Big Sky Astrology Podcast
Episodes
042 | Podathon Day 1: It's Our Moonday Show!
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Day One of the first annual Big Sky Astrology PODATHON! This episode is one big Moonwatch, with a discussion of the daily Moon and how its sign...
041 | Pisces Full Moon and the Yin to Your Yang
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen wade into the waters of a rather Uranian Pisces Full Moon, in a week that emphasizes independence as the road to better relationships. V...
040 | Mars vs. Saturn, Virgo vs. Sagittarius, April vs. Gravity
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a busy week in the big sky, and in true Sun-in-Virgo form, April and Jen run down a checklist of planetary highlights: Mars runs into Saturn’...
039 | Leo New Moon: A Rainbow at Daybreak
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April & Jen have a purrfect cattitude this week! Meet our latest podpet, “mews” upon the Leo New Moon, and learn about yods. And later in the week...
038 | Taurus Last Quarter Moon – but wait, there’s S’more!
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April & Jen bring you the biggest news of the week: Mars squaring off with Pluto, which seems ominous… yet the symbolism might support deeper, posit...
037 | Full Moon in Aquarius & Many Happy (Solar) Returns
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April & Jen: The Musical! – is brought to you by a disruptive Full Moon in Aquarius, tight-lipped Mercury falling on Saturn’s deaf ears, Mars squa...
036 | A Mini-Class for the Dog Days: Elements & Modalities
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen take a paws during the dog days of summer and combine two great mini-lessons into one great show: Enjoy this mash-up of the elements and...
035 | A Second Cancer New Moon, and Savoring the Sun in Leo
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen embrace National Tell an Old Joke Day as a way to cope with a very stormy second Cancer New Moon, which is facing off against stern Satu...
034 | The 8 Lunar Phases: Have Them with a Salad!
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen shine a light on the Sun this week: First opposing the ginormously powerful point where Saturn/Pluto met in January, and then picking a ...
033 | Kittens and Composite Charts
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen celebrate National Days relevant to their interests (pie and kittens) and review the week’s planetary highlights: Mercury turns direct...
032 | Capricorn Lunar Eclipse: A Minnesota Goodbye
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen bring you up to speed on a busy holiday week here in the US: The second of three Jupiter/Pluto meet-ups; Mercury and the Sun join forces...
031 | Mars in Aries and the Swivel Chair of Doom
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen convene their Neptune-impaired noggins for a preview of the week’s planetary news: Neptune turns backwards in Pisces, Venus turns forw...
030 | Cancer Solar Eclipse: You’re Buffering
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen offer a summary of something summer-y: Let’s welcome the dog days in the northern hemisphere with the Cancer Solstice, followed a few ...
029 | Neptune Washing Over All, and the US Pluto Return
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April & Jen dogpaddle through the waters of a deeply Neptunian week: the Last Quarter Moon is in watery Pisces, and Neptune aspects the Sun and Mars. ...
028 | Eclipses and Nodes: Why be Mean when you can be True?
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen bring you the scoop on this week’s Venus/Mars showdown, its Sun/Mars showdown, and the first of three eclipses over what promises to b...
027 | The Amazing Disappearing Venus, & Cancer’s “Flavor of the Day”
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen track Mercury as he judges a beauty pageant, then enters absorbent, flavor-of-the-day Cancer. There’s a dynamic First Quarter Moon in ...
026 | Gemini New Moon and Six Months In!
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stroll down memory lane with April and Jen as we celebrate the BSA Podcast’s 6-month half-birthday! It’s a busy week: the Sun joins the ongoing Ge...
025 | The Retrograde Parade!
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Big Sky: Mercury dashes unsupervised into Gemini, and Mars winds up in Pisces quicksand; April and Jen examine a perfectly formed Aqu...
024 | Scorpio Full Moon & Lunar Nodes for Grasshoppers
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen approach the Full Moon week with beginner’s mind, as the Lunar Nodes shift into Gemini and Sagittarius for the next 18 months. Also: S...
023 | Talkin’ Taurus and the Void (Of Course!) Moon
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mercury reclaims the spotlight this week, as April and Jen herald his entrance into the laconic Taurus. The Sabian symbols for the Leo First Quarter M...
022 | Taurus New Moon and Venus Gone Wild
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Taurus New Moon time, but April and Jen explore the mounting tension between rule-making (Saturn) and rule-breaking (Uranus) that interfere wit...
