I promised a Clar…

Read more

What the creek flow usually looks like

This beautiful creek in the yard flows and flows. Even in the dead of winter, when everything else is frozen, the creek trickles under ice. Sometimes the water runs high, sometimes it’s lower. It’s not totally up to nature because there are unseen forces (aka the ditch companies) that engineer how much water each river and creek receives. Depending on factors I know little about, they turn the faucet up or down, but they never turn it off. Until the other day.

What the creek with the water turned off looks like

Within hours, the trout that lived in the deepest pools began to die. I tried to rescue one and then realized I held no power over this river or the conditions. After doing a little research, we learned that trout are incredibly sensitive to changes in their environment. A drop in oxygen, warmer water, or even subtle shifts in water quality can be enough to stress or kill them.

By the end of it, thirteen trout were dead at the bottom of the creek. It was very sad. These fish had clearly been living there for years. They were beautiful, healthy, and had survived countless seasons, but for some reason, they turned the water off, and in a matter of hours, that was all she wrote.

We pulled them out and laid them on the bank. That night we could hear raccoons chattering excitedly to one another. By morning, every fish was gone. Not a scale, not a tail remained. The circle of life carried on, even in the middle of what felt like a loss. So that was a silver lining.

But the experience got me thinking about Pisces. Pisces is symbolized by the fish, and is described as emotional, but sensitive is a more accurate word. Sensitive in the sense that trout are sensitive, deeply responsive to the environment around them.

We all have Pisces somewhere in our birth chart. Some of us have more of it than others, but every one of us carries this archetype. When the world feels unhinged, when we walk into a room where two people are fighting, when our own lives become chaotic or uncertain, something inside us registers it. We might try to process it through logic. Or analyze it, or fix it, or distract from it. Or we stay busy, move, optimize, or problem solve. There are a thousand ways to get ahead of what we’re feeling, right?

Beneath all of that, of course, our nervous system is still responding to the environment.

The North Node has just left Pisces for the next 18 years, but the transit itself brought in more awareness of just how sensitive we really are, and how cumulative that sensitivity can be. Living in a toxic environment, whether that’s pesticides, microplastics, chronic stress, endless political turmoil, collective conflict, financial stress or simply being surrounded by uncertainty, has an effect. Even if we can’t always name it, or even notice it, our system knows.

If you’re like me and have been told repeatedly that you’re too sensitive, you might judge it and wish you could be like other people who don’t seem to be affected. But it does carry the gift of extra information.

Like the trout, our bodies and our spirits are constantly communicating with us about the environments we’re living in. Maybe this is a season to pay closer attention to what nourishes you and what slowly depletes you, so you can purify where you can and intentionally spend time in places that help your nervous system settle. Maybe it’s time to choose relationships, conversations, food, media, and rhythms that bring more oxygen into your inner world.

If you want to join me on my next live call for paid subscribers, we’ll meet August 13 at 10:30 MT. These meetings are fun; we gather and talk astrology and life. I answer questions, and sometimes we look at charts or whatever sounds good in the moment. This call will be the day after our first eclipse, so we may be feeling a certain way, and want to talk about it!

Have you been reflecting on family, ancestry, belonging, and what home truly means? I have. How about facing one of life’s deepest lessons: we cannot control the safety, well-being, or choices of the people we love? Me too.

Cancer is the archetype of the Mother. It lives within each of us as the instinct to nurture, protect, and create emotional safety. But this year, with Saturn challenging Cancer and Jupiter completing its journey through the sign, many of us are discovering that true security doesn’t come from controlling the outside world, it comes from cultivating a deeper relationship with our own inner world.

Tomorrow, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time, paid subscribers are invited to gather for this month’s Clarity Session to explore these themes together.

Read more

I will admit, as I scroll through the socials, my face probably looks like I’m sucking lemons as I pass through my feed full of “experts”. It tracks astrologically, though: Pluto, the planet of shadow, power, and obsession, stationed retrograde in Aquarius on May 6, 2026. Aquarius rules the collective mind, ideology, and intellectual identity, so the shadow side of ‘knowing’ feels especially amplified right now. The superiority complexes, the compulsive correcting, the need to sound/be informed at all costs, is loud (and draining).

Whether with fear-mongering, a soft and breathy voice, a smug and assertive energy, or a too-cool-for-school delivery, the know-it-alls are out in full force. It’s interesting being in an industry where I’m also offering guidance and perspective. Over the last fifteen years, I’ve had to get clear on the difference between advising (here are some perspectives) and advice (here’s what you should do).

The ego (also the shadow side of the Sun) has a need for validation: “what I have to say is important, and you should listen to me.” We all have an ego; we all want to be seen and be right to some extent, so we’re not judging here, but it’s good to see it in action.

When the ego is running the show, it’s pretty easy to read, especially because you’ll probably feel it in your nervous system as an “ick” if it’s someone else's ego attempting to direct you (hence sour grapes face). If it's your own ego seeking validation, it’ll feel like an internal grasping or yearning; a need for something along the lines of agreement, appreciation, importance, or admiration.

This is also coming into strong focus as Chiron enters Taurus on June 18. I spoke about this in my last teaching video on YouTube and on Star Narratives Podcast, as we are beginning to uncover the core wounding we all have around our personal value. Oof, if we feel our personal value is in what we know and how easily we can convince people to believe and follow us, well, this is going to be a hard run.

Also, the South Node is finishing up its run through Virgo and Uranus has recently entered Gemini, we’re working with the archetype of Mercury: mind/intellect/perception/approval/perfection/black-and-white themes. Our inner Mercury loves to be right. Our mind feels like it has all the facts, and a message to deliver. But the South Node work says “something has to go” and Uranus work says “something needs to change”.

This feels like a potent time to question any attachment to needing to be correct, to persuade, or to have others see things the way we see them.

This can be a fascinating exercise: sitting back and observing the parts of yourself that want to tell people what to do and think. The parts that want to preach to people, convince them to behave the way you behave, or arrive at the same conclusions you have.

And then noticing where that same black-and-white energy gets turned inward. Criticism of others and criticism of self usually come from the same place.

The truth is, the energy on the planet right now feels far more supportive of minding your own business (Saturn in Aries, anyone?) than trying to make everybody see things the way you see them. And truthfully, trying to control other people is exhausting anyway (and likely won’t be happening anyway with Pluto in Aquarius until about 2043.)

✨ If this resonated, subscribe for weekly essays, astrology, and cultural observations on power, psychology, relationships, and the strange emotional climate we’re all living through.

Paid subscribers get access to a live Clarity Session every month. Next one: June 25 10:00 am MT.

Each platform affects me differently. Instagram makes me laugh, but the people who are bossy and righteous irritate me. Substack posts are more personal and make me introspective, but it can feel like vulnerability overload. Those are the only two social media platforms I have time or bandwidth for these days, but regardless of which one I’m on, I put my phone down feeling exhausted.

I do have a Pisces moon and a tendency to dissolve into other people’s worlds. Is it a skill or a burden? Depends. I can feel enough of their energy that briefly, I sense what it must be like to be them, to live inside their experience. I’ve learned how to turn it off though. It’s too much to be dipping in and out of other people’s energy fields. But when I’m zoning out, my filters are down and oopsie, I’m doing it again.

