Cosmic Cousins

This week opens in deep, emotional waters and gradually ignites into bold, initiatory fire. With a powerful blend of Pisces sensitivity and Aries activation, we are asked to surrender, listen, and then courageously act on what we feel.

Grief, intuition, and spiritual attunement weave through the early days, while the Aries New Moon later in the week brings a potent threshold moment, one that invites you to reclaim your voice, your identity, and your path forward.

 

 

Transits of the Week:

Moon in Pisces conjunct North Node of Fate in Pisces (April 13) – emotional sensitivity, karmic currents, intuitive alignment, surrendering to the flow of feeling

Mars conjunct Neptune in Aries (April 13) – action meets illusion; inspired movement, spiritual activation, but also potential confusion or energetic diffusion

Moon in Pisces trine Jupiter in Cancer (April 14) – emotional nourishment, support, compassion, heart-opening connections

Mercury at 29° Pisces → enters Aries (April 14, 8:30pm PST) – threshold in communication; shifting from dreaming and processing to speaking and initiating

Sun conjunct Eris in Aries (Eris cazimi) (April 14) – disruption, truth-telling, outsider voice activated, courage to challenge the norm

Moon enters Aries (April 15, ~7:00am PST) – emotional ignition, instinctual movement, desire to begin

Moon conjunct Mercury, Neptune, Mars, and Saturn in Aries (April 15) – a sequence of activation; inspiration, confusion, action, and commitment all intertwined

Sun conjunct Chiron in Aries (Chiron cazimi) (April 16) – wounds illuminated for healing; vulnerability becomes strength, identity meets healing

Mercury conjunct Neptune in Aries (April 16) – intuitive communication, poetic insight, blurred lines between thought and feeling

New Moon in Aries at 27°28’ (April 17, 4:50am PST) – a fiery rebirth; reclaiming identity, courage, and personal truth; initiation through healing and disruption

Moon enters Taurus (April 17, ~9:00am PST) – grounding, stabilization, returning to the body after intensity

Moon conjunct Ceres in Taurus (April 18) – nourishment, care, reconnecting to what sustains

Moon conjunct Venus in Taurus (April 18) – pleasure, sensuality, embodiment, softening into self-worth

Moon conjunct Uranus in Taurus (April 19) – emotional breakthroughs, shifts in values, closing a chapter a long term chapter around stability that we've been in since 2018

Sun enters Taurus (April 19, 6:30pm PST) – beginning of a new solar cycle focused on grounding, embodiment, and material presence

 

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Astrology of April 6 – April 12, 2026:  A Threshold Week of Fire & Release

This week Uranus shifts to the anoretic degree of Taurus, while Mars completes its time in Pisces. We are in a space of culmination, new insights and release.

This episode explores the tension between expansion and nourishment, individuality and collective transformation. Through intuitive reflection, somatic awareness, and planetary storytelling, you’re invited to move at your own pace while trusting that what is building now carries real momentum for what comes next.

Transits of the Week:

Sun in Aries – identity, courage, self-definition, and embodied action

Sun square Jupiter in Cancer (April 6) – expansion vs. emotional capacity; growth that requires care and boundaries

Venus conjunct Ceres in Taurus (April 6) – nourishment, self-worth, body care, sensual grounding

Uranus at 29° Taurus – sudden shifts in values, finances, and stability; cosmic breakthroughs at a threshold point

Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius – untamed truth, liberation from suppression, radical honesty

Mars at 29° Pisces (early week) – emotional culmination, spiritual fatigue, surrender before renewal

Mars enters Aries (April 9) – renewed energy, instinctual action, forward momentum

Moon, Juno and Pluto conjunct in Aquarius (April 10) – transformation of relationships, contracts, and power dynamics

Mercury conjunct Pallas in Pisces (April 11) – intuitive intelligence, symbolic thinking, pattern recognition

Mars conjunct Neptune in Aries (April 12) – vision meets action; inspiration, but also potential confusion or projection

 

Moon Journeys:

Monday–Tuesday: Moon in Sagittarius – truth-seeking, belief systems, expansion, fire of vision

Wednesday–Thursday: Moon in Capricorn – structure, grounding, embodiment, responsibility

Friday–Sunday: Moon in Aquarius – collective awareness, innovation, relational shifts, nervous system sensitivity

The first part of this episode is a reflection on March 30 through April 5, 2026—a sacred window of time where the cosmos invites us into deep embodiment, relational awareness, and soulful recalibration. As we move through Aries season and toward the Libra Full Moon, this opening segment is meant to help you attune to the energetic landscape of the week ahead, grounding you in the planetary movements so you can consciously walk with them—rather than feel swept up by them. Think of it as a threshold moment: a chance to arrive, to listen, and to align your body, heart, and spirit with the rhythm of the sky. We cover:

Venus in Taurus

Juno in Aquarius

White Moon Selena in Virgo

Mars in Pisces

Then, in honor of the Libra Full Moon, Jeff Hinshaw is joined by magical astrologer Celeste Brooks for a rich and multidimensional conversation that begins with personal myth-making and unfolds into a deep exploration of her chart. Through the lens of Celeste's Taurus Sun, Aries Moon, and Cancer Rising, we trace a story of embodiment, courage, and homecoming, woven with pivotal life transitions, including her shift from a 25-year corporate career into full-time astrology. Together, we explore timing techniques like progressions, the awakening influence of Uranus in Taurus, and the importance of structure in astrological practice, grounding intuitive insight with disciplined study.

