Well… the universe is about to hand us that final exam.

Over a massive twenty-four-hour window spanning June 29th and 30th, the sky is delivering a planetary reconfiguration. We’re tracking Mercury stationing retrograde in Cancer, a Capricorn Full Moon, AND Jupiter making its explosive ingress into Leo. This is not just a regular couple of days on the calendar. This is a cosmic changing of the guard.

The cosmos demands major cardinal action through heavy emotional processing, only to immediately hand the torch to fixed fire. This completely shifts the collective focus from initiating deep healing to anchoring a sudden, unstoppable surge of outward breakthroughs.

The Inward Realignment: Mercury Retrograde in Cancer

This transition occurs just over three weeks, when Mercury officially stations retrograde at 26 degrees of Cancer on Monday, June 29th at 1:36 PM EST, and then continues to move backward to 16 degrees by July 23rd when it will station direct again.

Now, please do not look at this retrograde as a bad omen. It is much better understood as a cosmic pause. Retrogrades are times when the external energy of the specific planet turns inward, creating a beautiful opportunity to reflect, review, and rework aspects of your life. While Mercury is infamous for causing miscommunications and logistical glitches during its retrogrades, it’s actually an excellent time for brainstorming and editing as well.

Because this occurrence is happening in Cancer, the cardinal water sign of the mother, home, and intuition, our minds are moving from strict logic to deep feeling. Cancer operates on a deeply receptive, introverted polarity, meaning it absorbs the emotional atmosphere around it. If you have any personal placements between 16 and 26 degrees of Cancer, or in the house where Cancer rules your chart, you are getting a major mental and emotional rewrite.

The planetary aspects are adding a lot of fuel to this fire too. Mercury will be sitting in a tight conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer, which is going to amplify our emotional nostalgia and bring major internal realizations. At the same time, Mercury will square Chiron in Taurus and square the fated Vertex at the 29th degree of Aries. This is going to kick up some sharp, fated friction regarding our security, bringing up old wounds around belonging and the knee-jerk urge to defend and protect ourselves.

Directly impacted individuals, as well as the general public, should focus on active, internal restructuring rather than passive waiting.

• Feel it before you speak it: Double-check all emotional communications, as Mercury in Cancer makes us react from past wounds rather than present reality.

• Audit your emotional safety: Use the tight Jupiter conjunction to brainstorm what “home” and “belonging” actually mean to you, rather than over-protecting and staying attached to outgrown spaces and people.

• Declutter the mental vault: Expect old memories, exes, or unresolved family dynamics to resurface; treat them as editing material for your subconscious mind, not a permanent relapse.

• Slow down physical impulses: With the harsh squares to Chiron and the Aries Vertex, pause before making knee-jerk decisions driven by financial anxiety or a sudden urge to run away.

The astrological house where Cancer falls in your natal chart shows where this energy will be most active in your life over the next few weeks. In the 2nd House, this might look like a total review of your financial security and a sudden shift from scarcity-mindset anxiety into intuitive abundance. If it's hitting your 10th House, it might look like a total mental pivot regarding your career path and a desire to walk away from professional spaces that leave you emotionally depleted.

I’m experiencing this exact rewrite firsthand during this pre-shadow period. I hold my natal Venus and Mars in Cancer in my 10th House (career), while Cancer rules my 11th House (long-term goals and community). Lo and behold, the universe recently delivered a massive shift. I just started a part-time desk job at a marina (very watery, Cancerian energy, as well as community-focused), and the opportunity came through my stepdad—tapping perfectly into Cancer’s themes of family support—and it gives me the ultimate reward: plenty of free time to finally pour into my writing, content creation, and business expansion!!

The financial alignment here is where the magic really happens for me too. The ruler of this Mercury retrograde is the Moon, so check where yours is in your chart. My natal Moon sits in Libra in my 2nd House of money, values, material things, and expenditures, and it directly squares my Cancer Venus and Mars in the 10th House. This square has always created an intense internal tug-of-war for me: a constant friction between my need for financial peace and balance, and my ambitious drive to build my career and business without completely overwhelming my emotional nervous system.

And this is how that square has been manifesting lately: Even though I’ve been needing the money, I was avoiding finding another traditional job because I was afraid it would disrupt that delicate balance I needed to keep my business, and actual passion, growing. But the universe supported the resolution of that lifelong square for me by handing me a job that pays exactly what I wanted, and it’s the chillest job ever! I can wear what I want, walk in and out without a rigid check-in system, sit outside and soak in the rays of the sun and the sound of the waves, and have the freedom to write in my spare time. It’s pure, comfortable, safe Cancerian energy that protects my peace while supporting my career goals—and the universe even left an easter egg on day one when my office neighbor pulled out his own protective crystals to show me that he was also spiritual!

I used to tell myself a setup like this couldn’t exist. But as I continued to show up for what truly fulfilled and aligned with me, God brought the right opportunities straight to my door. A month ago, I had no idea any of this was coming and felt desperate for change. Instead of chasing or forcing it, I chose to surrender and let everything flow; now, I’m living the beginning of another answered prayer.

Let this be your reminder to never doubt your intuition or what you are being quietly called to. If you’d like to know exactly how this cosmic changing of the guard is trying to upgrade your life and resolve the friction in your own chart, book an astrology reading with me below!

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Torching the Old Structures: The Full Moon in Capricorn

Some hours after Mercury shifts gears, the sky illuminates with a high-pressure Full Moon in Capricorn at 7:56 PM EST. A standard Capricorn lunation usually brings a performance review vibe to our long-term goals, structures, discipline, and career. But this one has a twist. Sitting at the 8th degree, this Moon takes on the numerical energy of Scorpio, Mars, and Pluto, giving it a magnetic, secretive, and highly alchemical flavor that resonates deeply with themes of power, wealth, death, and rebirth.

This is not simply about organizing your weekly schedule. This is about burning down old, decaying structures, shedding toxic, ego-driven attachments to status, and completely rebuilding your relationship with power and authority. This moon acts as a cosmic catalyst, forcing a necessary evolution. It directly triggers and opposes anyone with major fixed or cardinal sign placements at or near 8 degrees.

The surrounding aspects are HEAVY hitters. Both the Sun and Moon square Saturn and Neptune in Aries. Because Saturn rules this Full Moon, this square creates intense pressure to take radical accountability, set immovable boundaries, and drop the baggage that’s stalling your growth. With Neptune in the mix, it triggers a brutal reality check, forcing a more obvious clash between fantasy and hard truth.

The universe is completely dissolving your escapism and outgrown coping mechanisms—meaning any structures, jobs, or relationships built on denial and wishful thinking rather than concrete facts will face a massive reality check.

Personally, Capricorn rules my 5th House of play, creativity, romance, and children, but the specific degree of this Full Moon places it right at the tail-end of my Scorpio-ruled 4th House—the foundational realm of home, ancestry, and emotional roots. Talk about divine timing. A Full Moon brings completions, illuminations, and major endings to a cycle. By stepping into a committed relationship and a new physical home simultaneously, this Full Moon is physically cementing the structural upgrades my soul has been begging for.

The 4th house is where we hide away to feel safe, and Scorpio brings intense, deep, protective energy to that space. Moving in with someone requires tearing down old, defensive Scorpio walls to build a brand-new, stable Capricorn foundation. It’s a massive illumination of how far I’ve come. The universe is closing the door on an old era of solitary emotional survival and opening a new chapter of grounded, shared security. This is nothing short of a fated closing of a karmic loop.

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The Great Awakening: Jupiter Enters Leo

As we close out June 29th, the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter will all be packed into Cancer, with Jupiter sitting at the 29th degree—a highly karmic degree of completion. Then, literally hours after this Full Moon on June 30th at 1:52 AM EST, Jupiter officially leaves Cancer and enters Leo.

This injects a sudden, magnificent surge of fiery, dramatic, and expressive energy right into the middle of a heavy earth and water lunation, shifting the collective focus toward creative sovereignty. Jupiter is the great benefic of the zodiac, governing expansion, wealth, philosophy, and our search for meaning and optimism. When it blends with Leo, it creates a larger-than-life energy driven by generosity, optimism, and a desire to inspire others.

You will feel a wave of magnanimous generosity and a desire to share your wealth and support with an open heart. Growth will come through art, performance, or leadership because this energy thrives when it’s center stage. There’s an unshakeable confidence attached to this ingress that brings a natural optimism, which is exactly how we attract good luck.

And here’s the best part: Jupiter is going to be holding court in Leo from June 30th until July 26th of next year. This means the sudden spark of confidence we’ll feel around this full moon is actually the opening act of a thirteen-month chapter designed to help us reclaim our creative power and take center stage in our own lives!

Just keep an eye on the shadow side of this placement. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, so unchecked energy can lead to an overinflated ego, extravagance, overspending on luxury, and a tendency toward melodrama where minor setbacks are exaggerated into cinematic crises. You’ll attract your greatest luck by being authentic, courageous, and kind.

How to Prepare for the Big Day

Since this entire cosmic storm hits all at once, you’ll want a game plan before June 29th arrives.

1. Secure your logistics: Double-check your tech and schedules before 1:36 PM EST on the 29th, because once Mercury stations, small details will easily slip through the cracks.

2. Clear your evening: Protect your peace for the Capricorn Full Moon at 7:56 PM EST. Give yourself a quiet space to do a mental audit of where you are overextending your energy just to satisfy a false sense of obligation. Write down exactly what needs to be torched, and honestly let it go.

3. Perform a release ritual: Anchor this potent earth, fire, and water energy by journaling what you’re releasing, safely burning the paper, and mixing the ashes into the soil of a potted plant or outside in the earth. Speak your final intentions of culmination and completion over a glass of water before pouring it over the buried ashes. You’ll soon see what cycle wants to be birthed from this purge.

4. Rest up for the breakthrough: Get some deep sleep so you can wake up on June 30th ready to match the high-octane energy of Jupiter in Leo. When the universe hands you the microphone, you do not want to be too tired to sing.

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The Cardinal Signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)

You don’t sit in discomfort well, and this transit knows it. The Full Moon in Capricorn, squaring Saturn and Neptune in Aries, is lighting up your angular houses—the parts of your life tied to identity, home, relationships, and career—and your instinct is going to be to act before you’ve actually processed what’s cracking. Don’t. This is a performance review, not a green light. Mercury retrograde in Cancer is asking you to sit still long enough to feel what you’ve been outrunning—a role you’ve outgrown, a dynamic you’ve been managing instead of healing. The illusion breaking here isn’t a setback. It’s permission to stop performing stability you don’t actually feel. Jupiter into Leo gives you the fuel—just make sure you’re moving toward something real, not just moving.

The Fixed Signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)

You hold on longer than anyone, and this Full Moon—landing at 8 degrees, a fixed degree—knows exactly where your grip is tightest. This isn’t surface-level; it’s fated, and it’s been building for a while. Squaring Saturn and Neptune in Aries, it’s widening the gap between what you’ve been dreaming about and what’s actually sustainable, and your nature is going to want to white-knuckle through it instead of letting go. Resist that. Whatever this is touching for you—a belief, a routine, a hidden pattern, a shared resource—the releasing is the work, not the holding on. Jupiter’s move into Leo is the reward for surrender, not for stubbornness. Loosen your grip before the universe loosens it for you.

The Mutable Signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)

You’re the overthinkers of the zodiac, and right now your mind is going to want to analyze this transit into the ground instead of just letting it move through you. Mercury slowing down in Cancer is asking you to stop mentally rehearsing every angle and actually feel what you’re investing your time and energy into—especially relationships or work that takes more than they give. The Full Moon in Capricorn, squaring Saturn and Neptune in Aries, is forcing a reality check between your financial fantasy and your financial fact, whether that shows up as a goal, a shared resource, or your bank account. You don’t need more information right now, you need discernment. Jupiter’s move into Leo brings fire and momentum, but only once you stop spinning and actually decide.

Trust the Move

We’re closing out the month exactly how we were supposed to. The universe is using the Mercury Retrograde and the Capricorn Full Moon to strip away our illusions, demand our accountability, and dissolve the old structures we used as emotional crutches. And the second we clear that space out, Jupiter enters Leo to give us the fire, courage, and charisma we need to step into the spotlight. Stop waiting for things to shift on their own and trust yourself enough to be the one who moves.

If you’re feeling the intensity of these transits and want to know exactly how to navigate them yourself, don’t forget you can book both astrology and tarot readings with me for more personalized insights. I’m wishing everyone a wonderful and clarifying shift through these transits. May you walk away knowing exactly what you need to release, and exactly what you need to hold onto🌙✨

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Lately, a quiet resistance has emerged within the collective. Spirit keeps nudging people out of isolation and back toward healthier, aligned relational dynamics. Yet, many are stubbornly choosing to stay put. Not out of laziness, but protection. Past effort poured into people who did not deserve it has left a heavy residue. Right now, pouring energy strictly into oneself feels like the only safe choice.

Understandable. Necessary, even—for a season. But seasons end. What once served as protection can quietly solidify into a blockage.

The Venusian Reawakening: Libra, Taurus, & Venus in Leo

This tension is showing up heavily within Libra and seventh house energy. With Chiron preparing to enter Taurus—the other sign ruled by Venus—a karmic reawakening is triggering how we handle ourselves and our emotions. It forces us to look at the parts of ourselves that mirror through others, asking what partnership is actually supposed to feel like.

This reawakening is amplified by the fact that Venus is currently transiting through bold, expressive Leo until July 9th.

• The Conflict: While Chiron in Taurus aches around the fear of being unwanted, isolated, or unworthy, Venus in Leo demands that we stop playing small and hiding in the shadows.

• The Push: Leo energy wants us to stand unapologetically in our radiance, beauty, and desires.

• The Breakthrough: This current cosmic alignment creates a powerful friction point: you cannot fully step onto the stage of your life and claim the bold, passionate love and expansion that you deserve (Venus in Leo, and eventually Jupiter in Leo) if you are still using your walls as a permanent hiding spot (Chiron in Taurus).

Taurus holds the body, the senses, security, and the slow accumulation of worth over time. It also carries the reality of aging and the quiet fear of becoming less wanted as time moves forward. Chiron’s presence here can ache around isolation, the lack of touch, and questioning if we are allowed to feel pleasure and ease without earning it first.

Right now, Spirit is closing the easy exits. The escape routes that used to work—numbing out or quietly sabotaging under the guise of self-protection—are getting harder to reach. This is not a punishment. It’s a redirection; it’s just going to look different depending on where this is being asked of you. Either way, we’re all being asked to actually stand in and feel the entirety of the wound instead of slipping past it.

Digging into the Roots

Scorpio and eighth house energy also comes through heavily, triggering the fear of merging and the vulnerability of letting someone see what is deep underneath. Scorpio knows intimately what it means to guard the self after being burned. It understands how easily we mistake a wall for safety long after the danger has passed.

Finally, this current ripples into the fourth and second houses—Cancer and Taurus energy—the homes we come from, and the inherent value we carry in our bodies. Relationship wounds rarely stay confined to relationships. They root themselves in what we believe we are worth and what we were taught love was supposed to look like.

To hold this message with nuance, this is not about naming a clean villain. Much of what is surfacing feels like a maternal wound projected in various ways. It feels like nurturing energy trying to peek through to be experienced differently. This pattern was likely incorrectly modeled early on, repeated until it became an identity. The root could stem from anyone or any situation that taught us that closeness costs more than it gives. The pattern matters far more than the person who planted it.

Emotionally, this is about to get louder… Mercury goes retrograde in Cancer on the 29th. When the mind starts thinking in the language of feeling—interpreting the world through home, memory, mother, and need—these Chiron in Taurus threads will surface whether we invite them or not. This is a crucial window to listen instead of rationalize.

What the Cards Say…

• The Tower (Reversed): Sits underneath this message like a foundation that has not finished falling. Something is still being slowly dismantled so that something truer and more secure can be built from the ashes.

• Knight of Wands: Positioned right behind the Tower, this is the fire that does not wait for permission. It represents the part of us learning how to chase what we actually want from these new foundations—without apologizing for wanting it.

• The Empress: This is your invitation back into abundance and creation. She reminds us that connection—to people, to purpose, to anything—is something we actively generate and mold, not something we passively wait to receive.

• Two of Pentacles: The practical hand on that creation. It represents the conscious juggling act of deciding what gets our energy and what no longer fits.

• King of Cups (Reversed): Sitting beside the Empress like a question, he represents a choice point. Where the Empress is open, trusting, and magnetic, the reversed King shows what happens when emotional currency is withheld, guarded, or turned inward until it sours. He’s not the villain; he’s a warning of how the same heart capable of creating trust can also retreat into self-protection disguised as wisdom.

This is the real offering:

Not a push to trust blindly again, but a choice between two ways of holding the same heart. One builds. One waits. Both are valid for a moment, but only one keeps you moving.

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To understand the weight of this transit, we have to look to mythology. Chiron was a centaur, a master healer, wise teacher, and brilliant astrologer who, by a cruel twist of fate, carried an excruciating wound he could never cure himself. Yet, instead of spiraling into bitter resentment, Chiron chose the path of radical compassion. He dedicated his immortality to easing the pain of others, eventually sacrificing his eternal life so that another could live.

The lesson this asteroid brings us isn’t about striving for an impossible, flawless cure. It doesn’t demand that we erase our scars. Instead, Chiron teaches us to acknowledge our pain with kindness—free from judgment, shame, or self-belittlement. Through this gentle acknowledgment, our deepest suffering transforms into a wellspring of inner strength and profound meaning.

From the Battlefield to the Soil: The Shift from Aries to Taurus

If you’ve been nursing a profound sense of collective exhaustion lately, there’s a cosmic reason for it. Chiron has been traversing the fiery, reactive terrain of Aries since 2018.

For the past eight years, we’ve been pushed to heal wounds around identity, courage, and asserting ourselves. But on Friday, that frantic emergency energy finally breaks. The cosmic frequency drops from the chaotic mental battlefield of the self, down into the quiet, steady soil of our physical security. In Taurus, our collective wound shifts from identity to sustenance.

Chiron transiting this fixed earth sign is a beautiful reminder to awaken to the truth that we are spiritual beings having a human experience on this planet, especially as our very right to exist may begin to feel deeply questioned by the material world around us. Taurus governs our personal finances, material possessions, physical comforts, fine art, and culinary pleasures, and is guided by its planetary ruler, Venus, which presides over love, pleasure, and our deepest-held values.

So the core curriculum of this eight-year transit centers on three major themes:

• Financial Wounds: This transit is a collective invitation to heal deep-seated scarcity mindsets, financial trauma, and systemic anxieties around money and resources. We’ll be asked to confront where we hoard out of fear, spend impulsively, or block abundance because we feel unworthy of receiving it.

• Self-Worth: We’re being called to rebuild our sense of inherent value from the ground up. What do your actions and choices reveal about your self-love and self-respect? This work involves consciously separating our human worth from material accumulation, capitalist productivity, and external validation.

• Physical Embodiment: Chiron in Taurus urges us to heal our relationship with the physical body. In medical astrology, Taurus rules the throat, neck, vocal cords, thyroid, and ears. This transit asks us to reconnect with daily comfort, somatic healing, physical movement, and a more intuitive approach to health—shifting away from hyper-vigilance and toward true nourishment. This may also be a period when our eating habits and reconnection with nature, or our sense of sensuality, become higher priorities.

So in general, this transit quietly becomes the haunting whisper that we don’t have enough—or worse, that we aren’t enough—leaving us feeling undervalued or dismissed. We might find ourselves chasing material success to soothe a spiritual ache, only to find that when we reach the success of the summit, the emptiness remains—because our worth was tied to what we produced, not who we are.

Over the next eight years, true healing won’t come from validation, receipts, or applause. It will come from learning to nourish ourselves from within, rooting into a safety the world can neither grant nor take away.

Chiron’s move into Taurus is an eight-year collective masterclass. And because shifts of this magnitude rarely move in a straight line, this journey will unfold in three distinct acts:

• Act I: June 19, 2026, Chiron enters Taurus for a 3-month sneak preview and then retrogrades back into Aries on September 17, 2026

• Act II: On April 14th, 2027, Chiron re-enters Taurus for a long-term stay, beginning a multi-year cycle that lasts until July 19th, 2033, when it briefly slips into Gemini for a new three-month preview of that sign.

• Act III: Slipping backward one last time, Chiron retrogrades back into Taurus one last time on October 23rd, 2033, before finally crossing the Gemini threshold for good on May 5th, 2034.

Friday’s Launchpad: Breaking Down the Day One Energy

Because the cosmos loves a dramatic entrance, the day Chiron debuts in Taurus is packed with a tangled web of planetary conversations. While the exact manifestation of these energies depends entirely on your unique birth chart, the planetary climate on Friday tells us exactly what kind of atmosphere the collective is waking up into.

Venus, the cosmic ruler of this entire Taurus transit, will be sitting in loud, proud, and expressive Leo. This placement boosts our desire to shine brightly, boldly, and authentically, forcing us to face our healing in a highly visible, courageous way. However, there is a catch: Venus will be locked in a direct, incredibly tense opposition to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius.

When the planet of love and self-worth faces off with the planet of death, rebirth, and underground power, the masks have to come off. This opposition acts as a profound psychological mirror. It exposes power struggles within our networks, our collective obsession with social status, and the subtle ways we compromise our core values just to feel like we belong.

Thankfully, Pluto will be throwing a supportive sextile to Neptune in Aries, which then trines our Leo Venus. This beautiful, flowing link acts as a celestial safety valve. It signals that discovering our genuine, raw authenticity will actually feel easier to achieve if we lean into creative, spiritual, and compassionate expressions rather than getting caught up in ego games.

The Mental Landscape: Sun and Moon Dynamics

Meanwhile, the Sun will be finishing its run in Gemini, placing ideas, buzzing conversations, and social interactions at the absolute forefront of our minds. The Sun is incredibly busy this Friday, creating a complex web of aspects: sextiling a Virgo Moon, squaring Neptune, trining the North Node in Pisces, opposing Lilith in Sagittarius, and conjuncting the Vertex in Cancer. Our minds will likely be spinning with data, trying to intellectually conceptualize a wound that can actually only be felt.

Concurrently, the Moon will be sitting in analytical, detail-oriented Virgo. On paper, a Virgo Moon wants to organize, clean, fix, and problem-solve the pain away. It trines Chiron, bringing an acute, sharp awareness to our wounds. However, we have to look closer: the South Node is also in Virgo, tightly conjunct this Moon. This is a massive cosmic warning label.

Right now, our highly analytical, hyper-critical ways of processing our feelings are actually playing against us. The South Node represents what we need to purge and release. If we try to logically spreadsheet our way out of trauma or critique our emotions until they make intellectual sense, we will remain stuck. The same goes for projecting that critique onto others.

The cosmos is explicitly telling us to stop doing what feels naturally, structurally logical. Instead, we are being called to surrender to the emotional, fluid, and intuitive guidance of the Pisces North Node. Healing, starting this Friday, requires feeling, not fixing.

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Drive, Communication, and Big Clashes

Adding fuel to the fire, Chiron immediately joins forces with Mars, which is currently sitting at 23 degrees of Taurus. In astrology, the 23rd degree carries an Aquarius resonance. This means our collective drive, anger, and passion are merging with this brand-new Chironic wound, specifically relating to how we network, our community ties, our collective genius, and our online visibility.

We might feel a heightened, raw awareness of where we feel left out of the group or excluded from the digital table. Fortunately, Mercury in Cancer will gently sextile Mars, offering us a softer, more emotionally receptive, and compassionate way to voice our frustrations.

Take a deep breath and let your feet touch the earth this Friday. The classroom door is opening, and the medicine is already under our feet.

A Personal Reflection: The Virgo Rising Lens

As a Virgo Rising, mapping out these charts hit incredibly close to home. This transit initiates its story right on the edge of my late 8th house of shared resources/goals, intimacy, loans, mystery, and karma, exactly where my natal Saturn in Taurus sits, before unfolding primarily across my 9th house of travel, higher wisdom, belief systems, and expanded horizons.

Chiron dancing around my Saturn feels like an intimate mirror of the collective energy at large, a stark and unavoidable confrontation with deep-seated, structural fears around scarcity, control, and material security. This is forcing a complete overhaul of how I define spiritual wealth versus physical safety in the long term, especially when it comes to merging resources with others. As a spiritual entrepreneur and a woman who’s recently been living with a spiritual man from a richly cultured background… that tracks.

I’m constantly applying for grants, managing the income from my tarot clients, and I just picked up a part-time job that pays exactly what I was hoping for! The 9th house involves travel, and I’ll be working at a marina. It’s also been a rejuvenating and healing experience to be supported by my partner, who allows me to relax and focus on securing my own independent foundation. With this transit activating his 5th house of creativity and romance and his 6th house of daily routines and service, it makes perfect sense that we’re coming together in divine timing to support each other’s healing as we learn to merge our everyday lives. Altogether, it feels like a textbook, beautiful synthesis of 8th- and 9th-house themes playing out in real time.

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The Fixed Sign Forecast: Who Feels It Most?

While this is a global shift, the fixed signs are standing directly in the splash zone. If you have major placements here, prepare for a profound recalibration:

• Taurus: Chiron is literally walking through your front door. You are the focal point of this entire eight-year cycle. The mirror is reflecting your deepest insecurities regarding your body, your material resources, and your fundamental right to take up space and be taken care of.

• Scorpio: This hits your 7th house of partnerships. As the polar opposite of Taurus, your healing journey will play out through the mirror of intimacy, one-on-one dynamics, and learning to trust others without fear of financial or emotional betrayal.

• Leo: This challenges your 10th house of career and public visibility. With Venus in your sign opposing Pluto on Friday, you are being forced to look at how much of your professional ambition is driven by a genuine calling versus a wounded need for external validation.

• Aquarius: This lands squarely in your 4th house of home, roots, and foundational security. With Pluto retrograding through your sign, you are being stripped of old, inherited definitions of safety so you can build stability on your own terms.

The Eight-Year Intuitive Download: What the Tarot Reveals

To understand the deeper spiritual narrative of this long-term transit, let’s look at the medicine the cards are showing us. The imagery pulled for this eight-year cycle paints an incredibly vivid, unvarnished picture of what we are collectively purging and rewriting.

At the core of this transit stands the Ten of Swords, fallen sideways to the right. This isn’t an incoming final, crushing defeat; rather, it’s a sideways stall. It represents a prolonged state of holding onto an ending that’s already happened—paralyzing ourselves because we’re afraid to fully let go of pain we’ve already grown comfortable with.

Clarifying this heavy energy, I found a cluster of intense psychic mirrors: Soulmates, Releasing, Obscurity reversed, Love on the Brain, and Obsessive Lover reversed. This transit is going to drag our toxic emotional attachments, financial codependencies, and obsessive relational dynamics out of the dark. The obscurity is being flipped upside down—the secrets of why we stay in situations that diminish our worth are being brought into broad daylight. We’re being forced to release the romanticized, obsessive mental loops where we mistake trauma-bonding and scarcity for true love.

At the bottom of the deck, holding the foundational energy of this entire eight-year journey, sits Temperance reversed. We’re out of balance, swinging wildly between extremes, struggling to find a middle ground between self-preservation and vulnerability. This is clarified by a blunt line-up: Second Chance reversed, Return reversed, Shallow, Haunted reversed, Broke Ass reversed, and Copycat reversed. The message here is uncompromising.

The cosmos is entirely closing the door on the past. There are no second chances for the situations, habits, or people that keep us small. We cannot go back to old financial survival tactics, nor can we return to the relationships that haunt our self-esteem. The appearance of Broke Ass reversed and Copycat reversed hits right at the heart of the Taurus-Aries transition. We’re healing the deep-seated spiritual poverty mindset. We’re being broken out of the cheap imitation phase—the societal pressure to copycat other people’s lifestyles, aesthetics, or career paths just to look secure on the outside.

