Weekly Reading for September 27 -...
Weekly Reading for September 27 - October 4: Mars enters Leo and Venus stations Retrograde
STAR/CHILD: The Astrology of Family by STAR/CHILD
S2 · E89
Sep 28, 2026
37:34
Episode notes

Here’s hoping we're all walking into this week without having burned any bridges we didn't mean to burn over the full moon in Aries weekend. If you did, you're in good company, and the rest of the week isn't exactly planning to calm down. Mars changed signs on Sunday. Mercury changes signs on Wednesday. And on Saturday, Venus stations retrograde, which I've been talking about for a month and which is finally here.

Almost everything else this week is either setting those up or reacting to them. Mars and Mercury both hit Chiron at the very last degree of a sign right before they leave it, so the week keeps pressing on an old bruise and then immediately moving on. Mars gets louder and prouder. Mercury goes underground and starts digging. By Friday they're colliding with each other and with Pluto, and then Venus stops in the middle of all of it ... 

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astrology
parenting
star/child