Astrology Magic Podcast

Astrology Magic With Rachel

Helping you heal emotional patterns using astrology🌊🏄‍♀️ Use your lunar return to heal in real time and surrender to your most aligned life. This isn't just Astrology, it's Astrology that creates ✨magic✨ in your life. astrologymagic.substack.com

  1. 1d ago

    Venus Retrograde: Finding Balance Between Intimacy & Individual Freedom

    What if the secret to a long-lasting relationship isn’t avoiding conflict, agreeing on everything, or constantly keeping your partner happy? After 10 years together, Rachel and Ryan have found themselves returning to the honeymoon phase again and again. But not because their relationship has been perfect. In fact, it’s been quite the opposite. In this episode of the Astrology Magic Podcast, Rachel brings Ryan on for a conversation about love, relationships, and the deeper dynamics that have allowed them to continually reinvent their relationship while maintaining both deep intimacy and individual sovereignty. Inspired by Venus retrograde in Libra, they explore what it means to create balance in a relationship without sacrificing your own needs, why letting things get messy can actually deepen intimacy, and how learning to recognize your own ego and projections can completely transform the way you experience love. They share personal stories about navigating differences in sexual desires, holding boundaries without building resentment, challenging conventional relationship expectations, and learning to respond rather than react. This isn’t about telling you how your relationship should look. It’s about inviting you to question the stories you’ve been told about love and discover what authentic relating looks like for you. In this episode, we explore: * Why Rachel and Ryan keep finding their way back to the honeymoon phase after 10 years together. * The relationship between intimacy and sovereignty, and why you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. * Why constantly compromising to keep the peace can create resentment. * How holding your boundaries can actually create deeper connection. * Navigating differences in sexual desires without pressuring your partner or abandoning yourself. * Why sometimes the biggest breakthroughs in relationships happen when you’re willing to let things get messy. * The role of ego in relationships and how conflict can become an opportunity for growth. * Why responding instead of reacting is one of the most important relationship skills you can develop. * How to recognize your own projections instead of making your partner responsible for your emotions. * The importance of resilience, discomfort, and staying power in long-term relationships. * Why taking space during conflict can be more productive than trying to force a resolution. * How to stop keeping score, bringing up past arguments, and building resentment. * Why internal security and self-responsibility can make you more attractive to your partner. * How laughter, playfulness, and love can emerge from even the messiest moments. Connect with us: Follow actually Secure on Instagram. Subscribe to Actually Secure Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astrologymagic.substack.com/subscribe

    Venus Retrograde: Finding Balance Between Intimacy & Individual Freedom
  2. Apr 18

    Aries New Moon: Choosing Yourself Over the Performance

    The Aries New Moon landed at 27 degrees, and the Sabian symbol said everything: a large, disappointed audience. Not as a warning. As a mirror. In this episode, Rachel unpacks why so many of us reach the goal we worked so hard for — and feel nothing when we get there. Why we perform our way toward the life we want instead of living our way into it. And what it actually takes to stop. This one goes deep. We’re talking Chiron conjunct this New Moon (the wound underneath your willpower), Uranus at the final degree of Taurus (the last push to raise your standards before everything shifts), and the real reason your manifestations either don’t land or don’t last. Rachel also shares her sexual healing journey in depth, and links to the full article she wrote on it below. What happened when she held the line even when it was terrifying. What came into her life as a side effect of that. And why the things she’d always wanted arrived not from visualizing them, but from staying true to herself long enough to let them. If you’ve been grinding toward a goal that doesn’t feel good anymore. If your manifestations keep coming in flashes and then collapsing. If you suspect the root of the problem isn’t strategy this episode is the one. Links mentioned: * Rachel’s sexual healing journey article * My Certainty Oracle: $47 now, price goes to $222 on May 3rd. Click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astrologymagic.substack.com/subscribe