Simultaneously, the protective boundary cards pulled on the side—the Four of Swords, Three of Swords reversed, Seven of Swords, and Five of Wands, all clarified by Intuition and Conflicted reversed—show the internal battleground. Our minds are going to feel deeply conflicted as our intuition tries to pull us away from old betrayals (Three of Swords reversed) and deceptive, sneaky habits (Seven of Swords). We are learning to stop fighting pointless external battles (Five of Wands) and instead retreat into the quiet sanctuary of the self (Four of Swords) to listen to what our bodies are actually telling us.

The final warning elements from the secondary deck cut through the noise with absolute precision: Legal issues, Bad reputation, Karmic friends reversed, Spiritual hater, Wolf in sheep’s clothing, Hooked, and Dirt digging reversed. Over these next eight years, the universe is cleaning house. The “spiritual haters” and the wolves in sheep’s clothing—the people who perform care but secretly benefit from our financial or emotional instability—are being exposed. The urge to dig up old dirt or obsessively check up on those who wronged us is being reversed and shut down. We’re breaking free from physical, financial, and mental hooks of toxic attachments.

This transit is not a gentle stroll through a garden. It’s a deep, somatic excavation of our value systems. It’s forcing us to ask: Where have we been selling our souls for a false sense of pleasure and comfort? Where have we allowed others to dictate our price tag?

Stay grounded, lean into your intuition, and stop trying to make the magic make sense on a spreadsheet. The healing is in the feeling!

To help you track how this eight-year cycle will specifically alter your personal daily life, let’s look at exactly where this energy lands based on your individual rising sign.

What rising sign are you bringing into this Taurus transit, and do you have any major personal placements sitting in the fixed signs? Let me know below so we can map out your personal cosmic blueprint!

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Aries Rising (2nd House)

Your focus drops straight into your personal finances, material possessions, and core self-worth. This transit is exposing your deepest scarcity mindsets and the ways you tie your human value to a bank account balance.

• The Shift: Learning that financial security cannot heal an internal sense of lack.

• An Example Experience: Facing anxiety over a fluctuating income, which forces you to stop overspending as an emotional coping mechanism and finally build a stable budget rooted in genuine self-worth.

Taurus Rising (1st House)

With Chiron sitting directly on your ascendant, the wound is deeply personal. It touches your physical body, your appearance, and how you project your identity out into the world.

• The Shift: Stripping away the masks of who you thought you had to be to feel secure.

• An Example Experience: Navigating a physical health change or a shift in your body image that forces you to stop hiding behind a curated aesthetic and embrace your raw, unfiltered physical self.

Gemini Rising (12th House)

This transit moves through your subconscious mind, hidden psychological patterns, secrets, and spaces of isolation. Old karmic baggage and self-sabotaging habits you thought you buried will be floating to the surface.

• The Shift: You’re being asked to heal the wounds you refuse to look at when the lights are on.

• An Example Experience: Realizing a chronic pattern of emotional eating or numbing out in private is actually a coping mechanism for childhood financial instability, forcing you into deep therapy or spiritual solitude.

Cancer Rising (11th House)

Your long-term dreams, community networks, and friendships are going under the cosmic microscope. This transit exposes where you feel like an outsider within your own social circles or industries.

• The Shift: Learning to stop watering down your truth just to fit into a collective group.

• An Example Experience: Outgrowing a toxic friend group where you always felt used for your resources, leading you to build a smaller, fiercely loyal network that values you for who you are.

Leo Rising (10th House)

This hits your highest public house—career, public reputation, and long-term legacy. This transit uncovers your hidden anxieties surrounding professional failure, public judgment, and authority figures.

• The Shift: Rewriting what success actually looks like when you remove the need for applause.

• An Example Experience: Stepping away from a high-paying, prestigious job that leaves you miserable to build an authentic, low-stress career path that actually brings you peace of mind.

Virgo Rising (9th House)

As mentioned earlier, this is our house of higher education, long-distance travel, publishing, and personal belief systems. This transit shakes up our worldview and challenges our intellectual dogmas.

• The Shift: We are trading rigid, perfectionist logic for real spiritual wisdom and intuitive faith.

• Example: Experiencing a crisis of faith regarding your spiritual or political beliefs, which forces you to abandon a rigid way of thinking and open your mind to a broader, more compassionate perspective. And maybe even wanting to share that newfound wisdom.

Libra Rising (8th House)

This transit enters your deep waters of intimacy, shared finances, inheritances, and psychological shadows. It forces you to look at your financial codependencies and the energetic contracts you sign with others.

• The Shift: Learning how to merge your life and resources with others, without losing your personal power.

• An Example Experience: Untangling yourself from a messy joint bank account, a partner’s debt, or loans you owe, which forces you to set unshakeable boundaries around your financial independence.

Scorpio Rising (7th House)

Your committed partnerships, marriages, and open business contracts are standing right in the line of fire. This transit brings up deep wounds around trust, betrayal, and interpersonal safety.

• The Shift: Learning that true intimacy requires you to show your scars, not just your strength.

• An Example Experience: Navigating a rough patch or a breakup with a long-term partner that exposes your deepest fears of abandonment, ultimately teaching you how to be whole on your own.

Sagittarius Rising (6th House)

Your daily routines, physical health, work environment, and acts of service are being disrupted. This transit is a loud wake-up call regarding how you treat your physical vessel on a daily basis.

• The Shift: Learning that physical burnout is a direct symptom of neglecting your emotional boundaries.

• An Example Experience: Managing a health issue like thyroid issues or throat inflammation that forces you to slow down, restructure your daily calendar, or prioritize radical rest over constant hustle.

Capricorn Rising (5th House)

This transit hits your house of creativity, romance, pleasure, fertility, and inner-child healing. It highlights where you feel blocked from experiencing joy without guilt.

• The Shift: Learning to play, create, and love without requiring a productive outcome.

• An Example Experience: Facing a creative block or a painful dating pattern that forces you to heal the childhood wound of believing that you’re only lovable when you’re performing perfectly.

Aquarius Rising (4th House)

Your foundational roots, home environment, family dynamics, and ancestral lineages are being unearthed. This transit triggers your deepest core memories surrounding domestic safety and childhood stability.

• The Shift: Breaking familial curses to build a home environment that feels genuinely safe.

• An Example Experience: Dealing with a difficult family relocation or an aging parent, which forces you to unpack childhood emotional neglect or redefine what “home” actually means to you.

Pisces Rising (3rd House)

Your local community, communication styles, mindset, and relationships with siblings and neighbors are being shaken up. This transit highlights the wounds centered around our voice and our intellect.

• The Shift: Healing the throat chakra and learning to speak your truth even if your voice shakes.

• An Example Experience: Confronting a long-standing misunderstanding with a sibling or neighbor, forcing you to drop your passive-aggressive habits and learn how to communicate your boundaries directly.

Personal readings (tarot and astrology) are available below for more specific insight!✨Which house is this transit activating in your chart, and how are you planning to ground yourself as this Friday approaches? Drop your thoughts in the comments below, and I’ll see you next time💛

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Consider this your sign to try bibliomancy! Grab any book that calls to your energy right now—it might hold the exact message you need to read. Because the way this chapter met me so perfectly where I’m at in life right now, I just had to write about it.

The very first verse stopped me cold.

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”

Proverbs 27:1

I’ve been sitting with this one because I have a habit, not of boasting exactly, but of pre-emptively shrinking my own excitement. Like I’ll feel something good, something that genuinely feels like an answered prayer, and instead of letting myself be in it, I’m already bracing for the day it gets taken back. I’ve experienced so many exciting, healing, and fulfilling moments that are almost immediately taken away, ruptured, or diminished.

So many doors have opened and closed within the same week—so yeah, I’ve learned to hold my joy a little more loosely. Sometimes too loosely. Like if I don’t fully claim it, then it can’t fully hurt me when it shifts.

And this mirrors my life perfectly right now. I’m navigating a very new romance that holds a lot of long-term potential. But it suddenly collided with my living situation due to unexpected circumstances, so it feels like it’s moving at a speed my logical brain wouldn't normally prefer. But emotionally and physically, I’ve never felt safer. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself, as others often do, that this safety is what matters most—that it’s okay to release the anxiety when the reality in front of me is actually good.

'The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.”

Proverbs 27:12

This one honestly made me laugh a little. I can look back at younger versions of myself who would see the red flags and keep walking into them anyway. Not just out of stupidity—but out of hope, loyalty, and not yet having enough evidence that my gut was worth trusting more than my desire for things to work out.

Prudence isn’t pessimism. It’s not about expecting the worst, but being honest with yourself when something is telling you to pause, recalibrate, or find shelter before the storm hits. I’ve gotten better at this, but I’ve still got room and time to grow.

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“Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.”

Proverbs 27:8

This one also hit quite differently, as I literally just “strayed” from home.

It was hilarious to me, actually. My cards and other collective readings had been warning me that a move was coming, sparked by an argument. Well, words that had been held back for a long time were finally exchanged, confirming a lifelong fear I’d held about the cost of total honesty. So, I left. I headed toward a place that felt safe—a place that somehow already held everything I’d once scripted for my future home and partner. It was a textbook Tower moment, but it felt necessary. And this time, I was prepared.

What’s fascinating is that I’ve been here before. About ten years ago, for similar reasons, I ended up in a comparable situation with a similar kind of person: another Capricorn. As a Virgo Rising, I live to analyze patterns, and I’ve definitely noticed one with this sign. They love hard and show devotion through physical action, but their verbal communication can go sideways. They are ruled by Saturn and are known for their dry, sarcastic wit and deadpan delivery. They can relentlessly pick on you to show they’re comfortable with you.

But his idea of playful bantering quickly pushes past the limits of my patience. My egoic Leo Sun wants to fight back, my Virgo Rising wants to be right, and my Libra Moon tries to keep the peace. It eventually devolves into me nagging until I completely shut down to avoid a real fight. Not in a toxic way, but it can be frustrating and exhausting. He keeps poking, and I keep reacting.

Which brings me here.

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”

Proverbs 27:17

When my eyes first landed on verses 15 through 17, I actually laughed out loud:

“A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like restraining the wind
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”

Proverbs 27:15-17

Stick with me—because lately I’ve been feeling like that leaky roof. Getting annoyed, getting triggered, and instead of saying directly what’s bothering me, doing it passively or sarcastically because I don’t want to be the person who kills the vibe. I don’t want to be the woman who’s always complaining, always serious, always making it a whole thing. But I also don’t just go with the flow when the flow irritates me. So I match the energy, and then I resent the energy, and then we’re both just being sarcastic at each other, and I’m sitting there wondering why I don’t feel soft and feminine.

But what if the directness I keep avoiding is actually the iron sharpening iron? What if the conversation I keep softening around the edges is the exact one that would actually move us forward? What if I keep having versions of the same friction because I haven’t yet been willing to have the version of the conversation that changes the dynamic?

This applies to my relationship and to my family—it might apply to yours too.

“Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.”

Proverbs 27:6

Real connection has some friction in it. Real love will sometimes say the thing that stings because it’s true and because it actually wants better for you. I’d rather have someone in my life who sharpens me, even when it’s uncomfortable, than someone whose softness is a strategy. I’ve had enough ass-kisses from people who didn’t mean them.

And in that same vein, the chapter talks about not running to a relative’s house during a disaster, but turning to a neighbor nearby instead. The deeper meaning really struck me: proximity and presence often matter more than bloodlines when life falls apart. When everything shattered, I didn't reach out to family. I turned to the person who already made me feel safe and held, who happened to be just twenty minutes away. It showed me that the universe will place the right “neighbor” exactly where they need to be to shelter you from the storm.

“Be sure you know the condition of your flocks; give careful attention to your herds, for riches do not endure forever and a crown is not secure for all generations.”

Proverbs 27:23-24

This is the verse that pulled everything back to earth for me.

What I heard was: know your people. Know your resources. Know your business, your community, your values. To be loved is to be known, and stewardship works the same way. You can’t tend to what you’re not paying attention to. Wealth, status, comfort—none of it holds without the consistent, honest labor of actually showing up for what’s yours.

That’s true in relationships, business, and in the way we manage our inner world. This New Moon in Gemini is a good time to get mentally clear on what we’re actually tending to and what’s being neglected because it’s easier not to bring it up.

“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.”

Proverbs 27:19

The way a person speaks, moves, chooses, and responds is all data. All of it is a reflection of what is truly stirring in their hearts and souls. Not to be used as a weapon, but to be seen with honesty.

Our lives reflect our hearts, and the patterns we keep choosing reflect something we still believe. The way we communicate reflects what we think we deserve to receive back.

I’m watching my own reflection more carefully these days. Not with judgment, but with curiosity. I didn’t plan to write any of this today, but I’m happy to have returned to this. If you’re in a season of friction, uncertainty, transition, or just the quiet hum of things shifting beneath the surface, this Proverbs 27 is a chapter worth sitting with. Let it land where it needs to.

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The intentions, goals, and mindsets that you plant now have roughly 29 days to build momentum, but the real harvest won’t arrive until the Full Moon in Gemini on November 24th. So think of Sunday not as a sprint but as the first page of a mental chapter you’re writing through the end of the year.

Gemini energy is quick, curious, witty, and communicative. It rules the way we think, the way we talk, and the way we scroll, respond, and connect. New Moons in Gemini are typically breezy, idea-driven, and social, so intentions around learning something new, having better conversations, and maybe even launching that project you’ve been thinking about are all usually ideal.

But this New Moon is doing something a little different.

In astrology, every degree of the zodiac carries its own story and symbolic weight. This New Moon landing at the 24th degree of Gemini falls under what’s called a Pisces decanate. That means the usual Gemini “let’s logic our way through it” vibe gets a major upgrade into something far more intuitive, emotional, and, honestly, a little harder to articulate. Which, ironically, is exactly what it’s asking us to sit with.

A decan (short for decanate) is a ten-degree subdivision of each zodiac sign, and each decan carries the energy of a secondary sign. The second decan of Gemini (20° to 30°) is co-ruled by Pisces and influenced by Jupiter and Neptune—Pisces’ planetary rulers.

This is why a Gemini New Moon at this particular degree feels less like a brainstorm session and more like a dream you can’t fully describe when you wake up.

And it’s also why the 24th degree has a reputation for touching subconscious material: the things you haven’t said out loud yet, the stories you’ve been telling yourself behind the scenes, the fears that live in your nervous system rather than your conscious mind. Themes of victimhood or helplessness can definitely surface at this time, not to spiral in, but to finally be named and released.

If something feels fuzzy or emotionally heavy this weekend, don’t panic. Everything is possibly going as it should. Just try to pay attention and take notes.

Our brains aren’t the oracles right now. It’s our bodies.

I’ll be the first to admit, as someone who is Mercury ruled (virgo rising) with a Gemini Midheaven (my public image or “brand”), my natural instinct is to intellectualize my way through big feelings. I can’t move on from certain feelings until I understand them. And if I understand why certain emotions are arising, then I can easily build an entire case for why everything is fine, even when it very well might not be. I can reframe, rationalize, and talk myself out of what I’m actually experiencing in real time, so this moon is directly asking people like me—and maybe you—to stop doing exactly that.

Let’s look at what’s surrounding this lunation because the full picture explains why this one might feel heavier or foggier than a typical new moon:

• Mercury in Cancer is ruling this New Moon. Mercury is the planet of communication and thought, and right now it’s swimming through Cancer, the most emotionally intuitive sign of the zodiac. That means our thoughts are being filtered through our feelings, not the other way around. You might find it hard to explain what you’re thinking because you’re not really thinking it; you’re feeling it. Your words are coming from your subconscious, intuitive gut right now, and that’s not a bug—it’s the whole message.

• Jupiter in Cancer will be sitting nearby, expanding everything Cancer touches: emotional safety, home, nurturance, and the part of you that just wants to feel held. This is a generous, protective influence. If you’ve been longing for more emotional security, whether in relationships, your home life, or within yourself, Jupiter is amplifying that need and blessing the seeds you plant around it.

• Neptune in Aries is dissolving the ego’s grip on how you define yourself and what you think you’re supposed to want. The drive, the hustle, the “I have to do this alone” energy is softening. You might find that who you thought you were becoming is shifting into something you can’t fully name yet, and that’s not a crisis. That’s just Neptune doing its job!

All three of these planets pull this New Moon deep into the water, rendering the cosmic landscape inhospitable for rigid planning or aggressive five-step action strategies. It’s designed for feeling, dreaming, and surrendering to what your intuition already knows.

The Wild Card: Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius

This breakdown wouldn’t be complete without talking about the opposition sitting directly across from this New Moon! Black Moon Lilith will be stationed at 19° Sagittarius, forming a direct opposition to this lunation, and she is not here to be subtle.

Lilith in astrology represents the part of you that refuses to shrink; the raw, untamed, unapologetic version of yourself that society (and sometimes your own conditioning) tried to domesticate. She’s the part of you that got told you were “too much” and decided that was fine, actually. Everyone else simply isn’t enough.

In Sagittarius, Lilith is specifically activating our relationship to belief systems, truth, freedom, and expansion. She’s asking us to reflect on the stories we've been telling ourselves just because they’re familiar, not because they’re true.

JOURNAL PROMPT: What are you holding onto because letting go feels like losing yourself, even though it’s actually what would set you free?

The opposition with the New Moon creates a cosmic tug of war between the part of you that wants to set new intentions (the New Moon) and the part of you that knows those intentions don’t have room to grow until you clear out the old belief systems, making your inner world feel crowded (Lilith).

You can’t plant seeds in soil that hasn’t been turned. That’s what this opposition is doing for you.

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The rest of the cosmic backdrop for this New Moon is dense but purposeful:

• Venus will have just crossed into Leo at 1°56’, sitting at one of the most initiatory degrees in astrology. A new chapter in how we love, express our worth, and show up creatively will be officially opened.

• That said, Venus will be simultaneously moving toward an opposition with Pluto retrograde at Aquarius 5°10’, meaning power dynamics, emotional dependency, and anywhere love and control have gotten tangled together are surfacing right now for a reason.

• What softens that intensity will be two applying Venus aspects: a tight sextile to Uranus at 0°55’ and a flowing trine to Neptune at 2°20’. Together, they feel like a direct line to inspiration being reopened. If you’ve felt creatively or spiritually blocked lately, this New Moon is specifically designed to move that.

• Mercury’s separating square to Saturn shows how the mental heaviness and second-guessing from earlier in the week will already be releasing, and Mercury’s applying sextile to Mars at a tight 1°36’ orb means that once the fog lifts, our thinking and drive are going to click into alignment fast.

This is not a New Moon to hustle through.

The guidance for Sunday night is simple: slow down, get quiet, and let your subconscious do the heavy lifting. Write your intentions down, but don’t over-analyze them. Scripting, journaling, and visualization are especially potent under the 24th degree because you’re working directly with the part of your inner world that actually runs the show.

Pay close attention to your dreams this weekend too. The 24th degree is notorious for broadcasting through the Piscean sleep state, so if you wake up Sunday through Tuesday with something vivid, write it down immediately before it dissolves. It may be carrying exactly what you need for the months ahead…

The Pisces sub-influence, combined with Venus trine Neptune, is essentially a direct line back to your creative and spiritual self. If you’ve felt numb or disconnected from your intuition lately, this lunation is one of the best of the year to find your way back!

Your Personalized New Moon House Guide!

If you know your rising sign, the guide below is based on the Whole Sign House System to show you where this New Moon in Gemini is activating your chart. Included is a personalized affirmation from the lovely and an intuitively pulled tarot card for further insight.

I personally use the Placidus House System for client readings, which calculates your houses based on your exact birth time and location. So your cusps may shift slightly, and so might the location of the New Moon in your chart. If you want a fully personalized reading into how this moon is hitting you specifically, you can book a New Moon reading with me below✨

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Aries Rising | 3rd House | Six of Swords Reversed

The New Moon in your house of mind and communication is asking you to move toward mental peace, but the Six of Swords Reversed says you’re not quite ready to let go of the emotional weight you’ve been carrying. Old stories about how you speak, who you are, and what you’ve been through are resurfacing to be rewritten. Plant seeds for a new voice—one that’s optimistic and self-sufficient—but give yourself grace in the process.

Taurus Rising | 2nd House | The High Priestess

This New Moon is refreshing your relationship with money, worth, and what you believe you deserve, and the High Priestess says the answers aren’t in your spreadsheet, they’re in your subconscious. There are quiet, deeply held beliefs about abundance that have been running the show, and this lunation is drawing them to the surface. Trust your intuition around what you’re ready to receive, and start acting like the hard days are behind you.

Gemini Rising | 1st House | Five of Swords Reversed

A New Moon in your 1st house is a full identity reset, and the Five of Swords Reversed is confirmation that you’re walking away from a version of yourself built around conflict, self-editing, or proving something. The battles that kept you small are winding down, and now the question is whether you’ll actually let yourself be free. Your authenticity is the seed being planted here.

Cancer Rising | 12th House | Knight of Pentacles

The New Moon is activating your house of the subconscious and spiritual surrender, and the Knight of Pentacles is asking you to take a slow, steady, committed approach to what’s happening beneath the surface. This isn’t the time to rush toward action, it’s the time to build a private, consistent practice that supports the inner work. Journal, rest, grieve what needs grieving, and trust that the roots you’re growing now will matter later.

Leo Rising | 11th House | The Emperor Reversed

This New Moon is calling you to reimagine your community, your audience, and the future you’re building, and the Emperor Reversed is a signal that old structures around authority, control, or belonging aren’t serving you anymore. You may be outgrowing a group, a vision, or a version of leadership that was never really yours to begin with. Plant seeds for a circle that actually sees you, and lead from authenticity rather than obligation.

Virgo Rising | 10th House | Six of Wands & Queen of Cups

The New Moon is spotlighting your career and public reputation, and this two-card pull tells a full story: the Six of Wands says visible success and recognition are available to you, while the Queen of Cups says the way you get there is through emotional intelligence and leading with heart. Your professional evolution right now is deeply tied to how fully you trust yourself. The visibility you’ve been building is ready to meet you, so step into it.

Libra Rising | 9th House | Queen of Cups Reversed

The New Moon in your house of expansion and belief is asking what you truly stand for, and the Queen of Cups Reversed suggests you’ve been softening your truth to keep things comfortable. Emotional avoidance or people-pleasing has been quietly shaping the narrative you put out into the world. The invitation now is to say what you actually believe, plainly and without apology.

Scorpio Rising | 8th House | The Hermit Reversed

This New Moon lands in your most transformative house, and the Hermit Reversed suggests you’ve been in isolation or introspection longer than it’s serving you—the inner work is ready to move. Psychological layers are surfacing right now that are asking to be integrated, not just examined. Plant seeds for radical honesty in your closest dynamics and let what you’ve learned in the depths finally inform how you show up.

Sagittarius Rising | 7th House | The Magician Reversed

The New Moon is beginning a new chapter in your one-on-one relationships, and the Magician Reversed is pointing to untapped potential or power that’s been misdirected in how you show up in partnership. You may have been giving your energy away, downplaying your gifts, or waiting for someone else to initiate what only you can create. The invitation is to come back to yourself fully and let your relationships meet you there.

Capricorn Rising | 6th House | Three of Wands Reversed

The New Moon is resetting your daily routines and how you care for yourself, and the Three of Wands Reversed says expansion has felt delayed or blocked—plans that should’ve taken off haven’t quite launched. Some of what’s draining your daily life isn’t circumstantial, it’s rooted in patterns you haven’t fully named yet. Plant seeds for rhythms that actually nourish you, not just ones that look productive from the outside.

Aquarius Rising | 5th House | Five of Cups

The New Moon is landing in your house of creativity, joy, and self-expression, and the Five of Cups is honest: there’s been grief here, a mourning of something that didn’t go the way you hoped in love or creative life. But this card always has cups still standing, and this lunation is asking you to turn toward them. Plant seeds for creating from pure joy again, and let yourself be found by what was always meant for you.

Pisces Rising | 4th House | The Tower Sideways, Pointing to the Past

The New Moon is touching your most private and foundational house, and the Tower sideways—pointing to the past—says the upheaval isn’t coming, it already happened. You’re in the aftermath of something that shook your sense of home, family, or inner safety, and this lunation is the beginning of rebuilding on solid ground. Tend to your emotional foundation with real care, because what you heal privately right now will directly unlock your voice publicly.

This New Moon in Gemini is planting seeds in the places we’ve been afraid to speak, start over, or go deeper. Whatever house it’s activating for you, the invitation is the same—show up honestly, trust what’s stirring, and give the next version of yourself room to grow💛

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Spirit has been leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for the collective this week. If you’ve been spotting any of these synchronicities, this collective message could be for you:

• Mourning Dove: A reminder that peace is returning after a period of grief or transition.

• Ladybug: Good luck is brewing, but it requires patience and trust.

• Turtle: A reminder that it’s okay to move slowly. Protect your energy, and move at a steady pace that works for you.

• 44 / 44%: Master builder. Stability, manifestation, and discipline. The ability to turn your dreams into reality through hard work, strong foundations, and perseverance.

• Mushrooms & Dandelions: Make a wish! Lingering spores will grow where allowed. Resilience, rapid underground growth, and something thriving in unexpected places.

• The Numbers: 1212, 333, 369, 311, 155, 1234, 888, 999 (A heavy emphasis on endings, alignment, and stepping into material abundance).

The Mirror: The Trap of the “Comfortable Gamble”

Card: Six of Cups (Clarified by Gambling & Peace Reversed)

Right now, the collective is navigating a difficult but temporary storm. When things feel chaotic externally, our primal instinct is to retreat to what is familiar, soothing, and seemingly safe. Many of us are engaging with soulmate connections, nostalgia, or old habits from the perspective of our inner child. We’re seeking a safe harbor; however, there is a warning here: Are you returning to old attachments and comforting habits as a gamble to escape your current reality?

Spirit is watching over us, but we’re being asked to notice where we’re possibly becoming hyper-vigilant—trying desperately to guard our peace, without realizing that true peace right now comes from going with the flow, not clinging to past perspectives and responses out of fear.

The Message: The Alchemical Shift

Card: Temperance (Clarified by Bashfulness Reversed)

The sun is rising on the horizon, which means that warmth and clarity are actively on the way, but we cannot rush the dawn. Temperance is calling for patience and emotional alchemy. We’re safe to dip our toes into the water—to take our time to ease into the new chapters of our lives. But there’s no need to rush toward imagined finish lines right now.

For me, this energy mirrors the anxiety I sometimes carry around the financial inconsistencies I’ve experienced in the early stages of my entrepreneurship and how that eerily reflects the early dynamics of dating someone new. In both situations, I naturally feel an urge to rush when there’s no need to: to rush into feeling stable, safe, comfortable, and understood. But some of these things can only emerge over time, through exploring the intricacies of the experiences themselves.

For many of us, this comes with a bittersweet realization: something will never be the same. A door has permanently shut, and it is not returning. This could be about a person or even a general chapter of life that doesn’t want to be repeated anymore. New cycles in love, work, money, family, friends, etc. We’re ready to stand on our own two feet after these disorienting changes. This is our invitation to step forward into a completely new light.

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The Solution: Do Not Take the Leap (Yet)

Card: The Fool Reversed (Clarified by Inspiration Reversed & Spy Reversed)

When stability feels shaken, the human ego panics. You might be feeling immense heat and pressure right now, forcing you to feel like you must make a choice immediately. The Fool reversed is a hard stop. Don’t take a blind leap of faith from a place of lack, desperation, or panic. When we act out of fear of not having enough, we make foolish choices that compromise our security.

