It is Monday night January 2, 2023 and after offering podcast 108, a new episode of Out of Bounds: Two Guys Talking Sports & Astrology with Wayne Moody and Mark Lerner, we now present The Big Picture Astrology of 2023: Part 1. This new podcast – containing 13 Major Astrological Alignments for the year ahead originally created for my being on Coast to Coast AM Radio with George Noory on the evening of January 1, 2023 – continues the recent focus on the Big Picture of the first-ever Pluto Return in Capricorn for the USA (using our national birth chart from The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776) and happening three times in 2022 and nearly exact again in September – November 2023, the transit of Neptune in Pisces making its first opposition in 164 years to the USA Neptune in Virgo during 2021 - 2023, plus Mars now retrograde in Gemini from October 30, 2022 to January 12, 2023 and with the Red Planet especially making a several-week transit over the always-profound and often surprise-bringing, radical-change agent USA Uranus placement during most of January 2023. Charts include the USA horoscope and an Astro-Locality World Map based on the USA horoscope, plus the charts for the profound Solar Eclipses happening on April 20 and October 14, 2023. Overall, this is podcast #109 offered to the public since May 2019.