021 | Cardinal, Fixed, & Mutable: Signs a la Mod-alities
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen bring you exactly what you didn’t know you needed: a lengthy mini-lesson on modalities! (To achieve the oxymoron trifecta, listen whil...
020 | Libra Full Moon: A Magic Carpet Ride
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen parse this week’s intense Libra Full Moon, contemplate how to use this week’s innovative Mars/Uranus aspect to rethink how you’re ...
019 | Jupiter Meets Pluto: Two Thumbs...Up?
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Feisty Mars enters Aquarius this week and teams up with Saturn to start the work of serious social change. Venus in Gemini downloads some new eBooks, ...
018 | Aries New Moon and a Kerflooey World
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the world’s anxiety level is turned up to eleven, April and Jen share some mindfulness techniques to help you be here now. And in the Big Sky thi...
017 | Saturn in Aquarius: All in This Together
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen recorded this episode early last week, at what now seems like a gentler moment - when citizens bravely assembled in public without respi...
016 | Let’s Talk About Sextiles
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on a Virgo Full Moon Caravan, as Mercury mercifully turns direct at the end of Aquarius to help us get to our destination. Also, a flurry of p...
015 | Venus + Pie: 0-29 Degrees of Separation
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From a curious Gemini First Quarter Moon to a cat-of-many colors Sun/Neptune conjunction and all the hot Venus action in-between (changing signs, duki...
014 | Retrograde Minds, Cazimi Hearts, Can’t Lose
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is Mercury retrograde in Pisces making you fuzzy-headed and tongue-tied? Come and sit next to April & Jen, whose struggles to stay in a lane – any l...
013 | Pisces Season: Gopher It!
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April and Jen would like to buy a vowel or two, please, as they paddle furiously against the muddy Mercury Rx in Pisces conversational tide. This week...
012 | Mercury Retrograde: Where Are My Pants?
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day, or the birthday of famed American suffragette Anna Howard Shaw, join April and Jen ...
011 | Saturn Returns We’ve Known and Loved
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As April faces down her second Saturn return, we explore these important astrological rites of passage, as well as how astrocartography can help you f...
010 | Neptune & The Zen of Groundhog Day
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a quieter week in the Big Sky, with only a First Quarter Moon in Taurus and Venus/Mars vs. Neptune on the cosmic agenda. So, finding themselves...
009 | It’s Aquarius Season, Charlie Brown!
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Big Sky, the Sun dons Charlie Brown’s shirt for a tour of Aquarius, where he’s joined by the New Moon in this future-oriented sig...
008 | Saturn and Pluto Need a Party
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So far, our planet appears to have narrowly survived the Week That Will Live In Infamy (see Episode 7!), and the Sun decides Saturn and Pluto need a p...
007 | Saturn and Pluto Go to The Repair Shop
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an epic week in the Big Sky, and April and Jen bring you the down-low on the up-high: Jupiter meets the South Node, Uranus brings extra tumult ...
006 | Saturn & Pluto Eat More Crunchy Things
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! This week, Mars enters Sagittarius and the First Quarter Moon is in Aries. Otherwise, it’s a slow astrological news week - so April ...
005 | Unboxing Eclipses
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Begin your list of 2020 goals, because Mercury moves into Capricorn this week! April and Jen spend the rest of this jumbo-sized episode discussing the...
004 | The Capricorn Solstice is Frequently Sunny in Minneapolis
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As April bravely endures a bone-chilling, 55-degree day in San Diego, she and Jen discuss the Capricorn Solstice, Venus in Aquarius (she wants her spa...
003 | Gemini Full Moon: Alexa, Play “Love the One You’re With”
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s relationship week on the BSA podcast, with a Full Moon in Gemini and Venus’s close encounter with the Sharks AND the Jets. Plus: Mercury ente...
002 | Jupiter in Capricorn: Falstaff in a Business Suit
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Astrologer/author April Elliott Kent and producer/co-host Jen Braun discuss the astrology of the first week of December: Jupiter enters Capricorn for ...
001 | Sagittarius New Moon: Stars Over Thanksgiving
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the inaugural episode of the Big Sky Astrology Podcast, astrologer/author April Elliott Kent and co-host/producer Jen Braun break down the astrolog...