The Buildup: The Court Finds Their Seats

It starts quietly. Tomorrow, Wednesday the 3rd, Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus, turning the wound inward for a minute. This retrograde asks us to actually sit with what hurts around security, worth, the body, money, instead of just running from it. It’s the soil getting turned before anything gets planted.

This is what I was going into a personal rant about in my post yesterday. Because as a natal Saturn in Taurus in my 8th house ruled by Aries—which is where this transit will be hitting me—this Chiron retrograde, in combination with the current Saturn retrograde in Aries, will be warming up that placement of mine before I officially encounter my own Saturn return when Saturn first dips into Taurus in 2029. Most people experience their full-course Saturn returns at the age I’m at now, but LUCKY ME, I just get an appetizer.

Then Venus slides into her home of Libra on Thursday, the 6th. Venus in her own sign is the planet remembering what she actually likes, not what she’s been settling for. Relationships, beauty, fairness, the parts of you that want ease instead of struggle; she’ll be quietly asking you what balance would look like right now, before things get even louder.

On Saturday, the 8th (8/8), we get the Lion’s Gate Portal! In numerology, double eights symbolize an influx of abundance, power, and good fortune. It’s also connected to the infinity symbol, which represents limitless potential and spiritual evolution.

This is the day Sirius—the brightest star in our sky and the “spiritual sun” many ancient traditions referred to—reappears on the eastern horizon and aligns with Earth and the Sun in Leo. Historically, people have felt this event and the surrounding days as a window when manifestations emerge quicker, and our intentions carry more energetic charge than usual. Many use the window as a mindful reset to clear old emotional baggage, meditate, and visualize personal or professional goals. Especially because a lot of astrologers believe that if you act while Sirius is aligned, you're supported by the “luck of Jupiter and the courage of Mars,” which have both been long associated with the star.

Mercury moves into Leo on Sunday, the 9th, and this is where the story starts to pick up the pace. Mercury in Leo doesn’t whisper; he ROARS with pride! And since this is my Mercury return, let me tell you how this transit actually translates into someone’s actual nature.

As a Leo Mercury, I can say that we felines naturally speak from the heart with enthusiastic flair. But because mine is tucked away in the privacy of my 12th house, I have this paradoxical tendency to broadcast things that others would probably keep quiet. However, this is a mental and verbal process that’s actually healing for me.

Those closest to me know that I can’t help but to be loud sometimes. Through my words and the way that I mentally process situations, I often shine a light into my own shadows—and without meaning to, I often illuminate the shadows of others, too. This is an incredibly claircognizant placement—meaning that I subconsciously pick up on the truths of hidden information instantly without needing proof. However, trying to relay these truths to others is usually a difficult experience for me when they aren’t ready to accept them or perceive them clearly for what they are.

But back to it… collectively, this transit is warming up all of our minds for something bigger, bolder, and undeniably louder. We’re all about to find something we can no longer keep quiet about, so don’t be afraid to pick up that mic!

Then, Mars enters Cancer on Tuesday, the 11th, one day before the eclipse. This is another planet coming home for me—haha, the cosmos is truly pulling out all the stops for my birthday season! Mars in Cancer is protective, deeply instinctual, and operates from emotional intuition rather than logic. It’s the last piece of the cosmic puzzle clicking into place. We stop fighting over abstract ideas and start fighting for the things we love.

Think of this transit as the ultimate backstage manager: the stage will now be set, the emotional stakes will be at an all-time high, and the universe will be patiently waiting behind the velvet curtain right before it goes up.

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The Turn: A Solar Eclipse in Leo

We finally arrive at the first main event! On Wednesday, August 12th, a total solar eclipse and New Moon at 20 degrees Leo, peaking at 1:46 PM EDT. And this isn’t just any eclipse; it’s the very first eclipse on the new Aquarius-Leo nodal axis! So we’re embarking on a new 18-month karmic cycle that’s redefining our personal identities, how we creatively express ourselves, our sense of leadership, and also helping us to shed any actions driven purely by external validation or applause.

With this lunation supported by both luminaries, this will not be a subtle beginning. Where an ordinary New Moon emotionally nudges us forward, a Solar Eclipse tends to do so by clearing things out for us. And with the Sun eclipsed in its own sign—this goes straight for our egos and life paths. Our subconsciousness surfaces to help us break old habits and change our direction. And the effects tend to unfold over the following six months, not all at once on the day of.

If you know your chart, look at which house 20 degrees Leo falls in for you. That’s the area of your life where this eclipse is purging another layer of your subconscious. For me, this occurs in my 12th house, which means that I’m experiencing a massive cosmic reset in the most private areas of my life. This backs up why I’ve been experiencing a sudden collapse of old mental patterns where I hid my light out of fear, while at the same time feeling called to isolate and integrate my shadow work. I’ve also been experiencing an increase in vivid dreams and sudden channeled downloads, clearing the stage for a completely new relationship with my own divinity, intuition, and unseen guides.

If this is happening in your tenth house, it’s touching your career and how the world sees you. Fifth house, it’s romance, creativity, kids, the things that light you up. Seventh house, it’s partnership, who’s standing across from you or beside you. But wherever it lands, you’re getting a jolt of new-beginning energy, whether you asked for it or not!

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The Middle Stretch: Sharpening Before the Release

Three days later, on Saturday the 15th, Mercury conjuncts Jupiter in Leo. This is our minds and mouths expanding; bigger ideas, louder talk, and the kind of optimism that can genuinely open doors if you actively apply it instead of just riding the high. Whatever gets activated by the eclipse, this is where you start actually thinking and speaking bolder about it.

Then on Saturday the 22nd, we cross into Virgo season, and the whole tone of the month shifts. Leo wanted to be seen, but Virgo wants to refine, to get precise, and to actually do something useful with all that got stirred up. Mercury follows right behind the Sun on Tuesday the 25th, moving into its home sign, and on Thursday, the 27th, we get a Mercury cazimi in Virgo.

This is some HEAVY Virgo energy. A cazimi is Mercury at the literal center of the sun’s light, and in its own sign no less, so this is about as clear-headed as our minds will get all year. If the eclipse gives you a jolt of insight or pushes forward a choice that needs deciding on, then this is the day your thinking gets sharp enough to actually land on it.

The Ending: A Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces

And then, on Friday, August 28th, just after midnight EDT, the month closes with a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces at almost 5 degrees, opposing the Sun in Virgo. This is the quiet second act, where the eclipse acts as an exit interview for an 18-month karmic cycle of spiritual surrender and egoic dissolution that began back in January of 2025.

But Pisces doesn’t close this chapter with a door slamming; it’s closing out in a very gradual way—just like water slowly finding its level. You might not realize this is happening until you start looking back. That’s because this eclipse is the ultimate test of surrender; learning to let go of the steering wheel and trusting in the current of your life rather than trying to force a specific outcome. If you’ve been clinging to a situation, a job, or a relationship based purely on "potential" or wishful thinking, this eclipse (squared by the erratic Uranus in Gemini) will snap that fantastical illusion to force a clean break.

This cycle’s been pulling us out of the “poor me” narrative—that shadow side of Pisces martyrdom where you start feeling like a helpless victim of circumstance instead of someone with real power. So what comes up could land as a sudden, almost shocking catalyst that’s designed to show you that you’re not actually trapped. It’s demanding real accountability for your own emotional boundaries, asking you to stop absorbing everyone else’s toxic energy like it’s yours to carry, and pushing you toward actual spiritual sovereignty instead of just talking about it.

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Together, the two eclipses form one complete gesture. Leo asks us what we’re brave enough to start, and Pisces asks us what we’re wise enough to release. Ignition, then integration. And there’s nothing else as major occurring for the rest of the month, so it really does feel as if the sky wrote itself the perfect ending!

For a little sneak peek, here’s what each rising sign can expect when it comes to the story that’s being rewritten by these eclipses:

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What they explained is basically what I’ve tried to overexplain to people my entire life, and I’ve recently decided that it’s time to stop because it doesn’t need to be understood. But still, this validation was so sweet.

Rion talked about how people love to say Capricorns—who are traditionally ruled by Saturn—are the hard workers of the zodiac, but Saturn in Taurus carries a different flavor of that same Cap energy, one that seldom gets named. Capricorn works to be seen working. They’re ambition-driven. They want the money, money and the cars, cars and the clothes…

A channeled song came through for them as I was typing that out lol, but back to the point—Capricorns love the recognition of the climb, but Saturn in Taurus placements work quietly, motivated by security and survival instead of status. This is exactly why so much of the work we do goes unseen. It doesn’t always look like climbing, so nobody clocks it as hard work. Just like Leo, Taurus is a fixed modality sign, meaning that it stabilizes. Its work looks like someone quietly doing what needs to get done.

That distinction explains so much of my life previously, and honestly even today. When people tell me to work harder to reach some kind of status symbol—a symbol of wealth, of success, or of proof of being self-sufficient—I feel myself disconnect from it almost immediately. And it’s not that I don’t see the value in status or “proof of success”; I’ve just never cared for fame or an extreme amount of fortune. I do have a Libra moon in the 2nd house, so my taste slightly runs a bit bougie, I will say. But that’s just my nature, not my goal.

Given the choice, I’d prefer a one-bedroom apartment I can actually afford and make homey over a mansion I’m constantly stressing about maintaining. All I’ve ever wanted is to be able to pay my bills without worry. That’s my whole ambition. And the lesson for us Taurus Saturns is to realize that we CAN build consistency, security, and comfort without overworking ourselves. That’s not what works for us… it never has been.

Growing up, I thought it was the opposite. I thought I had to do more because I felt lazy—that I rested too much and wasn’t productive enough. So I spent most of my twenties trying to make up for that, even after learning my truth. Which is that I burn out easily. It’s very easy for me to work myself basically to death; to slide into hustle mode the second someone implies I’m not doing enough until I’m physically withering away and emotionally explosive. This mindset has even pushed me mentally into psychosis. And because so much of my work, whether it was at old jobs or the intuitive work I do now, was never fully seen or appreciated by the people around me, no one could tell how much I was actually carrying or how close to burnout I already was when they’d want me to take on more.

It feels like people always want me to open up and be honest with my needs, but those needs weren’t taken very seriously when they were stated. And it was always because of reality and needing to be realistic, but according to my chart, those exact rules don’t fully apply here. The root of this Taurus Saturn wound is having always lived from scarcity instead of comfort. And what do you do with something that feels scarce in your life? You tend to chase it down until you get it. That’s the whole pattern that needs to be broken in one sentence.

Saturn in Taurus also deals with how we hold money, and specifically with overspending because we’re chasing a sense of peace and tranquility we’ve never fully let ourselves feel. You’d think the healing here would be to do the opposite and hoard everything, but it’s actually the reverse. The healing is learning how to consistently enjoy small, luxurious experiences, letting rest and comfort become normal instead of something you have to earn first. It’s balancing productivity with ease, instead of treating rest as something you only collapse into once you’ve already pushed yourself too far.