• Hold your ground: Don’t let the pressure force your hand.

• Strategize: Build from a place of stability, security, and abundance.

• Do your research: Gather information before making major choices.

You do not need to rush. Rebuild your foundation slowly, and let the panic clear before you take your next steps forward.

Leave a comment below! Have you noticed any signs following you lately? Are you feeling the pressure to rush toward a decision, or are you allowing yourself to slow down?

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I’m working on some other writing projects that I’ll be announcing later this year, but the workload requires me to shift back into a deeper monthly breakdown rather than my weekly ones. I might still post weekly notes for the real specific need-to-knows, but otherwise, we’re going to get into the general overview of the month and the main occurrences we need to be aware of. Then, I’ll take a closer look at what each sign might want to know, so look for your sun, moon, and rising sign’s insight toward the end!

But first, can we talk about May for a second?

I always like to come back and be real with you all about how the month actually played out versus what I predicted, because I think that’s part of what makes this work meaningful. It’s not just forecasting; it’s a reflection. I’m also a part of this collective, so it’s also a bit of accountability.

So let’s start with saying that May was… humbling, but in the best way. I said we might be dragging our feet coming in, and that was very much confirmed for me. But what I didn’t predict was that the clarity I’d been chasing was something I had already been dragging with me; I just didn’t want to see it for what it was. A major blessing I’d been foretold about suddenly became clear, and it wasn’t an overnight upgrade—it was an idea. Something to be built through daily, consistent work rather than procrastination disguised as patience. I had been waiting for certain achievements or to feel “good enough” to begin a creation that wants to be birthed in the messy middle.

And this is why you don’t want to avoid doing deeper inner work just because it’s uncomfortable or inconvenient. Otherwise, when blessings do arrive, you want to be able to recognize them and keep yourself from sabotaging them.

As someone living out their nodal reversal right now (the current north node is in my natal south node and vice versa), I’m also realizing that my inner critic—the part of myself that usually would bring me structure and logical clarity—is the main thing holding me back from following where my soul is subconsciously taking me. The north node work being asked of everyone right now is leaning into Pisces energy: trusting in the unseen, allowing ourselves to be dreamers, releasing the need to control and understand everything, and sometimes putting our intuition before our logic.

It’s truly been a season of detachment, rest (I called this too), and giving myself grace to feel a little lost still. It hit me the other day that sometimes we avoid resting and being still with ourselves because subconsciously we’re avoiding being with ourselves, without producing or performing productivity for anyone’s expectations and opinions, including our own. And what I keep being shown is that when I stay rooted in trust and release fear, somehow, someway, the right client shows up, a large tip lands, or an aligned opportunity finds me right on time. And it’s usually because I was there to receive it instead of chasing after what would’ve been “more realistic”.

This aligns with the shadow work that ran deep throughout May as well. With the theme of reflecting on our thorns, I kept coming back to conversations and thoughts about how quickly we tend to judge others in ways that mirror how we judge ourselves. As a Leo, I’m always hearing about how confident, performative, and attention-seeking we supposedly are, when most of the time it’s just a projection from people who don’t feel confident enough to show up and express themselves authentically. It’s not our fault that we still do it even when we don’t feel our best, because honestly, we’re not even the most confident sign.

I’ve also been sitting with a lot of my own thoughts and assumptions about others lately and noticing how the shoe would fit me too if I were the one trying it on… That question has been a mirror I didn’t know I needed. Food for thought, as always.

Overall, May was a necessary month—a threshold month. And I genuinely believe it’s set us all up beautifully for what June is further asking of us.

Because the Power Deck card theme of the month is 7: TRUST.

In June, there’s a certain amount of feminine energy we’re all being asked to hold, and feminine energy reflects trust at its core. There may be something in this collective that we desire, something we want to make happen, that doesn’t unfold exactly the way we hoped. That’s not a denial. It’s an invitation to practice trusting divine timing and releasing the need to control outcomes we were never meant to control.

I’ve been picking up on a lot of turtle imagery lately, and I think it speaks to this perfectly. If you’ve been given the vision, know that it can be accomplished. Just like how I saw Michael Jackson being portrayed in his recent biopic—what a perfect example of feminine trust in balance with the masculine drive to take action. His story is a reminder that the vision doesn’t require you to rush to the finish line. It requires you to keep moving, slowly and with intention.

June’s theme of trust isn’t soft or passive, it’s active and clarifying. The energy this month is asking us to trust what we already know, even when it means walking away.

The Two of Cups reversed opened this month’s story. Partnerships, identities, and collaborations that once looked good on paper are revealing themselves for what they truly are. This points to a collective focus on broken communication, self‑love, and the decision to break up with outdated versions of ourselves. Some relationships may experience rising tensions, stress, and arguments, while certain possibilities will be shown to be only potential that has not been actively nourished. Many people may realize they have been following or receiving lust rather than loyalty.

The Seven of Pentacles reversed marked a turning point. All that waiting and tending leads to the realization that your investment is not giving you what you hoped for. For some, this looks like waking up to the ways distractions have kept you from doing real work on the things you feel genuine chemistry, alignment, and passion for. For others, it’s a reminder that even if you’re not yet seeing results from the effort you’ve put into a goal, it does not mean it is time to give up.

You’ll know which group you fall into. In either case, the Ten of Cups reversed and the Ace of Swords at the top of the deck suggested that clarity is on its way. It may not arrive in the form people want, but it will be precise and undeniable. It cuts through the stories people have been telling themselves about what a connection or situation could become and reveals what they actually are.

The Hierophant reversed, paired with the Eight of Cups at the top of the deck, formed the spiritual backbone of the month. This is not just about walking away from emotionally disappointing landscapes. This month is about leaving behind old belief systems, contracts, and structures that once felt sacred or normal but have actually been keeping people small and out of alignment with their true paths and inner knowing. The Wheel of Fortune reversed at the bottom of the deck showed that resistance to change, and the need to perform or please, has been the pattern many are finally ready to break.

June is the month people stop waiting for things to shift on their own and start trusting themselves enough to be the one who moves.

Trust in June looks like choosing clarity over comfort. It looks like releasing what hasn’t grown. It looks like believing that emotional fulfillment is still possible, just not from where you’ve been looking. This month, we’re being asked to remember that we are still deserving, still worthy, still powerful, regardless of what does or doesn’t happen. The most important thing is to trust the path forward and trust that we will get ourselves to where we’re meant to be.

June is aligned with the number 6, which carries the energy of harmony, balance, choice, success, safety, and transition. It holds a receptive, protective, and life‑giving force aligned with divine feminine power, focused on keeping communities safe and thriving. As the midpoint of the year, it’s where we’re meant to truly shift into a new alignment. I have a feeling that’s exactly why trust is the energy we’re all working with this month, so lets choose to be patient with it, and with ourselves.

ASTROLOGY OVERVIEW: June 2026

This is a loaded month energetically. We’ve got major sign shifts, a retrograde, and one of the biggest astrological events of 2026 closing out the month. Here’s the landscape:

- Mercury enters Cancer June 1st—And goes Retrograde June 29th–July 23rd

We start the month with Mercury already shifting into Cancer, moving our collective communication from the head to the heart. Expect conversations to get more personal, more protective, and more nostalgic. Logic doesn’t disappear, it just gets submerged in deep emotional waters.

Pay close attention to what comes up around June 12–13, when Mercury hits its pre-retrograde shadow. Whatever miscommunications, household friction, or emotional tension surfaces then is giving us a preview of the themes we’ll be revisiting during the retrograde itself.

When Mercury officially stations retrograde on June 29, we enter a three-week collective review period focused on our personal foundations. The usual retrograde symptoms—tech glitches, travel delays, communication hiccups—will be heavily emotional in nature this cycle. Think: difficulty separating facts from feelings, issues around water (damaged devices, travel across oceans, boating incidents, driving in the rain, etc.) Because Cancer rules the home, household mix-ups, appliance issues, and family or roommate friction are all fair game as well.

Old wounds, ancestral patterns, and past connections are likely to resurface—and that’s intentional. On July 12, Mercury aligns with the Sun and offers a flash of clarity that cuts right to the heart of what needs to be resolved. Avoid signing long-term leases, launching major communication projects, or making big structural changes to the home while Mercury is backspin. Instead, treat this as a collective invitation to retreat into your shell, journal your emotional triggers, and tend to your internal foundation.

The post-retrograde shadow fully clears by August 6. That’s our green light.

- Venus enters Leo (June 13)

This is the shift from quiet, private intimacy into something bolder, more expressive, and unapologetically radiant. Venus in Leo is girls’ night out energy. It’s meeting someone across the room. It’s attracting love and opportunity by showing up fully as yourself—not dimming your light to make others comfortable.

This transit highlights something important: it’s hard to let others see our value when we haven’t claimed it ourselves. What we do instead is hide or push away out of protection, which only keeps us from truly connecting. June 13 onward is a season for grand gestures and authentic generosity, just be honest about whether what you’re doing comes from genuine warmth or from performance and ego.

For artists and creatives, this is a peak window. Show your work. Share your art. Get that haircut or style you’ve been sitting on. Explore what feels exciting in music, fashion, or self-expression. Indulge! Just keep an eye on impulse spending. Otherwise, be loud, be proud, and be exactly who you are.

New Moon in Gemini—June 14 at 10:53 PM EST

This lunar cycle serves as a fresh start to sharpen your voice and set clear intentions for the month. Plant seeds now for what you want to grow over the next six months in the areas of communication, knowledge, collaboration, and connection. Pick up a new hobby, read a book, declutter your mind, and maybe even write out your intentions to really make them stick.

- Chiron enters Taurus (June 19)—a new 7-year collective cycle begins

This is a big one. Chiron moving into Taurus opens a new seven-year cycle of healing around money, self-worth, resources, and the physical body. It also closes out the previous cycle in Aries—the era of identity crises, individual rage, and survival-mode living.

Given where we are economically right now, the timing couldn’t be more pointed. This transit tends to sharpen our awareness of economic anxiety, financial instability, and the ways we’ve been taught to tie our worth to our productivity and net worth. With Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, this feels like adding a little more fuel to a fire that’s already starting to burn; a revolution building slowly beneath the surface.

The medicine here is real: we’re being asked to move away from exploitation and survival thinking toward building systems that are genuinely sustainable and practical. Our bodies will show us where this work is needed, but physical burnout is likely to increase. Pay attention to what you’re fueling your body with and how hard you’re pushing it. Rest, go outside, and remember that you’re part of an ecosystem, not a machine. That would be the matrix trying to suck you back in.

The subconscious pivot this cycle is asking for is moving from “I am” to “I have”, and for anyone who feels like they don’t have enough, the question becomes: what can you sustainably build to receive it?

If you were born between 1976 and 1984, this is your Chiron return—typically around age 50. In Taurus, it’s about mastering self-worth, releasing generational financial trauma, and learning to truly inhabit, love, and care for your physical body. Profound work!

If you know your chart, what house does Taurus occupy for you? That’s exactly where your personal security and self-worth templates are about to be upgraded.

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- Sun enters Cancer (June 21)

We shift from Gemini’s curious, social, mentally stimulating energy into Cancer season; a time of emotional safety, home, family, and intuition. Gemini had us thinking, but Cancer asks us to start feeling. How do you actually feel about what you’ve been analyzing? Your chart house ruled by Cancer could give you a clue as to where this emotional clarity might be found more specifically.

- Mars enters Gemini (June 28)

After the slower, more stubborn pace of Mars in Taurus, this shift picks things up quickly. Our minds become our most active muscle: brainstorming, debating, learning, starting new things. Communication speeds up and gets bolder and social energy increases. Great for networking and community involvement, but watch how quickly fast thinking can tip into sharp words or scattered focus. Variety is your friend here, lean into it.

- Full Moon in Capricorn—June 29 at 7:56 PM EST

This one lands on the same night Mercury stations retrograde, which is a lot of energy at once. Capricorn Full Moons bring things to a culmination point—they highlight where we need firmer boundaries, where we need to take more responsibility, and what chapters we’ve genuinely outgrown. Use this as a moment to assess the structures you’ve built, release what weighs you down in the long-run, and ground your energy.

- Jupiter enters Leo (June 30)—begins a ~13-month transit

This is the big one closing out the month, and it sets the tone for the rest of the summer and well into 2027. Jupiter in Leo is expansive, creative, heart-centered leadership energy. It amplifies confidence, encourages authentic self-expression, and puts a spotlight on anyone willing to show up fully and unapologetically.

A brief look at how this lands by element:

• Fire signs (Leo, Aries, Sagittarius): the spotight is on us! Leo gets a direct boost of luck and magnetism. Aries and Sagittarius could see expansion in romance, travel, and creative expression.

• Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn): Behind-the-scenes work, inner healing, and daily routines are being supported. You may feel called to lead with courage in quieter, more private ways.

• Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius): Social networks, long-term goals, and relationships are expanding. Group collaborations and visionary ideas have a real runway here.

• Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): Career, public reputation, and shared resources are in focus. New professional opportunities and transformation are on the table.

A few other placements worth noting this month:

• Saturn & Neptune in Aries (Direct): Stop fantasizing and start building. This combo asks for courageous, structured action on our dreams; an identity reset that’s both bold and disciplined.

• Uranus in Gemini (Direct): Mental breakthroughs and liberation from old narratives. Stay grounded or the insights scatter.

• Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius: The revolution goes internal. Reassess your relationship to technology, community, and long-term collective vision.

• North Node in Pisces / South Node in Virgo: Release the over-analysis and perfectionism. Surrender to the flow.

• Lilith in Sagittarius (Direct): A strong push toward freedom, truth, and breaking out of anything that’s been intellectually confining.

WHAT YOUR SIGN NEEDS TO KNOW: JUNE 2026

Check your sun, moon, and rising signs for the full picture.

Aries: Death (Reversed)

The transformation is happening, but something is resisting it. Death reversed points to a cycle that’s clearly run its course. You know it, you feel it, but you’re still holding on. This month the invitation is to stop postponing the ending. Whether that’s a dynamic, a mindset, a version of yourself, or a situation that no longer fits, clinging to it is costing you more than releasing it would. The door to what’s next can’t open while you’re still pressed against the old one. Let it close.

Taurus: The World

Completion. You’re arriving somewhere you’ve been working toward for a long time, and June wants you to actually receive it rather than immediately move the goalpost. The World is a card of full circle moments. A project wrapping up, a personal milestone landing, a chapter genuinely closing with grace. Let yourself feel the accomplishment. This is also a powerful month to reflect on how far you’ve come before you start building what’s next.

Gemini: Two of Cups (Reversed)

A connection, whether romantic, creative, or otherwise, is feeling off balance or disconnected this month and it’s worth looking at honestly. The Two of Cups reversed can point to a partnership that’s lost its reciprocity, a relationship where the emotional investment isn’t equal, or a dynamic you’ve been romanticizing past its expiration. With your New Moon landing this month, this is actually perfect timing to get clear on what you truly want from your connections and whether what you currently have is actually that.

Cancer: Temperance (Reversed)

You’re being pulled in too many directions and it’s showing up as inner restlessness, impatience, or an inability to find your footing. Temperance reversed is a signal that the balance is off. Maybe you’re overextending, overgiving, or burning the candle at both ends while telling yourself you’re fine. With Mercury in your sign all month and your season beginning on the 21st, this is genuinely your time to slow down and recalibrate. What needs more of your energy? What needs less? Find the middle.

Leo: Knight of Wands

This is your energy and it’s fully activated. The Knight of Wands is bold, fast moving, and creatively on fire, and with Venus entering your sign mid month and Jupiter following at the end, June is genuinely one of your strongest months of the year. This card is a green light to move on what inspires you, to pitch the idea, start the project, take the leap. Just be mindful of the Knight’s shadow of acting so fast that you leave important details behind. Channel the fire with a little intention and this month can be a real launching pad.

Virgo: Knight of Cups

Something is calling to your heart this month and the Knight of Cups is asking you to follow it even if it doesn’t make complete logical sense yet. This could be a creative pursuit, a person who’s showing up with genuine emotional sincerity, or an intuitive pull toward something you’ve been rationalizing away. With the South Node in your sign, June is actively asking you to release the over analysis and lead with feeling for once. Let yourself be moved. Not everything needs a plan before it deserves your attention.

Libra: Ace of Wands (Reversed)

There’s a spark here but something is blocking it from fully igniting, and it’s worth asking what. The Ace of Wands reversed can point to a new beginning or creative idea that keeps getting delayed, whether by self doubt, outside obstacles, or simply not feeling ready. The energy is there but it needs a clear channel. This month focus less on whether conditions are perfect and more on removing whatever’s in the way. Even one small, decisive move toward what you want can get this energy flowing again.

Scorpio: Strength (Reversed)

You may be feeling worn down, depleted, or like the inner reserves just aren’t what they usually are right now. Strength reversed isn’t a sign of failure. It’s a sign that you’ve been pushing through on sheer will for too long without replenishing. This month is a real call to tend to yourself. What are you white knuckling right now that you could actually soften around? The courage June is asking of you isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about knowing when to put something down and choosing yourself instead.

Sagittarius: Three of Cups

This is a genuinely joyful card for you this month. The Three of Cups is community, celebration, and the kind of connection that reminds you why you love people. June may bring a reunion, a social highlight, a creative collaboration, or simply a season of feeling genuinely held by the people around you. Let yourself enjoy it without looking for the catch. Not every good thing has a lesson attached and sometimes the gift is just the moment itself. Be present for it.

Capricorn: The Chariot (Sideways, pointing right)

You’re in motion and headed somewhere meaningful, but the Chariot is asking you to stay focused on the direction you’ve already chosen rather than second guessing it mid-journey. This isn’t a month to overhaul the plan. It’s a month to execute it. With the Full Moon landing in your sign on the 29th, there may be a significant culmination or breakthrough toward the end of the month that validates exactly why you kept going. Trust your momentum. Keep your hands on the wheel.

Aquarius: Ace of Pentacles

A new material or financial beginning is available to you this month, a seed worth planting. The Ace of Pentacles points to opportunity in the realms of income, resources, stability, or a tangible new venture, but it requires you to actually reach out and take it. This might look like a new income stream opening up, an offer worth seriously considering, or simply a shift in your relationship with your own sense of financial worth. With Chiron entering Taurus and beginning its seven year healing cycle, this card feels especially well timed. The foundation you lay now matters.

Pisces: King of Wands

You’re being called into your power this month, fully, visibly, and with authority. The King of Wands is a mature, visionary leader who knows how to turn inspiration into something real, and that’s the energy you’re being asked to step into. This isn’t about dimming yourself to stay comfortable or waiting for permission. June wants you in your fullness, leading, creating, and moving with conviction. If there’s a vision you’ve been sitting on, this is the month to start commanding it rather than just dreaming it.

That’s the full energetic and astrological forecast for June!

Between Mercury shifting into emotional waters, Venus stepping into her boldness, Chiron opening a brand new healing era, and Jupiter closing out the month with one of the biggest transits of the year—this month is genuinely asking a lot of us. And underneath all of it, the through line is the same: trust.

Trust the timing, trust the process, and trust that you are being guided even when you can’t see the full picture yet. If May was the threshold, June is the first step through the door. Let’s walk through it together💛

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Welcome back! Before we get into this week, I want you to take a breath with me. Seriously, pause right here. Inhale, and let it go slowly. Because this week is already asking something of you before it even begins, and that’s to come back to yourself.

I decided to pull a card from the Power Deck to identify the collective theme for the week ahead, and what I received was Individuality. I feel that this week is going to push us in ways that might tempt us to look outward, to measure ourselves against others, and to second-guess how we’re moving. So the invitation instead is to stay in your own lane and see yourself through your own eyes.

Now let’s get into what the week ahead actually looks like for us!

On Monday, the waxing gibbous Moon enters Libra at 10:34 am EST, ending its void of course. Being in the waxing gibbous phase means we’re in that building, almost-there energy where things feel like they’re gaining momentum but haven’t quite peaked yet. There can be a restlessness to this phase, a sense of anticipation, like something is almost ready to break through. It’s a good time to refine, adjust, and stay intentional about what you’re putting energy toward, because the Full Moon is coming, and whatever you’ve been building is about to be illuminated.

At 1:07 pm EST, the Sun in Gemini squares the North Node in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo, and this is one of those moments where the way you’re currently moving and where you’re actually meant to be going feel like they’re in conversation with each other, which isn’t always comfortable. Gemini energy loves options, information, and staying in motion, but the nodal axis is asking whether all that motion is actually pointed somewhere aligned or just keeping you occupied. Then, at 2:11 pm EST, Mercury in Gemini opposes Lilith in Sagittarius, which can result in a bit of a tug of war. Lilith in Sagittarius rebelliously refuses to do half-truths, and Mercury in Gemini favors skimming the surface when the moment is calling for depth. Something someone says, or something you say, could hit a nerve around freedom, truth-telling, or feeling like your voice is being filtered.

Tuesday is the most charged day of the week. At 12:02 am EST, Mars in Taurus squares Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, which means we might wake up or fall asleep feeling like slow-cookers of inner tension. You may feel torn between wanting to stay in your comfort zone and needing to break free from outdated expectations and structures. Built-up frustration can surface, and power struggles can reach a boiling point, particularly around money, values, and personal autonomy. Standing your ground is okay, but so is considering the long-term material consequences of whatever it is you’re holding onto. We can’t always force external circumstances to bend to our will, but we can manage our own impulsive reactions.

Then, at 11:52 am EST, the Sun in Gemini trines Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, and the energy shifts noticeably. This is a much smoother current that gives us the stamina and clarity we need to uncover hidden truths from what the overnight Mars-Pluto aspect kicked up. Trines with Pluto don’t avoid depth; they just make it easier to work with. If something heavy surfaced in the early hours, this trine gives you the insight to understand it rather than just react.

Wednesday morning at 7:31 am EST, the waxing gibbous Moon in Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer, and the void of course begins. This aspect can make emotions feel amplified and harder to contain right now. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, and it’s already working with deep feelings in Cancer, so this square can have us wanting more than what’s currently available—more connection, more resolution, more reassurance, while Libra is trying to keep things balanced and fair. Let the void of course that follows be a soft day, one where you’re not forcing anything into motion.

Then at 8:53 pm EST, the waxing gibbous Moon enters Scorpio, and the void ends. Things get quieter but much more intentional going into the second half of the week. Scorpio takes all that building waxing gibbous energy and turns it inward, which is actually useful right now.

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Thursday brings Venus in Cancer squaring Saturn in Aries at 11:02 pm EST, and this aspect is tender. Venus in Cancer loves deeply and protects that love fiercely, and a square to Saturn can feel like a wall coming up between you and what you want—whether that’s in a relationship, a creative project, or how you feel about yourself. Saturn in Aries has a very figure-it-out-yourself energy, and Venus in Cancer can feel bruised by that kind of coldness or restriction. If something in your relationships or self-worth area feels heavy tonight, that’s the why. Ask yourself where you’ve been giving love while running on empty, and where a boundary might actually be protecting something worth protecting.

At 8:04 pm EST on Friday, the waxing gibbous Moon in Scorpio trines Jupiter in Cancer, and the void of course begins. This is a genuinely supportive moment before we cross into the Full Moon weekend. Water trine water, emotional depth meeting expansive feeling, and the building lunar energy giving it all a sense of fullness and readiness. This is a good evening to let yourself actually feel what’s been accumulating all week. The void of course that follows is your signal to wind down rather than initiate anything new going into the weekend.

Saturday, the waxing gibbous Moon enters Sagittarius at 8:45 am EST, ending the void. We are at peak building energy now, right on the edge of the Full Moon, and with the Moon in Sagittarius, that restless, almost-there feeling gets a philosophical and expansive quality to it. Sagittarius wants to move, to seek, to believe in something bigger. Let yourself look further ahead than usual; let yourself want things.

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The Full Moon in Sagittarius perfects at 4:44 am EST on Sunday, and this is the peak and the release. The Full Moon is when everything that’s been building under the waxing gibbous phase comes to a head and asks to be seen. It’s a time of culmination, revelation, and release. What’s been growing in you, what’s been unresolved, what you’ve been almost ready to face, it’s all right here on the surface now. Full Moons in Sagittarius specifically ask us to look at where we’ve been playing small, where we’ve outsourced our belief in ourselves, and what we’re ready to let go of in service of something truer and bigger.

Then at 9:20 am EST, the Full Moon in Sagittarius trines Saturn in Aries, which gives this lunation a grounding cord. This isn’t just emotional release for the sake of it—it’s intentional. You’re completing something real. The void of course begins after that trine and carries all the way through the night into June 1st, so let Sunday be what it is. Ceremony. Reflection. Completion. Don’t rush into what comes next.

Points of reflection for this week:

Where are you seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes, and what would it look like to come back to your own?

What have you been tolerating that Tuesday’s Mars-Pluto square might finally bring to the surface?

Where has love, in any form, felt like it came with conditions attached?

What do you actually believe about yourself when no one else is watching?

What are you ready to release by Sunday’s Full Moon?

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Now that the collective forecast has given us the map, let’s look at the specific details of the terrain surrounding you, depending on where you’re personally standing. Below, you can get your own personal breakdown of the week ahead according to your rising sign, including a tarot card pull woven into each forecast, and an affirmation from the amazing !

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ARIES RISING

King of Swords reversed

Saturn is moving through your first house, so Thursday’s Venus-Saturn square lands personally for you. There’s something being examined around how you show up for yourself and for others, and the gap between who you’ve been presenting and who you actually are might be a little harder to ignore right now. The King of Swords reversed is showing up for you this week, and the reversal is pointing to a mind that’s been turned inward more critically than constructively. You have clarity available to you, but right now, it might be showing up as self-critique more than strategy. This week is asking you to redirect that sharpness toward vision. The Full Moon in Sagittarius on Sunday lands in your ninth house, making it a powerful time to release a belief that’s been quietly keeping you stuck. Something you’ve been telling yourself about what’s possible is ready to go.

TAURUS RISING

Five of Swords

Tuesday deserves your full attention. Mars in your sign, squaring Pluto retrograde in your tenth house of career and public life, means that something at the intersection of your personal will and your professional path is under real pressure this week. The Five of Swords came through for you, and it’s asking a pointed question: Is a battle you’re in, or thinking about trying to win, actually yours to fight? There may be a situation this week where winning costs more than it’s worth, and the card is suggesting that walking away with your dignity intact is sometimes the most powerful move available. The Full Moon in Sagittarius activates your eighth house on Sunday, which is about transformation, shared resources, and what you’re willing to release at a deeper soul level.

GEMINI RISING

Nine of Pentacles

The Sun is in your first house this week, and Monday’s square to the nodes hits your identity directly. You’re at a real crossroads between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming, and with the nodal axis running through your fourth and tenth houses, it has everything to do with your foundations and your public path. Mercury opposing Lilith is also showing up in your first house, meaning your voice is activated this week in a significant way. Speak what’s true. The Nine of Pentacles is your card, and it’s a reminder not to diminish what you’ve already built or what you’re capable of. This is the energy of someone who knows their own worth quietly and completely. This week is asking you to actually own that rather than deflect it. The Full Moon on Sunday is in your seventh house, bringing a relationship or significant connection to a point of culmination or release.

CANCER RISING

Knight of Cups (sideways, pointing to the left)

Venus is still in your sign, and Thursday’s square to Saturn in your tenth house is going to create tension between your personal life and what your public role or career is requiring of you. It might feel like you have to choose between what nourishes you and what the world expects, and you don’t have to resolve that in one week. The Knight of Cups came through for you sideways and pointing left, which tells me there’s an emotional offer, creative impulse, or situation from the past that’s been blocked or hasn’t fully landed yet. Something that felt like it was moving toward you may have stalled, and this week is asking you to look honestly at whether you’ve been passive about something that actually deserves your active energy. The Full Moon in Sagittarius lands in your sixth house, making it a powerful time to release old habits or patterns around work, routine, or how you’ve been taking care of yourself.

