This is a space for exploring the layers of the human experience through astrology, energy healing, intuitive guidance, somatic healing, mind-body practices. Hosted by Ali Ofstedal, this podcast offers insights on self-discovery, inner healing, meditation, and manifestation techniques. Each episode includes astrology forecasts and practical tools for living in alignment with your true self. Join Ali as she uncovers life’s hidden wisdom and shares tools for healing and transformation.
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In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the Scorpio New Moon and the growing conjunction between Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node in Leo. This configuration brings our attention to the identities, beliefs, desires, and familiar patterns we've become attached to, particularly where our need for recognition, certainty, or control is preventing our evolution.
With Mercury reaching its cazimi in Scorpio and Venus retrograde forming a sextile to Jupiter, we're also examining the unconscious narratives shaping our sense of self and our relationships. As both Mercury and Venus approach their direct stations, this week opens a powerful examination of the ways we defend familiar versions of ourselves.
In this episode:
• Venus retrograde in Libra sextile Jupiter in Leo • Mercury cazimi in Scorpio and the illumination of unconscious patterns • The Scorpio New Moon at 16° on November 8 • The New Moon square Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node in Leo • Jupiter approaching its conjunction with the South Node on November 11 • Mars approaching its conjunction with Jupiter on November 16 • The Leo Aquarius evolutionary axis and our attachment to identity • Egoic conditioning, defensiveness, and the need to be right • The somatic experience of identity threat and psychological transformation • Venus and Mercury approaching their November 13 direct stations
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores Venus retrograde's return to Libra and her opposition to Chiron retrograde in Aries. Following her descent and rebirth in Scorpio, Venus brings our unconscious attachment patterns into the relational field, illuminating wounds around rejection, abandonment, autonomy, and our capacity to maintain a coherent sense of self within connection.
With Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, we're also examining the memories, interpretations, and survival strategies that shape our relationships. This week brings the Aries Libra evolutionary axis into focus as we continue a much longer process of understanding how we love, attach, communicate, and cultivate intimacy.
172. Phoenix - Venus Cazimi, Full Moon in Taurus, + Astrology for the Week of October 19, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores one of the most significant weeks of the Venus retrograde journey. Venus forms her second square to Pluto before reaching her rebirth point through the Sun Venus conjunction in Scorpio on October 23, connecting us to an eight year cycle that began in autumn 2018.
As Mercury stations retrograde and Venus returns to Libra, the Full Moon at 2° Taurus illuminates the evolutionary relationship between attachment and autonomy, shared and personal resources, and our capacity to cultivate internal security. With Pluto squaring the Full Moon, themes around power, control, desire, worth, and intimacy continue moving through a profound process of transformation.
171. Deepening - Astrology For the Week of October 11, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the astrology of October 11–18, as Pluto stations direct in Aquarius and Venus continues her retrograde through Scorpio. Following the Libra New Moon, we're exploring the unconscious architecture of relationship, attachment patterns, and the ways our earliest experiences of connection shape our capacity for intimacy, reciprocity, and trust.
Pluto stations direct just days before its second square with Venus retrograde, intensifying themes around power, control, desire, and self worth. Meanwhile, Mars in Leo trines Saturn retrograde in Aries, supporting greater agency and our capacity to create new relational patterns.
170. Descent - Venus Retrograde + Astrology for the Week of September 27, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the beginning of Venus retrograde in Scorpio and a deeper descent into relationship, desire, worth, power, and attachment.
Before Venus stations retrograde on October 3, Mercury in Scorpio, Mars in Leo, and Pluto in Aquarius form an intense fixed T square, bringing unconscious dynamics and long held material into greater awareness. We also explore the larger Venus cycle, including its connection to autumn 2018 and the Venus Sun conjunction on October 23, a central rebirth point within the retrograde journey.
In this episode:
• Mars entering Leo and the activation of desire, creativity, and life force • Mercury entering Scorpio and psychological excavation• The fixed T square between Mercury, Mars, and Pluto• Mars opposite Pluto and themes of power, anger, control, and personal will• Venus stationing retrograde in Scorpio on October 3• Relationship, attachment, intimacy, money, worth, and receiving during Venus retrograde• Venus retrograde as an underworld journey through the autumn months• The eight year Venus cycle and connections with autumn 2018• The October 23 Venus Sun conjunction and the rebirth point of the cycle• Recognizing how our values and desires have changed
169. Rebalance - Autumn Equinox + Full Moon in Aries - Weekly Astrology Forecast for September 20, 202
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the Autumn Equinox and a highly activated Full Moon at 3° Aries. As we cross into Libra season and the descent months, the balance between light and dark opens a new chapter of interiority, release, relationship, and transformation.
The Aries Full Moon connects directly into the outer planet architecture we have been tracking throughout 2026, activating Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Pluto in Aquarius while Mars begins its opposition to Pluto. With so much of the chart interconnected, this lunation brings collective transformation into the personal field through our instincts, relationships, boundaries, anger, choices, and use of life force.