In practice, that could look like allowing yourself one guilty pleasure a day, a fancy latte, something small and consistent, or blocking out two hours of rest every Sunday no matter how busy you are. Not because it’s indulgent, but because it’s what keeps you from emotionally dropping $400 on a shopping spree later, or hitting a breaking point because you never let yourself take a nap.

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The timing of this eureka moment makes so much sense too, because Chiron, the wounded healer, recently entered Taurus and stations retrograde at 0° this Wednesday. By January of 2027, it will have walked itself back into 26° of Aries.

This retrograde is going to bring that same feeling of scarcity right back to the surface for anyone with Saturn in Taurus, whether you’ve done the work around it or not. And for me, this is all occurring in my 8th house of shared resources and what we do with what isn’t fully in our control. That’s where my natal Saturn placement sits at home. So it’s not just triggering the dynamic I’m in with my partner as we merge resources under one roof; it’s also triggering the financial wounds coming up as I continue building my own self-sufficiency through my business and now this added part time job.

Up until now, I’ve been heavily focused on the structure I need to maintain in my life. But with Chiron here, it becomes an invitation to actually heal the bruise underneath all of my worries, not just manage the stress I feel around it.

This past week alone, I was suggested twice to try to pick up more hours at my part-time job that I want to keep part-time. And I did reconsider for a slight second that maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to say no to more money... but that’s where I end up getting caught up. These are the little moments where I’m meant to practice saying no or at least taking more time to think, and I recognize that now.

Like clockwork, my brain starts handing back the reasons I already know are true: I’m not meant to hustle the way this world tells everyone to hustle. The part-time job on top of my business is enough right now. It’s not pushing me to a breaking point, and it’s not too little either. I know exactly where I could make more if I wanted to. But right now, doing what I’m capable of doing is the whole assignment. Just like Rion said, my lesson is learning the difficulty of the slow climb, of “less is better.”

I know what that can look like from the outside looking in. It can seem like I’m not being ambitious or driven enough, or that I’m stuck, or moving too slowly. But maybe I’m just in metamorphosis. Instead of treating these moments as critiques, I’ve started treating them as invitations to come back to myself, to know what’s true for my own capacity and pace. I think the lesson under this Chiron retrograde is realizing that I can attract what I’m worthy and deserving of financially without pushing myself past the edge to get there.

Long term, this placement also suggests I’m not meant to live in financial struggle forever. It’s actually predictive of a pretty luxurious life later in adulthood, which confirms a gut feeling I’ve always had that I was meant to live well, and that for some reason it wasn’t meant to come through simply hustling for it. I know to some people that just sounds like an excuse to do nothing, but that isn’t what I’m saying. The lessons showing up right now are teaching me how to actually sustain the incoming wealth later. Work smart, not hard is what my mom always said, and I think I understand now what that actually means for me.

So I’m done overexplaining this part of myself. Every single time I’ve pushed past my limit chasing money instead of trusting what I already have in motion, I’ve ended up back in crisis. And every single time I’ve chosen to slow down instead, to find the emotional balance my Libra Moon also requires, the evidence has always shown up fairly quickly: a high-paying client, a post that goes viral, a door that swings open without me kicking it in. So yeah, I believe the pattern because I’ve watched it repeat.

People can be confused by how I live and work. That’s allowed. But I’m not going to keep feeling the need to defend it. And I’m looking forward to enjoying even more rest with this Chiron Retrograde!

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Which makes sense because this month is asking us to move with a lot more intention. It’s not meant to be passive—August wants us to choose, to act, and to actually show up for ourselves in the ways we have maybe been putting off. Buckle in, because this forecast is a long one!!!

Collective Theme of the Month: Courage

As I entered the energy of August with the Power Deck, the ultimate invitation that came through was to step into real, actionable power with COURAGE. This upcoming month, we’re being pushed to take brave steps toward situations that might make us feel like "fish out of water"—disconnected, exposed, and entirely out of our comfort zone—but of course it’s all with a higher plan in mind!

The painting on the back of the card, Where Heart and Spirit Travel, illustrates “an idea beyond what we usually experience.” It depicts two fish swimming through a bamboo forest, with the Himalayas in the distance. And just like these fish, we are fully capable of adapting and learning to swim in a completely new atmosphere; moving forward with a renewed sense of purpose.

Grounding Our Higher Consciousness

As I was looking intuitively at the art, there was a profound layer to the fish leaving the cold Himalayan peaks behind them. While high mountaintops tend to represent an elevated state of consciousness, they can also become an isolating, detached place to live. It’s easy to stay stuck in a “higher ground” mentality that separates us from the connection of reality. But this can create a colder dynamic where the routine habitually becomes one preferring to look down on others, or to hide in logical or spiritual isolation.

True power doesn’t live in the clouds where nothing bothers you. The fish are actively swimming away from the frozen mountains and heading back down to earth, and they’re bringing their accumulated wisdom down with them. There’s something about coming back down to Earth this month, but gently—with it being a Fire Horse year and all, we have to be extra careful of not crashing and burning.

Breaking the Cycles of Addiction and Clinging

To live our power with courage, we must look at what we’re being asked to leave behind as we embark on this descent. We tend to cling to what’s familiar, even when it’s toxic, barren, or no longer serves our growth. But this month, the horizon is clearing!

August’s theme focuses intensely on discovering our own power and meaning by having the courage to give up our addictions. We’re being asked to stop limiting ourselves with outdated beliefs and to face the specific things we cling to for false comfort, including:

• Literal dependencies: Substance use, sex, or alcohol.

• Behavioral patterns: Relentlessly isolating ourselves to avoid vulnerability or losing our structure or freedom, or conversely drowning out our inner voice by constantly needing company to depend on.

• Quiet emotional traps: The paralyzing fear of failure, the addictive need for outside approval and validation, the anxiety of being left behind.

The Invitation: Live Your Power

This month, the horizon is clearing, but possibly in unexpected ways. Something that might look like an immediate loss or impossible shift from where you’re standing is actually the space and opportunity required for genuine clarity and progress to break through.

It takes immense bravery to drop what you’ve been tightly clutching, crossing the boundary of your own self-imposed limitations, and walking directly into the unknown. Trust that the strength you need is already alive within you, and take the step anyway.

What's Moving In This Month

The energy, opportunities, and shifts entering this month come through as the Three of Swords reversed, with the Hierophant at the top of my deck and the Four of Pentacles reversed at the bottom. I find this to be a really beautiful and positive alignment to begin our month with. There’s a collective loosening of a tight mental and emotional grip that has held us back for far too long. We’re finally being supported to learn, integrate, and move forward!

The Core Shift: Mental and Emotional Healing

The Three of Swords reversed brings a long-awaited wave of mental and emotional relief. If you’ve felt stuck on something or unable to move past a painful situation, August introduces a much less “sticky” energy. There’s relief coming, even if it doesn’t arrive all at once.

The Crowning Support: Co-Regulation and Wisdom

With The Hierophant presiding over the top of the deck, our Collective healing is heavily supported this month by wisdom that we've already gained, a fresh look at the traditions and structures that we’re building, and support systems that show us we don't have to walk our paths alone. August is a month of finding healing through community, therapy, mentorship, spiritual guidance, and co-regulation with trusted peers who can genuinely hold space for your emotional needs.

Use this month to learn from the collective mirrors and structures around you. What do they reflect to you about the life you intend to build for yourself?

For me, I think I’m seeing more clearly how I want to choose love and connection from a place of clear intention, rather than just circumstance or dependency. I definitely feel like this month is going to push me to build true self-sufficiency that allows me to choose my circle out of genuine fulfillment and alignment, not just because I need their support to get by.

The Grounding Release: Softening the Grip

The Four of Pentacles reversed at the bottom of the deck signals a major shift in our contracts, agreements, and interpersonal dynamics, urging us to release what no longer serves our growth—whether that's a career or educational path, a relationship, a business structure or way of managing money; something needs to be let go of here. Even if it’s your own guardedness.

As a result, the lingering fear and hesitation around speaking up, taking up space, or pivoting toward new opportunities is beginning to dissolve. This isn't happening in a fully conscious way for most people; it reads more like a subconscious pattern that we should gently notice rather than feel guilty about. That inner softening opens up a hidden opportunity to revisit past plans and connections with fresh eyes, filtering our reflections through empathy and emotional understanding rather than coldness or bitterness. It feels like a time when two opposing things can be true at once, prompting some of us to check in with people we once quietly told ourselves we were done reaching out to.

Ultimately, some relationships that have gone cold may start to warm again this month simply because someone finds the courage to reach back out, proving again that this mental and emotional healing could bring A WHOLE LOT of physical and external change.

What's Moving Out This Month

Through the Eight of Cups and the Seven of Wands reversed at the top of the deck, I see that there's a final breaking point arriving where the overwhelm and tension felt in certain circumstances are actually pushing the collective in the right direction. We’re finally being supported to drop our guards, name our patterns, and stop choosing emotional self-abandonment out of love for others.

The Core Shift: Stepping Out of the Fight

The Seven of Wands reversed carries the energy of exhaustion, giving in, and walking away out of disappointment rather than defeat. If you've been spending time fiercely defending your position or staying hyper vigilant in a situation that continuously drains you, August introduces a much-needed opportunity for surrender. For some, this shift looks like a long-standing pattern of self-abandonment finally being seen for what it is. It's going to look like actively walking away from environments, dynamics, and battles that you're tired of being overwhelmed by.

And your choice to do so might ruffle some feathers—but that's OKAY. Being unapologetically yourself this month might trigger other people's shadows, but that isn't an automatic sign that you're doing something wrong… unless you're also disregarding and disrespecting the boundaries and respect that others deserve as well. This is actually a supportive, cosmic nudge steering us away from things we desperately need to continue avoiding.

August is the month of looking at where you've been fighting for people that don't fight for you, or for things that don’t align with you. What is this tension actually trying to push you away from?

The Grounding Release: Walking Away with Grief

The Eight of Cups at the heart of this clearing signals a major shift in our emotional landscapes as we pack up and choose to leave. There's real, valid grief in walking away from something, even when you know that deep down it's the right choice for yourself.

This month, we’re cutting off connections and agreements that feel controlling, clingy, or completely unable to let us simply be who we are. As a result, the lingering dependencies on toxic comfort zones are beginning to dissolve. This walk, whether it's literal or emotional, might feel incredibly disorienting and sad in the moment, but it reads more like a soul-level rescue mission than a loss.

This departure opens up a hidden opportunity to take your most valuable lessons with you, filtering your next steps through emotional maturity rather than bitterness. It feels like a final straw situation where old structures must collapse so a more authentic life can take its place.

What You Need to Know to Navigate This Month

What we need to know to navigate the month of August comes through as the heavy, responsible energy of the Ten of Wands, with The World reversed at the top of the deck, and the Three of Wands at the bottom of the deck. Lining up with the first full month of Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Aries, this feels like a final exam where you can't skip the lesson or rush through it. Saturn is handing us a major structural reality check about our real responsibilities, while Neptune is completely pulling back the curtain on our delusions, addictions, and the fantasy versions of situations we’ve clung to out of fear.