LEO RISING

Four of Swords reversed

The Full Moon on Sunday is in your fifth house, which is the house most associated with Leo energy. Creativity, self-expression, joy, romance, your gifts. Something in that area of your life is completing, and it may be something that’s been quietly dimming your light or keeping you performing rather than actually shining. The Four of Swords reversed is your card, and the reversal is telling me that a period of rest or retreat is wrapping up. The energy is waking up in you, and you might feel a productive kind of restlessness this week that’s actually the signal that you’re ready to come back online. Tuesday’s Sun trine Pluto is in your favor in terms of clarity and seeing the bigger picture of what you’ve been moving through.

VIRGO RISING

The Fool

The South Node is in your first house right now, and Monday’s Sun square to the nodes is personal for you. There’s a release happening around identity, specifically around who you’ve been for everyone else versus who you actually are underneath all of that. The Fool came through as your card, and it’s not a small pull. This is new beginning energy. A leap. The Fool doesn’t wait until everything is perfect before it steps forward, and that’s the invitation for you this week. Something is asking you to begin, even without all the information, even without a guarantee. The Full Moon in Sagittarius lands in your fourth house on Sunday, meaning home, roots, and your private inner world are at the center of what’s being released and restructured.

LIBRA RISING

Two of Pentacles

The Moon starts the week in your sign before moving into Scorpio Wednesday evening, giving the early part of the week a reflective and internally oriented quality. Wednesday’s square between your Moon and Jupiter in your tenth house could bring some tension between your emotional needs and your public responsibilities or career, and it might feel like those two things are asking for more than you have to give at once. The Two of Pentacles is showing up for you, and it’s acknowledging the balancing act that’s already happening in your life without any judgment about it. The real question the card is asking is whether everything you’re currently holding is actually yours to hold, or whether some of it can be set down. The Full Moon on Sunday activates your third house of communication and voice.

SCORPIO RISING

The Chariot

The Moon moves through your sign from Wednesday evening into Friday, which means the buildup to the Full Moon is felt deeply in your body and your emotional field before it even perfects. Tuesday’s Mars square Pluto is activating your seventh and fourth houses, bringing intensity into relationship dynamics and home or family matters. Pay attention to what surfaces around those areas early in the week. The Chariot is your card, and it’s showing up to confirm that even when things feel heavy or uncertain, you are in the driver’s seat. This card is direction and momentum. It doesn’t wait for the road to clear before it moves. Trust your direction this week. The Full Moon in Sagittarius on Sunday is in your second house of values, self-worth, and resources.

SAGITTARIUS RISING

The Devil

This Full Moon is yours. It’s landing in your first house on Sunday, which means it’s touching your body, your identity, and how you’ve been showing up in the world. Something about how you’ve been presenting yourself or holding yourself back is completing. Monday’s Sun square to the nodes activates your seventh and first house axis directly, and the question that’s coming up is about self versus other. What have your relationships required of you, and at what cost to who you actually are? The Devil came through as your card and before anything else, I want you to hear this clearly: this card, at its highest reading, is about recognizing the chains you’ve placed on yourself. Not someone else. The patterns, fears, and attachments you’ve unconsciously agreed to. Paired with this Full Moon in your first house, this is a powerful week of reclamation. What have you told yourself you can’t be, can’t do, can’t have?

CAPRICORN RISING

Queen of Wands reversed

Thursday’s Venus-Saturn square activates your seventh and fourth houses, making relationships and home life the focal point of that tension. There may be a conversation or situation that asks you to be honest about what you actually need from your closest connections, even when that’s uncomfortable to name. The Queen of Wands reversed is your card, and it’s pointing to a version of you that’s been dimming yourself down, possibly for a space, a relationship, or a role that doesn’t actually have room for your full energy. Your fire is still there. The reversal isn’t telling you it’s gone, it’s asking you to notice where you’ve been making yourself smaller than you actually are. The Full Moon in Sagittarius on Sunday lands in your twelfth house, which is about completion on a spiritual and subconscious level. Something is ready to close.

AQUARIUS RISING

King of Swords reversed

Pluto is retrograde in your first house right now, which means your identity is already undergoing a slow and significant renovation beneath the surface. Tuesday’s Mars square Pluto brings some of that to the foreground, activating tension around your personal power and how it’s playing out in relationships or shared resources. The King of Swords reversed came through for you, and the message here is about noticing whether your intellect has been functioning more as protection than as clarity. With Pluto moving through your first house, there can be a tendency to use sharp mental energy as a way to stay at arm’s length from your own depth. This week is asking whether the clarity you’re operating from is actually serving you or keeping you defended. The Full Moon in Sagittarius lands in your eleventh house, bringing an energy of completion and release to your community, friendships, and your vision for the future.

PISCES RISING

Six of Pentacles reversed

The North Node is in your first house right now, which means this entire season is about stepping more fully into yourself. Monday’s Sun square to the nodes hits your first and fourth house axis personally, and the question underneath it is whether you’re building your life around your own foundation or around someone else’s idea of what your life should look like. The Six of Pentacles reversed came through for you, and it’s pointing to an imbalance somewhere in how energy, resources, or support is being exchanged. This could be giving more than you’re receiving, or receiving in a way that comes with conditions attached. Paired with the Full Moon in Sagittarius landing in your tenth house of career and public purpose, this is a week for looking honestly at where the give and take in your professional or visible life actually stands. Something is completing there.

So that’s our week ahead, collective! Remember to stay in your own energy and focus on seeing yourself clearly. Let’s all meet Sunday’s Full Moon with more honest intentions.

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Jordan & Collette✨

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I hope everyone was able to get some rest after the (possibly) hectic weekend we just had with the New Moon in Taurus and Mercury returning to one of its ruling signs, Gemini, because the energy this week is urging us to feel everything fully and move with intention. We’re not rushing, we’re landing. And I’m so glad to have back with me for this one, offering an affirmation for each rising sign in the paid section below! If you’ve been here before, you already know the magic she brings. If you’re new, you’re in for a treat.💛

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THE WEEK AHEAD

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Monday sets the whole tone for this week, and it does it fast.

Mars moves into Taurus at 6:26 pm, which is a pretty significant shift after its time in Aries. Our drive, ambition, and how we take action slow way down, but in the best possible way! Taurus Mars isn’t lazy, it’s deliberate. We’re thinking longer term now, we’re building, we’re pacing ourselves.

Just a few hours later, Venus enters Cancer at 9:05 pm (my Venus return purrr), followed immediately by the Moon entering Cancer at 9:46 and conjuncting Venus almost right away. That’s a lot of emotional water entering the room at once. Venus in Cancer is soft, nourishing, protective, and deeply personal. We want to feel safe in our relationships, in our homes, in our bodies, and in our financial foundations. That moon-Venus conjunction happening Monday night is genuinely tender. It’s a good night to be close to people you trust or to nurture yourself.

Tuesday brings some mental activity early on.

Mercury in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries just after midnight, which softens the way we’re thinking and communicating. There might be some creative inspiration and intuition available if you’re up early enough to use it, the kind that comes in that half-asleep, half-awake space. Or try keeping a journal by your pillow as you sleep, for any revealing dreams! Venus sextiles Mars at 1:36 am, the two benefics in compatible signs working together harmoniously. Relationships, creative work, and sensual pleasure all have some flow behind them through the night.

At 11:44 am, Mercury squares the North and South Nodes, which can bring a decision point or some mental friction around the direction we’re heading versus where we’ve come from. There may be information that doesn’t sit quite right or a conversation that asks us to reckon with something. Mercury then trines Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 6:52 pm, which actually helps us dig deeper into that tension. We can come out with some real clarity rather than the usual surface-level answers. The squares to Neptune and Saturn the Moon makes overnight, and in the afternoon, can add some emotional heaviness or cloudiness, but these are relatively brief.

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Wednesday morning is worth noting.

The moon conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer at 9:26 am and then goes void of course, which is a genuinely expansive emotional moment. Jupiter in Cancer is already amplifying our need for belonging, security, and nourishment, and the moon touching it can feel like a brief window of real emotional abundance or gratitude. Lean into that before it goes quiet for the day. The Sun enters Gemini at 8:37 pm, which will shift our collective focus toward curiosity, communication, ideas, and connection over the next month. We’re moving out of Taurus season’s slower, sensory energy into something quicker and more mentally engaging!

Thursday is fairly quiet…

… besides the Moon in Leo opposing Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 8:01 am, which can stir up some internal tension around power, control, or feeling unseen. A Leo moon wants to be felt and expressed, Pluto retrograde in Aquarius can make that feel restricted or complicated by collective or systemic dynamics. It’s not necessarily dramatic, but you may notice the push-pull. The moon goes void of course Thursday evening, around 6 pm, and stays that way until very early Saturday morning, so Thursday night and all of Friday are not the best times to launch anything or make major moves.

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Friday’s biggest transit is the Sun conjuncting Uranus in Gemini at 10:26 am.

This is a moment of sudden insight, disruption, or liberation in how we think, speak, or connect. Uranus is unpredictable, and cazimis here can bring loud, bold, or unexpected events, news, or internal breakthroughs. Because they’re in Gemini, it could show up as a conversation that changes something, information that comes out of nowhere, or a sudden shift in perspective.

Mercury also sextiles Saturn in Aries at 2:02 pm, which helps us ground whatever is sparked on Friday morning into something more structured and actionable. That’s a useful combo! Venus trines the North Node and sextiles the South Node at 6:41 pm, which is a lovely, supportive aspect for relationships and for our paths forward. Whatever Venus in Cancer represents for you in terms of home, family, love, or emotional security, it’s getting a nod from the nodal axis that feels aligned.

Saturday morning is our week’s action point.

The Moon enters Virgo at 2:57 am, ending the VOC. In its First Quarter phase, the Moon perfects when it squares the Sun in Gemini. This is the moment where we have to make a choice about what we’re building and actually do something with it. Virgo moon wants to organize, refine, and make things practical. Gemini sun is full of ideas. The tension between them asks us to stop spinning and commit to something concrete.

Sunday wraps the week.

The waxing gibbous Moon squares Mercury in Gemini at 6:05 am, which might bring some mental restlessness or miscommunication if we’re not grounded. The more meaningful energy arrives in the evening when Mars in Taurus sextiles the North Node and trines the South Node at 7:51 pm. This is significant because it connects our forward momentum, especially anything we’ve started building since Mars entered Taurus on Monday, directly to our soul’s direction. There’s alignment between the way we’re taking action and where we’re actually meant to be going. The Sun sextiles Neptune in Aries at 10:21 pm, which softens everything out and opens up some inspiration and spiritual receptivity before we head into the next week. The moon goes void of course Sunday evening and stays that way into Monday morning, so let Sunday be a rest and integration day rather than a push.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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ARIES RISING

7 of Swords Reversed

The 7 of Swords reversed is asking you to come clean with yourself or someone else. Schemes, avoidance, and half-truths aren’t going to hold this week. Monday’s Venus entering your 3rd house and Mars entering your 2nd sets a grounded, values-driven tone early on. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes hits your communication and money houses directly, so if there’s a conversation you’ve been sidestepping around resources or a relationship, it’s coming up whether you initiate it or not. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening gives you the depth to actually handle it. The Uranus cazimi on Friday in your 3rd house could bring a sudden revelation through a conversation or piece of information. Venus trining the North Node Friday evening is nudging you toward honesty as the path forward, not strategy. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday is a call to act on what you’ve uncovered. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 2nd house confirms that building something real, on solid ground, is the move.

TAURUS RISING

The Emperor Reversed

The Emperor reversed is a check on control, specifically where you might be gripping too tightly or operating from a place of insecurity rather than actual authority. Mars entering your 1st house Monday is your personal reactivation, but it’s Taurus Mars energy, slow, intentional, embodied. You don’t need to force anything this week. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 2nd house of money and values. A financial decision or conversation may feel stuck, and that’s the reversed Emperor showing up. Venus sextiling Mars in the early hours of Tuesday is a moment of genuine harmony between what you want and how you’re moving. The Sun entering Gemini Wednesday, moves into your 2nd house and shines a light on your resources. The Uranus cazimi on Friday could bring an unexpected financial shift or a new perspective on what you actually value. Mercury sextiling Saturn on Friday helps you ground that into a real plan. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 1st house is confirmation that you’re building in the right direction, just let go of the white-knuckle approach.

GEMINI RISING

8 of Pentacles Reversed

The 8 of Pentacles reversed isn’t saying you’re lazy, it’s saying the hustle isn’t working the way you’ve been doing it. There may be a skill you’re refining in the wrong direction, or you’re putting effort into something that’s no longer the right fit. The Sun entering your 1st house on Wednesday is your season beginning, a natural reset of identity and direction. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 1st house too, and this one could genuinely shake something loose in how you see yourself or what you want. Mercury, your ruler, is active all week in your 1st house, squaring the nodes on Tuesday, which means a real crossroads is present around your path and purpose. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening gives you the depth to transform that friction into clarity. Venus entering your 2nd house on Monday brings some warmth to your finances and self-worth. Venus trining the North Node on Friday is a subtle confirmation that what you value is pointing you toward where you’re meant to go. The First Quarter Moon Saturday from your 4th house asks you to make a decision rooted in your foundation, not just what looks productive.

CANCER RISING

Ace of Cups

The Ace of Cups is a new emotional beginning, and it lands in the most personal week you’ve had in a while. Venus entering your 1st house Monday night, with the Moon joining her almost immediately, is you stepping into your own magnetic field. You’re open, you’re present, and people feel it. This card is asking you to receive, which might actually be the harder part for you. Tuesday’s Venus sextiling Mars from your 1st to your 11th house brings harmony between your personal energy and your community or goals. Mercury squaring the nodes on Tuesday touches your 12th and 6th houses, so there may be some internal processing or a health and routine matter that needs a decision. Jupiter in your 1st house gets that Moon conjunction on Wednesday morning, and the emotional expansion there is real. Let yourself feel the fullness of it. The Uranus cazimi on Friday activates your 12th house, so a behind-the-scenes breakthrough or spiritual download is possible. Venus trining the North Node on Friday from your 1st house is the astrological Ace of Cups confirmation. You’re being called toward emotional authenticity as your actual path forward. Sunday’s Sun sextiling Neptune softens everything out beautifully for rest and integration.

LEO RISING

5 of Swords

The 5 of Swords is a card about conflict and its aftermath. Someone wins, someone loses, and usually everyone walks away a little bruised. This week, it’s pointing at your 12th house Venus energy and Thursday’s Moon in your 1st, opposing Pluto in your 7th. There’s a tension in a partnership or relational dynamic that may resurface, and the question the 5 of Swords is asking is whether winning the argument is actually worth what it costs. Monday’s Mars entering your 10th house of career is a productive placement; you’re building your public life with steadiness now. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 11th and 5th houses, so a conversation within your community or around a creative pursuit may hit a friction point. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening gives you real depth to work with if you’re willing to go there honestly. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 11th house, so something unexpected could shift in a friendship or collective situation. Venus trining the North Node from your 12th house on Friday is quiet but significant. The path forward for you this week involves releasing the need to be right. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday is in your 2nd house, asking for a practical financial decision. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 10th is affirming the career and public life work you’re putting in.

VIRGO RISING

The Lovers

The Lovers isn’t always romantic; it’s about alignment and the choices that come from it. This week, the question being asked of you is whether what you’re choosing actually reflects your values, or whether you’re choosing based on what feels safe or expected. Monday’s Venus entering your 11th house and Mars entering your 9th sets up a week with both social warmth and a hunger for expansion. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes lands in your 10th and 4th houses, a real tension between your public life and your private world. Something about your career direction versus your home or emotional foundation is asking for a decision. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening helps you see beneath the surface of that. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday activates your 10th house of career and public image, bringing Gemini season’s curious, communicative energy to your professional life. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 10th house too, and something unexpected in your career or reputation could shift. Venus trining the North Node on Friday from your 11th house is gorgeous for your community and the connections that are moving you forward. The First Quarter Moon Saturday is in your 1st house, squaring the Sun in your 10th, which is the Lovers card made literal. Who you are versus what you’re building publicly. Choose alignment. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 9th house is asking you to keep expanding your beliefs and vision.

LIBRA RISING

7 of Wands

The 7 of Wands is holding your ground against competition or outside pressure, and this week it’s showing up in your career and public life. Venus, your ruler, entering your 10th house Monday is a magnetic moment for your professional image, but the 7 of Wands says don’t let others’ noise shake your confidence in what you’re building. Mars entering your 8th house on Monday is a slow, steady push through transformation, shared resources, and deeper relational dynamics. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 9th and 3rd houses, so a belief, conversation, or piece of information may challenge where you’re headed. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening gives that real depth and potential for transformation if you stay open. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 9th house, so a sudden belief shift or unexpected opportunity connected to learning or expansion is possible. Mercury sextiling Saturn on Friday helps you ground new ideas into structure. Venus trining the North Node from your 10th house on Friday is powerful confirmation that your public direction is aligned. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday activates your 12th house, asking you to release what’s been running in the background before you push forward. Sunday’s Sun sextiling Neptune from your 9th to your 6th is a gentle call to let your daily life be infused with a little more meaning and flow.

SCORPIO RISING

Ace of Pentacles

The Ace of Pentacles is a new material beginning, a seed being planted in the physical world. Something tangible is available to you this week if you’re willing to receive it and act on it with patience. Monday’s Venus entering your 9th house and Mars entering your 7th sets up a week where both your relationships and your higher wisdom are getting activated. The Venus-Mars sextile in the early hours of Tuesday is harmonious for both. Mars in your 7th means a partnership may start moving with more steadiness and intention now. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 8th and 2nd houses, so a conversation or decision around shared finances, debt, or intimate resources may come up. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening, with Pluto in your 4th, brings depth and potential transformation around home or foundational matters. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday moves into your 8th house, illuminating the areas of depth, transformation, and shared resources for the next month. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 8th house too, so something unexpected could shift in finances or a close relational dynamic. Venus trining the North Node from your 9th house on Friday is pointing you toward expansion as your path forward. The Ace of Pentacles says the opportunity is real. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 7th house confirms a partnership or collaboration is part of what moves you forward.

SAGITTARIUS RISING

King of Wands Reversed

The King of Wands reversed is charisma and fire energy that’s either scattered, overextended, or being used to perform confidence rather than embody it. This week is asking you to check in on whether you’re leading from your actual vision or from ego and urgency. Monday’s Venus entering your 8th house and Mars entering your 6th sets a week focused on depth and daily discipline. Mars in your 6th in Taurus is asking you to build sustainable routines, not sprint and crash. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 7th and 1st houses, so a relationship or a personal identity question may hit a friction point. Something between who you are and how you show up in partnership needs a real decision. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening, with Pluto in your 3rd, brings transformative depth to a conversation or mental process. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday activates your 7th house, so partnership energy is a theme all season. The Uranus cazimi on Friday in your 7th could bring a surprising shift in a relationship. Mercury sextiling Saturn on Friday helps ground communication. Venus trining the North Node from your 8th house on Friday is asking you to go deeper rather than wider. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 6th house is affirming that building sustainable daily habits and work practices is genuinely aligned with your path forward. The King of Wands reversed becomes upright when the vision is grounded in something real.

CAPRICORN RISING

2 of Pentacles Reversed

The 2 of Pentacles reversed is the juggling act that’s starting to collapse. Something is out of balance, and the things you’ve been managing to keep spinning are going to demand a more honest look this week. Monday’s Venus entering your 7th house and Mars entering your 5th is a genuinely pleasant start. Warmth in your partnerships and creative energy is getting a steady boost. But Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 6th and 12th houses, pointing directly at a health, routine, or behind-the-scenes situation that’s been quietly unbalanced. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening, with Pluto in your 2nd, brings some financial depth and potential clarity around where your money and values are actually going. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday moves into your 6th house of work and health, making that area a month-long focus. The Uranus cazimi on Friday is in your 6th house too, so an unexpected shift in your daily work or health routine is possible, and it might actually be the disruption you needed. Mercury sextiling Saturn on Friday helps you structure a new approach. Venus trining the North Node from your 7th house on Friday is a lovely signal for relationships and partnership alignment. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday activates your 9th house, asking for a decision around seeing the bigger picture and your beliefs. Sunday’s Sun sextiling Neptune is a gentle call to bring more ease and spiritual perspective into the daily grind.

AQUARIUS RISING

10 of Pentacles Reversed

The 10 of Pentacles reversed is asking you to look honestly at what legacy, security, and long-term stability actually mean to you versus what you’ve inherited or been told they should look like. There may be a family or home situation this week that surfaces this question directly. Monday’s Venus entering your 6th house and Mars entering your 4th sets the week’s focus on daily life and home foundations. Mars in your 4th in Taurus is slow, building energy around your living situation or family dynamics over the coming weeks. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes activates your 5th and 11th houses, so a creative, romantic, or community matter may hit a crossroads. Pluto retrograde in your 1st gets Mercury’s trine Tuesday evening, which is a deep, transformative moment for your sense of self and identity. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday activates your 5th house of creativity and joy, and with Uranus there, the Uranus cazimi on Friday could be genuinely electric for creative expression or a romantic situation. Mercury sextiling Saturn on Friday helps you commit to something. Venus trining the North Node from your 6th house on Friday is about your daily life and health habits being more aligned with your path than you might realize. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday activates your 8th house, asking for a decision around shared resources or something transformative. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 4th house is asking you to build your foundation as an act of soul alignment, not just practical necessity.

PISCES RISING

Queen of Wands

The Queen of Wands is magnetic, creative, self-assured, and deeply in her body. She knows what she wants and she moves through the world like someone who belongs exactly where she is. This card is who you’re being called to embody this week. The North Node is in your sign, and both Tuesday and Friday have major aspects pointing directly at your path forward. Monday’s Venus entering your 5th house and Mars entering your 3rd sets a warm, creatively expressive tone early in the week. Tuesday’s Mercury squaring the nodes from your 4th house creates some friction between your home or emotional foundation and the direction your soul is being pulled. Don’t let that friction talk you out of moving. Mercury trining Pluto Tuesday evening brings depth and transformation to a home or inner world matter. The Sun entering Gemini on Wednesday moves into your 4th house, illuminating home and roots for the next month. The Uranus cazimi on Friday in your 4th could bring a surprising shift or insight around your living situation or family. Venus trining the North Node from your 5th house Friday evening is one of the most personally affirming aspects of the week for you. Your creativity, joy, and self-expression are aligned with your soul’s path. The First Quarter Moon on Saturday activates your 7th house, asking for a decision in a partnership. Sunday’s Mars sextiling the North Node from your 3rd house is the Queen of Wands in action, using her voice, her ideas, and her local world to move toward what she’s meant for.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Thank you for being here, divine tribe! And a big thank you to for holding space with me in this community every week. If this resonated with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it! I’ll see you guys next Monday.

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Jordan✨

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I’m gonna be totally real with you—this week’s forecast is a bit more "straight to the point" than usual. Between the Mother’s Day celebrations and the amount of wine I had at dinner last night, I chose to lighten everyone’s load so I can stay more present with the vibes and make sure I’m resting enough. Which is actually nice because this week actually opens with the energetic equivalent of a “do not disturb” sign, so let’s all try to honor it!

The lunar cycle is currently waning; your battery might feel genuinely low, so the cosmos is permitting you to slow down before it turns the heat back up by Saturday. We’ve got a New Moon in Taurus, a Mars-Chiron conjunction in Aries, Mercury transiting into Gemini, and Mercury conjunct Uranus all in one weekend. So use the quiet while you have it…

This is the eye of the storm. Here’s what’s moving through it—and how to use it, including my own personal pull for the week as a mirror for how this energy could show up, and ending with a super brief breakdown of the themes I see for each rising sign—free of charge!

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Monday & Tuesday: May 11th–12th

We open the week with the waning crescent Moon in Pisces, which is genuinely the lowest-energy lunar phase you can be in, so if your body feels slower, your emotions feel heavier, or your motivation feels inconsistent, don’t immediately assume something is wrong. Your system is trying to close out a cycle before the New Moon resets everything this weekend. Monday is mostly quiet aside from the Moon sextiling Mercury at 11:42 pm, which can bring reflective thoughts, emotional processing, or dream-based insight right before sleep.

Tuesday carries more emotional friction early in the morning as the Pisces Moon trines Jupiter, sextiles the Sun, then squares Venus in Gemini between 3:29 am and 6:03 am. That Venus square is the most noticeable point, showing up as emotional misalignment, subtle tension, or feeling slightly disconnected or misunderstood without a clear reason.

At 6:03 am, the Moon goes void-of-course until 8:04 pm when it enters Aries, creating a long stretch where energy can feel unfocused, delayed, or emotionally “stuck in transit.” It’s not a time for forcing clarity or decisions. Once the Moon enters Aries, momentum returns quickly, and within an hour, it sextiles Uranus in Gemini, bringing a noticeable shift in energy—more mental speed, restlessness, and the urge to act, respond, or move things forward again.

My cards for these two days mirror this exactly. My Monday’s Five of Swords clarified by Distance reversed points to lingering emotional tension tied to blockages I feel in my life that are already in the process of being worked through and removed. Tuesday’s Seven of Wands reversed clarified by Mistakes reflects energetic exhaustion and waning confidence, which I spoke about in my last post.

I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately; continuously trying to defend myself against scarcity-based thinking, being misunderstood, and questioning my own path and faith. But that level of defensiveness has been active for too long, and it’s not necessary anymore as long as I keep grounding back into self-trust. I can feel my strength starting to feel depleted from holding that stance for so long. So Spirit is guiding me early in the week to harmonize my inner scale, so that I can weigh my decisions moving forward with a lighter heart and clearer mind.

Wednesday, May 13th

Mercury in Taurus sextile Jupiter in Cancer at 12:43 am

The day starts deep in the subconscious. The Aries waning crescent Moon conjuncts Neptune and sextiles Pluto in the early morning, which usually shows up as those vivid, “message-heavy” dreams or a gut feeling you can’t shake while you’re getting ready for the day. But by 2:00 PM, the vibe shifts fast as the Moon conjuncts Saturn in Aries. This is the literal reality check of the afternoon—it’s where the “dreamy” morning hits a wall of responsibilities, chores, or a sudden need to be the “adult” in the room.

The main event this day is Mercury in Taurus sextile Jupiter in Cancer at 12:43 AM. This is your “green light” for the big stuff. Mercury in Taurus wants to talk about numbers, property, and tangible results, while Jupiter in Cancer expands our need for emotional security and family legacy. You might find yourself signing a lease, investing in your home, having an “honest-to-god” talk with a family member about your living situation, or finally setting a price point for your work, based on what you actually need to feel secure.

My personal card pulls reflect this shift inward: Three of Cups reversed clarified by Family (sideways/left). To me, this looks like a temporary “time-out” from the social noise. It’s that feeling of being at a family dinner or a group hangout and realizing that I’m seeing an old pattern play out in real-time. It’s not necessarily about a blow-up or a resolution; it’s more about the “aha” moment where I might finally see the history behind why things are the way they are.

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Thursday, May 14th

Sun conjunct Mercury in Taurus at 10:24 am

The Aries Moon squares Jupiter at 7:40 am, which can feel like emotional or mental overextension early in the day—think of it as having too many browser tabs open before you’ve even had coffee. Around 2:00 pm, the Moon sextiles Venus in Gemini, offering a brief respite. This might manifest as a quick, witty message or lighthearted conversation, but it’s a quick window before the Moon conjuncts Mars in Aries at 5:32 pm. This can bring a sharp spike of irritability, urgency, or emotional reactivity. After that, the Moon goes void-of-course until it enters Taurus at 10:31 pm, so the back half of the day is not ideal for forcing decisions or conclusions. It’s better to just let the dust settle.

