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THE VESSEL GROUP MENTORSHIP Ali's Substack 2026 Astrology Forecast Workshop Donate to Support Soul Archaeology Mentorship Clarity Call Inner Compass: A North + South Node Course Get Your Free Evolutionary Archetype Guide LUME red light therapy box for $260 off In this week’s episode of Soul Archaeology, Astrologer, Quantum + Somatic Healer and Transformational Guide, Ali Ofstedal explores a deeply relational week centered around the Libra Full Moon. The Libra Full Moon at 12° illuminates the space between self and other. Libra, as an archetype, teaches us how to relate while maintaining internal balance. Opposing a powerful Aries cluster with the Sun, Saturn, and Neptune, this lunation brings a tension between autonomy and connection. This is a week of recalibration. A return to truth within relationship. Not through force, but through awareness, embodiment, and honest reflection. In this episode: • Venus entering Taurus and the return to embodiment, stability, and grounded value • The Libra Full Moon at 12° • Libra as an archetype of attunement, nervous system awareness, and relational intelligence • The opposition to Aries and the tension between autonomy and connection • Saturn and Neptune working together to dissolve illusion and ground relational reality • Jupiter in Cancer amplifying emotional patterns, over giving, and energetic overwhelm • Venus square Pluto bringing intensity, power dynamics, and deeper truth to the surface • Chiron themes around worth, visibility, and old relational wounds • How relational patterns reveal where deeper healing and recalibration is needed • The invitation to bring honesty and integrity into connection without losing yourself
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