Rushing through this mess just leads to even messier mistakes that could be avoided by slowing down and paying attention—wisdom my mom used to share that feels extremely relevant right now.

The Three of Wands at the bottom of the deck reminds us that taking the longer, harder route is often where the real growth, luck, and alignment are waiting for us. It's about looking at the bigger picture, showing up for the identity you're trying to grow into rather than just how you feel in the moment, and focusing on the long-term output instead of today's immediate comfort.

A lot of these lessons are ones we've already faced, failed, or learned from before, and while we can look back and see exactly what we would've done differently before, this month those same familiar lessons are circling back for us to actually follow through on the awareness we previously gained.

Where to Focus Your Energy

This one comes through as the Magician reversed, with the Ten of Swords at the top of the deck and the Page of Wands at the bottom. There’s an opportunity here to look at the places where you feel like you have no control, and to question whether that is actually true, shifting your mindset from frustration to pure resourcefulness. With so many choices in front of you right now, the real work is grounding yourself enough to pick the right path instead of anxiously grabbing at whatever is closest.

Some of this heavy weight comes from trying to force something out of nothing, which clouds your vision and ties back into Saturn retrograde's demand to look at your resources differently. Underneath it all, this isn't about you being prideful, arrogant, or stubborn—even if it feels that way on the surface, it's just fear. It's the fear of abandoning someone or something else, when the reality is that the only real abandonment happening is the one you're doing to yourself.

Turning a situation around for your own good might mean being cast as the difficult one in someone else’s story, but that usually happens when you've been more focused on their needs and more terrified of letting them down than letting yourself down. If that resonates, you likely already know exactly how you feel and where those feelings are asking you to go. The block isn't a lack of clarity; it's that you're waiting for a green light or an approval you don't actually need from anyone else.

Spirit is asking you to choose yourself here—not because others don't matter, but because continuing to abandon yourself is only recreating the exact dissatisfaction you're trying to move away from.

Guidance

Overall guidance and closing energy for the month of August comes through the advice card Boundless Possibilities, reminding us that we’re standing at the edge of limitless potential and shouldn’t limit our dreams based on past experiences.

Spirit is warning us not to rush out of impulsivity, anger, or frustration into any of our choices because August carries heavy karmic weight as a numerological 8 month. The past is bound to show up again—not always as people, but as the way we respond to old triggers and the patterns we default to when we feel pressured or triggered. This month is less about anyone else and more about how you want to show up in the world, how you want to go after what you actually want, and how you can motivate and encourage yourself instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you.

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Astrological Overview

Opening August with the North Node in Aquarius and the South Node in Leo keeps our focus on innovation and what it means to be better for the collective, but almost in reverse this time. Because the South Node is in Leo, it represents the ego-driven validation, isolation, and performance patterns we’re actively draining and outgrowing.

With a massive lineup of transit hitting Leo this month, including Mercury entering Leo and a powerful Solar Eclipse on the 12th, the cosmos is intentionally making the old way of doing things feel incredibly loud and exhausting. The universe is pushing us to a breaking point with our own pride and people-pleasing tendencies, forcing us to ask ourselves whether we're being authentic or just looking for applause and validation. So at the end of the day, the real question becomes how we can be better for ourselves first, so that our offerings to others actually comes from a full place instead of an empty one.

For a lot of people, this is a chance to look back at the ways we limited ourselves in the name of not being selfish, prideful, or "too much", and asking what a healthier relationship with ego and pride could actually look like. There’s an incredible amount of opportunity ahead of us, but we have to slow down enough to actually see it clearly.

As an 8 month in a 10/1 universal year, the numerology amplifies a potent combination of material power and ultimate rebirth, reminding us that we're navigating a major collective turning point while warning us not to move so fast and so fiery that we burn ourselves out. Some of us are going to want to move quickly based on how we feel, and that’s not a bad thing. It's not about ignoring how you feel; it’s just about not letting your feelings rush you into the wrong response.

Here are a few of the bigger astrological events to keep on your radar this month. I’ll be breaking each of these down in more depth as the weeks unfold, but here’s a quick chronological overview of what’s coming and how they apply.

• We open the month still in the post-shadow phase of the Mercury retrograde that just wrapped up in sensitive Cancer: tie up loose ends, give yourself extra grace, and process any lingering family or emotional patterns that surfaced.

• Chiron stations retrograde in grounded Taurus on August 3rd: witness old wounds around money, security, and your true self-worth.

• Venus moves into her home sign of harmonious Libra on August 6th: brings balance, aesthetic clarity, and peaceful collaboration to your relationships.

• Mercury struts into bold Leo on August 9th: (My Mercury return!) shed the summer’s heavy nostalgia, speak with main-character confidence, and express your authentic truth.

• Mars enters protective Cancer on August 11th: (My Mars return!) guard your emotional energy, nurture your home space, and make moves directly from the heart.

• The New Moon and Solar Eclipse land in fiery Leo on August 12th: expect accelerated new beginnings, a massive clean-out of old roles, and major shifts around identity.

• Mercury conjuncts Jupiter in theatrical Leo on August 15th: embrace expansive, lucky thinking, pitch big ideas, and let your voice confidently take up the space it deserves.

• Virgo season begins on August 22nd! Slow down to integrate the eclipse season and focus on grounding your daily routines.

• Mercury enters his home sign of analytical Virgo on August 25th: sharpens your mental clarity; make sure to double-check your plans and look at the fine details.

• We get a clarifying Mercury cazimi in Virgo on August 27th: receive divine mental downloads and breakthrough structural insights.

• The month closes with a dreamy Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon in intuitive Pisces on August 28th: surrender to absolute emotional release, dissolve your rigid boundaries, and trust your intuition.

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August Horoscopes: What Each Sign Needs to Know

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But lately, I’ve started to wonder if it’s not really a coincidence. I know, I know—everything doesn’t have to have a spiritual meaning behind it. BUT it doesn’t hurt to just check, and when I look at my natal chart, Leo rules my 12th house—the house of the unseen, the undone, and private processing. This is where my analytical mind hides, because it holds my natal Mercury alongside my Virgo North Node. But my Leo Sun shines warmly on my community, visibility, and long-term goals in the 11th house. That’s what I think some of the birthday blues are really about: this quiet, over-analytical habit of burrowing into my 12th house, contrasted against a deep desire to be seen and celebrated every year.

I naturally tend to downplay my own needs and wants, keeping them safely locked away in my mind. But if I’m being completely honest, I want it all. I want the gifts, the surprise parties, the out-of-country trips, and the romantic dinners with bouquets of flowers. I want the balloon-decorated rooms, the shopping sprees, and people publicly celebrating me on social media. I want to feel like a little girl at her own birthday party again, one that she doesn’t have to plan herself.

And more than anything, I want to not feel selfish for admitting that. I want the people in my life to want to do things for me without me having to ask. It’s not that I’ve gone through life without ever receiving this kind of love; I’ve been blessed with some very fulfilling moments in the past where I allowed people to show up for me exactly the way I wanted. But the truth is, people don’t always show up, and that consistency hasn’t always been there. I think this is just a space for me to practice stating my desires directly and realizing that it doesn’t make me a bad person—it’s just good old-fashioned human ego.

Because it’s never really about the extravagance; it’s about the thoughtfulness and consideration. I’m a Leo whose favorite love language is acts of service. When people actively go out of their way to show me they’re thinking of me, or how much I truly mean to them, it makes me feel good in a deeply sentimental way.

But I also know that the magic only happens when I bridge the gap. If I don’t set a clear expectation out loud, it usually doesn’t get met. On the flip side, if I do express my needs and they still aren’t met, it becomes much easier to pick myself up, pivot, and spend the day solo—celebrating myself exactly how I best know how.

So this year, I’m not pretending that the sadness isn’t part of the story. But I also can’t ignore what the stars are doing, because as far as I can tell, they’ll never align on my special day quite like this ever again…

The Cazimi: Crowning the Hero

Globally, astrologers are calling this Wednesday the “Day of Miracles” and one of the luckiest days of the year. Collectively, the atmosphere will be charged with a sudden, radiant burst of optimism, creative rebirth, and a demand to stop playing small. And because it’s happening in bold, expressive Leo, the collective theme is a profound heart-centered reset. It’s an energetic wave pushing everyone to reconnect with their inner child, reclaim their playfulness, and find the courage to reject any learned patterns of hiding their true selves from the world.

The universe is essentially giving us all a collective green light to take up space, launch bold ideas, and speak our desires into existence!

But on a hyper-personal level, this alignment gets incredibly loud for me because this cosmic union takes place less than an hour before my actual time of birth—effectively supercharging my Solar Return. Jupiter, the planet of expansion, luck, and generosity, is cazimi-ing within 11 arcminutes of my natal Sun placement in the 11th house of community, visibility, and dreams. So for the non-astrology boys and girls out there, that means it’ll basically be exact.

“Crown yourself the hero of your own story,” they say. “Take the leap of faith and believe in the best possible outcome.” But what does that leap actually look like for me? In the 11th house, it could be something public, or something that affects my long-term plans. It means stepping out of my own shadow and testing the reality of my relationships by directly asking for what I want, and trusting that the people in my sphere will gladly rise to the occasion if I clear the path for them.

So maybe this is the year I actually let myself receive that spotlight, or take another grand leap of faith, instead of just writing and wondering about it.

The Full Moon: The Homework Assignment

A little over two hours later, at 10:36 AM EST, we get the Full Moon in Aquarius, opposite this cazimi, with Pluto retrograde close by. For the collective, this Full Moon is about translating our mushy feelings into something innovative and useful. Aquarius wants data, clarity, and a plan you can actually act on—not just a vibe. And with it sitting directly across from a Sun-Jupiter cazimi, whatever’s culminating right now is doing it under some pretty generous, expansive light… so the ask isn’t to shrink the feeling down; it’s to actually use it.

Figure out what you’re building, and who you’re building it with. With Pluto retrograde in the mix, there’s also an undertow of “what are you ready to actually transform, not just talk about?”

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For me specifically, the Pluto-influenced Full Moon is landing at the tail end of my natal 5th house ruled by Capricorn, both of them lighting up my natal Neptune and Uranus placements, also in Aquarius, in that same house.

The 5th house covers creativity, romance, and self-expression. My natal Neptune there means I tend to fall in love with potential. I see what something could become before I’ve fully looked at what it actually is, and that haze is very comfortable until it isn’t. My natal Uranus is in its ruling sign in that same house, which makes it a core part of me rather than a passing phase, and it means I need real freedom inside of love, not just excitement—actual room to be unpredictable and not boxed into someone else’s structure for me.

With Pluto retrograde and this Full Moon activating both of those points directly, and opposing the cazimi in my house of long-term vision, I’m being asked to look honestly at whether I’ve been loving what’s possible instead of what’s real, and whether the kind of freedom I actually need has room to exist in the life I’m currently building. I honestly don’t have that fully answered yet, but I’ve definitely been feeling the pressure here. Maybe spending another birthday alone is what I need to gain that clarity.