In this episode:
• The Autumn Equinox and crossing the threshold into the descent• Libra season and the developmental relationship between self and other• The Sun in Libra opposite Neptune retrograde in Aries• The Full Moon at 3° Aries and themes of agency, desire, instinct, and selfhood• The Full Moon activating the Uranus Neptune Pluto outer planet configuration• The kite formation and larger planetary geometry surrounding the lunation• Mars in Cancer trine the Full Moon and Neptune• Mars beginning its opposition to Pluto and the intensification of anger, power, and survival material• Relational and psychological pressure building through the interconnected aspects around the Full Moon• Working somatically with activation, anger, urgency, and emotional energy• Carrying consciousness and life force with us as we enter the descent
168. Power - Venus Square Pluto + Astrology for the Week of September 13, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores a deeply relational week of astrology as Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto, Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries, and Chiron retrograde returns to Aries.
These transits bring us into the relationship between self and other, illuminating attachment patterns, power dynamics, boundaries, communication, anger, and agency. Chiron’s return to Aries reconnects us with a healing cycle we have been moving through since 2018, offering an opportunity to witness how our relationship with selfhood has changed and how those changes are now shaping the ways we relate to others.
167. Sorting - New Moon in Virgo + Weekly Astrology Forecast September 6, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the Virgo New Moon on September 10 and the process of integrating everything that has moved through us over the summer.
With Uranus stationing retrograde in Gemini, Mercury entering Libra, and Venus entering Scorpio on the same day, we are refining our relationships. This New Moon brings us back to discernment, devotion, and the small choices through which insight becomes embodied.
166. Integrate - Jupiter Trine Saturn, Mars Square Saturn + Astrology for the Week of August 30, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores Jupiter in Leo trine Saturn retrograde in Aries and the relationship between expansion, capacity, and structure.
This trine activates the Jupiter Saturn cycle that began with their conjunction in December 2020, bringing another stage of development to what was seeded at that time. With Mars in Cancer also squaring Saturn, we are working with our limits, energy, commitments.
165. Culminations - A Lunar Eclipse in Pisces + Astrology for the Week of August 23, 2026
In this week's episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores the Partial Lunar Eclipse at 4° Pisces.
As the final Pisces eclipse until 2034, this lunation brings us back through two years of lessons around surrender, control, intuition, discernment, healing, and trust. A Mercury cazimi add insight and changing perspectives.
In this episode:
• Venus retrograde returning to Libra after her Scorpio descent • Venus opposite Chiron retrograde at 28° Aries • The Aries Libra evolutionary axis and the relationship between self and other • Attachment conditioning, rejection, and abandonment wounds • Differentiation and maintaining a coherent sense of self within relationship • Healthy anger, boundaries, and the development of autonomy • Mercury retrograde in Scorpio and unconscious relational narratives • Repatterning through new relational experiences • The larger Venus retrograde process unfolding through December
• Venus retrograde square Pluto and the three part cycle unfolding through December • The Venus cazimi in Scorpio on October 23 and the rebirth of a new Venus cycle • The eight year Venus cycle and its connection to autumn 2018 • The mythology of Inanna and the Venus underworld journey • Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio • Venus retrograde returning to Libra • The Full Moon at 2° Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius • The Scorpio Taurus evolutionary axis and themes of attachment, resources, and internal security • Mars in Leo and the continuing activation of the fixed signs • Reclaiming self worth, sovereignty, and embodied security
• The Libra New Moon and our relational architecture • Venus retrograde in Scorpio and attachment conditioning • Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius • The three part Venus Pluto square unfolding through December • Power, control, intimacy, and self worth • Mars in Leo trine Saturn retrograde in Aries • Mercury's pre retrograde shadow in Scorpio • The approaching October 23 Venus rebirth point • Creating new relational patterns through embodied awareness
• Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius and the psychology of attachment • Intimacy, vulnerability, power, control, and fear of loss • Differentiation and remaining connected to ourselves within relationship • Mercury in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries and communicating clear boundaries • The developmental relationship between the Aries and Libra archetypes • Chiron retrograde returning to Aries and revisiting the healing of identity and agency • Anger as life force, boundary information, and healthy aggression • Recognizing protective strategies during relational activation • How greater selfhood creates greater capacity for honest intimacy
• The New Moon in Virgo at 18° and a new cycle of refinement • Integrating the changes of eclipse season into daily life • Virgo as an archetype • Moving beyond perfectionism, hypervigilance, and perpetual self improvement • Uranus stationing retrograde in Gemini and the evolution of the mind • Mental digestion and discernment in an age of information overload • Venus entering Scorpio and themes of intimacy, trust, vulnerability, and depth • Creating daily structures that reflect who we have become
• Jupiter trine Saturn • Jupiter in Leo and the expansion of creativity, purpose, and authentic expression • Saturn retrograde in Aries and the maturation of agency and self leadership • Building nervous system capacity for expansion • Mercury in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer and translating needs into practical action • Mars square Saturn and working consciously with limits, frustration, and restraint • Creating structures that can support what is growing
• The Pisces Lunar Eclipse at 4° and the completion of a two year eclipse cycle • Looking back to September 2024 and recognizing how the story has evolved • The Pisces Virgo axis and our relationship with surrender, control, intuition, and discernment • Mercury cazimi in Virgo and finding language for what we have been integrating • Uranus in Gemini and the disruption of old stories and perspectives • Why completion does not always come with perfect resolution • The transition from the Pisces Virgo eclipse cycle into Leo Aquarius • The wisdom we are carrying forward from the past two years
