Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of May 8th: Mercury and Uranus bring breakthroughs

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

Episode 125In 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 May 8th, 2023, starts out bumpy but ends with some clarity. On Tuesday, the Sun conjoins Uranus (the planet of disruption), clarifying the need for a specific kind of change in our lives — and possibly in the world. On Friday, Venus (the planet of love) trines Saturn (the planet of boundaries), asking us to commit to what brings us long-lasting sweetness. On Sunday, Mercury (the planet of communication) stations direct and prompts us to find the lessons in the recent misfires and breakdowns in our lives. So go slow. Sift through the details. Relax. And enjoy the physical pleasures surrounding you.  For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app. Android users can receive their free daily horoscope on the CHANI website. 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 chani.com. The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

Hello and welcome. This is the Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast, and I am your host, Chani 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, this week starts out a little bumpy, a little, a little, revolutionary, a little eccentric, perhaps. On Tuesday, we've got the sun in Taurus making a conjunction with Uranus. It is the Uranus Kazimi, if you will, which seems to clarify the need for a specific kind of change in our life and possibly in our world. This kind of spark, it is the

light of the sun and the wildness and the freedom seeking influence of Uranus coming together. And so it really does feel like a moment where we might be especially emboldened to do something different. And we might see some headlines where people feel the need to go in a radically unique kind of way. It is a week that shows us a lot about. the power of disruption and the power of using our persona and our identity for making change. So you might feel that at the beginning of the week, there's something that is agitating. And the agitation can make us buck systems of tradition for good reason or for no good reason at all. We really have to kind of manage that distinction on our own. Is this something

that I have to break down completely, or is it something that just needs a little bit of reinvention? Is it something that needs a 2.0? Does it need a systems update? Does it need a little bit of a shift? Or is it something that has to be radical? This kind of astrology can seduce us into thinking that things have to be extreme when really they don't. This is happening in Taurus, which is a fixed sign, and fixed signs have a little bit of a penchant for being really stubborn. So when change happens in a stubborn kind of scenario, it's a kind of all or nothing feeling. So remind yourself, it doesn't have to be all or nothing unless it does, right? Sometimes we can only change by getting rid of what isn't working.

but and also the vitality of the sun reminds us that we have to replace what we break down with something new. So there is a need for creativity. There is a desire for reinvention. And there is a disturbing of the status quote. Now, we're just coming off of last week's eclipses. We just had an eclipse on Friday, on the 5th of May, that is still reverberating out through the airwaves. through our lives. And that eclipse was very intertwined with this message because the sun was a couple degrees away from Uranus during that eclipse. And now the sun and Uranus are exact. So it feels like a

little bit of possibly like an energetic hangover from the eclipse or still that feeling of change that eclipse season tends to bring that's being infiltrated or that is really like permeating the airwaves of again the beginning of this week. And we move from this really distinct disruptive quality of the sun uranus conjunction to mercury stationing direct at the very end of the week. And I do want to say that this is a very helpful station direct. So, we still might find that things feel like they're breaking and not working and getting misrepresented or there's still miscommunications that are flying about. But I want you to sit with this question.

What about what isn't working is actually exceptionally helpful to know right now? Mercury's Station Direct can still feel very chaotic. and yet it's happening in a way that is still really helpful. So if something breaks this week, I just want you to have that in mind. I just want you to keep in the back of your mind, in the front of your mind all around, that this is going to have a good outcome. If something breaks, it's like, okay, better I know now than when I was in the middle of really needing to use it. or if something falls through, it's like I'm just going to suspend my disbelief and think

this is for the better. This is the best. This is working out for the best for me. And if you can have that kind of attitude, I think what we're going to see with this week's Mercury retrograde partial mayhem is that it's going to be the best thing that kind of could happen. So if we keep an attitude of gratitude to be cheesy about it in regards to what falls through, what works out, what doesn't, we're going to be really well situated to receive the gifts of certain things falling apart, certain things falling through, certain things showing up really differently. Because again, on Tuesday, when the sun and Uranus come together for the Uranus Kazimi, something about change and something about our freedom gets really pronounced. And it's

actually a really good day to dedicate yourself to that in the ways that you need to. And then as Mercury Stations Direct, again, there's this type of chaos or there's this type of disruption that happens when Mercury Stations Direct, even though it's like a positive thing in a sense, because the planet's going to start to move forward again. Not that the retrograde is negative. It's just a little difficult sometimes, but there's a positive association, but it can still bring up all the stuff. And even within all of that, there's a positive change. So again, it feels like within the week's disruptive nature and within the week's change of plans, there's at the heart of everything, the need to be radically honest with ourselves. Now, the other thing that's happening