But also… maybe not. The South Node in Leo sitting almost exactly on top of my natal Mercury in my 12th house is my instinct to dramatically disappear and process this alone, in my head, before I include the opinions and feelings of others. That’s the oldest habit I have, and choosing another quiet birthday entertaining myself would just be me handing in the same assignment one more time, saying it’s “good enough”, right as the stars are closing the grade book on it.

The North Node in Aquarius in my 6th is asking for something almost boring by comparison—an actual daily structure that includes society. Not a dramatic reveal, just me letting the ordinary parts of my life include other people instead of defaulting to solo survival mode. So there’s something a little funny about reaching for solitude as the safe move on the exact day my chart is telling me solitude isn’t the assignment anymore. So I guess that’s why I still asked my mom to make me my favorite dinner for us and my sister to enjoy the night of, besides that… I’m still winging it.

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The Numerology of 28

So here’s where I think I land with all of this, at least for now. This year doesn’t feel like it’s asking me to perform some big ending or beginning for anyone. It feels more like it’s asking me to let the private clarity of my 12th house finally stop hiding and catch up to the public Sun of my 11th house. To stop silencing the parts of myself that already know what they need, and let that knowing change how I show up in reality, instead of just being something I carry quietly as a performative burden.

And of course, the numerology of my age had to catch my eye as well. 28 collapses down to a 10—and a 10 simplifies further to a 1. A 1 is new beginnings. But a 10 is completion first... the closing of a cycle before a new one can really start. And as a life path 9, I know that process a little too well. I don’t think you get much of a fresh start without finishing what came before it first, and these days that mindset helps to me to accept a lot of endings much more easily.

So that’s the birthday, I guess. Crowned and a little tender at the same time, which feels about right for a Leo who’s spent the last year slowly learning that taking up space and being honest with herself might not be two different things after all. And maybe the smallest way I can practice that this year is just saying, out loud, that I want to be celebrated... instead of waiting around for someone to guess.

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And I’m not trying to say this maliciously—like people deserve to be abandoned the second their needs become too heavy for someone else to carry. But what I mean is: why do we keep telling people to love unconditionally, which literally means without terms, exceptions, or limits?

We all agree on that definition, right? So do we actually hear what we’re promoting when we tell people to love in that manner? With that mindset?

Because key aspects of practicing unconditional love include giving absolute freedom, having no hidden rules, and providing total support…. While beautiful in theory, throwing this concept around so casually diminishes the complex responsibilities required to actually practice it.

With the Mercury Retrograde in Cancer finally over, I’ve been reflecting on the fact that loving someone will always come with conditions—as they damn well should. The illusive astrological transit really stirred up some questions within me surrounding how I truly receive love, affection, and care—because personally, I would never blindly give anyone absolute freedom to act or treat me in ways that would only please them. Because what if it doesn’t please me?

The Mirror, The Move, and The Cosmic Blueprint

A decade ago, I met a literal mirror of my current boyfriend, and the triggers and wounds from that past connection have reappeared in incredibly loud ways these past few weeks.

Moving into my boyfriend’s house so early into us meeting—especially after facing the jarring transition of leaving my mother’s home—stirred up some deeply rooted survival wounds. And if you look at the synastry of our charts, the cosmic blueprint explains exactly why this transition hit us both so hard. His Sun, Moon, Mercury, and North Node all land directly in my 4th house of home and foundations. His literal existence in my life acts as a massive spotlight and mirror on my inner child’s grief and need for both physical and emotional security.

At the same time, this situation is directly affected by my Saturn in Taurus in the 8th house, while my own Sun, Venus, and Mars placements are all occupying his 8th house. Because this house rules shared resources, deep intimacy, shadow work, and merged lives, the cross-activation is intense. Our connection and this specific move were always going to trigger growing pains, forcing us both to mature and establish firm, self-respecting boundaries. I see now that this is an opportunity for growth, rather than proof that something is inherently wrong. The real frustration lately wasn’t the boundaries themselves—it was the painful process of shedding an old identity that believed it wasn’t safe to set them.

As a Leo Sun in the 11th house and a Leo Mercury in the 12th house, I am naturally built to shine, speak my truth, and stand in my power. However, the 12th house rules the subconscious and self-undoing. For a long time, I operated from the unevolved expression of these placements by sacrificing my own needs to avoid friction. My early relationship habits left me with a distorted blueprint: required me to shrink into a structured box I already didn't fit. I learned that it was safe to be a safe harbor for others, but unsafe to ask for that same care in return—because asking was routinely met with deflection and conflict instead of being honored.

But when I look at my current relationship’s Progressed Composite Chart (an astrological technique that predicts the evolution of a connection over time), a lot of things started to make sense because the identity of our relationship has shifted entirely into the realm of Scorpio.

Scorpio commands its power from the depths of our raw, vulnerable truths, choosing the grit of real shadow work over the comfort of fake harmony. For us, this required confronting how our respective neurodivergent minds create a disconnect in how we perceive, communicate through conflict, and empathize with one another. And what’s funny is that this friction is literally written in our astrology as well: my Libra Moon squares his Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn, while my Cancer Venus and Mars oppose the same two planets—signaling two entirely different lenses for intimacy.

My Cancer placements process conflict through deep, protective, emotional waves that crave nearness, reassurance, and being felt. And that makes total sense for a woman with ADHD who deals with a lot of anxiety from previously suppressed emotions. On the flip side, his Capricorn outer planets—and even his Aquarius Venus—pull the opposite way, toward space, self-containment, and logical structure rather than emotional immediacy. This also aligns heavily with his AuDHD.

So for a while there, we were completely crossing wires. No matter how much we tried to communicate through it, it didn’t seem like either of us actually felt understood.

During this retrograde, I felt constantly deflected, while he felt overwhelmed by my emotionally chaotic rhythm and physical needs—demands that pushed past the edges of his already incredibly structured way of living. It instantly triggered an echo from ten years ago, when those exact patterns surfaced right after moving in with my ex. Back then, that dynamic drove me to prioritize my partner’s desires for the future over my own, resulting in my eventual departure from the sheer burnout of caretaking and never feeling truly taken care of.

But this time? I refused to let myself continue simmering in silence. With transiting Jupiter now in Leo expanding my Sun, my Mercury, and my twelfth house, it’s magnifying my need for radical self-expression and visibility. It’s the energetic pressure behind why I can no longer repeat that old and suffocating pattern, even if shrinking used to be the only route I knew how to take. This transit is turning up the volume on my worth and demanding that I take up space instead of hiding to keep a fake peace.

And what’s even more funny about the situation is that the day Mercury stationed direct—and right after one of our bigger tiffs—my boyfriend sent me this YouTube video to kind of break the silence after the storm. It was something that had helped him realize what I was truly asking from him every time he thought I was just incessantly trying to bring up issues he thought he had already resolved.

Looking back, it also helped me understand more of how and why our honeymoon period felt so cut short to me. It wasn't just because life forced our timeline to move faster than we wanted… it's because we'd put each other on these lofty pedestals. We were trapped in this mindset of, "this person completely gets me, I finally found what I was looking for, and I'm finally gonna be nurtured exactly how I desire. They're my ultimate safe space now, so there's no need to talk about how this move is gonna go because it's gonna be PERFECT!" We didn't realize we hadn't even fully learned each other's actual boundaries yet, let alone tried to communicate them as openly and directly as we should've.

So for all of Mercury Retrograde, that was the backtracking we were doing!!🙂 Our neurodivergence made it so easy and natural for us to dive into the deep end together and feel completely comfortable there. But the second any natural friction happened, I instantly treated it like a massive red flag of incompatibility that I must've missed… instead of realizing that's just what happens when you're actually still getting to know someone you've been playing house with.

Cultivating the Right Seeds

Relationships force us to grow so much, and let's be real… the growing pains can be quite uncomfortable to experience. They force us to realize that these generalized, cliché phrases we're given regarding love don't always serve us—they just end up promoting submissiveness, silent resentment, and disillusionment.

Two unique individuals are never going to blend their lives together without a little friction. It isn’t natural. So instead of treating that friction like a red flag, I’ve started seeing it as an opportunity to grow in ways I wouldn’t have achieved on my own. This relationship acts as a mirror that triggers that necessary development.

And when I really think about it, showing up authentically as ourselves, daring to take up space, and refusing to silence our voices is exactly how we move toward that idealized unconditional love. That’s how we heal the quiet parts of ourselves that whisper back our fears of never being able to receive that type of true devotion.

Because the truth is, you can find someone who actually wants to help you carry whatever weight it is that you’re holding onto. Someone out there wants to learn your boundaries and standards just as much as your dreams and desires, and how to respect all of the above. How to respect you. All you have to do is be brave and open enough to ask, and then remain open and patient enough to receive it. Which is something I think really aligns with the message of The Sun card that I pulled earlier, and its corresponding affirmation:

You don’t have to change who you are to receive what you want to manifest… you just have to be determined enough to align with where it's actually available to you. To recognize the opportunity for what it really is, just like the Magic Mushroom’s affirmation suggests:

It made me realize that we can have the fairytale; it just doesn’t realistically come wrapped in the same version of “unconditional love” that I heard someone say yesterday is really only reserved for our pets and plants. And I think that makes a whole lot of sense because when you think about it, it doesn't matter who the person is in your life—I do believe that everyone has a limit when it comes to what you're willing to receive from someone that you love, whether it's a parent, a sibling, a friend, or a partner.

Real magic requires us to be completely transparent and incredibly intentional about our terms. It comes wrapped with the messy middle most movies cut short for us humans.

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Building a life with someone isn’t just about finding your similarities and enjoying them. It’s the unglamorous process of figuring out your differences, your communication styles, and how you handle conflict. It’s your private shadow work expanding into a spotlight, because once you’re together, you know you have at least one singular person in the audience watching your every move… and every single one of your flaws.

That's what honestly makes it all so hard, because now you’ve got a mirror showing you exactly where you’re still bleeding.

Being fiercely independent means you’re used to always getting and having your way. And romanticizing unconditional love while settling for your own self-abandonment means you never have to deal with the pressure of finding true fulfillment… the kind of satisfaction that only comes when you are truly witnessed and upheld as you are, not as what makes you convenient and digestible for someone else.

The real magic of love isn’t that it’s unconditional; it’s that the conditions are fully embraced. It’s true compromise, and being respected as an individual while still being part of a team—patient enough to honor each other’s growing pains. Sometimes part of the magic is accepting that you don’t always know what seed you’re being handed until you give it the proper time and space to actually sprout. It means sitting with someone through the colder seasons and actively practicing the kind of patience, empathy, kindness, grace, and surrender that love requires.

Tapping Into Your Own Alignment✨

This message of reclaiming our boundaries and standing firm in our conditions came through incredibly loud during my latest collective reading for Venus Day. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch the video below and read the caption where I break down why the distance or breaking points the collective could’ve been experiencing lately were actually a divine clearing, making room for true intimacy.

