

Parallels to the last Libra cycle (2006–2024) and the new astrological landscape with Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries, and Uranus in Gemini

Why “co-creation” and “restorative balance” are the defining themes of 2025–2044

♎️ Rising Sign Breakdown

Mar walks through what this cycle means for each rising sign — your personal compass for the next 19 years:

Aries Rising: Partnership, balance & the art of “me through we.”

Taurus Rising: Health, rhythm, and work-life harmony.

Gemini Rising: Creative rebirth & authentic expression.

Cancer Rising: Home, ancestry, and emotional foundations.

Leo Rising: Voice, communication, and building bridges.

Virgo Rising: Self-worth, wealth, and sovereignty.

Libra Rising: Identity rebirth — harmony from within.

Scorpio Rising: Spiritual healing & surrender into compassion.

Sagittarius Rising: Community, vision, and collaborative creation.

Capricorn Rising: Purpose, visibility, and ethical leadership.

Aquarius Rising: Philosophy, teaching, and global perspective.

Pisces Rising: Transformation, intimacy, and shared trust.

💫 Libra New Moon Takeaway

This Metonic Cycle is a collective recalibration — where harmony becomes evolutionary rather than performative.The story begins now and unfolds through 2044: a journey of fairness, artistry, and conscious relationship-building that shapes the world we co-create.

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“We are not revisiting old ground — we are laying new foundation.”

Episode 20 — Pluto Out of Bounds (feat. Tasha Beg, The Popstrologist Presents)

Shows: Cosmic Crux ✦ The Popstrologist PresentsHosts: Mar Alejandra (Mar and the Stars) ✦ Tasha Beg (The Popstrologist)Theme: What it really means that Pluto is going out of bounds—and why this decade can feel like chaos and reform at once.

Episode summary

Mar and Tasha unpack Pluto “out of bounds” (OOB): what it is, why astrologers care, and how it maps to historic cycles of rise/fall, justice, and reform. Drawing on the long-form research of astrologer Roseanne Finn (author of Persephone’s Revolution), they connect the current OOB window to collective upheaval, tech organizing, power redistribution, and practical ways to channel the energy without spiraling. Expect nuance, not doom.

What you’ll learn

Out of Bounds 101: Declination > 23° from the ecliptic—why OOB acts like a boundary-breaker.

Pluto cycles in four phases: Vision → Power → Justice → Reform (the one we’re in now).

Why “reform” ≠ instant utopia: It’s messy, intermittent (Pluto dips in/out OOB), and only ~5% of days this decade—but historically decisive.

Power hotspots: The 9° Leo/Aquarius axis and why placements here tend to activate leadership/reform themes during Pluto OOB.

Movement mechanics: Tech platforms (Discord/TikTok, etc.) as Aquarian organizing tools—for better or worse.

How to work with it personally: Find your OOB planets; align action with service and local impact; reclaim agency (especially for Millennials in the Pluto square).

Key terms & quick reference

Ecliptic/Declination: Planets wander N/S of the Sun’s path. >23° = Out of Bounds.

Pluto OOB (2025–2035, on/off): Boundary-breaking collective pressure toward reform.

Power Axis (≈9° Leo/Aquarius): Natal hits here can correlate with visible leadership and reform catalysts.

Progressions: Your progressed planets can go OOB even if natal ones don’t.

Segment guide (chapter suggestions)

Welcome & why this episode now — collective “rise/fall” patterns, cutting through hype

OOB 101 — declination, how to check your chart (Astro-Seek), what OOB feels like

The Pluto cycle map — Vision → Power → Justice → Reform (and where we are)

Reform era case studies — historic echoes; tech, media literacy, and decentralization

The 9° Leo/Aquarius “power” axis — leaders, reformers, and activation windows

Collective timelines — why OOB is intermittent; expect bursts + digestion phases

Personal praxis — service, local action, boundaries, and practical grounding

Looking ahead — eclipse tie-ins, Mars–Pluto spikes, and steady reform vs. “too early/late”

Resources & how to connect — Roseanne Finn, where to find Mar & Tasha

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Notable quotes

“Pluto out of bounds isn’t clickbait—it’s a turning point.”

“Revolutionary energy isn’t chaos; it’s re-shaping.”

“Power to the people means you stop outsourcing your agency.”

Resources mentioned

Roseanne Finn, Persephone’s Revolution (Pluto OOB research)

Astro-Seek (to check declinations & note OOB planets)

Studies/case references: Luther/Reformation, revolutions & reform eras (as discussed)

Try this (listener homework)

Check your chart: Do you have any OOB planets? Note sign/house and N/S declination.

