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Hello and happy Virgo season!

Busy season, as the ruler of Virgo is the ever moving Mercury, who will be in three different signs throughout the course of the month. This looks like many new perspectives of the same situation, many opinions, and many different attempts to make it all make sense. There is a certain energy that feels like stepping into a spotlight and being perceived, flaws and all. What have you made public about your life? What does that reveal about you?

The Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on August 27th (or 28th, depending on your time zone) marks the official end of the Pisces/Virgo eclipse portal we entered back in August of 2024. As we close out this chapter, it’s a season to reflect on all we’ve learned and implement our new strengths. Specifically in the areas of fact vs fiction, faith vs reason, intuition vs logic, rules vs impulses, structure vs flow, etc. When the rules dissolve we open ourselves to exciting and powerful ways of existing, but also to disorder, instability, anxiety, and vulnerability.

There is a balance to be found here, and this is a good season to explore that within yourself. Rules are not inherently bad, in fact can be incredibly helpful tools for focused action and stability, but it is important that they are subject to reexamination and change as new information is absorbed. Take care of your bodies and let your inner Virgo go wild with the lists this month.

This newsletter contains the word of the season, transits, a journal prompt, horoscopes, a Coven podcast spotlight, and the latest news from Planets Perfumery.

As always, if you’re new here or if you’re returning, we love you!

<3 Jenna

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WORD OF THE SEASON

While Jenna focuses her energy on helping us bring Planets Perfumery into the world, I’ll be taking over our seasonal word for a little while. I hope you’ll enjoy exploring these words with me as much as I’ve enjoyed learning from hers. <3 Coco

PRAXIS

noun

1. The process of putting theory, knowledge, or belief into practice; action informed by reflection.

The word praxis comes from the Greek prâxis, meaning “action,” “doing,” or “practice.” It describes the relationship between reflection and action: we examine what we know, consider what we have learned, and allow that understanding to inform how we move through the world. The concept has become especially important within critical, feminist, and liberatory traditions because knowledge alone does not necessarily create change. Awareness asks something of us. Praxis requires that our choices, behaviors, and participation in the world reflect what we claim to value. Praxis is an ongoing process of reflection, action, observation, and revision. We learn, we make choices based on what we understand, we pay attention to their consequences, and we adjust when new information asks us to reconsider.

Virgo season calls us toward this kind of intentional practice. After Leo season asked us to examine whether our outward lives were congruent with who we truly are, Virgo asks what we are going to do with that awareness. Throughout this season, we are invited to practice discerning what is useful, question what we have inherited, refine what isn’t working, and make practical choices that more closely reflect what we now know.

VIRGO SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Hello from Coco!

Jenna and I have been immersed in everything Planets Perfumery, and as we’ve been building our business, our roles have shifted a bit, including who is writing about the astrological transits. I will be writing them for a while, and my approach is somewhat different from Jenna’s.

I like to talk about transits from a direct, grounded, and psychological perspective. I underscore both the light and shadow aspects of a transit so that you can work with what is supportive and stay aware of what may be more challenging.

My lens is informed by a decolonial feminist framework, which means reflecting on how we engage with the unconscious, how those underlying patterns relate to power, and how we can move through the world with greater awareness and toward our soul’s purpose with more intention.

If the tone or structure feels different, that is why.

I’m so very happy that you are here.

Much love,
Coco

Saturday, AUGUST 22

The Sun opposes the North Node and then enters Virgo

Now that you know, what are you going to do about it? Before the Sun leaves Leo, its opposition to the North Node in Aquarius illuminates what we may have already chosen, consciously or unconsciously, not to see. The question now becomes what are we willing to do with our awareness? Virgo reflects that knowing something and doing something about it are two very different things. Virgo season is about discernment, refinement, analysis, usefulness, craft, service, attention to detail and the continual process of improvement. Moving into Virgo season from Leo season shifts our attention from authentic self-expression toward what we actually do with what we have learned about ourselves.

Sunday, AUGUST 23

The Sun makes a trine to Chiron retrograde in Taurus at 00˚41’

Take an honest inventory. Virgo season walked in with a clipboard and is asking for a performance review. The sun will be shining a light on old wounds, asking us to take an honest assessment of our relationship with them. Healing can mean different things to different people, and Virgo’s invitation to discernment helps us to recognize what is still genuinely affecting us, what we have transformed, and where old wounds fester, because we have yet to actively make choices that will help us to transmute that energy into something useful.

Tuesday, AUGUST 25

Mercury in Leo opposes the North Node in Aquarius at 29˚50’, then moves into Virgo and makes a trine to Chiron retrograde in Taurus at 00˚39’

Notice what becomes clear, then work with it. Leo wants authentic self-expression, while Aquarius asks us to consider how our individual voice participates in something larger. As Mercury moves into Virgo, the emphasis shifts from expression to discernment. Its trine to Chiron retrograde in Taurus offers an opportunity to examine what surfaced without judgment and make practical adjustments. Healing may come through changing the language we use with ourselves, or tending to something small that has been asking for care.

Thursday, AUGUST 27

Mercury Cazimi at 04˚26’, and partial lunar eclipse in Pisces at 04˚54’ at 9:14pm PST

See clearly. Leave room for mystery. Mercury creates a moment of heightened clarity, and Virgo wants to identify what needs attention before determining what can be done about it. Something that has felt confusing may suddenly become easier to articulate or see. But then a lunar eclipse in Pisces complicates certainty. Pisces reminds us that some things cannot be analyzed into submission. Eclipses can show what has been developing outside our awareness, and this one may expose where perfectionism has kept us from realizing what we already know. Pay attention to what becomes unmistakably clear, but resist the urge to immediately solve it. Discernment also means knowing when to act and when to allow something to unfold.

Friday, AUGUST 28

Mercury in Virgo makes a square to Uranus in Gemini at 05˚37’, and the Sun makes a square to Uranus in Gemini at 05˚37’.

Question what the hegemony has taught us. Uranus can expose the assumptions beneath what we have been taught to accept as common sense, especially ideas repeated so often they begin to feel inevitable. Virgo’s gift is discernment, but discernment requires questioning the systems that determine what counts as credible, rational, or true. Who taught you what you know? Whose knowledge was considered legitimate, and whose was dismissed? The energy reflects interrupting inherited narratives and making room for perspectives that dominant systems have ignored or deliberately excluded. This questioning becomes more personal, and we may recognize how deeply these narratives have shaped our ideas about who we are supposed to be. Just remember that we do not have to reproduce a worldview simply because we inherited it.

Monday, AUGUST 31

Jupiter in Leo makes a trine to Saturn retrograde in Aries at 13˚41’.

Take up space while you build something tangible. This is supportive energy for turning possibility into something tangible. Jupiter expands; Saturn gives that expansion structure, boundaries, and staying power. There is also an invitation here to examine the limits we have internalized around taking up space. Not everyone has been permitted to be bold or self-determining. Saturn retrograde wants us to reconsider which restrictions are genuinely ours and which were inherited from institutions or systems invested in keeping certain people small.

Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 1

Mars in Cancer makes a square to Saturn retrograde in Aries at 13˚39’, and Mercury in Virgo makes a sextile to Mars in Cancer at 13˚44’.

Be strategic with your anger. When we are confronted with suffering or injustice, urgency can make immediate action feel like the only moral response. But urgency without direction can exhaust us without changing the conditions that created the problem. Mercury in Virgo’s supportive sextile to Mars offers a way to determine where our energy can be useful. Anger can tell us that something is wrong, but discernment helps us decide what to do about it. Sometimes the most effective form of resistance is knowing where, when, and how to apply our energy.

Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 9

Venus in Libra makes a trine to the North Node in Aquarius at 29˚49’.

We move forward together. Relationships built on reciprocity and respect can shape how we create change. Venus’s supportive trine to the North Node in Aquarius points toward a future that is less individualistic and more invested in community and our responsibility to one another. We are taught to understand success as an individual achievement, but little of what we accomplish happens without labor and the support of other people. Notice the relationships that make our lives possible and consider what we are contributing in return. The future does not have to be built through competition or domination, and it hasn’t really been working for us thus far, so we may as well try a different approach.

Thursday, SEPTEMBER 10

New Moon in Virgo at 18˚25’ at 8:27 pm PST, Venus moves into Scorpio and Mercury moves into Libra. Venus then opposes Chiron retrograde in Taurus at 00˚14’, then Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini at 05˚41’.

Allow what you uncover to change your choices. Venus entering Scorpio takes us beneath the surface of our relationships and values, asking us to examine what may be operating underneath them: power, vulnerability, desire, fear, trust, and the need for security. Listening to experiences beyond our own can reveal assumptions we didn’t know we were carrying, particularly those inherited from communities and cultures that taught us whose experiences mattered. Awareness alone does not create change. Pay attention to what has been revealed, decide what needs to be revised, and make choices that reflect what you know now.

Saturday, SEPTEMBER 12

Mercury in Libra makes a trine to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 03˚19’, then opposes Neptune retrograde in Aries at 03˚21’.

Question the story you are telling yourself. We may become more willing to discuss what usually remains unsaid or recognize something we previously could not see. Our perceptions are shaped by our experiences and the stories we have inherited about ourselves and one another. What feels unquestionably true from where we stand may look entirely different from another position.

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 13

Mercury in Libra makes a trine to Uranus retrograde in Gemini at 05˚41’.

Let someone else change your mind. Stay open to perspectives that challenge how we have learned to understand the world. A conversation, new piece of information, or encounter with someone whose experiences differ from our own may disrupt an assumption we didn’t realize we were carrying. Changing our minds does not mean abandoning our values. Sometimes it means recognizing that we didn’t know all of the information. Listening can be as important as speaking. Stay curious enough to be changed by what you learn.

Monday, SEPTEMBER 14

The Sun sextiles Mars in Cancer at 22˚01’.

Put your care into action. After days of questioning our assumptions and listening to perspectives beyond our own, this transit asks what we are willing to do with what we have learned. Care can become advocacy, mutual aid, or showing up when someone needs us, but service does not mean self-erasure. Pay attention to where your effort can genuinely help without reproducing the expectation that care must come at the expense of the person providing it.

Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 15

Venus in Scorpio makes a square to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 03˚16’; Neptune retrograde in Aries sextiles Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 03˚16’.

Pay attention to who benefits. Our ideas about beauty are shaped by cultures and systems that benefit when certain values become normalized, and others disappear from view. Ask yourself who benefits from the things you have been taught to want. Who benefits from your insecurity, and who or what pays the price? Meanwhile, the ongoing sextile between Neptune and Pluto reflects a much larger collective reimagining of the structures we have inherited. With both planets retrograde, this transformation may begin by questioning assumptions so deeply embedded in our culture that we mistake them for reality.

Thursday, SEPTEMBER 17

Chiron retrogrades back into Aries

Reclaim what you were taught to suppress. We may revisit the ways we learned to make ourselves smaller, or more agreeable, in order to remain safe. Not everyone is granted the same freedom to be angry, assertive, ambitious, or unapologetically themselves. For many of us, these qualities have had consequences, and what looks like a lack of confidence may actually be something we learned for survival.

Friday, SEPTEMBER 18

Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn retrograde in Aries at 12˚32’.

Listen without abandoning yourself. Difficult conversations can reveal where we have become defensive or so invested in being right that we are no longer listening. Compromise does not require abandoning our values, and listening does not require agreeing. But meaningful dialogue requires us to recognize that our individual perspective is shaped by our own experiences and can never represent the whole. Pay attention to where a boundary is genuinely protecting something important and where it may be protecting you from the discomfort of being challenged.

Thank you so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed my forecast as much as I have enjoyed sharing it with you, and that you have also enjoyed Jenna’s contributions. If you have any questions about this season, or would like a reading, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at coco@stars-etc.com. I always love hearing your thoughts, and I’d be honored to explore your chart with you.

VIRGO SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well. <3 Jenna

Aries Rising

You have been in the process of closing out a very significant chapter of your life since August 2024, tying up loose ends and making your exits as needed for the past two years. With the final eclipse in Pisces on August 27th, those doors close for good, and you officially step into the next. Chiron will be sliding back into your 1st house, so take care of your body, pay attention to any health issues that arise and take them seriously. Rest as needed and prepare for this next, likely very active season you are stepping into. Mercury will be moving from your 5th, to your 6th, and finally to your 7th house this season, so your mental energy may be scattered. Mostly your focus should be on your body and your own physical and emotional needs. Good season to prioritize stabilizing.

Taurus Rising

Getting really honest about your future plans this season, and what sort of path feels most authentic to your heart. For the past two years you may have been transitioning out of certain life plans or communities, and now is the season to surrender and close the door, otherwise fully recommit. Mercury is showing what stability looks like to you, contrasted with what pleasure feels like, and how you can prioritize both without sacrificing the other. A continued emphasis on your inner child, or children around you as teachers. What would it look like to let that child inside lead for a bit? What if you trusted that they know what you need?

Gemini Rising

Home, home, home. Family, roots, safety, foundations. Another season for a Tree of Life reflection. How have you tended to your roots, and where can you do better? What sorts of fruit is your tree producing, and are you happy with them? What can you do if not? Illuminating possible ancestral patterns this season, allowing you to bring more awareness to your behaviors and attachments. Your fruits may be your career, in which case you may be coming to powerful realizations about the way you decide to participate in society. Time for a pivot? Mercury is busy as it glides from your 3rd, to 4th, and finally to your 5th house. Write down any questions, thoughts, or dreams that may arise… you may have more answers in there than you realize.

Cancer Rising

Busier mind and busier time, but possibly leading to more clarity and well rounded perspectives. Your awareness is expanding and you may be exposed to different cultures or cosmologies or philosophies, encouraging powerful epiphanies about the way you have moved through the world. Mercury emphasizes your resources and what you need to feel safe. Let your creative side breathe a bit this season, and hold reality with a loose grip, trying to stay open to what you might learn. With Mars in your 1st, there may be a focus on your confidence or physical energy…pay attention to what motivates you vs what drains you…let it guide your path for now.

Leo Rising

Resources in focus again, where they come from, how you find them, how you feel about them, and how you use them. You have been in a period of surrender for the past 2 years, possibly needing to rely on others more than you are typically comfortable with. This lesson is about collaboration, giving vs receiving, and trusting without much sight. But with the nodes officially having shifted into your 1st and 7th house, the autonomy is returning! The reigns are back in your hands, and with that comes the responsibility to choose. Accountability is a word to meditate on this season.

Virgo Rising

A lot about how you meet the world is being reexamined and clarified. With the final eclipse in Pisces occuring in your 7th house, your two-year long reorientation is coming to a close. Now is the time to take stock of your surroundings, find a bit of ground, and asses where this portal spat you out. Your relationships and relationship patterns have likely been through a deep cleansing, with new powerful relationships finding you and old or stagnant patterns cleared. What have you learned about yourself? What are you capable of? What sorts of people do you want to be close to now, and why? Mercury dances through your 12th, 1st, and then 2nd house, bringing more of your unconscious to the conscious. Clarity.

Libra Rising

You’re in the dream world a bit this season, but you’re closing out a chapter of disorientation. Pay attention to the subconscious shifts and the synchronicities. It’s a fertile time for you to plant and visualize a way forward. Do not repeat the lessons you have long ago outgrown! If a carrot is dangling, make sure the reward is worth the risk, and be wary of illusions. You’re finding your feet again but let this season wash over you like a magical cleansing waterfall. Don’t force anything. Intuitive motion is your friend.

Scorpio Rising

Where you feel you belong is and has been going through a massive reorientation. You may have found yourself distancing from long time communities and immersing yourself in new ones since August 2024. With this final eclipse in Pisces in your 5th house, you are implementing the lessons you’ve learned about where and how your light wants to express, regardless of any external voices. Understanding that as you shine, the right people will find you. Really, whatever you shine is what you’ll attract. Importance here in authenticity of expression.

Sagittarius Rising

Similar to Gemini risings, you have a Tree of Life season, meaning it’s time to take stock and observe your roots and your fruits. Your fruits may feel especially abundant right now, and if not it means you need some serious pruning to take place. Do you have somewhere safe to retreat to at the end of the day? Do you have some sense of home that feels stable? As a Sagittarius rising, all over the place all the time, it is important that you have some degree of emotional stability to fall back on, when everything else is a blur. The past two years have probably tested that, and now you get the opportunity to implement all you have learned about finding a home within.

Capricorn Rising

Big expanded perspectives this season, and maybe some travels. A way of seeing the world that you have been building towards for the past two years is finally settling into view. Like you’ve been climbing a mountain that seemed interesting to you but you weren’t sure why…and you’re at last reaching a point of understanding. You started this journey, what next? Are there ways you can share what you’ve learned with others? You might be fairly busy this season, so take the bits of rest where they find you. And write the thoughts that come to mind.

Aquarius Rising

In some way, you’ve been pushed out of the nest these past two years, and you may have needed some time to learn to fly on your own. Now your wings are strong and you’re ready to fly around the globe. Let opportunities find you and trust your gut when it comes to accepting new partnerships in your life. In this period with Jupiter through your 7th, partnerships could really expand your world. You may be traveling a bit with Venus and Mercury hanging out in your 9th…let your travels inspire your next moves, and lean into the side of yourself that wants to be selfish for just a bit…I am certain they exist.

Pisces Rising

What a whirlwind of a total rebirth you’ve experienced with the North Node through your first house these past two years. You may feel like you’ve at last awoken to something very ancient, though new to your immediate consciousness, within you. You’ve been testing your limits, exploring new identities, finding new styles or jobs or relationships, and experimenting with how you want to meet the world. Where have you landed? Has this portal left any crumbs? Are you the butterfly of your dreams? If not, what is still holding you back? It’s a good season to find some grounding again, creating a sense of inner and outer stability to support the massive changes. Stick to a few routines that make you feel extra nourished.

COVEN SPOTLIGHT: MARYAM MIRZAKHANI

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and professor, and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (the highest award in mathematics, comparable to the Nobel Prize). She was a theoretical architect of spaces beyond our perceptible dimensions. By developing formulas that could measure Riemann surfaces moduli spaces, she helped to create form around them, allowing us to visualize new dimensions through the theoretical scaffolding she set up around it. In this episode we discuss her natal chart while attempting to unpack the brilliance of her work and mind.

See the full episode here: Season 3 Episode 5: Maryam Mirzakhani

JOURNAL PROMPT

What is something you know now that you can no longer pretend not to know? How has that knowledge changed the way you live, or how might it? Write about it.

~Coco

PLANETS PERFUMERY NEWS

It was a busy month for us in Leo season, with our first round of bottles shipped to a retailer (announcement about who very soon!), several press interviews, and countless meetings about our next steps.

We’re actively working on the Luminaries, our next release, to have in front of your noses come Spring 2027. We have been working with Megan Sidders on web and brand development, and Rishima Varma (sacralmystic.com) on design for this next phase.

As far as Discovery Sets…our most requested product…keep an eye out in SEPTEMBER. We’ll be announcing a limited amount of Discovery Sets for $30, that will include a $30 credit for a full sized bottle. We cannot wait for more of you to be able to experience these <3

You can purchase our 15ml or 50ml now on our (newly updated!) website: www.planetsperfumery.com

<3 Jenna

That’s all for this month! Sending stability, clarity, inspiration, and warmth for your month ahead. See you in Libra Season!

Love,

Jenna & Coco

Welcome Back!

We have been dropping the ball with the newsletter, we’re not afraid to admit it. Life and work happened and we got swept away into more immediate responsibilities. But we reconvened and restructured some tasks and are ready to recommit! Happy to be back, and happy to be waltzing into Leo season, as two Leo risings <3

Eclipse season is upon us, hard launching with the season of the Sun and the lunar nodes officially shifting onto the Leo / Aquarius axis. A lot of change being ushered in with this one. Notable moments are the Jupiter cazimi, the shifting of the north and south nodes, and the total solar eclipse toward the end of the season. It’s all about LEO this season, which a Leo loves to see. Or do they? Leo classically loves to chase the spotlight, but what about when it illuminates what they strive to hide? Stepping into the light means accepting that others will see your shadow. This is the cost of attention. AND — you still deserve your flowers, whatever they may be. Sleep where you’ve made your bed, if you will. AND — allowing yourself to be seen, shadow and all, is a sacred, vitally important work that requires immense courage to practice. Use this season to explore your relationship to acceptance, validation, recognition, attention, respect, leadership, and ego.

This newsletter contains the word of the season, transits (with an intentionally curated playlist), a journal prompt, horoscopes, a Coven podcast spotlight, and the latest news from Planets Perfumery.

As always, if you’re new here or if you’re returning, we love you!

<3 Jenna

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WORD OF THE SEASON

While Jenna focuses her energy on helping us bring Planets Perfumery into the world, I’ll be taking over our seasonal word for a little while. I hope you’ll enjoy exploring these words with me as much as I’ve enjoyed learning from hers. <3 Coco

CONGRUENCE

noun

1. The state of being in agreement, harmony, or alignment. In psychology, congruence describes a person whose inner experience, values, and outward actions are consistent with one another.

“Congruence is what happens when who you are, what you believe, what you say, and how you live no longer need to be kept separate.”

The word congruence comes from the Latin congruere, meaning “to come together,” “to agree,” or “to fit.” Psychologist Carl Rogers used the term to describe one of the hallmarks of psychological health: a life in which our public self and our private self are no longer at odds.

Congruence doesn’t require perfection. It asks for honesty. It is the gradual process of bringing our actions into alignment with our values, our words into alignment with our beliefs, and our lives into alignment with who we are becoming.

Leo season naturally calls us toward this kind of wholeness. It asks us to stop performing for approval and begin expressing ourselves from a place of genuine authenticity. Throughout this season, we are invited to examine where we have been living according to expectation rather than conviction, or where we’ve hidden parts of ourselves out of fear of being misunderstood.

LEO SZN PLAYLIST - listen as you read the transits!

LEO SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Hello from Coco!

Jenna and I have been immersed in everything Planets Perfumery, and as we’ve been building our business, our roles have shifted a bit, including who is writing about the astrological transits. I will be writing them for a while, and my approach is somewhat different from Jenna’s.

I like to talk about transits from a direct, grounded, and psychological perspective. I underscore both the light and shadow aspects of a transit so that you can work with what is supportive and stay aware of what may be more challenging.

My lens is informed by a decolonial feminist framework, which means reflecting on how we engage with the unconscious, how those underlying patterns relate to power, and how we can move through the world with greater awareness and toward our soul’s purpose with more intention.

If the tone or structure feels different, that is why.

I’m so very happy that you are here.

Much love,
Coco

Wednesday, JULY 22

The Sun enters Leo

Choose authenticity; don’t perform. Leo season brings warmth, vitality, and a return to the center of the self. This is a time for expression, creativity, pride, and remembering what it means to take up space without apology. It can also highlight where performativity lives in place of authenticity, prompting you to notice the difference between begging for attention and being real. Trust me. As a Leo rising who unconsciously begs for attention, I’m writing this to myself just as much as I write this for you.

song of the day: “Pressure to Party” - Julia Jacklin

Thursday, JULY 23

The Sun in Leo makes a square to Chiron in Taurus at 00˚48’; Mercury stations direct in Cancer at 16˚19’.

Notice, trust, move. The sun will be shining a light on wounds around self-worth, recognition, or feeling “good enough”. Consider this day an invitation to notice where your confidence has become tangled in old stories you might have been telling yourself about your value. Mercury stationing direct in Cancer helps us move forward with greater trust in our intuition, emotional intelligence, and in the people who have shown they are worthy of our trust. Together, these two transits invite awareness and forward movement.

Song of the day: “Birdseye” - Babehoven

Friday, JULY 24

Venus in Virgo makes a sextile to Mercury in Cancer at 16˚20’, and Pluto retrograde in Aquarius makes a sextile to Neptune retrograde in Aries at 04˚20’.

Clear space to make the thing. As Mercury moves out of the retrograde fog, this is the perfect day to reorganize your creative workspace, or to create an environment that supports inspiration. With both Pluto and Neptune being retrograde, you are being called by the universe to reclaim a creative vision that may have been in the recesses of your soul, patiently awaiting your attention. The universe wants you to make room in a physical space to allow your imagination the breathing room it needs to flow with renewed clarity and boldness. Full disclosure: it’s on my calendar to reorganize my own art workspace with my friend Mary, who loves organizing. Thanks, Mary C! See you on the 24th!

Song of the day: “Ceiling Fan” - Swapmeet

Sunday, JULY 26

Saturn stations retrograde in Aries at 14˚45’, the North Node moves into Aquarius, and the Sun opposes Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 04˚17’.

Pause. Reorient. Proceed. Saturn stationing retrograde at this degree point hints at obstacles that may require you to rethink your approach rather than abandon your goal. If you must pause, resist the temptation to see it as a failure. The North Node acts as our compass, guiding us toward the future, while the Sun opposing Pluto asks us to face our unconscious power dynamics. Keep your mind on your own business, pivot when needed, and you’ll be just fine.

Song of the day: “Try Again” - Andy Shauf

Monday, JULY 27

The Sun makes a trine to Neptune retrograde in Aries at 04˚18’, and also sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 04˚52’.

Make the thing without worrying about what everyone else thinks. We are collectively being invited to reconnect with our creative vision, regardless of whether we think no one will understand it. Focus on creating what feels true, boldly say what needs to be said, even if it feels unconventional, and trust that the right people will hear you.

Song of the day: “Mother Goose Rock n Rhyme” - emklem

Wednesday, JULY 29

Full moon in Aquarius at 06˚30’, the Sun makes a conjunction to Jupiter at 06˚24’, and Venus in Virgo makes a square to Mars in Gemini at 21˚14’.

Check your alignment. The full Moon in Aquarius invites us to pause and take an honest look at what we have created for the collective. Have you been building from an authentic place? Have you been progressing with integrity and courage? Don’t forget to celebrate how far you have come. The sun is shining a light on our expansion around these themes while the square from Venus to Mars supports taking a pause.

Song of the day: “True” - Skirts

Monday, AUGUST 3

Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus at 00˚52’

Choose what to carry forward. What beliefs, habits or stories nourish your growth and what has become emotional weight keeping you from your souls true potential? Sometimes, healing is about changing your relationship with your trauma, transmuting the energy into wisdom. Chiron stationing retrograde at this degree point feels like “Wait, stop, PAY ATTENTION.”

Song of the day: “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” - Broken Social Scene

Thursday, AUGUST 6

Venus moves into Libra and the sun makes a trine to Saturn retrograde in Aries at 14˚38’.

Venus comes home. Exhale. Venus is finally in a sign that supports the expression of our gifts of beauty, harmony, connection and diplomacy. After weeks of introspection and difficult truths, this feels like a collective exhale. As the Sun forms a supportive trine to Saturn (or as I like to call him, Big Daddy), who is reflecting on the structures in our lives, try to remember that you can take your responsibilities seriously without taking life as a whole too seriously. Life is asking you to keep showing up, but don’t forget to have fun and make connections along the way.

Song of the day: “Because” - the Beatles

Sunday, AUGUST 9

Mercury moves into Leo and makes a square to Chiron retrograde in Taurus at 00˚50’.

Speak your truth with courage. Mercury enters Leo, encouraging us to communicate our truth with courage, confidence, and heart. As it immediately squares Chiron you may notice old wounds around not being seen or heard or understood resurfacing. Allow your transmuted energy to inform your voice, but don’t allow your pain to do all of the talking.

Song of the day: “You Don’t Know Me” - Caetano Veloso

Monday, AUGUST 10

Venus in Libra makes a trine to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 03˚57’, then opposes Neptune retrograde in Aries at 04˚06’, and Mars in Gemini makes a trine to the North Node in Aquarius at 29˚48’.

You don’t need to be understood by everyone. Venus, continuing her journey through Libra and harmonizing with Pluto, reminds us that genuine connection isn’t built by becoming who we think others want us to be. We may find ourselves sacrificing pieces of ourselves to just belong. The opposition she makes to Neptune underscores that not everyone will understand or appreciate what we create, and that’s ok! We will STILL find our people. Meanwhile, Mars trining the North Node supports our collective forward movement toward the version of ourselves that feels the most authentic.

Song of the day: “In Lightening” - Feist

Tuesday, AUGUST 11

Mars moves into Cancer. Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 03˚55’, and trines Neptune retrograde in Aries at 04˚05’. Venus in Libra makes a trine to Uranus in Gemini at 05˚19’.

