Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. This week, there are not a lot of transits, but emotions and anxieties

are likely to be running pretty high. And we'll get into a little bit more of why that is

astrologically in a moment, but also we can just kind of look around the world and

come up with some pretty quick theories. Now, that said, before we get into the forecast,

I want to just take a moment to talk about how to handle challenging emotions, how to tolerate

being in a state of anxiety or dysregulation. And I'm not talking about this

in the context of, you know, mental illness or disorders or anything like that. Because of course,

I am not a doctor or a therapist.

And let's be exceptionally clear about that.

But if you are, like so many others, experiencing anxiety in reaction to world events and the state of the world, the instability and the uncertainty of the world and inside of the world.

That's kind of more of what I'm talking about, right?

The truth is that we must experience challenging emotions.

Grief is a part of love.

Stress is a part of caring about things and people.

Upsets are inevitable.

And I say this partially because common sense, right?

But then the other part is we have Saturn in astrology, and it teaches us that things are hard sometimes. We feel depressed. We feel stuck.

We must work really hard and toil and deal with failures and all of these things. Saturn teaches us

that. Neptune teaches us that we deal with anxieties, that uncertainty and a lack of control is a part of life, that we, as

humans, have escapist and disassociative tendencies, and sometimes they help us, and sometimes they

hurt us. Pluto teaches us that we go through transformations. We go through loss, that we

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