Map your agency: Pick one local action (mutual aid, school board, tenant group, etc.).

Media hygiene: Choose 1–2 trusted sources, set a weekly review, and pause the doom-scroll.

Disclaimers

Astrology is a symbolic language for meaning-making and timing—not a substitute for professional, legal, medical, or financial advice.

Connect & follow

Mar Alejandra — Ma & the StarsIG & Substack: @marandthestarsPodcast: Cosmic Crux (Substack, Spotify, Apple)

Tasha Beg — The PopstrologistSocial: @thepopstrologist (all platforms)Podcast: The Popstrologist Presents

Cosmic Crux Podcast: Episode 19

Eclipse Season + Fall Predictions with Astro Maji

Episode Overview

Welcome back to the Cosmic Crux Podcast, where we dive into astrology — no fluff (okay, maybe a little). In this powerful episode, we step into Eclipse Season 2025 with special guest Astro Maji, who returns to help us navigate the wild celestial currents.

This season brings two major eclipses:🌕 Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces – September 7th, 2025🌑 Solar Eclipse in Virgo – September 21st, 2025

Together, these eclipses mark a cycle of endings, revelations, and cosmic resets. In this episode, we explore what these lunations mean personally, collectively, and astrologically for Fall/Winter 2025.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode

✨ Astrological Catch-Up

Maji reflects on past predictions that came true: Pluto in Aquarius shifts, AI relationships, political divides, and innovations like artificial womb technology.

🌌 Eclipse Season 101

What makes eclipses so powerful?

Why eclipses are “turning points” that close one door and open another.

How the Pisces–Virgo nodal axis plays out from 2024–2027.

💔 Personal + Collective Stories

Maji’s personal eclipse journey: heartbreak, lessons in boundaries, and spiritual renewal.

Collective themes: wellness, authenticity, and releasing unhealthy attachments.

🌒 Folklore & Eclipse Wives’ Tales

Ancient and cultural traditions around eclipses — from prayers and fasting, to banging pots to scare away demons.

Advice for navigating eclipse windows without forcing outcomes.

🔭 Deep Dive: September 2025 Eclipses

Sept 7th – Lunar Eclipse in Pisces (15°): release illusions, emotional truths revealed, healthcare + spirituality in focus.

Sept 21st – Solar Eclipse in Virgo (29°): urgent resets in health, work, systems, and partnerships; breakthroughs with Uranus/Pluto energy.

♍ Signs Most Impacted

Mutable signs (Pisces, Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius) at the heart of this season.

Who feels supportive shifts and who experiences major resets.

📝 Eclipse Do’s & Don’ts

Do: rest, release, notice synchronicities, lean into community.

Don’t: manifest rituals, force decisions, or launch big projects during the eclipse window.

🌠 Fall/Winter 2025 Predictions

Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus all re-enter familiar signs for a final time, bringing closure before new collective eras.

Themes: accountability in spirituality, the “fall of the gurus,” financial/food system shake-ups, misinformation challenges, and karmic checkpoints.

Mars aspects in December add fiery lessons around truth, illusion, and perseverance.

Key Takeaways

Eclipse Season = cosmic course correction.

September 2025 brings endings (Pisces Lunar Eclipse) and urgent beginnings (Virgo Solar Eclipse).

Fall/Winter 2025 is a karmic checkpoint before the major energy shifts of 2026.

Collective keywords: Truth vs. Illusion. Structure vs. Soul. Emotional Resilience.

Connect with Astro Maji

🌙 Instagram: @astromaji🔮 Services: Eclipse season readings, tarot offerings, virtual reiki, attraction sprays, and more.🌐 Website: astromaji.com

Support Cosmic Crux Podcast

If this episode resonates, share it with your cosmic crew!⭐ Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack.⭐ Leave a review — your words help the pod grow.⭐ Tag us & DM your eclipse experiences!

Remember: the universe always has a plan greater than our own. Eclipse season is about trusting the reset.

Cosmic Crux Podcast – Virgo Season 2025 🌿✨

Episode 18 | August 22 – September 22, 2025

Welcome back to the Cosmic Crux Podcast, where we explore astrology with no fluff—well, maybe just a little. I’m your host, Mar Alejandra of Mar and the Stars, and today we’re stepping into Virgo Season 2025—right in the doorway of eclipse season.

🌱 Themes of Virgo Season

After Leo’s fire and drama, Virgo brings us back to the magic of the everyday:

Routines, rituals, and the puzzle pieces of daily life

Service as devotion—love in motion through the details

The balance between clarity and control, discipline and burnout

Virgo energy roots us in the present while reminding us every small choice contributes to a greater whole.