Question the script. With Mars moving into Cancer, you may find yourself feeling more emotional, defensive, and protective than usual. ****Before reacting, you might be better off taking a pause. ****Ask yourself what you are defending and why. Mercury’s opposition to Pluto has a way of exposing the unspoken. What roles have we been playing because of wanting to belong? Mercury harmonizing with Neptune allows our imagination and intuition to guide the conversation rather than feeling the need to prove a point. Meditate on stepping into who you really are.

Song of the day: “Big Wheel” - Samia

Wednesday, AUGUST 12

Total solar eclipse in Leo at 20˚01’ in Leo. Mars in Cancer makes a sextile to Chiron retrograde in Taurus at 00˚49’, and Mercury in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 05˚20’.

Be willing to look ridiculous. The degree point where this total solar eclipse occurs is symbolized by the visual, “drunken chickens making giddy attempts to fly over a barnyard fence,” from Martin Goldsmith’s The Zodiac by Degrees. (p 159) As strange as that image seems, it speaks to something deeply human: the courage to try something new before we are good at it. Every meaningful initiation comes with awkward first attempts and uncertainty about how we might be perceived, especially if we are trying something for the very first time. This eclipse invites us to have a sense of humor and remember that confidence isn’t something we are born with, but something we must cultivate over time. Mars in Cancer’s supportive sextile to Chiron retrograde in Taurus finds us re-evaluating long-held beliefs and gathering the courage to stand behind new convictions even though we might feel guilty or ashamed of our past convictions. Mercury’s supportive sextile to Uranus in Gemini reflects meaningful progress beginning with a conversation. We may discover that people with very different life experiences can still find common ground when we remain curious enough to listen and committed enough to focus on what truly matters rather than getting lost in one another’s reactivity.

Song of the day: “Strange World” - La Luz

Thursday, AUGUST 13

Mercury in Leo makes a sextile to Venus in Libra at 06˚48’.

Choose what truly matters. Live with purpose. Seek depth. Rather than getting caught up in appearances, we are encouraged to ask deeper questions about what truly deserves our time, energy and devotion. The more honestly we dig with open eyes and clarity, asking why we are here and what we value most, the easier it becomes to recognize what is fleeting and what is truly worth devoting our lives to.

Song of the day: “Letting Go” - Duster

Saturday, AUGUST 15

Mercury in Leo conjuncts Jupiter at 10˚09’.

Okay, now go play. Approach life with curiosity, joy and the willingness to see the world through a fresh perspective. Amid all the work this season of healing and growing and learning and reevaluating our beliefs, don’t forget that life is also meant to be joyful. Leo is a child. Leo is delight. Leo is standing in the Sun because it feels good. Go outside, and get on a swing.

Song of the day: “Fair” - dog eyes

Monday, AUGUST 17

Mars in Cancer makes a square to Neptune retrograde in Aries at 03˚59’, Mercury in Leo makes a trine to Saturn retrograde in Aries at 14˚20’, Venus in Libra makes a sextile to Jupiter in Leo at 10˚37’

Life is improvisation, play. Need I say more?

Song of the day: “Echo Party” - Sylvan Esso

Friday, AUGUST 21

Venus in Libra opposes Saturn retrograde in Aries at 14˚11’. Last day of Leo season.

You’re going to die one day anyway, don’t forget to play. Saturn tells us there will always be responsibilities, obstacles, and unexpected events. We miss the point when we become so consumed by the rules of indoctrination and the pursuit of getting ahead that we forget to play. Don’t forget to play.

Song of the day: “Please Don’t Bury Me” - John Prine

Thank you so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed my forecast as much as I have enjoyed sharing it with you, and that you have also enjoyed Jenna’s contributions. If you have any questions about this season, or would like a reading, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at coco@stars-etc.com. I always love hearing your thoughts, and I’d be honored to explore your chart with you.

LEO SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well. <3 Jenna

Aries Rising

This season is sacral, all about your pleasure, your joy, your creativity, and your inner child. Also could be about literal children, perhaps there are lessons for you from the kids. As you lean into what brings you pure joy, you may find yourself around new communities. What sort of worlds are opening before you? The possibilities are endless, the potential is rich. You get to decide. Open your heart and let yourself dream like you would if you knew without a doubt it could happen. And maybe fall in love, or have a kid, if that’s your thing.

Taurus Rising

Family patterns illuminated big time. How have you fit into your family dynamics? How has that carried over into the way in which you structure your home now? What role do you play at home? Intuition coming in strong…what has to change in your most immediate environment to allow you access to the fuel required to bear the fruit you want? You may be getting extra wisdom from ancestors this season, too. Pay attention to the subtext, the undercurrents, the roots. Write it all down and try to find perspective.

Gemini Rising

You are revolutionizing how you understand the world around you. Get ready for paradigm shifts, creative inspiration, communication breakthroughs… you’re understanding things you may have struggled to understand for a long time. Epiphanies and consciousness shifts, and clarity where there was haze. Perhaps heightened activity with siblings, or neighbors, or close friends. An expansion of awareness and understanding for those in your closest circles. Perhaps the decision to take on more studies, go back to school, or deepen your research in a particular area.

Cancer Rising

Your resources are expanding or shifting, an inheritance revealed (whether monetary or psychological), your independent sources of income are radically shifting, and you may be finding more independence with your resources. The struggle between dependence vs autonomy may arise, and you may find yourself pushed toward more autonomy, especially if you’ve lived your life more interdependent on those around you. Which, as a Cancer rising, is likely. It is in your soul signature to be a nurturer, but it is essential that you maintain a sense of self throughout. You may find yourself leaning into your own heart more than usual this season, and reaping the rewards that come with it.

Leo Rising

Big old identity shifts for you, with another rebirth springing into action. Hold up the mirror, find good lighting, and if you realize you don’t like what you see, change. You’re a Leo rising, so maybe start with your hair and see what follows. You might change your environment, or your relationships, or your job. You’re a phoenix beginning to rise from the ashes after a long period of 12th house retreat. Explore your relationship to attention, recognition, and validation. How much of your identity has unconsciously been formed around the way you craved to be perceived? There may be some rude awakenings this season, but trust that you’re being shown a truer version of your heart. And be gentle.

Virgo Rising

Big 12th house energy for you this season. That means you may be feeling tired, introverted, anxious, isolated, or stagnant. Listen to your body! Rest, retreat…you are pulling the bow back before the big launch, it isn’t supposed to be hyperactive at this time. Calm before the storm, if you will. There may be some important endings, or at least the beginning of the end intitiated. Chapters concluding and cycles coming to a close. Pay attention to your dreams and the thoughts you have in the shower or on long drives. Keep your journal close by and go easy on yourself. And drink plenty of water. And stretch.

Libra Rising

Some pretty great things for you this season…communities shifting and expanding, whole worlds being opened in front of you. Take some time with your inner child, nurture something that has been hiding. Lean into your aesthetic sensibilities. As a Libra rising you have impeccable taste — let it guide you. You’re getting an opportunity to reexamine your dreams and hopes for the future…do you still want what you wanted 5 years ago? It’s okay if the answer is no. Listen to your heart and adjust your aim. You are growing and changing and evolving and adapting.

Scorpio Rising

Your tree is FRUITING this season, and the result may be different than you expected. There are more eyes on you, and you may find an expanded sense of your role in society. You’ll start to understand how you are received by the world, and be able to move accordingly. It is important that you maintain a deep connection to your roots, as to not get swept away by all the outside voices. You need a stable enough foundation to hold the changes. Perhaps significant moments with a mother or father figure, too. In what ways do your parents still have influence over the ways you show up in the world?

Sagittarius Rising

There may be opportunities to travel or expand your horizons this season. You may find yourself in front of more crowds or with attentive audiences. It’s important that you use these opportunities to let your voice be heard. Your perspective is valuable, especially as a Sagittarius rising, but be wary of an over-inflated ego around it. You have valuable insights, but your insights are yours alone, and may not be applicable to everyone. It’s important that you remain open to the wisdom of those around you. Your mind has the opportunity this season to open to new possibilities and philosophies, and to allow different cultures to inform your perspectives. Let your voice be heard, share your ideas, and remember to listen.

Capricorn Rising

You may find resources from unexpected sources pouring in. You’re learning what it means to receive, to accept help from the outside, and to have the space to hold it. You could be combining your life more deeply with another, going into business with someone new, or receiving an inheritance of some kind. You’re reexamining what it means to you to feel safe, and if there are any unconsciously binding attachment patterns they will make themselves known. You can find liberation through surrender. There is risk in trusting others, but doing so opens you to ways of life and experiences you never would have considered.

Aquarius Rising

This season is all about your mirrors for you. A heightened focus on all the people around you, where you see yourself in relation to them, how you see yourself through them, and how you feel about them. There may be big shifts in partnerships, or new understandings about your needs and wants. Your boundaries are explored and understood, and possibly need to be reinforced. If you’ve typically found yourself as a small part of a whole, you may be leaning more into your expression and autonomy this season, or noticing an urge for more individual attention and recognition. Lean into it, but keep your feet on the ground. It is okay, even good, to feel special!

Pisces Rising

You’re finding liberation this season. Anywhere your life has felt binding may present an opportunity for escape. It is important that you take the risk, follow the thing that lights you up, despite the fear that may inevitably arise. You’re finding expanded perspective within confinement. The changes to your perspective become changes to your situation. Instead of waiting for change to happen and learning to adapt, see what happens if you’re the one who initiates the change. Pay attention to your body and health, though, and retreat as needed. Rest and recharge and prepare for the next whirlwind. Be aware of your boundaries and limits, but maybe see what happens if you try to gently expand them.

COVEN SPOTLIGHT: MATILDA ELECTA JOSYN GAGE

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In this episode, we welcome Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage, the forgotten proto-feminist of the 19th century, into our Coven. We explore how this radical suffragist, abolitionist, and Indigenous rights advocate challenged patriarchal power by exposing the church's role in women's oppression through her groundbreaking 1893 book "Woman, Church and State." Join us as we uncover how Gage's belief in "mental manifestation" and fascination with witchcraft influenced her son-in-law L. Frank Baum's creation of Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, and how her adoption into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation as "Karonienhawi" (she who holds the sky) informed her revolutionary understanding of gender equality.

See the full episode here:

JOURNAL PROMPT

When was the last time you played? How did it make you feel? Describe your feelings. Write about it.

~Coco

PLANETS PERFUMERY NEWS

Planets Perfumery is officially one month old! This past month since the launch has been a complete whirlwind…we feel so honored to be a part of the incredible community that is niche fragrance, and so grateful for the way the Planets have been received.

Thanks to Molly with House of Sacred Scents, we were able to exhibit at Scent Fest SF the weekend after we launched, alongside Mauricio’s Herbcraft Perfumery. Meeting so many of you and getting to show you our baby was absolutely magical.

We are in talks with retailers now, and are working hard to get everything ready to sell in person! If you’re on this newsletter or our IG, you’ll be the first to know when and where you’ll be able to find us.

We’re also so close to offering our discovery sets! We’ve received soooo many requests and are listening! You can expect our first batch of discovery sets to be available by the end of summer <3.

Appreciate you all following along and supporting, it has been completely life changing already.

You can purchase our 15ml or 50ml now on our website: www.planetsperfumery.com

<3 Jenna

That’s all for this month! Sending expansion, joy, reflection, and creativity for your month ahead. See you in Virgo Season!

Love,

Jenna & Coco

Welcome Back <3

Welcome Gemini Season!

What a trip — apologies for the delay this season (again, lol) but I promise we have good reason!

For one, Coco graduated from CIIS with her MA in Philosophy and Religion! And I’m right behind her with one more semester :).

For another, we celebrated the soft-launch of our fragrance line! More on that below, but Coco, Mauricio, Corrina and I have been working for over a year on the creation of Planets Perfumery, and pre-orders are now LIVE at planetsperfumery.com <3

Gemini season is exciting, and holds to one of the sweetest transits of the year (Venus Jupiter conjunction), as well as one of the eccentric transits of the year (Sun Uranus conjunction). This is a season of change and productive momentum, sending gifts and resources down before the rest of the Summer arrives in a storm. On the last day of Gemini season, Chiron enters Taurus after spending over 7 years in Aries, shifting our attention to our resources and sense of stability. There is a little chaos this month, mostly just a lot of noise, but overall this is one of the sweetest seasons of the year.

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ANNOUNCING PLANETS PERFUMERY:

Planets Perfumery is an independent perfumery producing fine fragrances inspired by the archetypal essences of the celestial bodies in our solar system. Founded by archetypal astrologers Jenna Scott and Coco Carrillo-Lopez, in collaboration with animistic perfumer Mauricio Garcia of Herbcraft Perfumery, and under the creative direction of Corrina Mott, Planets Perfumery prioritizes quality, intention, and sustainability. Each fragrance is co-created with the spirit of the archetype involved, from the ingredients used to the visuals to the descriptions to the sound design and beyond.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

PETRICHOR

noun

Classically, petrichor is the smell of rain and Earth. The word was coined in 1964, “…derived from from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) ‘rock’; or πέτρος (pétros) ‘stone’ and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr) ‘ichor’, the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

In our Coven episode with Arabella Thaïs, she discusses petrichor as a state of consciousness… of abundance and gratitude… “when the universe winks at you…it’s the wheel of fortune and its turning in your favor…”

We discussed petrichor as an example of what Venus and Jupiter seem to make together.

GEMINI SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Wednesday, May 20

The Sun enters Gemini

Now in Mercury’s domain, the Sun in Gemini is social, inquisitive, observant, creative, playful, and chatty.

Friday, May 22

Venus in Cancer forms a square to Neptune in Aries at 3º51’, the Sun forms a conjunction to Uranus in Gemini (Uranus Cazimi) at 1º31’, Mercury in Gemini forms a sextile to Saturn in Aries at 11º44’, Venus in Cancer forms a trine to the North Node in Pisces at 4º39’

Great day to launch a business and step into a dream (which is why we did! more on that later). The Uranus cazimi is a powerful time to step outside the box and let your light shine as bright as it wants to, no matter the status quo. Venus forming a trine to the North Node, and a square to Neptune on the same day, feels potent and alive with creation, art, and getting to the heart of the matter in all things.

Sunday, May 24

Mars in Taurus forms a sextile to the North Node in Aries at 4º33’, the Sun in Gemini forms a sextile to Neptune in Aries at 3º54’

Sextiles are subtle (though sometimes not so subtle) nudges toward the bigger picture. What are you building, and where does it need reinforcement? What area of your life feels like it needs extra attention? Spend some time in those places today.

Monday, May 25

Mercury in Gemini forms an opposition to Lilith in Sagittarius at 17º28’, the Sun in Gemini forms a square to the Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo at 4º30, Mars in Taurus forms a square to Pluto rx in Aquarius at 5º25’

Mercury opposing Lilith while the Sun squares the Lunar Nodes and Mars squares Pluto…damn. Intense, potent, powerful, and magnetizing day. The Sun will still be within a few degrees of its conjunction with Uranus, coloring this day with rebellion, confidence, charisma, and power. This is the voice of a collective, the multiple that comprises the One, and the strength of numbers. Powerful day to build, manifest, collaborate, and take the risks that are aligned with your core values.

Tuesday, May 26

The Sun in Gemini forms a trine to Pluto rx in Aquarius at 5º25’

Continuing on the energy from yesterday, this is added potency, added depth, added ability to see beneath the surface layers.

Thursday, May 28

Venus in Cancer forms a square to Saturn in Aries at 11º59’

Venus square Saturn is dedication, following your heart especially when it’s hard, having serious conversations, prioritizing your values, and committing to something vs releasing a commitment that is no longer aligned.

Sunday, May 31

FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS 9º55’ AT 1:45AM PST, Mercury in Gemini forms a sextile to Chiron in Aries at 29º11”

This Full Moon is sweet, with the ruler, Jupiter, still in the sign of its exaltation in Cancer. It’s a great Moon to call in abundance, to release fears, and to journal about the big picture. The energy of Sagittarius is always good for allowing yourself to release inhibitions and visualize your ideal scenario in every area of your life. Pour some wine, go on a hike, find perspective in some way, and let yourself dream. If everything works out exactly perfect, what would your life look like? Where do you need to zoom out more? What if the best case scenario was inevitable? The tone of today is idealism, optimism, curiosity, adventure, and hope.

Monday, June 1

Mercury enters Cancer

Mercury joins Venus and Jupiter in Cancer, pulling more focus to the home, family, our feelings of safety and nurturing. This season is pulling us together again, asking us to find a foundation within each other, to strengthen our sense of community and to show up for each other where it counts. Mercury in Cancer is empathetic, gentle but strong, wise and guiding, soft yet firm.

Tuesday, June 2

The Sun in Gemini forms a sextile to Saturn in Aries at 12º24’

Encouragement, friends, productive conversation, maybe a little gossip.

Wednesday, June 3rd

Mercury in Cancer forms a trine to the North Node in Pisces at 4º00’, Mercury in Cancer forms a square to Neptune in Aries at 4º06’

A trine to the North Node and a square to Neptune — a similar transit happened with Venus on May 22nd. Revisit that day and make sure your mind is aligned with your heart. Focus, sit with your feelings, and let your intuition move you.

Tuesday, June 9

Venus forms a conjunction to Jupiter in Cancer at 25º46’, the Sun in Gemini forms an opposition to Lilith in Sagittarius at 19º11’, Mercury in Cancer forms a square to Saturn in Aries at 12º58’

Bless…literally. This is a wonderful transit. In fact, one of the sweetest transits of the year! But be aware, what is for the best doesn’t always go down easy. Trust that events of the day are working in your highest alignment. The Sun opposes Lilith this day, which feels like a rising of the suppressed feminine and an acknowledgment of her value. It’s a great day to spend time with loved ones, to gather in your community and to spread the love. Throw a feast! Volunteer! Celebrate! Laugh! Sing! Play!

Friday, June 12

Venus in Cancer forms a square to Chiron in Aries at 29º44’

Venus square Chiron could hurt our feelings a bit, bringing some tenderness or sensitivity around familiar wounds. Be patient with the ones you love.

Saturday, June 13

Venus enters Leo

And at last, she gets to be as luxurious and dramatic as possible. Venus loves being in Leo, though she tends to overdo it here. To honor this transit, wear gold, indulge your senses, worship something, dress elegantly, and spend some extra money on that treat you always want. In Leo, Venus is devoted, dramatic, luxurious, vibrant, and creative. Best not make the mistake of forgetting where your loyalty lies while she is here!

Sunday, June 14

NEW MOON IN GEMINI 24º03’ AT 7:55 PM PST

This New Moon is ruled by Mercury, who is getting awfully close to a conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer. Great New Moon for planting seeds, for journaling out a stream of consciousness, anything at all that pops into your mind. There may be more fruit in your words than you’re aware of — trust that the channel of language is open, and be mindful of what you call in. It’s a great new moon for visualizations, for speaking out loud, for enlightening conversations with loved ones, or for powerful messages in dreams or divination practices.

Monday, June 15

Venus in Leo forms a sextile to Uranus in Gemini at 2º54’

Venus sextile Uranus is a bit spicy, adventurous, eccentric, and strange. Follow your impulses to something out of the ordinary today.

Tuesday, June 16

Venus in Leo forms a trine to Neptune in Aries at 4º18’

Venus trine Neptune is dreaaammmyyyy, though both in fire signs colors this transit with passion and creativity. Take those fantasies and let them move through you. Dance, make art, make love, consume art that inspires you.

Wednesday, June 17

Venus in Leo forms an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º07’

Into the depths we descend once more. Venus - Pluto aspects always seem to play out the Persephone story in some capacity. Prepare for your underworld descent, both individually and collectively, and keep your eyes peeled for the gifts in the shadows.

Friday, June 19

Chiron enters Taurus

After around 7 years in Aries, Chiron makes its first dip into Taurus! It will be retrograding back later this year, but this will be our first taste of Chiron in a new sign since 2019. Chiron in Taurus deals more with the physical, and our resources. Specifically, Chiron was in Taurus during the recession and oil crisis of the late 70’s and early 80’s, and before that it aligned with the Great Depression. It’s not that Chiron causes these things, but it certainly seems to align with time periods that are economically and foundationally unstable. On the bright side, I think this will lead to an intense reexamination of our resources, where they come from, which ones we really need, how we use them, and our relationship to them from every angle.

Saturday, June 20

Uranus in Gemini forms a square to the Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo at 3º09’

Uranus squaring the Lunar Nodes is rambunctious! Wild, unpredictable, and bringing permanent change…this is a day for the fates to play. There is not much to predict about this day energetically, aside from the near promise that something (or many things) will change.

GEMINI SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Your environment is radically changing, the people you find yourself around most, the conversations in which you participate, the topics you find yourself drawn to, the way you connect to a sense of home, and the foundation of your life itself…all of these are shifting, reorienting, strengthening, and evolving. Spend extra time making your home feel safe, cozy, inspiring, and authentic to you this season. Make the necessary changes to ensure that you have a sanctuary somewhere that you can retreat to to feel completely at rest, recharged, and comfortable. Keep a journal close by and write any ideas that come to mind, no matter how crazy. The Sun is conjunct Uranus in your 3rd house, which means your mind is buzzing with inspiration.

Taurus

Some unexpected changes in your resources, or perhaps just a good look at what you give vs take, what you want and what you have. Maybe experiencing something exciting with siblings or close friends, gatherings or celebrations, or an expansion of your inner circle of some kind. Keep a journal close by, as your words will be flowing, pouring out of you like honey…eloquence and clarity to find you! Some intense shadow work is likely, with the Full Moon in Sagittarius near Lilith in your 8th house, but it could also just be resurfaced desires, long ago buried.

Gemini

This is the kind of season where you make a radical announcement of identity in some way…like coming out of the closet, or revealing a break-up, or announcing a pregnancy, engagement, etc. The Uranus cazimi in your first house is bold, rebellious, surprising and loud. Venus and Jupiter conjunct in your 2nd house, with Mercury closely trailing, says expanded values or resources, and communicating something about them or with them. There could be radical physical transformations, like shaving your head, getting tattoos or piercings, or just deciding to explore a new style. If you find yourself extra moody, try to ride the waves as they come, and trust that this is an especially active season. This energy could also bring new awakenings around relationships or revelations about your relationship to abundance …of resources, time, money, etc.

Cancer

Close a door and slam it, and do not look back! Where have you been trapped and where are you setting yourself free? This is a season for you to powerfully and confidently step fully into yourself. The Uranus cazimi in your 12th house illuminates what cannot stay. Lilith in the 6th house brings the shadows up to the surface, revealing the rot that must be cleansed for your continued growth. It’s a season of dominos falling — change one small thing and notice how quickly your entire reality shifts. This is a season of massive expansion and release at the same time. Expanding your sense of self while releasing any lingering masks. Give yourself grace in this time, let yourself REST, and explore your new inner world.

Leo

Your communities are igniting, as you surround yourself with more creative types. Or possibly, you find yourself around people who are drastically different than you or the communities you’re used to. As you allow yourself to be radically authentic in public, your network begins to fill with the radically authentic, in turn. There may be a scandalous or mysterious romantic fling, or perhaps you explore the darker sides of your pleasure. With the Full Moon and Lilith in your 5th house, there is likely to be a spotlight on what feels good to you, and releasing any shame that may be attached. Chapters are closing, and have been all year, but this season you may be reaping the rewards for the hard work, like you’re on the other side of the mountain now, or perhaps you’ve reached the peak, and you’re able to see how far you’ve come and more clearly where you’re going.

Virgo

Huge career opportunities or epiphanies, and moments of understanding where you want to be in the world and what you want to be doing. There may also be some deeply buried attachment patterns surfacing and healing, possibly ancestral. There is a feeling of stepping into your power this season, and watching your communities shift as you do. It’s a great season to deepen your sense of belonging and friendship, and to lean on others for support as you go through what could be massive transitions. As the ground beneath your feet crumbles, it’s important that you find people that help you rebuild. Know that you’d do the same in return. Really sweet connections this season overall, and a possible shift in your dreams, goals, or plans for the future.

Libra

Major epiphanies!! Philosophical wonders and curiosities fill your mind this season. Perhaps major travel, too, or anything that expands your perspective and opens your mind to new ways of life. It is important that you share your voice this season! WRITE and SPEAK and be heard! Unleash the beliefs that have hidden behind fear, the opinions that could be disruptive. You have somewhat of a north star above you this month, with clarity and opportunity ahead. Just a really great season for you honestly. Godspeed!

Scorpio

Pretty significant attachment disturbances or revelations! Things coming to light about your closest relationships, anyone who you share resources with. Perhaps a radical shift in your shared resources, or money from unexpected places. You may be finding more independence, so this could manifest as being cut off in some way. Venus and Jupiter in your 9th house urge you to find a silver lining, and see the big picture lesson beyond it all. Could be traveling or making travel plans, too, or perhaps wanting to go back to school or learn something new. Or, could be sharing what you’ve learned with others.

Sagittarius

Relationship changes! Beginnings, endings, proposals, commitments, promises, revelations…inheritances? Re-examine yourself again and again and again. Let your shadow breathe. Find relationships that push you to grow, that encourage your freedom, that help you find the most liberated version of yourself. You may find light shining on the parts of you that you long ago deemed unacceptable. This time, let them exist. No need to morph into something more digestible. This is often where your most potent gifts lie. There may be resources coming in or expanding from others. Very potent season of change and self understanding for you.

Capricorn

Liberate yourself! Your body and your mind and your soul! Leave what binds you. It’s time! Embrace your gifts, and the structures that support you. There is a fine line between solid ground to stand on and chains. Get to know it this season. Find your wings and then find the people who can and will fly with you. Your partnerships are sweeeeeet this season. Friends, business partners, romantic relationships, clients, etc. Anyone you interact with in a one on one basis has an air of sweetness around them, injecting your relationships with Venus and Jupiter’s blessings. Your dreams may get a little freaky, too.

Aquarius

An affair! A fling! Something fun and flirty and playful and out of the blue. Perhaps someone you know, but would never have expected. Juicy! Find gifts from where you are in service to others …get some of the sweetness back for the work you’ve put in. Romanticize the mundane and see the art in everything. Understand how the smallest things are connected to everything else, and how one micro shift can make a world of difference. Air out the skeletons in the closet in your social circles…if you’re feeling like a black sheep in your communities perhaps there is something deeper to acknowledge. There seems to be some fun, gossip-filled drama happening for you this season, but also a good time to get real about what you want.

Pisces

Family matters! things are changing, moving around, coming to light. You may be freeing yourself of familial expectations, or from living out the dreams of your parents. Lean into what makes you feel young and playful. Let your pleasure guide you forward. These are some great weeks to fall in love or start a new art project. It’s also an interesting transit for literal pregnancy, if that is something you’re after. If not, maybe be extra careful ;). You may notice the fruits of your tree growing with thorns — best to examine the roots and learn why. And also to remember, that just because it wasn’t what you expected, doesn’t make it bad.

COVEN SPOTLIGHT: MAURICIO GARCIA

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

Mauricio Garcia is a Bay Area animistic perfumer, aroma therapist, witch, founder of Herbcraft Perfumery, co-founder of the mountain butterfly collective, and co-founder of the coalition of sustainable perfumery. He’s also the perfumer we’ve been working with for Planets Perfumery, our fragrance line inspired by the archetypal essences of the planets!

Mauricio is the perfect feature for Gemini season as a Gemini moon, and as the perfumer for Planets Perfumery. He is an olfactive creative genius, and we can’t wait for you all to meet him and be as inspired as we are. Our conversation covers everything from a deep dive into his natal chart, to sustainability in perfumery, to mythology across cultures, to his background in herbalism and perfumery, his ritualistic approach to fragrance, and so much more.

See the full episode here:

GEMINI SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Taurus season.

Journal

Write everything down, morning pages, journals, lyrics, poems, notes, ideas. Words will be pouring out of us, speak with intention and write down what comes to mind. Let the river flow!

Hair Dye

Get weird with your style, try the new hairstyle you’ve been afraid of. Uranus wants to get weird.

Sensory Guidance

Play with the senses! Let yourself lean into pleasure with the Venus Jupiter conjunction. Indulge and bring indulgence to others. Prioritize your senses.