The Mercury Cazimi is the key event here, occurring when Mercury conjoins with the heart of the Sun in Taurus. It’s an event that’s less about receiving brand-new information and more about seeing something clearly without distortion. You might finally see the “missing piece” in a financial plan, a home project, or a conversation about your values that previously felt stuck.

My personal cards fit this shift exactly: Ace of Wands clarified by Past Life reversed. For me, this shows up as that “aha” moment where I finally see something—or even someone—for what they really are. This will seemingly allow me to guide my energy closer toward a potential new beginning for myself, instead of repeating an old karmic pattern.

Friday, May 15th

The Taurus waning crescent Moon squares Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 7:24 am. Because this happens in fixed signs, it can bring up heavy pressure around stability, money, control, or emotional security early in the morning. This is less of an "event" and more of an internal "reveal." In the real world, this looks like a sudden spike of anxiety about your bank account, your home, or your long-term safety. If you feel a sudden urge to micromanage your environment or your finances this morning, recognize that it's the Pluto square pulling at your roots.

This is not action-based energy. Where anxiety spikes, something deeper underneath it is asking to be acknowledged instead of bypassed. It’s the cosmos showing you where you are still operating from a survival mindset rather than a place of actual abundance.

My personal cards for this reset are the Ten of Pentacles clarified by Chasing. While this could be about a frantic pursuit, I’m seeing the resilience it takes to move differently. For me, this is about inspired, intentional movement rather than a panic-driven hustle. I’m witnessing a quiet but major internal transition—an old, survival-based version of myself is finally walking away, making room for a foundation that’s secure enough to let me rest and create from a place of abundance and optimism, rather than fear.

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Saturday, May 16th

Mars conjunct Chiron in Aries at 3:33 pm
New Moon in Taurus at 4:00 pm

This is the peak.

The Moon in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer at 8:39 am, offering a window of expansion for your foundational plans. At 3:33 pm, Mars conjuncts Chiron in Aries, activating emotional wounds around identity, independence, and self-advocacy. In the real world, this looks like a moment where your ego feels “poked,” or feeling overlooked in your progress and work; it’s an old scar related to how you stand up for yourself surfacing to be healed rather than avoided.

The New Moon in Taurus at 4:00 pm shifts the collective focus toward rebuilding our stability, money, comfort, and long-term structure. This is a foundational reset about what you’re actually willing to maintain, like finally committing to a budget or a sustainable business schedule. The Moon conjunct Mercury in Taurus at 9:01 pm may bring mental clarity to these intentions. This is the moment where the internal reset meets a physical voice, allowing you to articulate the steps needed to make your security real. The Moon then goes void-of-course before entering Gemini at 10:23 pm.

My cards for the day are The Devil clarified by Chemistry reversed. A temptation or old attachment might be present, but the internal pull or attraction to it is dying, stripping the karmic cycle or entity of its power. It’s a moment of seeing a “trap” clearly for what it is, and choosing the stability of a clean, foundational reset.

Sunday, May 17th

Mercury enters Gemini at 6:27 am
Mercury conjunct Uranus at 8:09 pm

The energy shifts fast, starting at 12:16 am when the waxing crescent Moon conjuncts Uranus in Gemini, sparking restlessness, electric insights, or sudden downloads that disrupt sleep. This softens at 4:15 am as the Moon sextiles Neptune in Aries, allowing the channeling of that electricity into intuitive, inspired action before Mercury enters Gemini at 6:27 am, immediately accelerating the pace of our thoughts and conversations. By 7:00 am, the Moon trines Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, forcing these fast-paced ideas to ground into a deeper, transformative understanding of long-term social vision.

At 2:03 pm, Venus in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries, opening a bridge for healing old wounds by finally vocalizing our needs for independence. This is supported at 3:35 pm when the Moon sextiles Saturn in Aries and then goes void of course, providing the emotional discipline and structural “clinch” needed to anchor our shifting perspectives. The day peaks at 8:09 pm with Mercury conjunct Uranus in Gemini, delivering mentally electric breakthroughs—this is the moment where things click, bringing sudden clarity or an honest conversation that changes everything.

My cards of the day—The Fool reversed clarified by Obsession reversed—signal the total collapse of a mental fixation that has been blocking my movement. With the addictive "spark" of old infatuations or mental loops finally losing their grip, the hesitation of the Fool reversed isn't about fear anymore; it's about seeing that the reasons I was feeling stuck were based on hollow internal narratives. The "leap" I was either too afraid to take, or was taking for all the wrong reasons, is being replaced by a clear-headed realization that I am finally free from that past burden. Free to be fearless.

✨ Rising Sign Themes ✨

Aries Rising

• Wed: 2nd and 4th houses—money and home in conversation

• Thu: Cazimi clears up 2nd house—income and worth get clarity

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 1st—personal, bodily, about how you fight for yourself. New Moon resets your 2nd

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 3rd—your communication shifts fast

Taurus Rising

• Wed: 1st and 3rd houses—your words feel personal and land with weight

• Thu: Cazimi in your 1st—identity and direction crystallize

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 12th—private, subconscious healing. New Moon resets your 1st

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 2nd—sudden insight around money and worth

Gemini Rising

• Wed: 12th and 2nd houses—a quiet insight about what’s draining your security

• Thu: Cazimi in your 12th—clarity on something you’ve been carrying privately

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 11th—community and belonging wounds activated. New Moon resets your 12th, keep it internal

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus into your 1st—you wake all the way up

Cancer Rising

• Wed: 11th and 1st houses—with Jupiter in your sign this feels personal, your goals and sense of self aligning

• Thu: Cazimi in your 11th—clarity around your network and what you’re building

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 10th—career and public image wounds surfacing. New Moon resets your 11th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 12th—unexpected insight from a private or subconscious place

Leo Rising

• Wed: 10th and 12th houses—a quiet but significant insight about your career path

• Thu: Cazimi in your 10th—career direction and next steps become clear

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 9th—wounds around belief and expansion activated. New Moon resets your 10th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 11th—electric, unexpected energy around community and goals

Virgo Rising

• Wed: 9th and 11th houses—where you’re going and who’s coming with you

• Thu: Cazimi in your 9th—clarity around what you want to put out into the world

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 8th—shared resources and intimacy wounds activated. New Moon resets your 9th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 10th—sudden disruptive insight around your career

Libra Rising

• Wed: 8th and 10th houses—resources tied to your work or a key partnership

• Thu: Cazimi in your 8th—rare clarity around intimacy or shared finances

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 7th—relationship wounds directly activated. New Moon resets your 8th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 9th—fast, unexpected insight around beliefs and expansion

Scorpio Rising

• Wed: 7th and 9th houses—a relationship conversation that carries real vision

• Thu: Cazimi in your 7th—clarity around a key partnership

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 6th—daily routine and health wounds surfacing. New Moon resets your 7th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 8th—deep, investigative, follow the thread

Sagittarius Rising

• Wed: 6th and 8th houses—daily habits and what’s transforming beneath the surface

• Thu: Cazimi in your 6th—clarity around work, body, or daily structure

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 5th—creativity and self-expression wounds activated. New Moon resets your 6th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 7th—a relationship conversation could shift something fast

Capricorn Rising

• Wed: 5th and 7th houses—creativity and partnership intersecting

• Thu: Cazimi in your 5th—clarity around what you want to create and enjoy

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 4th—home and family wounds activated. New Moon resets your 5th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 6th—sudden shifts to your routines and how you work

Aquarius Rising

• Wed: 4th and 6th houses—home and daily life needing to feel more stable

• Thu: Cazimi in your 4th—clarity around home or family

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 3rd—an avoided communication is being activated. New Moon resets your 4th

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 5th—unexpected creative spark

Pisces Rising

• Wed: 3rd and 5th houses—your voice and creative vision talking to each other

• Thu: Cazimi in your 3rd—clarity around something you need to say

• Sat: Mars-Chiron in your 2nd—money and self-worth wounds directly activated. New Moon resets your 3rd

• Sun: Mercury-Uranus in your 4th—something in your home or foundation shifts unexpectedly​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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If you want an even closer look at your week ahead, feel free to reach out! But in the meantime, rest in the quiet, stay alert at the Cazimi, and let Saturday crack something open for you to begin anew.

I’m wishing everyone a divine week ahead!

Blessings,
Jordan✨

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It’s giving me the energy of incoming abundance and support, almost like the feeling of being rescued somehow. I’m seeing long-term plans, travel, and a potential move—possibly an important decision on the horizon that will lead to a major shift or journey for the collective, like the sun is finally coming out tomorrow!

When I pulled cards to ask what collective the message I was channeling belonged to, I pulled the Queen of Wands and Strength reversed. To be clear, moving forward, this reflection is meant to be treated as a mirror: keep any insight that resonates, and gently let go of whatever doesn’t. This is a collective message, but as a Leo, I just know Spirit was calling me out directly to be a bit vulnerable here with how I give it…

I know I’m “supposed” to be bold and fiery, but Strength reversed shows the reality of a current crisis of confidence—that quiet feeling of being underappreciated or having “leaked” energy. Sometimes, being a Queen of Wands means trusting in your magnetism and being more introverted; lingering on the sidelines to watch and learn before you’re ready to roar. I’m learning that my worth isn’t tied to how loud I can be, or how often I use my voice, but how loyal I can stay to myself when things are slow.

To the outside world, I often wonder whether it looks like I’m actually growing and changing or just standing still. I only started sharing my readings two years ago this fall. But trying to build The Divine Vitality from my bedroom at my mom’s house at almost 28 years old is getting old.

My journey with tarot and building my business still feels so new that, in the quiet moments between writing, posting, and working with clients, I often feel like I can’t stop pushing myself to stay busy or productive. I don’t know if it’s boredom or perfectionism, but there’s always more that I could do to move myself forward. And of course, my ADHD doesn’t help with that—I’m already forgetting or skipping one or two meals a day. So I’m realizing that my current Pluto retrograde lesson in resourcing my power is to probably find more innovative ways to serve my community and loved ones, while also allowing myself the rest, grace, and care that I need to continue that service.

The Survival Gap

A bit of astrology can explain why I feel the weight of this “waiting game” in my soul…

With Sagittarius ruling my 4th house and my Pluto placed in my 3rd, the pressure of staying home for so long is because my home life isn't just a place for me to sleep; it’s also a transformative pressure cooker where I'm redefining my independence. Sagittarius energy can be very boundless, optimistic, truth-seeking, charismatic, and playful. But also restless, impatient, overindulgent, and brutal when honest.

I possess a natural gift for communication that helps me challenge dogma and expose hidden truths in my home, my family, and our belief systems. It also explains my history of moving and traveling, and my yearning for freedom—freedom of expression, exploration, and to live in the ways that truly support the real me, even if that sometimes looks slow, impatient, or naive to others.

The 3rd house rules our mental landscape and early childhood experiences, especially those involving siblings and school. For me, it’s where Chiron hides my old wounds of being misunderstood and fearful of using my voice. With Scorpio ruling my 3rd house, those early experiences left me deeply introspective and fiercely protective of my thoughts—my mind like a deep, dark, heavy sea. But my Pluto in Sagittarius in the same house is what pushes me to alchemize those wounds into expansion and good karma by using my voice to educate and uplift others through investigative depth and vulnerable truth-telling.

But at 28, this drive for freedom and to expand these messages is currently clashing with the dissatisfaction of my Libra Moon in the 2nd house. She craves financial harmony, stability, and the luxury and comfort of my own space—something that feels far out of reach. Now, with Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, transiting my 6th house of daily work for the next five months, I’m being asked to sit with these shadows and strengthen my emotional foundations. My Aquarius 6th house means my life and daily routine demands to be unconventional and innovative, making it difficult to settle for what’s “normal” or societally expected, even when the financial pressure is high.

Living as a Virgo Rising means I want the perfect routine, and I naturally critique myself to do what looks and sounds “right”. But the Aquarian stellium in me insists that my routine must serve a higher purpose for my community, not just a paycheck to pay the bills, and that the work I’m doing now is already what I need to be doing—I just have to trust that it will be enough. I’m in that liminal space where I’m making just enough to survive, but not nearly enough to truly live.

It’s a heavy, almost crippling feeling to show up with so much love for this craft while the external reality hasn’t mirrored that worth back in my bank account yet. It’s not just a delay; it’s a soul-level restructuring of what security actually looks like daily to me.

I pulled for the main message, and it hit close to home: The 2 of Pentacles reversed, clarified by the Wheel of Fortune.

It’s a reminder that this frantic juggling—the “how am I going to make this work?”—is reaching its limit. The Wheel is turning because the way I’ve been used to carrying the stress is unsustainable, but will also soon be proven to no longer be needed. But the shift isn’t about working harder; it’s about practicing a deeper kind of Strength.

The Fool’s Faith

The 8 of Swords and the Ace of Wands came through as a pair, and it felt like a mirror. I’ve felt trapped by the “lack” in my life, but that new spark—that Ace—is the miracle I’m learning to have faith in.

Deep down, I know I’ve never really been a person who believed in those things happening for her. I can logically recognize small miracles in my life, I guess, but I’ve always deeply resonated with Mirabel from Disney’s Encanto—the sense of not feeling special enough for miracles to happen to you. Or maybe it’s the mindset that if I’m not the one doing it, it probably won’t get done.

Because of that, practicing faith in the unseen sometimes feels like a radical, almost foolish act. Choosing to trust that I am enough, and that I am deserving of some grand amount of support, feels like taking the ultimate leap of The Fool. It’s feminine energy in its purest form: certain and surrendered.

When I pulled The World reversed, I recognized that this chapter might not be fully closed yet, but the King of Cups confirmed that I’m moving toward emotional mastery, where I don’t let “not enough” disturb my peace or slow my pace. Supported by the Five of Cups reversed and the Eight of Pentacles, I’m reminded to stop mourning the “missing” pieces and finally see the cups that are still standing for me, reflecting the shift toward the steady, daily effort I’ve been pouring into my work.

The Hidden Miracle

There was a Knight of Cups hiding at the bottom of the deck, and honestly, it felt like the whole point. He’s the miracle I’ve never quite known how to believe in—a soft, open, almost romantic offer that reflects back everything I’ve been trying to stay open to myself. The reminder that a landing is coming. Not from grinding harder, but from actually trusting the heart that’s been leading this whole thing.

I see people moving through breakthroughs every single day. I won’t pretend I haven’t asked, more than once, when mine is coming too. But I think I’m starting to understand that the miracle isn’t just about money, or a relationship, or a move-out date. It’s that I finally know my own power. Enough to look like a Fool for believing that the best is still ahead—and to be okay with being a little bit more patient for my miracle.

What about you?

If you’re sitting in your own “waiting room” right now, what is the one miracle you’re practicing faith in—even if it feels a little “foolish” to everyone else? What are you choosing to believe about yourself today, despite what your current circumstances might be saying?

Let’s hold that space for each other in the comments, for we are never doing this alone!

With love and vitality,
Jordan💛

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So I finally watched Emerald Fennell’s 2026 take on Wuthering Heights last night, and let’s just say there’s a lot to process… It’s very steamy and totally addictive, but also tragic and twisted.

Watching two people who had clearly loved each other since childhood sabotage the simplest, most fulfilled version of their story because of status, revenge, and pride left me an emotional wreck. It was a prime example of how we can try to fight our feelings all we want—suppress them, rationalize them, distract ourselves through others—but that inner knowing doesn’t go anywhere.

The what-ifs linger long, whether it’s a destructive, obsessive dynamic like Heathcliff’s and Catherine’s or not.

Some critics called it emotionally surface-level. I’d disagree. I think the movie asks you to bring your own emotional experiences and self-awareness to it. And if you’ve ever loved someone you weren’t allowed to fully have, or watched someone shrink themselves out of ego and fear instead of just choosing what they wanted—you’ll feel every single second of it.

It reminded me of what the spiritual community calls twin flames and karmic relationships. Two souls that feel deeply aligned, yet treat love—and each other—like a complex game where someone has to win. But you always tend to lose anyway when you approach love with blocked vulnerability and underlying motives.
When you knowingly toy with someone’s heart.

I’ve found myself in this dynamic at least twice in life so far. I’ve loved people effortlessly, vulnerably, and deeply, only to be met with manipulation, gaslighting, and emotional abuse. On top of physical and sexual trauma I’d already endured before and in between.

And the hardest part isn’t even the pain and confusion that lingered for years afterward. It’s that underneath all of it, the love I felt for and from them was still real, and I knew it. Even now, knowing and trusting in my intuitive and empathic abilities the way I do, I’d say the same thing. It wasn’t a delusion; it was always something I could sense in people, no matter how hard they tried to suppress or avoid it.

The complexity and nuance of those dynamics left me deeply disconnected from myself, as I tried to stay connected to a love they only ever offered in crumbs and intermittent spurts. A lot of my pain and suffering came from my own attachment to the potential I could feel beneath the surface, despite it being intentionally kept from me. Feelings and depth I was never fully allowed to access or consistently experience.

These tensions don’t just stay between the two people either.

What Heathcliff and Catherine refused to simply choose left a trail of wreckage for everyone who got close to them in the meantime. Mr. Linton loved a woman whose heart was never fully his to have, and under Heathcliff’s influence, Isabella completely unraveled—bringing out something almost feral in her that, under different circumstances, might have actually been his match.

The suppression of what’s real doesn’t just hurt the two people involved. It pulls everyone else into the chaos of it. And the wild part? All of this was happening under the weight of strict societal expectations that most of us no longer live under. Yet here we are, still engaging in and perpetuating the exact same dynamics.

A few hours before I even considered watching the movie, my dad and I had already talked about a similar pattern. We’d discussed how much of our wounding in love and in our connections with others comes from the assumption that people will approach us with the same genuineness we offer them. Not that we’re the ones who always get it right, but that when we do fall short, it’s our humanness showing, not an actual intention to hurt or mislead. That distinction doesn’t seem to be shared by everyone.

Truly meaning what we say.
Showing up as ourselves.
Not operating from motive.

When we move through the world that way, people call us naive and easy to gaslight. They doubt our sincerity or mistake our kindness for people-pleasing and performance, when really we’re just extending the treatment that we believe all human beings deserve.

My dad always said it was a strong issue with injustice that he always recognized inside of me—again, that Libra moon of mine makes an appearance! But yeah, for a long time, I didn’t understand why my love, friendship, kindness, and support were so difficult to receive without suspicion. Like for real, who hurt y’all???

But I understand it now. It’s just fear—the same thing I feel every time I leave these dynamics. Fear of it all just repeating with the next person.
But that doesn’t mean I have to let that fear continue to guide me. So I don’t.

Because fear won’t comfort you when you’re lonely at night—whether you’re sleeping alone or lying next to the wrong person—and you finally realize that it isn’t anyone else’s job to pull you through your own barriers simply because they can sense the potential beneath them. It’s not anyone’s job to continuously accept mistreatment and misunderstanding just to receive their loyalty and love in return. What I’m understanding more and more, through my own life and through watching a story like this unfold on screen, is that all we can really do is hold ourselves to the standard of what genuine love and presence actually looks like. And trust that the people who are ready to get out of their own way will eventually see their own reflection in that.

Because even when we do nothing but love someone honestly, we still lose them…eventually. So why make it complicated from the start when it could be so much easier? Why do we tiptoe around our own hearts when we honestly don’t have that much time to enjoy love and life while we’re here?

We tell ourselves we’ll have more time.
That we need to try the greener grass on the other side.
That they’ll eventually come back.
And that things will always work themselves out.

All the while, we’re actively constructing a version of ourselves, our desires, and our lives that isn’t true—waiting for the outcome we really want to arrive, as if our restraint is its own reward. But what if going after what you honestly want is what’s actually best for you? What if we allowed ourselves to believe that God gave us these yearnings for a reason? Or do we keep suppressing our deepest desires and settling for “enough,” when enough never really is?

Just a thought…

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I hope everyone enjoyed a restful weekend after that Scorpio Full Moon last Friday—it could’ve been a deeply powerful awakening or purge, so allow yourself to sit with whatever insight might’ve been revealed through the release. And while we’re not exactly skipping into sunshine and rainbows this week, we are moving into something more grounded, more intentional, and honestly… more useful. This is a week that’s asking you to slow down enough to actually think clearly.

The throughline here is really depth over breadth.

Between Pluto stationing retrograde from May 6 to October 15, 2026, Mercury’s confrontation with Pluto and the Nodes, Venus and Lilith in opposition, and the Moon moving through Capricorn and Aquarius for most of the week—this isn’t the time for skimming the surface. The universe is asking you to be honest with yourself about what’s actually working, what you’re holding onto out of comfort or fear, and what’s being restructured, whether you’re ready or not.

The good news is that the week ends on a note of genuine warmth and expansion, so just trust the process… even when Wednesday feels like it’s undoing something. It’s just making room!

***All times listed are EST***

Monday: May 4th

We open with the Moon still waning in Sagittarius, which gives the day a lingering expansive, optimistic quality—but early in the morning around 3:15 am, the Moon opposes Venus in Gemini, which might have had some of us up late or waking with something on our hearts around connection, desire, or the push and pull between needing freedom and wanting closeness. By 5:33 pm the Moon trines Mars and goes void of course, so this evening’s energy is better for processing than pushing anything forward. Then at 10:08 pm, Mars in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer, and this one’s loud.

Mars square Jupiter is ambition on overdrive—it’s the “yes and” energy that doesn’t stop to check the budget, the bandwidth, or the emotional cost. You might feel a strong urge to push, to expand, to act big. Some of that impulse is good. Just watch where the enthusiasm tips into impulsivity, especially around anything home, family, or security-related, given Jupiter’s placement in Cancer. The Moon being void all evening is actually a quiet reminder not to let that Mars-Jupiter buzz talk you into making any major moves before you’ve slept on it.

Tuesday: May 5th

The Moon moves into Capricorn at 3:06 pm, ending the void and grounding us considerably after Sagittarius’ fire. A few hours later, Mercury in Taurus squares Pluto at 6:08 pm—and almost immediately after, Mercury sextiles the North Node and trines the South Node at 6:40 pm. That Mercury-Pluto square is not comfortable. Pluto in Aquarius doesn’t do small talk—it probes at systems, the deeper mechanics, and what’s really being communicated beneath the surface. Mercury in Taurus wants to be slow and deliberate, but Pluto is going to surface something that demands more depth than “I’ll think about it later.” You might find yourself having a conversation—internally or externally—that cuts right to it. Something you’ve been circling finally has to be looked at directly.

The saving grace is that Mercury simultaneously activates the Nodes, which gives that confrontation a sense of purpose. Whatever comes up isn’t random—it’s pointing you somewhere. The temptation will be to over-analyze it until it makes perfect logical sense, but the North Node is asking for something more surrendered than that right now. Try to follow the feeling before you fully understand it. Later that night at 10:00 pm, the Capricorn Moon squares Neptune, which can blur the clarity you just worked hard to find. Capricorn wants to hold structure, but Neptune will test that—so be mindful of escaping into fantasy or second-guessing yourself right before bed. Write it down and sit with it. Don’t dissolve it.

Wednesday, May 6th, carries the most weight of the week.

In the early morning hours around 3:54 am, the Moon trines Mercury—a brief, helpful window of mental clarity and emotional alignment, good for anyone doing early morning… or late night, journaling or processing. Then, at 10:51 am, the Moon squares Saturn, which can feel like hitting a wall or being confronted with a responsibility or limitation you’d rather not deal with.

And then at 11:34 am EST, Pluto stations retrograde—this is the big one, and it deserves to be named clearly!

When Pluto stations, the energy is palpable even if you can’t name it. In Aquarius, Pluto has been slowly dismantling outdated structures, group dynamics, and the ways we participate in collective systems. Retrograde doesn’t mean it pauses—it means the work goes inward. This annual, five-month period forces an intense reevaluation of power dynamics, technological advancements, and personal, as well as collective, transformation. If something in your life has felt like it’s been unraveling, Wednesday might mark the point where you stop trying to fix it externally and start asking what it’s reflecting about your own internal structure.

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Paired with the Moon squaring Saturn that morning, there’s a theme of being asked to be honest about where you’ve been avoiding accountability—to yourself, especially. Then at 4:23 pm, Venus in Gemini opposes Lilith in Sagittarius. Venus in Gemini loves connection, communication, and options—Lilith in Sag is wild, uncompromising, freedom-oriented truth. This opposition can surface tension around relationships, creative choices, or values where someone’s been playing it safe or people-pleasing. There’s a confrontation available here between what you genuinely want and what you’ve been settling for in the name of keeping things light or easy.

Thursday: May 7th

The Capricorn Moon continues, and in the very early hours at 12:44 am, the Moon trines the Taurus Sun—a quiet, grounding moment of inner alignment if you happen to be up, and a generally stabilizing undercurrent going into the day. Then at 7:10 am, the Moon opposes Jupiter in Cancer, which echoes Monday’s Mars-Jupiter tension—there might be a moment of overreach, over-feeling, or wanting more than the structure around you currently allows.

By 10:18 am, the Moon squares Mars and goes void of course again. Moon square Mars in Aries can bring irritability to the surface, a short fuse, or that restless feeling of wanting to act without having a clear direction to aim at. You might feel like you’re pushing against something or that something’s pushing against you, but it’s not a situation to force through. Let Thursday be a day of tying things up rather than starting anything new, and if you feel tension rising, try to name what’s underneath it before you react to it.

Friday: May 8th

The Moon enters Aquarius at 3:28 am EST, ending the void and shifting the emotional atmosphere from Capricorn’s heaviness into something more detached, curious, and forward-thinking. At 4:49 am, the Moon trines Uranus—a quietly electric moment, good for insight and out-of-the-box thinking, even if it comes through in a dream or a half-awake idea. At 10:22 am, the Moon sextiles Neptune, softening things a little, making space for intuition and creativity.

Then at 2:21 pm, the Moon conjuncts Pluto—right in the middle of the day, and coming just two days after Pluto stationed retrograde, this one might feel emotionally heavy or revelatory depending on what’s been sitting with you since Wednesday. Something could surface in your body, in a conversation, or in a moment of unexpected clarity; let it be informative rather than destabilizing. The day closes with the Moon sextiling Saturn at 11:16 pm, which is actually a very grounding, stabilizing note to end the week’s most intense stretch on—a quiet “okay, I can handle this” kind of energy.

Saturday: May 9th

The Last Quarter Moon perfects at 5:10 pm EST with the Moon in Aquarius squaring the Taurus Sun. But before that, at 4:07 am, the Moon squares Mercury—mental chatter might be loud in the early morning hours, second-guessing, replaying conversations. And at 4:39 pm, the Moon trines Venus, which softens right into the Last Quarter perfection a half hour later. Last Quarter Moons are release points—not the dramatic release of a Full Moon, but the quieter, more deliberate kind where you’re making a conscious choice about what you’re carrying versus what you’re ready to let go of before the next cycle begins. With Aquarius Moon squaring Taurus Sun, the friction is between what’s emotionally familiar and stable versus what needs to evolve. Something about your routines, your comfort zones, and your relationship to security is up for honest revision.

