Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of August 15th, 2022: Mercury trines Uranus, Venus trines Jupiter, and Mars enters Gemini

Episode Date: August 15, 2022

In this podcast, New York Times bestselling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all. The astrology of the week of August 15th, 2022, encourages us to go with the flow and follow what’s easy. After the gnarly astrology of the past month, this week brings a welcomed shift, thanks to a couple of lovely trines. On Tuesday, Mercury (the planet of communication) trines Uranus (the planet of innovation) and ushers in some much-needed system updates. Then on Thursday, Venus (the planet of connection) trines Jupiter (the planet of abundance), delivering blessings all around. This is a moment for spontaneous hangs with your besties, and an opportunity to celebrate the generosity in your life. At the end of the week, Mars moves into Gemini and Mercury makes an opposition to Neptune, sparking a flurry of curiosity and Twilight Zone logic. So sit back and get your daydream on. Your to-do list can wait a few days. For more, check out your free Weekly Guide on the homepage of the CHANI app. Android users can receive their free Weekly Guide by signing up for our newsletter on chaninicholas.com. The CHANI app is currently only available for the iPhone, but we are working as hard and as fast as we can on an Android app. In the meantime, Android users can access our content by purchasing the Android Workshops on chaninicholas.com. The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

We are pulling out of the gnarly astrology of July and August. This week gives us a definitive shift towards something a little easier, a little brighter, and a little sweeter. This is the Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast, and I'm your host, Channy Nicholas. In this podcast, we look at the astrology of the upcoming week and how it will be landing for all of us collectively. for a more personalized reading that dives into the ways that this week's astrology will play out for you. Download the Chani app for iPhone. All right, y'all, we are looking at the week of August 15th in this episode. And I'm so happy to report that we are in a momentary decline in regards to red flag astrology.

And not only are we actually moving away from some. of the contentiousness, but we have some really lovely little moments that populate this week as well. So in this podcast, I like to focus on how the astrology might impact us collectively, maybe even globally. And sometimes that's really obvious and easy to spot. And you might notice that when there's really challenging astrology, like the astrology we just moved out of, it actually doesn't impact you negatively. But it's not hard to make global correlations to challenging astrology, especially what we just are coming out of.

We got monkeypox times pandemic, times Europe at the very least in a massive heat wave and the obvious environmental crisis, ongoing disruptions to our economic system, etc. And that was all because Mars and Uranus and the North Node piled up, and they all squared Saturn. Well, we could say that it's not because that happened astrologically, but that was the astrological mirror that we were looking at in terms of it correlating with world events. And again, sometimes those friction-causing aspects can actually land in our chart in a positive way, or at least in a way that spurs us into action, which can be really important and, of course, very timely, which we can also say is true for global events once we gain enough perspective. So you might notice that. And that's why I always say don't fear the astrology because we actually don't know what we need.

And then in hindsight, we can be like, oh, weird, but that was actually good for me. Or that was actually really important and I can see why. And so in weeks like this, when the astrology is quote unquote good, it will hopefully help us just like meander along. It's kind of like a floating down the river type of vibe because this week we experience. to trines and trines are about flow or ease. And so we don't have to do anything with them. In fact, just hanging out and enjoying them can be so essential to our mental health and well-being. We don't always have to be in hyper-productive mode.

This is, at least from Monday to Friday, astrology that encourages us to go where the ease is already occurring. and to get in that stream. Where is the energy? Where do you feel life? Where do you feel like something is alive and exciting? That's what the Monday to Friday of this week's astrology helps us to tune into. The weekend has a totally different tone, so we'll put that aside. But again, this Monday to Friday is like, okay, what are we going to do with what is easy?

what in my life works already. What do I not have to fix? What do I not have to rearrange? What do I not have to figure out? Can I just focus there? And I'll just say just because the astrology is easy for a moment, it doesn't mean the world will be easy because we don't live in an easy world. That's just not how it goes.

And pulling out of really tough astrology doesn't just end with the transit, the reverb of it continues and lingers. So I just want to say I'm not trying to frame it as like, oh, the astrology is bad, so then only that time frame is bad. And the astrology is now good. So now everything is good. Things work in loops and they work in rhythms and they work in flows and things overlap. And our job is just to see how we can, whatever it is, that's present. And this is what I do. This is what our company does, is we look for the bright spots in the year, astrologically speaking. And this week, on Thursday, there is one of the brightest spots of July and August.

And so building up to Thursday, especially like Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, there is a lovely astrological signature to work with. There are two, but there's one that is outstanding. And that is Venus in Leo, trine Jupiter, and Ares. The reason why I say it's outstanding is because Venus and Jupiter, if you've been around here for a second, you've heard me say this a million times, they are the planets that do good, bring blessings. And when they line up in a flowing or favorable aspect like a trine, those good things become easier to experience or feel, seem, appear more readily accessible.

Now, of course, just like that metaphor about meditation being that the mind is the sky and your thoughts are the clouds, the sky is always there. It's just that sometimes our thoughts cloud, the blue sky. Astrology is similar to that. There's always. a blessing. There's always good energy. There's always love available because at least I believe that is the foundational spirit of the great creative force that brought us here. So that's a constant and that's an always. And there are moments where the clouds part and that love and those blessings of feeling connected to that great source of generosity and generativity are a little easier to to, to feel, to know, to acknowledge. And that's what this week's astrology is about, at least

up until about Friday. So Venus is the planet of connection and beauty and love and relationship and desire and being able to magnetize or attract to us what we most want. And Jupiter is about abundance and plenty and generosity and spirituality. And it is the principle of giving and also of magnification. So when these two line up in this kind of positive formation, it is an affirmation of those two things in our life. So to know how to work with this astrology, you can go and listen to your reading for this week in,