Not everyone experiences life this way. If we’re strictly talking about moon signs, the Water moons probably do, they feel a lot of the invisible stuff. The Air moons are too busy thinking about the stuff to feel that much. The Earth moons are focused on finding solutions to the stuff, and the Fire moons have moved on from that stuff.

Do you know your moon sign? This isn’t a moon sign lesson but if it were, I would tell you that your moon sign describes the way that you meet and experience emotions- your own and those of others. And largely, emotions run the world.

But at the end of the day, you don’t have to be run by emotions, and if that appeals to you, you need to develop a capacity to see what is happening internally, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Every moon sign element can learn to do this. This kind of personal witnessing has become one of the great explorations of my life. It’s one of the primary ways I make meaning of this incarnation.

And that is why social media fascinates me.

I can watch my internal system get tossed around like a ball in a racquetball court, bouncing from one story to another, one emotion to the next, one perspective to another. Then, if I’m paying attention, I can put the phone down and return to myself.

I’m thinking about this today because I’m talking about consciousness, the mind, and all the themes of Gemini season in this week’s video on YouTube, and podcast on Star Narratives. I wanted to write about the importance of coming back to yourself.

So many people are pushed around unconsciously by other people’s emotions, moods, desires, fears, and expectations. We watch to make sure we’re doing the right thing. We follow the crowd. We chase the trend. We distance ourselves from the wrong people and align ourselves with the right ones. We are constantly reacting.

But if you don’t have a conscious thread connecting you to who you are (where you’ve been, what matters to you, and where you’re going) then you’re just that racquetball, getting knocked around by whoever happens to be holding the racket.

The world contains extraordinary beauty and extraordinary complexity. Yet so often, in astrology readings, people come to me wanting to know only one thing:

“When is it going to get better?” Or they’ll say something like: “The world is such a shitshow.”

To me, those perspectives feel incomplete, they feel like the perspective of someone who has been bouncing around the racquetball court for too long.

Because when you have some continuity of connection with yourself, you begin to see something else. You see the point within the lesson. You notice more delight in small moments: bumblebees drifting over flowers, or the kind of laughter that erupts when you and a friend, partner, or child suddenly realize how completely ridiculous one or both of you are being.

A deep connection to yourself creates a deep connection to the present moment. And when you have that you aren’t always waiting for “better”.

As I look at the astrology of the summer of 2026, I see so much potential. But you won’t find it by endlessly looking at screens. You definitely won’t find it in headlines, trends, every opinion, or every fear.

You’ll find it by returning to yourself and reality-checking who you are beneath all the noise. And from that place, you’ll be able to see the beauty, the challenge, and the possibility that have been here all along.

✨✨✨My next Clarity Session is coming up on June 23 at 2pm MT. (Please note- this is a schedule change from original date and time) If you want to join me live on Zoom in a small and personal group. We talk life, astrology, meaning, growth… whatever the field brings us to that day. Every one of these has been different; we laugh, we cry, sometimes we read charts, and once, someone got a full astrology reading because it was just the two of us. Whatever it looks like, you will leave with some fascinating and timely information from your higher self. You just have to become a paid subscriber, and you’re in. Zoom links are always sent out the day before the call. ✨✨✨

Like the castle that falls under a spell of slumber after Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger, many of us are experiencing a strange heaviness, feelings of depletion, or what feels like an energetic pull outward, as if we were swimming at the shoreline of the ocean while the current is trying to pull us back into the water.

But why? Why are we feeling like this? Is it hormonal? The toll of emotional stress? A physical issue? General burnout? Allergies? Planetary? Maybe all the above?

As I look at the astrology, and tune into the broader field of awareness, it feels like we’re standing at a significant threshold moment. And when we move through any kind of big transition, our day-to-day lives must slow down and come to a halt, while the environment transforms.

It is a confusing and unclear transition, though, isn’t it? There isn’t a common narrative explaining what’s happening. The usual outlets we rely on for information would have us believe that life is simply continuing as normal. But beneath the surface, it feels like we’re living through a massive shift in awareness.

People have more insight than ever into the structures of power that shape our world. Topics that were once dismissed as conspiracy theories, mythology, or fantasy are now being reconsidered, and while not all the speculations are true, let’s be honest here: many of these ideas do contain enough valid evidence to suggest changes in perspective.

At the same time, conversations about spirituality, a higher power, and God although not new, are delving into different material, even in demographics and communities that traditionally wouldn’t have engaged with them. Perhaps this speaks to the shift from Neptune in Pisces to Neptune in Aries. Things are changing in the collective conversation.

The main point is this: Maybe this exhaustion is not a problem to solve but a necessary part of shifting gears into an entirely new way of being. We all want to know what we need to do to get our energy back, but maybe the point is that we need the rest, stop being so busy. That certainly tracks with the South Node finalizing in Virgo.

Take a look at your life right now. Notice your level of exhaustion. Notice the thoughts you have about it (the judgments mostly). Are you “allowed” to slow down? The old inner critic usually has something to say when you aren’t as productive and accomplished as you “should be”.

As I discussed in recent Star Narratives Podcast episodes and YouTube videos, becoming aware of your autopilot thoughts, your physical messages, and your inner task master will reveal a lot about why you might actually need to take some things off your plate.

If you flew across the world for seventeen hours and landed at 9 a.m., you wouldn’t expect yourself to immediately work a full day. Or for the fantasy version, if you slept for 100 years and finally awakened when the spell broke, it would take time to acclimate to the new and far more modern world you find yourself in, which is kind of what we're doing now. Nothing is the same as it was, and although it’s been several years of both fast and slow change, we are officially in the new and not going back to the old.

Honestly, I don’t like this lesson very much. I hate feeling tired. I hate not being able to operate at the speed I’m used to. But I keep getting the same download: slowing down is the work. It’s the actual thing I’m being asked to learn right now.

And by the way, slowing down can feel next to impossible; it activates all the internal alarms that tell me I’m going to be in trouble. But the more I fight it, the more exhausted I get. The more I try to force myself into old expectations of what I should be able to do, the longer this whole process seems to drag out.

So, I’m experimenting with trusting my body a little more. Resting when I’m tired. Moving when the energy is there. Letting things unfold at the pace they’re unfolding. Maybe you are too?

I host monthly Clarity Sessions on zoom for my paid subscribers. The next one is on June 17 at 10:00am MT. We’re definitely going to talk about Chiron entering Taurus and probably a lot of other juicy stuff too. Mark your calendars if you’re a paid subscriber and of you aren’t, maybe you want to become one? Face time with me, astro guidance, Q and A, lots of laughs maybe a few tears (I’m mean!) Just kidding. People do tend to cry around me because its safe, and the astro wisdom hits hard (good hard thought).

Of course, in your astrology reading, I’m supposed to ask questions because that’s how I understand what it is your higher self wants to tell you. But if you know me personally, you also know I'm very curious.

That’s actually what started this whole piece. I was researching “Gemini burnout” because in my video this past week: Calm Your Mind, Control The Room (watch on YouTube or listen on Star Narratives), I talked about Uranus in Gemini and the importance of being able to look at things differently: reassessing how you intake information, how you communicate, and recognizing that there are major shifts happening in the ways we all use our “Gemini” mind.

And by the way, we all have Gemini, because we all have a mind. Whether you have a lot of Gemini in your chart or not is beside the point. We are all mercurial beings. Your relationship to curiosity, questions, information gathering, storytelling, communication… all of that is very likely up for some breakdown and breakthrough. Astrologically, it just can’t stay the same.