🔑 Key Transits to Watch (PST)

Aug 24 – Sun square Uranus (1° Virgo–1° Gemini): A cosmic wake-up call. Disruptions in work, communication, and systems—respond with wisdom, not fear.

Sept 10 – Sun opposes North Node (18° Virgo–18° Pisces): Collective crossroads. Release outdated patterns and institutions to step into service and healing.

Sept 12 – Sun sextile Jupiter (19° Virgo–19° Cancer): Optimism and growth in health, education, and community care. Small victories ripple outward.

Sept 13 – Mercury Cazimi (20° Virgo): Breakthrough clarity. Words carry weight; decisions align with purpose.

Sept 20 – Sun opposes Saturn (28° Virgo–28° Pisces): Accountability test. What has integrity will stand; what drains must go.

🔮 Virgo Season Horoscopes by Rising Sign

I’ll walk through each rising sign and how Virgo Season highlights a different part of your chart:

Aries Rising: Health, work, and routines

Taurus Rising: Creativity, romance, joy

Gemini Rising: Home, roots, family

Cancer Rising: Communication, learning, local networks

Leo Rising: Finances, resources, self-worth

Virgo Rising: Identity reset, relationships under review

Libra Rising: Rest, reflection, subconscious healing

Scorpio Rising: Friendships, communities, long-term goals

Sagittarius Rising: Career, reputation, public path

Capricorn Rising: Wisdom, study, spiritual growth

Aquarius Rising: Shared resources, intimacy, transformation

Pisces Rising: Partnerships, balance, devotion

🌍 Collective Insights

This season is about noticing what patterns no longer serve us—individually and collectively—and refining them into something more sustainable. Virgo reminds us that integrity, not perfection, is the goal.

✨ Coming Up Next

In the next episode, I’ll be joined by a very special guest to unpack Eclipse Season 2025—the cosmic wild cards reshaping our collective path this fall.

📲 Connect with Me

Find the Cosmic Crux Podcast on Substack, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share with your cosmic crew.

Tag me or DM me—I’d love to hear how Virgo Season is unfolding for you, and how you’re finding magic in the details.

🌿 Virgo Season reminds us: devotion lives in the details. Every small act of care ripples into the greater whole.

🪞EPISODE OVERVIEWWelcome to Retrograde City — where time loops, truths unravel, and the cosmos presses pause. In this episode, Mar Alejandra breaks down the 10-month stretch of planetary retrogrades spanning May 2025 to March 2026, covering the astrological, geopolitical, and personal reverberations of each major retrograde.

From Pluto’s excavation of digital power to Jupiter’s ancestral reckoning, this isn’t just celestial chaos — it’s a collective recalibration. This is your roadmap through the retrograde labyrinth, with clear timelines, planetary meanings, global forecasts, and rising-sign-specific horoscopes.

And yes… Mar re-recorded this episode after Mercury Retrograde ate the first take. Fitting.

🌀 IN THIS EPISODE

🔁 Major Retrogrades & Their Impact— Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius (May–Oct): Digital power, surveillance, AI ethics— Neptune Retrograde in Aries–Pisces (Jul–Dec): Illusion dissolves, faith and denial tested— Saturn Retrograde in Aries–Pisces (Jul–Nov): Authority, war, and religion under review— Mercury Retrogrades (Jul & Nov): Media, belief systems, and buried truths resurface— Uranus Retrograde in Gemini–Taurus (Sep–Feb): Innovation, communication, food-tech rewired— Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer (Nov–Mar): Homeland, ancestry, and emotional sovereignty in focus

💥 Key Astro Dates Highlighted

July 18 – Aug 11: Mercury Rx in Leo

Sept 6 – Feb 3: Uranus Rx

Nov 9 – 29: Mercury Rx in Sagittarius & Scorpio

Nov 11 – Mar 11: Jupiter Rx in Cancer

Dec 8 & 14: Mars Squares Saturn & Neptune

Dec 15: Mars enters Capricorn

Mar 16, 2026: All Planets Direct

🌍 Geopolitical Themes

Tech governance and algorithmic control

Collapse of false spiritual idols and nationalist myths

Reexamination of land, culture, and ancestral trauma

Institutional failure and recalibration

Shifts in leadership, media, and narrative power

💫 Philosophical Questions Raised

What do we owe to our creations — even artificial ones?

How do we navigate power, purpose, and truth in an age of collapse and rebirth?

Can we spiritually evolve at the pace we technologically expand?

🔮 RETROGRADE HOROSCOPES BY RISING SIGNMar guides you through personalized forecasts for each rising sign, including what to reflect, reclaim, and release — plus prediction windows and timing cues.

