The Embodied Aquarian Age

Venus and Mercury will BOTH be retrograde in Scorpio this fall, stirring up what’s hidden in the depths and what’s ready for resolution, release or resurrection.

VerDarLuz and I got together for a one-hour conversation diving into the shadowy Scorpionic terrain and offering astro-navigational guidance for the next three months. We give key dates to watch for, info about previous cycles, how the retrogrades will affect your birth chart, journaling prompts, and more! For the last 30 minutes, enjoy an ecstatic dance release curated by VerDarLuz.

Handouts (when you click the link, the PDF will automatically download):

* Venus & Mercury retro (dates & details about both retrogrades and how to find which houses in your chart will be activated)

* Houses handout (for more info about the houses)

Upcoming Events:

* For women who want extra support and a community container for moving through this transformational terrain, I’m teaming up with Master Energy Magician Katie Todd to offer a 6-week deep dive: Venus Retrograde Reset - A Reclamation of Desire, Pleasure & Wealth. We start October 1.

* Join VerDarLuz on October 1 for a FREE training: Astrology and Human Design for Business Empowerment - Success, Ease, and Flow.

* And two more offerings from Ver: Human Design, Gene Keys, and Your Moon Sign – Shadow and Light: Your Inner Authority and Your Decision-Making Clarity, a masterclass on October 6, and a 3-week journey starting October 23: Zodiac Shadow Dance and the Playlist of My Life.

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Shamanic healer Sarah Sol and I got together for another conversation, this time about Chiron, as an introduction to our upcoming workshop: Chiron in Taurus - An Astrological & Shamanic Initiation.

In preparation for our conversation, Sarah did a shamanic journey to meet Chiron, who suggested three questions for us to explore:

* What is a wound?

* Are you willing to let something properly die?

* Where is the pleasure in the suffering?

We also talked about:

* Who is Chiron and the significance of Chiron’s recent transition from Aries to Taurus;

* Chiron the Shaman as mediator between matter and spirit;

* The gift of Chiron as a Centaur - half-human, half-horse;

* And much more!

Links:

* Upcoming online workshop with Emily & Sarah: Chiron in Taurus - An Astrological & Shamanic Initiation, starting Wednesday, July 22 (everyone is welcome - no previous astrology or shamanic journeying experience needed!)

* Find out more about Sarah’s work: SarahSol.com

* First conversation with Sarah, about ancestral healing and animal communication: “We Are A Web of Being”

* Conversation with Chiron expert Melanie Reinhart: “Bringing Light Into the Darkness of the Underworld”

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Katie Todd is a master energy healer and my dear soul sister of more than 20 years. Leading up to our Venusian Solstice retreat at Omega, Embody Your Radiance, we got together to talk about transformation - our own growth as well as holding space together for women for 15+ years.

In this free-flowing, 30-minute conversation, we explore:

* The importance of safety and the “survival creatures of our female bodies;”

* Feminine shadows, female competition, the witch wound and sister wound;

* The vulnerability of owning your big desires and embodying more erotic energy;

* The power of women’s community to expand the imprint of what’s possible;

* And much more!

Embody Your Radiance is a 5-day immersion at Omega in upstate New York, starting June 21. All women are welcome!

Join Katie and me to:

* Be held in a relaxing, loving container

* Learn about Venus in your birth chart

* Receive group energy healing sessions

* Move your body in fun, easeful, nourishing ways

* Bond with other amazing women

We hope to see you at the Solstice! Questions? Just hit reply.

love, Emily

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Sarah Sol is an ancestral healer, animal communicator, and ritualist who helps human and animal clients step into the fullness of their Embodied Soul -- the complete expression of their unique selves. She is particularly interested in tending to patterns of spiritual and energetic illness in individual clients within the context of their relationships, families, and ancestral lineages. Sarah Sol is also deeply in love with animals and is able to communicate with the spirits of both domesticated and wild animals and tend to their spiritual and energetic illnesses as well. She works with individuals one-on-one both in-person and online, and facilitates several ongoing healing circles. Sarah Sol currently lives in the strange and majestic San Luis Valley with her husband Joshua and an ever-growing family of critters.