In my talk, I discussed learning to have a better grip on your own mind. That led me to think about my own tendency to ask questions.

I get teased by the people in my immediate family about the questions I ask, because yes, I do want to know what you ordered at that restaurant. I also want to know what ingredients you put in your key lime pie, how many dresses the bride wore at the wedding you just went to, whether any of your friends are sick too, how many hours you were up in the middle of the night, whether the new moon affected you, why you keep dating women who are all friends with eachother, what day you’re on in your cycle, whether that creepy guy at work said anything else to you, why you chose a 5:45 am flight instead of something later… all of it. (This is a sampling of recent questions I’ve asked my friends and family).

I am naturally interested, and knowing all of that information makes me feel more comfortable. It helps paint the picture in my mind.

Or does it?

Is it possible I’m asking questions to soothe my anxiety? To feel prepared? To convince myself that if I gather enough answers, I’ll be safer or more in control? To help problem-solve for them?

Or am I asking questions because I’m mindlessly consuming information? Or because I’m nosy? Or because it keeps the conversation flowing? Or because asking questions prevents someone from asking me questions about myself?

It might be a little bit of all of those things. I’m watching it, as an exercise in discovering where my mind tries to take me, and why.

And there’s nothing inherently wrong with any of it. But one of the issues with Gemini energy (and with the mind in general) is that we are pretty likely to experience burnout when we have the proverbial 10-15 tabs open in our heads all the time.

How can we ever focus on anything when there’s so much information constantly coming in?

All of that information can keep you operating in a more superficial realm because standing in the middle of a mall and looking at all the stores is very different from actually walking into one store and spending time there, slowly browsing the racks.

So as we move through all of this Gemini energy (with Uranus there for the next 8 years, with the Sun and Mercury now in Gemini, Mars headed there, and even the asteroid Ceres moving through soon), your higher self is probably already presenting you with your own leading questions about the way you work with information.

Now, I also have plenty of people in my life who don’t ask questions at all. People who don’t want to probe or overstep. People who genuinely do not care what others are thinking, doing, or feeling. I know people who only talk about themselves or their problems. People who mostly talk about things that aren’t personal. People who only want to tell stories about the past or gossip about others. I know people who seem to have almost no connection to what's happening in their inner world or in the world at large. People who are far more interested in staring at their phones than in asking questions.

So maybe you fall more on that end of the spectrum, in which case your higher self may actually be encouraging you to become more curious, to ask more questions, to engage more deeply.

But my overall point is this: This is a time to track your own mind and become self-aware of how your unique brain works.

That awareness is incredibly valuable because, as AI becomes more prevalent, it will constantly try to pull you outward and away from yourself and into a world made up of everyone else’s thoughts, everyone else’s opinions, everyone else’s information. AI is essentially the accumulated output of what humanity has typed into a keyboard, but without the heart.

And while that can be useful and valuable, there’s a danger in losing touch with your own inner world in the process. Your inner world is where your wisdom lives, where you access your life force and soul's evolutionary path. These things are hard to access if you aren’t tracking (at least periodically), where your mind takes you, and how it distracts you.

✨I use astrology to help you understand your own psyche, so if you like this- stick around and become a subscriber. If you become a paid subscriber, you get to meet with me live on Zoom once a month to discuss astrology + psychology + spirituality together in a more personal way.

I also release a new video/audio teaching every week on YouTube: Electra Astrology and on the Star Narratives Podcast.

There are several exits off the major highway that runs through Denver where, the moment I pull off, I automatically lock my doors. People ask for money, offer to clean windshields, or linger around these intersections. Those people may possibly be kind, loving, and simply trying to survive; I don’t actually know that. What I do know is that the environment feels rundown, chaotic, and unsafe to me.

As a woman, being aware of my surroundings isn’t optional because, believe me, my nervous system is paying attention.

There’s something instinctive about responding differently to beauty and cleanliness than to disorder and decay. This doesn’t sound politically correct in a time when we’re often encouraged to feel compassion for those less fortunate and to befriend (and defend) those who have less or are different. But there’s a difference between judging people and acknowledging the signals your body responds to.

My nervous system reacts differently to chaos than it does to harmony. And it recognizes what is very different from me and registers it as unsafe. I think that’s just human and biological.

Which brings me to the theme I explore this week which is something I discuss more on Star Narratives Podcast and YouTube, which is the idea of becoming a sacred steward of your land. And in this case, your “land” is your body.

I talk about the 25° Sabian Symbol for Taurus: “A large, well-kept public park.” Think about that image. A cultivated public space is not only beautiful for the person tending it; it is calming, and a place of respite for others too.

Cultivation instead of chaos and neglect.

And I think this matters right now because the collective energy often feels so chaotic, dirty, and emotionally polluted. Online especially, there’s so much cruelty, outrage, complaining, and hostility. People are trying to solve pain with more violence, anger, and more noise.

To me, that feeling is similar to pulling off the highway into a neglected part of town where your body immediately goes on guard.

Now, we can’t control most of that. We can’t control how other people move through the world, or the state of every environment we enter. But we can tend to our own “park.”

We can reconnect with our bodies. We can create spaces that are physically, emotionally, and spiritually safe and grounded. And really, this must be done personally, because you’re the one who is in the most personal relationship to your body. Are you treating it like a garden temple, or are there parts that are like a neglected landscape?

Creating safety within your own body definitely takes time and effort. But doing the work of listening to what it needs and working to heal and understand is a powerful counterbalance to those who have no choice, awareness, or resources to create sacred stewardship of their bodies. This work isn’t for everyone.

But if it is for you, partnering with your body and listening, tending, sustaining… makes you into someone around whom people don’t feel the need to stay guarded or afraid.

Maybe that’s one small way we help restore the world: by tending well to the piece of land we’ve been given.

✨ Listen to the whole talk (links above in the body of the piece), if this is interesting, and make sure you subscribe so you can follow this work.

✨ I also meet once a month live on Zoom with paid subscribers, and every meeting is different. Group discussions feel like engaging circles, and every once in a while, you might just get me all to yourself, and we can do a reading (this happened last week, and “V” and I had a blast going deep into her chart!). You never know what each Clarity Session (as I’m calling them) will look like but you know you’ll leave feeling more grounded and clear.

The New Moon in Taurus arrives like a buried memory rising through wet soil, slow, sensual, undeniable. What’s been quietly draining your energy is becoming impossible to ignore. Old attachments, survival patterns, financial fears, and even the body itself are speaking so much truth.

Taurus asks a dangerous question: What if stability isn’t what you thought it was? These times are revealing where you’ve confused comfort with stagnation.

There’s also something deeply ancestral moving through this lunation, particularly as it relates to worth, reciprocity, and the stories we inherited about safety. And beneath it all: a quiet permission to stop fearing pleasure.

If you’re a paid subscriber, join me on Zoom and let’s talk about it. We are meeting Saturday, May 16, at 9:00 am MT for an hour, give or take. We meet once a month. Zoom link below.

Read more

A client was telling me a story about his brother, who leans on him in hard times but then turns on him by gossiping about him, telling stories that aren’t true, and making him into the bad guy with their mutual friends, because they have different religions. He has a hard time understanding the complexities of this situation, but he rarely shares his feelings about it all with his brother.

