Episode 050: The Taurus-Scorpio Axis

Star Party is back babees!! In our brand new “Now and Forever” format, we conjure both a magic message for the current astro moment AND an eternal teaching to tether you to your witchery for all time.   Now: This New Moon’s message is all about bringing the color back to our cheeks and reaching out for resurrection through soft shifts. Don’t underestimate what’s still alive but seemingly dormant, and don’t be afraid to share little bits of whatever’s been sealed off with trusted kin.  Forever: This cycle’s eternal teaching brings us into the fatness of faith with Jupiter, the behemoth of personal mythology and meaning making. We explore the subtler aspects of this archetype as a companion that can help us inhabit the full context of our experiences without rushing to storytell before the tale is fully told.  Follow Star Party: https://star-party.castos.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@starpartypod Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Chapters (00:00:01) - Opening Banter and New Moon vs Waxing Moon Energy(00:03:54) - Scorpio New Moon: Deep Roots and Connection(00:07:28) - Assignments for Connection and Empathy(00:11:11) - Resurrection, Roses, and What's Still Alive(00:15:28) - Lived-In Denim and the Sag-Gemini Preview(00:18:10) - Resurrection Fern and Small Gestures of Renewal(00:21:48) - Eyedropper Tangent and Scorpio vs Patriarchal Energy(00:24:22) - Favorite New Moon: Trust and Protection in Scorpio(00:27:41) - Card Pull: Evolution and Virgo-Scorpio Connection(00:30:43) - Resistance, Scorpion Stingers, and the Devil Card(00:35:01) - DIY Rebirth and Seeking Help(00:39:27) - Intro to Forever Segment: Now and Forever Format(00:40:49) - Jupiter Energy and Being Genetically Jupiterian(00:45:03) - Working with Jupiter Without Rushing to Meaning(00:52:13) - Jupiter as Surround Energy and Temperance Card(00:55:39) - Trust, Faith, and Scorpio-Jupiter Connection(01:03:51) - Dice Pull: Neptune, Scorpio, Eighth House(01:05:22) - Imagination vs Fantasy and Closing Remarks

Star Party is back babees!! In our brand new “Now and Forever” format, we conjure both a magic message for the current astro moment AND an eternal teaching to tether you to your witchery for all time.   Forever: This cycle’s eternal teaching on the Taurus-Scorpio polarity connects us to themes of soul security, completion, and motivation as habit. It’s an axis that wants you to ask yourself: What can you see from where you sit?  Follow Star Party: https://star-party.castos.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnWGb6kzAhSEVaGX7qkDcsg Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Chapters (00:00:00) - Introducing the Taurus-Scorpio Axis(00:01:27) - Pathways to God Through the Signs(00:03:51) - Trusting in the Eternal and Immutable(00:05:25) - The Butt Imprint Axis: Anchoring Amid Chaos(00:07:48) - What Do I Do? Practical Takeaways(00:09:11) - Feeling Old Feelings and Finding Your Seat(00:11:38) - Taurus Abundance and Sensory Presence(00:12:57) - A Personal Story: Mom, Alzheimer's, and the Couch(00:14:34) - Closing Thoughts and Farewell

Star Party is back babees!! In our brand new “Now and Forever” format, we conjure both a magic message for the current astro moment AND an eternal teaching to tether you to your witchery for all time. Now: From Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure to a duet of swimmers gliding towards the light, this full moon’s messages ask us to recover what’s already ours, trust our natural skill, answer the call of insistent divinity, and treat transformation as a guarantee. Along the way, we also touch on the 3 of Pentacles and Saturn, and interpret a Mercury-in-Taurus-in-the-7th-house astro dice roll. Follow Star Party: https://star-party.castos.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnWGb6kzAhSEVaGX7qkDcsg Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Chapters (00:00:00) - Welcome Back and Instrument Banter(00:01:04) - Returning After a Long Hiatus(00:01:45) - New Show Format: Now and Forever(00:02:47) - Tuning Into the Full Moon in Taurus(00:03:46) - Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Safekeeping Symbolism(00:06:38) - God is a Stalker and Divine Insistence(00:08:25) - Unpacking the Snake Image(00:09:28) - Dual Swimmers and Pluto Square the Moon(00:11:44) - Kitten and Yarn: Playfulness vs Danger(00:13:28) - Approaching Transformation with Ease(00:14:19) - Inevitability, Pluto, and Letting Go of Ego(00:17:46) - Pulling Cards: Saturn and Pruning the Roots(00:19:26) - Motivation, Habit, and Mindset Shifts(00:22:32) - Three of Pentacles: Stay in Your Lane(00:23:49) - Bartending Groove and Repeat Until Complete(00:25:09) - Astro Dice Roll: Mercury in Taurus, 7th House(00:26:29) - Staying in Your Lane Amid Connection(00:28:12) - Deep Bodily Wisdom and Ancestral Knowing(00:31:14) - Closing Thoughts and Teaser for Forever Segment