I was thrilled to get to talk with Sarah, my dear friend and soul sister, about ancestral healing - a subject that has been front and center in the recent astrology and in my own life. In our one-hour conversation, we talked about:

* The individual and collective impact of being disconnected from our ancestors;

* The spiritual roots of illness, anxiety, depression and meaninglessness;

* Soul retrieval as a shamanic approach to healing trauma;

* Coming out of survival fear and recreating our human species;

* Animal communication and how animals show us the union of spirit and body;

* And much more!

Find out more about Sarah’s offerings:

* main website: SarahSol.com

* Email: [email protected]

* Online Ancestral Healing Circle

* Online Animal Communication & Healing Circle

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Eric Francis Coppolino is the editor of Planet Waves and the host of Planet Waves FM. Author of the Planet Waves horoscope column since 1996, Eric entered astrology after a long career covering chemical toxins and fraud by their manufacturers, including Monsanto and General Electric. Eric has written horoscopes for the London tabloids The Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror, as well as The New York Daily News, and many of those magazines you see in the supermarket.

I’ve been a fan of Eric’s work for going on 20 years, and we had our first podcast conversation back in 2022 (Who Am I, What Is Real, Am I Real?). Now we’ve reconvened as Eric is finishing up his in-depth 2026 forecasts (Inner Light) to talk about the astrological highlights for the new year.

Eric’s links:

* Inner Light - Inner Peace 2026 Annual Readings

* The Greatest Story Never Written — A.I. Compilation

* Planet Waves Home

* Planet Waves FM - Pacifica Radio - Eric’s Show

* The Family Hunger Game

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We know you’ve let things go. So have we. But when we say it’s time to let it all go we really, really mean it this time.

On February 20, 2026, humanity as a whole – and each of us individually – will enter a new era, an epic, once-in-a-lifetime rebirth. Slow-moving Saturn and Neptune will meet up at the very first degree of the zodiac (0° Aries) for the first time in over 6,000 years.

How do we prepare? By emptying out. Acknowledging, accepting and grieving all that did and did not happen in the past.

We’re all at a choice point. Keep carrying the chains of Christmas Past like good old Ebenezer or really name and claim and honor – and ugly cry if you need to – over all that never came to pass and never will. It’s time for a reverently irreverent yet totally sincere burial ceremony.

The only way out is through. Which means being vulnerably real and honest and saying a heartfelt goodbye in order to say a bigger hello to what will and must come. The more you can release now, the more vitality, clarity, purpose and passion you’ll be available for on the other side.

Join us in sacred sisterhood to put the fun back in funeral as we say goodbye to all the dreams that can never be.

We’ll gather for:

* Deeply resonant and powerful self-reflection to clarify what dreams are really dead (and what dreams may still be resuscitated);

* Sacred movement to release any energies that no longer serve while inviting the energy of new life and new dreams;

* An herbal ceremony to open the heart and support the grieving process, the dissolving of old energies;

* A sacred ceremony to bid farewell to those dreams that will never be realized;

* You’ll be seen, heard, held and honored in your tender surrender.

We’ll meet Saturday, January 24, 10am-3pm. All women are welcome, no previous astro-experience is necessary. The group is limited to 12 participants, and early registration pricing ($144) is available through January 14.

Get all the details and sign up

Questions? Just hit reply. Hope to see you there! love, Emily

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The Saturn Return - when Saturn returns to where it was when you were born - is a time of massive transition, characterized by significant endings and beginnings. One 29-year cycle comes to a close, and a new one begins, marking the threshold between past and future, who you’ve been and who you are ready to become now.

The Saturn Return invites you to shed social and family conditioning, release what you’ve outgrown, clarify and align with your soul’s true purpose, and step into greater self-authority. Saturn works through pressure, and often during the Return you’re under pressure to make big decisions with long-term consequences.

In mainstream astrology, there can be a lot of fear-based nonsense projected onto Saturn. When you enter your return with anxiety and dread, you can limit the higher potentials available in this transformational portal.

Tammy Roth and I are offering a one-of-a-kind group experience to support you to consciously navigate your Saturn Return. Our 8-week Saturn Return Quantum Immersion starts January 6th.

In this immersion, you’ll cultivate a direct connection with your unique expression of Saturn. Bypassing mental constructs and assumptions, you’ll enter the Quantum Field to experience the energy of Saturn in your body, feelings and intuition. You’ll alchemize any blocks to expressing the highest potential of Saturn’s placement in your chart, and open to receiving Saturn’s specific wisdom and guidance.