I myself was “loosely” shamed, and I say loosely because I don’t think this person was consciously trying to shame me, but the underlying message was, “I’m shocked at how ill-mannered you are,” simply because I hadn’t reached out for her opinion on a family matter or initiated more phone calls to stay connected. Did her message work? Yes, I felt terrible for days, all too easily falling back into the " good girl who got in trouble” mentality left over from childhood.

A friend was expressing that every time he sees his boss calling, his heart drops into his stomach because even seeing his name on the screen fills him with dread. The boss usually calls with an urgent request that requires my friend to drop everything to focus on problems that seem almost self-created (by the boss) or even unnecessary (things that will work themselves out naturally). He always answers the calls and never says no.

Earlier this week, I spoke about the end of the people-pleasing era on my podcast Star Narratives in an episode called Why So Many People Feel Hurt, Disappointed & Emotionally Reactive Right Now (you can also watch the video version on youtube). And as usual, once I begin to notice a theme unfolding in my own life, I start hearing everyone else’s stories echo similar dynamics. There’s an unraveling of old conditioning happening right now, and maybe we can pinpoint part of it to Saturn moving into Aries.

Saturn is the energy of tradition. It’s authority, structure, and conditioning. For most of us, life began with being taught to follow authority and obey authority. That authority may have looked like a parent telling you “no,” a religion telling you who God is and how you’re supposed to relate to a higher power. It may have looked like employment that says, “Ignore your needs in favor of what we need from you,” or peers who communicate, “If you want to belong here, this is how you must act.”

It can show up through lineage patterns: how to be a “good girl” or a “good boy,” expectations, manners, moods, safe subjects, and what gets swept under the rug. All of these inherited rules and expectations fall under the realm of Saturn.

But Aries is different.

Aries is the warrior. It’s action and boundaries. It’s instinct, passion, and the courage to move. Passion is something that rises from within and becomes impossible to ignore. It feels enlivening, expansive, and honest. It does not feel heavy or obligatory.

Aries is also anger, and, in all three examples I shared above, anger is a big part of the energies swirling through these stories. Anger at feeling imbalance in relationship, anger at unspoken expectations, anger at lack of boundaries.

What we’re witnessing now is that as we become more aware of these family and cultural agreements, these traditions of rule following, we become less willing to keep playing along. We’re over it. Silence, politeness, obligations, expectations, assignments, righteousness, avoidance… all of it and more, it just feels so archaic, doesn’t it?

We have to thank Pluto in Aquarius here also. Pluto says, “There’s some uncomfortable material here in how we all relate to each other, let’s shine some light on it.” Pluto teaches on the topics of manipulation and blame, secrets and addictions, trauma and fear. The transformation of those things brings you to reclaim your personal power. The tools to wield are conscious anger, awareness, honesty, and truth.

Why would we maintain a culture of silence in a family or system where that silence protects dysfunction?

Why would we continue the pattern of “do everything for me so I can stay comfortable and happy,” even when these expectations manipulate others into abandoning themselves?

Why would we keep sacrificing our mental, physical, and spiritual health just to preserve systems that feel toxic?

As always, only you can answer these questions for yourself based on your experience, but it’s worth asking. What’s been coming up for you over these past few weeks around old conditioning? Have any situations brought up your anger around the roles you were taught to play, the ways you were taught to behave, what was considered “appropriate,” acceptable, or safe?

Where in your life have you realized you can no longer play the game?

✨ Paid subscribers get access to monthly live Zoom gatherings (Clarity Sessions) where we talk astrology, culture, psychology, spirituality, and whatever else unfolds in the room.

Every conversation has been different so far; lively, surprising, and deeply interesting in its own way.

Our next gathering is this *Saturday, 5.16.26 at 9:00 am MT if you’d like to join us. Paid subs will receive a Zoom link.

**Please note this is a date change from the original date of 5.15.26

(The opposite of information overload ⤴️)

I started writing a piece about the energy of people who need to be right. I might still publish that at some point. But when I really started dialing down into what was bothering me, I realized it wasn’t just the Virgo-esque virtue signaling or the Sagittarius soapboxing. Yes, I find all of that difficult. But what feels hardest right now is the sheer volume of information available. I think as Uranus really starts going in Gemini, this will become even more overwhelming.

Between the internet itself, the news, social media feeds, emails, text messages, app alerts, and video games… information overload has been here for years. But now it feels like information flooding. And for an overactive brain like mine (I want to know and understand and maybe even remember everything) it’s absolutely exhausting.

I have a sense that one of the ways I stayed safe as a child was by remembering who liked what, how to behave around certain people, and by watching mood changes, facial expressions, and subtle shifts in tone. For so many years, that strategy worked because my brain really can hold and retain that kind of information.

But my brain has started to push back. It’s almost like an outright refusal to take in and try to assimilate any more useless information. So, coupled with the flood of more people talking about more things, more concepts, more truths, more fantasies, more illusions, more doom… there’s a rebellion happening internally.

Have you noticed information overload in your own sphere lately? How is your brain reacting to it all?

I think Uranus in Gemini will continue bringing this theme up. But here’s the thing about Uranus: it’s not an easy energy to work with because it incites rebellion. It delights in rule-breaking. It will often push you to the edge of the cliff against your will and force you to jump.

And of course, you’re always wearing a parachute. You just don’t know it until you’re already in the air.

We won’t actually know what Uranus in Gemini will bring until much later. These kinds of transits only really become clear in hindsight. In eight years, we’ll probably be able to look back and understand the themes far more clearly than we can now.

But for the moment, maybe one healthy form of rebellion is choosing what not to consume.

For me, I’m trying to break the habit of needing to understand everything (it’s so hard!). I know I should turn down the volume of the talking heads constantly moving across my social media feeds (the ones that hold the secret truths to life, the universe, or humanity itself- you know them, I bet you see them too). I’m already tired of the robots that know it all, they’re so limited, and they have no heart. I said goodbye to the news years ago, thank goodness.

My guess is that Uranus in Gemini will ultimately bring lessons that are less about people and robots on screens and more about real-life humans in front of you, real exchanges, and the beauty of heart-to-heart communication. I think this will get even more obvious when the Nodes change signs into South Node Leo and North Node Aquarius in late July 2026.

The information rebellion will take years, but it probably won’t be about learning/retaining/conceptualizing more. Maybe it’s about getting clear about what deserves our attention in the first place.

✨If you’d like to join me for my live monthly calls, you can become a paid subscriber. Our next call is Friday, May 15, Change of plans! It’s now May 16 at 10 AM Mountain Time. Show up to talk about astrology, culture, life + leave with insights and a calmer nervous system. 🤍

I was in the grocery store the other day, standing at self-checkout near a mother and her daughter who was probably five years old. As she was ringing up her groceries, the mother kept mentioning, in several different ways, how expensive her daughter was. She couldn’t believe 4 macaroons were $12 (!) and said she hoped her daughter appreciated it (which read more as “I hope you know how much of a burden it is to me to buy these cookies you asked for”). Then she went on to itemize the costs of each gymnastics and ice skating lesson ($45 and $30 each, every time), even mentioning how her parents had said she had been expensive as a child, but she couldn’t possibly have been as expensive as this child was. The little girl didn’t say anything; she was probably used to hearing similar complaints.

And I just stood there thinking… wow, that’s a lot to lay on a five-year-old.