Family Meals

Cook for your loved ones! Be it your birth or chosen family, it’s a great season to nurture your loved ones, and food is always a straight shot to the heart.

JOURNAL PROMPT

Petrichor Meditation

Explain in depth the smell of rain, however you can. Use imagery, symbolism, feelings, whatever you need to portray it as accurately as possible. Then, try to make a list of other things in your life that invoke similar feelings or states of consciousness. Where do you tap into the energy of petrichor in your life? Sit with your gratitude here.

That’s all for this month! Sending clarity, wisdom, warmth, and laughter for your month ahead. See you in Cancer Season!

Love,

Jenna

Welcome Back <3

Welcome Taurus Season!

For the season of fixed Earth, this Taurus season is full of change and surprise, and while some of it may be quite intense and uncomfortable, a decent amount (especially toward the end) looks really sweet, soft, and nurturing. There is an odd theme of transits that sort of call back to October of 2025…it feels like we’re picking something up where we left off from that time. Both Mercury and Venus will travel across three different signs this month, with Mars and Uranus across two.

Overall it feels a bit like fragmented realities, some whiplash, and really intense change coupled with really sweet and grounded care. It is Taurus season, after all, so while changes may be plenty, there is an overarching sense to prioritize safety, comfort, and grounding. Take time alone to meditate, journal, and nurture your body.

The most potent transits of this season are Uranus shifting into Gemini on April 25th (it’s been in Taurus since 2018…), the the New Moon in Taurus on May 16th, and the week directly following. Uranus moving into Gemini is chaotic, busy, confusing, and extremely significant. And while that may certainly bring added anxiety, that last week of Taurus season, post New Moon with Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon in Cancer is great for planting seeds, nurturing one another, and finding the faith that we will be okay.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits (with a song for each one), horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, a toolbox, a moon log, an intentional recipe, and an inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

ATARAXIA

noun

1. a lucid state of robust equanimity characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry. In non-philosophical usage, ataraxia was the ideal mental state for soldiers entering battle

“Ataraxia (αταραξία is the lack of ταραχή, the lack of disturbance or worry) produces actual pleasure. It originates in Ancient Greek philosophies, in particular it is at the heart of Epicureanism. It is often connected to the two forms of pleasure: eudaimonia and hedonism, where the former is divine happiness and the latter is short term, often sensory, pleasure. In Epicureanism, hedonism is ataraxia, meaning that the ultimate pleasure is the lack of bodily or mental pain. To Epicureans, material achievement is not a pleasure if it requires you to endure pain over years and years, that instead makes a Stoic out of you. It would be perverse to an Epicurean that words like ‘busy,’ ‘grinding’ have become modern day virtues.

In Ancient Greece, the state of ataraxia led to success because its tranquility allowed for greater mental clarity, with the byproduct of enabling success in battle, relationships, and education without sacrificing happiness. To achieve true ataraxia takes discipline and mental fortitude that only the strong-minded can endure. Reaching such a state is the ultimate success, the only one that has a measurable and provable value—actual happiness.”

Source: https://stanfordreview.org/the-lost-pursuit-of-ataraxia/

TAURUS SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Sunday, April 19

The Sun enters Taurus

Taurus is fixed Earth, ruled by Venus, and all about sensuality, security, matter, beauty, and music. The Sun in Taurus is the bull, and shows a hardheaded ego, an ego averse to change and risk, and deeply connected to the aesthetic and sensual realms.

Song of the day: “Waterfalls” - Emily King

Monday, April 20

Mercury forms a conjunction to Saturn in Aries at 7º55’, Mercury forms a conjunction to Mars in Aries at 8º35’

Say the quiet part out loud, bring a megaphone to the resistance, brace yourself for triggering conversations, and watch your tone. Or don’t, as Aries was never one to be told what to do. Mercury with Saturn is silence, suffocation, and whispers, but also things like writing, law, books, and societal hierarchies. Mercury with Mars is a screaming match, a track meet, a falcon, intentional and cutting words.

Song of the day: “Perdida” - Biig Piig

Wednesday, April 22

The Moon forms a conjunction to Jupiter in Cancer at 17º51’

Empathetic, compassionate, forgiving, but also dramatic, passionate, loud, and indulgent. The Moon is our safety, comfort, and emotions, and Jupiter is expansion, exaggeration, magnification and idealism. Together in the sign of Cancer, these two feel like a hug from Grandma, or an emotional trigger blown completely out of proportion.

Song of the day: “Sunset” - Beach House

Thursday, April 23

Venus forms a conjunction to Uranus in Taurus at 29º53’, The Moon in Leo forms an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º28’, Venus enters Gemini, Mercury in Aries forms a trine to Lilith in Sagittarius at 13º56’

A new crush? Forbidden love? Values shift, truth is subjective. This day could feel dramatic and eventful, with a spotlight on Venus as she forms a conjunction to Uranus at the Anaretic degree (29) in her home of Taurus before gliding into Gemini. Venus in Gemini is a social butterfly, she’s curious, expressive, communicative, and is capable of intimate relationships of all kind, not limited to romantic. Friends, specifically, are everything to Venus in Gemini. This day feels like a representation of the power of gossip.

Song of the day: “Starburster” - Fontaines D.C.

Saturday, April 25

The Sun in Taurus forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º28’, Uranus enters Gemini

Today is one of the most significant dates of 2026! Uranus re-enters Gemini where it will stay for the next 8 years. We got a brief sample of this energy in 2025, from July to November, before it retrograded back into Taurus. As Uranus changes signs we also have the Sun squaring Pluto, so this day is intense from multiple angles. Uranus in Gemini is chaotic, socially rebellious, abrupt, and noisy. Uranus is the planet of the revolution, and Gemini is the sign of language, communication, learning, conversation, story, and memory. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was 1941-1949, and the time before that was 1859-1866, and the time before that was 1774-1782…(hopefully those are ringing a bell…). And then the Sun squaring Pluto is intense, full of power struggles, and a little eruptive.

Song of the day: “Gift Horse” - IDLES

Sunday, April 26

Mercury in Aries forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 18º19’, Venus in Gemini forms a sextile to Neptune in Aries at 3º07’

Mercury square Jupiter feels like amplified voices, but perhaps a misunderstood message. Venus sextile Neptune is a bit like melted ice cream or a lullaby.

Song of the day: “Bug Like an Angel” - Mitski

Tuesday, April 28

Mars in Aries forms a trine to Lilith in Sagittarius at 14º23’, Venus in Gemini forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º29’, Venus in Gemini forms a square to the North Node in Pisces at 5º55’, The Moon in Libra forms a grand trine with Venus and Pluto, The Moon in Libra opposes Neptune and Saturn in Aries

Ok so much going on today. The most potent thing, I think, is the grand trine between the Moon, Venus and Pluto. A grand trine is like an injection of harmony between planetary energies, allowing the expression of each planet to express easily and with support from the other two. In this case, the Moon in Libra brings balance, social awareness, and a bit of hedonism, while Venus in Gemini brings laughter, curiosity, and conversation, while Pluto in Aquarius brings an overarching societal undercurrent, or a feeling of collective connection. There is a bit of a kite shape, too, with the Moon also forming an opposition to Neptune and Saturn in Aries…we did experience a similar transit to this back in mid-October of 2025, between Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini and Venus in Libra. Powerful day.

Song of the day: “Mood Swings” - Little Simz

Wednesday, April 29

The Moon in Libra opposes Mars and Mercury in Aries

Moon opposing Mars feels violating, Moon opposing Mercury feels like tender conversation and creativity. Together this feels like possibly triggering and emotional conversations, or maybe provocative art.

Song of the day: “Fairlies” - Grain Chatten

Friday, May 1

FULL MOON IN SCORPIO, 11º20’ AT 10:22AM PST, Venus in Gemini forms a sextile to Saturn in Aries at 9º14’, Mercury forms a conjunction to Chiron in Aries at 27º33’

Full Moon in Scorpio is DEEP. And private. And moody. And intimate. This is a great day to romanticize the shit out of your pain, journal until you get to the deepest layer you can find, and makeout with someone. Scorpio is vengeful and intense, and Luna’s illumination here takes no prisoners. This full moon is mysterious, sexy, patient, and intuitive, but possibly a little manipulative, resentful, and shameful. Mercury conjunct Chiron looks like addressing something painful head-on.

Song of the day: “The Place Where He Inserted the Blade” - Black Country, New Road

Saturday May 2

Mercury enters Taurus

Mercury in Taurus is focused, practical but with taste, reserved, headstrong, opinionated, and musical. Taurus is ruled by Venus, so beauty, art, and harmony are of course at play, but Taurus is an Earth sign, and Mercury in the Earth signs is grounded, realistic, logical, and sensible. Taurus rules the throat and singing, so Mercury in Taurus feels like a singer, or a song.

Song of the day: “Self” - Noname

Monday, May 4

Mars in Aries forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 19º30’

Mars square Jupiter feels like disrupting the status quo. Like someone threw a rock into an otherwise still pond.

Song of the day: “Big Dreams” - Amyl and The Sniffers

Tuesday, May 5

Mercury in Taurus forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º30’

Mercury square Pluto is something we experience relatively frequently, and mostly feels like rebellion, triggering conversations, or transformative but uncomfortable news.

Song of the day: “Ankles” - Lucy Dacus

Wednesday, May 6

Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius at 5º30’, Venus in Gemini forms an opposition to Lilith in Sagittarius at 15º21’

Pluto stations retrograde but will not be leaving Aquarius this time. Time to uproot anything that has been buried since October 2025. There seems to be a pattern in the transits of returning to October 2025 to pick something up where we left off.

Song of the day: “True Believer” - Hayley Williams

Friday, May 8

The Moon forms a conjunction to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º30’

Moon conjunct Pluto is intense and emotional, sensitive and introspective.

Song of the day: “Happier When You’re Gone” - alt-J

Sunday, May 10

The Sun in Taurus forms a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer at 20º24’

A bit of an ego boost. A bit self indulgent.

Song of the day: “Phenomenal (feat. Doechii)” - Janelle Monáe

Wednesday, May 13

The Moon forms a conjunction to Neptune then Saturn in Aries

Depressive day possibly, a bit hazy or feeling under the weather, or an intense urge to retreat.

Song of the day: “43” - Florist

Thursday, May 14

Mercury Cazimi (Mercury forms a conjunction with the Sun) in Taurus at 23º49’, The Moon forms a conjunction to Mars in Aries at 26º57’ and then to Chiron in Aries at 28º18’

A Mercury Cazimi is usually social, outgoing, charismatic, creative, and expressive. In Taurus perhaps this feels especially artistic or musical. The Moon conjunct Mars in Aries feels active and inspiring, and the Moon conjunct Chiron right after feels like either salt in the wound or a dramatic feeling of healing. Quite the energetic day.

Song of the day: “St. Chroma (feat. Daniel Ceasar)” - Tyler, The Creator

Saturday, May 16

NEW MOON IN TAURUS, 25º57’ AT 1:01 PM PST, Mars forms a conjunction to Chiron in Aries at 28º24’, then The Moon forms a conjunction to Uranus in Taurus at 1º11’

Ruler of this New Moon is Venus in Gemini who is very closely sextiling the Mars-Chiron conjunction. A New Moon in Taurus feels like gardening - specifically planting the seeds and preparing the soil. If you are able, try to spend time outdoors, barefoot in soil or grass or sand.

Song of the day: “Letting Go” - Angie McMahon

Sunday, May 17

Mercury enters Gemini, Venus in Gemini forms a sextile to Chiron in Aries at 28º27’, Mercury in forms a conjunction to Uranus in Gemini at 1º14’

Mercury is in its home of Gemini and everything starts making sense. Not actually, but maybe a little more clarity? Mercury in Gemini is clear, concise, eloquent, gossipy, talkative, clever, quick and brilliant. The conjunction to Uranus is a little willlllldddd. Like unhinged social media or news or texts.

Song of the day: “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” - English Teacher

Monday, May 18

Mars enters Taurus, Venus enters Cancer, The Moon forms a conjunction to Venus in Cancer, Mercury in Gemini forms a sextile to Neptune in Aries at 3º46’, Venus in Cancer forms a sextile to Mars in Taurus at 0º12’

And then, a rapid shift of energy sweeps through with both Mars and Venus change signs the same day. It feels like the Taurus New Moon really sets us up for change, and the following week it sweeps through to integrate. Mars in Taurus is patient, stubborn as hell, sensual, sensitive, and either ridiculously motivated or completely lazy. Venus in Cancer is cozy, safe, warm, creative and expressive, sensitive, and nurturing. These two form a sextile as they move into new signs together, bringing a soothing type of energy, like a bit of comfort, safety, or support.

Song of the day: “Saturday Sun” - Nick Drake

Tuesday, May 19

Mercury in Gemini forms a square to the Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo at 4º49’, Mercury in Gemini forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º28’,

Mercury forms a square to the nodes, and at nearly the same time a trine to Pluto. This feels like getting infused with the confidence and power to make a change. To speak something into existence, or to radically change your perspective, thereby changing your reality.

Song of the day: “I Got Heaven” - Mannequin Pussy

Wednesday, May 20

The Moon forms a conjunction to Jupiter in Cancer at 21º59’

To close out Taurus season, we of course get to have a sweet, indulgent, loving and sensual goodbye with this Moon-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer. At this time we have the Moon, Venus and Jupiter all in Cancer, meaning the hope, peace, and gratitude are HIGH.

Song of the day: “S P E Y S I D E” - Bon Iver

TAURUS SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

The most potent and energetic activity is happening across your 2nd and 3rd houses, meaning a lot of this season will be focused on your resources, your perceived reality, and everything that supports your idea or sense of self. This could be a big season to gather resources and learn new information, or perhaps it’s a season for you to begin change in these areas. The most massive changes in life always begin in the smallest ways, and maybe this is a season to take baby steps. You are well supported at home this season, especially once Venus and the Moon join Jupiter in Cancer. Perhaps it feels like no matter how things change, there is some feeling of security or stability in your community or family or another communal dynamic. Like you recognize the importance of community this season, and how when everything else falls apart you can find a sense of grounding there.

Taurus

The big changes for you are happening in the ways you see yourself, the things you gather to reinforce the way you see yourself, and the ways in which you learn yourself. For you the blessing and gift comes in from siblings (or close friends that feel like siblings), or in deciding to learn or participate in something new. When all is shifting around you, adjust your vision to a new perspective. Or journal about it. There is still a lot of activity through your 12th house, so continue to pay attention to your dreams and those subtle intuitive hits. As Uranus moves into your 2nd house, you can expect your resources to begin to change, or perhaps start to find unconventional ways to gather resources, or find that your needs begin to change. You have 8 years to get familiar with this new energy, so no rush in changing all at once. The Full Moon is focused on your partnerships…allow the depths of your relationship patterns to surface and be examined.

Gemini

There is a moment this season that is likely going to feel like getting ice cold water dumped on you to wake you up from a deep sleep. Uranus moving from your 12th to 1st house feels STARTLING, inspired, awake, creative, and activating, but possibly also chaotic or anxious. Your health is all over the place this season, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually…all of the above. Listen to your body and be sure to set firm boundaries that you will be able to hold. Your social circles and communities are still shifting around, making space for the version of yourself that is actively being forged. The Taurus New Moon will be an especially potent time for you to do any rituals of manifestation or release. There may be significant increase of your resources in some way, or perhaps you find an abundant new stream of income, or just feel especially abundant in general towards the end of the season.

Cancer

Any changes that happen in your life this season all feed directly into the version of yourself that is actively being birthed. You have opportunities this month to apply any lessons learned, and witness for yourself how much you’ve grown. Uranus shifting into your 12th house could begin to trigger some wild dreams or fantasies, but take it as a push toward finding more radical ways to meditate, look inward, or manifest. This could look like taking up an interest in lucid dreaming or dream work of some kind, experimenting (safely) with psychedelics, exploring eccentric rituals, or trying a unique type of therapy. You are still finding exactly what your vocation is in the world and what unique gifts you have to offer, and this season will further refine what that looks like for you. With the New Moon and several planets passing through your 11th house, you’ll likely feel a particular emphasis on your place within your community— by adjusting to a new one or maybe just meeting some exciting new friends.

Leo

Uranus has been meddling around in your 10th house for the past 8 years and finally leaves for your 11th house this season. That means your career / vocation may begin to settle into a clear direction or have a real weight to it. You’ve been radically altering how you show up in the world, and your reputation has gone through ridiculous ups and downs. Now, as this settles into something a little more tangible, the focus shifts to your communities and friends — who are you surrounding yourself with, and are they pushing you outside your comfort zone at all? For the next 8 years, you’ll likely find yourself in more and more eccentric groups, with artists, activists, and rebellious or unconventional types. The reward for you is internal…you’ve been navigating the shadows for a minute, and this season you may finally begin to feel the payoff for any intense inner work you’ve been doing. Let the New Moon in Taurus solidify your dreams for the future, and let the Full Moon in Scorpio connect you deeply with your roots.

Virgo

You may be traveling a decent amount, or applying to school, or deciding to share your voice and wisdom in some way. Uranus has been in your 9th house, meaning the past 8 years have been active, radical in growth, possibly adventurous and full of wisdom from unexpected sources or lessons hidden in surprising places. Now, as Uranus shifts into your 10th house, you can expect 8 years of random but massive shifts in your vocation or career. You’ll be finding what specific gifts you have to offer, and could feel inspired to take risks you didn’t feel confident enough to take before. This is the kind of transit that inspires someone to make their passion into their full-time gig. Your Taurus season is blessed with Jupiter and Venus in your 11th house, so especially as Taurus season nears the end it is likely to feel abundant and full, especially in your feelings of community and friends. For the Full Moon in Scorpio journaling will be an essential tool for you.

Libra

Your world is expanding and shifting before your eyes, as new possibilities and perspectives make themselves known to you. As Uranus shifts into your 9th house, you may enter a season of your life focused on expansion, travel, and an exploration of eccentric ideas, beliefs, or philosophies. It may feel like you are finally getting rewarded for hard work, or finally stepping into a vocation that feels aligned. As you accept this new role for yourself, your entire perception of reality might shift accordingly. You’re noticing how the smallest changes add up over time to become monumental. There is still a particular emphasis on your relationships, your needs, your shared resources, and your boundaries with yourself and others. As you step into the life path that feels aligned, you’ll need to re-learn how to navigate your interpersonal dynamics from this place. Some relationships may need to be shed in the process. Trust that what is aligned will stay, as long as you are committed to the path of your heart.

Scorpio

You have had a whirlwind of relationship experiences since 2018, possibly giving you emotional whiplash and bringing you to an intense awareness of all of your attachment patterns. Now, as Uranus finally leaves your 7th house and steps into your 8th, the fireworks turn inward. Perhaps this past Uranus cycle has been easier to project your pain onto others, or show you your attachment patterns through examples of others, and now you have a period of time dedicated to turning the spotlight within, showing you your own shadow. You may find yourself exploring new sexual desires, or finding more eccentric ways to let your shadow breathe and express. This is a good transit to get really creative with your deepest wounds, allow your shadow to speak through art, unleashing any lingering shame you may have been keeping locked away and out of sight. Huge season for honest self reflection for you, and with Jupiter and eventually Venus transiting your 9th house, your reward is in a fresh and inspiring new perspective of reality, with rich wisdom to share with others.

Sagittarius

Your routines, daily structures, habits, and rituals have likely been chaotic and unstable for the past 8 years with Uranus in the 6th house. Whether this reflected in an unreasonably busy work schedule, an unusual work-life balance, eccentric and unstable jobs, several job changes, unpredictable health concerns, or attempting to balance multiple projects at once…your life has been anything but quiet. It’s not that life will suddenly quiet completely once Uranus moves into your 7th house, but it is likely that you’ll find a little more stability and grounding over the next 8 years. Perhaps you settle into a job, or find routines that feel essential to your daily practice. Now, as Uranus shifts into your 7th house, you can expect your relationships to blossom and shift and express themselves in ways you could never predict. Things are about to get weird, and you’re just along for the ride. As a Sagittarius rising though, you’re obsessed with the thrill of life anyway, so nothing to be afraid of. There may be a nice financial boost this season, or some sort of significant gift that comes from someone else, either this season or in Gemini season, with Venus and Jupiter in your 8th house.

Capricorn

You’ve been unleashing your inner child for the past 8 years, allowing your inner artist to express and be seen, and exploring what it means to be uniquely you, regardless of what anyone’s expectations might be. In that time, you may have intentionally (or not), planted many seeds that you now have to nurture if you want to see actual growth. Uranus moving into your 6th house looks BUSY. Like trying to balance several different projects or jobs at once, filling your days with creativity and excitement, but not necessarily a sense of strong stability. You’re being pushed to explore different ways of living, to get comfortable outside your comfort zone, and to live in a way every day that reflects radical authenticity. In the process you will most certainly filter out what matters to you most, and at the end of this 8 year journey you will likely narrow it down to that which feels most supportive and aligned, but allow this next phase of your life to be an adventure— full, exciting, new, creative, curious, and free. There are rewards to be found this season for you in your relationships and partnerships of all kinds, with Jupiter and Venus through your 7th house.

Aquarius

A sense of grounding or home has probably been somewhat foreign to you for the past 8 years, as Uranus has been tearing up the roots of your tree of life, pruning, chopping, and replanting in unpredictable ways. Now, as it shifts into your 5th house, you may start to feel somewhat more settled, and begin to dream of all the passions that perhaps once inhabited your heart. It’s a season to unleash what has been buried with your inner child. What is begging to be expressed? What was long ago suffocated, but never fully died? Allow yourself to prioritize pleasure in your daily life. Add something beautiful or indulgent to your daily routines, like lighting a candle as you brush your teeth, or putting on your favorite album as you cook dinner. Notice how the small indulgences can completely alter the way you feel and inspire the courage to make much larger changes. Spend some time sitting with your likes and dislikes, and maybe make special effort to surround yourself with things that bring you feelings of pleasure and safety.

Pisces

Your communication, friends, perspectives, and understanding of life in general has been completely radicalized over the past 8 years. Events have happened that have forced you to see beyond yourself and into more alternative ways of viewing the world. Perhaps you’ve been learning to communicate more honestly and authentically, speaking your truth with increasing ease. Now, as Uranus shifts into your 4th house, you are going through what is essentially a massive home renovation of the psyche. It’s like that show Extreme Home Makeover, but with your heart. But also literally with your home and what home / safety mean to you. This could look like moving a lot, traveling a lot, adding new eccentric members to your home, moving somewhere foreign to you, or just adopting new and more eccentric beliefs into your most inner world. It is not necessarily a feeling of more stability, but it is a feeling of utter freedom. As you ease into this new phase of life, focus on what brings pleasure and lights up your soul. Follow that, and trust that any changes are bringing a more authentic version of your life.

TAURUS SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Jenna; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Taurus season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

For Taurus season, we’re honoring St. Hildegard of Bingen: 12th-century Benedictine nun, visionary mystic, composer, herbalist, and an early architect of holistic healing whose work braided together spirituality, medicine, music, and the living intelligence of the earth. She’s one of those rare figures who makes you realize the line between “saint” and “witch” has always been… negotiable.

Taurus season is the time of embodiment. It’s when the sacred returns to the senses, when devotion becomes practical: food, plants, breath, rest, rhythm, beauty, the slow rebuilding of the nervous system. And Hildegard’s entire worldview lives here. Her medicine was never separate from spirit. Health was not simply physical. To care for the body was to honor the Divine.

Hildegard is traditionally associated with a Virgo-heavy chart (Sun, Rising, Venus in Virgo; Mercury and Saturn in Libra; Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus; Moon in Aquarius; Mars in Scorpio; Pluto in Aries, with an estimated birth date). Virgo is the healer and the keeper of the body’s wisdom, and Taurus brings earth-knowledge: remedies, plants, nourishment, the slow intelligence of what grows. This is the signature of someone who understood that the more-than-human world isn’t “background,” it’s participation.

Her work in physica and Causae et Curae outlines a medical philosophy grounded in the elements and humors, using plants, stones, and the natural world as remedies to restore balance. That feels deeply Taurus: observe, diagnose, nourish, regulate. Return the body to harmony.

And then there’s her music, which may be the most Taurus thing of all. Taurus rules the throat, voice, vibration, sensual devotion. Hildegard’s compositions survived when most music was anonymous, and you can literally listen today, as if her prayer is still moving through air.

Of course, because she is Coven material, there’s also the shadow: power doesn’t love a woman who knows too much. In the last year of her life, Hildegard and her convent were excommunicated for permitting the burial of a man the Church had condemned. And in a move that feels equal parts righteous and feral, she blessed his grave and removed its markers so authorities couldn’t find the body to exhume it.

Hildegard embodied the witch archetype through visions, earth-medicine, music, and moral defiance. She brings Taurus season a specific invitation: come back into right relationship with your body and the living world.

If Taurus season had a patron saint of sensual, earth-based mysticism, it would be her.

Listen to the full episode here: Season 1 Episode 2: St. Hildegard von Bingen

TAURUS SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Taurus season.

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Welcome Aries Season, welcome Spring, and welcome Sun!

My sincere apologies for the delay this month! Hopefully the depth of this newsletter makes up for it. This Aries season is certainly awake, and a little wacky, especially once April rolls around. There is a lot of energy of things that once felt distant becoming up close and personal, forcing us to reconcile whatever we have been avoiding. The Moon is an active player this month, though she always is, but this season she’ll be bringing the most fiery energy of nearly every planet into our immediate awareness.

There is a giant planet parade the week of April 13, with Mercury, Neptune, Mars, Saturn, Chiron, the Sun, and Moon all in Aries, closely following Venus and Uranus in Taurus. That is nearly every planet in the sky (outside of Jupiter and Pluto) back to back! Of course that means the energy of Aries is sure to feel particularly potent, especially considering we’ve been navigating the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries for quite some time now. Fiery, independent, impulsive, intuitive, awake, passionate, and self-assured, Aries has no time to wait for others to be on the same page.

I wonder if the fact that Jupiter and Pluto will be the only two off on their own will place an added emphasis on their energy as well…with Jupiter in Cancer magnifying themes of home and safety, and Pluto in Aquarius transforming society as we know it from the inside out. Whatever the case, buckle up! It’s bound to be exciting, activating, intense, and weird.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits (with a song for each one), horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, a toolbox with a ritual, a moon log, an intentional recipe, and an inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott, Josh Brumley and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

IRRUPTION

noun

1. a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in

As opposed to eruption, which is a violent exit, an external explosion of sorts, irruption is the same energy, only turned inward.

ARIES SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Friday, March 20

The Sun enters Aries, Mars in Pisces forms a trine to Jupiter in Cancer at 15º16’

The Sun finds its exaltation in the sign of Aries, bringing with its rise the vernal equinox and new life. On the same day, Mars forms a trine to Jupiter, bringing a rush of purpose, motivation, encouragement, and vitality.

Song for today: “Get Up Offa That Thing” - James Brown

Sunday, March 22

The Sun forms a conjunction with Neptune in Aries at 1º50’, Mercury forms a conjunction with the North Node in Pisces at 8º46’, The Moon forms a conjunction with Uranus in Taurus at 28º24’

Intuition led motion…the path may be unclear but it is certain. Mercury is now direct, so it will be making its third pass over everything it aspected during the retrograde. Mercury over the North Node feels fated, eager, clear, and hopeful. The Moon will be joining Uranus today, bringing feelings of instability, restlessness, and fervor, so overall this feels like a day where we feel inspired to make a change, or do something a little risky.

Song for today: “Image” - Magdalena Bay

Wednesday, March 25

The Sun forms a conjunction with Saturn in Aries at 4º43’, The Sun in Aries forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º06’

Sun conjunct Saturn feels empowering! Or especially disempowering, depending on its expression, lol. Saturn in Aries wants to defy all external authority, and the Sun joining him feels like asserting autonomous, individual authority. Could be a good day to commit to something, make a bold plan, step into your independence further or stand firm in opposition to something. The Sun sextile Pluto brings depth and an uncovering of sorts.

Song for today: “This Year” - Emily King

Thursday, March 26

The Moon forms a conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer at 15º28’, Venus forms a conjunction to Chiron in Aries at 25º24’

Sweet day with the Moon conjunct Jupiter, and Venus conjunct Chiron feels especially triggering but also very healing. Like triggering for the sake of wound awareness. Moon conjunct Jupiter feels emotionally indulgent, like pampering yourself, or overspending, but could also be reflected in heightened sensitivity.