with Mercury on its way to station direct. So we're talking about the course of the weekend, Friday, Saturday and into Sunday. Mercury on Friday makes a couple of very helpful little connections, one with Saturn, so that's like very stabilizing. And one with Venus. And Venus is the ruler of Mercury in Taurus. Venus is a ruler of Taurus. So Venus is currently Mercury's ruler. And that's really nice because when there's a helpful connection between a planet and the planet that rules a sign that it's in, that planet can throw the other one a life raft. And this combination of a good Saturn connection and a good Venusian connection is saying there's sturdiness. There's some really good long-term plans that can start to be worked out or reviewed in an important way. And there's a remembering.

There's a remembering that connections and pleasure and art and beauty are so central and important to feeling like we have a good full life. And actually, Venus is ruling everything that's happening this week. Venus is in charge of every planet that I've talked about because it's all happening in Taurus. The sun is in Taurus. Urenas is in Taurus. Urenas is in Taurus. Taurus, Mercury is stationing direct in Taurus. And Venus is able to witness that sign right now, because Venus is currently in cancer. And on Friday, Venus makes a trine to Saturn. So all that to say without any of the astrology in the way, the governing force of the week is really solid and actually able to be in flow because of the boundaries that have been put in place.

Said another way, if we're able to adhere to our own boundaries or when we are able to adhere to our boundaries and adhere to our commitments and stick to the things that we know that in the long run will bring us an incredible pleasure and satisfaction and sweetness in our life, it all works out wonderfully. And in fact, as the sun and Uranus make that conjunction on Tuesday, we want to think about the fact that there's no real freedom in life unless we're committed to the right things. Like, you can have no responsibilities, but then you also have no commitments, no long-term commitments that hold you to something. And then in fact, there's so much freedom to be found when we are committed to the things that are the best for

our integrity, the best for our long-term growth and health and wellness, and our long-term maturity. And so the venous of it all is saying commit to the things that are going to bring you pleasure long term. This is not an instant gratification moment. Make the changes that you know you need to make in order to enjoy your body, in order to enjoy your physical life, in order to enjoy your relationships, make the changes that long term are going to open up the floodgates of sweetness in your life. And as Mercury stations direct in Taurus and Venus's sign, it's saying, okay, I am not going to pretend that I don't know what the problem is or pretend that I don't know what doesn't work

and what does work. And I'm going to commit to the things that are long-term solutions. And I refuse to pretend that I don't know what I know. we often get answers. Like we ask a lot of questions and then we get the answers. We receive the thing. And if it's personal inconvenience, a lot of the times, we were like, maybe, maybe I didn't ask the right question.

Maybe I should rephrase that. You pull another tarot card. You know what I mean? So when you know, when you get the message, I used to have a therapist that used to always say this. When you get the message, Channie, hang up the phone. You're done. Get the message. Move on. Implement it. Integrate it. And by the end of the week, that's where we're at. We're at the Mercury pivoting. We're like, okay, I did my investigations. I looked back and recalculated everything that I got wrong. I've got the formula. I've got the data. I've got what I need to have in order to do this next leg of the journey. And that's all we have to do. We don't have to know for years and years. Just this next little. piece of it. So commit to your pleasure, commit to love in your life long term. And I mean like love in all of the

different ways that love comes in to your life. What is sustaining in terms of your relationships? What is enduring in terms of your relationships? What helps you to feel committed long term to your art to your creative life to creating a life of beauty. All right, y'all. That's it. That's my sermon. That's the week. This is eclipse season wrapped up. It's still kind of, you know, again, works itself out for a long time, but we've gone through the major portal. And by the end of this week, end, end, end, and end, Mercury will station direct. And next week, we will be in a new scenario and we'll be ready to set sail on a new kind of adventure. Thank you all so much for leaving reviews in the app store.

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End quote. worth every cent if becoming the best version of yourself and connecting with the cosmos is your hope sending you lots of love many many blessings take this end of week slowly go through the details go through the fine print let yourself be relaxed with the information if torus teaches us anything it is how to relax and enjoy the physical pleasures that are surrounding us that are all around us. And Venus definitely wants us to do that in that trine with Saturn. There's a slowness. There's a steadiness. There's a sturdiness. And there is a ability to wait for the thing that we really, really want and not just fill ourselves, our senses up with things that are

distracting because we can't be patient. Bye for now.