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Sunday: May 10th

The Moon goes void of course very early at 1:08 am after a sextile to Mars—a little activation before the quiet—and then enters Pisces at 1:40 pm EST, ending the void and shifting the whole mood into something softer, more compassionate, more intuitive. At 3:12 pm, the Moon squares Uranus, which might bring a moment of restlessness or an unexpected emotional curveball right as you’re trying to ease into the Pisces vibe—but it passes. And then the week closes at 10:13 pm with the Sun in Taurus sextiling Jupiter in Cancer, and honestly, that’s a beautiful note to end on. It’s warm and nourishing, like a quiet exhale after a week that required a lot of depth from you. Let Sunday actually be a rest day. Let the Pisces Moon hold you; the week earns it.

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Maybe that tug to slow down and rest is actually what I need right now. April felt like a heavy month of integration, a stepping stone for what we’re each about to start receiving this month based on what I’m picking up in this forecast.

It tracks with what I saw before:

I predicted that some of us would be running into ghosts from our past to make sure we finally got the message, while others were nudged to ourselves out there and leap toward opportunities we might not even learn about until later. Well, I’m excited to announce that the predicted “later” time could be starting now…

All Spirit asked was that we be open enough to break free of old restraints and say yes to the “what if.” What I see for May is that this energy continues even more intensely—possibly to a culmination point.

The Theme of May: Virtue

So let’s start with the energy that’s holding the whole month together—Virtue. I know that word might feel heavy or old-fashioned at first, but this card is asking us to look at ourselves from a slightly different angle. Virtue isn’t about performing perfection or acting good for a reward; it’s about aligning your actions with your morals without expectation or validation.

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You know those little things you do—checking in on someone when they didn’t ask, putting effort into your work even when you’re tired, staying true to something you said you believed in even when it’s inconvenient or frustrating? That’s virtue. That’s what’s building your power, quietly, steadily, and without you even fully realizing it.

Virtue is a passive quality of power—the part of you that’s been pulling the bow back before you shoot—and May is the month when we begin to feel that accumulated strength. This can naturally bring much more illumination around our inner truths—who we are, what values we stand for, and what we’re truly willing to act on rather than just talk about. That clarity and self-awareness? That’s where the real power lives.

Virtue isn’t built in the big, public moments—it’s built in the small and seemingly invisible ones.

The power shift and the change that many hope to achieve this month stem from the strengthening of that virtue and integrity. The real kind.

This could look like:

• putting the cards and readings down when you want one more confirmation that everything is going to be okay

• genuinely celebrating someone else’s win when you’re still waiting on yours

• addressing a one-sided friendship instead of quietly pulling back without explanation

• making a mistake and holding yourself accountable without making it a whole spiral

• taking the high road when someone who hurt you reaches out

• resting when you’re exhausted without pushing through to prove yourself

• catching yourself being cruel in your self-talk and actually redirecting it

• sitting with an emotion long enough to actually feel it instead of immediately reaching for a distraction

• getting recognition and receiving it without deflecting or shrinking

• doing the right thing in a situation only you would ever know about

• pulling back and letting someone be wrong about you without needing to correct them

If you’ve already been doing this work during the initial months of the year, you could be pleasantly surprised. May wants to reward us for leaning into that version of power—the understated, rooted, and deeply earned kind.

So ask yourself honestly:

Where have you actually been showing up in the small moments—and not giving yourself credit for it?

And where have you been telling yourself you’re doing the work, but really just looking for something to make the discomfort stop faster?

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The Three-Card Spread: What to Expect This Month

These three cards are the expansion of this month’s theme—they’re showing us how the energy of virtue and inner power is actually going to play out this month. And y’all… it’s pretty layered, not gonna lie.

Five of Swords—The Mental Landscape

This card showing up first in the spread might be telling us that May starts with some residual mental weight. Maybe we’re dragging something into the month that we need to put down before we can really step into what’s coming. The Five of Swords embodies the transformative energy of the number five and channels some of the more chaotic aspects of the air element. It exudes conflict, tension, and “winning at all costs", but not necessarily the kind where someone’s throwing physical hands—more like internal battles and mental games.

This could look like:

• overthinking and overwhelm

• replaying conversations (rumination and spiraling)

• the aftermath of a disagreement: selfishness instead of teamwork, victory over a relationship

• continued dishonesty or sneaky behavior

Maybe you technically won an argument, but walked away feeling empty. Or perhaps you chose to step back from a situation, deciding to protect your peace rather than keep fighting for something that refused to fight for you. The Five of Swords doesn’t necessarily signal defeat. Sometimes it means you did win, but the victory still came at a cost, and that lingering energy is probably what you’ll be feeling stuck on.

What’s important here is recognizing when conflict is draining you versus when it’s actually teaching you something. It advises the collective to choose our battles wisely, because some aren’t ours to keep fighting. Some of the noise we carry in our heads—about a situation, a person, or even ourselves—is playing on repeat, and causing more long-term damage than the actual conflicts themselves.

The virtue theme ties directly here because choosing to walk away from a pointless battle, choosing not to clap back—that’s actually a power move. Even if it doesn’t feel like it.

Ask yourself:

What mental loop have I been stuck in lately that I keep coming back to, even though I know it’s not helping me?

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Two of Wands—Planning, Vision, and What We’ve Already Set in Motion

The Two of Wands is a fire card—passion, drive, ambition, that spark you feel when you’re about to do something big. It’s the card of a visionary standing at the edge, holding the world in their hands, looking at what’s possible, and saying, “I can see it, I know where I want to go,” and starting to make plans for it.

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It’s saying that vision you had, that plan you laid out, that spark you felt—it’s not gone, you possibly just got distracted.

Whether this is about what you’re leaving behind in April or the bumps you may hit in May, Spirit is asking you to trust the plan and keep going. It’s natural to second-guess yourself and look back. The Five of Swords energy can leave you wondering if you made the right choices, if you’re on the right path, and if things are still unfolding as they should. This card does prompt you to pause, reassess your goals, and pivot if needed—but not to get stuck in planning. It’s easy to stay in the comfort of thinking about something instead of continuing to take action toward it.

For some, this may involve a creative project, business idea, relationship, or conversation that started strong and then stalled. The groundwork is already in place; this isn’t about scrapping everything and starting over. It’s about remembering why you began in the first place, and choosing to move forward despite distractions and obstacles. May could be the time to pick something back up, or at least to recognize that the foundation you laid hasn’t been wasted.

Ask yourself:

What did I start in the past few months—a plan, a project, a vision—that I’ve been second-guessing, but actually still deserves my energy?

Nine of Wands Reversed—Exhaustion, Guard, and Knowing When to Rest

Okay, this one… hits a bit differently. The Nine of Wands is already the “I’m tired, but I’m still standing” card. Upright, it speaks to resilience and persistence. Reversed, though, it suggests we might be confusing persistence with clinging to old, already-healed wounds. Like, sis, you can put the shield down now—the battle is over. There’s no need to stay overly defensive or paranoid.

In May, this card is another gentle (or maybe not so gentle, depending on what you’ve got going on) reminder that some of us need to lower our guard. Part of the collective may still be running on fumes, stuck in fight-or-flight from something that has already ended. Some of us may feel lingering exhaustion or burnout and still try to power through as if that’s the only option. It’s not—and it’s certainly not the preferred one. Instead, it’s a sign that help is available if you allow it this month, whether that comes from finally following spirit’s guidance or allowing yourself to receive support from someone in your physical world.

When fire burns without being fed, it starts consuming the thing that holds it. Reversed, this card asks not only: What have you been forcing? Where have you been pushing through on fumes and calling it strength?
But also: Where are you tempted to give up and quit before you see progress because you’ve been holding onto comfort, resentment, bitterness, or pessimism?

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop.
Rest. Let yourself recover. That’s not quitting—it’s resourcing.

Ask yourself:

Where am I running on empty right now and calling it a hustle?
What would it look like to actually let myself rest this month?

What Spirit Intends For Us: Big Favor + Collaboration

Now THIS is where it gets good!

All four of these cards showing up together is no coincidence—Spirit is not holding back this month. May isn’t just about surviving mental battles or recovering from exhaustion. Something is being prepared for us, and it could be big.

A magical journey is about to begin. And the word prepare there is important because it’s not saying sit back and wait. It’s active.

May is a threshold. Something new is starting—and not in a small way. This could be literal: travel, a new city, a new chapter. It could be internal: a shift in your mindset, your self-perception, your spiritual practice. Or both at the same time.

And the universe is conspiring in your favor. Not just nudging you, not just hoping for you—conspiring. Working behind the scenes, putting pieces in place, aligning things you might not even see yet. For those of us who’ve been grinding without seeing results, doing the right things without recognition, showing up in integrity when it felt pointless—this is a direct message. It wasn’t pointless. It was all building to this.

This is where Collaboration comes in, and it’s a bit layered.

On one level, it’s about us and our spirit guides. If you’ve been doing the work consistently, you could be met with increased divine support this month. On another level, for some of us this is literally about other people:

• an aligned partnership

• a creative collaboration

• a situation where everyone involved wins.

And here’s the twist: the big favor might not look like receiving something. For some of us, we are the big favor. Someone may need exactly what you have to offer. Or the thing you’ve been praying for quietly, holding out hope for, has a real chance of coming through—as long as you stay grounded and present to how you’re actively co-creating with Spirit.

The virtue theme comes full circle here. All those quiet things you’ve been doing—the unseen effort, the private integrity, the prayers nobody witnessed—that’s what’s been building. And now the universe is honoring it.

Which brings us back to the real question: are we open enough to receive it? Or are we so guarded or so caught in the mental spiral that we miss the door when it finally opens? This month is asking us to stay grounded and present. Not overly attached to the past we say we’re leaving behind, and not fixated on the exact form our blessings must take or when they’ll arrive.

Ask yourself:

What big thing have you been asking for—from spirit, from yourself, from life—that you’ve kind of stopped believing in?

What would it look like to believe in it again, right now?

The Reminder and Advice: Blessings & Curses, Strategy & Planning, and Seek Clarity

The reminder card “Blessings and Curses” is coming in like a warm hug and a reality check all at once—very on brand for May’s energy, honestly.

This month, it’s important to understand and accept both duality and nuance.

The red rose in the visual is showing up as a healer. She mirrors the shame and guilt we carry about who we are—the parts we hide or minimize—and how much that’s quietly been holding us back without us even realizing it.

The thorns are the ways we’ve learned to protect ourselves: our edges, our walls, and our defense mechanisms. They come from real wounds that we’d rather not experience again. And sometimes those thorns affect the people around us, whether they deserve it or not. The Nine of Wands reversed was already pointing to this: we’ve been so used to bracing for impact that we’re prickling at things that aren’t actually a threat.

The work this month is to understand where those wounds are rooted so we can truly heal them, rather than just continuing to manage or excuse them. Because those same thorns, when used consciously, can become something else entirely—our boundaries, our discernment, and our ability to stand firm.

And the flowers? They’re the parts of you that are beautiful, magnetic, and easy to love—your warmth, your creativity, your light, your talent, the version of you that people celebrate and want to be around. But they’re also what we get criticized for: too bright, too dull, too small, too big, too different. Not everyone who comes to you with a need or desire this month deserves your petals. Part of the big favor and collab energy surrounding us is learning who to extend yourself to—who actually has shared intentions and values, and who’s worthy of what you’re offering.

Either way, none of this can change what’s true about each and every one of us: we were created intentionally. All parts of us—the sharp and the soft—are divine.

Both the flowers and the thorns are you. Both are valid. Both are necessary. Neither is something to hide.

May is inviting us to stop separating ourselves into these “acceptable” and “unacceptable” pieces, and instead to understand ourselves more fully so we can show up more wholly. When we actually accept all of ourselves, something shifts. That’s where the real grace and power live.

The red rose doesn’t apologize for its thorns. Those thorns are how it shows self-worth and self-respect. And the flowers—your fullness and the way you glow as your most authentic self—aren’t meant to be hidden either, even if someone once made you feel like shining or blooming was wrong. May is asking us to accept both. Not fix one or suppress the other. Just let yourself be.

And spirit closes May’s reading with the most intimate kind of homework: yourself.

The advice cards are pointing to strategy, clarity, and self-reflection—and more specifically, one of my favorite ways into all three: mirror work. ✨🪞

If it feels uncomfortable, that’s the point. Sitting and actually looking at yourself; not to critique, not to pick yourself apart, but to see yourself with love.

To practice saying out loud:

In a month where power is built in the quiet moments and the universe is conspiring in your favor, the final piece is this: you have to believe you deserve what’s coming, and that something higher and better is coming. Because a lot of people don’t, not fully.

We ask for the big favor while low-key believing we’re going to be let down.
We open ourselves to collaboration while braced for betrayal.
We step into a magical journey with one foot in the door and one foot already backing out—mourning the possibility that things might fall apart.

I get it, but mirror work could be a way to help you close that gap. The deck’s booklet suggests finding guided mirror-work meditations on YouTube—try searching “self-love mirror meditation”—and giving yourself at least 10–15 minutes in front of a mirror to simply gaze into your own eyes. You can also repeat your own affirmations out loud and allow yourself to truly receive them. Keep saying them until they feel less awkward, almost hypnotic. That feeling arises because you’re actually speaking directly to your subconscious self—look it up! Then say them some more.

Try these affirmations for May:

• I stop performing the parts of me I think are lovable and start trusting that I am lovable whole

• I can hold compassion for why I became this way and still choose differently going forward

• I can be discerning without being closed off

• I stop shrinking so others feel comfortable. That’s not humility, that’s self-abandonment

• Being seen fully is scary and it’s also the only way to be truly loved

• I don’t have to earn the right to take up space

And if those don’t land yet, that’s okay. That’s what the practice is for.

Ask yourself:

Which are you more ashamed of right now—your thorns or your flowers?

And when’s the last time you genuinely looked at yourself, not to fix something or perform something, but just to see yourself and feel okay about what you saw?

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Before we dive into what’s ahead, let’s take a moment to welcome back and her insightful affirmations to this week’s forecast! Be sure to read all the way to the end—there’s a personalized affirmation for everyone this week based on your rising sign!

And let’s also take a moment to honor where we’ve just been. Last week may have asked more of you than you expected—not in the demanding, push-through-it way, but in the quieter, more humbling way.

Many of us were feeling it in the body: fatigue, a pull toward stillness, a need for more rest than our schedules probably allowed. That wasn’t laziness; it was the universe course-correcting you. We are all experiencing an ascension period—emotionally, mentally, physically, and energetically—but this upgrade costs something. Tiredness is a symptom of growth, not a sign that something is wrong. Fighting the rest only means fighting what you truly need.

As you step into this new week, it’s worth sitting with a question from the one we’re leaving behind:

• What came up for you last week that you weren’t expecting?

• What surfaced as we moved into Taurus season—that slower, more embodied, more intentional energy—and as Venus met Uranus in Taurus last Thursday, shaking up how we relate to pleasure, money, and what we truly value?

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Venus then moved into Gemini on Friday, and Uranus followed on Saturday, marking a significant energetic shift. A period that asks us to become more curious, more adaptable, and more willing to let our values and connections evolve.

This week, that theme of evolution continues, but it asks for something more grounded underneath it:

• The Moon moves from its waxing gibbous phase in Virgo through its waning gibbous in Sagittarius, pulling us between the urge to get it right and the call to expand beyond what we know.

• The Sun is settled in Taurus, holding us in that slow, intentional frequency, while the majority of our personal and outer planets—Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron—are all firing in Aries, keeping an undercurrent of activation and initiation alive.

• Venus and Uranus are now both in Gemini, and we’ll feel that freshness.

• This Friday, we close the week with a Full Moon in Scorpio—one of the most emotionally potent lunations of the year—alongside a Mercury-Chiron conjunction that evening, bringing words and wounds into close conversation.

The power deck card I pulled for this week’s theme is Balance (2), and it couldn’t be more fitting!

Its message is clear:

Your spiritual life must be rooted in a strong foundation in your physical world.

Before you reach for higher consciousness, tend to your body, your home, your finances, and your integrity every day. The pillar only stands when the foundation is solid. This week is not asking you to choose between the spiritual and the material—it’s asking you to honor both as one. It’s a relationship most forget to nurture and keep in balance.

That’s the thread running through everything ahead: integration.

The highs and the groundedness, the inner and the outer, the expanding and the anchoring. As we move through each day this week, notice where you’re being asked to build from the inside out—not from urgency or pressure, but from a place that’s real and stable enough to hold what’s coming.

Let’s get into it. Here’s your week ahead!💌

Monday: April 27th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Virgo

• 7:11am EST: Moon in Virgo sextile Jupiter in Cancer (VOC begins)

Monday opens on a productive, feel-good note—the Virgo Moon linking up with Jupiter in Cancer rewards small acts of care and intention. You might feel motivated to reset your space, revisit a health habit, or finally check something off the list, and it flows easier than usual because the drive is coming from a genuine place rather than pressure. After this aspect though, the Moon goes Void of Course and the energy slows. The rest of the day favors finishing over starting—tie up loose ends, rest where you can, and don’t force momentum where there isn’t any.

Tuesday: April 28th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Virgo→ Libra

• 5:03am EST: Moon enters Libra (End of VOC)

• 5:17am EST: Moon in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini

• 6:43am EST: Mars in Aries trine Lilith in Sagittarius

• 11:06am EST: Moon in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries

• 12:39pm EST: Venus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius

• 3:31pm EST: Moon in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius

• 3:50pm EST: Moon in Libra trine Venus in Gemini

• 9:04pm EST: Venus in Gemini square North Node and South Node

• 10:06pm EST: Moon in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries

Tuesday is the busiest day of the week.

The morning carries a bold, electric energy—the Moon moving into Libra could spark a fresh perspective, Mars firing with Lilith brings more confidence and a boldness that doesn’t need permission, and you might find yourself saying something you’ve been holding back or just moving through your morning with more certainty than usual. By mid-morning, that clarity gets a little foggy as the Moon opposes Neptune, so if a conversation feels off or you’re second-guessing yourself around 11am, let it breathe rather than forcing a resolution.

The afternoon picks back up with Venus trining Pluto and the Moon following suit—this is magnetic, transformative energy that makes conversations go deeper, creative work hit different, and connections feel more charged. As the evening comes in though, Venus squaring the Nodes brings a tension point: something you want or are drawn to right now might be asking you whether it actually aligns with where you’re growing. That last Moon-Saturn opposition closes the night heavy—it may move through in your sleep, showing up as restlessness or something sitting on your chest you can’t quite name yet.

Wednesday: April 29th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Libra

• 10:23am EST: Moon in opposite Mars in Aries

• 5:05pm EST: Moon in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer

Wednesday has friction built into it. The Moon opposing Mars mid-morning stirs up impatience—either in you or in the people around you—and Libra’s desire for peace goes head to head with Aries energy that just wants to move. Arguments that come out of nowhere, decisions that feel pressured, or just an internal tug of war between what’s fair and what you actually feel are all on the table. By the afternoon, the Moon squaring Jupiter amplifies whatever’s already emotionally present, so things that normally wouldn’t bother you might hit harder than expected. If something surfaces today, don’t push it down—it’s trying to tell you something…

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Thursday: April 30th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Libra→ Scorpio

• 4:51am EST: Moon in Libra opposite Mercury in Aries (VOC begins)

• 3:02pm EST: Moon enters Scorpio (End of VOC)

Thursday opens with the Moon opposing Mercury in the early hours—for most, this is happening while you’re asleep, which might mean racing thoughts, vivid dreams, or waking up with something unresolved turning in your mind. The VOC that follows gives the whole morning a slower, suspended quality, so don’t be surprised if it’s hard to push through before noon. Let yourself ease in. When the Moon enters Scorpio at 3pm, you’ll likely feel the shift—things get more focused, more intentional, more real. This is the quiet inhale before Friday’s Full Moon, and Scorpio doesn’t do surface level. Whatever’s been sitting under the surface starts pressing up.

Friday: May 1st, 2026

✦ Full Moon in Scorpio ✦

• 1:50am EST: Waxing Gibbous Moon in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius

• 1:22pm EST: Full Moon in Scorpio

• 2:45pm EST: Venus in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries

• 4:07pm EST: Mercury conjunct Chiron in Aries

Friday is the peak of the week, and you will feel it. The day starts in the early hours with the Moon squaring Pluto—likely during sleep—pulling things up from deep places in the form of charged dreams or waking up feeling like something already shifted. The Full Moon in Scorpio, AKA the Flower Moon, perfects at 1:22pm. This one is a catalyst for deep emotional release and inner transformation. What you’re willing to feel fully is what you stop carrying—crying, resting, and letting yourself actually sit in it is the work today.

That afternoon, Venus sextiling Saturn brings a grounding current underneath all the intensity, a quiet reminder of what’s actually real and worth building. Then Mercury conjunct Chiron in the early evening brings words to wounds—a thought or something said that finally touches something tender. Honest conversation, journaling, or just sitting with what comes up carries real healing power today. These two aspects happening on the same day as the Full Moon is not a coincidence.

The Moon cracks it open; Mercury-Chiron gives it a voice.

Saturday: May 2nd, 2026

Waning Gibbous Moon in Scorpio

• 4:47am EST: Moon in Scorpio trine Jupiter in Cancer (VOC begins)

• 10:57pm EST: Mercury enters Taurus

Saturday is for integration, not output. The early morning trine between the Moon and Jupiter carries a gentle emotional softening—many will feel this in sleep as a sense of relief or resolution after Friday’s intensity. The VOC that follows holds for most of the day, which is actually perfect: this isn’t a day to force productivity or closure on anything still settling. Rest, tend to yourself, and move slowly. Late night, Mercury slips into Taurus, shifting how we think and communicate from Aries’ sharp quickness into something far more deliberate and grounded. Ideas will need to be turned over and held before you commit to them—and after this week, that slowness is a gift.

Sunday: May 3rd, 2026

Waning Gibbous Moon in Scorpio→ Sagittarius

• 2:34am EST: Moon enters Sagittarius (End of VOC)

• 3:21am EST: Moon in Sagittarius opposite Uranus in Gemini

• 9:15am EST: Moon in Sagittarius trine Neptune in Aries

• 1:36pm EST: Moon in Sagittarius sextile Pluto in Aquarius

• 9:37pm EST: Moon in Sagittarius trine Saturn in Aries

Sunday exhales. The Moon moving into Sagittarius in the early hours lifts the emotional weight of Scorpio, and while the immediate opposition to Uranus might bring restless sleep or a sudden middle-of-the-night realization, by morning the energy is noticeably lighter and more open. The trine to Neptune mid-morning makes this a beautiful day for anything spiritual—meditation, pulling cards, journaling, sitting in quiet, and actually listening. The afternoon and evening continue that grounding thread, closing the week with the Moon trining Saturn: steady, purposeful, and anchored. After everything this week moved through you, Sunday is the landing. Rest in it.

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Rising Sign Breakdowns

Now let’s get into the juicy details! Your rising sign sets up your entire house system, which means everything we just covered can show up differently for each person depending on their ascendant.

For this Full Moon week, I’m leaving this section open for all readers to see which houses and areas of life are being activated for them, along with another weekly intention affirmation from the lovely 💛✨ (and check out her content on TikTok!)

Use it all as an intuitive mirror for what may be unfolding.

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♈ Aries Rising

This week, the cosmic action is lighting up your personal houses in a big way—your 1st house of self, 2nd house of money and worth, and 12th house of the hidden are all activated. With the Full Moon falling in your 8th house of deep intimacy and shared resources on Friday, something beneath the surface is being pulled all the way up.

Only You. Bitterness. Chasing (future).

There’s a story here about someone—or something—you’ve been holding onto more tightly than you may want to admit. The Chasing card pointing right tells me this pursuit energy isn’t fully behind you yet, and with the 8th house Full Moon cracking things open, whatever you’ve been feeling about this connection is coming to a head this week whether you’re ready or not. Bitterness sitting in the middle is the thing to watch—resentment has a way of quietly running the show when we think we’ve moved past something. The real work this week isn’t the chase. It’s asking yourself honestly what’s underneath it, and whether what you’re devoted to is devotion or just familiarity.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release what bitterness has been borrowing from my peace. What I once chased, I now choose consciously—or I choose to let it go. I am not defined by my devotion to what no longer serves my highest self. This Full Moon, I allow what has lived in the shadows to rise, to be seen, and to be healed. I am whole without the pursuit. I am enough without the attachment. I call back every piece of myself I left in the hands of someone else.”

♉ Taurus Rising

The Sun is in your 1st house, putting you front and center this week, but the Full Moon lands in your 7th house of relationships and partnerships—meaning what’s being illuminated is squarely in your one-on-one connections. Venus and Uranus moving through your 2nd house are also shaking up how you relate to your own value and what you’re willing to accept.

Silence. Elusive (future). Stress (future).

Something isn’t being said, and these cards suggest it’s been that way for a while. Silence as the foundation, with Elusive and Stress both pointing forward, tells me that if this communication gap isn’t addressed, what’s coming is more tension and more evasion—not resolution. This week’s Full Moon in your 7th house is going to make that silence louder than usual. You or someone close to you may be withholding something, and the discomfort of that is reaching a tipping point. The invitation here is to be the one who speaks first, even when honesty feels risky.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the comfort I’ve found in silence that was never truly peaceful. What goes unspoken between us does not disappear—it grows. This Full Moon, I choose the courage of honesty over the false safety of stone walls. I will not chase what keeps making itself elusive; I will speak my truth and let clarity do its work. I am worthy of real communication, real presence, real partnership. What I value, I will no longer leave to guesswork. My voice is not a disruption—it is a bridge.”

♊ Gemini Rising

Venus and Uranus are both moving through your 1st house, making this one of the more personally electric weeks you’ve had in a while—your identity, appearance, and the energy you put out are all in flux in an exciting way. The Full Moon hits your 6th house of daily life, health, and routine, asking you to release what’s been draining you day to day.

Hoping (reversed). Stress. Escaping (future).

With Hoping reversed and Escaping pointing forward, there’s a pattern here of pulling back when things get hard rather than staying present for what’s building. The withdrawn energy at the bottom of the deck speaks to this too—someone in your orbit, or maybe you yourself, is considering an exit from a relationship or situation. Stress in the middle confirms the tension that’s been quietly accumulating. This week isn’t necessarily the breaking point, but it is a mirror. The question the cards are asking is whether you’re escaping something toxic that genuinely needs to be left, or whether you’re escaping something that just requires more of you than feels comfortable right now.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the habit of disappearing when staying feels like too much. Hope does not abandon me when I reverse my gaze—it asks me to look honestly at what I’ve been avoiding. Not every discomfort is a door out. This Full Moon, I shed what truly drains me from my daily life, and I find the courage to tell the difference between what I need to leave and what I need to face. I am electric, I am evolving, and I am strong enough to stay present for my own becoming. Escape is not always freedom—sometimes it is just a longer road back to the same lesson.”

♋ Cancer Rising

Jupiter is sitting right in your 1st house, expanding everything about how you show up, and the Full Moon lands in your 5th house of love, creativity, and romance—this is a deeply personal lunation for you. Whatever has been stirring in your heart lately is coming fully into the light on Friday.

Broken. Peace (reversed). Divine Masculine.

With Soulmate reversed and Second Chance reversed in the deck, this reading is pointing to a connection or opportunity that came back around—or that you hoped would—and the reality of it not being what it once was, or not being available in the way you need. Broken as the first card and Peace reversed tell me there’s grief here that hasn’t fully been honored yet. The Divine Masculine card, though, isn’t about someone or something else—it’s about you stepping into your own yang energy, your own decisiveness and strength. The Full Moon in your 5th house this Friday may be the moment something becomes undeniably clear about where this dynamic is and isn’t going.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I give myself permission to grieve what I hoped this would be. A broken mirror does not mean I am broken—it means I can finally see more clearly. I release the peace I was pretending to have, and I make room for the peace I actually deserve. This Full Moon, I stop waiting for someone else to make me whole and I call forward my own strength, my own decisiveness, my own fire. I do not need to be saved—I need to be honest. The love I am truly seeking begins with the courage to stop settling for almost.”