Song for today: “Salt In The Wound” - boygenius

Friday, March 27

The Moon in Leo forms an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º08’, Mercury in Pisces forms a square to Lilith in Sagittarius at 10º54’

Intense, disruptive, dramatic, and emotional. Feelings of misunderstanding, tension and possibly heated arguments or power struggles.

Song for today: “A Change is Gonna Come” - Aretha Franklin

Saturday, March 28

Saturn in Aries forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º09’

Focus, intensity, planning something massive, transformation beginning to take root.

Song for today: “Mandy Love Theme” - Johann Johannson

Monday, March 30

The Moon forms a conjunction with the South Node in Virgo at 8º47’, Venus enters Taurus, The Moon in Virgo forms an opposition to Mercury in Pisces at 12º41’

Venus is so cozy in Taurus, one of her homes. In Taurus she gets her spa days, sleeping in, walking barefoot through a forest, and her favorite comfort food. She is grounded and realistic, and knows exactly what she wants here and how to get it. The Moon will be conjunct the South Node and then opposing Mercury, so emotionally we might feel like retreating a little, taking a step back to adjust our vision, or just feel a pull toward what is familiar and comforting.

Song for today: “Morning Sun” - Melody Gardot

Tuesday, March 31

The Moon in Virgo forms an opposition to Mars in Pisces at 22º46’, The Sun in Aries forms a trine to Lilith in Sagittarius at 11º20’

This energy is more active and eccentric, and a little erotic. This day has an edge to it, like wanting to get in a little trouble just for fun.

Song for today: “Get Not High, Get Not Low” - Feist

Wednesday, April 1

FULL MOON IN LIBRA, 12º21’ AT 7:13PM PST, The Moon in Libra forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries at 2º12’, The. Moon in Libra forms an opposition to Saturn in Aries at 5º35’

This Full Moon happens in the evening, but in the morning will be opposing Neptune and Saturn. I think this is a Full Moon to illuminate what matters to us, what feels important, what is worth committing our time and energy to. Breaking out of unhealthy attachment patterns, or perhaps getting our unhealthy attachment patterns especially exposed. Like carving your own identity out of a melted relationship. A reunion of self, through dissolving of another self.

Song for today: “God Turn Me Into a Flower” - Weyes Blood

Thursday, April 2

Mercury in Pisces forms a trine to Jupiter in Cancer at 15º55’, The Moon in Libra forms an opposition to Chiron in Aries at 25º50’

Mercury makes this final trine out of its retrograde to Jupiter, and ideas flow like milk and honey. Possibly boisterous or bold, in the water signs it at least feels communal and empathetic. The Moon opposing Chiron could be a little triggering, as Chiron often is, but it could also be particularly healing and balancing, especially coming the day after the Full Moon in Libra.

Song for today: “Communion in My Cup” - Tank and the Bangas

Friday, April 3

Venus in Taurus forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º15’, The Moon in Scorpio forms an opposition to Venus in Taurus at 5º14’

T square! Between the Moon, Venus and Pluto, with the Moon opposing Venus and Pluto as the squaring tension. And talk about tennnsssiiioooonnnnn. Between what you want, what you need, and what is inevitable. The missing piece of this T-Square is Leo, meaning the answer may be found in your light, your expression, your heart, or your inner child.

Song for today: “Sour Flower” - Lianne La Havas

Sunday, April 5

The Moon in Scorpio forms an opposition to Uranus in Taurus at 28º58’, The Sun in Aries forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 16º08’

Moon opposing Uranus is more chaotic, so is the Sun squaring Jupiter. This day feels a little disruptive, possibly frustrating, but also could feel inspiring, motivating, or exciting. Like taking a stand against something, or a risk for something you want.

Song for today: “Higher Ground” - Stevie Wonder

Wednesday, April 8

Mars in Pisces forms a sextile to Uranus in Taurus at 29º06’

Feels like water pushing up against a dam, nearing its capacity. Be wary of overflow, but allow the adrenaline to fuel you.

Song for today: “(Interlude) Train of Thought” - Tommy Guerrero

Thursday, April 9

Mars enters Aries, the Moon in Capricorn forms an opposition to Jupiter in Cancer at 16º28’

Mars is at last at home in Aries, where he can act on impulse, move with passion, follow emotion, and get things done. On the same day, the Moon opposes Jupiter, bringing a sense of overindulgence, idealism, and possibly heightened sensitivity. The two of these combined makes for an energized, bold, and intuitive day.

Song for today: “symptom of life” - WILLOW

Saturday, April 11

The Moon forms a conjunction to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º21

Into the depths, just a bit. Sink beneath the covers, visit the underworld for a moment.

Song for today: “Clearing” - grouper

Sunday, April 12

Mars forms a conjunction to Neptune in Aries at 2º39’

Mars conjunct Neptune in Aries feels abrasive, unsettling, and a little disorienting. Mars wants to sprint full speed ahead, but Neptune fogs the path, resulting in what could feel like a decent amount of anxiety. Alternatively, this could be a day you feel especially aligned with your intuition, like you don’t actually need visibility to keep moving forward.

Song for today: “wonder 2” - my bloody valentine

Monday, April 13

Venus in Taurus forms a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer at 16º48’

Like a glimmer of something shiny in the ocean that catches your eye and urges you to wade further into the water.

Song for today: “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You” - Big Thief

Tuesday, April 14

Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile to Uranus in Taurus at 29º24’, Mercury enters Aries

Mercury forms a sextile to Uranus before gliding into Aries, making this day feel electric, and maybe bringing a bit of an awakening. Mercury in Aries is sharp, quick, and brash, speaking before thinking, intuitive communication, and quick to defend. It’s a great energy for speaking boundaries, declaring what you want, and boldly voicing your truth, even if it causes disharmony.

Song for today: “That’s Where I Am” - Maggie Rogers

Wednesday, April 15

The Moon forms a conjunction to Mercury, then Neptune, then Mars

Going through lotttsss of emotions today and this whole week. If you’re feeling off, give it a few hours. This energy will be around all week, climaxing with the New Moon on Friday, but lingering for a couple weeks. There is a planet parade in the sky, with Mercury, Neptune, Mars, Saturn, the Sun, Venus, and Uranus all clumped together across the signs of Aries and Taurus. For the next few days the Moon will be joining each of them, one by one. This brings the fiery energy of Aries expressed by each of these planets down into our personal lives. It’s like the chaos gets close to home, no longer distant or through a screen.

Song for today: “Hejira” - Joni Mitchell

Thursday, April 16

The Moon forms a conjunction to Saturn, Mars in Aries forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º25’, Mercury forms a conjunction to Neptune in Aries at 2º47’

Again, moving through alllll the emotions today, but the main event is the Mercury / Neptune conjunction in Aries. This feels like getting sudden, intuitive clarity. Alternatively, Neptune could be clouding the channels, making it difficult to find clarity. This could also be a good day for making art of some kind, or working on a creative project. It feels like questioning authority, questioning religion, coming to terms with reality, and possibly moving beyond denial.

Song for today: “Ceiling Fan” - Swapmeet

Friday, April 17

NEW MOON IN ARIES AT 27º29’, 4:50AM PST, Moon forms a conjunction to Chiron in Aries at 26º41

New Moon in Aries, nearly exactly conjunct Chiron feels like a deep, and possibly painful new beginning. Aries marks the start, a new door. But in order to begin again, you have to allow your previous chapter to end. Dig deep, self-reflect, and decide what you want to call in. Any wound that has been lingering has the opportunity for extra healing. The degree point for Chiron is about expression and being seen — perhaps this is a good New Moon to find forms of expression, ways to let your voice be heard or your heart seen. Turn your grief into art, and make it beautiful. Step forward into what awaits.

Song for today: “Selfish Soul” - Sudan Archives

Saturday, April 18

Mercury in Aries forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 5º26’, The Moon forms a conjunction to Venus in Taurus at 24º, then to Uranus in Taurus at 29º

The Moon joins with Venus and then Uranus, while Mercury sextiles Pluto. This is the Moon’s final stop on its journey through the planet parade. At first it feels really sweet, as the Moon joins with Venus in her home sign, like security, safety, and pleasure, but it quickly leaves Venus for its meeting with Uranus, ending its visit of the planet parade with a little chaos, instability, rebellion, and possibly anxiety. With the Mercury sextile to Pluto, though, overall this day feels like rebellion and individual clarity of values and what needs to change.

Song for today: “Wildfires” - Sault

Sunday, April 19

Mars forms a conjunction to Saturn in Aries at 7º51’

Mars conjunct Saturn can certainly be destructive and frightening, especially in the sign of Aries. This has the potential to be a transit reflecting themes of war and intense suffering, but it also has the potential to be expressed as a focused and brave plan of action. Mars is at home in Aries, while Saturn is in his fall here, meaning ultimately Mars dominates this conjunction. This feels like the individual strength to overthrow authority of some kind, or the confidence required to take on a daunting task.

Song for today: “Yankee and the Brave” - Run the Jewels

ARIES SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

It’s like you are being thrown into a furnace this season, getting extremely honest with yourself on many levels. There may be several streams of your identity that are actively dissolving, and several new faces that are actively forming, or perhaps you’re learning to integrate many sides to your personality that have felt disconnected for some time. It is essential that you have plenty of alone time this season, and really listen to your body. Your body holds the answers to the questions that most trouble you— nurture and respect it this season and always. If you find yourself sick this month, trust that something is purging or realigning. There is also an emphasis on your values and what feels most important to you. Perhaps as your identity experiences so many shifts, your priorities shift along with it. Return to childhood, examine the pieces of you you’ve picked up along the way. What parts of your personality feel inherent to your soul, and what did you adopt from others?

Taurus

Oooooof. Pretty massive chapters closing for you this season. So much of your subconscious is illuminated — give yourself grace and nurturing if it feels overwhelming. Your relationships and vocation in the world are emphasized, as you further find your footing into the reality you want to exist in. What do you specifically have to offer the world? Are you allowing yourself to express that fully? You may find yourself a bit retreated this season, needing plenty of space to meditate and understand the subconscious attachment patterns that arise. If you consistently find yourself on the outside, reflect on what exactly it means to belong. If you find yourself easily belonging, try taking a step back to reflect on what uniquely sets you apart. You may feel inspired to change up your sense of style in some way, be it new hair, a bold outfit, or some other kind of aesthetic change that matches the shift you’re experiencing internally.

Gemini

Your hopes and dreams, your communities, your social circles, and your visions for the future are going through an intense transformation. It’s possible you feel especially inspired to dive into activism or volunteer work this season, or organize groups of people in some way. If you feel drawn to gathering crowds for transformative / healing work, follow this call! You are particularly positioned to lead groups this season, urging you to step forward into more positions of leadership. However, be wary of hierarchical systems of authority, and only accept the responsibility of leadership if you are prepared to honor each voice equally. You may have important messages bubbling up from your subconscious, illuminating previously hidden intentions or motivations. It’s a season for you to boldly step into the reality you would like to see, building a new world one step at a time.

Cancer

Huge emphasis on your career, vocation, how you want to show up in the world and what you have to offer. You’ll probably experience career shifts, or epiphanies about your career and your sense of purpose / belonging in the world. What can you specifically, uniquely offer? What role is perfect for you? Are you here to revolutionize a field? With your 10th house in Aries, you were never meant to follow a path someone else laid out for you. With the planet parade igniting that for you, you may have the courage to break free from anything that feels especially limiting or misaligned. This could result in career changes, moving, significant family changes, or just intentional re-alignment onto a path that feels more correct. You may find yourself feeling especially drawn to carving out more independence from your family unit. As a Cancer rising, family has always come first, but at this point in time you are being asked to untangle your identity from your family and step into a greater sense of autonomy moving forward.

Leo

It’s like you are taking a final exam for all the things you’ve learned in your life up to this point. If you pass, your gift is in sharing your experience and wisdom with the world at large, and being received. Validation is huge for you as a Leo rising, but this whole year pulls focus to what that means for you, and just how much power you give it. Instead of validation as a measure of your worth, try to use it as directional guidance. Part of your purpose in life is to be a light for others, and noticing where your light is reflected back can help you find the pathways that are right for you. However, it is essential that your own inner voice comes first — boldly follow where your intuition leads, and allow the validation to be exactly that: validation that you are where you are supposed to be. Your spirituality is getting a total renovation this season…take time to sit with your beliefs, and figure out where your faith truly resides. You may also find yourself traveling or literally immersing yourself in new perspectives / cultures.

Virgo

Oooof — I do think all of the earth risings have the messiest Aries season, as all of the intensity happens in your water houses, in other words in all your houses that deal with the subconscious, shadows, attachments, and emotions. For you, this is going to emphasize your deepest attachment patterns and wounds, illustrating clearly the ways in which your attachments may have been unconsciously binding you. Find nurturing for these parts of yourself…they never meant to hurt you. Most likely, these attachment patterns formed out of a need for safety. You may find yourself dissolving any patterns of codependency, and carving your own identity back out. Spend some necessary time alone, and try your best to communicate these feelings to someone else, be it a partner, a close friend, or a therapist. If your life is currently merged with another, this will be a season to get really honest about the energetic balance of it all.

Libra

Your relationships……….damn. Huge excavation of outdated relationship patterns and ways in which you perceive the general “Other” — that is, every single person outside of yourself. You may see yourself mirrored back at you in alarming ways; allow this to be informative and illuminating rather than offensive or painful. As a Libra rising, it is likely that you spend much of your life harmonizing or balancing energies around you, but this season you are being asked to take more of a bold stand, even if it means causing disruption or disharmony. Notice how when you step further into independence and autonomy, certain things or people fall away. Trust that this is an essential shedding. If something or someone cannot appreciate your independence, perhaps they were more concerned with what you give to them than who you are as a person. The scales must re-center and balance eventually.

Scorpio

Big emphasis on your limitations, boundaries, needs, and internal structures. You may have epiphanies around where you have been holding yourself back, where you have been ignoring your limits, and where you crave more structure. It’s a focus on your 6th house, and while that can absolutely show up in your routines, jobs, health, and body, I like to think of the 6th house of the house of our intentional scaffolding, limitations, and boundaries. It follows the 5th house, of freedom, children, unbound creativity, self-expression, pleasure, passion, and potential, and represents the grounding required to sustain all of that. The 6th house is the foundation upon which all of that can thrive, and is also the reality check of how all of that energy co-exists within the structures of society. It is not the foundation you are born upon (that would be the 4th house), but rather the scaffolding you are forever building, adjusting, fixing, and discovering. Ultimately the question for you this season is simple: what do you need in order to thrive?

Sagittarius

There is an intense fire that is begging to be reawakened within you. Children will be potent teachers for you this season, as will your own inner child. The voice inside you that wants to play, be free, be seen, and experience pure pleasure is certain to make itself known. Your creative gifts are at an all-time high, whether you feel them or not. They are being refined, and you’re learning to what level you want to take them seriously. You may be receiving extra validation for these creative gifts, too. Alternatively, this could be a season that you feel especially creatively drained. If this is the case, take extra time to examine your mundane life; in what ways are you creating a sense of safety for your inner child? How might you improve, in order to allow your inner artist to express themselves more fully? Taking your inner artist seriously doesn’t necessarily mean making art your job (though it could), but rather simply recognizing the importance of respecting your creativity, and providing it with the tools to thrive.

Capricorn

I’m not gonna lie, this season is wild for you. The entire foundation upon which your life stands is being deeply examined, surfaced, cleansed, and adjusted. This could look like moving homes, getting really clear about what you need in a home, honestly examining subconscious patterns from your upbringing, receiving potent messages from ancestors, or having intense and important conversations with your parents (perhaps particularly the father, though with the moon here it could also be the mother). Intense healing around childhood wounds, you’re learning what in your foundation has rotted and needs to go. You may also find yourself with the courage required to set the long awaited boundaries you need to continue growing. It’s a big season for re-parenting your inner child, and giving yourself whatever you have possibly unconsciously sought out from others. You get to decide what home is to you: where you lay your head at the end of each day and where you wake up in the morning, where you recharge, where you return to yourself, and where you rest.

Aquarius

On the surface, this looks like an emphasis on siblings, friends that feel like siblings, neighbors, and communication, as the big planet parade marches through your 3rd house. But the 3rd house is complex, and one of the more confusing houses to fully grasp. Following the 2nd house of values and that which you collect to support your identity, the 3rd house is the first house that places you in the context of others. It shows the ways in which we learn, observe, communicate, and integrate. It shows how well we do or do not naturally “fit in”. It shows us our first examples of society and collaboration. It is “me, in context”. It’s the acquisition of information in order to understand our context and reality. So when you have a particularly emphasized 3rd house, this could look like a reorientation of your entire perception of reality. You may find yourself learning in ways you never previously had access to, or learning things you never previously thought you could. You may also want to spend intentional time with a journal, writing down any epiphanies, ideas, or thoughts that cross your mind. You could experience extraordinarily revealing and enlightening conversations with siblings or close friends. You may also experience a shift in your habits, or habitual thinking / thought patterns.

Pisces

You are collecting resources, perhaps taking inventory, and sorting out what you do or do not need. Perhaps you are experiencing financial independence, or financial strain, and recognizing what you need in order to feel a sense of wholeness. It’s probably a big season of shedding for you. Last season woke you up to something, this season is assessing the ground beneath your feet and your surroundings, becoming aware of what you no longer need to carry and what you might need to find. You may feel inspired to take on more responsibility, holding firm the reigns that steer your life. What is important to you now? Not last year, not in childhood, but now? You are getting ample opportunity this season to see your own capabilities and strengths. If you knew you could provide absolutely everything you need for yourself, what would you do? What direction would you walk, if you trusted in your own capabilities completely? What resources feel essential for the path you are choosing now?

ARIES SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Jenna and Josh; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Aries season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: VERO COLLINS

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In Season 3, Episode 4, we welcome Vero Collins into the coven: PCC scholar at CIIS, archetypal astrologer, researcher of Stanislav Grof’s psychedelic therapy and perinatal matrices (BPMs), Jungian typology devotee, DJ, and creator of the emerging YouTube project Archetype Pilled. Vero’s work lives at the crossroads of depth psychology and pop culture, translating the hidden languages of the psyche into something people can actually touch.

Aries season is perfect for this episode because Aries is initiation. It’s the moment you stop orbiting your calling and step into it. And Vero’s chart is loud with that kind of brave beginning.

At the center is a striking 12th-house Aries emphasis (Mercury, Jupiter, Venus together in Aries, depending on house system), which immediately frames Vero’s mind and values as both Martian and mystical: fire burning behind the veil. Aries wants to act, but the 12th house asks, act in service of what is unseen. It’s the signature of someone pulled toward hidden architecture: the unconscious, typology, archetypes, altered states, and the liminal territory where experience becomes meaning.

Then there’s the Scorpio current: Moon–Mars in Scorpio, with Lilith emphasized and closely tied to the angles (opposite the Ascendant, as you note). That combination carries a witchy kind of gravity, the kind that doesn’t perform intensity, it simply arrives with it. Scorpio goes under. In this episode, it shows up as an instinct for alchemy: taking difficult early imprints, birth story, and deep feeling, and transmuting them into a life devoted to pattern, psyche, and truth.

And the geometry matters, there is a razor-clean pattern: Mercury at 3° Aries trine Chiron at 3° Sagittarius, both sextile Neptune at 3° Aquarius (a minor grand trine). Translation: language (Mercury) becomes medicine (Chiron) through the imaginal channel (Neptune). It’s one of those “this is literally the job description” configurations for someone who wants to teach what’s difficult to name, and make it feel accessible without reducing it.

This episode also threads Aries and Neptune together in a lovely way: the conversation starts in Los Angeles on the Summer Solstice, with an “LA is Neptune” vibe, and then moves into Vero’s core mission, which is very Aries: build something in direct opposition to what is happening in the world as resistance. Aries as the refusal to go numb.

Vero embodies the witch archetype through bold authenticity and disruptive sincerity: innovating, breaking open paradigms, and insisting that the unseen isn’t “unreal,” it’s simply untrained perception. The witch here is the one who studies what academia dismisses, then brings it back as usable knowledge. The witch is the one who says: You can’t heal what you refuse to look at.

Listen to the full episode here: Season 3 Episode 4: Vero Collins

ARIES SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Pisces season.

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Hello Pisces Season!

This month is full of confusion, reorientation, letting go of our tight grip on reality, and surrendering to the mess of it all. Allow yourself to get swept away by the madness, hang out in the dreamscape for a while. This Pisces season feels especially Alice in Wonderland-esq, with Mercury retrograding in Pisces for the entirety of the season. I’m reminded of the quote from the Tim Burton movie, “Have I gone mad?” to which the Hatter responds, “I’m afraid so, you’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret... all the best people are.”

The revolution has begun, and this season feels like the disorientation of adjusting to a new world. Perhaps you feel your feet are standing in two different realities. At some point, you’re going to have to take the leap. Do not try to figure it all out this month! It is not meant to be clear yet. It’s like we’re all blindfolded, and our trust in our intuition is put to the test. One step at a time, and try to have fun as you go. The highlights this season are the Saturn-Neptune conjunction on February 20, Mercury retrograde that begins February 25 but lasts the entire season, Mars entering Pisces, Venus entering Aries, and the Lunar Eclipse in Virgo on March 3.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits (with a song for each one), horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, a toolbox with a ritual, a moon log, an intentional recipe, and an inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

ABEYANCE

abey·ance | noun

1. a state of temporary inactivity

“Jaw-dropping suspense is at the etymological heart of abeyance: the word’s Anglo-French forbear joined parts meaning “to open wide” and “to have the mouth wide open; gape, pant.” Almost always partnered with the word in, abeyance refers to a temporary lull in activity—a state of suspension (and perhaps suspense) before an action continues. If something, such as a plan or contract, is in abeyance, it is temporarily unable to take effect, be enforced, etc.”

- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abeyance

PISCES SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Wednesday, February 18

The Sun enters Pisces

The Sun in Pisces is liquid gold. Melted matter, fluid identity. Slippery like the fish, Pisces Sun is the ultimate shapeshifter. With an ability to match energy like no other, Pisces can adapt, intuit, synthesize, and swim through the currents of whatever life throws their way, though sometimes can get lost in the whiplash of it all. Pisces Sun struggles with boundaries and limitations, often unclear of where they end and someone (or something) else begins.

Song for today: “Serenade of Water” by Men I Trust

Friday, February 20

Saturn forms a conjunction with Neptune in Aries at 0º44’

This is the culmination of the tension we’ve been experiencing for the past year and some change. Finally, these two reach their exact conjunction, and at the Aries point! Saturn is the Lord of time, consequences, boundaries, and definition. Saturn demonstrates all that we are, through all that we are not…all that we have through all that we lack. Saturn defines the borders of our perception, while Neptune dissolves them. Neptune is the eternal womb, the undefinable, unknowable, insensible. Neptune erodes definition and creates confusion where there was certainty, curiosity where there was doubt, and mystery where there was confidence. Together these create, in the positive, the belief in the impossible, visions with the resources and information required to manifest new realities, transcendence of limitations, and structure around dreams, while in the negative they can represent prisons, addiction, severe depression, hopelessness, apathy, and a feeling of being eternally and inexplicably stuck. These two dissolve collective paradigms while planting seeds of the new.

Song for today: “God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot” by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Sunday, February 22

Venus in Pisces forms a trine with Jupiter rx in Cancer at 15º31’

Venus in Pisces trine Jupiter in Cancer is indulgent, dreamy, big love, friendships, celebrations, sweet treats, etc… This is a trine of harmony and ease, of a reward after a long day’s work, or a celebration of completion. Because this trine happens in water signs, there is a particular emphasis on our attachments, relationships, and emotions. Perhaps we feel extra supported, aligned with friends, or spend time with a special someone who seems to understand our soul. It could be a sigh of relief, or a day of much needed rest. Cook something delicious and creative today, go to the movies, start a great book, find live music, buy a new candle, etc…anything that celebrates the senses.

Song for the day: “Chintamani” by Céline Dessberg

Wednesday, February 25

Mercury in Pisces stations retrograde at 22º32’, the Sun in Pisces forms a square with Lilith in Sagittarius at 7º32’

Mercury is already in its fall in Pisces, where facts become fiction, lines become blurred, and what is solid ground turns into liquid, and adding a retrograde on top of that just adds to the chaos. This is not a period of time where you should attempt to plan in depth, solidify contracts, or make important decisions. Allow this to be a creative few weeks, one where you let yourself flow with the changes, explore your ability to move intuitively around whatever arises, like a partner dance with the universal forces that be. The Sun forming a square to Lilith once again says the quiet part out loud; something is exposed, truth is revealed, the scary monster under the bed is not nearly what you’d expected.

Song for the day: “KINDRED, I” by Kelsey Lu

Friday, February 27

Mars in Aquarius forms a square with Uranus in Taurus at 27º42’, the Sun forms a conjunction with the North Node in Pisces at 9º06’, Mercury rx forms a conjunction with Venus in Pisces at 22º13’

Mars square Uranus is high activity, unabashed chaos, disruption just to stir the pot, and blows to the establishment, especially with Mars in the sign of rebellious Aquarius, and Uranus in the sign of the foundational Taurus. On the same day, the Sun forms a conjunction to the North Node in Pisces, bringing a sense of fate, intentionality, fulfillment of some kind and desires clarified. A purpose revealed, perhaps. Mercury conjunct Venus is playful and intentional, an emphasis on desires clarified, though Mercury is retrograde so perhaps it’s the resurrection of an old desire.

Song for the day: “The Democratic Circus” by Talking Heads

Monday, March 2

Mars enters Pisces

Floating through space, motivated by emotions and intuition, moved by psychic visions and dreams. Mars in Pisces is creative, passive, and idealistic. Full of passion but lacking focus, Mars enjoys the freedom but struggles with the fog of Pisces. Use this energy to experiment with boldly following the whispers of your intuition.

Song for the day: “Tears In The Typing Pool” by Broadcast

Tuesday, March 3

FULL MOON, LUNAR ECLIPSE IN VIRGO AT 12º53’, 3:38 AM (PST)

Among the last of eclipses on this Virgo/Pisces nodal axis, allow this to be a check point of the last year and a half. Where have you learned to surrender control, to loosen your grip, to be imperfect? The South Node in Virgo has been urging us to release perfectionism, judgement, and our tight grip on expectations. We’ve been pushed to move forward with less practicality and more faith, less reason and more trust. Have you found the balance here? Perhaps your lesson was the opposite, bringing more grounding to your idealistic decision making, or more planning to your risks. There is still time with the Lunar Nodes here, but allow this Full Moon to illuminate these lessons clearly, taking stock of what can stay and what must go. Some things cannot be (or do not want to be) fixed.

Song for the day: “All Mirrors” by Angel Olsen

Wednesday, March 4

Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus at 27º48’

Active, spicy, experimental, and a little weird. The energy today is unconventional, outside the box, and surprising. Make art! The day after the Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse, this adds some spice and adventure to an already possibly hyper-active time.

Song for the day: “Simulation Swarm” by Big Thief

Thursday, March 5

The Sun in Pisces forms a trine with Jupiter in Cancer at 15º08’

Self dissolving into the collective a bit today, with the Sun in fluid Pisces supported by a trine to Jupiter in communal Cancer. Perhaps a sense of belonging, or the collective support of an individual who represents the whole. Or, a celebration of an ideal, a pillar of hope, an exclamation of identity. The Robin Hood prince is crowned king, and the community celebrates.

Song for the day: “Turned Out I Was Everyone” by SASAMI

Friday, March 6

Venus enters Aries

Venus’s least favorite transition of her 8 month cycle might be this crash-out from her exaltation in Pisces into her fall in Aries. Here, the planet of harmony and relationships finds independence, solitude, autonomy, and isolation. Venus wants to find balance and compromise, while Aries doesn’t budge. Aries opinions feel more like facts, while Venus likes to compare and contrast. While this energy may feel somewhat frustrating, tense, or lonely, try to channel it into a focused pursuit of your desires. Clarify your values, set needed boundaries, and understand the phrase, “to truly love another you must learn to love yourself first”.