But it also got me thinking about our money stories. I’ve been talking about this over the past few weeks, and it makes sense astrologically. With the Sun in Venus-ruled Taurus, the sign of money (including all the things we need/want/love), Uranus recently leaving Taurus, and Chiron heading into Taurus, abundance in all its forms is front and center. And the truth is, we can’t live easily on this planet right now without money. Plus, have you spoken to anyone lately who isn’t feeling at least some level of stress about acquiring the things they want more of? Ya, I haven’t either.

We inherit and experience so many complexities around “money”. From here on out, when I say “money,” just assume I mean any of the Venus things like love, pleasure, nice things, romance, beauty, healthy bodies, worthiness, food, jewelry, etc. aka things we all want more of (in at least one category) and feel deprived of in some way. Something I’ve been exploring, especially over the past few years with the North Node moving through Pisces, is this: I can worry and stress about money and having enough… or I can assume that more is coming, regardless of whether I worry about it or not.

This isn’t easy to do, by the way. And an important note- when I do this, I’m not bypassing reality or doing surface-level “law of attraction” where I just think abundance into existence and viola, here comes the unexpected check in the mail, because… well, does that stuff even work? This is more along the lines of working with my nervous system by noticing how quickly my mind goes to fear, how easily it creates stories that sound a lot like that mother in the grocery store, and then reality-checking: Is this belief that’s making me so anxious, even true? Mostly it’s not.

We all have some form of stressed-out mom-in-store that lives in our own head, reminding us: "You should be worried, you should feel responsible, you should feel guilty, you should carry this weight”. As if any of us have that much control over money in the first place.

Now, I know some people would argue that we do have control over money, or lack thereof, that if you don’t have money, you can go out and make it. And yes, that’s a very Taurus perspective, and can be a healthy one when someone has the energy, bandwidth, and space to do that. But not everyone does.

And if we zoom out and look at the opposite sign from Taurus, which is Scorpio, we find a strong shadow theme of lack. As we all know from experience, it is much easier (and more familiar) to feel stress in the nervous system. The fear of missing out, not having what you want, and experiencing hardship. Because we've all been there before.

And underneath all of it is the primal fear of never having enough. What is this situation never gets better.

So the question I’ve been sitting with is this: does indulging that fear give me anything useful or valuable? Because when I look back over my life now, I can see a pattern. What I needed always showed up. Maybe not in the exact form I expected, maybe not the $5,000 I thought I needed, but something has always come in that bridged the gap.

And that has been consistently true. I imagine, if you look at your own life, you might see something similar. Something always shows up. And in hindsight, you can say at least that everything worked out in that moment. But boy, it takes a lot to worry, fret, obsess, and feel deficient about something that’s going to work out in the end anyway.

So I’ll leave you with this:

How much fear are you willing to go into at this point? Not just around money, but around anything; media-driven fear, emotional fear, future-based fear. How loud are you willing to let that “mother in grocery store” voice in your head be?

Because with Uranus now in Gemini, we’re looking at the mind. Noticing what it does, especially when it’s on autopilot. The future pacing, the fantasizing, the comparing, the lamenting what isn’t there yet, the abject fear that you will suffer in poverty from here on out.

Most of this mental activity is not only difficult but unnecessary. So just notice that.

✨ And if this resonates with you, I’d love to invite you deeper into this work. You can subscribe to stay connected, or become a paid subscriber to join me live on Zoom once a month. Our next meeting is Friday, May 15, at 10:30 MT, so mark your calendars.

I also share more of these teachings on YouTube and on my podcast, Star Narratives, where we continue to explore and deepen into these conversations together.

My good friend was sharing how much she disliked a store near her house. She had recently been hassled in the parking lot, and besides that, she felt like people working there are rude; the store is crowded, and they never have the things she needs. She warned me not to shop there. This came up in a deeper conversation about noticing when things feel disempowering.

Well, guess what? I go to the exact same store, and my experience is completely different. I’ve always found it easy to park, filled with things I use every day, and it’s even relaxing to shop there. I love that store!

Perception is everything, and it’s always personal.

In all this Aries energy, the “question your conclusions” theme is loud. How could our interpretations of people, places, and situations be the objective truth when they’re filtered through our own minds, shaped by our own experiences, expectations, and projections? They can’t really. But there’s so much “if this, then that” energy in the field right now. Everyone thinks they’re right.

Personal power and perspective are going to come up for you as we ride this Saturn/ Neptune/Chiron in Aries astrology, and you will notice new spaces where you feel frustrated or helpless, or situations that challenge what you think you see. I worked myself into a whole fake storyline last week because someone hadn’t called me back. “Did I do something wrong? Are they ignoring me? They suck! Who does that?” etc. Turns out they were having a busy week- imagine that.

Instead of just reacting or taking whatever is happening at face value, go further and ask yourself how the story you’re running feels familiar… you’ve probably had similar themes come up for your whole life. I have- I’ve had to really learn to be mindful of my sometimes elaborate projections about why people do what they do.

At the same time, it’s good to remember: no two people perceive the same thing in exactly the same way. If you’re saying to yourself, “Well, when I do this, it means this, and therefore when they do it, it must mean the same thing,” well, you might be off base.

With Pluto moving through Aquarius over the next couple of decades, we’re being asked to look more closely at how we judge others, what we project onto them, and how those assumptions totally distort reality. Add to that the strong focus on identity, and we begin to see how our sense of self is deeply tied to our sense of the world around us.

Aries is fire. It’s fast, instinctual, and immediate. But fire also burns out quickly. So locking our perceptions in and hanging on for dear life goes against this fire energy that wants to burn fast and move on. We’re in a period of reorientation and of redefining who we are and how we relate to the world.

For right now, anyway, the work is yours alone: your identity, your personal power, your boundaries, your judgments, your independence. Focusing on other people (pleasing them, sparring with them, controlling them, impressing them, questioning them, even tending to them) is not the assignment.

Explore your inner world and become familiar with the unique gifts you bring to this collective consciousness. This work requires you to look deeply at your own self-perceptions and the verdicts you deliver about others, which is hard, but questioning these is how you help support the greater whole.

✨If this resonates, hit subscribe! I offer a monthly clarity session on Zoom for paid subscribers where we explore current astrology together so come join me as a paid subscriber if you’re down for that.

You can also find my video and audio teachings on YouTube and the Star Narratives podcast, or book a private reading at electraastrology.com.

If things have felt intense, heavy, or a little confrontational lately, that’s no surprise!

This New Moon is layered with the energy of Mars conjunct Saturn, and you’re likely already feeling it if there’s been tension in relationships, angsty or reactive energy (yours or others’), or uncomfortable or unavoidable situations rising to the surface.

In our circle, Friday am at 10:00 MT, we’ll explore what this energy is actually here to teach you, and how to move with it instead of feeling triggered by it.

This is also a space to just come and land, listen, reflect, share if you feel called, and be in community. Last time, people left feeling genuinely moved (some even a little teary)because of how deeply the conversation resonated.

If you’re needing grounding, clarity, or simply a place to exhale… I’d love to have you there.

This gathering is exclusively for paid subscribers.
Unlock the full post below to access the Zoom link and join us live. 👇

Read more

Some of the most panic-inducing experiences I’ve had, never actually happened. They existed entirely in my mind; worst-case scenarios I imagined so vividly that my body reacted as if they were real. My nervous system lit up, my thoughts spiraled, and panic dropped in, always leaving a heavy, sticky residue I couldn’t shake, sometimes for days. And I was alone with it.

