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 are looking at the astrology of September 28th through October 4th of 2025.

Listen, this week's horoscope is short, maybe not sweet though. We are still undergoing the effects of the Mars square to Pluto that was exact last week. And this transit will impact us

throughout the week until the fourth. You may be feeling activated, agitated, motivated.

This transit kicks up power issues and ego issues. So you can imagine how this could go sideways on a person

pretty easy. There is, of course, a risk of increased violence in the world, but also on a

really personal level, you may just be having a hard time processing through your ego and your survival mechanisms,

where they meet and how they meet. This might have you acting out or allowing other people

to pull shit with you that you know, that you know shouldn't be pulled. The key here is to navigate your needs and the

needs of others with integrity instead of in a reactive way. That's the key. Okay. Now, one more

thing I'm going to say about this is like, you may have heard me talk about this before. So it's like a thing I believe, which is that.

You know, Mars and astrology governs the ego.

But Mercury, Mercury is a planet that governs the mind.

You know, it's your ideas, including your ideas about yourself.

In this increasingly mercurial world with technology and virtual life evolving in the ways that it is,

I have come to find that Mercury has a more ego-oriented function than it used to have.

As humanity evolves, as society evolves, so must our application

and use of astrology, right? The reason why I name this is because this Mars square to Pluto

is active throughout the week, and we have two transits from Mercury to Jupiter and Kyron, respectively. And what this means is that you or somebody

else may try to rationalize or justify egotistical or cruel behavior. Logic is good, right? Understanding is

valuable. But we don't want to explain away cruelty.

And so whether this is something that is coming up inside of you, that you're rationalizing,

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