Astrology Alchemy Podcast
The Astrology Alchemy podcast gives you inspiring insights from current astrology cycles that support your path of turning your personal “lead” into “gold.” Hosted by archetypal astrologer Sheila Bélanger.
#374-"Look for the True Shape of Our Own Self"-Week of July 20, 2026
The Long Cycles Converge
Last week we named three great cycles being activated simultaneously. This week Jupiter weaves through all three in rapid succession — bringing what is large and transpersonal into the realm of the humanly meaningful. Into story, culture, and the conversations where collective transformation actually takes root.
This week also carries a transit that deserves its own moment of recognition. On Friday, Neptune in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius, the two slowest moving planets in flowing alignment, directly activating their own great cycle seeded in th...
#373-"Continue to Dare to Love Deeply, and Risk Everything for the Good Thing"-Week of July 13, 2026
The Long Cycles Become Visible
Something unusual is happening in the sky this month.
Not just the weekly transits. Something larger. A convergence of long cycles that rarely become visible all at once — briefly illuminated in ways that allow us to feel their presence and direction. This week I am taking more time than usual to orient you in that larger field before walking the specific transits.
The Three Long Cycles
In astrology, when two outer planets meet in conjunction, they seed a cycle that unfolds over ge...
#372-"Pause to Take in the Miracle of What is Here"--Week of July 6, 2026
What the Interior Field Is Asking
I am back.
Five weeks of pilgrimage in Bhutan, Nepal, and India. I am returning without full knowledge of what has shifted in the collective while I was away, trusting that you have been holding your own orientation through whatever has unfolded. What I can offer, as always, is the larger archetypal field and the longer view.
It is good to be back in this transmission with you.
This week has a particular quality of threshold. Neptune stations retrograde. A new <...
#371-"What if There is No Need to Change?"--Week of June 29, 2026
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. This is the last episode in this batch — I will be back in real time with you for episode #372.
Feel First, Then Offer
This is not a quiet week. Two major planetary shifts land on the same day. Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer. Jupiter enters Leo. And Mars makes three significant contacts by Sunday. The we...
#370-"As if Joy Weren’t Strewn All Around"-Week of June 22, 2026
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living.
Tend What Is Real
We are in the first full week of Cancer season. The Solstice has turned. The light is beginning its slow arc back toward darkness, not as loss, but as the natural rhythm of a living world that knows how to move between fullness and rest. This week is quieter in its archetypal signature — an invitation to let wh...
#369-"I Am the Wisdom of Millennia"--Week of June 15, 2026
A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living.
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The Wound Beneath Many Wounds
This is a week of significant arrivals. Venus in Leo moves through a rapid sequence of major contacts. Chiron crosses into Taurus, beginning nearly eight years of healing work in the realm of body, earth, and resource. And the week closes with the Sun entering Cancer at...
#368-The Secret of My Own Dignity"-Week of June 8, 2026
A brief note. These episodes are being released during a five-week period when I am away and not tracking current events in real time. The archetypal patterns I offer are reliable. What is expressing them in the world right now is yours to hold alongside what I offer.
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Completion, Crossing, and New Beginning
Something is completing and something is beginning this week. Venus, who has been moving through Cancer since mid-May, turning the relational field toward nurturing and genuine care, is preparing to leave. Before she goes, she has...
#367-"As Invisible as the True Stars at Daybreak"--Week of June 1, 2026
What the Feeling Body Knows
A brief note before we begin.
The next several episodes have been created in advance, during a period when I am away on pilgrimage. I am not tracking the daily news cycle or what is unfolding in real time. If significant things have shifted in the collective field since these episodes were recorded, I trust you to hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. The archetypal patterns are reliable. The specific events that express them are yours to track.
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#366-"If We Surrendered to Earth's Intelligence"--Week of May 25, 2026
Where Is Your Source of Genuine Meaning?
This week the pressure deepens.
It opens on Memorial Day in the United States, a moment when a nation is asked to honor its dead, even as it struggles to honestly name what so many of them died for, and what continues to be sacrificed in the service of systems that were never designed for everyone.
An Elder perspective (which we can all carry) does not bypass that tension. It holds it.
Key Cycles This Week:
Monday...
#365-"I Felt the Possibility of Reverence and Celebration”-Week of May 18, 2026
A Recalibration of the Personal Field
This is a week of genuine shift.
Three personal planets change signs within two days. Mars enters Taurus. Venus enters Cancer. The Sun moves into Gemini. How we act, how we relate, and how we perceive are all recalibrating simultaneously.
This is happening within a larger collective reckoning that has not quieted. The basement contents of colonial, dominator, and white supremacist culture continue surfacing in ways that are difficult to look at and equally difficult to look away from. T...