Now compare that to a real-life moment of fear: leaving work one night in Atlanta we were held at gunpoint and robbed. Two men came out of nowhere, demanding everything we had. It happened so fast there was no time to panic. I was fully present, running on instinct. Afterward, there was adrenaline, but none of that lingering dread. Plus, it was an experience I was able to process as I shared the story with friends, so I was supported in the aftermath in a way I never am when I’m in a mind-induced spiral.

That contrast is an important distinction. Mental fear loops and festers. It shows up again when your brain is bored and looking for something to do, or at 3 am when reality is at its most distant. Real fear, in the moment, is sharp, but it moves through in a very different way.

Most of us live in the mental version of fear, and there are three versions we usually find ourselves in. The first is when your busy Mercury/Gemini mind gets involved with your inner Cancer /Moon, and you slip into fears for loved ones. What if someone is lost or hurt? What if I can’t help them? What if I can’t handle it emotionally?

The next version is where your Mercury/Gemini mind partners up with your Pluto/Scorpio fears: the fear of what could happen, what has happened, what might happen again. I know how bad it can get, and that scares me.

The last is where your Mercury/Gemini mind partners with your Neptune/Pisces energies and dips into collective fear around war, leadership, illness (whatever). These fears become shared emotional environments. Everyone else seems worried, so I should worry too. What if the worst-case scenario happens to me?

Right now, it’s especially easy to get pulled into all that fear.

There’s a constant stream of input from news, media, opinions, collective unrest. The mind takes it, runs with it, and before you know it, you’re living inside your own version of “everything is about to get even worse.”

So we practice being more conscious and more aware of our thoughts and our state and, and as we do that, it’s important to remember: yes, things can feel hard right now. But you still get to decide how much you buy into the “it’s about to get really bad” narrative.

Because the mind will build a case for fear if you let it.

But this is where Aries comes in (and I cover this in my latest teaching on Star Narratives and YouTube). Aries is fire and fire brings light. We have 3 big players in Aries now, Saturn the advisor, Neptune the spiritual guide, and Chiron the healer (which has been in Aries for the last 8 years). We have backup and support in a way we haven’t had here before. Aries is like turning on the light in a dark room and realizing what you feared isn’t actually there. It burns off the fog of mental fear that lives in your head and spirals without being checked.

Aries is courage and bravery. But not explosive reactions or performative outrage, this is real strength. Grounded, steady, self-directed.

When fear is living unchecked in your mind, the most powerful thing you can do is come back into reality. Fire helps you do that because fire is active, energizing and it moves things.

Fear is fascinating, it is addictive. But if you stay there, you stay stuck. So if you feel yourself getting pulled in, move. Activate. Set boundaries. Use your anger with intention instead of letting it scatter.

You don’t have to stay in fear. You can look around and find plenty that feels wrong. You can wait for things to get better so you can finally feel safe. Or…you can choose differently. You can step into your power and trust that if something goes wrong, you’ll handle it.

And in the meantime, there is still so much here, beauty, wonder, and things that are genuinely extraordinary. It would be a shame to miss all of that because you’re consumed by fear of things that may never even happen. And believe it or not, things are unfolding with divine intelligence, even if you can’t fully see it yet. And divine intelligence doesn’t need you to fix problems with your fear, it needs you to become more conscious.

✨If you want support applying this in real time, I host monthly clarity sessions for paid subscribers.

Our next session is this Friday, April 17 at 10 AM Mountain- let’s talk new moon in Aries, astrology, fear, consciousness and all that good stuff.

Join us there.

The Pluto–Scorpio dynamic lives inside every one of us. It shows up in our everyday lives more than we probably realize, but it’s also one of the hardest parts of ourselves to look at.

Because this is the part of the psyche that goes underground.

It’s where we hide things, primarily the stuff we don’t feel brave enough to face. The things we’re too conflicted or ashamed to talk about, old coping strategies, addictions, power plays and the quiet resentments that just simmer for years.

A lot happens in this realm, and most of it isn’t comfortable to see.

But astrologically, in 2026, we’re moving into a time that’s asking for clarity about who we are and how we’re actually operating. And that means we can’t skip the deep, dark stuff anymore. We have to look at how we show up in relationship; manipulating, avoiding and lying to ourselves. How we may refuse to see other people clearly because it would disrupt the story we tell about ourselves.

It’s super sticky and that’s the whole point of Pluto in Aquarius (2023-2044).

Pluto in Aquarius will help expose the dysfunctional stories we’ve built our identities around (who we think we are, what we think we want, and how other people “should” behave in our lives).

So pause for a second and think: Who feels the most “problematic” in your life right now? Who’s the villain? Do they know? Do you power-play them by controlling the dynamic? Do you let yourself get controlled? Maybe you smile at them, and then vent about them later? Maybe you quietly resent them and get triggered over and over every time you engage. Maybe you say yes when you mean no (and then wonder why you’re exhausted all the time).

There’s something about Neptune in Aries (2026-2029) and Saturn in Aries (2026-2028) that feels like a series of impending lessons in real self-advocacy and that will require dropping some of the illusions we carry about ourselves and others.

Our minds are incredible storytellers… but not always truthful ones. A lot of the narratives we run are outdated and the time of blindly believing our every thought is over.

I’m remembering someone I used to know who truly believed they were the most awake person in the room. The smartest. The most evolved. The one with all the answers. That was their self-image. But when I step back now to think about it, I don’t see that person as being all that conscious or clear, I think they had an ego that needed to convince everyone of its importance. And I use that example gently, because honestly- we all do versions of this. We have blind spots where we’re convinced we’re “right” , “advanced” or “better,” when really we’re just human and compensating.

Self-deception is sneaky like that. And sometimes it shows up in much subtler ways. The other night I was at a dinner party, and there was this tense moment between a couple at the table. Nothing dramatic, but you could feel it. The whole room felt a thick, awkward silence.

Without even thinking, I jumped into action. I asked a cute question. Changed the subject and tried to keep the conversation moving. I wanted to smooth it over and make it better for everyone. Classic “let’s not make it awkward” energy.

It was automatic, like- “this is just what I do. I rescue everyone from discomfort!”

But when I got home, I had a pounding headache. I was exhausted and completely drained. I had spent the entire evening acting like it was my job to regulate everyone else’s emotional experience.

That’s such an old coping strategy for me. A younger version of me learned that if I kept everyone happy and feeling important and validated, then I would be safe. I don’t even know if it worked or if it helped anyone. I only know that it absolutely depleted me and has caused me plenty of pain and suffering over the years as I pulled in people who were happy to let me bend over backwards to placate them, at my own expense.

That is Pluto in Aquarius work too. It’s noticing the subtle, slippery ways we overfunction, manipulate, hide, rescue, control, or disappear in relationship.

Honesty is the antidote. When you’re willing to look at your own patterns, especially the secretive ones, the defensive ones, the codependent ones, the anxious or avoidant ones, things begin to shift. You stop blaming everyone else and you stop managing them. You stop pretending you can control the world.

Most people are busy protecting their ego (a dysfunctional side of the Sun archetype) and outsourcing responsibility (a toxic facet of the Moon archetype), but being honest about your shadow and impact actually makes you part of the solution. So the work isn’t to be perfect, it’s just to get curious and notice where you’re out of alignment.