You’ll also have opportunities to connect with, learn from, and receive support from a community of Saturn Returners. In addition to working in the Quantum Field, we’ll reflect on the past and set intentions for the future through writing prompts, creative practices and intimate sharing.

We’ll meet during the final weeks of Saturn in Pisces and as Saturn transitions into Aries.

If you were born with Saturn in Pisces, you’re completing your Return. This immersion will help you integrate, reflect on and receive new insights about your journey over the past few years. If you were born with Saturn in Aries, and just starting your Return, this group will help you navigate the next few years with greater awareness and inner strength. (See dates below if you’re not sure if you’re in your Saturn Return.)

Whether you’re in your first or second Saturn Return, join us for a unique, experiential and empowering journey. Anyone born with Saturn in Pisces or Aries is welcome, and no prior astro-know-how is required (beginners welcome). You’ll get the most from this immersion with live participation, but recordings will be available if you have to miss a session.

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You have Saturn in Pisces if you were born: March 24-September 16, 1964, December 16, 1964-March 3, 1967; or May 21, 1993-June 30, 1993, January 28, 1994-April 7, 1996

You have Saturn in Aries if you were born: March 3, 1967-April 29, 1969; or April 7, 1996-June 8, 1998, October 25, 1998-March 1, 1999

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Lara J. Day is the author of the 13 Sacred Nights Oracle. She is on a mission to reclaim the hyper-commercialized holidays and return the Soul to the Solstice. Lara is also the creator of Neurogenic Qigong, her own unique and innovative healing method which interweaves Chinese energy medicine with tension-&-trauma-releasing, neurogenic, tremor work. Lara has been teaching energy arts since 2003 and is unspeakably grateful for her teachers and the chance to view this absurd and perfectly magnificent life from the energetic perspective.

I was thrilled to get to talk with Lara about the 13 Sacred (or Holy) Nights practice, which provides a powerful way to access the magic and co-creative potential of the darkest time of year. I’ve engaged with this practice for the past two years (and love it!), but Lara has been diving in for 17 years, and has a wealth of wisdom and experience to share.

We talked about:

* The 13 Sacred Nights as a more meaningful and fulfilling alternative to “the bonanza of sugar, shopping and alcohol” that typically characterizes the holidays;

* How Christmas used to look more like Saturnalia - the ancient Roman festival - and how (and why) the modern version was intentionally designed by the elites;

* The significance of the Winter Solstice in the wheel of the year, and why this is the most potent time for conscious co-creation with the Divine;

* The nuts and bolts of creating your own 13 Sacred Nights practice (please try this at home!) and how it helps you build your faith in the unseen;

* My astro-perspective on why this practice is especially crucial this year as we prepare for the Saturn-Neptune conjunction next February;

* And much more!

Shout-out to the amazing Brandon Thomas for connecting me with Lara!

Find out more about Lara’s work:

* Website: www.larajday.com

* Instagram: @larajday

* Facebook: @larajday

* TikTok: @larajday

* Order the 13 Sacred Nights Oracle

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After his double lung collapse at the tender age of 17, VerDarLuz committed to seize the day and take the deep dive into life. A traveler to 47 countries, author of three books including Codex of the Soul and Aquarius Dawns, and creator of the Divine Timing Online School, VerDarLuz uniquely blends systems of self-awareness — such as Evolutionary Astrology, Human Design, and Shamanic Therapies — into his holistic Life and Visionary Business Coaching practice.

I was thrilled to get to talk once again with the amazing VerDarLuz. In our first conversation, we focused on location astrology - Be Strategic with Where You Go and When.

This time, we dove into the exciting potentials - and possible shadows - of the current and ongoing rare alignment of the outer planets. (Apologies for the audio glitch near the end of the podcast.)

VerDarLuz also introduced his new training: Building the Starchetypal Village: Locational Astrology, Human Design, and Your Call to Co-Create the Future.

Sign up for a free online gathering this Wednesday, October 22nd, where you’ll learn:

🌟 Why 2025–2026 is a Planetary Turning Point

🌟 The Starchetopia Blueprint for Conscious Community-Building

🌟 Astrology & Human Design as Your Soul’s Compass

🌟 Living Examples of Protopia: Utopian Transition Towns in Action

🌟 AstroTheology and How to Embody the Mystic Warrior’s Path

🌟 How to Start Your Own Micro-Starchetopia

🌟 And so much more!

Hope to see you there!

Sign up

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