If any of your relationships are currently going through their own heavy growing pains, or if you’re navigating the aftermath of this recent Mercury retrograde, let’s look at your personal cosmic blueprint together!

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We can dive into the cards or into your chart to uncover your unique communication style and find the clarity you need to cultivate a love that fully respects your conditions💛✨

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When major shifts line up perfectly like this, the universe is forcing us to pay attention. This isn’t just a fleeting daily vibe; it’s a total reorientation of our collective energy and personal paths. We’re moving away from the watery, boundless themes of the Pisces North Node and stepping into a far more innovative, intellectual, and community-focused era.

But the universe isn’t just straight dropping us into this cold. The runway leading up to the 26th is incredibly intentional. The sky’s actively giving us the breakthroughs, confidence, and voice we need so we can actually stand our ground with determination while the big shifts land.

The Runway: The Cosmic Build Up (July 18 – July 25)

Before we even reach the 26th, we have to cross a major astrological bridge. That journey starts right now with a rare geometric alignment in the sky known as the Barbault Basket, which reaches exact perfection between July 19th and July 22nd. A basket alignment happens when all five of our slower-moving outer planets group together in one section of the sky, linking up through a series of harmonious trines and sextiles to form a literal geometric safety net.

This specific basket is anchored by a massive opposition between Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius, which is beautifully cradled by supportive links from Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, and Saturn in Aries acting as the heavy anchor. Think of it as a massive container for high-vibrational air energy.

On a social level, it’s sparking sudden epiphanies, major technological upgrades, and fast-moving shifts in how we connect globally. On a personal level, it acts like a cosmic safety valve—holding space for you to receive sudden downloads and brilliant flashes of clarity without feeling overwhelmed. If you’ve been waiting to map out your next big project, business launch, or spiritual offering, this is your green light. The ideas are hitting fast, the answers are flowing, and the cosmic runway is officially clear!

I’m feeling this high-voltage air net in my own life right now, especially when it comes to finding a deeper sense of clarity and stability. For me, this energy is showing up as a quiet reassurance to trust the hidden pace of my creative projects—like the book I’ve been slowly working on behind the scenes—and allowing the inspiration to cook without rushing it.

It’s also acting as a massive grounding wire in my personal life. Merging paths and living with someone so early into a new relationship requires a lot of raw maturity, and this alignment has given me the exact courage I’ve needed to show up with more confidence. It’s helped me break old habits of staying silent and shrinking my own values and desires just to avoid conflict with others, while also opening my heart to hear the critiques I’ve needed to hear myself.

Navigating those boundaries hasn’t been easy, but handling things with honesty and checking our egos is exactly how we’re building a rock-solid foundation for the future instead of rushing the process.

Next, on July 22nd, the Sun enters Leo, kicking off my birthday… I mean Leo season! Collectively, this injects a burst of confidence, passion, and the desire to be seen. But because this happens just days before the South Node enters Leo, it’s going to immediately highlight where our swelling egos or desires for personal glory need to be checked by reality. It’s a bright spotlight revealing exactly what parts of our “main character energy” we’re preparing to shed.

I’m seeing this theme show up clearly in my own chart right now. Because of how my houses line up, my Leo planets bridge my house of community and my house of the subconscious. It basically forces me to act as a mirror, channeling and speaking on the deeper, hidden shifts we're all experiencing. Right as Leo season kicks off, I’ve got transiting Jupiter sitting right on top of my natal Sun, multiplying my views and business growth, while the transiting Sun directly opposes my natal Neptune. It’s a huge cosmic reminder for me to stay grounded, and to remember that true empowerment isn't about feeding a loud ego or chasing an individual spotlight—it’s about having the quiet integrity to align our inner motivations with our actual long-term reality.

Let’s look at what each modality can expect this season. Check the readings below for your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs to see how this energy is playing out for you with some tarot!✨

Cardinal Signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)

Page of Cups Reversed, guided by Strength

You’re walking into Leo season with your emotional world already feeling a bit clogged or hard to access, and that’s likely to deepen once the south node moves into Leo on the 26th. Feelings that usually move through you pretty easily might get stuck instead, and you could catch yourself holding back what you actually feel or being more reactive than usual about something that really just needs a grounded response. As the south node settles into Leo, this can start looking like avoidance dressed up as “I’m fine.” The move isn’t to force your way through it though. It’s to meet whatever’s coming up with quiet steadiness, taming what’s wild in you with compassion instead of control. You don’t need to shut your feelings down or perform having it together. You just need some patience with yourself while you work through it.

Fixed Signs (Leo, Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius)

The Emperor Reversed, guided by the Seven of Cups

You’re the modality that’s going to feel this seasonal shift the most directly, especially once the south node lands in Leo on the 26th and really turns up the heat. Structures, control, or authority you’ve been leaning on could start to feel shaky, whether that’s your own sense of power getting questioned or you butting up against a rigidity—yours or someone else’s—that used to feel safe and now just feels confining. As the south node settles in, that swelling ego energy is going to need to get checked by reality in a pretty direct way. Your job right now, and even more so as the season goes on, is discernment. There’s a lot on the table; a lot of options and fantasies and versions of yourself you could chase, but not all of it is real or worth your energy. Slow down before you commit to a direction and get honest about what’s actual ambition versus what’s just ego wanting to feel important. Clarity is the win here, not speed.

Mutable Signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)

Three of Pentacles Reversed, guided by the High Priestess and Six of Wands

You might start feeling a little out of sync with the people or systems around you as this season unfolds, like your effort isn’t landing the way you want it to, or you’re working solo when you’d rather be collaborating. That’s likely to sharpen once the south node moves into Leo on the 26th and puts more pressure on how you’re being seen and credited. There could be a mismatch between what you’re putting in and how it’s being recognized, and that can feel isolating if you’re not careful. What you need to do is trust what you already know quietly, before you need anyone else to confirm it for you. Tune into your own inner knowing instead of looking outward for validation. And once you’ve done that inner work, the recognition does come. You get to step into being seen for what you’ve actually built, not just what’s loud.

The ultimate relief happens on July 23rd when Mercury finally stations direct in Cancer. The cosmic green light turns back on, and the heavy, protective emotional fog we’ve been wading through starts to clear.

We immediately roll into the post-retrograde shadow period, which will linger until the shadow officially clears on August 7, 2026. Because this happens in the sensitive and intuitive sign of Cancer, it gives us the courage to finally speak up about the deep, vulnerable emotional truths we’ve been sitting on. This moment takes the throat-chakra restrictions off just in time for the heavy restructuring of the 26th…

The Big Shifts: The Nodes and Saturn Retrograde (July 26)

Once the runway clears, we hit the main event on July 26th. The Lunar Nodes officially shift into the Aquarius and Leo axis at 8:50 PM EST, where they’ll stay until February 18th, 2028. For the last 18 months, the North Node in Pisces had us swimming in deep spiritual loops, surrender, and heavier emotional processing. We were navigating a lot of blurry boundaries and escaping into our feelings. Now, the North Node’s entering Aquarius while the South Node moves into Leo, which is a massive flip in perspective.

Socially and collectively, the South Node in Leo will demand that we shed our attachment to ego-driven spotlights and main character syndrome. We’re going to see a massive collective pushback against people who do things purely for their own validation, applause, or selfish gain. The universe is putting an end to the superficial clout-chasing era while the North Node in Aquarius pulls us toward our true soul tribes, collective progress, and humanitarian efforts.

It’s a loud call to figure out how our unique gifts can serve the greater community—meaning we have to transition from asking “what’s in it for me?” to asking “how can we all win together?”

Hours later, at 3:56 PM EST, Saturn stations retrograde at 14 degrees of Aries, and will continue its retreat until December 11, 2026. Saturn’s the planet of boundaries, rules, structures, and reality checks. In fiery, impulsive Aries, Saturn acts as a strict cosmic brake pedal. Aries wants to rush forward, fight, dominate, and pioneer blindly, but this retrograde says absolutely not.

Over the next few months, trying to force outcomes, dominate conversations, or throwing tantrums when things don’t go your way will hit a literal brick wall. Saturn retrograde here is going to force us to review our personal anger, our leadership styles, and how we handle impatience. It’s giving us the opportunity to rewire ourselves with maturity so that we can further stabilize the development of our long-term goals, rather than burning ourselves out on impulsive desires trying to get to them.

How This Shift Affects Your Path (Based on Your Rising Sign)

Here’s how to look out for this energy based on your rising sign. Because we’re using Placidus, remember these transits’ll likely bleed into the houses right before or after the main ones mentioned.

The North Node is our compass toward destiny—it’s the new, unfamiliar territory the universe is pushing us to master so we can grow. The South Node is our comfort zone, which means it’s the exact area where we tend to overindulge, play small, or repeat old karmic loops. This shift means the universe is draining the juice from your comfort zone so you have no choice but to build fresh muscles where the North Node’s calling you.

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Over the next several days, we’re moving through a handful of major energetic shifts—including Neptune stationing retrograde in Aries, Venus auditing our worth in Virgo, a karmic meeting with the South Node, a massive Mercury Cazimi squaring Saturn, and a fresh emotional reset via the Cancer New Moon. I want us to really pay attention as each one lands so we know how to work with them, rather than just being swept up in the current.

We’re already in the middle of a Mercury retrograde in Cancer, and that alone has us nostalgic, reflective, and rethinking things on both a mental and emotional level. Layer the rest of this week’s transits on top of that, and we’re looking at some real momentum toward clarity. Not the easy kind, but the type that strips away the noise until what’s left is completely undeniable.

Below, I’m breaking down the exact timeline of what’s happening, the psychological and evolutionary meaning behind these aspects and transits, and a tailored roadmap for your specific rising sign so you know exactly where this excavation is clearing the ground!

The Week Ahead:

• Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7th: Neptune stations retrograde in Aries

• Thursday, July 9th: Venus leaves fiery Leo and enters analytical Virgo

• Friday, July 10th: Venus meets the South Node in Virgo

• Sunday, July 12th: Mercury Cazimi in Cancer, squaring Saturn in Aries

• Tuesday, July 14th: New Moon in Cancer

Tuesday, July 7th: Neptune Turns Inward

The first domino falls tomorrow when Neptune stations retrograde in Aries, where it’ll remain until December 12th.

Neptune is the planet of everything we can’t quite hold in our hands—spirituality, faith, transcendence, surrender, and all the stuff that exists beyond the material. Archetypally, it represents the urge to dissolve boundaries and merge with something larger than ourselves. It also governs the places in life where we don’t get full control, direct clarity, or clean boundaries, no matter how deeply we desire it.

Which makes sense, because Neptune is also tied to healing and vulnerability on a larger scale. It rules institutions like hospitals, rehabs, and prisons, but more importantly, it rules the people within them. Neptune holds dominion over marginalized and vulnerable groups—the disabled, the incarcerated, the unhoused, and anyone who has been pushed to the fringes of society or institutionalized. It’s the planet of the people who need healing the most, carrying the collective weight of human suffering and empathy.

So this retrograde, in combination with Mercury’s, can really give us the push we need to take back the reins of our own individual healing journeys, especially when it comes to our emotions and feelings.

