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 April 12th through the 18th of 2026. There's a lot going on this week, including a new moon and Ares. We're getting bookmarked by some Mars energy. So before we dive into the details of this horoscope and your brief overview, which is steeped in oversimplification,

but your brief overview of the week ahead, the TLDR, I want to just say this.

We're dealing with a lot of Mars vibes, right? So Mars, as a quick reminder, is the planet that governs your body.

It's your passions. It's your motivation. It's your actions. And it's the energy with which you do a

damn thing. How fast you do it, how slow you do it, your sense of entitlement, your sense of empowerment,

all related to Mars. So because Mars is in Ares, in early degrees, it is sitting on top of

Neptune and on top of Saturn kind of bookmarking this week. And what this means in practical terms is

whatever you are feeling in your body needs tending to. And that sounds pretty straightforward,

but it's not because Neptune and Saturn's presence, respectively, create meaningful complications to most people's willingness

and ability to stay with the body and stay with the feelings and impulses you find there.

And you may be feeling big mad, big sad, big tired.

You may be feeling overwhelmed, overburdened. You may be feeling

a sense of purpose and also a sense of not being able to like rise to the occasion.

Fucking Mars conjunct Neptune and Saturn. And I'm going to get into these transits in greater

depth. Give me a second here.

But hopefully you can practice having empathy for yourself so that you can meet yourself without

judgment, without cruelty, and tend to what's kind of most important, what's what's hanging out on the surface so that

you can be effective in whatever it is you need to do and while you're at it you can practice

having some empathy and patience for other people there There is a lot going on, astrologically and absolutely in the world.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by it, or if you're engaging with people who are behaving

in ways that seem bananas, that seem kind of disproportionate to the situation, people

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