♌ Leo Rising

The Full Moon lands in your 4th house of home, roots, and emotional foundation—this week is stirring something deep and private, likely connected to family, your sense of security, or old emotional patterns that live in the body. With Venus and Uranus activating your 11th house, your social world and future visions are also in motion.

Heart Fog. Family. Distracted (reversed).

With Broken at the bottom of the deck, and the question of whether the song Safety Net by Ariana Grande resonates with you (random channel)… this week may bring up something about a situation or person you’ve been relying on for emotional security that may not be as stable as you thought, or that you’ve outgrown. Heart Fog speaks to the confusion and mixed signals that have been clouding your vision, but Distracted reversed suggests that fog is starting to lift—you’re becoming less willing to be sidetracked from what you actually feel. Family in the center may mean this touches your home life literally, or it may be pointing to chosen family, a found sense of belonging you’re either building or grieving.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the fog I’ve been living inside and I trust what is becoming clear. I am no longer available to be confused by mixed signals—my heart knows more than my mind has been willing to admit. This Full Moon, I look honestly at the foundations I’ve built and I ask: what here is truly mine, and what have I been holding out of fear of losing it? Family is not just who I came from—it is what I am brave enough to build. I stop letting distraction pull me from my own emotional truth. The ground beneath me is steadier than I think, and it begins with me.”

♍ Virgo Rising

The Full Moon is in your 3rd house of communication, thoughts, and local connections—and with Mercury conjunct Chiron happening the same evening, this is an incredibly significant week for you around the words you speak and the words you’ve been waiting to hear. Your 7th house has a lot of planetary energy creating tension and motion in your partnerships.

Confession. Apology. Sorrow.

With Releasing reversed at the bottom of the deck, this reading is clear: there is something—or someone—that has not been let go of yet, and this week may be when it all comes to a head. Confession and Apology as the first two cards tell me that what’s needed here is honesty, and the Full Moon in your 3rd house on Friday is going to make the unsaid very hard to keep inside. Sorrow as the closing card doesn’t mean things end badly—but it does acknowledge that whatever truth comes forward this week, there’s real feeling underneath it that deserves to be honored rather than bypassed. The healing is in the saying of it.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the words I have been swallowing to keep the peace. What needs to be said deserves to be spoken—not perfectly, not painlessly, but honestly. This Full Moon, I let the truth move through me rather than hold it hostage inside my chest. I allow myself to feel the sorrow that has been sitting beneath the surface, because grief is not weakness—it is love that has nowhere left to go. Whether I am the one confessing or the one receiving, I meet this moment with presence and courage. The healing is not on the other side of this conversation. The healing is the conversation.”

♎ Libra Rising

The Full Moon lands in your 2nd house of self-worth, values, and money—asking you to release what you’ve been over-giving, over-tolerating, or undervaluing yourself around. Venus moving through your 9th house and the heavy Aries activity in your 7th house means your partnerships are where most of the week’s tension is concentrated.

Twin Flame. Pain (reversed). Beauty.

This is a reading about a connection that runs deep—mirrored feelings, a sense of recognition, something that doesn’t feel casual even if circumstances have made it complicated. Pain reversed suggests that the fear or apprehension you’ve carried around this person or situation is starting to release its grip. Beauty as the closing card is genuinely lovely here—there’s something real, something kind-hearted and worth honoring in what this is or what it’s becoming. The Full Moon in your 2nd house may bring up the question of what you believe you deserve in love and connection. Let the answer be more than you’ve been settling for.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release every story I have told myself about why I am not worthy of the love that mirrors me back whole. The pain I carried around this connection is loosening its hold—I no longer need fear to be my compass. This Full Moon, I look honestly at what I value and I ask: have I been settling for almost when I was made for fully? What is real between us does not need to be complicated to be true. I am charming, I am graceful, I am kind-hearted—and I am finally ready to receive those same things in return. Beauty is not something I have to earn. It is something I am.”

♏ Scorpio Rising

This is your Full Moon, landing directly in your 1st house—so this week is about you more than any other sign. But the rest of the week’s activity is also significant: the heavy Aries stellium is lighting up your 6th house of health, daily routine, and work, meaning the buildup to Friday may feel like tension in your body, your schedule, or your day-to-day obligations pressing on you in ways that are hard to ignore. The Libra Moon mid-week moving through your 12th house stirs things in the subconscious, so Tuesday and Wednesday may bring up feelings you can’t quite source. Venus and Uranus activating your 8th house are also shaking up how you relate to intimacy, shared resources, and transformation—which makes the Full Moon in your 1st house feel even more personal, because what’s being released Friday has likely been building in your closest bonds and deepest emotional spaces all week.

Stress. Hopeless (reversed). Sorrow (reversed).

The reversal of both heavy cards tells me something is lifting—a period of real heaviness is completing its cycle. Stress in the center is honest about where you still are, but Hopeless reversed and Sorrow reversed say the turning point is here. Let yourself feel it fully on Friday. The release is the point.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I have carried this heaviness long enough to know what it weighs. And this week, I am finally allowed to put it down. The hopelessness is lifting. The sorrow is turning. I do not have to understand every step of how I got here—I only have to be willing to emerge. This Full Moon is mine. It rises in me, through me, as me. I release the version of myself that survived the hard season, and I welcome the version of myself that gets to live in what comes next. I am not the same person I was when this began. That is not a loss. That is the whole point.”

♐ Sagittarius Rising

The Full Moon lands in your 12th house of the hidden, the subconscious, and spiritual completion—this is one of the most internal lunations possible, and for you it’s happening in your own sign’s opposite space. Things are wrapping up beneath the surface this week in ways you may not fully understand until later. Lilith is also in your 1st house, bringing a wildness and authenticity to how you’re showing up.

Hoping (future). Beauty (past). Intuition.

With Thinking reversed, Confusion, and Silence sitting in context, and Beauty pointing to the past—there’s a sense of something lovely that existed, or a version of a connection that once felt full of beauty, that is now in a quieter, less certain place. Hoping points forward though, and Intuition as the closing card is significant: your inner knowing is your most reliable guide this week, especially with the 12th house Full Moon stirring things in the unseen realm. Don’t override what you feel. The clarity you’re looking for isn’t coming from outside—it’s already in you.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I stop looking outside myself for the answer I already carry within. What was beautiful was real—I do not have to diminish it or cling to it. I honor what it was, and I trust what my body already knows about what comes next. This Full Moon, I release what has been completing itself in the quiet spaces beneath my awareness. I do not need to see the whole picture to take the next step—my intuition has never needed permission to be right. I am wild enough to trust myself. I am wise enough to listen. What I am hoping for is already finding its way to me.”

♑ Capricorn Rising

The Full Moon activates your 11th house of community, friendships, future visions, and the groups you belong to—something about where you’re headed and who you’re building with is being released or redefined. Saturn in your 4th house and the Aries stellium in your 4th are making home and foundational matters quietly intense all week.

Past Life (reversed). Intimacy (reversed). Finality.

With Beginnings reversed and Rejection reversed at the top of the deck, this reading is about something that couldn’t quite restart—a dynamic, a connection, a chapter that had karmic roots but has reached its natural conclusion. Past Life reversed suggests that the lesson of this pattern is finally integrating rather than repeating. Intimacy reversed speaks to walls that went up, or a closeness that never quite returned to what it was. Finality as the closing card is exactly what it sounds like—not cruel, but complete. The Full Moon in your 11th house may bring a moment of clarity around your community and who actually belongs in your next chapter.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the karmic thread I have been holding long past the lesson it came to teach me. What could not be rebuilt was not meant to be—and that is not failure, it is completion. The walls that went up between us told their own truth, even when I didn’t want to hear it. This Full Moon, I release who does not belong in the chapter I am building, with clarity and without cruelty. Some connections are not endings to grieve—they are contracts fulfilled. I honor what this was, I integrate what it taught me, and I walk forward into the community and the future that is actually meant for me.”

♒ Aquarius Rising

Pluto is moving through your 1st house, slowly and permanently transforming who you are at your core, and the Full Moon lands in your 10th house of career, reputation, and public life—something about your path, your name, or your professional world is coming to a peak. Venus and Uranus in your 5th house are also activating your creativity, romance, and self-expression.

Intimacy. Conflicted (reversed). Clinging (future).

With Family at the top of the deck, there’s something about a deeply close bond—romantic or otherwise—that is at the center of this reading. Intimacy as the opening card speaks to real closeness, real vulnerability. Conflicted reversed suggests that an internal war you’ve been having about this connection is starting to settle. But Clinging pointing forward is the thing to watch—the pull to hold on, to keep tabs, to stay close even when it isn’t entirely healthy is still present. The Full Moon in your 10th house may bring a moment where your public world and your private emotional world collide in a way that asks you to choose which one you’re going to honor.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I release the war I have been waging inside myself about what I feel. The conflict is settling—I am allowed to know what I know. But knowing is not the same as clinging, and love is not the same as holding on past the point of grace. This Full Moon, I let my private truth and my public path finally speak to each other. I do not have to choose between who I am in the world and who I am in my heart—but I do have to be honest about both. Pluto is remaking me from the inside out. I stop clinging to the person I was before the transformation began, and I trust who I am becoming.”

♓ Pisces Rising

The North Node is in your 1st house, meaning this entire year is cosmically asking you to step more fully into yourself—your identity, your path, your presence. The Full Moon lands in your 9th house of beliefs, expansion, travel, and truth—what you thought you knew is being tested and expanded. With so much Aries energy in your 2nd house, your relationship to self-worth and resources is also being strongly activated.

Clarity (future). Conflicted. Resistance.

This is a complex and layered reading. There is a lot of internal noise happening for Pisces right now, a tug between what you wish things were and what you’re beginning to see them as. Resistance speaks to something being suppressed—feelings, a truth, maybe even your own desire. Conflicted in the center is honest. But Clarity pointing to the right tells me that what’s coming is truth—and even if it’s not the version you were hoping for, it’s going to be more useful than the fog. The Full Moon in your 9th house on Friday may deliver an insight or revelation that reframes something you’ve been carrying for a long time.

Weekly Intention Affirmation

“I stop resisting what I already know. The fog I have been living in was not protection—it was postponement. I am allowed to be conflicted and still move toward the truth. This Full Moon, I release the version of this story I wished were true, and I make space for the version that actually is. Clarity is not my enemy—it is the thing I have been circling toward all along. I am not timid. I am not someone who suppresses their own knowing to keep a comfortable illusion intact. The North Node is calling me forward into myself, and I am finally ready to answer. What is true is also what will free me.”

And with that being said, I hope you guys enjoy your week! I’ll see you guys next Monday.✨

With love from Jordan, The Divine Vitality💌

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People love to throw that one around.
Put it on a motivational graphic, why don’t you?! Slap it on a vision board next to someone in athleisure standing on a mountain! As if the highest form of emotional evolution is becoming a person who needs absolutely nothing from anyone else.

And I get it… kind of.

I understand why so many people cling to that mindset. I understand why “I don’t need anybody” became the prize. But I’ve been having conversations surrounding this topic a lot lately, and I just need to say something plainly:

That mindset isn’t healing, nor is it true. It’s a wound that learned how to brand itself.

So How Does That Wound Heal?

Great question! Gilberto Gomes Leal, the founder of Amenti, said something that stayed with me:

“If you cannot name it, you cannot heal it.”

And if you try to do all your healing and shadow work alone?

You may not be healing.
You may just be controlling.

There’s a difference, even though they may feel identical inside.

Because in the United States especially, we swim in hyper-individualism and call it self-sufficiency. We’ve been sold the idea that needing people is a liability. That depending on others means you’re behind, not evolved enough, not healed enough.

It’s the kind of messaging that often mistakes obedience for success and is preached heavily even in the most spiritual of wellness spaces. People stacking crystals, journaling their nervous systems into submission, and announcing their ✨healing era✨… meanwhile, they’ve been alone in the house five days a week, ruminating, and haven’t had a real conversation in months.

That’s not natural.

And I say that with empathy and a loving sense of humor, because I know the trap well. I’ve fallen into it deeply myself and spent enough time there to recognize its patterns. While people don’t always find themselves in that place for the same reasons, many of us share similar reasons for why we stay.

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So let me remind you of this:

There is nothing wrong with you, your feelings, or your natural range of expression.

The real issue is what you’re used to having reflected back to you when you try to socialize, connect, give, and receive love—what your body, heart, and mind have learned to label as threats.

But they aren’t threats; they’re just triggers. And when we lose sight of that and start absorbing everyone else’s reactions and comments, we begin to give our power away in a multitude of ways. Sometimes we try to fix and overcompensate. Sometimes we hide or try to shrink. We monitor ourselves and quietly calculate how much of who we are feels safe to bring into each room and to each person, day after day.

That’s exactly how my anxiety began—not from being too much, but from spending the formative years of my life trying not to be. Hiding from a “shadow” that was truly only a projection and assumption I chose to accept.

This Wound Starts Early

Just think about how we treat children…

I was talking with my friend Justin recently about how society literally complains that kids are growing up too fast, while simultaneously demanding that they perform adulthood on command. Seems like mixed signals.

"You should know better." (Applies shame)
"Stop crying, it's not a big deal." (Invalidates feelings and forces emotional toughness)
"You're too old to be acting like this." (Ridicules age-appropriate behavior and demands premature maturity)
"You're in charge when I'm not here, take care of everyone." (Makes oldest children responsible for others/Parentification/Role confusion)

But where’s the explanation??? Where’s the modeling of what to do with all those emotions? The why? You know—every child’s favorite question to ask. It’s for a reason; their brains need it. Not your dismissal.

So try not to treat them as if their questions and feelings are something to be ashamed of. Instead, invite curiosity to help build their critical thinking, creativity, intelligence, and autonomy. Too often, kids are left endlessly waiting for life’s answers because the monitoring adult with them is dysregulated as well. Instead of offering guidance, that adult turns to punishment first. Those children then grow into adults who mirror the same reactions and behaviors as their caregivers, genuinely confused about what they’re feeling half the time—let alone how to express it, move through it, or release it.

That’s why so many of us end up in therapy, trying to reparent ourselves; uncomfortably searching our bodies for emotions we were never allowed to fully experience or understand in the first place.

Enter: Co-Regulation

I deeply wish someone had handed me a pamphlet on this concept in my teen years… or early twenties.

Co-regulation is the natural process of learning emotional balance through safe connection.

When we’re born, we are neurologically and physically helpless; literally wired to depend on another. Because humans aren’t like giraffes or sea turtles—we aren’t precocial animals. No one is born knowing how to process anger, grief, anxiety, disappointment, or joy.

It’s all learned through being around regulated people who say:

“I see what you’re feeling. Let’s move through it together.”

That’s co-regulation. Without it, we’re essentially left like three-year-olds floundering in the deep end of life—constantly prompted to “keep swimming,” but never actually shown how to.

Co-regulation With Children

With children, of course, the process/relationship is naturally uneven because the adult in the situation should be the one with more capacity, more tools, and therefore more responsibility.

Practicing co-regulation with a child looks more like showing empathy and exemplifying calmness.

• getting on their level

• naming the emotion

• keeping your tone calm

• offering safe touch when welcome

• breathing with them

• helping them understand that their emotions and feelings are survivable and will pass

Kids don’t need to learn that a good life means never feeling angry, sad, confused, or anxious. They need to understand that their emotions are just bits of information trying to be acknowledged, not emergencies to suppress. Pretending to feel peace at all times… that’s not realistic, and it only reinforces and promotes habitual masking and people-pleasing tendencies.

And this is why it’s so important to understand your own stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Because if a child’s distress instantly activates your unhealed patterns, you’re no longer just responding to them… subconsciously, you’re also reacting to a past version of yourself.

Is your instinct to spank or yell when a child upsets you? (fight)
Or do you tend to walk away? (flight)
Or are their reactions sometimes so overwhelming that you get mentally “stuck” and shut down? (freeze)
What about immediately giving in to their demands just to avoid a tantrum? (fawn | the difference between co-regulation and actual soft-parenting)

Stress responses can become ingrained, but when you understand your “why”—the reason you react the way you do—you can develop healthier coping strategies and, in turn, more effectively guide the child through the same process.

Because for both adults and children, this will always remain fundamentally true:

When our nervous systems are dysregulated, we cannot easily focus on, process, or retain any new information—our brains and bodies are too overwhelmed trying to protect us from the stress.

Okay, But What About Adult Relationships? What If We Didn’t Receive Those Things?

Glad you asked again! : )

This all makes me think about a pattern I’ve started noticing in myself that I’ve really had to confront lately: I was being nurturing, empathetic, and patient—offering what felt like unconditional love—to people who were actively and repeatedly hurting me.

Whether they involved cheating, abuse, toxic fighting, manipulation, or gaslighting, I always faced the same final ultimatum: drop your grudges, let me back in, and put on a show, or I’m abandoning you, going silent, or turning you into the bad guy. So I guess, over time, that’s what my inner child’s nervous system subconsciously came to recognize as her version of normalcy. I didn’t know how to seek out anything else.

This is a classic and painful psychological phenomenon I am only now beginning to actively release—after years of therapy and extended time alone with myself—called repetition compulsion. It’s an unconscious drive to recreate the very environment and relationship patterns that hurt you in an attempt to finally “win”, master them, or change the ending.

And this is where the nuance of this co-regulation message really needs to land:

Sometimes the wisest choice—when a particular connection or pattern isn’t safe—is not to pursue it more (in thought, effort, or running toward replication) but to step back and gently redirect your focus instead.

Not receiving co-regulation as a child means potentially developing weak essential internal skills for managing emotions and stress. This often leads to chronic dysregulation, resulting in severe difficulty managing emotions, anxiety, poor impulse control, and the development of insecure attachment styles (anxious, avoidant, disorganized). So adults may end up struggling with emotional suppression and numbness, or have intense, reactive, and explosive outbursts (stuck in freeze, fight, flight, or fawn).

I definitely recognized this, believing it to have had a major effect on my self-esteem, perfectionistic tendencies, and sensitivity to rejection. My stress responses tend to be flight or fawn, so I naturally leaned into being more hypervigilant and anxiously attached.

This isn’t to say you have to heal alone; it simply means you’re now responsible for using your awareness wisely and practicing better discernment.

In adult relationships, co-regulation becomes a reciprocal process grounded in mutual safety and security. It’s neither fair nor sustainable for anyone to unload all of their struggles onto one person and expect that person to resolve their core issues for them. Even if you didn’t receive this kind of care from your caregivers, the responsibility still ultimately falls on you to decide how you want to move through the rest of your life and what that will actually require.

But if seeking co-regulation from home doesn’t feel safe, or you keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners, then your first regulation anchors may need to come from elsewhere: a trauma-informed therapist, a trusted friend, a support group, a healthier environment—any place where people use their own steadiness to support one another through stress.

So yes, you are deserving of consideration, comfort, and care.

And also of:

• reassurance

• accountability

• emotional presence

• calm after conflict

• consistency

• empathy without condescension

It isn’t neediness. It’s just biology.

Because what co-regulation is not—is an excuse to keep repeating a cycle you already recognize. Awareness is one thing, but change is another.

True change often requires you to fight the very urges that feel most natural to you. It means consciously interrupting your own loop and building a steadier foundation before asking someone else to help carry what you haven’t yet learned to hold.

I remember when my body became exhausted by the cycle… Anxiety turned into anxiety attacks. Frustration became migraines, vomiting, crying spells, irritation, and shutdown. And what I came to realize was that I kept trying to “push through” and ignore what was often my body saying: do not cross this line again.

It wasn’t an overreaction. It was information.

Sometimes our bodies don’t want to be rushed to the next lesson. Sometimes they just need rest. Rest and space long enough to internalize a different story.

Because you’re not asking for the world, sweetie. You’re just asking not to be left alone with your pain, whether the people in front of you caused it or not. That’s fair.

And to internalize a different story.

Because you’re not asking for the world sweetie. you’re just asking to not be left alone with your pain, whether the people in front of you caused it or not. And that’s fair.

But I also had to learn that no partner, friendship, or constant stream of connection could save me from abandoning myself. Sometimes seeking co-regulation can become another way of escaping your own feelings and the inner work that still belongs to you.

Sometimes the healing season is time to just breathe. Slowing down. Learning to self-soothe with the available support and research. Letting grief move through you without chasing distractions.

Both sides are true:

Healing through others is real, and so is healing before them, without them, and in preparation for them.

You can guide a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. I’ve spent enough of my life trying to force people to hear me and heal with me. My responsibility was learning when to stop.

Because self-regulation is often internalized co-regulation. Someone modeled it first. Which means choosing your circle matters. You can regulate with people, but you can also just as easily dysregulate with them. Some rooms will drain you because they keep your nervous system in survival mode. And some dynamics will feel attractive and potentially “safe” only because they familiarly match old pain.

And that’s why hyper-independence isn’t a strength either—it’s usually protection. It’s what happens when the need for connection gets met with pain enough times that your nervous system says, never again.

That adaptation may keep you alive. But survival and living are not the same thing.

Real healing is relational, yes, but it’s also selective. You do not owe toxic people access to your healing process. Selective is different from closed—remember getting comfortable with the nuance, grey areas, and finding a middle ground is the goal here. Because there are people out there who will not make you fight to earn the right to feel love and validated. People who won’t require perfection before supporting you. People who run toward you when life hurts instead of away.

But you won’t know that until you’re actively and genuinely connecting with others. Not in a situationship, not a surface-level friendship where nobody brings anything real to the table—but a mutually vulnerable connection that can reach the depth of the wound site. Because your deepest wounds are relational. And the only way to heal a relational wound is by experiencing a better relationship.

The gym can’t do it.
The solo sound bath cannot do it.
The $400 retreat or therapy session can’t even fully do it if you just come home and put your walls back up the second it’s over.

Because what they offer is a pathway to grounding, not necessarily healing—though it is something you want to practice and carry with you into the connections where you’re seeking reciprocity and intimacy.

Which brings up one last thing…

If chaos has been your norm for a long time, healthy love and connection may feel strange. Maybe boring. Maybe even scary. Because when someone simply shows up consistently, without drama, hot and cold games, or passive-aggressive punishment, your body may not know what to do at first.

That doesn’t mean something is wrong. But it may mean something is finally going right! Allow yourself to be shown, as consistently as you were once triggered, that the rooms you were in were simply too small for you.

Because you can find bigger ones—entire stadiums. In fact, there’s already a crowd out there FULL of people just waiting for the opportunity to connect with you and experience a healthier kind of relationship with you. Now go out and find them!

Much love to my community!

Jordan | The Divine Vitality💛

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If life has felt like it’s been picking up speed lately: conversations getting a bit heated, choices becoming clearer, and the universe nudging you toward what can no longer be avoided... that’s not your imagination. It’s the sky again.✨

And this week, the energy gets even faster…

We’re stepping into the first week of Taurus season, bringing a much-needed shift after Aries season’s firestorm. Taurus reminds us to slow down, get grounded, trust what feels steady, and build something real. But don’t get too comfortable just yet... this week still carries plenty of momentum, surprises, and turning points!

We’re also celebrating something special over here at The Divine Vitality as well🤭…
Please give a warm welcome to , our first collaborator on the blog, who will be adding their insight and magic to this community and space! I’m so excited to share this week with them.💛✨

Hi Divine Vitality Community! I am the creator of Earth Fire Flow Tarot & Affirming Aries & I am so honored to be here as a first-time guest creator in this space!

I am an up and coming “Affirmist” (yes I made that up lol), a chart & card reader, & mystic artist whose passion lives at the intersection of energy, identity, and embodiment! Affirmation work has been the core focus of my life over the last 4 years, & utilizing astrology through it has created a life altering & beautiful foundation personalized for me to unravel the deeper & higher version of myself & to now share these divine formulation of various placements & words that set intentions, rewire the subconscious, & manifest, vocalize, & embody the frequency around the lives we want to create through them! I am so grateful to be here experimenting & sharing some personal tools! This community deserves nothing less than the fullest, most aligned version of everything it can receive! And shout out to Jordan for being such a beautiful light, source, force, & friend to experience such a pivotal point in our journeys together! Looking forward to the future & hope everyone is able to resonate in one way or another with this weekly forecast! /Affirming Aries <3

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Now... let’s get into the juicy details of the week.

Theme of the Week: Momentum Meets Redirection

This week carries a strong sense of movement, realization, and necessary adjustment. There is fiery forward motion through the heavy Aries energy, pushing many of us to speak up, make decisions faster, and take action toward what we’ve been procrastinating on. At the same time, emotional Moon shifts through Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo remind us that growth is not just external movement, it’s internal responsiveness too.

Early in the week, expect to feel more mentally charged and decisive. Conversations matter, ideas land quickly, and truths may need to be spoken. Midweek brings more emotional sensitivity and heart-centered reflection, asking us to slow down long enough to feel what all the momentum is trying to stir up.

By Thursday into Saturday, the energy becomes electric and catalytic. Venus conjunct Uranus and Uranus entering Gemini signals a change in relationships, values, communication, and the collective atmosphere itself. Many people may feel restless, inspired, suddenly clear, or ready for something different. By Sunday, practical clarity returns. After a week of shifts, the Virgo Moon helps us sort what stays, what goes, and what needs refinement.

In simple terms:

This is a turning point week. One where things begin moving faster, truths become harder to ignore, and change asks for participation rather than permission.