Which brings us to the last Neptune correlation—romance, though not in the flowers-and-candlelight way. Neptune’s sense of romance is about emotional exposure and connection felt beyond our physical interactions. It represents the idealized fantasy, the search for a soulmate, and the danger of projection. In a lot of ways, Neptune mirrors the Moon, which is part of why this week feels so saturated with intuitive energy. BOTH are holding authority over our days right now in different ways; the Moon rules our immediate emotional tides, while Neptune rules the deep, collective ocean beneath them.

Now, instead of dreaming outward or projecting illusions onto the world or other people, we’re being asked to sit with our own fantasies and actually look at them. And because this retrograde is landing in Aries—the first sign of the zodiac, a cardinal fire sign ruling the self, the physical body, raw initiative, ego, and independence—we’re being pushed to review the stories we’ve told ourselves about our drive, our courage, and who we are when we’re going after something alone.

Aries represents the warrior archetype, but Neptune’s fog can make our inner warrior feel like they’re swinging at ghosts. When we learn to work with it instead of resisting it, that’s when the healing actually sticks, the romance goes deeper, and our spiritual gifts start to sharpen instead of staying dormant.

• Where have you been chasing a version of independence that isn’t actually grounded in anything real?

• Where has your ego convinced you that you don’t need help, don’t need rest, or don’t need to slow down?

Retrograde Neptune in Aries doesn’t take away our fire; it just asks us to make sure that the fire is actually ours, not just a narrative we’ve been running on autopilot. If you’ve been feeling unmotivated, foggy, or unsure what you’re even chasing right now, that confusion isn’t random—it’s guiding you toward the clarity you seek.

If you want a soundtrack for this specific shift, queue up “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan. It perfectly captures that exact turning point where the illusions we’ve built around our independence start to crack. It forces us into that raw, uncomfortable space of asking who we actually are when the comfortable narratives we’ve run on autopilot are completely washed away.

Thursday, July 9th: Venus Shifts to Virgo

Two days later, Venus shifts signs, moving from Leo into Virgo. Venus is the planet of love, money, beauty, and self-worth. In our natal charts and transits, it dictates our aesthetic tastes, our financial values, our relationship dynamics, and what we deem worthy of our resources.

In Leo, a fixed fire sign, Venus wants to be seen. It’s generous, warm, a little dramatic, and it expresses love loudly and proudly through passion, creativity, and validation. But once Venus crosses into Virgo, a mutable earth sign, that energy gets quiet and precise. Virgo is traditionally ruled by Mercury and is associated with the analytical mind, daily routines, bodily health, and physical efficiency. Therefore, this Virgo Venus isn’t interested in grand gestures; it’s interested in the details. It invites us to show our love and values through acts of service—by noticing the small things and repairing what’s broken—instead of just performing.

This shift directly connects to Tuesday’s retrograde; while Neptune in Aries forces us to look at the illusions of our grand, independent desires, Venus entering Virgo gives us the practical tools to handle that realization. It asks us to trade a need for recognition for a need for real, tangible improvement in our relationships, our finances, and our sense of self-worth.

Expect more of an urge to audit things: our relationships, our habits, our standards—all of it comes under a much more discerning lens than we’ve had in weeks.

As we transition into this analytical energy, put on “Turning Tables” by Adele. It’s the ultimate musical representation of reclaiming our individual power and recognizing toxic relationship loops. Once Venus hits Virgo, we are no longer willing to let the ground constantly shift beneath us; it’s the moment we choose our own rescue, set a firm boundary, and stop participating in the emotional chaos.

Friday, July 10th: Venus Meets the South Node

Then on Friday, Venus meets the South Node, which is also sitting in Virgo. In evolutionary astrology, the Moon’s Nodes represent our karmic trajectory. While the North Node represents our future growth and unfamiliar territory, the South Node represents old, familiar patterns, inherited baggage, and the psychological defense mechanisms we already know how to use, sometimes too well. When Venus lines up with it in an exact conjunction, we’re looking at karmic material specifically around love, codependency, and worth.

This isn’t a mistake to avoid; it’s information. Because it’s happening in Virgo, the sign of perfectionism and service, it might surface old habits of over-giving, over-fixing, over-analyzing the people we love, or shrinking our own needs in the name of being useful to someone else. It’s the classic trap of loving someone as a “fixer-upper project” rather than accepting them as a person.

This aspect brings the internal fog of Tuesday’s Neptune retrograde straight into our relationships. Neptune showed us where we were fooling ourselves; the South Node shows us exactly how we have historically acted out those illusions with other people. Whatever comes up here has probably shown up before, in current relationship dynamics or previous ones like it. The invitation is to notice the groove without falling straight back into it.

All of this is unfolding while Mercury is retrograde in Cancer, so whatever mental and emotional reworking has already been in motion since mid-June is only going to get louder as these Venus shifts layer on top of it.

Sunday, July 12th: The Mercury Cazimi & Saturn Square

Then, Sunday at 9:25 PM EST, the Sun and retrograde Mercury meet in an exact cazimi. A cazimi—a medieval astrological term meaning “in the heart of the Sun”—happens when a planet sits within 17 minutes of an arc from the center of the solar disc. Rather than getting burned out or combusted by that proximity, the planet gets purified, illuminated, and amplified instead.

Because Mercury rules the intellect, language, transport, and perception, this is considered the true turning point of any retrograde cycle. It’s the moment when the fog lifts just enough to make sense of everything that’s been feeling confusing, tangled, or miscommunicated since the shadow phase began back on June 12th.

This cazimi lands at 20 degrees Cancer, a degree traditionally tied to Scorpio and its modern ruler, Pluto. Cancer is a cardinal water sign ruling home, ancestry, safety, and our deepest subjective feelings. Because of this Scorpio-Pluto undercurrent, this isn’t a soft, surface-level clarity we’re getting. It’s the kind that digs into the underworld of the psyche. Mother wounds, childhood nostalgia, family patterns, the defenses we’ve built around our own hearts—all of it is fair game to surface here.

And it won’t feel gentle because at the same moment, this cazimi forms an exact, tense 90-degree square aspect to Saturn in Aries. In astrology, a square represents friction, tension, and a crisis point that can force action in the right direction… hopefully. Saturn is the planet of boundaries, time, karma, restriction, and structural reality. So here, the archetypal conflict is clear: the Scorpio-influenced Cancer placement wants to retreat into the shell, protect itself, and feel its way through things slowly and privately. Saturn in Aries wants a decision, a boundary, or a change to our structure, and pretty immediately at that.

This ties the whole week together!! The illusions Neptune stripped away on Tuesday and the relational patterns Venus audited on Friday are now fully exposed by the Sun on Sunday. That tension might show up as a hard truth we can’t unsee, or a moment where softness and discipline have to work together, whether we like it or not. Whatever clarity we all get by this upcoming Sunday will likely come with some type of real-world responsibility attached to it.

Tuesday, July 14th: The New Moon in Cancer

The Moon rules both the current retrograde and the cazimi we’ll be experiencing on Sunday, and it all culminates with her return to Cancer next Tuesday for the New Moon on July 14th.

In astrology, the Moon is at her most potent and comfortable when she is in Cancer, the sign of her domicile. New Moons mark beginnings, a conjunction of the Sun and the Moon where the night sky goes dark, offering a blank slate. A New Moon in Cancer specifically touches our emotional foundations: home, family, emotional security, and whatever makes us feel safe enough to be soft.

By the time we reach it, we’ll have gone through the ultimate cosmic cleanse. The old structures will start to be dismantled, the fog will have started to dissipate, and the karmic loops will be identified. What’s left is fertile ground. This New Moon is when we actually get to plant a new seed in a new direction, building an emotional foundation that’s rooted in reality rather than fantasy.

Now let’s get into these rising sign forecasts!

As always, take this as a mirror, not a rulebook. Not everyone will feel every piece of this the same way, or at the same time. Read primarily for your Rising Sign to see which of your specific astrological houses are being activated. Also, keep in mind that depending on your specific chart and house cusps (Placidus vs. Whole Sign can shift things a bit), these transits may straddle two houses.

For example, I’m a Virgo rising, so I know the Cancer transits will heavily impact my friendships and long-term goals because Cancer rules my 11th house—but the earliest degrees of Cancer actually fall at the very end of my 10th house. That’s what I mean when I say the specific degree of a transit tells you exactly where it will show up.
So don’t assume you’re only dealing with one area of life. Especially with Venus entering Virgo, that transit might start in one house and finish in another before the planet changes signs again.

Here’s exactly what each shift means depending on how those houses line up in your chart:

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When Mars, the planet of action, aggression, and ambition, collides with Uranus, the planet of sudden breakthroughs and rebellion, the resulting energy is highly unpredictable, volatile, and electric. What makes this specific transit spectacular is that it’s happening at the 3rd degree of Gemini. In degree theory, the number three is ruled by Gemini. Which means we’re dealing with pure, unfiltered, double-Gemini energy—how fitting for the sign of the twins!

Because this is happening in the very first decan of the sign, this energy is raw and fresh; the past doesn’t weigh it down. This conjunction wants to move, talk, create, and disrupt.

Here’s everything you need to know about what this brings, who will feel it most, and how to navigate the chaos based on your rising sign:

What It Means and What to Expect

Restlessness and Nervous Anxiety

This is high-vibrational air energy, and it can easily manifest as physical restlessness, insomnia, or a racing mind. If you feel like you’re vibrating at a frequency that is a little too high to handle, try to find physical ways to ground yourself. Go for a walk outside, dance or shake off the stress, stretch with your bare feet on the grass, and make sure you’re staying hydrated and well fed!

Shocking Information and Media Volatility

Gemini rules news, data, and daily communication. With Mars and Uranus colliding here, expect shocking headlines, sudden narrative flips, or viral information leaks that catch the public entirely off guard. On a personal level, a heated text message, an impulsive email, or a sudden, unexpected conversation could completely shift the dynamic of a relationship overnight.

You might also experience sudden, brilliant ideas out of nowhere, so keep a notebook or your phone notes app ready, especially around the night of July 3rd. Your next big project, writing piece, or business idea could flash into your mind in seconds.

Travel, Tech, and Grid Disruptions

Because Gemini governs short-distance travel, local transportation, and digital devices, this high-voltage conjunction is notorious for sudden technological meltdowns or transit delays. On the East Coast—especially during a major travel holiday like Independence Day—there’s an elevated risk of erratic road traffic, sudden flight or train disruptions, and localized power or internet grid glitches.

If you plan to be on or around water, keep this in mind as well. With Mercury Retrograde in Cancer, these tech and transit issues are highly likely to bleed into watery environments. Think dropping your phone off a boat, or experiencing sudden mechanical failures at the docks. For example, right now at the marina I work at, a sudden gas pump failure has completely halted boat refueling, stranding the commuters who consistently rely on us. Expect similar infrastructure hiccups all weekend!

