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 February 8th through

the 14th of 2026. But this is episode number 600. This is the 600th episode that I have created and

published. And we've been doing this once a week or twice a week for years and years

and years now. And I just wanted to take a moment to speak to something that is kind of core

to my work. I'm an astrologer. And I really, really, really care about astrology, the integrity

of astrology, the use and practice of astrology. I love astrology.

Astrology is, of course, my life's work, but it's also kind of not the point for me.

The reason why I was drawn to astrology, other than like it's amazing and fascinating and all the things,

is because it's this really useful tool for understanding oneself, other people, relationships, situations, and the world at large.

And what I have seen as the kind of downfall of astrology is when people use it as a way to try to sidestep those things, to sidestep accountability to oneself within relationships and, of course, in like our engagement in the world. And so I want to, on the air of

the 600th episode of Ghost of a Podcast, just take a moment to remind you that understanding

the transits of what's coming, you know, today, this month, this year,

this decade, whatever it is that we're looking at. That is helpful and it's interesting. And

it's also not the same as doing the work. Right. In order to do the work, you've got to take what's interesting

and use your editorial mind to try to kind of assess out what is useful and what's a distraction.

What's useful, but maybe not useful right now. And when it comes to doing the work, astrology can be really helpful, it can be instructive,

it can provide a container or a sense of a timeline, but it's not the same thing as follow-through,

right?

That follow-through is on you.

And the longer that I practice and use astrology, the more that I

really have come to believe that it is emotional intelligence. It is emotional accountability.

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