Episode 18

In this podcast, professional astrologers Chani Nicholas, Thea Anderson, and Eliza Robertson look to the sky to make sense of what’s happening here on Earth.

This episode brings you into the astrological group chat to talk through how all of March’s astro madness landed IRL. Covering everything from the rising groundswell of anti-Trump activism to Cory Booker’s record-breaking Senate speech, the ongoing Signalgate scandal, and Canada’s upcoming election, we unpack all the ways the recent retrogrades and eclipses manifested in the collective. And then we look ahead to April and make predictions about what’s in store with the much-anticipated Mars–Pluto matchup at the end of the month. The world spins on, and we’ve got a lot to discuss. So let’s get into it.

Content warning: Abduction, genocide, acts of war

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Welcome to Down to Astro episode 18

(07:17) - Global protests and political movements

(22:59) - 2017 vs. 2025: the influence of Venus retrograde

(29:38) - State violence and disappearing protestors

(35:32) - Saturn and Neptune: a struggle between structure and erosion

(40:49) - The astrology of the Signalgate scandal

(55:52) - The Virgo eclipse and the loss of both language and detail under Trump

(59:56) - Neptune in Aries: a shift in Canadian national identity

(01:12:00) - The sociocultural stakes of the Canadian election

(01:14:10) - Historic astro parallels: 1960s and modern migration

(01:16:30) - Ask us anything: understanding the reverb of astrological transits

(01:25:55) - Predictions for April: the Mars-Pluto opposition

This episode was recorded on 4/2/2025.

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The song “Midas,” featured in the podcast, was created by NISHA and is available wherever you listen to music.

This episode also mentioned the following creative works:

Ali Olomi’s (@aaolomi) X thread about the Virgo eclipse
Anxiety by Doechii
“The Editor Who Was Accidentally Texted War Plans” by The Daily
“The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans” by Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic
“These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration” by Karen Yourish, Annie Daniel, Saurabh Datar, Isaac White, and Lazaro Gamio for The New York Times

P.S. The transcript for this episode is available here.

Witches in the woods, the Canadian election, and Signalgate