✨If this resonated with you, I explore similar themes (Scorpio/Taurus) more deeply in this week’s video on YouTube and on the podcast Star Narratives.

And if you’re a paid subscriber here on Substack, you’re always invited to join the monthly Astro Magic Clarity Sessions, where we gather live to talk astrology, life, and everything in between. This month we’re meeting on April 14, 10:30am MT. Link to come.

We never dreamed of getting close, but when you would step into her line of sight to take a picture, you could feel her watching. She was alert, steady, and ready to challenge if needed.

Living along this creek is such a gift. It reminds me of the power of nature… everything keeps flowing. The water keeps coming, the seasons keep changing, and the animals move through it all, untouched by the rules and restrictions we humans have created for ourselves.

But nonetheless, I am a human, and I do get caught (endlessly) in those very rules and restrictions. I’ll catch myself scrolling through social media or listening to a podcast, absorbed in the endless churn of other people’s opinions, perspectives, and fears. I catch those fears, my mind spins, and I find it exhausting.

Maybe it’s who I am now, or maybe it’s who I’ve always been, I’m just more aware of it now. But the feeling I get when I’m staring at my phone, taking in everyone else’s anxieties and projections is not good. I can actually feel myself disconnecting from my own center.

Then I step outside into the garden, and it’s like stepping into a completely different movie.

If you’ve followed my teachings, you’ve heard me say that the mind rules perception. The difference between the “screen” and the “garden” is a state of mind. The mind can show you one movie or another, depending on how much control you give it.

This is a Mercury thing. Mercury teaches us about awareness. Thoughts and patterns will run on autopilot, shaping our reality without us even realizing it.

If your mind gets a familiar chemical hit from reading about other people’s opinions or fears, that loop can start to feel safe. You start watching one kind of movie (the anxious, opinion-saturated one) while another movie, the one happening outside in the living world, goes unseen.

And that brings me back to the bears.

I love bear energy. Bears remind me that nothing and no one can mess with you when you’re standing strong and rooted. When you look at a mama bear, I guarantee that you know in your very bones not to approach it. No, thank you, I will not incite the wrath of that creature! Imagine if we treated incoming information, aka opinions, fears, the news, the world’s discontent, as if those things had to pass by our inner mama bear before being allowed in.

How much of that noise would make it past the threshold? How much would still control your mood, your day, your sense of hope? Not as much.

So I’ll leave you with a few questions to ponder this week:

• How much control do you have over your own mind?

• How often do you let other people’s perspectives or even the perception of fear and unrest shape your inner experience?

• And what might change if you guarded your mental space the way a mama bear guards her cubs?

Practice that mama bear energy this week. Don’t let in the things that make you feel icky, small, or heavy about the state of the world. Because the world itself (the real world) isn’t always the dark, chaotic place so many insist it is.

It’s alive and flowing. It’s full of beauty and resilience. But to see it, you have to guard your mind, and consciously choose which movie you’re watching.

I’m hosting a live New Moon gathering on April 17. Paid subscribers are invited to join us live. As a paid subscriber, you will receive more info and a link before the meeting. If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, consider upgrading to participate, or subscribe to stay updated on future events like this.

You can also find more astrological insights on this theme in my weekly YouTube videos and on the Star Narratives podcast.

In 1996, the Summer Olympics were coming to Atlanta.

The rumor around the city was that it was going to be chaos. Traffic would be impossible. Everything would be crowded, loud, and overwhelming. Plus, Hotlanta is hot in the summer. All of it felt like a big “meh” to me. Plus, I needed a change.

On a whim, I applied for a job as a summer camp counselor in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to my surprise, they hired me.

I wanted to do something completely outside of my comfort zone, somewhere I didn’t know a single person. So I packed up and drove two and a half hours out of Atlanta, leaving behind my boyfriend (he wasn’t happy), my apartment, and all of my friends.

I pulled at an affluent yet rustic summer camp in the mountains where I knew absolutely no one.

The campers ranged from ages six to seventeen, and most of them had been going to this camp since they were little kids. They knew the routines and the traditions. They were delighted to be back there.

The counselors were a different story. There were about seventy-five of us, and they came from all over the world. Only about twenty were Americans. I remember how totally excited the foreign counselors were to shop at Walmart, and I was like, “Walmart is cool?” Ha!

Everything felt unfamiliar and even though I was only a few hours from home in the American culture I was already familiar with, it still felt so different.

The energy right now in 2026 feels like the first day at camp, and nobody is fully oriented to it yet. It’s going to take some time, as we familiarize ourselves with the new energy that comes from all the outer planets changing signs.

Unlike the campers at camp who had been going there since they were six years old… We’re more like the brand-new counselors. We’ve just arrived, and we’re all pretty different from one another. We don’t know the layout of the land, and we don’t quite know what we’re supposed to be doing.

And yet, here we are. I think we tend to rush understanding and integration, but why rush? Why do we need the answers so quickly? This moment in time is an opportunity to question a lot of the assumptions you’ve been carrying about yourself.

You’re entering 2026 with a lifetime of beliefs, emotional reflexes, old stories, perceived history, and baggage. But the astrology right now is inviting you to start seeing things differently.

Pluto in Aquarius is showing you that we don’t all need to agree or be the same, but it sure does help when we are kind, curious or at least neutral.

Jupiter in Cancer has been quietly teaching you not to trust your emotional reactions quite as automatically as you once did.

Saturn and Neptune moving into Aries are beginning a much bigger lesson: learning to see yourself differently, and caring less about how other people perceive you.

Uranus headed toware Gemini is pushing you to stop thinking about everything in the same old small minded ways.

Back in 1996, I knew I didn’t want to be in Atlanta when hundreds of thousands of people descended on the city. I did want to immerse myself in a completely different culture from anything I had experienced before, and I did that. It was the first time I’d ever gotten to spend time (2 months) with people from different cultures, many of whom spoke different languages. I evolved that summer.

Working at that camp changed my life. I saw the Olympic Games surrounded by people who were SO excited to see their teams compete, which made the experience better. I became an archery teacher (how I got that job, I don’t remember), but my co-teacher (who was a real archer and had to teach me how) became one of my best friends. And it’s no accident that my north node (my evolutionary path) is in Sagittarius “the archer”… foreshadowing?

I left behind the person I had been in high school, and even in my early years living alone in Atlanta. I broke up with the local boyfriend and started dating a new guy from a different country, culture, and religion (who spoke a language I knew exactly one word of, but he was fluent in English). All of this was quite the learning curve, and I’m still in awe to this day that we pulled it off for as long as we did.

That camp planted seeds that eventually led me to travel, spending months backpacking across Mexico, through Central America, and around Europe. It led me to meeting my first husband. And ultimately, it led me to having my kids. You can trace the entire arc back to that one decision.

All because I was willing to step into something new without knowing how the story would end. And that’s the real lesson of this moment we’re in right now. The most powerful thing you can do (okay, the only thing) is simply show up, even when you’re not fully oriented or have answers. Because unlike all the doom and gloomers out there who think the world is ending (it’s not), you can count on all of this unfamiliarity leading you toward quite the adventure.

✨Subscribe for more astrology musings, or become a paid subscriber to join my monthly live gatherings—an open space to ask questions and process your experiences through the lens of astrology.