the Chani app in the workshop section of the app. And know that the areas of your chart that contain Leo and Aries are the parts of your chart that will feel these blessings the most. And that's what we go into in this week's reading. On a collective level, it might afford us, I'm afraid to say this, it might afford us a moment of collective hope. Now, I don't put a lot of stock in hope. I put a lot of faith in the kinds of systems and rituals and actions that we can take to protect,

cherish, love, nurture, and foster what needs to be fostered, basically, each other. So I put a lot of faith in what works. But there are moments where, you know, we get uplifted and we feel a sense of like, oh, maybe it's possible. And those moments are so important and I love them. I just don't count on them. So if you do feel a sense of hopefulness or a sense of like, ooh, this is cause for celebration, or if you notice that out in the world this week, yay, fantastic. I love it. Then the Venus, Jupiter is mirroring that. But if you don't, that's also okay. We can still work with this astrology. Again, by leaning in to what already works.

And what always works is generosity and sweetness. Venus is sweetness. Jupiter is generosity. Can you be sweet and generous starting with yourself? And then see how that might move out to everyone else. So Venus and Jupiter line up in this trine on Thursday, August 18th, at 103 a.m. Pacific Time. So the whole world will experience this on Thursday. But if you're in Pacific time or Central Time or Eastern Time, you're going to notice it more.

You might want to work with it to catch the wave of the energy on Wednesday. So if there's some kind of announcement to make or some kind of self-promotion to do, this is Venus and Leo, this is Jupiter and Ares. It's really good about promoting itself. then Wednesday might be a good day to put something out that feels celebratory or to do something that feels celebratory. It's a beautiful moment for spontaneous hangs with your besties and your loves. And it's a gorgeous moment to feel the generosity of your life and to communicate it, to be able to affirm it and to let it light you up. So that's the main focus of our week or the thing I wanted to highlight and point out

because it is a lovely moment after a little bit of a storm. The other things that are going on is that this week, Mercury makes some very important moves. Mercury is the planet of communication. So on Tuesday, the 16th, Mercury goes from a trine to Uranus, which is very... innovative and helpful and reminds us of the systems updates that are ready for us. And it's really good if we download them, metaphorically speaking, because by Sunday the 21st, Mercury makes an opposition to Neptune. So all week, Mercury is really good, especially up until Tuesday, which isn't all week, but Monday and Tuesday especially,

Mercury is like high functioning and it's in its own sign in Virgo and it's not yet in its pre-retrored shadow phase. but by this weekend things get murky and a little unclear, which is fine. That's what weekends are for. It doesn't have to always be clear. And confusion is definitely its own medicine. Getting disorientated is part of how we learn how to find our own way. And it's a good signature to dream with. So Mercury will make an opposition to Neptune on Sunday the 21st and also move into its pre-shodews. retrograde phase. Mercury will station retrograde on September 9th. So we still have some, you know, time, but just know that once it moves into the shadowy phase of its pre-retrograde, we're probably going to have to come back and pick up these pieces. So things that get missed now will definitely have to come back and get, again, making the systems updates that we receive Monday and Tuesday really important to download. Like, okay, this is a, more innovative way to do this thing. Let me act on it now. Well, I'm still in the clear.

The other big piece of the astrology is that Mars moves in to Gemini on Saturday the 20th. This will bring a flurry of activity and information and curiosity and a lot of choices and a lot of distractions. Mars is energy. Gemini is distracted, curious, inquisitive. Same thing. and really eager to learn and to communicate. And so all of that gets amped up. The thing is, is that by the end of October, Mars will station retrograde and be retrograde into the new year. And Mars will end up staying in Gemini until the end of March of 2023.

So it's going to spend seven whole months in the part of your chart that contains Gemini. This is a whole palava. we talk about it in the year aheads, also in the workshop section of the app. The whole year is laid out for you. So definitely go listen to those if you're a subscriber of the app. But we aren't there yet. We might experience some kind of mercury retrograde type of things happening situations this weekend. The thing is, as soon as Mars moves in to Gemini,

Mercury is also in its pre-retrograde shadow phase, and it's in an opposition to Neptune, which says Mars is in a situation where the planet that rules its sign that can give it resources is in a slippery, weird twilight zone kind of moment. So this weekend might feel like you are trying to parse out what information is important to act on and what isn't a highly strong. strongly suggest not trying to get anything accomplished this weekend, to let things be confusing, to let things not make sense, to not try to figure things out before you've got all of the pieces of the puzzle together. Just really kind of sitting with like, huh, well, that's, I don't know what I

don't know. So eventually that piece will drop in. But for now, I'm a little in the dark. And that's also okay. I can kind of feel my way around. And again, it's also really good astrology to just like escape, daydream, nap, hang out, do the things that help you to engage with the potent, creative force that is your imagination. Big thank you to everyone who has left us a review in the app store recently. We love and appreciate reading everything you have to say. I wanted to share this review with you. It is titled Life Changing. I'm so grateful for this resource of guidance, wisdom, and love. I have used this app since January of 2021 when I was stuck inside with COVID, and it has been an absolute pleasure to get to grow alongside this amazing magical world that Chani

brings to life for us. I've been a dedicated student of of astrology for about 15 years and no other form of learning this system has been so profound and connective. I love how it relates to the current energies to what's happening in our world. It truly has made me feel supported on a deep level of my being. And for that, I cannot thank Chani and the whole team enough. Y'all are angels during quite turbulent times. And I truly believe these reflective practices make me a better human. All right, y'all, that is the reading for the week. I hope it's helpful. Sending you lots of love. I hope these trines between Mercury and Uranus and Venus and Jupiter help to highlight everything that is working in your life, everything that's already perfect,

everything that is already so full of love and creative potential. Bye for now.