Hello and welcome. This is the week ahead podcast. I'm your host, Channie Nicholas, and in this episode, we are talking about the week of December 4th.

In this podcast, we look at the astrology of the upcoming week and how it will be landing for all of us collectively.

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All things considered, this week's astrology appears like a bit of a helpful situation.

I hope.

I hope that that's how it actually lands with us.

So on Monday, we've got Venus.

We've talked about Venus so much this year. This has been like a highly Venusian year. Not to say

that Venus changing signs isn't a normal thing because it is, but Venus is moving into Scorpio,

where it has a little bit of a rough time. But this is what I love about Venus and Scorpio.

In Scorpio, Venus has to do its job in the opposite way. And planets that are in signs, we call it

being in its detriment or in its exile.

Planets that are in exile kind of have to act like, okay, I don't have the resources that I need.

So I've got to do things from the outside in in a way.

I've got to be the outsider or I am the outsider. So Venus is a planet of love and relationships and connection.

And if you remember, earlier this year, it went retrograde and it really kind of dominated a lot of the astrological language for a long time.

And then we had two eclipses in October that were both ruled by Venus. So it's

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