Volatile “Fireworks” in Social Settings

Mars brings heat and aggression, while Uranus brings unpredictable rebellion. In Gemini, this can create an atmosphere of extreme verbal impulsivity and short fuses. The urge to send that risky text, fire off a spicy tweet, or jump into a debate will be incredibly high. Social gatherings or family holiday events could quickly pivot from celebratory to tense if political or personal arguments spark up. People will be highly opinionated and quick to rebel against any perceived restrictions, so words spoken in the heat of the moment right now can trigger sudden, irreversible shifts in your relationships.

Collective and Mundane Astrology Impact

For mundane (world) astrology, this specific 3° Gemini transit is MASSIVE. It marks the precise beginning of Mars and Uranus returns for the United States (based on the country’s July 4, 1776 Sibley chart). Historically, when Uranus enters Gemini and interacts with Mars, the U.S. undergoes massive systemic shifts—similar alignments occurred during the Revolutionary War era and the Civil War. Expect the collective energy on this day to feel historically charged, rebellious, and deeply reformative.

While Mars and Uranus are setting off fireworks in Gemini, the rest of the solar system is locked in an intense, interconnected dance. The good news is that the chaotic Mars-Uranus alignment is perfectly plugged into two beautiful “positive triangles” in the sky. It trines Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius and sextiles Neptune in Aries, while also connecting harmoniously with Jupiter in Leo. These triangles act as a massive cosmic safety valve, turning what could be pure destruction into a beautiful outlet for creative genius, writing breakthroughs, and luck. Pluto and Neptune are also working together in the background to stabilize this energy, helping us channel the chaos into deep spiritual and technological upgrades.

However, the universe is balancing that high-flying inspiration with some serious reality checks. The Sun is forming a heavy, sobering square to both Saturn and Neptune in Aries, demanding hard facts, boundaries, and actual effort rather than just wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jupiter in Leo is slightly conjunct a messy Mercury Retrograde in Cancer while directly opposing Pluto Retrograde. This creates a massive, dramatic tug-of-war between our deep emotional desires and collective rules, making everyone hyper-sensitive to being controlled. To top it all off, the Waning Full Moon in Aquarius is getting hit from all angles—squared by the unpredictable Mars-Uranus conjunction and directly opposed by Venus in Leo. This is exactly where the relationship drama lives, clashing our need for emotional space with a fiery craving for validation, and triggering sudden, unexpected emotional outbursts that force us to clear the air.

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Who Will Feel This Most?

While everyone gets a taste of this transit, a few people are in the direct line of fire. If you have major placements, especially your Sun, Moon, or Rising sign, between 0 and 6 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, and Pisces), you are going to feel this most intensely.

• Gemini placements will feel this as a personal surge of electric energy and independence.

• Sagittarius placements might see sudden, disruptive action in their close partnerships.

• Virgo and Pisces placements might feel a tense, urgent pressure to make a fast decision regarding their careers, home lives, or public standing.

A Personal Reflection: How This High-Voltage Energy is Hitting My Chart

To give you an idea of how this looks in practice, let’s look at my own birth chart since I have the mutable signs on my angular houses: Virgo rules my 1st house (Ascendant), Gemini is on my Midheaven/10th house cusp (Career/Public Image), Sagittarius rules my 4th (Home/Roots), and Pisces rules my 7th (Partnerships).

Because my 10th house doesn't officially begin until 11° Gemini, this explosive conjunction actually lands in my 9th House of Publishing, Beliefs, and Global Outreach—PERFECT for the mystery writing project I’ve been working on! It’s shooting high-voltage currents directly across my chart, making exact aspects to my personal placements and providing a perfect, living example of how these transits show up in the real world:

• Sudden Virality and Public Visibility

With the conjunction hitting my Gemini 10th house of public visibility, I did pick up some last-minute shifts at my day job. But mostly, I’m seeing this electric energy manifest exactly how Uranus loves to—through technology and the public eye. Lately, I’ve been noticing sudden, massive spikes of virality with my social media content. On Instagram/Facebook , I have fewer than 200 followers, yet my content has been seen by over 80,000 people in the last 30 days! Over on TikTok, I’m just 100 followers away from the 11k milestone, and some of my latest posts this week have pulled in around 15,000 to 20,000 views each—a massive leap from my usual baseline of 1,000 to 5,000. Uranus brings sudden, unexpected expansion, and landing right on my house of reputation and public image, it is beautifully amplifying my digital voice to a much larger audience.

• The Text-Message “Spiff” (The Pluto Opposition & Relationship Mirror)

Remember how I mentioned Mars-Uranus brings verbal impulsivity? My Pluto sits at 5° Sagittarius in my 3rd house of communication, meaning this Gemini conjunction is sitting directly opposite it. To make matters more intense, the transit squares my Nodal Axis—hitting my 7th-house South Node in Pisces (where my Jupiter also lives at a later degree).

Literally today I got into a bit of a spiff with my partner over text regarding some communication hiccups we’ve been sorting through. This transit is, very aggressively, exposing where I tend to slip into my Pisces 7th house habit of absorbing other people’s energy or sweeping communication issues under the rug, forcing me to step into my 12th house Virgo North Node to demand clarity, boundaries, and healthy processing.

How to Navigate the Energy

Astrology shows us the weather, but we have the free will to choose how we dress up for it. Nothing is ever set in stone, but you can work with these patterns constructively.

• Pause before you push send. If an email or text makes your blood boil, give it an hour. Let the initial Mars impulse pass before you react.

• Channel the restless energy physically. Since Gemini rules the hands, arms, and nervous system, try journaling, typing out your thoughts, or going for a fast walk to burn off the excess adrenaline.

• Expect the unexpected. With Uranus involved, plans are highly likely to change, especially with July 4th travel and social gatherings. Adopt a flexible, adaptable mindset. If a plan falls through, look for the hidden adventure in the detour.

• Check your technology: Back up important files and expect minor digital glitches.

"Quicksand" by SZA perfectly captures the overall transit because its jittery electronic production mirrors the high-voltage and overstimulating energy of Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini. The song’s theme of feeling unstable and constantly sinking encapsulates the fast-paced, unpredictable chaos of a day where the ground beneath you keeps shifting.

House Breakdown by Rising Sign

To find exactly where this electric spark is hitting your life, look at your rising sign. Depending on your specific chart cusps, this conjunction will likely fall into one of two houses. Look at both descriptions to see which patterns are currently playing out for you.

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I’m hoping a lot of us are walking into July feeling a little lighter, because June asked a lot of us. It was the month we were meant to stop waiting for things to change on their own and start trusting ourselves—and divine timing—enough to make the moves ourselves. If you actually did that work, July is where you start seeing the payoff…

This upcoming month isn’t asking us to keep proving ourselves to everyone who’s presumably watching. It’s inviting us to come home to ourselves and remember what makes each of us uniquely worth paying attention to in the first place.

What July 2026 is calling us toward:

Individuality and Time

When I sat down to pull this month’s theme, I drew two cards instead of one—and honestly, the first one didn’t feel very welcome. Something in me wanted to put it right back, but I resisted the urge and decided to pull another card instead.

The irritation I felt toward that first card—INDIVIDUALITY—might echo what some people in the collective feel when they realize their focus doesn’t need to be on others and how they’re being perceived, but instead on how they perceive themselves and why.

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Individuality is about taking our power by existing fully within our own perspective instead of borrowing someone else’s eyes to see ourselves through. The second theme card was TIME—how we use it, what we’re obsessed with, and what it means to intentionally arrange our days around what matters instead of letting time just happen to us.

Put those two together, and you get July 2026!

The focus this month is on how we’re using our time, our routines, our daily habits, and whether those choices are actually rooted in what matters to us or from what social media, peers, and even family have quietly trained us to value. We’re going to be doing a lot of separating our self-image and worth from other people’s assumptions and opinions this month. Not in a defensive way, just in a “I know who I am now” kind of way. We’re gaining our power back by choosing to see ourselves as who we already know ourselves to be, not as how anyone else has framed us.

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What’s Coming…

The cards I pulled for what’s coming this month point to a few overlapping themes. There’s a strong current of travel running through July, either for some of us personally or for someone close to us. That tracks with it being summertime here, but these plans feel like they could carry significant weight.

There’s also a theme of quick decisions and fast manifestations. With this Mercury retrograde in Cancer happening for most of the month, it makes sense to think certain choices through very carefully. Decisions we make now could end up shifting our lives in significant ways, especially when connected to our emotions and feelings.

Take note if your travel plans start to feel more pressured and obligatory than natural—like you’re saying yes out of guilt, fear of missing out, or a desire to keep certain dynamics intact. If so, the impulse might be rooted in something codependent rather than in what’s truly aligned for you. It’s worth gently checking in with yourself if that resonates.

A lot of us are also going to be looking more honestly at how and why we’ve been making certain decisions from places of impulsivity, defensiveness, and a lack of self-control. I’m seeing a real release of victim mentality this month—clarity is arriving, but it’s coming in after many of us have faced the ways we’ve been dishonest with ourselves rather than blaming our circumstances or other people. Clearing that fog is what closes the gap between us and moving toward what we actually want.

There’s a wave of self‑empowerment coming through that feels really good because it’s something that’s blooming from within. I’m proud of this collective!!! We’re calling in higher levels and dynamics of everything we’ve been experiencing and dealing with for years now, so buckle up and open up, because it’s time to receive!

July feels like a BIG month for love and connection. I’m seeing new and renewed friendships, leaps of faith toward healing, and people stepping into healthier romantic situations after pulling back from rejection wounds or old sensitivities. There’s also a theme of longing, yearning for connections we tend to sabotage or push away from out of fear, but that fear is losing its grip on us. This ties back to Mercury retrograde in Cancer: collectively, we’re being invited to notice our own pride, ego, or stubbornness in the places we’ve been avoiding that kind of reflection.

For some, this looks like honestly facing and repairing emotional wounds we’re still carrying, whether we want to or not. Maybe you’re missing someone, projecting an old wounds onto someone new, or spiraling because you crave something you don’t yet have. Either way, this reflection is about breaking habitual cycles rooted in fear of commitment, trust, and vulnerability, the kind that has us jumping ship before the other person gets the chance to. This shows up in relationships of every kind, platonic, familial, and romantic.

The advice coming through is to beat self-doubt: the constant questioning, the feeling stuck, the fear of moving forward. Examine that in yourself this month, and hold your judgments of others loosely too, because what you’re seeing in them might just be your own self-doubt looking back at you. The boxes you put yourself in and the limiting beliefs you tell yourself need not stay. Don’t let fear take over the wheel. You have the strength to see this through, even if it comes down to the wire.

There’s a strong “last-minute” energy running through July, so don’t be surprised if plans fall through or change suddenly (especially travel), if you experience a sudden tower moment, or if something shifts or finally clicks toward the end of the month. It doesn’t have to be scary, but I’m getting the sense that certain things will be forcefully shaken up this month if we don’t do the necessary rearranging ourselves.

The Screenshot oracle card reminds us that feelings can get loud right now, and also a bit passive-aggressive. If anger, bitterness, or resentment is clouding things, this is the month to pull the evidence and receipts back out, not to dismiss your emotions in favor of logic, but to bring the two into balance.