✨ Highlights:

Aries Rising: Redefine your role in community and purpose

Taurus Rising: Build new foundations after internal reconstruction

Gemini Rising: Speak your truth from a reinvented mind

Cancer Rising: Rethink your emotional economy and self-worth

Leo Rising: Strip back the performance, find the soul

Virgo Rising: Heal through rhythm and rest

Libra Rising: Rediscover passion through integrity, not nostalgia

Scorpio Rising: Re-root in legacy and belonging

Sagittarius Rising: Own your message — and your shadow

Capricorn Rising: Release what owns you, inside and out

Aquarius Rising: Meet the you you’ve been becoming

Pisces Rising: Lay to rest the old self and dream forward

📆 THE FINAL ACT: Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

Emotional and spiritual crescendo as Jupiter and Mercury retrograde

Mars squares Saturn + Neptune = exhaustion, delays, and awakening

Capricorn energy returns: structure, action, maturity

March 16, 2026: ALL PLANETS DIRECT — the great forward surge

🪐 Final Message:This isn’t collapse — it’s compost. It’s the sacred pressure that prepares us for soul-aligned evolution. Retrograde City isn’t where things break — it’s where truth is revealed.

🌟 COMING SOONPart 2— Departure from Retrograde City (Early 2026)Includes:

Saturn–Neptune conjunction

Aquarius + Virgo eclipses

Final Uranus exit from Taurus

📣 Stay Connected🪐 marandthestars.com📸 Instagram: @marandthestars📬 DM Mar or leave a review — she loves hearing how the cosmos is showing up in your world.

If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone navigating the cosmic chaos too. You’re not lost — you’re in Retrograde City. And you won’t leave the same.

🎙️ Episode 15: The Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius

June 10th, 2025 at 12:44 AM PSTTitle: Illuminating the Path Between Logic and FaithHosted by: Mar Alejandra of Mar and the Stars

🌕 In This Episode:

Under the radiant glow of the Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius, we explore one of the year's most revelatory lunations. This isn’t just a Full Moon—it’s a reckoning. A mirror held up to the beliefs we've outgrown and the truths we’re brave enough to embody.

We revisit the seeds planted during the New Moon in Sagittarius on December 1st, 2024—amid Mercury and Mars retrograde—and trace how those energies have ripened, fractured, or come to full expression.

This episode dives deep into:

🌌 The spiritual and societal echoes of that December lunation

🌍 Sagittarius archetypes: faith vs. fanaticism, expansion vs. exaggeration

🧭 The cosmic tension between Gemini’s logic and Sagittarius’ belief

🔥 The call to speak inconvenient truths and move with purpose

🧠 How to integrate intellect and intuition under this Gemini–Sagittarius axis

✨ Key Themes:

Reclaiming personal and collective truth

Honoring movement: through ideas, identities, and geography

Speaking from integrity—even when it's uncomfortable

Rebalancing intellect with spiritual vision

Recognizing the shadow side of belief systems

🔮 Full Moon Horoscopes (Sun + Rising Signs):

A breakdown of how this Full Moon impacts every sign, with rituals for release, clarity, and transformation. Whether you’re feeling the pull to speak your truth, rewrite your story, or shed outdated roles—there’s a message here for you.

📝 Featured Signs:

Aries: Future vision, personal expansion

Taurus: Emotional depth, energetic reclamation

Gemini: Relationships & truth-telling

Cancer: Daily rhythms and sacred rest

Leo: Joy, passion, and creative pivots

Virgo: Family patterns and emotional roots

Libra: Clear communication and voice reclamation

Scorpio: Self-worth and financial integrity

Sagittarius: Identity, presence, and bold embodiment

Capricorn: Dreams, endings, and intuitive integration

Aquarius: Collective purpose and aligned community

Pisces: Career pivots and purposeful success

🌿 Ritual Spotlight:

For Sagittarius Energy: Burn herbs like sage or bay leaves to release limiting beliefs.

Gemini–Sagittarius Integration: Journal with prompts like: “Where does my logic support my faith?” or “What story am I no longer willing to live?”

🌠 Final Reflections:

This Full Moon is a mirror—revealing what we’re expanding, why, and whether it's rooted in truth or fear. In a world of constant noise, the real power lies in tuning into your own inner compass.

“Expansion without reflection is noise. Growth without meaning? Just motion.”

So ask yourself:What truth still rings, no matter how loud the world gets?Illuminate it.Live it.Let it lead.

🎧 Listen + Share:

If this episode resonated, share it with someone walking their own truth-seeking path. Leave a review, or message me—I love hearing how these transits are showing up in your world.

📍Available on:Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Substack🌐 Follow: @marandthestars