Monday: April 20th, 2026

First day of Taurus Season! Waxing Crescent Moon | Gemini

• 12:18 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Gemini sextiles Mercury in Aries
  Some of us could have a late night or early morning with this supportive aspect. The Gemini Moon’s adaptability meets Mercury’s bold, direct communication in Aries, making it an ideal time for connection and turning fresh ideas into action! Think witty conversations, quick thinking, and a spark of curiosity that wants to move.✨

• 12:59 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries
  This energy helps bring structure to scattered thoughts. Gemini wants you to explore your emotions and values, while Saturn in Aries asks you to commit to what matters. A great moment to make plans, organize ideas, or finally follow through on something you’ve been meaning to start!✨

• 1:17 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Gemini sextiles Mars in Aries (Begins VOC)
  Mental energy runs high here. You may feel restless, motivated, or eager to say what’s on your mind. Use it wisely, because words can move quickly under this influence! Once the Moon goes void of course, it may be better to flow than force.💯🌀

• 7:21 a.m. EST: Mercury conjuncts Saturn in Aries
  Conversations may feel serious, focused, or highly intentional. Mercury rules the mind, Saturn rules discipline, and Aries adds independence, passion, and courage. This is powerful energy for making decisions, speaking with authority, or saying something you’ve been avoiding.💯✨

• 5:44 p.m. EST: Mercury conjuncts Mars in Aries
  The mind speeds up and the mouth may follow. This transit can bring confidence, passion, and decisive thinking, but it can also sharpen tempers. Great for productivity, pitching ideas, or taking action; just remember not every thought needs immediate expression.💯🌀

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Tuesday: April 21st, 2026

Waxing Crescent Moon | Gemini → Cancer

• 1:00 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon enters Cancer (VOC ends)
  The mood softens as the Moon enters Cancer. After the busy mental pace of Gemini, emotions now ask for attention. You may crave comfort, home, familiar people, or a slower rhythm. Let yourself feel what the mind was too busy to process.🧘🏾‍♀️🌀

• 3:50 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer sextiles Sun in Aries
  Heart and ego work well together here. Cancer’s emotional sensitivity blends nicely with Aries confidence, helping you act on what genuinely feels right. A lovely transit for self-trust and honoring your needs without apology!💯💛

• 5:53 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries
  Feelings may be harder to name or understand tonight. Neptune can blur boundaries, while Cancer heightens sensitivity. If emotions feel dramatic or confusing, give yourself space before reacting. Rest, music, or solitude may be more helpful than forcing clarity.🧘🏾‍♀️🌀

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Wednesday: April 22nd, 2026

Waxing Crescent Moon | Cancer

• 2:30 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries
  Heavy feelings could surface overnight or early morning. Saturn may bring emotional walls, responsibilities, or a sense of distance. Be gentle with yourself if you go to sleep or wake up feeling burdened.🧘🏾‍♀️🌀

• 5:11 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer squares Mars in Aries
  Irritability can rise quickly under this transit. Cancer feels deeply, Mars reacts fast. If something gets under your skin, pause before responding.💯🧘🏾‍♀️

• 7:29 a.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer squares Mercury in Aries
  Emotions and words may not translate smoothly this morning. You might feel misunderstood or struggle to express what you really mean. Slow down and speak from the heart, not just from frustration.🧘🏾‍♀️🌀

• 6:51 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer
  This brings warmth after an emotionally charged day. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, and in Cancer it can amplify love, tenderness, nostalgia, and generosity. A beautiful evening for family, comfort, gratitude, or emotional healing💛

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Thursday: April 23rd, 2026

Waxing Crescent Moon | Cancer → Leo

• 2:52 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer sextiles Venus in Taurus
  Sweet, grounding energy arrives. This is a lovely transit for affection, good food, beauty, and emotional steadiness. Let yourself enjoy simple pleasures today.💛

• 3:27 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Cancer sextiles Uranus in Taurus (Begins VOC)
  A pleasant surprise or refreshing emotional shift may appear. Uranus brings change, but this sextile can feel exciting rather than disruptive. Stay open to unexpected blessings.💛✨

• 3:41 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon enters Leo (VOC ends)
  The atmosphere brightens noticeably. Leo Moon energy wants joy, creativity, self-expression, and a little sparkle. Confidence returns where Cancer sought safety.💯✨

• 8:56 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Leo trines Neptune in Aries
  This evening feels inspired, dreamy, and imaginative. Great for art, romance, spiritual connection, or simply following what lights you up.🌀✨

• 9:58 p.m. EST: Venus conjuncts Uranus in Taurus
  One of the most exciting transits of the week!! Venus rules love, money, beauty, and values, while Uranus brings surprise and liberation. Expect unexpected attractions, style changes, financial shifts, or a desire for more freedom in relationships.💛✨

• 10:31 p.m. EST: Waxing Crescent Moon in Leo squares Sun in Aries
  Tension can arise between personal desires and ego needs. Both signs are fiery and proud, so watch stubbornness tonight. Sometimes, compromise is the real power move.💯🌀

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Friday: April 24th, 2026

First Quarter Moon | Leo

• 12:04 a.m. EST: Venus enters Gemini
  Love gets lighter, flirtier, and more curious. Venus in Gemini values wit, conversation, variety, and mental chemistry. Over the coming weeks, attraction may begin with a good laugh or an interesting mind.💛

• 12:36 a.m. EST: Mercury in Aries trines Lilith in Sagittarius
  Bold truth-telling energy. This transit supports speaking freely, reclaiming your voice, and saying what others avoid. Confidence in your perspective grows here!💯

• 1:12 a.m. EST: First Quarter Moon in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius
  The First Quarter Moon asks for action, and Pluto adds intensity. Power struggles, ego triggers, or emotional revelations may arise. What needs to transform can no longer be ignored.💯🌀

• 6:19 a.m. EST: First Quarter Moon in Leo trines Saturn in Aries
  A stabilizing influence helps channel passion into progress. This is excellent energy for discipline, leadership, and staying committed to what matters.💯✨

• 11:48 a.m. EST: First Quarter Moon in Leo trines Mars in Aries
  Confidence and momentum build. If you need courage, motivation, or creative fire, this transit delivers.💯✨

• 6:20 p.m. EST: First Quarter Moon in Leo trines Mercury in Aries
  Words carry confidence now. Great for socializing, presenting ideas, creating content, or saying what’s on your heart with clarity.💯✨

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Saturday: April 25th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon | Leo → Virgo

• 12:32 p.m. EST: Sun in Aries squares Pluto in Aquarius
  This is potent, transformative energy. Power dynamics, inner resistance, or a need to reclaim autonomy may surface. Aries wants freedom, Pluto wants truth. Something unsustainable may reveal itself today.💯🌀

• 8:50 p.m. EST: Uranus enters Gemini
  A major collective shift begins. Uranus changes signs slowly, so this marks the start of a new era around communication, technology, education, media, and how we think. Expect innovation, rapid mental shifts, and entirely new conversations over the years ahead.🌀✨

• 9:04 p.m. EST: Waxing Gibbous Moon in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus (Begins VOC)
  The mood may feel unpredictable tonight. Plans can change suddenly, emotions may spike, and restlessness is possible. Flexibility is your friend.💯🌀

• 9:05 p.m. EST: Waxing Gibbous Moon enters Virgo (VOC ends)
  Energy turns practical quickly. After Leo’s flair, Virgo wants order, clarity, and usefulness. You may suddenly feel ready to reset your life by cleaning one drawer.💯✨

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Sunday: April 26th, 2026

Waxing Gibbous Moon | Virgo

• 1:39 a.m. EST: Waxing Gibbous Moon in Virgo squares Venus in Taurus
  You may notice tension between comfort and productivity. Part of you wants to indulge, another part wants to fix everything. Balance pleasure with practicality.🌀🧘🏾‍♀️

• 2:56 a.m. EST: Sun in Aries sextiles South Node in Virgo and trines North Node in Pisces
  Fated redirection energy. Old habits may become obvious while a more aligned path quietly opens. Aries asks for courage as destiny asks for trust.🌀✨

• 8:37 a.m. EST: Waxing Gibbous Moon in Virgo trines Sun in Aries
  A productive and energizing start to the day. Practical effort meets motivation, making this a great time to get things done and feel good doing it.✨

• 1:42 p.m. EST: Venus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries
  Charm, softness, and romantic imagination fill the air. Conversations can feel magical now. A beautiful transit for creativity, dating, music, or heartfelt connection.💛✨

• 2:32 p.m. EST: Mercury in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer
  Watch for exaggeration, emotional overreactions, or saying more than necessary. Big ideas are possible here, but so are big assumptions. Confidence is helpful, but overconfidence is not.💯

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If you’ve been feeling like something is building—like there’s pressure at the surface that keeps almost breaking through but hasn’t quite yet—that’s not your imagination. It’s the sky! And this week… it finally breaks open🌚✨

We’re spending this entire week inside some of the most concentrated Aries energy of 2026. The Sun, Mercury (by midweek), Mars, Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron are all stacking up in this sign simultaneously, and what that means energetically is that the universe isn’t letting you play small, stay comfortable, or keep delaying the thing you keep saying you’ll get to. Aries doesn’t negotiate; it initiates.

The crown jewel of the week is the New Moon in Aries on Friday, April 17th—the cosmic fresh start that this entire lunation cycle has been building toward. New moons are planting seasons, and this one is asking you to plant seeds of identity. Not the identity you inherited, not the one you’ve been performing for other people, but the one that actually belongs to you.

But before we get there, we open the week with a waning crescent moon, the final sliver of the last cycle. This isn’t the energy of beginning yet; it’s the energy of release. Of clearing space and getting real with yourself about what you’ve been carrying that doesn’t fit the person you’re becoming. By the time we cross into Thursday and Friday, the slate clears just in time for a genuinely powerful reset.

A few things to hold in your awareness all week:

The Mars-Neptune conjunction on Monday sets a mystical, sometimes blurry tone at the very start. Intuition will be louder than logic this week—lean into that, but don’t confuse a feeling with a fact just yet. By Sunday, Mars meets Saturn in Aries, and that’s where desire meets discipline. That conjunction is the whole week’s lesson in a single transit: you can feel the fire, but you have to earn what you build with it.

Mercury moves from Pisces into Aries on Tuesday night, shifting the mental atmosphere from dreamy, intuitive processing to direct, honest, rapid-fire thinking. Your words will have more edge. Use them well.

Venus is holding steady in Taurus all week, and honestly… she’s a grounding gift amid all this fire. She’s in her home sign—she’s comfortable, she’s luxuriating—and early in the week she gets a beautiful assist from Jupiter in Cancer. That’s real warmth, real sweetness, real “yes, good things can happen” energy. Let it in.

The Sun enters Taurus on Sunday evening to close out the week, shifting the solar season and bringing us into slower, more embodied, more sensory territory. That transition at the end of the week will feel like a deep exhale after running.

This is a week to be honest with yourself, to trust what you feel, to plant something new with intention, and to understand that the beginning of something real always requires you to let the old version go first.

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Monday, April 13th

Waning crescent moon | Aquarius ➝ Pisces

The week opens in release mode. The Aquarius moon brings clarity around patterns and perspectives, while the shift into Pisces pulls you inward, asking you to feel, soften, and let go. This is a psychic, intuitive start to the week… less about action, more about awareness and surrender.

1:29 a.m. EST | Mars conjunct Neptune in Aries
Mars rules action, drive, and desire; Neptune rules dreams, intuition, and illusion. A conjunction blends energies into one, and in Aries (self, identity, initiation), this merges action with intuition. This can feel inspired but unclear—acting on instinct without full logic. Let ideas come through without rushing to define or act on them yet.

3:42 a.m. EST | Moon square Uranus in Taurus | VOC begins
The Moon reflects emotions; Uranus brings disruption and sudden change. A square creates tension, and between Aquarius (mental awareness) and Taurus (physical security), this highlights discomfort between change and stability. Restlessness or sudden shifts may arise, so the void of course Moon that follows is better for rest and reflection than decisions.

4:20 a.m. EST | Venus in Taurus sextile Jupiter in Cancer
Venus rules love, values, and pleasure; Jupiter expands and brings growth. A sextile offers opportunity and ease. In Taurus and Cancer (both nurturing, security-focused signs), this supports emotional and material abundance. This softens the morning—connection, comfort, or small blessings may come through naturally.

4:56 a.m. EST | Moon enters Pisces | VOC ends
Pisces energy is intuitive, emotional, and spiritual. The Moon here heightens sensitivity and inner awareness. This is a deeply receptive energy—rest, reflect, and allow emotional release without overanalyzing it.

Daily energy: A quiet, intuitive reset. Let go, listen inward, and don’t force clarity.

Tuesday, April 14th

Waning crescent moon in Pisces

The energy stays soft, inward, and intuitive. This is a continuation of emotional processing… more listening than doing, with subtle but meaningful insights throughout the day.

11:22 a.m. EST | Moon trine Jupiter in Cancer
A trine is a flowing, harmonious aspect. With both in water signs, emotions, intuition, and support expand. This brings ease—emotional reassurance, creativity, and a sense of being supported.

1:10 p.m. EST | Mercury in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus
Mercury rules thinking and communication; Uranus brings sudden insight. A sextile creates opportunity. Pisces (intuition) and Taurus (practicality) connect vision with reality. Expect a mental breakthrough or idea that feels both intuitive and usable—write it down.

2:10 p.m. EST | Moon sextile Venus in Taurus
The Moon (emotions) and Venus (love, pleasure) connect in a soft, supportive way. Pisces and Taurus emphasize sensitivity and comfort. This brings small moments of joy, connection, or creative flow—nothing dramatic, just genuine ease.

11:22 p.m. EST | Mercury enters Aries
Mercury shifts from Pisces (intuitive, nonlinear thinking) into Aries (direct, fast, decisive thinking). Communication becomes more straightforward and bold—ideas move quicker, but impulsivity increases.

Daily energy: Soft, intuitive flow with moments of insight. Let things come to you rather than chasing them.

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Wednesday, April 15th

Waning crescent moon | Pisces ➝ Aries

This is the pivot. Energy shifts from emotional and intuitive into active and intense as the Aries stellium is activated. Things move quickly… feel first, act second.

9:06 a.m. EST | Moon sextile Uranus in Taurus | VOC begins
A final intuitive or unexpected realization before the shift. Uranus brings insight; the sextile makes it accessible. Capture what comes up—this is the last quiet message before momentum builds.

10:04 a.m. EST | Moon enters Aries | VOC ends
Aries energy is action-oriented, fast, and direct. The emotional tone becomes more urgent and expressive. Feelings now push toward action rather than reflection.

11:15 a.m. EST | Moon conjunct Mercury in Aries
The Moon (emotions) and Mercury (mind) align. A conjunction merges feeling and thought. This creates direct, honest communication—what you feel is easier to say.

2:44 p.m. EST | Moon conjunct Neptune in Aries
Neptune dissolves boundaries and heightens intuition. Combined with the Moon, emotions can feel amplified or unclear. This is creative and spiritual, but not ideal for decisions—let feelings exist without forcing clarity.

6:08 p.m. EST | Moon conjunct Mars in Aries
Mars brings action and intensity. With the Moon, emotions become energized and reactive. Passion and motivation increase, but so can impulsivity—channel it physically if needed.

7:15 p.m. EST | Moon sextile Pluto in Aquarius
Pluto represents transformation and power. The sextile offers an opportunity for emotional insight or shift. A moment of deeper understanding or internal empowerment.

10:37 p.m. EST | Moon conjunct Saturn in Aries
Saturn brings structure, discipline, and reality checks. With the Moon, emotions meet responsibility. This can feel heavy but clarifying—what are you actually committed to?

Daily energy: A full activation day. Emotions move fast—awareness determines whether that becomes progress or reactivity.

Thursday, April 16th

Waning crescent moon in Aries

The final release before the new moon. There’s still movement, but it’s about closing cycles and getting honest about what’s ready to end.

11:10 a.m. EST | Sun conjunct Chiron in Aries
The Sun represents identity and awareness; Chiron represents wounds and healing. A conjunction brings awareness to the wound. In Aries, this centers on identity and self-worth. This highlights something to heal or understand about yourself—awareness is the first step toward change.

2:53 p.m. EST | Moon square Jupiter in Cancer
A square creates tension; Jupiter expands emotions. Aries (action) vs Cancer (security) creates a push-pull. Be mindful of overextending or reacting emotionally without grounding.

2:55 p.m. EST | Mars sextile Pluto in Aquarius
Mars (action) and Pluto (power, transformation) connect in a supportive way. This is focused, intentional energy. This is strong for meaningful action—channel effort into something purposeful.

10:01 p.m. EST | Mercury conjunct Neptune in Aries
Mercury (mind) meets Neptune (intuition, illusion). Communication becomes inspired but less clear. Great for creativity or reflection, not for precise decisions or important conversations.

Daily energy: Release and recalibrate. Awareness + intentional action = real progress.

Friday, April 17th

New Moon in Aries ➝ Taurus

A reset point. This new moon is about personal beginnings, identity, and courage. Set intentions around what you truly want, then allow them to unfold.

7:51 a.m. EST | New Moon in Aries | VOC begins
The Sun and Moon align, marking a new beginning. In Aries, this is about self, action, and initiation. Set intentions around who you’re becoming—then allow them to unfold without control.

11:58 a.m. EST | Moon enters Taurus | VOC ends
Taurus grounds energy into the physical world—stability, rest, and embodiment.
Shift from initiating to integrating—slow down and let things settle.

8:45 p.m. EST | Moon square Pluto in Aquarius
Pluto brings deep transformation; the square creates tension with Taurus’ need for stability. Something may surface that challenges comfort but supports growth.

Daily energy: A reset followed by grounding. Start fresh, then stabilize.

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Saturday, April 18th

Waxing crescent moon in Taurus

Slower, steadier energy. This is about grounding, rest, and reconnecting with what feels good and stable.

4:01 p.m. EST | Moon sextile Jupiter in Cancer
Emotional ease and support. Both signs prioritize security and nourishment.
This is a gentle, positive window for connection and comfort.

4:34 p.m. EST | Mercury in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
Mercury (thinking) and Pluto (depth, truth) connect productively.
This supports deep conversations, insight, and strategic thinking.

Daily energy: Slow growth and quiet stability. Let things build naturally.

Sunday, April 19th

Waxing crescent moon | Taurus ➝ Gemini

A transitional day. Energy moves from grounded and slow into lighter, more social and mental energy, while deeper themes around commitment come to the surface.

2:43 a.m. EST | Moon conjunct Venus in Taurus
The Moon (emotions) and Venus (love, pleasure) merge. In Taurus, this emphasizes comfort and enjoyment. A soft, easeful start—lean into what feels good.

11:44 a.m. EST | Moon conjunct Uranus in Taurus | VOC begins
Uranus brings sudden change or insight. With the Moon, emotions may shift unexpectedly. Stay flexible—something may surprise you.

12:18 p.m. EST | Moon enters Gemini | VOC ends
Gemini energy is curious, communicative, and mentally active.
Focus shifts to conversation, learning, and connection.

4:56 p.m. EST | Moon sextile Neptune in Aries
A blend of logic (Gemini) and intuition (Neptune).
This can bring insight or creative inspiration.

6:43 p.m. EST | Mars conjunct Saturn in Aries
Mars (action) meets Saturn (discipline, limitation). A conjunction combines force with structure. This tests commitment—are you willing to put in the work for what you want?

9:02 p.m. EST | Moon trine Pluto in Aquarius
A trine brings ease and flow. Pluto supports transformation and deeper understanding.
Emotional clarity and integration follow the day’s intensity.

9:39 p.m. EST | Sun enters Taurus
The Sun shifts from Aries (initiation) to Taurus (stability, growth).
Focus moves from starting to building something real.

Daily energy: Transition and reality check. Ground your intentions into something sustainable.

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What fulfills me most is realizing that I am still teaching—but in a way that’s expanding my community in powerful ways. I’m noticing a pattern in how my closest connections are forming; followers are becoming friends, clients are becoming sisters, and within these relationships, there’s a deeper, more genuine appreciation for who I am as a person. While they value my services, what truly sets these connections apart from the ones I’ve let go of in my past is the presence of my full, authentic self.

Earlier in my life, the friendships that didn’t work out usually followed the opposite pattern: I was always trying to be like them—doing the same things, talking the same way, dressing the same way. I never truly felt fully known, fully seen, or genuinely appreciated. And it didn’t always seem intentional, so I kept acting in ways that allowed these people to stay in my life. Only now do I realize why: I didn’t see, understand, or appreciate myself.

I wonder if those dynamics were always meant to transform me from a follower into a leader. I don’t think those friendships formed because I was already being myself; they formed while I was still in the process of trying to find myself. It’s no surprise, then, that the teachings and services I offer now are designed to guide my community back to themselves.

Because more and more, I find myself having a problem with how rarely we’re given that direction in this world. Too often we’re told what to do, how to think, who to be, and what to believe—while our inner truth is left to suffer in silence. It shows up in our mental and emotional health struggles, in our chronic fatigue, in our fears, and in the way we shrink ourselves to fit into spaces that were never made to contain who we truly are.

Nothing illustrates this more clearly to me than the religious conversations about “shoulds” that I keep seeing play out…

I recently came across a video where a young man was visiting different church denominations and rating his experiences. The first stop was a Presbyterian church—and the “worst part,” according to him, was that they had a female pastor. He ended by saying, “Do with that information what you will...”

So of course, I went straight to the comments (usually where I find the real entertainment). And it was the usual divide—“what’s wrong with a female pastor?” versus “the Bible clearly states women aren’t meant to lead/preach/minister. It’s blasphemy.”

And that last one… I just have to ask. Why are we still using words written in a book thousands of years ago to decide what a woman is allowed to do today? I understand that for many people, following the Bible as law is a sincere and deeply held conviction. I do respect that. But I also can’t ignore that much of the translation, interpretation, and institutional framing of the Bible over the last 500 years was shaped within male-dominated Western European power structures. These interpretations often contradict each other, and even scholars can’t agree… yet somehow this is what’s used to define a woman’s role?

Sounds eerily familiar...

“Women shouldn’t vote.”
 “Blacks can’t sit here.”
“You can’t love someone of the same gender or a different race.”

History has never struggled to find language to justify control… it just changes the source. And now we’re doing it again, using selectively interpreted scripture to define what women should do and be. But the world these texts were written in no longer exists, so why are we still treating those interpretations like they do? And either way, if you choose to follow the Bible as law, that’s YOUR path… but it doesn’t give you the right to script anyone else’s life.

For example, there’s a content creator named Talitha Jane who’s gone viral for her personal transition into a more faith-centered, modest lifestyle. And in my honest opinion, personal obedience is a beautiful thing, but there’s a real difference between living out what God calls you toward and deciding what obedience should look like for everyone else.

Too often, we’re told what to believe so consistently and for so long that we eventually stop asking why. We stop questioning whether those beliefs are actually true for us, or whether we’ve simply inherited them from someone else. That inherited limitation doesn’t just exist in religion—it shows up in our bodies, spirits, and nervous systems, in our relationships, and in the very sense of what we’re allowed to explore and want for ourselves.

And that’s what’s shaped my purpose with this business and work: helping people find their way back to themselves. Part of that requires vulnerability and a willingness to ask yourself and others some pretty uncomfortable questions… not to tear anything down, but because you deserve to understand the difference between what you truly believe and what you were simply taught to.

So it’s okay if you believe not every woman is called to lead… not every man is either. But I don’t believe gender should be the deciding factor for any of it. The most aligned, the most capable, the most called person should be the one who answers. Whatever that looks like… whoever they are.

That’s it.

So what I want to ask you is this: what influences your beliefs and the decisions you make? The etymology of the word “decide” means to cut something off… not just to choose something, but to become aware of everything you don’t choose. So when you make a decision—when you choose what to believe about yourself and others—what are you actually cutting away? And who or what has shaped those beliefs about who or what is undeserving… including yourself?

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But here’s what I’ve been sitting with lately:

Empathy and intuition are not the same thing. And confusing them is how people pleasers are born.

My intuition is trying to protect me. It reads the room, clocks the pattern, feels the pull—and says this isn’t yours to hold. My empathy, when unguarded, becomes a back door for my ego. Not the ego that wants to be validated or praised—but the ego that learned how shrinking, absorbing, and over-giving is how I stay safe when I interact with my external world. How I stay loved and acceptable.

So I was always serving… just not myself.

Let’s Talk About the Moon

In astrology, your moon sign is one of the most intimate parts of your chart. While your sun sign represents your conscious identity—who you’re becoming—your moon sign is who you already are on the inside. It governs your emotions, your instincts, your emotional needs, and how you were shaped in early life, particularly by your mother or primary caregiver.

So when you know someone’s moon sign, you know something real about them. Something they might not even fully know about themselves yet.

The moon is your inner world; it’s the part of you that feels before it thinks. It’s what you need to feel safe, nurtured, and at home—in a relationship with others, and with yourself.

Now add Libra into that…

Libra is an air sign ruled by Venus—the planet of love, beauty, harmony, and relationships. Libra’s energy is oriented toward balance, fairness, connection, and peace. It’s deeply attuned to other people; it reads energy naturally.

So Libra Moons feel disharmony like a splinter—small but impossible to ignore.

Libra is also one of the most socially intelligent signs in the zodiac. It’s a sign that understands nuance and can see multiple sides to a story or situation. People with major Libra placements or a Libra stellium tend to be natural diplomats, natural mediators, and often natural empaths.

But here’s the tension: Libra is also the sign of the scales, and those scales are always weighing…

Always measuring; always trying to find the perfect balance before committing to a direction. Which brings us to the shadow side…

The Libra Moon Wound

A Libra Moon person feels everything in the relational field. They are exquisitely tuned to the emotional needs of the people around them. They want peace, harmony, and for everyone to feel good.

So it was surprising to see in a TikTok I recently came across that was ranking the moon signs by intuitive ability—what prompted this post—that Libra Moons came in second to last. But their explanation? Not that Libra moons can’t pick up on things, but because of their tendency not to follow through on what they sense.

That stereotype that Libra Moons are indecisive? It’s true. The intuition is there, the reception is strong, but the confidence starts to wane when the scales start tipping

Am I reading this right? 
Maybe I’m being too sensitive. 
Maybe I should give it more time. 
Maybe I’m wrong. 

And by the time the Libra Moon person has finished weighing every possibility, the moment has passed, the boundary wasn’t set, and they’ve talked themselves out of what they already knew to do.

That is the Libra Moon loop.

Where It Comes From—The Mother Connection

Here’s something worth sitting with, especially for those of us doing deeper work:

The moon in astrology is directly tied to the mother wound—or more broadly, to our earliest emotional conditioning. And for Libra Moons specifically, there tends to be a theme around caretakers who placed a strong emphasis on social appearance: how you presented yourself, how you behaved in public, good manners, etiquette, being proper, polished, and pleasing to others.

The message, whether it was spoken or simply felt, often became:

how you’re received and perceived by others matters. A lot.

And for those with past life awareness, this can be more easily understood because there’s a spiritual dimension behind how a mother’s nature inherently influences these specific placements we’re born with.

The moon sign we carry into this life often reflects something we’re here to heal—a pattern we’ve cycled through before, a lesson our soul keeps revisiting until it’s finally integrated. Just as you might repeat past-life patterns with romantic partners, the same can be true with your parents and children. Sometimes the child was once the parent, or perhaps you were siblings in another life. Either way, karmic cycles can explain why certain issues keep resurfacing.

For Libra Moons, the karmic invitation often centers on learning to trust yourself: to stop outsourcing your sense of worth to how others receive and perceive you, and to cultivate an inner security that doesn’t depend on keeping the peace or maintaining harmony in the room.

In other lifetimes, some of us with this placement may have been punished for following our instincts—for using our gifts, for being too visible, too powerful, too much. And so we came back with a placement that would make us work hard for self-trust. A placement that would put us in environments and situations where we’d have to learn, slowly and consciously, how to choose ourselves.

The Libra Moon is not a weakness. It’s an assignment.

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So for a child to hold this placement—already wired to attune to other people—that initial, almost fated, conditioning can quietly become a blueprint: Be likable. Keep the peace. Don’t make it uncomfortable. Manage how you’re perceived.

But the acknowledgement of this isn’t about blame; it’s about freedom. Mothers who parented this way were usually doing exactly what their mothers taught them. It’s a lineage. And as the first daughter to the first daughter, I now understand this nuance very well. This is a pattern that will continue to manifest through generations until someone becomes conscious enough to look at it clearly and say—this ends here.

Back to Empathy and Intuition…

So here’s where it all connects for me personally: my empathy—that deep Libra Moon attunement to the people I love—was stronger than my boundaries for a really long time. My empathy was trained early; it was rewarded early. Be understanding. See their side. But my intuition? That was the quiet voice underneath all of it, saying, “You matter too. Your needs are real too. This isn’t yours to carry.”

For a long time, following my intuition felt selfish. It felt like I was being difficult or cold or ungrateful. My ego had disguised self-abandonment as love and fairness—and I didn’t catch it for years. The people pleasing isn’t ancient history for me. It was recent. It was last year. Honestly, it was last week.

But something has been shifting within me quietly, and I can tell how, in small ways, the world is starting to respond to it. My intuition is getting louder, and I’m starting to finally hear it—and more importantly, starting to trust it.

If any of this resonates with you—if you’ve ever talked yourself out of something you knew, kept the peace at the expense of your own, or confused absorbing someone else’s pain with loving and supporting them—you’re not really confused, broken, or lost. You’re probably just used to being misdirected.

Look at your chart, or shoot me a message if you’re interested in me reading your birth chart for you for a small fee! You could be a Libra Moon or carry that energy somewhere in your chart.

Or you were simply raised in an environment where you learned that your worth weighed on how well you managed everyone else’s comfort. And now you’re unlearning it.

That’s the sacred work💛

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