Maybe there’s a friendship you’ve outgrown but keep holding onto out of comfort, or a partner who says all the right things while the evidence (the dismissiveness, the gaslighting, the pattern of not showing up) tells a different story. Or it could be the reverse: maybe you’re the one feeling triggered and reacting in a way that’s no longer conducive to the relationship you’re trying to build.

Maybe you do need to adjust your expression or your tone. Maybe you do need to compromise, to listen more closely, or to recognize that a situation is actually exactly what you asked for—it just comes with the realization that you also have to practice giving what you now have the opportunity to receive. The receipts are a reminder to step out of your own head and let things be as they are, not as you’re choosing to see them.

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July 2026 astrology, the quick overview

I’ll be going deeper on several of these in their own posts as the month unfolds, so keep an eye out for those!

July 4th: Mars Conjunct Uranus in Gemini (2:07 am)

• This alignment kicks off the month with electric, highly unpredictable energy. Mars (action, drive) meeting Uranus (shocks, breakthroughs) creates a volatile, high-octane cosmic cocktail. Happening in the fast-talking air sign of Gemini, expect sudden bursts of motivation, brilliant epiphanies, or an intense urge to break free from stagnant routines. Watch out for impulsive speech or chaotic, fast-paced changes in your daily schedule.

July 7th: Neptune Stations Retrograde in Aries (6:55 am)

• The planet of dreams, illusions, and spirituality slows down and shifts into reverse. Running until December 10th, Neptune retrograde acts as a cosmic reality check by stripping away the soft-focus filters. Moving through bold, self-driven Aries, this transit forces you to drop the smoke and mirrors, confront personal illusions, and face your life with radical self-honesty. Instead of escaping into daydreams and avoidance, your inner intuition gets a major clarity boost.

July 9th: Venus Enters Virgo (1:22 pm)

• Venus leaves the dramatic spotlight of Leo and steps into grounded, analytical Virgo. Staying until August 6th, this transit shifts your approach to love, romance, and self-worth into a practical, detail-oriented space. The collective love language pivots away from grand gestures toward quiet acts of service, noticing the little things, and everyday reliability. Instead of drifting into idealism, this practical influence supports deliberate growth in relationships, sensible money habits, and choosing depth and quality rather than quantity and things done in excess.

July 12th: Mercury Cazimi in Cancer (9:25 pm)

• A “cazimi” occurs when Mercury sits right on top of the Sun, delivering a flash of absolute insight. Because this happens at 20 degrees Cancer in the middle of a messy retrograde cycle, it serves as a brief but brilliant emotional and mental reset. The fog clears, allowing long-buried feelings, family dynamics, or intuitive hits to finally make perfect, logical sense.

July 14th: New Moon in Cancer (5:43 am)

• This lunar phase opens a fresh emotional cycle right in the sign of home, family, and belonging. It is the ultimate cosmic invitation to set powerful intentions around your private life. Use this energy to upgrade your living space, heal old family wounds, set firm boundaries around your peace, and focus heavily on what makes you feel emotionally safe and nurtured.

July 22nd: Sun Enters Leo

• We officially leave the quiet, protective waters of Cancer season and step into the bright, fiery heat of Leo season! The collective energy pivots toward confidence, passion, and creative self-expression. This transit gives everyone a license to step into the spotlight, embrace playfulness, and proudly celebrate their individuality.

July 23rd: Mercury Stations Direct in Cancer (6:58 pm)

• After backtracking through Cancer since June 29th, the planet of communication finally spins forward again. The frustrating tech glitches, missed connections, travel delays, and emotional miscommunications that plagued the month will begin to clear up. Important conversations can move forward with confidence, and it is safe to finally sign contracts or execute delayed plans.

July 26th: Saturn Stations Retrograde in Aries (3:56 pm)

• Saturn, the great taskmaster of karma and discipline, joins Neptune by turning backward in Aries until December. When Saturn retrogrades, the cosmos initiates a lengthy internal review of your personal structures, boundaries, and long-term obligations. It forces you to look at whether your current ambitions are built on a solid foundation, or if you are burning yourself out chasing things that no longer serve your growth.

July 29th: Jupiter Cazimi in Leo & Full Moon in Aquarius

• My birthday!!!! It features a massive, spectacular cosmic finale for the month! First, the Sun aligns perfectly with Jupiter in Leo, creating a golden “cazimi” that radiates IMMENSE luck, creative expansion, and abundance. Just over two hours later, a brilliant Full Moon peaks in my sister sign—individualistic Aquarius. This powerhouse combination brings major realizations about your future goals, highlights your unique role within your community, and leaves you with an expansive sense of personal liberation.

FYS (For your sign)

Now let’s dive into what the cards say each sign can expect in July! For the fullest picture, check your sun, moon, and rising signs:

Aries: The Moon

July kicks off with a chaotic, high-voltage urge to break free, but The Moon warns you not to mistake restless speed for actual clarity. As the month progresses, a deep internal reality check forces you to look at your life choices with radical honesty. Lean into the mid-month emotional resets to clear your head, and prioritize quiet, daily self-care. Let the smoke clear naturally so you can step into late July's bold, expansive energy with authentic confidence.

Taurus: 10 of Wands

July demands that you look at what you are carrying, Taurus. While the month starts with a chaotic, unpredictable jolt to your security and resources, pulling the 10 of Wands warns that you are approaching absolute burnout, or the completion of a strenuous cycle. Heavy inner shifts require you to drop the burdens, mental loops, and misaligned obligations you've been forcing. Ground yourself mid-month by romanticizing your daily creative habits, and let your personal life become a sacred sanctuary of expansion by the month's end.

Gemini: 5 of Cups

July brings an intense, high-voltage jolt to your personal identity, Gemini, but pulling the 5 of Cups warns against getting stuck staring at what has already spilled. Heavy retrogrades in your social and community sectors might bring a wave of disappointment or missed connections. Don't let regret blind you to the emotional resets and new financial opportunities opening up mid-month. Turn your focus toward your private space, practice deep self-care, and prepare for a brilliant, luck-filled expansion in your communication world by the month's end.

Cancer: 10 of Wands Reversed

Happy birthday season, Cancer! July arrives with a chaotic jolt to your subconscious sector, but pulling the 10 of Wands reversed brings a beautiful sigh of relief. You are finally ready to put down the heavy burdens, emotional baggage, and exhausting responsibilities you’ve been carrying for everyone else. While deep retrogrades force a reality check in your career and public life, the mid-month resets in your own sign offer a powerful blank slate. Put yourself first, ground your mind through writing or local exploration, and prepare for a massive wave of financial luck and abundance by the month’s end.

Leo: Ace of Pentacles

July drops a beautiful, tangible new opportunity right into your lap, Leo! While the month starts with high-voltage chaos and sudden shifts in your social circles, pulling the Ace of Pentacles promises a grounded new seed of financial stability, resource alignment, or deep self-worth. Don't let the mental anxiety and self-imposed traps blind you to this gift. Lean into the mid-month subconscious resets to clear your mind, ground your finances, and prepare for a spectacular, luck-filled birthday rebirth by the month's end.

Virgo: 7 of Wands

July demands that you stand your ground and protect your peace, Virgo. While the month starts with a high-voltage, chaotic shakeup in your career sector, pulling the 7 of Wands shows you fiercely defending your boundaries against outside noise and professional demands. Heavy retrogrades in your shared resources sector require a reality check regarding intimacy and codependency. Lean into the mid-month social resets to clear your mind, embrace the immense personal charm coming your way, and prepare for a beautiful wave of spiritual luck and behind-the-scenes healing by the month's end.

Libra: King of Wands Reversed

July brings a chaotic jolt to your belief systems, higher learning, and long-distance travel, Libra, but pulling the King of Wands reversed warns against burning yourself out or forcing control where you lack clarity. Heavy retrogrades in your commitment sector demand a serious reality check regarding your closest partnerships and shared structures. Use the mid-month professional resets to find your emotional center, retreat into private self-care to recharge your batteries, and prepare for a brilliant, luck-filled alignment in your social and community circles by the month's end.

Scorpio: The High Priestess Reversed

July kicks off with unpredictable shocks in your relationship sector, Scorpio, but pulling The High Priestess reversed warns that you are actively ignoring your own intuition. Heavy retrogrades in your daily routine and wellness sectors force a serious reality check regarding your physical and mental health habits. Stop looking outside of yourself for answers or drowning out your inner voice with distractions. Lean into the mid-month perspective shifts to clear the mental fog, allow your social circles to ground you, and prepare for a spectacular wave of career luck and public expansion by the month's end.

Sagittarius: 10 of Pentacles Tilted (Reversed)

July kicks off with high-voltage, unpredictable shocks to your daily routines and work environment, Sagittarius, and a tilted 10 of Pentacles warns that your long-term security or family structures might feel temporarily unstable. Heavy retrogrades in your creative and romantic sectors force a reality check regarding how you express joy and process past wounds. Don’t panic; a powerful bottom-of-the-deck release is clearing away old mental cages and lingering betrayals. Embrace the mid-month intimacy resets, let a grounded career transit stabilize your public image, and prepare for a spectacular wave of spiritual luck, travel, and mind-expanding breakthroughs by the month’s end.

Capricorn: Page of Swords Reversed

July kicks off with a high-voltage, unpredictable spark in your passion and creative sectors, Capricorn, but pulling the Page of Swords reversed warns against reactive communication, mental paranoia, or picking petty fights out of defensiveness. Heavy retrogrades in your home and family sectors demand a serious reality check regarding your emotional foundations and how you might over-analyze certain conversations. Lean into the mid-month relationship resets, embrace a grounded shift in your long-term perspectives, and prepare for a lucrative, deeply transformative financial alignment by the month's end.

Aquarius: Page of Swords

July brings a chaotic, electric shakeup to your home and family sector, Aquarius, and pulling the Page of Swords means your mind is on high alert. While heavy retrogrades drag your thoughts backward to review old communication habits, the top-of-the-deck energy warns against burning out on tedious, misaligned work. Pivot your focus mid-month toward daily wellness routines and practical intimacy. The month wraps up with a spectacular finale as a powerhouse Full Moon peaks directly in your sign, unlocking a massive wave of personal liberation and a total rebirth.

Pisces: Page of Wands

July ignites a brilliant spark of inspiration and fresh ideas, Pisces! While the month starts with a chaotic, high-voltage shakeup in your communication and local sector, pulling the Page of Wands delivers an exciting surge of creative motivation and passion. Heavy retrogrades in your financial sector demand a serious reality check regarding your resources, but a powerful bottom-of-the-deck release proves you are finally walking away from old scarcity mindsets. Lean into the mid-month creative resets, focus on building healthy daily routines, and prepare for a spectacular wave of luck and behind-the-scenes healing by the month's end.

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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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How It All Hits Your Chart:

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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.

Happy New Moon and Sacred Sunday✨

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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.

With love,
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.

Blessings,
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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