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, we're going to look at the astrology of April 13th through the 19th of 2025.

Now, on the 19th, there's an important shift that's occurring. I mean, more technically speaking, the shift happens this week.

But as of the 19th, we're going to be under the influence of transits that are pretty

demanding and can be quite harrowing to navigate.

And so I want to encourage you to set intentions for yourself to really check in this week. And by that I mean, if you have been avoiding or

evading, strive to maybe meet those impulses with breath. If you have been overworking yourself

or doing something to distract yourself from what you know is important

and real. This is a good time, really any time this week, to try to get present. Because when you

are present, even if there is a lot to fear or there's a lot of pain and a lot of struggle in the

present moment, when you are present, you can be better defended.

You're better able to take care of yourself, to tap into resources, and to show up with and for

others.

So presence has a lot of positives to it. Now, we're going to talk about the astrology,

of course, in just a minute. But you know, I got some shit to say first. You know,

apocalyptic, helpless, hopeless, just totally demoralized thinking, that is a win for fascism.

That is a win for the people, organization, and forces that are gunning for our rights.

We need, we need hope, imagination, and a willingness to explore possibilities, approaches, new ways

of collaborating with other people or with our circumstances, and an openness to navigating

through hardship. This is not the end of days. That concept, that's a Christian concept. And it is Christian extremists who have

orchestrated and facilitated many of the crises that we are experiencing and on the verge of right now.

That said, things are bad and pretty fucking scary for a lot of people. And they are on the

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