Song for the day: “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” by the Beatles

Saturday, March 7

Mercury rx Cazimi in Pisces at 16º52’, Venus forms a conjunction with Neptune in Aries at 1º16’, Lilith in Sagittarius forms a t-square with the Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo

Confusion? There is a Mercury Cazimi today, or Mercury conjunct the Sun, and while that would typically reflect as increased clarity and awareness, this Cazimi happens to be during a Mercury retrograde and in Pisces (the sign of Mercury’s fall). On top of that, Venus enters into the smoke and mirror maze of Neptune, and Lilith forms a t-square between the Lunar Nodes. Beyond simply confusion, there is a shadow hanging over this day. Like the shadows are revealed as reality more than what the light touches.

Song for the day: “Go As a Dream” by Caroline Polachek

Sunday, March 8

Venus forms a conjunction with Saturn in Aries at 2º37’, Mercury rx in Pisces forms a trine with Jupiter rx in Cancer at 15º05’

Revisiting something, circling back, committing again, like renewed vows of some kind. Maybe a little clarity, leaving the fog of the previous day behind. If yesterday found us swept up in tornado of visions and confusion, today finds us spat out and taking stock of where we landed. Mercury formed its first trine with Jupiter here on February 16, now it’s in the second of three as it retrogrades. What needs to be communicated, or possibly re-communicated?

Song for the day: “In Another Life” by Lomelda and More Eaze

Monday, March 9

Venus in Aries forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 4º45’

Peel back one more layer and nurture what you find. Look at the thing you were trying to hide. Tell someone a secret, let them further in.

Song for the day: “Break the Spell” by Courtney Marie Andrews

Tuesday, March 10

Jupiter stations direct in Cancer at 15º05’

Blessings abundant once more! Jupiter remains exalted in Cancer, and now stationing direct allows for this fertile, expansive energy to thrive again. Perhaps the final 6 months of Jupiter in Cancer will be a season for harvesting.

Song for the day: “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House

Thursday, March 12

Mars forms a conjunction with the North Node in Pisces at 8º23’

The invisible strings of fate are plucked and we’re carried by the vibrations. Movement toward a specific direction with no solid image of a destination. The colors click into place and the painting takes shape, with the artist still unclear of the final portrait. Confidence without certainty.

Song for the day: “A Mistake” by Fiona Apple

Friday, March 13

Venus in Aries forms a trine with Lilith in Sagittarius at 9º19’

The Women have arrived, step aside. Powerful, strong, ruthless, direct, and hot. Dominatrix energy.

Song for the day: “Therefore I Am” by Billie Eilish

Saturday, March 14

Mars in Pisces forms a square with Lilith in Sagittarius at 9º22’

She is not here to play! This encourages us to be specific about what we want. “Did I stutter?” Act with integrity, don’t second guess yourself or you will be left behind. Mars in Pisces wants to be directed, Lilith in Sagittarius will provide the direction.

Song for the day: “BULLFROG” by Doechii

Sunday, March 15

Mercury rx forms a conjunction with Mars in Pisces at 10º02’, Mercury rx in Pisces forms a square with Lilith in Sagittarius at 9º34’

The transits for today feel a bit like passive aggression. Mercury retrograde in Pisces is full of misunderstandings, while Mars in Pisces is passive and sensitive. Hurt feelings, mistaken intentions, conversations out of context. Adding Mercury’s square to Lilith, there’s a bit of outcast energy, too. Like no matter what you say or do, you’ll never be understood or seen how you wish. What would it look like to allow yourself to be misunderstood? To accept that you cannot truly control how you are perceived?

Song for the day: “Falling Apart” by Slow Pulp

Wednesday, March 18

NEW MOON IN PISCES AT 28º27’, 6:24PM (PST), Venus in Aries forms a square with Jupiter in Cancer at 15º10’, New Moon in Pisces forms a sextile to Uranus in Taurus at 28º

This New Moon is ruled by Jupiter and Neptune…Jupiter has just stationed direct and will be forming a square to Venus…so what is important in the long run? What do you need to let go of in order to keep moving forward? Is it really worth hanging your hat on? Adapt, move, flow. It’s always nice to spend time around water with Pisces moons. Take an extra long cleansing bath, or find a waterfall to rinse your troubles away. Allow the knots to detangle themselves, give yourself a massage, or alternate massages with a partner. Decompress, release, surrender. Sometimes the solution is right in front of you, but you can only see it in your peripherals. Close your eyes and leap.

Song for the day: “Going Home” by Alice Coltrane

Friday, March 20

Mercury stations direct in Pisces at 8º29’

A little more clarity, a little more grounding. Mercury remains in the fog of Pisces, but at least it will be forward motion once more. Lean into the fog, paint with watercolors, experiment with new sounds, find your inner poet.

Song for the day: “Nature Boy” by Nat King Cole

PISCES SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Retreat, fall into a trance…Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole. You’re waking up in a new reality, feeling disoriented, and understandably taking a while to adjust. Focus on your home and a sense of grounding. What can you do to enhance your safety? The Lunar Eclipse ties up loose ends, making one more sweep through your 6th house, showing you clearly what you no longer have the capacity to hold, or time to fit into your days. You’re cleansing, adjusting, shifting, and refocusing. You may find yourself retreating a bit this season, but trust that it’s temporary. Saturn and Neptune have finally exited your 12th house, but the Sun is now joined here by Mercury rx and Mars, tying up loose ends and integrating the lessons you were immersed in for the last 3 years. Give your consciousness time to adjust to this new space.

Taurus

Some confusion around a sense of belonging. Who are your communities? What is your role within them? You may be experiencing an intense metamorphosis in your social circles. The role you’ve assumed up to this point is dissolving, while a new one forms. Let yourself experiment socially. Try on new friends, be open to unexpected connections, explore what it would feel like to start over. The Lunar Eclipse is making a final pass around your feelings of self-expression, pleasure, and play. What are you still keeping locked away inside your child heart? You have through August to complete the lessons of the Pisces/Virgo eclipse portal. How has your creativity unleashed or transformed? What is your relationship now with play? What are the dreams of your heart now, how have they shifted, and how are you honoring them?

Gemini

It’s like the masterpiece of your life gets left in the rain…though what if that was intentional? Not ruined by any means, maybe it’s time for a new perspective. What are your gifts, and how do you feel you contribute most in the world? Purpose is a funny word that is often hollow without something to fill it. Anything that supports your sense of self steps forward. What do you like these days? Are your tastes changing? Adjusting to a new home, or getting ready to move? What are your talents? How are they received? What is your relationship to validation, vs lifting others? As Jupiter stations direct once more in your 2nd house, you may find resources flowing more freely. Treat yourself, celebrate your wins, and collect things that bring you joy. Bring home a river stone, or a bottle cap, or grocery store flowers, or a cute mug …don’t underestimate your love for the micro.

Cancer

Get carried by the currents of existential thoughts, leading you to new perspectives and deep dives into subjects you’d never considered. Don’t be afraid of new perspectives, allow yourself to release any tight grip on reality, and realize it was always like trying to maintain a firm grip on water anyway. Put your pride aside and see what arises when you surrender. An open heart is an open door. Who are you without your external reinforcements? Jupiter stations direct once more in your 1st house of self and how you naturally meet the world. There are versions of yourself you’ve never met before, waiting to be seen. Explore what it looks like to let them breathe and meet the world. Your career or calling in the world is being refined, asking you to take yourself seriously and be bold about delivering the gifts you have to offer.

Leo

Alice down the rabbit hole for you too, but the rabbit hole is full of your attachment patterns and subconscious programming. Your dreams may be potent, and there may be powerful messages for you in art, metaphor, and symbols. Pay attention to the synchronicities this month, and notice how you are reflected in your closest partnerships. How do you define intimacy? How is it changing? A little confusion around your resources this month, especially around debts, loans, or any resources you share or depend on others for. Not a great time to sign contracts, but if you must, be extra cautious of the terms and read everything thoroughly. There may be a sense of release needed around your own resources though, a sort of blind trust in money coming in that you cannot see.

Virgo

Confusion around boundaries with partners. Maybe a lot of clarifying conversations needed this month, also a sense of deepening or exploring new sides to partnership. Get weird with it! Allow yourself to melt a little outside of your comfort zone. What does sharing a life with someone look like to you? Can you maintain a sense of self? What does that mean to you? Big identity shifts, finishing out this eclipse portal in your 1st house. It’s like you’ve been the new kid in school for the past year and a half, able to introduce yourself with a whole new persona, and now you’re finally beginning to settle in. Similar to your sister sign, Pisces, you’ve been in your cocoon during these Virgo/Pisces eclipses, and you’re nearing your re-entry into the world as a beautiful butterfly. Go easy on yourself— it’s perfectly normal if your wings won’t immediately fly.

Libra

Limitations are oracles; be open to redirection or new perspectives. Saturn and Neptune are locking down your 7th house of partnerships and the Other, so you could meet people who are especially significant to your story, or walk away from those who no longer align, but I think a closer look at the 7th house reveals the ways in which we are received by others, too. With Saturn and Neptune here, you may find yourself taken more seriously, given more responsibility, or perhaps find unrealistic expectations placed upon you. It’s going to be a period of time where you get extra clear with your boundaries, limitations, and expectations for yourself and others. Pay attention to your body this season; rest when you need it, move when you need it, and maybe try something new in the kitchen. With Jupiter stationing direct in your 10th house, your career may begin to open for you, and the gifts you have to offer the world may feel especially aligned, possibly leading you to increased recognition. Trust in the process, and known that this is a pivotal crossroads.

Scorpio

Make sure to carve out extra time to be alone this season. Take yourself on a date, feel pampered and pleasured! It’s all about your capacity for pleasure this season. There’s a push-pull between freedom and commitments, but what is that phrase…it’s the chains we choose that set us free? Notice how some commitments empower you, or possibly help you feel safe enough to unwind. Prioritize pleasure and play, but notice how in order to do that you have to feel that your needs are substantially met. With Jupiter stationing direct in your 9th house, you may find the urge to book a trip. Your communities are still shifting, sifting, sorting, and the lunar eclipse in your 11th house will provide one last eclipse shake-up in this area.

Sagittarius

Spend intentional time at home this season, create a sanctuary for yourself and recharge. Notice how safety feeds into pleasure. The safer you feel, the more potential you notice. The more secure your foundation, the bigger you’ll dream. You will reach for whatever you believe you have the capacity to hold; no more, no less. Strengthen your foundation, and allow the visions to expand. There may be frustrations this month around old psychological patterns that seem to stand in the way of your desires. Notice them, and try your best to observe without judgement. Your career is changing and evolving, in a way that began over a year ago. Do not force anything. Opportunities that are meant for you will find you.

Capricorn

Sinking roots deeper into soil that feels most aligned, digging up ancestral memory that you may not even realize you’ve been holding. Finding your voice in new ways, experimenting with unique forms of expression and conversation. You may find yourself stumbling over your words more than usual this season with Mercury retrograde in Pisces, but instead of trying to force them out, try adjusting your communication. Perhaps words are not always what is needed. Jupiter at last stations direct once more in your 7th house, and you may notice an air of ease come over your partnerships, as well as how you are received by others. Keep your heart open to opportunities, perspective shifts, and new connections.

Aquarius

Careful where you spend this month, you may feel like your cup is overflowing and indulge, only to realize you’ve run completely dry. Your communication sobers, so choose your words wisely and intentionally. Shadow work takes a front seat with the Lunar Eclipse in your 8th house, but this isn’t new territory for you. You’re on the way out of the Lunar Nodes in your 2nd and 8th house, though it’s not over yet. What patterns are you still afraid to acknowledge? What attachment wounds have yet to be made conscious? You’re still experiencing an expansion in your 6th house of the mundane — this may look like trying new routines, going to a new gym, starting a new job, or experimenting with your diet. Jupiter in the 6th emphasizes all that your body needs to feel secure, but it also amplifies your natural boundaries and limitations. Pay attention to roadblocks that arise, and try to see them as divine intervention.

Pisces

Your rebirth is here…as you near the end of an eclipse season in your 1st and 7th houses, you make your final adjustments in the cocoon. What color are your wings? What is their design? Don’t be alarmed if your legs are a bit wobbly as you learn to stand, or your wings need time to adjust. Beyond your butterfly awakening, you’re also entering a period of time where your resources are transforming: what they are, how you access them, how you use them, and how you feel about them. You may find yourself taking budgeting more seriously, or your simplifying your tastes, getting more clear about your values, cutting the excess, and adjusting your approach. Play this season! Get messy, creative, and keep a loose grip.

PISCES SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Jenna; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Pisces season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: MARÍA SABINA

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In Season 2, Episode 5, we feature María Sabina: Mazatec sabia, medicine woman, shaman, oral poet, and mystic. To the West she’s been flattened into a single title, “the mother of magic mushrooms.” But that label is part of the problem. María Sabina was not a mascot for someone else’s awakening, but a healer in relationship with what her community called the saint children, working with them in ceremony for the sick, the suffering, and the torn places in the human soul.

Pisces season is right for her story because Pisces rules thresholds: trance, prayer, dream-language, devotion, and the oceanic reality that everything is alive and speaking. María Sabina’s life also reveals Pisces’ shadow: what happens when the sacred is approached without consent, without reverence, and without accountability.

Born on July 2, 1894 (birth time unknown), María’s chart is read through two possible ascendants, but both versions echo the same signature. A Gemini concentration (Pluto, Neptune, Jupiter, Venus) speaks to the astonishing fact that her medicine moved through language, even though she could not read or write. Her gift was utterance, and song. A voice that arrived from somewhere beyond the daytime. The saints gave her a book she could not read, and still, she became the reader. The paradox is receiving knowledge in forms the dominant world refuses to recognize as legitimate.

Her Moon in Pisces reinforces the vessel archetype, the spiritual permeability, the psychic sensitivity that doesn’t perform itself but simply is. And then the chart’s Virgo thread, especially Chiron in Virgo (emphasized depending on the rising sign), points to the wound of service: other people’s projections, demands, and hunger for a “god experience” at any cost.

This was the chart of someone built for spiritual work. But first, she had to survive.

María’s early life was marked by poverty, loss, and brutal constraints. Married off young, widowed young, tasked with keeping family alive through sheer endurance, she became self-sufficient in a world that offered women very little mercy. When illness arrived and the local healers failed, she returned to the saint children in desperation, and the relationship deepened. In her own telling, they guided her hands, her words, her songs. Her healing was not extraction. It was devotion.

And then the outside world arrived.

In the mid-1950s, an American outsider entered her village seeking the mushrooms, not for healing, but to “find God.” What followed was not a spiritual renaissance, but a colonial pattern wearing a flower crown. Publicity exploded. Tourists flooded in and Maria’s community was destabilized and humiliated. She was blamed, her home was burned, her family suffered. And in the end, after the world took what it wanted, María Sabina died impoverished.

Pisces season asks us to sit with this without flinching.

This was also a witch hunt with cameras and headlines: “give us what is sacred to you and smile.” The witch archetype shows up here as the woman whose medicine threatens the dominant order precisely because it isn’t owned by it. And once it’s taken, it becomes “culture,” “art,” and “movement,” while the María was left with the consequences.

María Sabina embodied the witch as a conduit of divine speech and a guardian of living relationship with the more-than-human world. Her story also demands the conversation we keep postponing: the shadow side of plant medicines the spiritual cost of exploitation.

Watch the full episode here: Coven Season 2 Episode 5: Maria Sabina

PISCES SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Pisces season.

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Hello and happy 2026!

Aquarius season is boisterous and rowdy, busy and creative. Plans are changing, energy is moving, and any action is unconventional. Things are happening loud and fast, reality will probably feel disorienting, but aren’t we used to that by now? Stay focused on the world you want to build, what you feel you can contribute, and how you know you can do it. It is not about the individual this month, but about our communities. This is on a grand scale, but also in fractals, down to our families and inner circles, into our neighborhoods, our cities, our countries, and expanding back out into the world at large.

This Aquarius season, we have a massive stellium of the personal planets + Pluto all in Aquarius, with a killer full Moon in Leo opposing that on February 1. Both Saturn and Neptune will officially move into Aries, and we get our first eclipse of the Aquarius/Leo eclipse portal with the New Moon in Aquarius (partial solar eclipse) on February 17. Overall, this month is eventful, spicy, loud, chaotic, and unpredictable…it is many things but it is certainly not boring.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits (with a song for each one), horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, a toolbox, a moon log, an intentional recipe, and an inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott, Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez, and Josh Brumely

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WORD OF THE SEASON

PERFIDY

noun

“In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce (e.g., raising a white flag), but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise. The goal is to trick the enemy into lowering its guard, such as stepping out of cover to accept a supposed surrender, only to exploit its vulnerability.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy

AQUARIUS SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Tuesday, January 20

The Sun moves into Aquarius, Saturn in Pisces forms a sextile to Uranus in Taurus at 27º33’, Mercury enters Aquarius

The Sun is in its detriment in the sign of Aquarius, as its domain is the opposing Leo. In Aquarius, the Sun’s ego dissolves and blends into the crowd. In Aquarius, the Sun is no longer about the self, as in the individual, but rather the Self as in, the collective self. Aquarius is ruled by Saturn in traditional astrology, and Uranus through a modern lens. These two ruling together is disruptive, rebellious, societally focused, ego crushed, and innovative. Creative but well aware of boundaries and limitations, Aquarius gets the label of visionary with the brains and the patience to back it up. With Mercury moving into Aquarius the same day, this feels like a collective energy shift, from an emphasis on limitations to an emphasis on innovation. Mercury in Aquarius is hyper intelligent, outside the box, abstract, technologically focused, and very online. Saturn forming a sextile to Uranus is pushing the limits and slowly expanding beyond perceived boundaries.

Song for today: “American Idiot” - Green Day

Wednesday, January 21

Mercury Cazimi (Mercury forms a conjunction with the Sun in Aquarius at 1º37’)

Mercury conjoins the Sun in Aquarius, as they both approach a conjunction to Pluto in the coming days. The end of January is about bringing buried intentions to the surface, understanding new, creative ways to approach situations, and power exposed. Like the Wizard of Oz, seeing behind the curtain.

Song for today: “Sunshine Baby” - Japanese House

Thursday, January 22

Mercury forms a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius at 3º23’, Mars in Capricorn forms a sextile to Neptune in Pisces at 29º54’

Mercury conjoins Pluto, digging directly to the underbelly of societal currents and patterns. This is Mercury’s trip to the underworld, soon resurfacing to announce the findings to the public. Mars sextile Neptune is cutting, piercing through the veil of illusion just enough to see that something lies beyond.

Song for today: “Learn to Swim, Pt. 2” - Joshua Idehen

Friday, January 23

Mars enters Aquarius, the Sun forms a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius at 3º25’

Mars in Aquarius joins the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Pluto, and the collective comes together to fight a common enemy. Allowing ourselves to envision and walk toward a reality previously unimagined. Stepping into worlds that do not yet exist. Mars in Aquarius is patient, aloof but precise, big picture, inquisitive, intellectual, and observant.

Song for today: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” - Gil Scott-Heron

Monday, January 26

Neptune enters Aries

Neptune in Aries once more, and this time to stay. We experienced this in the summer of 2025, specifically from April to October, before it retrograded back into Pisces for the winter. Neptune in Aries is one track minded, focused spiritual energy, and opinionated. Where Neptune in Pisces is very whimsical, open ended, free spirited, and hazy, Neptune in Aries cuts the BS and fluff, preferring to get straight to the heart of the matter. I also think Neptune in Aries will dissolve binaries, binary thinking, and the binary reality. This is the age of quantum reality, and I believe Neptune in Aries ushers us in.

Song for today: “I Hear a New World” - Joe Meek

Tuesday, January 27

Mars forms a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius at 3º34’

Mars conjunct Pluto is never easy. High intensity, possibly violent, challenging power dynamics and positions of authority, triggering something intense, loud, and with mass consequences. Watch your temper today on an individual level, and on the collective level stay vigilant, aware, present, and safe.

Song for today: “Termites” - Feeble Little Horse

Thursday, January 29

Mercury forms a conjunction with Venus in Aquarius at 14º57’

Mercury has been moving with Venus for a while now, through Capricorn and now into Aquarius. Mercury and Venus are relational, communicative, and creative together. Solution oriented, besties energy, ideas form with Mercury, and Venus decides how best to express them.

Song for today: “Darkeve Duet” - Lutalo + Lomelda

Sunday, February 1

FULL MOON IN LEO, 13º03’ AT 2:09 PM (PST)

This full moon is surrounded by everything! Well, the Sun in Aquarius is surrounded by Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto, while the Moon in Leo opposes it all. Hiiiigggghhhhh intensity, especially for Leo and Aquarius placements. Just like a concentrated blast of energy toward kings and rulers (Leo), from a society coming together in opposition and rebellion (Aquarius).

Song for today: “In Dreams” - Roy Orbison

Tuesday, February 3

Uranus stations direct in Taurus at 27º27’

And the Chariot moves forward into battle again, and Prometheus smiles.

Song for today: “Mafia” - Swedish House Mafia

Thursday, February 5

Mercury in Aquarius forms a square to Uranus in Taurus at 27º27’

Louder and bolder voices amplified, disrupt the peace, we the people do not like the establishment. This is eat the rich energy, or at least protest songs and being vocal about injustices.

Song for today: “I Hate the Capitalist System” - Barbara Dane

Friday, February 6

Mercury enters Pisces

Mercury in Pisces is dreamy, poetic, empathetic and intuitive. Mercury in Pisces reads between the lines and connects the dots, sees a big picture, but struggles with details and specificities. It allows for a softer tone but also leaves room for careless mistakes and blurred lines, facts slipping through the cracks and possibly idealized or romanticized realities. A great energy to work with for writing poetry or songs, visual art, and understanding abstract concepts.

Song for today: “The Logical Song” - Supertramp

Sunday, February 8

Venus in Aquarius forms a square to Uranus in Taurus at 27º28’

This is sort of the sammeeee feeling as Mercury square Uranus, only this one feels personal. Like fuck the establishment, but your ex is also a part of the establishment. It’s making friends and bonding over a shared distaste of the state of the world. It’s finding community through organized action.

Song for today: “Relay” - Fiona Apple

Monday, February 9

Mercury in Pisces forms a square to Lilith in Sagittarius at 5º43’

Mercury square Lilith is saying the quiet part out loud. Emboldened to say the thing no one wanted to address. Secrets exposed and the outcast finally speaking up. The fly on the wall shares its observations. Disruptive information.

Song for today: “Old socrates” - Dan Reeder

Tuesday, February 10

Venus enters Pisces

Venus is exalted in Pisces, so she’s very happy to be here. Venus in Pisces gets to indulge, relax, combine souls, melt into another, and get lost in a dreamscape of art and beauty. She’s hyper creative, hyper sensitive, and hyper attuned to the needs of others. The risk here is melting completely into another, losing any semblance of individual identity or autonomy. Use this energy to pour into your creative projects and ideas, find empathy for those around you, and approach your relationships with care, patience, and service.

Song for today: “Fade Into You” - Mazzy Star

Wednesday, February 11

The Sun in Aquarius forms a sextile to Chiron in Aries at 23º20’

The Sun sextile Chiron feels like some amount of tension easing, perhaps a scab beginning to form around an open wound. Possibly, it is simply the act of paying attention to a wound that has been there all along that you’ve tried to ignore.

Song for today: “Kerina” - Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek

Thursday, February 12

Mercury forms a conjunction with the North Node in Pisces at 9º55’

Fated day, the North Node aspects always feel intentional, unavoidable, destined, and intense. Decisions this day are significant, important news is heard, conversations are important. Speak with intention and care.

Song for today: “The Priestess” - Twain

Friday, February 13

Saturn enters Aries

Here we are again! Think back to May through September, this was the first time Saturn dipped its feet into the water (or rather, fire) of Aries. Saturn is debilitated in Aries, as it finds its exaltation in the opposing sign of Libra. Saturn recognizes that to build anything sustainable, minds must come together, reach a consensus, and move forward with a plan and a team. Collaboration is essential to Saturn. Aries, on the other hand, prefers anything but. Aries is the energy of impulsivity, individuality, and autonomy. Aries does not want to wait for anyone else to get on board with an idea before moving ahead, does not want to read the instructions before building the desk, and does not want to wait for the right time. These two intrinsically clash. Saturn challenges Aries to slow down, collaborate, and focus, while Aries pushes Saturn outside its comfort zone, beyond societal expectations, and into unexplored territory, beyond what is known. These two can be revolutionary together, but they will take time to settle into this dynamic.

Song for today: “Nobody Speak” - Run the Jewels & DJ Shadow

Sunday, February 15

Venus in Pisces forms a square to Lilith in Sagittarius at 6º22’, The Sun in Aquarius forms a square to Uranus in Taurus at 27º31’

Venus square Lilith feels like relationship patterns we feel shame around being amplified, or just general relationship tension. Misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Like intense desires or cravings that can’t quite be satiated through a relationship, but we also can’t quite name. The same day, the Sun forms a square to Uranus, amplifying feelings of distrust, irritability, and dissatisfaction. Not the sweetest Valentine’s weekend energy, tbh.

Song for today: “Everybody Supports Women” - SOFIA ISELLA

Monday, February 16

Mercury in Pisces forms a trine to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 15º53’

Mercury trine Jupiter is loud and charismatic, but in water signs, and with Jupiter retrograde, it maybe just feels extra sensitive and emotional. A tug on the heart strings, a collective cry or perhaps collective hope. Voices amplified, for better or for worse.

Song for today: “I Bend But Never Break” - Rob Moose & Brittany Howard

Tuesday, February 17

NEW MOON, PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN AQUARIUS AT 28º29’, 4:00 AM (PST), Venus forms a conjunction with the North Node in Pisces at 9º36’

Our first eclipse of the Aquarius / Leo eclipse portal! The Lunar nodes are still in Pisces and Virgo, but this new moon happens near enough that we get our first Aquarius eclipse. The revolution begins, Aquarius and Leo bring the change, bring the action, bring the attention. The same day, Venus forms a conjunction to the North Node, which feels symbolic - like heart first movements.

Song for today: “The National Anthem” - Radiohead

AQUARIUS SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Very big emphasis on the people you’re surrounded by this season. You may have moments of feeling especially isolated from society, or alternatively, a more intense than usual bond with your community. It’s also possible you’ll have important introductions this season, meeting people who become significant characters to your long-term story. You may notice a radical shift in your dreams and desires for the future, or have a moment of feeling especially visible. Your social circles may be rapidly evolving. You may find yourself in more intense roles with activism or volunteer work, or wanting to get more involved in politics / group organizations. As Neptune and Saturn enter your 1st house once again, you will likely feel a potent paradigm shift, as if going from a trance-like state into overwhelming awareness. Take special care to your health, both mental and physical. The Full Moon in Leo highlights your unique gifts and talents, and urges you to express them more fully. As Mercury and Venus enter your 12th house, you may find yourself retreating back once more, to plan your next steps forward or adjust to a new found reality.

Taurus

Completely transforming the way you show up in the world and allowing yourself to be seen. What roles do you fill in your community? What gifts do you feel you have to offer the world? This is a moment for you to completely change the course of your life, if you so choose. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto will all be passing through your 10th house, leaving behind a path of transformation and revolution. Perhaps this is a season where you decide to be more involved and proactive— like getting involved in a political campaign, or signing up for the PTA, or quitting your job at ICE, or looking into union options available to you, or running for office, or regularly speak out, or alternatively, deciding to move out of the country all together. The Full Moon in Leo happens around your foundations, illuminating exactly what you need from a sanctuary in order to show up in the world to your fullest potential. As Neptune and Saturn enter your 12th house, you begin an era of self-reflection, closing out chapters, spiritually cleansing, and introversion. You are going through intense changes around your identity, style, and all the ways in which you perceive yourself. As Venus enters your 11th house toward the end of the season, picture your most ideal world, then imagine it built in your lifetime.