Episode 048: Plump up your pulse for the passion play! In this episode, we buff and fluff the Leo archetype, answer a birth chart Q about keeping the faith during all stages of the creative process, find frisky fun within the Tower’s fiery force, and more. Our August convo covers connecting with constancy, uncovering eternal hope, feeling our heat without having to be felt, beholding beauty, staying in touch with trust, and showing up on the side of life with jazz hands up. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Leo Check In: We discuss how this little lovecat is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of full body and soul presence, mutual adoration, handling feelings of futility, the spontaneous emergence of fire and the imperative to just keep on existing, and tapping inexhaustible fonts of joy. Burning Birth Chart Q: We’re making our slumber party super special this season, with a personal reading exchange between Bess and Sandy. In our birth chart segment, Sandy dives into Bess’s astro landscape and answers her query about her creative process, maturing her artistry, and handling the “high highs” and “low lows” in the cycle of making. We touch on remaining in process with the 6th house, keeping connected to Martial power, finding acceptance in the emo processing of Chiron transits, stepping up into competence with the 10th house, and cultivating a hopeful mindset with Jupiter. Tarot Touchstone: Bess flips some cards for Sandy, who’s curious about establishing habits that really last. We chat about Mars vs Saturn as reflected through the Tower card, and how to come alive to all the forces that want to ally with us without having to bear sole responsibility for “making” monumental change happen; and finding divinity in the sweet detail with the 10 of Pentacles, Page of Cups, and Ace of Cups. **We’re taking a little paws from the podcast! Stay connected below and be sure to subscribe to Star Party for the latest and greatest. And have no fear of the void: you can always spin through the archives in the interim—all episodes are timeless evergreenies that are here to hold you no matter the season. Subscribe to Star Party: https://starpartypodcast.com/subscribe/ Explore the Archive: https://starpartypodcast.com/episode-guide/ Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 047: Steady your heart for the eternal return. In this episode, we come on home to the Cancer cove, answer a listener Q about how to pave your own way through a birth chart of oppositional energies, release the need to work it all out with the 8 of Cups, and more. Our July convo covers taking responsibility for our emotional landscape, releasing attachment to linear progress, holding the gift of life closer, finding forgiveness, and letting our love spill over without measure. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Cancer Check In: We discuss how this shellabratory sign is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of surrendering to the magnetic magic of water, becoming competent guardians of each element through the cardinal signs, and cultivating a relationship to what’s timeless within us. Burning Birth Chart Q: A Cancer Sun/Pisces Moon/Capricorn Rising listener is feeling pushed and pulled between chart placements and wondering which signs to follow to reach her highest potential. We discuss how to use your internal authority to navigate astrology, the charge of the nodal axis, sloughing off the “shoulds” with the cardinal signs, meeting self through our Rising, and learning to define planets on the descendent in our own terms. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 8 of Cups arrives to take us on a walkabout through our wild work—teaching us how to embrace ongoing journeys of growth that don’t have to reach an end goal. Cancer Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 046: Bop along on the breeze of becoming. In this episode, we catch the Gemini current of crossings and chameleon shifts, answer a listener Q about handling a flurry of new life happenings, learn to lean into the porous process with the 8 of Pentacles, and more. Our June convo covers building confidence in our voice, losing the linear path to find our way, opening up to the unsettling, carrying energy across thresholds, and liberating life force in all directions. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Gemini Check In: We discuss how this prismatic channel is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of in-between spaces, reading and responding to the atmosphere, getting escorted through evolutionary change, and tapping our immortal truths. Burning Birth Chart Q: A Gemini Sun/Capricorn Moon/Cancer Rising listener is feeling into the flux of friendships and career prospects. We discuss how to handle the overwhelm of 12th house planets, make magic with the mutables without losing a sense of “mine,” rewrite the narrative for retrograde planets, power up Mars in water signs, and harness both the gravity and levity of the Capricorn-Gemini inconjunct. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 8 of Pentacles teaches us how to open up to invisible shifts and ongoing processes, as we learn to let ourselves get worked on and led elsewhere by our own lives. Gemini Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 045: Spread your worthiness wide and lap up the lushery. In this episode, we sink into Taurus energy, answer a listener Q about how to hold ourselves in humanness, find familiarity in the Hierophant’s inherent resources, and more. Our May convo covers trusting in empty-full cycles, regenerative potency, releasing attachment to everlasting attainment, self-worth that shifts with the seasons of our lives, magnetic attraction, and nurturing what’s most natural. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Taurus Check In: We discuss how this ample, fruit-filled archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of the width and absorption of the fixed signs, softening mental spins and settling into the body, cultivating steadiness, and allowing the world to respond to and change around us. Burning Birth Chart Q: A Taurus Sun/Pisces Moon/Virgo Rising listener is emerging on the other side of enormous loss and seeks self-trust in the face of uncertainty. We discuss the at-home humanness of the earth signs, soothing Saturnine self-critique, private processes and healing contexts in the water houses, equilibrating the Virgo-Pisces axis, Pluto aspects and control, and the IC’s creative incubations. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the Hierophant steps forward to remind us of both the muscle memories that want massaging and the bone-deep knowings that can fuel our foundation. Taurus Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 044: Embolden your beginnings and big bang into being. In this episode, we ignite in Aries energy, answer a listener Q about how to handle fire for the long haul, harness our ability to engine-rev anew with the 3 of Wands, and more. Our April convo covers the creative process (and becoming part of creation’s process), refining our relationship to friction, opening to the force inherent in everything, and getting out of our heads and into the meganess of this magic moment. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Aries Check In: We discuss how this out-of-nowhere spark plug is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of the Pisces/Aries edge and what it means to go “with” momentum instead of against; the relationship between cardinal signs and keeping our own time; catalyzing change and taking up our causes; and showing up in our still-here-ness to come ever closer to life itself. Burning Birth Chart Q: An Aries Sun/Aquarius Moon/Capricorn Rising listener is experiencing some Pluto transit apprehension and wants to figure out if the time is right for shifting away from temporary structures and towards the construction of something longer lasting. We talk outer planet attunements, the spontaneous genius of fire and finding ground in groundlessness, 1st house stelliums and resilient rebirths, the storm cycles of Uranus, and using Saturn and Capricorn to explore the internal motivation beneath external forms of security. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 3 of Wands steps forward to remind us that Aries energy is here to break the success/failure paradigm and simply crack the eggshell and come to life, again and again. Aries Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 043: Slip and slide into surrendered sensitivity. In this episode, we plunge into Pisces energy, answer a listener Q about divining the difference between necessary retreat and hiding out, let organic boundaries arise with the 2 of Pentacles, and more. Our March convo covers befriending whatever beingness is before us, immersing in the present moment for as long as it lasts, letting go of expectation and artifice, and cultivating small acts of undoing and emptying. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Pisces Check In: We discuss how this atmospheric archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of how we can use this energy to get “into it” instead of “out of it,” what letting go looks like through each of the four elements, how all signs secretly “lead” to Pisces, and how to give way without giving it all away. Burning Birth Chart Q: A Pisces Sun/Cancer Moon/Taurus Rising listener wants to learn how to value her deep need for retreat, while staying honest about how disappearing can also sometimes lead to disconnection. We talk 11th house group dynamics, creating safety through the Moon sign, the Pisces/Aries edge between immersion and emergence, taking ownership with Saturn and Jupiter, and the rhythms of water and earth. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 2 of Pentacles steps forward to remind us that boundaries can also spring to life by backing the bigness of our emotions. **Enroll in Bess's 12-month Astro + Tarot Immersion for over 20% off with code STARSCHOOL through March 10th! http://thestarparlor.com/immersion-2023 Pisces Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 042: Renovate, rejuvenate, and return everything to its rightful place. In this episode, we follow Aquarius energy to its exhilarating edge, answer a listener Q about how to prepare for life’s ultimate unknowns, recognize and reckon with the familiar in the unfamiliar through the Hierophant, and more. Our February convo covers building confidence in our grand plans, getting much needed perspective on the small stuff, making peace with the fundamental facts of existence, and showing up for the mystery of it all in complete presence. Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Aquarius Check In: We discuss how this spacious, oracular archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of this fixed sign’s seeming paradox of transformation and the cycle of storms and stillness; the art of purification and emptying ourselves to beget new creative flow; and exploring the limits of the recognizable world. Burning Birth Chart Q: An Aquarius Sun/Aquarius Moon/Capricorn Rising listener relishes the strong, stable shapes he’s put in place for his new baby, but wonders about his family’s future ability to welcome the unexpected. We talk group astro dynamics, inconjuncts, Saturn transits of the Sun and Moon, and how the elements handle the unknown and unknowable. Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the Hierophant’s Taurus-ruled muscle memory helps us harness our pre-existing resources in the face of the unexpected. **Enroll in Bess's Astro + Tarot Immersion for over 20% off with code STARSCHOOL. Doors open February 3rd and the special savings end on February 17th! http://thestarparlor.com/immersion-2023 Aquarius Season Listener’s Birth Chart Submit Your Birth Chart Question (*note that we’ll be running these according to Sun sign, so feel free to submit anytime and await your birthday sign season to see if there’s a surprise package for you!): https://starpartypodcast.com/question/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com Sound Editor, David Freund: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/