Hey, my name is Chris Brennan. You're listening to The Astrology podcast. The Oscars just happened last night, and I wanted to do a quick recap to talk about some of the highlights from an astrological perspective.

All right, so the Oscars happened yesterday, which is March 2nd, 2025. And the big thing about this Oscars for this year is that Venus had slowed down and stationed retrograde just the day before on March 1st.

So it began its 40-day long Venus retrograde period in Ares.

And I've talked a lot about this cycle over the past couple of months because it repeats every eight years.

And in January, Nick Dagan-Best and I went back and we looked at previous Venus retrograde

periods in eight-year increments. And one of the things that Nick pointed out to me is that

the Oscars kept coming up as being really tied in with this particular cycle.

Going back to the very first Oscars, which happened under Venus retrograde and Ares, almost a century ago now.

But one of the things that we kept seeing is that there were always a lot of firsts every eight years for the Oscars under this Venus retrograde.

So that's one of the things we were paying attention to. And there were also sometimes some controversies or snafus or other things that would come up of that nature under this Venus retrograde. Like for example, eight years ago under the last one is when the wrong best picture was called at first at the very end of the night,

and then they had to announce there was a mistake and bring the actual winner for Best Picture, which was Moonlight, up on stage, and it was a big debacle.

So going into this Oscars, I was kind of keeping an eye out for what the Venus retrograde themes were going to be, both in terms of firsts and in terms of controversies or snafus.

And in the end, it did not disappoint, and it was a pretty exciting and interesting night.

All right. So with that in mind, I'm going to share some of my notes and impressions that I took last night because I watched the entire thing live. I streamed it through Hulu just so I could document

this and see what sort of Venus retrograde type events would come forth during the course of

the night and in terms of who won. So first things first, Conan O'Brien hosted the Oscars,

and I thought he really knocked it out of the park. I'm a huge Conan fan as like an elder

millennial, so I'm kind of biased, but I think he did really well. And from what I've seen,

everybody seems to be just raving about his hosting. So I think it was received really well

and ended up being pretty much universally

praised so that it's a career highlight for him at this point.

And this is really notable because in the original Venus retrograde in Ares and History episode,

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