A Saturn reading that turns self-abandonment into practical clarity.
The episode frames a question about self-abandonment through a Saturn reading about work, care, and the habit of treating each choice like the only path forward.

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Astrology with nerve, care, and homework.
Ghost of a Podcast moves between horoscope monologues and personal readings shaped by astrology and direct counsel. Its recent episodes translate Mars, Saturn, Neptune, moons, and birth-chart patterns into questions about bodies, boundaries, care, overwhelm, work, and responsibility.
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Ghost of a Podcast is a warm, blunt astrology show with a counseling backbone. It moves in two main modes. Horoscope episodes study the week’s sky, including new moons, full moons, Mars activity, Saturn-Neptune pressure, Pluto themes, and quieter periods when larger collective transits become easier to feel. Advice episodes bring in a caller and turn a personal question into a chart-based conversation about patterns, choices, limits, and care. The pacing is measured. The language is casual, but the work is rarely shallow. Recent episodes connect Mars to the body, motivation, anger, exhaustion, empowerment, and the way a person acts under pressure. They describe low-transit weeks as moments when the background noise of larger forces gets louder. They return often to the difference between complexity and overcomplication. The show likes simple assignments because simple does not mean thin. A reading about “big daddy energy” becomes a conversation about caretaking, drinking, protection, and how responsibility can feel like both a gift and a burden. A reading about a first pregnancy in a dairy goat herd brings animal communication into practical questions of handling, comfort, and safety. A reading about self-abandonment follows Saturn cycles into work, art, herbalism, doula training, ethical labor, depression, and the right to have complexity. A reading about procrastination treats stuckness as overload, not laziness. Political material appears plainly, especially around trans safety, genocide, racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, and imperialism. The show does not separate private distress from public conditions. It also does not let astrology become an excuse to disappear into abstraction. Feelings are named. Patterns are repeated until they become harder to avoid. Choices are brought back into view, even when the answer is not clean. Ghost of a Podcast suits listeners who want horoscope guidance and advice readings that are mystical, emotionally literate, and direct about what life is asking of them.
Made for: For astrology listeners who want transits connected to bodies, relationships, work, politics, and daily decisions. It especially suits people drawn to emotionally direct advice rather than polished spiritual reassurance.
What sets it apart: The show makes astrology concrete: charts and transits become questions about agency, avoidance, responsibility, and care. Its mix of horoscope teaching, caller readings, animal communication, and political conscience gives it a sharper human texture than standard forecast shows.
Ghost of a Podcast is your twice weekly Astrology + Advice podcast hosted by Jessica Lanyadoo, an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator with over 28 years of consulting experience. On Sundays, Jessica guides you through your horoscope, providing valuable insights and strategies for the week ahead — both personally, as well as from a social and political perspective. Then, on Wednesdays, she offers a listener one of her highly relatable readings which reveal the human side of Astrology + woo. https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ghost-of-a-podcast Song: Sonny & The Sunsets
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jessica Lanyadoo turns charts and planetary transits into candid guidance about emotional patterns, practical choices and accountable care.
Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo moves between chart-based advice readings and forecasts organized around planetary transits.
A cranky goat gets as much practical care as your Saturn return.
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A Saturn reading that turns self-abandonment into practical clarity.
The episode frames a question about self-abandonment through a Saturn reading about work, care, and the habit of treating each choice like the only path forward.
A politically direct horoscope turns difficult transits into a focused meditation on agency, consequences, and mutual care.
The week of March 22 through 28 is framed as a test of pressure, agency, and the cost of living out of step with one's values. Sun conjunctions with Saturn and Neptune are used to trace feelings of insecurity, heaviness, exhaustion, and being diminished by certain people or…
A blunt, useful map for when overwhelm turns ambition into shame.
Alexis traces a familiar tangle of procrastination, overwhelm, emotional freeze, and the guilt of not living up to what still feels possible. Jessica responds with blunt care, making a strong case that the problem is not a lack of creativity, vision, or capacity, but too much…
A Pisces new moon forecast turns cosmic uncertainty into practical questions about values, capacity, and care.
A weekly horoscope becomes a practical read on how astrology can give uncertainty some shape without pretending to settle it. The host treats prediction as a way to sort through feelings and lived experience around relationships, work, the wider world, and inner life, then sets…
A midlife astrology conversation turns panic into something that can be named, breathed through, and met with care.
Midlife astrology becomes a question of self-preservation here: how to stay close to an emerging self while a 13-year relationship, a partner's changes, and a wider sense of instability keep moving the ground.
A tender goat reading turns mystical advice into a practical lesson in patience and animal care.
A goat collective becomes a tender frame for thinking about care, labor, and the small ways animals signal discomfort. Jessica Laniato centers Gwen's first pregnancy, her resistance to touch, and the chance that an ear issue may be shaping her behavior.
A demanding horoscope turns astrological pressure into grounded guidance on boundaries, avoidance, and self-worth.
A difficult week is framed as a relationship stress test, with anxiety, fear, hope, and hopelessness all pushing on how people connect. The episode follows pressure from Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron into familiar emotional patterns: weak boundaries, flaky or needy behavior with…



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A listener seeks guidance on navigating a friend's spiritual crisis involving grief, substance use, and hearing voices, prompting a psychic reading to explore the intersection of spirituality and mental health.
Jessica Lanyadoo conducts a psychic reading for a listener concerned about Gwen, a pregnant goat in her collective who has become skittish.
Jessica Lanyadoo provides the weekly horoscope for December 14-20, 2025, focusing on challenging astrological transits.
This episode provides a weekly horoscope for April 12-18, 2026, focusing on the new moon in Aries and Mars energy affecting emotions and actions.
A listener from a goat collective seeks advice about Gwen, a pregnant goat who has become skittish and difficult to handle, raising concerns about her health and the upcoming delivery.
This episode provides a weekly horoscope for April 5th-11th, explaining how fewer exact astrological transits allow for experiencing larger collective themes like Saturn-Neptune conjunctions.
The host, an astrologer and psychic medium, provides a reading for a listener struggling with 'big daddy energy,' exploring its dual nature as both a gift and a curse through astrological insights.
This episode provides a weekly horoscope and mystical advice focusing on the astrology from March 29th to April 4th, 2026, including a discussion on the full moon in Libra and promoting a five-week class on alignment.
The host opens on a caller four months into a Christ year.
Jessica Laniato says anxiety requires boundaries, then ties that warning to Sun-Neptune, Sun-Saturn, Venus-Chiron, and Saturn-Pluto aspects in Aries.
Jessica talks with Alexis about procrastination, overwhelm, and the guilt that comes from feeling stuck on your own life.
The host opens with a packed week of astrology.
The astrologer opens with a caller's question about midlife change after 13 years with a partner.
This episode provides a weekly horoscope for December 14-20, 2025, focusing on challenging astrological influences from Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron that may cause anxiety, boundary issues, and relationship tensions.
A listener seeks advice on navigating the blurred lines between spirituality and mental health after a friend's spiritual practices escalate into dangerous behaviors resembling psychosis.
This episode is the second part of an AMA with Dean Spade, addressing a listener's question about navigating stagnation in a marriage, exploring queer relationships, and considering opening the marriage while dealing with emotional unreadiness to break up.
This episode features an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Dean Spade, discussing listener questions about building relationships, mutual aid, and organizing in resistance movements.