Strong emotions have a strange power, and if you aren’t paying attention, it’s easy to begin to treat emotional reactions as if they’re objective reality.

Something happens that makes you curious, angry, afraid, excited, or outraged. And without even realizing it, the feeling itself becomes the evidence that your interpretation must be correct.

But emotions are simply information. They’re usually signals pointing toward something much older than the moment that triggered them. Here’s an example- let’s say that in the 2020 pandemic era, you were terrified of getting sick. Fast-forward to now. When someone sneezes, it fills you with a sudden fear and disgust. I can’t get sick! Don’t expose me to your germs! How rude to be in public sneezing! The emotion of fear has led you to draw instant conclusions that feel like facts.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. On clear nights, it can shine brighter than almost every star, easily visible to the naked eye. Astrologically, Jupiter is associated with truth and perspective. It governs belief systems, philosophy, and the frameworks we use to understand the world.

Its role is to remind us to zoom out. What we see when we zoom out is often a totally different picture. Is that one sneeze going to make me sick? Am I really in imminent danger? Is that sneezer really a rude person? (Probably no to all of the above).

Over the past year, Jupiter has been moving through Cancer, a sign associated with emotion, family, memory, and the deeply personal inner world, meaning many of Jupiter’s lessons lately have been arriving through feelings.

And emotions are running high almost everywhere right now.

Media language has become increasingly dramatic. Our everyday vocabulary leans toward extremes. Experiences are described as “insane,” “unbelievable,” “literally the worst,” or “the best thing ever.”

Big words and big reactions come with a subtle consequence: constant emotional intensity starts shaping what we believe.

Every time we experience a strong emotional reaction like excitement, desire, fear, shame, outrage, or moral certainty, the mind will attach meaning to that moment and over time, those moments accumulate, and eventually they solidify into beliefs about what is factual and how the world works.

Many of our strongest beliefs didn’t begin with careful reflection. They were inherited from parents and family dynamics, or religious communities. They were picked up when our nervous system got a chemical dump from our brain. They came from peer groups or cultural narratives we absorbed without questioning. And increasingly, from media and “influencers” that understand very well that emotional reactions drive attention.

So when you’re up against big emotional triggers like sexual desire, fear of punishment, outrage about politics, shame about doing the wrong thing, or moral panic around social issues, the emotional spike reinforces a narrative.

Eventually, that narrative begins to seem like the only one that ever existed.

But how often do we actually step back and examine where those beliefs came from? This is why Jupiter can be both enlightening and uncomfortable. Jupiter expands things. Jupiter teaches context.

Sometimes that expansion brings wisdom. It helps us see a wider perspective and recognize that the story we’ve been telling ourselves might be too small. Other times, Jupiter exposes something else entirely as it reveals where our beliefs have grown inflated, rigid, or unquestioned. Where we accepted something as truth simply because it felt emotionally convincing.

On March 10, Jupiter began moving direct in Cancer, and symbolically, that shift can create a little more space between us and our emotional reactions.

A strong emotion does not make something true. It simply means something inside us has been activated. But when we treat emotional triggers as information instead of conclusions, they become incredibly useful. Why does this reaction feel so familiar? Why is this situation creating such a strong response?

And once we begin to recognize those deeper patterns, something interesting happens. We stop reacting so intensely to the surface event. Instead, we begin to see it as part of a much larger story. One that becomes easier to understand (and sometimes easier to heal) once it’s visible.

Jupiter moving direct offers a little more room for that kind of emotional perspective. But the invitation is optional, Jupiter always teachers both sides of the spectrum. You can use your emotional reactions as information, or you can let them convince you they’re the whole truth.

💫 If this resonated with you, consider subscribing so you don’t miss future reflections. I also share a weekly forecast on YouTube, and my podcast Star Narratives, where I dive deeper into topics like this.

As much as I hate to admit it, something has come to my attention during this powerful (and stressful- sheesh!) eclipse season.

I’ve noticed how often I plan my life around what other people want. It shows up in small ways. Running errands on someone else’s timeline even when it puts me behind schedule. Picking up the phone because someone is calling, even though I have a splitting headache and really don’t want to talk. Choosing the store that’s more convenient for someone else instead of the one that actually works for me.

And if you can relate to doing this, you know it shows up in subtler ways too. Maybe you choose a professional service not because it’s the best fit for you, but because you have some social connection to the person. Maybe it feels easier to say yes than to risk someone feeling rejected or disappointed. So you go along with it, even though, deep down, you know it isn’t quite right for you.

None of these things sound dramatic. But over time, they add up. Unexamined, we will play this game on an unconscious auto-pilot for years (especially the empathic, sensitive, and energetically attuned among us), I’m looking at you water signs!

Why does it seem easier to inconvenience yourself than to risk inconveniencing someone else? How come it can it feel like a relief to accept less money, less time, less alignment, just so you don’t upset anyone or hurt someone’s feelings?

And when you really think about it, this is quite the Pisces–Virgo conundrum.

In order to receive approval, the pats on the back, the sense that you’re a “good person”, you may have to dissociate from your own experience.

But the moment you get present in your body, in the actual moment of your life, you start to notice things like: I don’t actually want to work with that person. I don’t want to run that errand today. I don’t have the capacity for this conversation.

And honoring that truth requires something uncomfortable. It requires disapproval. It requires letting someone down. It requires saying no.

The eclipses we’ve been moving through are asking some deeper questions.

One of them was a new moon eclipse in Aquarius on February 17, which brought attention to our relationship with the collective (the role we play within communities and networks). Another was a full moon eclipse in Pisces–Virgo on March 3, which highlighted the burdens we’re willing to take on… and the price those burdens require us to pay.

And somewhere inside that combination, a lesson has emerged: How much longer are we going to live our lives to take care of other people?

Now, if you’re a good citizen of the world, you might immediately protest. Aren’t we supposed to take care of other people? Isn’t that what it means to be compassionate?! To be humanitarian?!

Yes, but there’s an important distinction here. You don’t want to help people from the energy of resentment or from the energy of the martyr. And you certainly don’t want to help people from the energy of the savior.

Because when you move through life believing that everyone else needs your help, or that you know what’s best for their journey, you aren’t positioning yourself as the benevolent giver.

You’re positioning yourself as the burnt-out codependent.

And that’s a role that other people, consciously or not, will very easily take advantage of.

The Real Call of the Moment

As we move into the next several years of astrology with Neptune shifting from Pisces into Aries and Uranus shifting from Taurus into Gemini, there is a real call to action emerging.

And that call is this:

Stop living your life in order to make other people feel comfortable. Stop shaping your choices around whether someone else will approve. Stop helping in ways that drain your life force.

Helping people is beautiful and supporting others is meaningful. But the only sustainable way to do those things is when they also make you feel alive.

If the aftermath of helping someone is exhaustion, resentment, dissociation, or a quiet sense that you abandoned yourself, why are you doing it?

💫If you’ve been following these eclipse energies with me, you know how powerful this season has been. I cover things like this and more in my weekly astrology forecasts on YouTube and Star Narratives Podcast.

PS. We recently had an incredible live eclipse circle. Thank you to all who came! I’ll be hosting more of these gatherings in the future. These are live meetings exclusively for paid subscribers, where we go deeper into the astrology, the energetic themes of the moment, and how to navigate them in real life.

Whether you want to join the next one, or just read more of my astrology musings make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss what’s coming next.