From there, the conversation opens into the wider astrological landscape of 2026, reflecting on the collective impact of Neptune’s ingress into Aries, the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, and the North Node’s passage through Pisces. Jeff and Celeste weave together advanced techniques, discuss asteroids like Juno, Ceres, and White Moon Selena, and share intuitive practices like Libra Full Moon channeling and tarot symbolism. The episode moves between the cosmic and the personal, inviting you into themes of truth-telling, spiritual compassion, and collective healing, while emphasizing the importance of grounding rituals and tending to the body as we navigate a rapidly shifting world.

A New Weekly Rhythm Begins: Aries Season – Astrology of March 23 – March 29, 2026

This episode of Cosmic Cousins marks the beginning of a new rhythm—weekly Monday morning podcast episodes to align with the astrology of the week ahead.

As we enter Aries season and the astrological new year, this episode explores themes of renewal, individuality, and courageous self-definition. With an extraordinary concentration of planets in Aries, you’re invited to reconnect with your identity, desires, and the path that is uniquely yours. The episode weaves together reflections on rare planetary alignments, intuitive guidance, and somatic awareness, offering both inspiration and grounded tools to help you move forward with clarity, intention, and trust in the vision that is unfolding.

 

Transits of the Week:

Sun in Aries (Astrological New Year begins; themes of identity, initiation, and selfhood)

Sun conjunct Neptune in Aries (Neptune Cazimi, March 21) – vision, spirituality, imagination infused with purpose

Sun conjunct Saturn in Aries (Saturn Cazimi, March 24) – commitment, discipline, and structuring long-term goals

Neptune in Aries (since January 26) – dreaming a new identity into being

Saturn in Aries (since February 13) – redefining responsibility around the self

Mars in Pisces – intuitive action, surrender, and non-linear movement forward

Chiron conjunct Eris in Aries (exact March 18) – healing identity wounds, reclaiming the outsider, collective awakening

Venus in Aries (final week) – bold expression of desire, honesty in love and creativity

Venus conjunct Chiron + Eris in Aries (March 26) – vulnerability, relational healing, courageous self-worth

Mercury stationed direct in Pisces (March 20) – intuitive clarity, forward movement after reflection

Moon Journeys:

Monday–Tuesday: Moon in Gemini – curiosity, communication, mental flow

Wednesday–Thursday: Moon in Cancer (First Quarter Moon) – emotional processing, home, nourishment

Friday–Saturday: Moon in Leo – creativity, expression, heart-centered leadership

Sunday: Moon in Virgo – integration, organization, healing practices

This episode also introduces new offerings from Cosmic Cousins, including the Cosmic Mix Tape—a personalized 60–90 minute audio astrology reading woven together with a curated soundtrack that reflects your birth chart and soul journey. These immersive readings can be created for your natal chart, solar return, or current transits, blending music and astrology into a deeply felt experience.

Alongside this, the podcast’s new weekly format offers a consistent space to stay in rhythm with the cosmos, supported by reflections, affirmations, and invitations to embody the astrology in your everyday life.

On this Pisces New Moon episode of Cosmic Cousins, we begin by arriving in the liminal space this lunation creates—a threshold between the dream that has carried us for over a decade and the new reality beginning to emerge. This is a moment to feel deeply, to notice the currents beneath the surface, and to honor both the surrender and the subtle stirrings of action that this closing cycle invites.

Then, Jeff Hinshaw  is joined by Pisces Moon artist Rochelle Voyles. Returning to the podcast for the first time since 2017,  we dive into Rochelle’s solo exhibition Unreliable Narrators that just opened at 81 Leonard Gallery in Tribeca. Through pieces like “Slithering Ruin” and “Defense and Entrapment,” we contemplate nonlinear time, archetypal storytelling, and the duality of distance, and how beauty invites us closer to truths that may otherwise feel unbearable. 

Music becomes a co-conspirator in this process, with two songs from Pisces Moon artists Anna Olivia Eve and Lindsey Mills guiding emotional resonance and collective reflection. We reimagine collage as a spiritual technology (one that mirrors astrology, tarot, and memory itself) where meaning is not prescribed but discovered through feeling.  In a closing “Mystical Meandering,” Rochelle journeys through a surreal Pisces Dreamscape, and receives a visit from a crab on the seashores, looks up through a telescope to cloudy skies, and receives ancestral guidance from the Six of Cups and an invocation of healing from past trauma.

We seal the episode with reflections on water as conduit, reminding us that to trust the dream, to honor the unseen, and to create from the depths is itself an act of healing, connection, and quiet revolution.