Gemini

Perhaps you get the bug to go back to school in some capacity, or throw yourself deep into hyper fixation of a new subject. It’s also possible that you find yourself teaching, public speaking, publishing writing, performing on stage, starting a podcast, or a blog, or something else that involves sharing your writing and / or ideas with the public. You may also be traveling, or immersing yourself in a new culture. Saturn and Neptune entering your 11th house cut out the excess in your social circles, and begin a 3 year process of filtering out people who no longer belong in your life. There may be unexpected or upsetting endings, but it is important to trust the doors that close to lead you elsewhere. As Venus and Mercury enter your 10th house, you may find yourself more inclined to share your creative talents with the world, or meet people who feel especially aligned with the path you are on.

Cancer

Soommmmeeee kind of inheritance, or a recognition of something wild that you have or will inherit, whether it be money or some kind of psychological inheritance. Also possible that you combine resources with someone, or perhaps find yourself wanting to pull further away from someone you’ve been dependent on or visa versa. It’s a focus on money, resources, and that which makes you feel safe this season. It’s also highlighting attachment patterns and their roots in your life, possibly offering many fractals of mirrors for you to understand closely. As Saturn and Neptune enter your 10th house, you may find yourself drawn to taking your public persona more seriously, opting for a role in society that feels more responsible, grounded, or respected. For the next 3 years you may find yourself in positions of more responsibility and notice a desire to cut off any lingering people pleasing behaviors. Mercury and Venus in your 9th house toward the end of the season may find you in positions of expanded curiosity, creativity, and perspectives.

Leo

Relationships dammmnnn. Relational patterns exposed and on full display. Validation can be a directional tool, quietly urging you along the path you already chose, but when it crosses the line into your motivating fuel, it is time to reassess. There are some hard pills to swallow this month, but intentional relationships will hold you gently through these confusing identity moments. As Mercury and Venus enter your 8th house, there may be some kind of emphasis on shared resources, perhaps a small boost in your financial situation, or the desire to combine your resources with someone else. It could also just look like taking the next steps in a relationship, going deeper with someone, or deciding to be extra vulnerable with someone new. Mostly, this season is about your partnerships, your partners, your patterns, and your self-understanding. As Saturn and Neptune shift into your 9th house, you may decide to go back to school or take your studies more seriously (or in my case, prepare for graduation), make plans to travel or even move overseas, or find yourself in positions of more authority and autonomy in your public roles.

Virgo

Burn out burn out burn out. You’re doing the absolute most, and this season you are likely to feel the effects. If you don’t find intentional time to rest, you may be forced to. You’re learning boundaries and recognizing your limitations with work and your time and attention. The Full Moon in Leo urges you to retreat to total isolation, find your inner light, and allow it the space to recharge without the pressure of expectation. All of the activity in Aquarius moving through your 6th house places emphasis on embodiment, stress, and work. You’re being pushed to organize your time, prioritize your values, and rest with intention. As Saturn and Neptune enter your 8th house, it’s time to budget and assess your shared resources — for example, cancelling old subscriptions or paying off a credit card, or signing a partnership agreement. As Mercury and Venus enter your 7th house (the recently demolished and renovated land of relationships, thanks to Saturn and Neptune), you can expect new signs of growth to start peeking through the rubble.

Libra

The Aquarius bulldozer is happening in your 5th house, so it’s fair to say children and childlike energy is a big focus for you this season. You may find yourself around more kids, or possibly connect deeply with your own inner child, maybe feeling an intense desire to play, perhaps having revelations about your relationship to things like pleasure and play. It is important that you allow yourself to create and express this season. You may find yourself on display, possibly in front of larger groups, allowing you the opportunity to be seen from new perspectives. As Saturn and Neptune enter your 7th house of partnerships, you will likely begin to take the relationships in your life more seriously— which could mean anything from getting engaged to finally deciding to walk away from something that has not felt right for a while. You are understanding where you are valued in communities and what you can uniquely contribute. Prioritize spaces where you feel especially seen, valued, and celebrated.

Scorpio

Massive transformations around your home, upbringing, family, and foundations. What does home look like to you? What does it feel like? What do you need from a sanctuary? These concepts may be radically shifting in your heart. As Saturn and Neptune move into your 6th house, you may enter a period of highs and lows with your mental and physical health. It’s important that you prioritize your body and health, but be wary of an over-emphasis here, leading to health obsession or anxiety. Depressive episodes may also arise, so allow yourself the space to hold whatever emotional currents need to make their way through. These next three years are about softening your edges and learning what is truly worth your time and attention. Allow the fruits from your tree to be harvested, and assess if you are proud of what you have grown. Is it nurturing? Beautiful? Intentionally grown? Delicious? Do you want another season of this fruit, or are you ready to try to grow something new?

Sagittarius

There is a huge emphasis on your day-to-day experience and processing. This may look like radical paradigm shifts that result in new habits or ways of moving through the world. You may find yourself at a cross roads of experience, realizing that you can choose to operate from old patterns on which you’ve relied up to this point, or intentionally create new ones, new habits, and implement new embodied tools to carry with you moving forward. The third house is often referred to as the house of siblings, close friends, the immediate environment, and close travel, but we forget that in Hellenistic astrology, the Moon has its joy here. This would indicate that while the 9th house represents wisdom of the mind, the third house represents wisdom of the body, the personal experience, the habitual motions. When there is an emphasis here, your entire paradigm alters, revealing a whole new world in front of you that was always there, you just never previously had the tools to see. As your body adjusts, so does your world. Saturn and Neptune entering your 5th house may begin to urge you to take your creative ideas more seriously, showing you exactly what you need to do to get to where you dream to b

Capricorn

Money! How you make it, how you feel about it, what it symbolizes — not just money, but resources in general are a big focus for you this season. Everything you can hold, everything that gives you a sense of safety and security, how you collect it, how you earn it, how you spend it, and what you value. What are your greatest assets? What do you consider to be resources beyond money? If you have made the all too common mistake of confusing money as the only necessary resource, you’ll likely have a significant balancing out of your values and priorities. Alternatively, if you have made the all too common mistake of avoiding the concept of money as a necessary resource completely, you will likely also experience a significant balancing out of your values and priorities. Saturn and Neptune venture into your 4th house, placing an emphasis on your home, foundations, family, and root systems for the next 3 years. It’s time to take your inner and outer sanctuaries more seriously, commit to what makes you feel safe, grounded and recharged, in order to deliver the most energized and full version of yourself to the world.

Aquarius

Biiiiiig important season for you. It’s all about you! Big changes, big epiphanies, glow ups, rock bottoms, turning points, paradigm shifts. Pluto is joined by the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars in your 1st house, shifting everything around, illuminating, revealing, exposing, alchemizing. Where have you accepted passivity where you should be in charge? Where have you allowed others to hold the spotlight for you? Where have you placed too high an emphasis on validation? You’re getting so much clarity this season with your desires, your heart, your goals and your self. As Saturn and Neptune shift into your 3rd house, you’ll simultaneously get serious and creative. Neptune brings an element of a dreamy haze to your reality, while Saturn urges you to take more responsibility and accountability for your habits. Old habits dissolve while new ones are seeded. Allow this to be a season of confusion, moving in the dark, trying new things, without much clarity about the direction you’re going. A big follow your heart kind of energy, combined with a trust in your learned experience kind of energy.

Pisces

Huge threshold moment. Closing out of a massive cycle, or several massive cycles. This may be a more introverted season for you, but the intention is to bring you inward, allow yourself the space to prepare for a massive transformation that is bubbling beneath the surface. You’re at the point of a slingshot being pulled back before the launch. If you find yourself isolated, feeling lonely, or on the outside, trust that it is temporary and necessary. You’re integrating, resting, preparing and digesting. Trust in divine timing! A lot going on for you beneath the surface of your awareness, so if you’re feeling burnt out or exhausted and can’t figure out why, trust that rest and retreat is okay. Saturn and Neptune move into your 2nd house of resources and feelings of security, which will likely reflect in a new sense of responsibility around resources and an understanding of what you really need to feel safe. This may bring some sense of anxiety, but try to let the anxiety guide you into a deeper understanding of what you are craving for a sense of stability and security.

AQUARIUS SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Josh Brumley; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Aquarius season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: LUCY PARSONS

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In this Aquarius season Coven piece, we feature Lucy Parsons — “Goddess of Anarchy” and fiery revolutionary.

Lucy Parsons, born into slavery during the Civil War era, became one of America's most formidable anarchist voices, so influential she was deemed "more dangerous than 1000 rioters." With her Moon in Aquarius reflecting her revolutionary humanitarian vision and Saturn in Aries embodying her fierce, pioneering leadership in the face of authority, she co-founded the Chicago Working Women's Union, led 400,000 workers in the first May Day parade, and championed intersectional justice before the term existed. After her husband's execution following the Haymarket affair, she only amplified her activism, traveling globally to deliver anarchist speeches, helping establish the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, and prolifically publishing for working-class audiences. Her legacy was nearly erased when she died in a mysterious house fire in 1942 and most of her later writings conveniently disappeared, though her impact as the "Goddess of Anarchy" endures.

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AQUARIUS SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Aquarius season.

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Capricorn is cardinal Earth, marking the Winter Solstice, the darkest night of the year, and the full descent into Winter. As the bringer of death and silence, the witness of time and endings, Capricorn is slow, intentional, trying, and strong. Fitting for this energy, I found myself completely overwhelmed this season, so much so that we are unable to deliver the full newsletter in all its glory. I have the transits for the month laid out for you, along with a brief description of each, but that is all I could find energy for this time around. I hope you understand, I’ll be sending restful energy your way as I send this out.

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CAPRICORN SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Sunday, December 21

The Sun moves into Capricorn

Tuesday, December 23

Venus in Sagittarius forms a square to Neptune in Pisces at 29º25’

Delusional optimism, idealism, romanticism. Drunk energy, possibly expanded emotions, over-indulgence, confusing feelings.

Wednesday, December 24

Venus enters Capricorn

Venus in Capricorn is cold, calculated, knows what she wants and exactly how to get it. She is patient and will not settle for anything less than exactly what she deserves. She can be demanding at times, but only because she knows her worth. This is luxury that you EARNED. She expects the best and will not put up with anyyyy bs.

Monday, December 29

Mercury in Sagittarius forms a square to Saturn in Pisces at 26º03

A careless joke or sly comment hurts someones feelings, or perhaps a petty argument results in the unpacking of some serious pent up trauma. Mercury in Sagittarius feels like poking the bear energy, while Saturn in Pisces feels like emotional consequences. It also feels randomly religious or spiritual in some way. Like a challenge to, or poking fun at a religious authority.

Tuesday, January 1

Mercury in Sagittarius forms a square to Neptune in Pisces at 29º30’, Mercury enters Capricorn

More of that sort of unserious, provocative energy, one last time before Mercury enters the super serious sign of Capricorn. Mercury in Capricorn means business, is opportunistic, resourceful, and powerful.

Saturday, January 3

FULL MOON IN CANCER, 13º01’ AT 2:02AM (PST)

This full moon is softly conjunct Jupiter rx, and opposing Venus, Mars and the Sun all conjunct within 1º in Capricorn. The ruler of the Full Moon is the Moon, so overall this feels like a powerful moment for some long-awaited emotional processing. Jupiter close by may be amplifying our feelings, and opposing everything in Capricorn feels like getting a really clear emotional picture of the objective state of the world. Perhaps a time to grieve.

Tuesday, January 6

The Sun forms a conjunction with Venus in Capricorn at 16º20’

Venus cazimi, the Sun illuminates our hearts, but specifically our values, our boundaries, our needs. How are we active participants in our relationships? What are we providing to those we love?

Wednesday, January 7

Venus forms a conjunction with Mars in Capricorn at 18º09’

Venus and Mars in Capricorn feels like a passionate but grounded burst of energy. Pure confidence in what you deserve and how you’ll get it. Aesthetic plans, tasteful action.

Friday, January 9

The Sun forms a conjunction with Mars in Capricorn at 19º10’, Venus in Capricorn forms an opposition to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 20º11’

The Sun conjunct Mars in Capricorn is similar to Venus conjunct Capricorn, only less aesthetic and more ego-centered. “You CAN do anything and here’s how” kind of energy. Mars in Capricorn is powerful, strong, intelligent, and patient. The Sun in Capricorn is careful, determined, powerful, and aware. Together these two can build a world from the ground up. With Venus opposing Jupiter, you might just have the gusto to get started — you can build a world and it can be beautiful.

Saturday, January 10

The Sun in Capricorn forms an opposition to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 20º06’, Mars in Capricorn forms an opposition to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 20º04’

More oppositions to Jupiter - I think we are witnessing what exactly we need to build in order to heal, grow, or come together. Separation is really potent right now, but Jupiter in Cancer really wants community. All of these oppositions in Capricorn are showing us where our structures fail, and how we can fix them.

Monday, January 12

The Sun in Capricorn forms a square to Chiron in Aries at 22º38’

Sun square Chiron is always triggering, sometimes painful, sometimes comes with accidents, or pain in some way. Definitely a feeling of missing something…like a tall tree that is completely hollow.

Tuesday, January 13

Mars in Capricorn forms a square to Chiron in Aries at 22º39’

Similar to the Sun squaring Chiron, Mars is just more directly triggering. Like a thorn in your side…like you’ve been planning a wedding for a year or more and day of it storms…something happens suddenly, completely out of your control, and bursts your bubble of perceived control.

Wednesday, January 14

Mercury in Capricorn forms an opposition to Jupiter in Cancer at 19º34’

More oppositions to Jupiter, more expanded awareness of the reality of our situation, collecitvely.

Thursday, January 15

Venus in Capricorn forms a sextile to Saturn in Pisces at 27º09’, then a trine to Uranus rx in Taurus at 27º37’

Perhaps some organized chaos, some surprises, but it’s all a part of the show.

Friday, January 16

Venus in Capricorn forms a sextile to Neptune in Pisces at 29º46’

Gentle redirection, trust. Intentional fog.

Saturday, January 17

The Sun in Capricorn forms a sextile to Saturn in Pisces at 27º19’, then a trine to Uranus rx in Taurus at 27º35’, Venus enters Aquarius, Mercury forms a conjunction with Mars in Capricorn at 26º02’

The big things today are Venus entering Aquarius, and Mercury conjunct Mars. Venus in Aquarius is distant, complex, unique, and intellectual. It has perspective in love, the ability to zoom out and take things with a grain of salt easier than most. It wants space in partnership, but also an unspoken, unbreakable bond….a telepathy kind of love. Venus in Aquarius likes art that lives just outside the box, and is always the first to appreciate something avant garde. Mercury conjunct Mars in Capricorn is PREPARED. Ready to roll out the red carpet, overthrow a government, or plan a heist.

Sunday, January 18

NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN, 28º43’ AT 11:52 AM (PST), Mercury in Capricorn forms a sextile to Saturn in Pisces at 27º28’, then a trine to Uranus rx in Taurus at 27º34’

The ruler of this New Moon, Saturn, is forming a sextile to the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, decorating this New Moon with armor, providing a stable foundation, and support to hold whatever seeds you are trying to plant with care and protection. This New Moon is also forming a trine to Uranus, though, which means you can brace yourself for the unexpected. A trine is relatively supportive, and with the sextile to Saturn, it overall feels grounded. So maybe unexpected changes, but you have the resources to adapt quickly.

Monday, January 19

The Sun in Capricorn forms a sextile to Neptune in Pisces at 29º50’

Making your intuitive knowledge a little more concrete. Giving something a name, writing it down. The act of putting thoughts into words.

We’ll be back full swing for Aquarius season, may Capricorn season guide you well. <3

Love,

Jenna

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Sagittarius is Mutable Fire and the end of Autumn. Reflective and existential, it’s placed toward the end of the year, just before Winter hits and the Underworld swallows us whole. In many ways, Sagittarius marks that moment of old age, just before death, when one might have an overview of their life and the choices made. This is where we see the Temperance card in Tarot — the integration of life’s lessons and the alchemy of experience. Sagittarius is the excited leap into death, with the confidence that rebirth is on the other side. It’s the idealist, romanticizing and prioritizing what it means to simply be alive.

This Sagittarius season, we have the continued grand trine with the water signs, this time activated by Venus, meaning we might feel more artistically and romantically inclined. It’s kind of a fun season, intriguing to say the least. A lot of activity between the personal planets and Lilith. Underbellies are still actively being exposed, while we are collectively getting back in touch with our bodies, and perhaps temporarily snapping out of some of the post-summertime dissociation. Our pathways clear, manifestation potential heightens, and values define.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits, horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, a toolbox with rituals, a moon log, an intentional recipe, and an inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez.

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PALIMPSEST

noun

1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

SAGITTARIUS SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Friday, November 21

The Sun moves into Sagittarius

The Sun in Mutable Fire of Sagittarius is playful, excited, inspired, curious, existential, social, charismatic, bold, witty, and charming. The Sun enjoys Sagittarius, though not its favorite place to be, it is certainly not the worst. Enjoy the last fire season of the year with boisterous Jupiter, before Saturn ushers in the depths of winter and solitude.

Saturday, November 22

Mercury rx in Scorpio forms a trine to Saturn rx in Pisces at 25º11’, Mercury rx in Scorpio forms a trine to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 24º56’

Grand water trine activated again, with Venus approaching. Each of the planets involved in this grand trine are currently in retrograde motion, meaning there may be something from the past resurfacing for the purpose of reexamination, emotional closure, or further psychological processing. Perhaps a reflection of the year, some kind of mending or apology necessary. This is a very active trine, activated by Mercury rx, Lilith, Saturn rx, Neptune rx, and approaching Venus.

Sunday, November 23

The Sun in Sagittarius forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º45’, Mars in Sagittarius forms a square to the North Node in Pisces at 14º10’

Vortex mode activated and also added will power and maybe focus?? See the finish line, see the obstacles, create a plan of action, or just dead-set focus on what’s right in front of you.

Monday, November 24

Mercury rx forms a conjunction with Venus in Scorpio at 22º45’

Erotic writing and romantic tensions… the Mercury retrograde side of this could reflect in relationship frustrations, but could also just be a moment of clarity in regards to a misunderstanding from the past. Venus in Scorpio is moooooooody and sensitive, Mercury rx in Scorpio wants to dive head first into the deep end of every complex emotion. Lean into it, and remember to come up for air.

Wednesday, November 26

Venus in Scorpio forms a trine to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 24º45’, and a trine to Saturn rx in Pisces at 25º09’

This is another grand water trine activation…more cleansing and blessing, similar energy we’ve had all month. With Venus in the mix, this feels like a solid day for art, anything beautiful, or romantic. A personal belief of mine is that anything authentically created from the heart is beautiful by the very essence of what it is. Dig deep and see what comes out naturally.

Thursday, November 27

Saturn in Pisces stations direct at 25º09’

Back to business…did you clear those lingering patterns of people pleasing and boundlessness? Do you recognize the importance of art yet? Do you prioritize love, community, and intentionality? Have you found the form in formlessness? You won’t have these lessons again for another 30 years. Well done.

Friday, November 28

Venus forms a conjunction with Lilith in Scorpio at 27º3’

Lovers meet on the outside of the high social gates, trauma bonds unite, outcast souls find pairs as they dive into the shadowy, taboo parts of love and romance. This is the energy of being on the outside of the inside. Also a great day to consume or create art that feels outside the lines, provocative, or seductive.

Saturday, November 29

Mercury stations direct in Scorpio at 20º42’, Venus in Scorpio forms an opposition to Uranus rx in Taurus at 29º05’, Venus in Scorpio forms a trine to Neptune rx in Pisces at 29º24’

Day of clarity with relationships, revelations, spiritual insight, aesthetic intuition, unexpected encounters, possible bursts of romance and excitement. Deep awareness of shadows in relationships, possible moodiness or overwhelming emotions. More provocative energy, but today it’s really exciting, enticing, intriguing.

Sunday, November 30

Venus enters Sagittarius

Venus in Sag is charming, adventurous, non-monogamous, experimental, playful, curious, sarcastic, and free spirited. Freedom and independence are of upmost importance to Venus in Sagittarius. Use this energy to indulge in romantic curiosities, explore artistic avenues you had not previously considered, and fall in love with someone’s brain.

Tuesday, December 2

Venus in Sagittarius forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º55’

Depth, etc. Venus - Pluto transits always feel a bit Persephonic to me, the sextile is no exception. Let love take you to the underworld today, there are lessons to be learned.

Thursday, December 4

FULL MOON IN GEMINI AT 13º03’, 3:13 PM (PST), Sun and Moon form a grand cross with the North and South Nodes in Pisces and Virgo.

Wheeewwww …most of the full and new moons this year have been pretty dramatic and this one is no exception. A full moon means the Moon is directly opposing the Sun from our perspective on Earth, and this full moon will be intersecting the lunar nodes (where the Moon’s orbit intersects the ecliptic) at exactly 90º. All together, this forms a grand gross aspect shape. With the grand cross happening between the Lunar Nodes and the luminaries, this feels personal, transformative, significant, and visible. It’s like the path ahead is fully illuminated, the options in front of you are clear, though the choice is still yours. Understand that choices you make around this time are deeply significant — it would be smart to take time this full moon to journal or do a little manifestation ritual. The ruler of this Full Moon is Mercury, who has recently stationed direct and is still activating the grand water trine alongside Jupiter and Neptune. Manifestation!!!! Write it down!!! Your desires are clarified, the path ahead is clear, you only have to make the choice.

Friday, December 5

Mars in Sagittarius forms a trine to Chiron in Aries at 22º57’

Cut off the excess, get to the point, address the damage and move on.

Saturday, December 6

Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine to Jupiter rx in Cancer at 24º06’

This is the third of three times we’ll experience this transit, meaning whatever business Mercury has needed to resolve with Jupiter this time around will be resolved around this trine. Voices amplified, perhaps a call back to some communal memory for the purpose of closure? This is a continuation of the energy we experienced from the Full Moon in Gemini on December 4th…completing the grand water trine.

Sunday, December 7

Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine to Saturn in Pisces at 25º14’

Stilllll activating that grand water trine that’s been around for a month at this point. Very potent time for taking steps toward ideal goals and visions, but the impact is subtle enough it could go unnoticed. Take intentional steps in the direction of your choice, a little goes a loonnnnggg way right now.

Monday, December 8

Mars in Sagittarius forms a square to Saturn in Pisces at 25º15’

Mars square Saturn is focused, frustrating, possibly aggressive, impatient, ambitious, or temperamental. In Sagittarius and Pisces this feels sort of existential, maybe spiritual, and possibly more lighthearted. It feels like witty banter gets taken personally, or we accidentally cross a boundary and have to take accountability. Or someone crosses a boundary of our own and we have to speak up for ourselves. Collectively, this feels like Jon Stewart talking about religion.

Tuesday, December 9

Lilith in Scorpio forms an opposition to Uranus in Taurus at 28º43’

The outsider breaks inside and starts a revolution. The underbelly surfaces and exposes the secrets, causing an uproar. This aspect has been nearing exact for a long time, and today is the peak. Truth over comfort. The underdog gains wide spread support, winning over the masses. The audacity.

Wednesday, December 10

Mercury in Scorpio forms an opposition to Uranus in Taurus at 28º53’, Neptune stations direct in Pisces at 29º22’, Mercury forms a conjunction to Lilith in Scorpio at 28º54’

Some more disruption, possibly unsettling or chaotic news. Neptune stationing direct is less nostalgic, back to dreaming of the future, and preparing for Neptune’s permanent ingress into Aries (well, for the next 15 years). Mercury conjunct Lilith is more of the unspoken spoken, the unheard voices amplified, voices of the revolution loud and clear. Whistleblower energy this day.

Thursday, December 11

Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine to Neptune in Pisces at 29º22’, Venus in Sagittarius forms a square to the North Node in Pisces at 13º15., Mercury re-enters Sagittarius

Dream and believe and make art and have sweet conversations. Align your values and tune into your relationships. Mercury enters Sagittarius again, post retrograde. Back to the lighthearted, witty banter, chaotic spinning ideas, ADHD brain, and insatiable curiosity. Venus square the nodes is like clarity around values. You know what you need to do to move ahead, and you know how it sits in your heart. Trust that.

Saturday, December 13

Mars in Sagittarius forms a square to Neptune in Pisces at 29º22’, the Sun in Sagittarius forms a trine to Chiron in Aries at 22º46’

Reality checks, ego hits. Mars in Sagittarius wants to try the risky option, but Neptune in Pisces dreams of the perfect outcome. It’s like Mars in Sagittarius wants to jump but Neptune in Pisces forgot to put out a net. Like a trust fall gone wrong, due to a simple misunderstanding. Possibly some sweet healing or reconciliation. Could also manifest as an impulsive move leading to an amazing opportunity. Or an individual consciousness challenging a more massive collective. Again, the audacity.

Sunday, December 14

Lilith in Scorpio forms a trine to Neptune in Pisces at 29º22’

Dream big and beyond the glass ceiling. Lilith is here again, reminding us that we do not actually have to do anything we do not wish to do. Neptune in Pisces says “there is always another way…”

Monday, December 15

Mars enters Capricorn

Mars is exalted in the sign of Capricorn. This is a wonderful place for it to roam. In Capricorn, Mars can make plans and follow through. It has the tenacity and the patience and the courage and the energy to do everything it wants to do. It can follow it’s impulses in a calculated, strategic, and powerful way. This is the placement of a military general, or a CEO, or a professional athlete. Use this energy to be strategic, make a game plan, and follow through. Patience is a virtue of Mars in Capricorn, and timing is everything.

Tuesday, December 16

The Sun in Sagittarius forms a square to Saturn in Pisces at 25º28’

Sun square Saturn is usually frustrating but deeply motivating and inspiring. It brings the friction needed to make real progress. Like a big push in a direction you hadn’t expected to travel, but ends up being exactly correct. Or, perhaps a big obstacle, forcing you to slow down if things are moving too fast.

Thursday, December 18

Venus in Sagittarius forms a trine to Chiron in Aries at 22º41’

Relational sensitivity…hot topics…old patterns getting a bandaid. Address the wound, talk it out, ask for help. Support is especially healing when we are brave enough to be genuinely vulnerable.

Friday, December 19

NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS AT 28º24’, 5:43PM (PST)

This New Moon is nearly conjunct Venus, and the ruler (Jupiter) is well positioned in its sign of exaltation (Cancer). Overall, feels like a positive, sweet feeling of hope, potential, new beginnings, and community. Jupiter will still be somewhat active in its trine to Saturn, which means this full moon is supported by the foundational strength and reliability of Saturn. The seeds you plant now have a particularly positive capacity to grow.

Saturday, December 20

Lilith moves into Sagittarius, Venus in Sagittarius forms a square to Saturn in Pisces at 25º37’, Jupiter rx in Cancer forms a square to Chiron rx in Aries at 22º40’

For the last nine months or so, the Black Moon Lilith has been in Scorpio, unearthing the most hidden parts of our collective and personal psyches. Now, she surfaces into far more lighthearted but rebellious and chaotic Sagittarius. Venus square Saturn feels like commitment issues, or heavy but important relationship discussions. Jupiter square Chiron feels like major collective wounds being triggered, surfaced, cleansed. Welcome Capricorn season and Winter.

SAGITTARIUS SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Activated as hell, intellectually stimulated and creative. The Full Moon happens in your 3rd house of the Moon’s joy, which is great. Lean into your Full Moon rituals, write down your manifestations and dreams, be really specific about the world you want to live in. Come mid December, Mars shifts into your 10th house, which may bring a sense of motivation, determination, and confidence toward building the life you want to live. This may be a season of travel, integrating new perspectives, and illuminating the deepest buried parts of your psyche to nurture and hold. Saturn stations direct in your 12th house, beginning its return to your 1st. Allow any forced rest in these coming weeks to be intentional and of a preparatory nature. You’re on the precipice of a pretty massive pressure cooker. Allow yourself to feel the expansion and abundance this season brings, lean into the possibilities.

Taurus

You may find yourself feeling more introverted this season, and possibly triggered by your most intimate connections. There is a lot to be discovered buried in your psyche, and you’ll likely put in the work to see it this season. There is an emphasis on your resources. The Full Moon is illuminating your 2nd house on December 4th, meaning this would be a particularly solid new moon to practice manifestations around money or other material resources. What do you “own”, and where does it come from? To whom do you feel you owe your life? Do you? Why or why not? These are questions to ponder this season. Your partnerships will be a big focus this month, with Lilith surfacing any of those hidden desires and fears. The illusions are fading, collectively and personally. All you can do is be as honest as possible, and trust that authenticity will serve you well.

