The Pink Moon's Illuminating Power | Energy & Astrology Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

Mercury finally stations direct, offering a collective sigh of relief after three intense weeks of retrograde motion. Yet we're not completely out of the woods—Venus retrograde continues, keeping us firmly in a period of deep life review, especially for those with Taurus or Libra placements in their charts.

The transition from Mercury retrograde in Aries back to Pisces has left many of us feeling like we're waking from a dream, uncertain about what's real and what isn't in our lives. This dreamlike quality lingers as we approach this weekend's Full Moon in Libra (known as the Pink Moon or Buddha Moon), which coincides with Venus stationing direct. This powerful cosmic alignment brings illumination to our relationships, hearts, and minds, facilitating soul-level healing for the collective.

This lunar illumination shines light on relationship dynamics, potentially bringing negotiations, reconciliations, or necessary endings. If you've been contemplating leaving a relationship—whether romantic, business, or friendship—the next two weeks offer cosmic support for closure. The Libran energy emphasizes finding balance in all areas of life: masculine/feminine energies, giving/receiving, work/rest. It's an excellent moment for dreaming big, visualizing possibilities, and beautification projects, though major appearance changes or significant purchases should wait another week or two until we're fully clear of retrograde shadows.

Rituals focused on releasing anger, resentment, fear, or stress are particularly powerful now. "Unfurling back to love" serves as our guiding theme—reconnect with compassion, kindness, and your center. As we move toward Taurus season, we'll experience a period without eclipses or retrogrades, bringing calmer, more productive energy around April 19th. For now, take one small, intentional step toward your desires while staying rooted in love. Remember that visualization creates pathways to manifestation, so dream your reality into being. What are you ready to illuminate and transform as the cosmic weather shifts?

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Chapters

• 0:21 Welcome & Retrograde Relief
• 1:10 Full Moon in Libra Illumination
• 4:15 Relationship Reviews & Closures
• 6:22 Unfurling Back to Love
• 8:08 Beautification & Rest Opportunities
• 10:18 Dream Trip to Egypt
• 13:47 Finding Balance in Compassion

Transcript

Magical Michelle Orwick: 0:21

Welcome to Living Magically. I'm your host, magical Michelle, and this week we get to breathe a sigh of relief, but we're also still deep in a life review right now. So, happy Mercury Stations, direct stations, direct. For the last three weeks, we have been in Mercury retrograde and with that we have been in a major, major don't do anything category. But what is also happening, and why this was such an intense one for everybody, is because we had this Venus retrograde at the same time. Now, something else to consider with all of this is that during this Mercury retrograde, we went from Mercury retrograde in Aries to Mercury retrograde in Pisces, so we feel like we're waking up from a dream. So have you ever kind of been like asleep and you were in a dream and you're not sure what is real and what isn't real? It might feel that way in your life right now, that way in your life right now, and I encourage you.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 1:50

This full moon that is coming up over the weekend is in Libra, ruled by Venus, and later on, at the same time, the same day as we have a full moon in Venus, we have Venus retrograde going direct as well. So what does that mean, especially for those of you who are ruled by Libra or ruled by Taurus, or have any of your sun, moon or rising signs in Taurus or Libra, and everybody else too, but especially those two signs is we're in this major life review, especially Taurus, whose birthday month is coming up, and also Aries, who's in their birthday energy right now. We have the sun direct in Aries and it's always direct, but the sun is prominent in Aries right now. It's first sign. It's this new beginning energy and yet we're still in the stickiness of these retrogrades. So what happens with that is it feels like all your plans are halted still. But the good news is that things are starting to lighten up. Things are starting to get more clarity and I expect you to get clarity. The illumination of this full moon will probably get more clarity, more unstuck energy. Next week We'll see that after the full moon, more like the 12th and the 13th.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 3:30

So now that Mercury's out of retrograde, you're going to start to see the movement. You're going to start having a review period. You're going to be like all right, where have I been stuck for the last three weeks? Where have I been stuck for the last two months? And really all the way back to November? We've had major personal signs in retrograde all the way since last November. So this moon, which is also the pink moon it's called the Buddha moon we have this illuminating moon that's trying to bring clarity on our relationships, in our hearts, in our minds, in our soul. Really, there's a soul level healing happening for the collective. You're going to see a lot of negotiation going on. So if you're in a relationship, try and be kind, but this is this is the time to be in that review period.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 4:34

I heard one astrologer talking about it as if you're going to leave a relationship, you're probably going to leave it in the next two weeks, like if you've been waiting, you don't need any bigger sign than this it's time to end, and that that might not be a marriage. That could be a business partnership or a friendship. Things are coming to a close and that closure could just be in different ways that we deal with people. But I expect money matters to get better for everybody once we hit Taurus. So this is your big idea energy. We're still in big ideas right now Big breakthroughs, illumination, clarity and maybe even just praying for what you want. The answer is to align with the timeline and the choices for what you want, what you desire, what your heart is bringing forward and getting away from what you fear, what you're angry about. And please, if at all possible, if you feel angry, if you feel resentful, if you feel caught up in that energy, fear, stress, whatever please do yourself a favor this week and do a ritual, write it out, burn it, do some kind of water ceremony, get into the water and let it go. Whatever it is that you need to purify yourself and let go.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 6:16

