The Rare Planetary Alignment Everyone's Talking About: What It Means For Your Awakening

The Rare Planetary Alignment Everyone's Talking About: What It Means For Your Awakening

How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This episode of The Awaken With Alyssa Podcast offers one woman’s answer, rooted in astrology, somatic healing, and spiritual practice. Alyssa, who spent 15 years in addiction, depression, anxiety and chronic pain, talks about a rare planetary alignment that many astrologers see as a major turning point, but she frames it as a "collective choice point" rather than a reason for panic.

She breaks down the work of French astrologer André Barbault, explaining how he tracked long-term planetary cycles that seemed to line up with big historical shifts, including the build-up to 2020. Alyssa explains that the current alignment is being read very differently: as a period where conditions are more supportive of growth, innovation and conscious evolution, rather than crisis.

For anyone in recovery or deep healing, the most practical parts of the episode are Alyssa’s reflections on what actually helps awakening land in everyday life. She shares how somatic work became the foundation of her own transformation, helping her move from analysing everything in her head to finally feeling and releasing years of survival and trauma stored in the body.

Ceremony—whether breath work, sweat lodges, fire circles or time in nature—has been another key pillar, giving her space to pause, grieve, honour transitions and reconnect with something larger than herself. Alyssa also introduces evolutionary astrology and her programme "The Calling", describing how understanding her own chart (like her Aries north node in the second house) pushed her towards self-worth, independence and building a life that truly reflects her soul’s assignment.

Rather than promising quick fixes, this conversation centres on slow, sustained inner work and the importance of supportive containers and community. It’s a gentle invitation to ask: if this season isn’t happening to you, what might it be asking from you—and are you ready to answer that call?