    Aries New Moon: Choosing Yourself Over the Performance
  3. Apr 6

    The Danger of Playing Small: Aries Season & Taking Messy Action

    The Astrology of Mid April 2026: Aries season is firing up more authenticity. In this episode, Rachel sits down with her partner, Ryan Sprague, for a conversation that takes that cosmic weather and brings it way beyond the stars. We’re talking about the raw, messy, and sometimes brutal reality of stepping into your true identity. With this Aries energy blazing and Saturn demanding some structure, this episode is a masterclass in why being a little “selfish” is actually the highest form of love you can offer the world. Ryan drops some heavy truths about breaking out of the “people-pleasing” matrix, sharing stories from his hardcore coaching days that will make you rethink every time you’ve been afraid of being “annoying.” Rachel gets incredibly vulnerable about her year-long experiment with stepping into “the b***h” persona just to prove to her nervous system that the world won’t end if she stops performing for people. If you’re tired of contorting yourself to fit into everyone else’s box, or if you’re terrified of saying “no,” this is the episode you need to hear. Grab a notebook, leave your ego at the door, and let’s get into it. What We Discuss: * [00:00] The goofball mentality: Setting the tone and managing Pierre the dog’s absolute chaos. * [03:20] The power of Aries Season: Why being selflessly selfish is the key to deep connection. * [05:25] Venus in Taurus: How to stop shape-shifting and start demanding life meets you where you are. * [09:00] Ryan’s journey out of the victim mentality and why taking “messy action” beats perfect planning every single time. * [14:18] The “Stove is Hot” method: Why making mistakes is the fastest way to learn your own boundaries. * [19:30] Rachel’s year-long experiment: Embracing “the b***h” inside her to cure chronic social anxiety and people-pleasing. * [24:00] Emotional Slavery: Ryan tells a wild story about his coach Angelo and why other people’s emotions are notyour responsibility. * [31:00] Why “No” is a complete sentence (and a mandatory life skill). * [34:40] The ultimate truth: Why speaking your unfiltered mind in a relationship feels like a natural MDMA high. * [44:40] Micro-dosing boundaries: How to start small by saying no to the little things. Resources & Links: * Astrology Magic Tools: Track Your Lunar Return using My Certainty Oracle so you can become aware of & heal— your deepest triggers each month using your birth chart. * Connect with Ryan Sprague: Catch him on Instagram @TheRealRyanSprague. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astrologymagic.substack.com/subscribe

    The Danger of Playing Small: Aries Season & Taking Messy Action
  4. Mar 15

    How to get Specific Lunar Return Guidance: Use Aspect Layering to Navigate Your Month with Precision & Take Your Power Back

    Welcome back to the Astrology Magic Podcast! If you read my Part 1 article on making Lunar Return’s specific on Substack, you know we are completely done with vague, useless astrology. Today, we are taking your Lunar Return to the next level with Part 2: Aspect Layering. To read the article version of this podcast, click here. In this episode, showing you exactly how the specific degrees and planets in your monthly Lunar Return chart have direct conversations with your birth chart to trigger your lifelong lessons right now— And create hyper specific guidance for your month ahead. Using my own upcoming Lunar Return as an example, I pull back the curtain on how a major T-Square activation, a Jupiter trine, and a Venus square literally predicted my week. I share the exact real-life business and personal hurdles I faced—from tech blackouts to setting boundaries with my dad—and how I used my chart to step into my authority instead of repeating old, painful patterns. Stop guessing and start leading your life. Let’s get into it! Grab my Certainty Oracle while it’s only $47 here. If you don’t know what a Lunar return is: You can read the article on the basics of Lunar return’s here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astrologymagic.substack.com/subscribe

    How to get Specific Lunar Return Guidance: Use Aspect Layering to Navigate Your Month with Precision & Take Your Power Back
  5. Mar 7

    The Astrology Behind Why Everyone Feels Lost Right Now

    The Astrology Magic podcast is back & with a new special, guest: Ryan Sprague— Rachel’s soul mate & life partner. If you’re feeling lost n the sauce right now, this podcast is your path home. Rachel breaks down the astrology of the collective moment we’re all in right now. Venus, Saturn, and Neptune are converging in Aries — and the pressure you’re feeling to strip back, stop comparing, and figure out what’s actually true for you isn’t random. It’s written in the sky. Neptune is the oneness — the fabric we all come from before we’re born into individual bodies with individual lessons. We are literally all the same consciousness getting pushed into different shaped structures, like a 3D printer popping out new forms from the same material. Saturn is those structures, the contrast and friction that teaches us what love is by showing us what it isn’t. Aries brings it all back to the self first. Together these three are asking one question: can you stop measuring your path against everyone else’s and trust what your own energy is telling you? Rachel is joined by her life partner Ryan, who brings it into real life without needing to know astrology to feel it — how he rebuilt his relationship with guitar by making his only goal one second a day, why letting his calendar go empty led him somewhere he couldn’t have planned, what riding his bike over every inch of his driveway at six years old taught him about what it feels like to move from genuine inner aliveness versus proving something, and how his body stopped breaking down the moment he stopped forcing it into a structure built from fear instead of love. The through line of the whole conversation: Saturn finds its boundaries not by planning the perfect path but by going all in, falling on its face, and learning what’s actually yours from what never was. Offerings: * Check out My Certainty Oracle, lunar return AI here. * Get your free deep dive birth chart reading to heal your moon & connect to your souls truth here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astrologymagic.substack.com/subscribe

    The Astrology Behind Why Everyone Feels Lost Right Now
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Helping you heal emotional patterns using astrology🌊🏄‍♀️ Use your lunar return to heal in real time and surrender to your most aligned life. This isn't just Astrology, it's Astrology that creates ✨magic✨ in your life. astrologymagic.substack.com

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