Gemini

The Sun, Venus, and Mars will be dancing through your 7th house of partnerships and the Other, while the Full Moon will shine bright in your 1st house. This is a big season for you, pivotal, intentional and transformative. Allow the Full Moon to be about you. How you see yourself, feel about yourself, and think about yourself. What are the beliefs about yourself you’ve held firmly? Are any dissolving? What is something you would like to feel about yourself but feel far from? It’s a great season to play with your style, change something about your appearance, or experiment with your identity in some way. Are you changing careers, ending or beginning a partnership, moving homes? A bit of new life energy here.

Cancer

Emphasis on your work this month, in whatever capacity that means for you. The mundane reality of every day life. The tasks that we do in between the real things. Spoiler— those are just as much the real things as the rest of it. Turn your attention to those in between, liminal moments this season. What gifts are they holding for you? In what ways are they accidentally holding you back? Do you notice fear there, or anger, maybe resentment? The Full Moon wants you to rest, listen to your dreams, and find space to hear the messages just beyond the surface layers. Mercury and Lilith are resurrecting your inner child in an exciting way this season. Remember the part of yourself who was rebellious? Before the weight of responsibility was placed upon your shoulders, how did you move?

Leo

The light is BRIGHT upon you this month! Let yourself play, explore, find pleasure and surround yourself with others who want to build the same world you do. The Sun, Venus, Mars and New Moon all ignite your 5th house of pleasure, childhood, play, and creativity, which just sounds like laughter, fun, adventure, and romance. Mercury and Lilith will be dancing in your 4th house of home and foundations, so be aware of triggers that arise around family or shame from roots that go far beyond your lifetime. The opposition to Uranus means a secret could be revealed that changes the trajectory of your path ahead. There is a spirit in you that wants to illuminate the shadows, just understand that most shadows do not actually want to be exposed (that’s kind of their whole thing). As Mars enters your 6th house toward the end of the season, your focused energy turns toward work and health.

Virgo

Get cozy and make your home feel like an absolute sanctuary this season. Soooo much energy is passing through your 4th house of home, family, foundations, and your inner world. It’s important for you that your home space feels inspiring, exciting, creative, and curious. Find new books for your library, redecorate, or host friends in your space. This acts as fuel for your vocation in the world — let your inner world be expansive and open, so that what you express to the world is focused, intentional, and dialed in. Mercury and Lilith may spice up your writing or communications this month, especially with the opposition to Uranus in your 9th house. A change in belief or perspective may inspire epiphanies. Micro enlightenments, possibly small in appearance and massive in impact.

Libra

Your habits are called into question this month, all the ways in which you navigate the world around you intuitively are brought into your conscious awareness. Learning something? Hyper-fixating on a new subject? Perhaps there is a moment around the Full Moon in Gemini where you share some knowledge of your expertise with others. Think podcast, writing, public speaking, performing, teaching, etc. There may also be added emphasis on siblings, or friends that feel like siblings. It’s a great season for you to keep a journal handy, as there will likely be ideas swirling in your thoughts that could lead to important insights later on. Mercury and Lilith in your 2nd house, opposing Uranus in your 8th house, looks like some resources coming your way, perhaps in a way you’d never expect or wouldn’t typically try. It’s energetically like sex work— something unconventional, powerful, taboo, and profitable. As Mars enters your 4th house, you may have tunnel vision toward things like home improvement projects, deep cleaning, re-organizing, or family planning.

Scorpio

Focus is on your values, resources, sense of security. What makes you feel safe? Nurtured? Provided for? Where are these resources coming from? If you’ve been feeling indebted to someone or something, this season may bring opportunities to break free and find more independent ways to provide the life you seek. Or perhaps it is simply a season for budgeting, collecting, or assessing your needs. The Full Moon happens in your 8th house, illuminating your inheritance, whether fiscal or otherwise. Consider your inheritance; what have you adopted from those that came before? Are you holding anything that you do not actually need, or want? What in your psyche is in need of cleansing alchemy? Mercury and Lilith bring your conscious awareness toward your Self and body. Take time to appreciate your body this month, find ways to treat it as an altar and place of worship. Sensual or sexual energy may be heightened, too. Expand, and explore new depths of your identity.

Sagittarius

Very potent season for you! With the Sun, Venus, Mars, eventually Mercury and the New Moon all happening in your 1st house of self and body, it’s a great season to reflect, observe, experiment, and indulge. See how life naturally unfolds this month, and try your hand at playing the detached observer, noticing how your psyche responds to certain triggers, or your body to certain emotions. The Full Moon is likely to illuminate significant patterns around relationships, offering a very clear mirror. Allow this to provide clarity, aiding you in choosing your next steps. You’re shown a side of yourself you never previously had access to. This could be uncomfortable, but more likely just exciting, inspiring, and motivating. Mercury and Lilith are doing some intense work in your subconscious this season. Keep a dream journal if you can, and listen closely to those gut feelings.

Capricorn

Biiiiiiiiiiiig retreat this season. Lots of treats for you to find in rest. Gifts in isolation. This is a season to reflect, retreat, observe, and heal. Your subconscious is especially active, cleansing, healing, planning, inspiring, all just beneath the visible surface. What may seem stagnant on the outside is sure to be a vibrant, alive, and awake on the inside. Similar to Sag risings, I would definitely recommend keeping a dream journal and making sure you get plenty of sleep. Mercury and Lilith in your 11th house, opposing Uranus in your 5th house, feels like exciting and secret creative projects at work. Allow yourself to play, unfiltered. What kind of art would come out, if you allowed complete freedom of your expression? Once Mars enters your first house you may experience an added boost in confidence, energy, and/or motivation.

Aquarius

Active season for you! It’s a time to get with people who share the same dreams as you, put your heads together, and start planning. You’re learning exactly what it takes to build a new reality, and finding the people who can help. Spend intentional time in community this month, get creative with friends, and allow yourself to envision radical possibilities. You may be introduced to more groups of people, expand your dreams, or find exciting opportunities. Allow yourself to play and prioritize pleasure this month. Mercury and Lilith in your 10th house want to show you the unconventional path ahead…perhaps you find a secret passage leading you to unexplored territory. This could also manifest as activism, or feeling inspired to be more politically active in your community. Could also mean that something is exposed publicly, or perhaps some of your shadows are brought out into the light for others to observe.

Pisces

The emphasis for you this month is on all the ways you show up in the world. What fruits from your tree are ready to be harvested and shared? What you have been nurturing all year is ready to be seen. You may feel inspired to get involved in the public in some capacity, start a long-term project, or consider moving homes/changing careers. For you, the Full Moon in Gemini is a great time to consider your foundations and roots. What sort of environment helps you feel fully safe and recharged? If your home space is not currently providing this, what are small steps you can take toward bringing it there? Mercury and Lilith in your 9th house, opposing Uranus in your 3rd, urge you to say the quiet part out loud. You may feel emboldened to share a controversial idea, opinion, or philosophy. Speak and act from the heart, and you will always be guided accordingly.

SCORPIO SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Josh Brumley; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Scorpio season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In this Sagittarius season Coven piece, we feature Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — genius poet, proto-feminist, colonial nun, and uncompromising lover of knowledge.

Born (most likely) on November 12, 1648, in what was then San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain, Sor Juana’s chart reflects the intensity and brilliance that made her so dangerous to the world she lived in. With a Scorpio Sun high in the chart, conjunct the midheaven, she carries the signature of someone whose depths, secrets, and obsessions become public fate. A Libra Moon speaks to her ability to move gracefully in courtly spaces and negotiate relationships, even while quietly resisting. And then there is her Sagittarius stellium — Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and the South Node, suggesting one whose natural language is philosophy, poetry, and spiritual revolt: a born seeker whose words were meant to travel far beyond the walls meant to contain her.

Raised in colonial Mexico under the suffocating expectations of marianismo — the ideal of the “pure,” domestic, self-sacrificing woman — Juana never fit that narrative. She learned to read by the age of three, secretly perusing her grandfather’s books and begging to be allowed to dress as a boy so she could attend university. Denied formal education, she educated herself anyway, teaching Latin to others by the time she was thirteen and studying everything she could get her hands on: languages, philosophy, theology, music, and science. With Saturn and Pluto together in Gemini in the fifth house, opposite that Sag stellium, her chart shows the tension between a wild, borderless mind and the relentless discipline it took to channel that fire into enduring works.

As a teenager, she was brought to the viceroy’s court in Mexico City, where her intellect became legendary. In one famous episode, she was tested by around forty scholars and clergy, who hurled questions at her across disciplines. She answered them all. The Sagittarius South Node in the eleventh house shows up here as brilliance on public display, a mind that could not be easily dismissed. But in a world where a woman could not simply be a scholar, Juana refused marriage and chose the convent instead, not out of piety, but because it was the only space that offered relative freedom to read, write, and think.

Inside the convent of San Jerónimo, Sor Juana turned her cell into an intellectual salon. She assembled a vast library, musical instruments, and scientific tools, and wrote plays, theological treatises, and some of the most powerful poetry in the Spanish language. Her Venus–Mercury conjunction in Sagittarius comes through clearly in lines like her famous poem “Hombres necios” (“You foolish men”), where she calls out patriarchal double standards: men who blame women for faults that men themselves help produce. She wrote philosophy disguised as poetry, critique disguised as devotion, and love poems that many read as addressed to the vicereine María Luisa. Poems so intense and tender that modern readers can’t help but wonder about the possibilities they carry for Sor Juana’s love life.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz demonstrated Sagittarius energy: relentless in her pursuit of truth, unwilling to trade her mind for safety, drawn to big questions about God, justice, and the nature of wisdom. She lived in a colonial, patriarchal order that tried to confine her to silence, yet she found ways to think, write, and love beyond the limits imposed on her. Her life is a reminder that the witch archetype is not only about spells and herbs, but about the refusal to abandon our own intelligence, especially when the world insists it would be easier if we stayed small.

Watch the full episode here: Coven: Season 2, Episode 2, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz

SCORPIO SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Sagittarius season.

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Scorpio season brings us to the heart of Fall, where Persephone resides and reminds us that to be reborn we must fully let go. The alchemical process is activated in this Plutonic realm. This time around we are changing deeply from within, and witnessing the ensuing external reflection.

The emphasis is lifted from the air and fire signs this month, and placed fully onto the water signs. The kite shape lingers, but this time is formed between Jupiter in Cancer, Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, Uranus in Taurus, and the Sun, Mercury, Lilith, and Mars in Scorpio at different moments. The energetic peak of the season is on and around November 19, when the new moon will be conjunct mercury and Lilith in Scorpio, activating the grand trine / kite shape all at once. I would expect to see heightened activity the week surrounding this new moon. Think power trips, challenged authority, abuse of power (though not without a fight), and crumbling foundations. There is also a Mercury retrograde come November 9 — which is our last Mercury retrograde of the year, completing its grand tour through the fire signs.

Overall, this a season of flipping things inside out, examining the underbellies, intuiting our way through the maze, and surfacing important (possibly deeply uncomfortable) truths. Surprising pairs, unexpected cooperation, we’ll be feeling the full power of water this season. Scorpio is fixed water, marking the middle of autumn in the northern hemisphere. Frozen and on fire all at once, Scorpio is alchemy, death & rebirth, transformation, and truth.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

NIGREDO

noun

1. In alchemy: the blackening phase; decomposition, putrefaction, confronting the shadow. The necessary death before transformation, the dark night of the soul, the compost from which new growth emerges. It encompasses death, shadow work, and uncomfortable truths….Scorpio’s realm…

   “Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.”

   source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigredo

SCORPIO SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Wednesday, October 22

Sun enters Scorpio

Spooky season gets its name for a reason. With the Sun in Scorpio we confront shadows, what is uncomfortable and unpleasant, and the visceral, elemental forces: that which holds our will to live. The veil between worlds continues to thin, our souls depths are exposed, and truth is revealed.

Thursday, October 23

Chiron in Aries forms a square with Jupiter in Cancer at 24º34’, Mercury forms a conjunction with Lilith in Scorpio at 23º29’

The square between jupiter and chiron is exact today, but has been present energetically for a while. Triggers expanded, wounds opened enough to see what lies beneath. Mercury conjunct Lilith is a secret….a dark and mysterious secret, but maybe a secret shared.

Friday, October 24

The Sun in Scorpio forms a square with Pluto in Aquarius at 1º23’, Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine with Jupiter in Cancer at 24º37’

Sun square Pluto is always quite intense, but as the Sun is in Scorpio, we can expect to dial up the intensity even further. We’re being pushed to alchemize, transform, and allow the dead bits of our psyche to be pruned and grieved. Mercury trine Jupiter begins an activation of the grand trine of the water signs that will be present all season. Check in with your body, emotions, intuition, and attachments. Everything that is felt beyond the physical senses begins to take the stage.

Saturday, October 25

Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine with Saturn in Pisces at 26º06’

A continuation of the grand trine that began its formation yesterday….Mercury trine Saturn is precise, focused, committed, and at times quite stubborn. Combined with Jupiter in Cancer, it feels like we get the Ocean as our mediator. Harmonious, precise, diligent, wise and patient planning.

Monday, October 27

Mars in Scorpio forms a trine with Jupiter in Cancer at 24º47’

And now we get Mars to join the party in the grand trine. Mars in Scorpio brings the action to Mercury’s master plan, as well as the passion and precision to carry it out with peak efficiency.

Tuesday, October 28

Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine with Neptune in Pisces at 29º

Mercury in Scorpio trine Neptune in Pisces is dreamy, sensitive, empathetic, and perhaps a little confusing (though always poetic). Neptune will only be retrograding through Pisces for a couple months more, so any aspects it makes will be tying up loose ends for the 13 year Neptune in Pisces cycle.

Wednesday, October 29

Mars in Scorpio forms a trine with Saturn in Pisces at 25º53’, Mercury enters Sagittarius, Mercury in Sagittarius forms an opposition to Uranus in Gemini at 0º21’

Mars continues activating the grand trine of the water signs, as Mercury enters Sagittarius and opposes Uranus. The kite shape has almost returned, and we might begin to feel its effect here. Strong day, wild energy, powerful and disruptive voices, but all the while a steady, organized plan.

Mercury in sagittarius is insightful, curious, scatterbrained and creative. It wants to ask “why” about everything, but lacks the attention span to listen to the full answer. Mercury in Sag will speak before thinking, and brings a “fuck around an find out” kind of energy. Learn through hands on experience kind of vibe, as opposed to reading any instructions or hearing any advice.

Thursday, October 30

Mercury in Sagittarius forms a sextile with Pluto in Aquarius at 1º26’,

Deep conversations and potent introspection, about ourselves and our world at large.

Sunday, November 2

Venus in Libra forms an opposition with Chiron in Aries at 24º09’, Venus in Libra forms a square with Jupiter in Cancer at 25º01’

T square activated! Tension…Relationships trigger our most painful wounds; this is inevitable. How we move forward through the trigger and toward healing is up to us. Will we repeat the same habitual response? Will we breathe and fight for another path? The choice is yours. Protecting your peace is important but at what cost? This will be a moment to weigh the consequences between difficult relationship work vs isolation and loneliness. What relationships are worth the work, and why?

Monday, November 3

Mars in Scorpio forms a trine with Neptune in Pisces at 29º43’

Mars trine Neptune in Pisces feels like inspiration, spiritual motivation, making visible what is usually invisible, translating the unknowable. This is the last time we will experience this transit in these signs in our lifetimes, so again, tying up loose ends.

Tuesday, November 4

Mars enters Sagittarius, Mars in Sagittarius forms an opposition to Uranus in Gemini at 0º07’

Curiosity killed the cat is an appropriate phrase for Mars in Sagittarius. But important to remember, that cats have 9 lives. Mars in Sagittarius is bold, confident, charismatic, and adventurous often at its own expense. It would be wise to remember that we are not invincible during this transit. Mars in Sag will push the buttons and cause disruption for pure entertainment purposes. Opposing Uranus in Gemini, this feels like it could be quite the chaotic day.

Wednesday, November 5

FULL MOON IN TAURUS AT 13º22’ - 5:19 AM (PST)

This Full Moon is happening the day after Mars opposes Uranus, and the energy will still be quite potent. This is also right before Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus one final time, so perhaps it is illuminating the state of our foundations, establishments, and resources before Uranus returns once more to wreak havoc. The ruler of this Full Moon is Venus which is currently in the later degrees of her other home sign of Libra, at 29º , nearing its descent into its fall in Scorpio. It feels like an energy of crumbling structures, foundations, and old traditions. Allow Rome to fall and see what the ashes reveal.

Thursday, November 6

Venus enters Scorpio, Mars in Sagittarius forms a sextile with Pluto in Aquarius at 1º30’, Jupiter in Cancer forms a trine with Lilith in Scorpio at 25º07’

Venus is in her fall in Scorpio, as one of her home signs is the opposing Taurus. In Scorpio, Venus feels suffocated, confined, intense, and oftentimes painful. She prefers her head above water, harmony, ease, and comfort, but in Scorpio all of these qualities are tested. In Scorpio, she must learn how to breath underwater, face relational shadows, and navigate disharmony and discomfort. Mars sextile Pluto is a bit dramatic, maybe tense or defensive, and Jupiter trine Lilith feels like magnified rage. This might be an emotionally intense day. Could also reflect in a sense of intense determination and focus, like using intense emotions to motivate the way forward.

Friday, November 7

Venus in Scorpio forms a square with Pluto in Aquarius at 1º30’, Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus

Moody and intense Venus in Scorpio finds friction with Pluto in Aquarius, who wants to act as a plumber or an excavator for society at large and doesn’t concern itself with interpersonal dynamics. What about my own death? Says Venus in Scorpio…Another body to the compost pile…is Pluto in Aquarius’s reply. Uranus falling back into Taurus is like getting one more go at disrupting the systems of authority and power that are in place.

Sunday, November 9

Mercury in Sagittarius stations retrograde, Saturn in Pisces forms a trine with Lilith in Scorpio at 25º26’

Mercury retrograde! Last of the year. Get your shit together, but this time use the energy of Sagittarius to reflect on your year and your life at large. What decisions have you made that landed you here? Is here where you want to be? Go back to an idea you had years ago…maybe it’s time to revive an old dream. Saturn trine Lilith feels cold, calculated, vengeful.

Tuesday, November 11

Jupiter in Cancer stations retrograde

Jupiter begins moving back through Cancer, offering us a chance to pick up whatever gifts we accidentally dropped along the way. As we retrace our steps, we can get honest about the lessons learned through the darker moments. A good time to return home, or to communities and circles that feel like home. Fitting, as Jupiter will be retrograde in Cancer throughout the holiday season.

Wednesday, November 12

Mercury retrograde forms a conjunction with Mars in Sagittarius at 6º04’

Mercury Mars conjunction again! Think back to October 19-23; this is the last time these planets conjoined, only then it was in Scorpio. Now, for the second of three times we’ll feel this, they’ve moved into Sagittarius. The energy here is a little more impulsive, defensive, adventurous, and witty. In Scorpio the energy here felt like words are swords, but in Sagittarius this feels like wit, charm, and cleverness can win any battle before violence is even an option.

Sunday, November 16

The Sun in Scorpio forms a trine with Jupiter in Cancer at 25º06’, the Sun in Scorpio forms a trine with Saturn in Pisces at 25º15’

Grannnnnnndddd Trine, the Sun completes it as it joins Saturn and Jupiter….this degree point is about being connected to the land, organizing society, beginning new endeavors, learning new information, gaining new awareness or understanding. Last month, we experienced a grand trine of the air signs, between Pluto, Uranus, and each of the personal planets as they waltzed through the early degrees of Libra. This time around, we get to bring that energy down and inward. Jupiter and Cancer forming a trine in water signs feels mediating, balancing, supportive, and aligned. Like we get a chance to cleanse something really deeply and thoroughly. Probably significant moments with water this season, too. Take baths, drink plenty of it, maybe visit a waterfall if it’s in the cards for you.

Monday, November 17

Mercury in Sagittarius forms a sextile with Pluto in Aquarius at 1º39’

This is the second of three times we’ll get this transit as Mercury moves through its retrograde, pay attention to what conversations from the unconscious arise, perhaps the collective unconscious…keep in mind that the grand trine with the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn is still very active, will be coloring the whole week.

Tuesday, November 18

The Sun forms a conjunction with Lilith in Scorpio at 26º22’

The grand water trine is still very much active, and today the Sun also forms an exact conjunction with Lilith in Scorpio, who was been VERY active this year, working from the inside out, shifting perspectives, illuminating shadows, and encouraging a rebellion from authority. Could be an angry day, could be a sexy day, could be an introverted day, could be an argumentative day….try to roll with it and see (with curiosity) what part of your shadow she finds.

Wednesday, November 19

NEW MOON IN SCORPIO AT 28º11’ - 10:47 PM (PST), Mercury forms a conjunction with the New Moon, Sun, Moon, and Mercury in Scorpio form an opposition with Uranus in Taurus at 29º30’, Sun, Moon, and Mercury in Scorpio form a trine with Neptune in Pisces at 29º29’, Uranus in Taurus forms a sextile to Neptune in Pisces at 29º

Okay okay okay. Interesting new moon. It is exactly conjunct this Mercury retrograde, still closely conjunct Lilith, and opposing Uranus, while exactly trining Neptune, and closely trining Saturn and Jupiter. The sextile between Uranus and Neptune will be exact today, but has been present for several months now, and will be present for several months to come. Mercury in the mix illuminates these archetypal patterns into our conscious awareness and conversations. Eventful! Spicy! A little scary! Power dynamics highlighted and challenged, ego trips potent, idealizing a set of beliefs, challenging existing authorities… With Jupiter at 25º cancer we are once again powerfully activating this kite shape (within 5º)…There is SO much activity in Scorpio — we have Venus, Lilith, Sun, Moon, Mercury, all opposing Uranus in Taurus….. it feels like a trojan horse burning the structures from the inside out. Power plays will not go unchecked or ignored. Ego trips will be challenged.

The degree point of this new moon is about leadership, kings, but also guiding people out of the dark and enchantment…will be a very interesting week.

SCORPIO SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

An internal tsunami is approaching this season, likely focused on your attachments resources, both physical and otherwise. Examine what intimacy means to you. When combining with another— physically, emotionally, materialistically, romantically, etc — how does it feel? What are your deepest triggers and wounds? What are the ways in which you have learned to seek out connection? With the grand trine activating all of your water houses, the massive shifts this season are primarily internal for you. There could be added emphasis on your resources, financial and otherwise, especially as Uranus falls back into Taurus and opposes everything in your 8th house. Keep your heart open for opportunities and unexpected changes around the area of what you feel you “need”. This could be with money, but it expands so much further. Mercury and Mars will be conjoining in your 9th house, so there could also be an added sense of impulsivity and idealism toward a major life decision. This could be reflected in anything from thinking about higher education, deciding to publish a book, release music, record a podcast, or make a film, to making impulsive travel plans, or finding special interest in a particular area of foreign affairs. Whatever the case, pay close attention to your deepest connections, emotional attachments, and inner worlds. A metamorphosis is underway.

Taurus

Partnerships, collaborations, relationships. Your social obligations, commitments and connections are being transformed from the inside out. The grand water trine for you is happening in your air houses of friends, communities, connections, intellect, and communications. The ways in which you perceive the world are slowly but powerfully melting into something brand new. This will be a really significant season for you, as Uranus dips into your first house one last time, radically altering whatever was lingering of your past life. Allow the ice to melt, revealing the complete structure beneath. Something has been shaping beneath the surface, and you may have an opportunity to get a clearer glance this month. You’ll find it in the mirrors around you; that is, in the reflection from your closest partnerships and peers. Who is being reflected back to you in these mirrors? Do you recognize them? Do they feel aligned with who you know yourself to be? Why or why not? Mercury and Mars conjoining in your 8th house will likely bring an awareness and understanding of deeeeeeeeply rooted attachment wounds. Between that and all of the activity in your 7th house, it’s safe to say this season will be very relationship focused for you.

Gemini

Your “mundane” reality is drastically deepening, mystifying, and awakening. With allll the Scorpio energy being activated here for you, you can expect the areas of your life that you may have considered to be “normal” or “boring” to bring an immense level of insight, wisdom, transformation, and rebirth. This could come from your day job and coworkers, your classmates, your local grocery store, your morning walks, your neighborhood coffee shop, etc. Big focus on your body, your relationship to rest, and the ways in which you nurture yourself. Uranus may bring some unexpected endings or closures— tend to your body and your spirit and trust that whatever is cleared is intentional. Your earth houses are being activated by the grand water trine, possibly bringing subtle but powerful opportunities into your spheres of work, resources, and/or health. It’s a great time for you to intuitively plan your way forward, trust in your body to guide your steps, even if the path ahead is unclear. There may be some spicy energy coming your way as Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 7th house. Watch out for tempers with the ones you love, or alternatively, allow the heat to enter as passion and excitement.

Cancer

The grand trine activation for you happens in your fire houses of identity, ego, self, and expression. There is a huge current underway, reshaping the ways in which you see yourself, know yourself, and therefore express yourself. Uranus dips into your 11th house one more time, shaking up your communities and the circles you find yourself apart of. Scorpio is digging all the way back to your earliest memories of play, childhood, and creativity this season, urging that inner artist to fully express the grief they have lovingly carried and kept hidden for so long now. Finding an outlet for those intense emotions is going to be important this month. As a Cancer rising, you likely learned from an early age that any disruptive feeling is unacceptable, and so you burry it inside and hold it on your own, as well as anyone else’s. You’re finding the courage to dream beyond your perceived limits this season, and resurrecting some passions you may have long ago tried to abandon. As Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 6th house, you may find a spark of optimism and confidence as you move through the world. Allow this to be a push toward a bolder self-expression.

Leo

Huuuuuuuugggeeee focus on the home. You could be moving homes, having significant moments with parents, changing roommates, rennovating, moving cities, etc. You’re getting the opportunity to see really clearly the attachment patterns you’ve subconsciously carried throughout your life and into every intimate partnership, and to examine the idea of “safety” and “retreat” and what your body actually associates with these words. The change for you is somewhat external, likely, but taking place in a really massive way internally. Your emotional tides are moving, shifting, and shaping the land of your psyche. As Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 5th house, you might experience a surge of sexual activation, creative inspiration, or even meet someone exciting and new. Uranus dips into your 10th house one more time, making sure to clear the path ahead of any unwanted debris. This is a season to take a microscope to your roots, deeply examine your foundation, and to be especially clear of the path you are on and why you are on it. What do you want, and why?

Virgo

A deep transformation is happening in your immediate environment, your immediate perception, and in your connections with siblings or friends that feel like siblings. The shift of perception is happening in the micro environment for you. The details are changing, perhaps people who once felt like solid ground in your life are going through their own profound transformations, thus triggering a change in you. Perhaps something external and macro triggers fractals of responses in your psyche, urging you to shift on the most fundamental level. Your habits are called into question, your capacity for knowledge is expanding, or deepening. You are opening to an awareness you had not previously considered. The grand water trine is taking place in your air houses, meaning your relationships, friendships, and communities are likely going to be an alembic for this transformation to occur. Perhaps you find yourself connecting with someone on a level you never would have expected, or possibly see eye to eye with someone you previously would have disagreed with on most things. Mercury and Mars coming together in your 4th house will highlight the home, feelings of safety, and parents. Perhaps heated debates or insight to arise from these areas.