We have a really big opportunity to come back to compassion, to come back to love. Unfurling back to love was the card I got this morning. I was pulling my card for the week and it was the heart chakra card Unfurling back to love, and I love that statement. And I love that statement. How do we become love? How are we spreading kindness, spreading love, spreading the change and you know this is ruled by Venus.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 6:52

Libra moon is all about finding balance Balance of the masculine and feminine, balance of our day and night, balance of our, our, um, our time. Are we over giving? Are we under giving? Are we sharing enough of our information? And I expect communication to get better this week, but not be really perfect for at least two more weeks, because we're still going to be in retrograde shadow Mercury retrograde shadow and Venus retrograde is still about reviewing those relationships. So if it's time to make that conversation, have it. Have it next week. If you're if you're like, have a really big conversation, have it next week. If you're like, have a really big conversation, have it next week. But if you're ready to just start brainstorming or getting ideas, this is a good week. It's a great idea for the big picture. It's a great idea for dreaming. It's a wonderful time to start dreaming things into possibility, sharing what is possible and just knowing that everything is possible. Okay, and with every ending is a new beginning. And so I feel like there's this, this big expansive opening happening, big expansive opportunities. So if there's this, this big expansive opening happening, big expansive opportunities.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 8:22

So if there's some um, some opportunity for you to be kinder to another person, do that. If there's an opportunity for you to rest and recalibrate and renew yourself, do that. If there's a chance where you want to beautify your home or your office or your yard, do that. But I have heard it's not a really good time to make big physical changes to your appearance that you cannot change. Venus retrograde, isn't the time to get bangs. If you have beautiful long hair, not the time to cut off your hair. You can get maintenance beauty items something you were already planning, maybe if you have a tattoo that you've planned on having forever, maybe that. But if you can wait another week to make any big, massive changes, do that. But beautification process, planting oh my goodness, plant your seeds, get your gardens going and certainly, create and envision and dream and journal. Take long baths. Rest is an absolute anything. Luxury is an absolute wonderful thing to do.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 9:40

And if, if you are looking for love, if you are looking for a new relationship, this is a good time to go out and meet some people. If it is, if you are looking for, um, bettering the relationship you have, this is a great time to take your wife out to dinner, take your husband out to dinner, spend quality time with your kids or your partner. If there is someone that you haven't spent time with that you really, really want to embrace, this is a great week to do that. There's going to be an I love you energy too. This week. I love you, I appreciate you. Do those little things that show that you care, show that you take that extra little piece and show that you are ready to make that next little. I love you and here's. Here's something nice that I can do.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 10:45

I wouldn't necessarily go into presents or spending our money. You, you might regret spending a lot of money. This isn't the week to to make big purchases. I'd still wait another week or two before I did that. But if there was like just small gestures of love and appreciation, this is the week With that pink moon. It's a great time to gather. So I know there's a lot of full moon gatherings. I'm having one for my school on Saturday night, online. I'm also, if you're local to Orlando and you want to come to our Compassion Circle at the Ashram, this is happening on Thursday and, more important, I've been really really recognizing that this is the time.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 11:38

If you're going to come with me and Marissa to Egypt, we have to kind of settle out how many people are coming in the next month, and so we are going to Egypt in September for my dream trip. We're going to be going down the Nile, we're going to be going to the Sphinx, we're going to be going to the pyramids, all of the things, and so if you are interested in doing that. Please get with me. This week. We have a beautiful trip planned with our amazing people on the ground there Hatem and Noha. We'll be going to our oil temple to learn about oils with Gamal. It's just going to be an incredible trip as well as, if you've never been to Jordan, maybe you've been to Egypt, but you've never been to Petra in Jordan we're doing an extension. So if that's something you're interested in, they're two different trips. You can combine the two or you can go to one or the other, including, if time or money is the problem and you want to narrow it down to a shorter trip, we have a highlights tour which gets you the big stuff. It gets you Luxor and Cairo and gets it all in and under eight days. So please let me know if I can help you journey on that dream trip to Egypt.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 13:14

So what are you dreaming about? What is it and how do you make that come to reality? This is the week about dreaming your life into being remember. When we visualize something coming true, the way becomes made possible. This is the theme right now, with this illuminating full moon. Listen to this beautiful, beautiful sound of the bells, the wind chimes instead of the road noise behind me, so I wanted to be outside. It's such a beautiful day here, but I do apologize for the street noise all of a sudden, there we go All right In the meantime compassion, love, illumination, balance find your way, waking up. It's like you're waking up from a dream and I still continue to invite you to dream.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 14:13

Dream yourself into a reality that you choose. Do not get caught up in the fear, don't get caught up in what's going on outside of you. Unfurl your heart back to love, come back to the center, find your center, find your dream. Find your center. Find your dream. Take one step, take one little action. Step back to love, back to who you are, and we'll see, as this full moon illuminates that bigger opportunity to move more strong, more fully. In the coming months, as we see Taurus season, we're going to have a period of time without eclipses and retrogrades and you're just going to see a little bit of of an opening coming up. After this week and and about two weeks now, around the 19th, you're going to see things get a little bit calmer, a little bit easier. But remember, with all the fire that you have, take one action. Step with this, make movement as the wind opens up, make movement, take a deep breath, meditate, be compassionate, and I wish you all an absolutely magical, loving, compassionate week, and I'll see you again next week. Live magically you.