Libra

What is your relationship to resources? What sort of things do you feel you need to survive? Where did you first learn your needs? How have they evolved over the years? Examine the needs you feel in your life, and explore where they may overlap. For example; perhaps you need a sense of safety in routine, but at times it dresses as a need for a regular, routine paycheck. Undress your material needs and see what lies beneath. Where is there room to adjust? There may be some unexpected gifts this season, as Uranus dips back into your 8th house. These gifts could be monetary, spiritual, emotional, or more. Keep your heart open and try to recognize the silver lining when you can. Something that feels like a disruption might actually be a piece of gold hiding in the redirection. The grand trine for you is occurring in the earth houses, meaning your sense of grounding, security, resources, and health will be the center of your shifting and adapting and flowing. As Mercury and Mars shift into your 3rd house, you may notice a particular zest for life and intellectual stimulation. This would be a great moment to pick up that book you’ve kept unopened on your desk for “someday”…

Scorpio

You are like a sponge this season, absorbing all of the energetic currents flowing around you and holding them in your heart to examine clearly, reflect, and express back out into the world. The way you move through the world and interact with others is being cleansed, alchemized, questioned, challenged, and changed. The ways in which you see yourself and know yourself are completely transforming. The New Moon on November 19th will be especially potent for you, with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Lilith, and Venus all in your 1st house. Uranus dipping into your 7th house may bring up some unexpected relationship activity, perhaps an old partner or close friend reappearing in your life, or an existing partner or close friend exiting. Could also just bring significant epiphanies around partnerships and the role you tend to play in them. The grand water trine is happening in your fire houses of identity, ego, and expression, meaning your deep transformation will be largely reflected externally. Though beginning internally, it’s likely that the shifts will be potently reflected in your external world. Pay attention to your finances as Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 2nd house; this could be a time for sudden and inspiring business ideas, but could also be a moment for impulsive, overindulgent spending.

Sagittarius

This will likely be a pretty internally focused season for you. Scorpio’s deep transformation is happening in your 12th house, which is the house of retreat, escape, isolation, and the spirit realm. Your dreams are likely to be VERY active, it could be wise to write them down. 12th house activations can be confusing, frightening, and unsettling. I find that in these seasons there are intense changes that occur just beneath the visible surface of my psyche. My body feels tired and my energy drained, but there is nothing apparent that seems to be the cause. Trust that if you find yourself in deep hermit mode this season that it is 1. temporary and 2. indicative of some very powerful psychic shifting. Uranus may bring some discomfort in your daily life, perhaps an illness of some kind, which may force you into rest or isolation if you do not take ample time to do this on your own. It’s a season of reflection for you, of meditation, of psychic and spiritual change through all of the power of the oceans. There may be familial themes that arise, or significant moments with emotional attachments that trigger something deep in your body’s awareness. As Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 1st house, there could be a boost of motivation and social energy, which could be a nice reprieve from this otherwise introverted season.

Capricorn

You may be noticing a shift in your goals and dreams. What was your wildest dream for your future as a child? In other words, what did you want to be when you grew up? How has that evolved or manifested in your life now? In what ways is it actively changing and forming? These questions may be especially potent for you this season, along with a focused attention on where you find yourself in community. What groups are you actively a part of, and what role do you find yourself playing within them? You might find yourself involved in several different communities, or perhaps notice significant transformation happening within your community. It’s like you get a front row seat to the alchemy happening within all of your friends. Perhaps you play a significant role in this alchemy, and perhaps their own transformation triggers a transformation in you, in return. Maybe you find significant understanding for an unexpected group of people. The grand water trine is happening in your air houses, meaning your social dynamics, relationships, and intellect are evolving. Like the ocean eroding the shore of your psyche, your perspectives and lenses of reality are being completely transformed. Pay attention to particular insight, creative or otherwise, that may be received from your inner child this season.

Aquarius

Your legacy comes into question. What role have you played in society so far, and where do you see it evolving? As Uranus dips back into your 4th house one last time, you’re getting a few more shakeups of your foundation, urging you to reassess the path you’ve committed to thus far. With Scorpio in your 10th house, you are here to see the underbelly of societies and the shadows of traditions, and actively work to expose or transform. Either on a micro or macro level, you are here to expose; and you are definitely not here to wear a mask. This season you’ll have ample opportunity to not only notice where you may be wearing a mask, but to feel all the weight of what that means. And as you become more authentic in your own expression, you may notice the world around you reflecting authenticity back. It’s all about finding your vulnerability this season, and learning in what capacities it makes sense to share it. The grand water trine is happening in your earth houses, meaning your resources, grounding, sense of security, and health are likely to be the center point for your transformations. This could look like a career change, a promotion, being fired, coming into unexpected income, having an unexpected lack of resources, or finding a stable routine that unlocks deep epiphanies in your psyche. Mercury and Mars bring an added sense of excitement to your friends, perhaps you make some new, unusual friends, or see eye to eye with someone you would least expect.

Pisces

The changes for you are happening in your macro understanding of the world. Your philosophies, your spirituality, and the ways in which you seek out knowledge, are shifting. You may be traveling and experiencing profound shifts of psyche in an unfamiliar land. Perhaps you find yourself venturing into a knowledge tradition of which you were previously unaware, and finding buried treasure. Some unexpected disturbances are likely to be found in your habits and micro environments, possibly triggering these deep existential, philosophical transformations. This could be arguments with siblings, close friends, or roommates, or something like an injury that forces you to reflect and take an expanded perspective of things. It’s also possible that this is simply reflected in a burst of creativity, opening your mind to ideas you never previously had access to. Whatever the case, your perspective of reality is deepening, shifting, expanding, and evolving. The grand water trine is happening in your fire houses, meaning the intense transformation is deeply connected to your sense of self, but likely going to be potently expressed externally. Notice how the shifts in your own awareness influence shifts in others. As Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 10th house, you may find yourself ignited and passionate with new career ideas, or in general just long term goals you decide to officially begin planning.

SCORPIO SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Josh Brumley; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Scorpio season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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COVEN SPOTLIGHT: SHERE HITE

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In Episodes 2 & 3 of Season 3, we feature Shere Hite: American-born German sex educator, feminist scholar, revolutionary researcher, and the woman who asked women what they truly wanted—and listened.

Born on November 2, 1942, Shere’s chart reflects a Sun, Venus, Mars Scorpio stellium of profound intensity, desire, and transformative power. Her Leo Moon conjunct Chiron speaks to deep creative and emotional wounds as Leo seeks recognition and expression, while Chiron marks the places where we are wounded in our attempts to be seen. Mercury in Libra introduces another paradox: a mind drawn to balance, relationship, and beauty, yet caught between the desire to speak truth and the pull toward diplomacy. Uranus and Saturn conjunct in Gemini bring anarchic, revolutionary energy in tension with structure—the need to break apart systems while simultaneously building new ones, an inner restlessness that demands reorganization of chaos into meaning.

This was the chart of someone built for revolution. But first, she had to survive.

In the early 1970s, Shere did something unprecedented: she asked. She sent out anonymous surveys to thousands of women, posing questions no one had dared to ask aloud. In 1976, The Hite Report emerged—fifty million copies eventually printed, translated into countless languages, a global phenomenon. She had done the unthinkable: she had given voice to female sexuality in an age when such speech was considered obscene, dangerous, witchcraft.

For a moment, the world listened. But the patriarchy does not reward those who speak too much truth. The same forces that had silenced her in academia, that had reduced her to a sex object in modeling, now mobilized against her with unprecedented viciousness. The witch hunt had arrived.

Astrologically, her chart embodies the Scorpio paradox entirely. Sun, Venus, and Mars in Scorpio promised transformative words, radical healing through truth, the capacity to resurrect what the culture kept buried. Yet the tension between her need for recognition (Leo Moon) and the world’s hostility toward her power speaks to something harder to hold: the way others could blur her, deny her, rewrite her story. A woman with such a Scorpio stellium in a fearful culture becomes a target.

Shere Hite embodied the witch archetype through fearless truth-telling and her refusal to let forbidden knowledge remain hidden. She turned personal trauma—poverty, academic rejection, the degradation of modeling—into revolutionary research. She asked the questions no one else dared to ask and listened to answers society didn’t want to hear.

Watch the full episodes here: Coven Podcast: Shere Hite Episode 1 and Coven Podcast: Shere Hite Episode 2 :

SCORPIO SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Scorpio season.

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Welcome Back <3

This is your guide to Libra Season 2025…

With the sign of Libra, we are being ushered into the underworld. Libra marks our arrival at the gates of Hades, while Scorpio represents the full acceptance of and surrender to death. Each of the signs associated with Fall are a bit heavier, slower, denser, and darker. With Libra, summer has officially reached its end, and Autumn is in full swing. This Libra season, the transits are somewhat sparse, but hold a lingering influence. We open with the kite shape between the outer planets + Mercury and the Sun still potent. Libra season begins with some dramatic endings, for the purpose of laying alternative foundations. The transformative energy lingers through mid-October, as Venus enters Libra and reinforces that powerful kite shape once again. Our values are being clarified, our desires highlighted, our beliefs called into question, and our actions analyzed. Libra is the sign of justice; what does this word mean in our society today? How is it showing up in your own life?

This is a season to reap what we have sown, whether we are proud of it or not. Hard truths, facing consequences, and balancing responses to be expected. Mercury’s conjunction with Mars in Scorpio brings laser vision and the ability to see through any surface illusion, finding truth where we’d least expect.

All of this being said, it’s important to remember that Libra is ruled by Venus, planet of love, beauty, relationships, and aesthetics. Try to surround yourself with whatever you find to be beautiful this season. Notice how it can help you find the love, compassion, and hope in an otherwise upsetting world view. Finding art and beauty within the darkness is a powerful practice of alchemy. This is also a good season to get really honest and vulnerable in our relationships, and learn to depend on one another for support. When all the world goes dark, remember that we’ll only have each other.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits, horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, toolbox, moon log, and intentional recipe. Inspired playlist coming soon…Written by Jenna Scott, Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez, and Josh Brumley.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

HIEROPHANY

noun

1. the manifestation or revelation of the sacred or divine within the ordinary, everyday world. This encounter with the sacred can occur in a physical place, object, or event, transforming the profane (non-sacred) into something of profound spiritual significance and connecting people to their deeper beliefs.

LIBRA SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Monday, September 22

Sun moves into Libra, Mars moves into Scorpio, Sun in Libra forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries at 0º

The Sun is debilitated in the sign of Libra, as the Sun represents themes of the ego, the self, identity, expression and leadership, and the sign of Libra represents partnership, collaboration, relationships and shared identity. The Sun thrives in its uniqueness, autonomy, and individuality, but in Libra reminds us of our social responsibilities, our commitment to each other, and equality. The Sun wants to be front and center, while Libra urges us to share the spotlight. Libra season encourages us to focus on our collaborations, our relationships, our commitments, and our gifts.

Mars, on the other hand, is moving into the sign of its domicile in Scorpio. This means that the energy of Mars is expressed powerfully and authentically. In Scorpio, Mars can pierce through any surface layers of illusion and find the truth of what lies beneath. Mars in Scorpio is determined and focused to the point of obsessive. Here, Mars’ passion meets the patience required to make a seamless plan of action.

As soon as the Sun arrives in Libra, he forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries, possibly bringing about dissociative feelings, identity confusion, or an emphasis on the illusions of leadership of some kind. Keep in mind that Neptune will still be forming a humble trine with Pluto and Uranus, so any planet moving into Libra will activate that powerful kite shape. This, combined with Mars moving into Scorpio the same day, feels like a shift in leadership, truth of extraordinary level being revealed.

Tuesday, September 23

Sun in Libra forms a trine to Uranus in Gemini at 1º19’, Sun in Libra forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º27’ (Grand Trine between the Sun, Uranus and Pluto)

More activation of this grand trine — a focus on our leaders, on our individual capacity for leadership as well as the leaders we choose for the collective. The Sun in Libra is bringing justice, scales are balancing, a leveling out of sorts. This is a powerful grand trine, and through the air signs means it is likely to be collective focused: social media, society, etc. Huge week to make important decisions in our personal lives, the activation of the trine with the Sun urges us to align ourselves with our hearts…in what kinds of communities do you feel most aligned? We are finding our sense of belonging…use those desires as a guide to your heart’s expression.

Wednesday, September 24

Mars in Scorpio forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º27’

This is another energy that will be present all week but is exact today. Mars square Pluto is dramatic, intense, triggering and heavy. It feels like this square activates an attack that Mars in Scorpio has been silently planning for years….Pluto in Aquarius is about the collective, society as a whole, rebellion and revolution…Mars in Scorpio is excavating a grave that will change the way society perceives itself, initiating a dissolving of a particular perceived reality. Lay low-ish today if you can, watch your tempers, and take deep breaths before impulsively reacting.

Wednesday, October 1

Mercury in Libra forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 22º33’

Mercury square Jupiter is noisy, disruptive, uncomfortable, and a battle of ideas. Like everyone shouting over each other and no one really listening. If you’re reading this and remember on this day, challenge yourself to listen more than you speak; see if any new, unexpected perspectives emerge. Mercury in Libra might also be demanding justice for something on a massive scale.

Friday, October 3

Chiron in Aries forms an opposition to Mercury in Libra at 25º30’

Getting to see the other side of a wound, seeing both sides of the story. Getting justice for something painful, could be revenge, but more likely just having some clarity of motivation, understanding of what leads someone to make harmful decisions. Also could just be a healing day through relationships. Big relationship conversations that help to mend old relational wounds.

Monday, October 6

FULL MOON IN ARIES, 14º08’ AT 8:47PM PST, Mercury enters Scorpio

A Full Moon in Aries on the same day that Mercury enters Scorpio…it’s not the lightest of days, energetically. The Aries Full Moon can be erratic, impulsive, and a little chaotic, while Mercury in Scorpio has a tendency to intensify and deepen our lens of perception. Good energy to prepare for Halloween, I guess. What do you want to fight for? What is worth fighting for? Where has your inner fire gone? Good practice for today would be to move your body. Go for a run, hit the gym for longer than usual, take a long walk, etc. Aries is intense and active energy, it's a lot of heat to hold alone, and helps to move it along through our bodies.

Tuesday, October 7

Mercury in Scorpio forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º22’

Similar to the Mars square Pluto last week, but maybe less aggressive. Still, there’s the energy of a secret working toward the dissolving of a paradigm. Disruptive information, unsettling communication or news.

Wednesday, October 8

Venus in Virgo forms a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer at 23º19’

Honeysuckle and ice cream energy… a good day to make a meal for people you love, plan a vacation to see family, help a friend with a house project, etc. Find the sweetness and beauty amidst the chaos.

Saturday, October 11

Venus in Virgo forms an opposition to Saturn in Pisces at 26º59’

Venus opposite Saturn! Tough romance day, some blocks in relationship feelings, or perhaps the feeling of commitment is heightened, picturing aging with someone, planning for the next steps in a relationship, etc. This is the kind of day where the butterflies take a backseat to practicality in partnership. Sure, this person feels nice, but do they make sense in my life? Does this work, longterm? etc etc… also our values being challenged in relationships. Example: a person you’ve committed yourself to in some way is showing signs that their values are quite different than your own…what do you do? What is more important to you in this situation?

Monday, October 13

Venus enters Libra, Venus forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries at 0º12’, Venus in Libra forms a trine to Uranus in Gemini at 0º53’, Pluto stations direct

This feels like a pretty good day, Venus enters its home sign of Libra, where she will be forming a grand trine with Uranus and Pluto, while opposing Neptune, and the Moon will be conjunct Jupiter. Milk and honey….?

Venus in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries feels frustrating though…a craving for something but you don’t quite know what it is. Like when you have an intense itch but you can’t find where it is to scratch. Unnameable craving. Relationship changes, unpredictable energy.

This whole week is the feeling of “I need to leave, I need to change, I don’t know where I want to go or what I want to do, but I can’t stay here”

Tuesday, October 14

Venus in Libra forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º22’

Same energy as yesterday, only the trine to Pluto is exact today. Find the courage to leave, even if the path ahead is unclear. Risks are rewarded with this energy.

Wednesday, October 15

Mars in Scorpio forms a trine to the North Node in Pisces at 16º14’

Vortex energy — an intuitive pull toward something viscerally important. Our body moves us before we can conceptualize the direction or the reason. Act intuitively. Close your eyes and walk.

Friday, October 17

The Sun in Libra forms an opposition to Chiron in Aries at 24º51’, The Sun in Libra forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 24º10’, Mercury in Scorpio forms a trine to the North Node in Pisces at 16º08’,

Productive but hard conversations. Say what you want out loud. Take action, challenge your people pleasing tendencies, find the balance between honestly, compassion, and surrender. A day to assert your boundaries while still understanding that other people are existing in their own realities with their own experiences. Ask for what you want and surrender, be okay if something doesn’t go exactly how you’d pictured.

Sunday, October 19

Mercury forms a conjunction to Mars in Scorpio at 19º11’

Face the tough shit, look eye to eye with whatever is hanging in the shadows, see it, acknowledge it, own it, know it, in a way that normally you’d want to avoid. You can SEEEE right through to the truth today. Dark fantasy potential is high. Gearing up for the Halloween / Samhain feeling. Words are weapons or powerful tools, be conscious of how you yield them.

Tuesday, October 21

NEW MOON IN LIBRA AT 28º21’ AT 5:25 AM PST

Good new moon I think…Mercury and Mars conjunction still active, Jupiter Chiron square almost exact, Neptune is 1 minute away from going back into Pisces, interesting energy…the New Moon will be forming a T-square (not exact, but within 5º) with Jupiter and Chiron. Relationship activity from a place of expanded awareness and compassion. Justice takes shape and the balancing begins. Community care vs individual triggers. See self in others, see both sides, begin new relationship endeavors. Scales of Justice are pronounced. What is justice? How is it shifting? This would be a great day to do the journal prompt for this season.

Wednesday, October 22

Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces, Sun moves into Scorpio

Just before the Sun moves into Scorpio, Neptune shifts back into Pisces one last time before it leaves for good. Neptune is at home in the ethereal, boundless, limitless Pisces. Anything is possible, but also nothing feels all that real or solid. Remember that? We left this in March of this year, but we get a few more months of it to tie up loose ends.

LIBRA SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Starting off the season with a bang, your relationships are front and center. In what ways are you being completely transformed by those you consider to be closest to you? How are your partnerships influencing the direction of your life? It’s likely that you’ll get really clear about the kinds of partnerships you need this month, and the kinds that you’ll want to move far away from. You’re getting to the bottom of others’ intentions, as well as your own. What have you been subconsciously attracting, and why? What are you looking for in others, and what do you think others seek out in you? Unpacking these questions will likely bring added clarity to your sense of self and identity, and possibly inspire closings of some kind. Pay attention to any odd fantasies that may arise, as these are often symbolic maps of our subconscious cravings. Your natural Aries impulse to charge forward is being tempered by Libra's demand for reciprocity and balance, forcing you to examine whether you've been giving too much of yourself away or taking more than your fair share.

Taurus

What do you lack? Your boundaries and limitations are getting fully examined this month— what do you perceive yourself to be incapable of? What are the restrictions that prevent you from living a life of your dreams? An emphasis on your 6th house is showing you the ways around these limitations, or perhaps just providing you with a new perspective of them. What was once perceived as lack, might now be seen as a unique gift or strength. How can you use your resources creatively? The reality of certain partnerships may become very clear as Mercury and Mars conjoin in your 7th house. If you are being completely honest with yourself, what is it that you are drawn to in these connections? Why are you here, and are you certain you want to be? As Neptune joins Saturn, falling back into your 11th house one last time, your communities are getting one final cleansing. What friend groups or organizations have you associated yourself with, and do they still align with who you are becoming? How have your greater goals, dreams, and visions for your future shifted?

Gemini

Illumination, good news, alignment, pleaaassuuurrreeee. What are the rules you’ve constructed for yourself around receiving pleasure? Is your pleasure constantly self-policed by shame? Guilt? This season you’ll be getting up close and personal with anything that feels GOOD (this is a good thing, you aren’t in trouble). You might notice particular difficulty when it comes to receiving. Perhaps you learned long ago that good things come through suffering, or that in order to feel good you have to be perfect, first. These ideas are being illuminated, challenged, and purged. What if good things were just good things? What if you are allowed to feel good, without a caveat? Your social dynamics continue to shift, your communities expand and contract, and you’ll continue to feel the eccentricity within as Uranus dances through your first house, forming grand trines with Pluto and whoever ventures into the early degrees of Libra (Sun + Venus, again, good stuff). Children could also be significant teachers for you this season.

Cancer

The family themes continue for you as your 4th house remains the focal point of the powerful kite shape. The Aries Full Moon illuminates your 10th house, shining a light on the fruits of your tree of life. In what ways have you been unconsciously motivated by the expectations of your family? Does where you are now, align with where your inner child wanted to go? The eclipse portal is closing this season, but the kite shape remains. The Mother and Father (or other attachments symbolic of this energy) could be especially significant this month. You may be aware of how they influenced you as a child, but pay special attention to how their active choices continue to impact you. Mercury and Mars conjoining in your 5th house will likely hold a microphone and spotlight to your inner child. Listen to them, see them, believe them. You are slowly dissolving deeply rooted beliefs you’ve solidified over the years, let them flow through you and find ample time to rest, stretch, and be sure to drink plenty of water.

Leo

Speak up, Leo! Use your voice, it’s blessed by the Sun and Venus this season, drenching your words with honey. Be wary of people pleasing tendencies, though. Mercury and Mars in your 4th house want to show ultimate truth from your ancestors, illuminating ancient secrets from your bloodline and perhaps unsettling truths about your past. Speak truthfully, honestly, and elegantly, and trust that it will be well received where it needs to. Your perspectives of life, religion, wisdom, and philosophy are expanding and shifting. There may be important epiphanies this season, likely rooted in whatever arises in the areas of home and family. Allow painful truths to be received with grace, and move forward how you see fit, carrying this new perspective along with you. Saturn and Neptune dipping back into your 8th house together one last time allows you to excavate anything lingering in the shadows of your psyche that needs to be seen. Be gentle with yourself.

Virgo

The grand trine is still happening in your Earth houses, urging more focus on your resources, material and other. Venus might bring in some unexpected ease with your finances or another kind of symbolic abundance. Mercury and Mars will give your words a piercing quality, allowing you to play detective during their conjunction in your 3rd house. Watch for intense arguments as Mars forms a square to Pluto, possibly with co-workers or siblings, or just generally sour moods around people you see daily. The Full Moon is shining a light on your subconscious attachment patterns, and bringing to the surface any inheritances — whether you knew they were there or not. This could be a literal, financial inheritance or emotional, psychological inheritances. Neptune and Saturn dip back into your 7th house one more time, reminding you to dissolve any lingering connections that no longer feel aligned.

Libra

Huge season for you, again. The grand trine is happening in your fire houses, with the kite shape targeting your 1st house of self, body, and identity. Justice for you is an inward quest — in what ways have you denied yourself the freedom you deserve? You are evolving, shapeshifting, and metamorphosing. Rethinking the way you meet the world, rethinking all the ways in which you’ve perceived yourself. The roles you long ago accepted to play are shedding like snakeskin. Mercury and Mars conjunct in your second house brings that penetrating Scorpio vision to your resources and values. What you truly treasure, what you're worth, how you generate abundance…these foundations are being examined with surgical precision. The wealth you've been seeking might not look like what you expected. Old patterns around money, possessions, and self-worth are being transformed through honest recognition of what actually nourishes versus what you thought should matter.

Scorpio

Powerful endings, important cycles closing, and perhaps a period of retreat, of dissolution and rebirth. You’re receiving opportunities to examine your attachment styles and the ways in which you’ve unconsciously related to people up to this point. Mercury and Mars in your 1st house bring a dagger of truth about yourself and your perceived identity, forcing you to see clearly the ways in which you’ve introduced yourself to the world. You might have a moment where you can see how others see you, which could be a hard pill to swallow but is ultimately liberating. What brought you pleasure before may feel hollow now; what you thought was authentic self-expression may reveal itself as performance. Trust the dissolution - your creative fire is being purified, not extinguished. This season asks you to love yourself enough to let who you thought you were die so who you truly are can finally breathe.

Sagittarius

Ahhh, communities, friends, dreams, opportunities. Something ends so something really beautiful can begin. You’ve spoken what you want into existence, and it may arrive, but with a cost. Are you prepared? Trust in what you cannot see. Trust in your inner fire to lead the way. Mercury and Mars in your twelfth house create a hidden chamber where your deepest knowing is being forged. That laser vision this season offers is cutting through the spiritual bypassing, the unconscious patterns, the ways in which you've been avoiding your own power through endless seeking. Your ruling planet Jupiter's wisdom is being tempered by Scorpio's demand for truth - no more philosophizing your way out of feeling, no more expanding outward to avoid going inward. Find that inner child and inner artist, follow the joy and know that your pleasure can be a map.

Capricorn

The kite shape for you pulls focus onto your 10th house, perhaps illuminating themes of mother / father dynamics but also helping you see very clearly the path you are headed, the legacy you are leaving in your wake, and the motivations behind the steps you take. The Full Moon in your 4th house puts an added emphasis on home and upbringing. Though you are a Capricorn rising, your calling in the world has less to do with Capricorn’s obsession with achievement, and more so with the justice of Libra. The kite formation pulling focus here asks not just "what am I building?" but "who am I building it for, and at what cost?" Your relationship with power, with recognition, and with the parental dynamics that shaped your drive are all being examined. Your social skills are superior, and you may have ample opportunities this month to put them on display. Mercury and Mars in your eleventh house bring that Scorpionic intensity to your dreams and community connections. The groups you belong to, the causes you champion - these are being tested for genuine resonance versus social positioning. Your legacy is being liberated from your fears. Let it breathe.

Aquarius

Your world views are radically shifting, as you become really honest about the role you want to play in the world. Where are your gifts best received? How can you more clearly communicate your beliefs? And in what context would it be most powerful to do so? The justice themes of Libra season manifest as a deep examination of what you actually believe versus what you think you should believe. Mercury and Mars conjunct in your tenth house create that "dagger of honesty" about your public role and professional path. Your career, your reputation, your authority in the world are all being transformed through radical honesty about what you're actually here to contribute. The role you want to play in the world isn't about shock value or being the smartest person in the room. You are here to help initiate massive transformation. Your gifts are most powerfully received when they emerge from genuine service rather than intellectual superiority. The world needs your vision grounded in compassion.

Pisces

Attachments, attachments, attachments. Unconscious patterns, material or psychological inheritance, and the belief systems that solidified to create your entire perceived reality are shifting. The justice of this season manifests as a profound reckoning with what you've been carrying that was never yours to begin with. Ancestral trauma, family patterns, lovers' wounds, financial entanglements - the grand trine in your 8th, 12th and 4th houses reveals these attachments, while transforming them through love rather than destruction. Mercury and Mars conjunct in your ninth house bring that penetrating Scorpio vision to your entire belief system and spiritual framework. What teachings have you been using as escape routes from your own power? What wisdom traditions actually support your evolution versus keep you comfortable in victimhood?

COVEN SPOTLIGHT: ANAÏS NIN

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In Episode 3 of Season 2, we featured Anaïs Nin: diarist, novelist, psychoanalytic explorer, and avatar of the beautiful and the forbidden.

Born on February 21, 1903, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Anaïs carried a Pisces Sun, Libra rising, and a Capricorn Moon, with Mars in Libra in the 1st house. Her chart reveals both mystery and discipline. Neptune on the Midheaven in Cancer gave her a public aura of glamour and projection. Venus and Jupiter in Pisces infused her vocation with lyrical longing and erotic imagination. And Mercury conjunct Saturn in Aquarius in the 5th house marked the disciplined craft behind sixty years of diaries; pleasure and play given structure and form.

As a child, Anaïs began writing at eleven, filling notebooks with letters to her absent father. The habit of addressing absence would shape her for life. In her twenties she married Hugh Parker Guiler and, in 1924, returned to Paris, where she immersed herself in the avant-garde. There she supported and edited Henry Miller, becoming at once his patron, muse, and mirror. Drawn to psychoanalysis, she turned the unconscious into her workshop, transforming dreams, desire, shame, and longing into language. When publishers refused her, she did not stop. Instead, she bought her own press and put her words into the world herself.

Astrologically, her chart shows the paradox she lived. Mars in Libra in the 1st house gave her a drive to assert herself through relationships, her sense of identity forged in attraction, tension, and the presence of the other. Sun-Venus-Jupiter in Pisces sought to dissolve boundaries in the name of love and art. Neptune on the Midheaven ensured her public image would remain contested, glamorized, and misunderstood. Pluto in Gemini in the 9th house speaks to transformation through language, philosophy, and border-crossing travel. And Mercury-Saturn in Aquarius in the 5th explains the lifelong discipline behind her writing.

Her Diaries and later-published erotica made her a feminist icon of the 1960s; later unexpurgated volumes and a hostile biography recast her as manipulative or monstrous. Libra’s scales refuse a simple verdict. She experimented with love and loyalty in unconventional arrangements, sought freedom and intimacy at once, and paid the price of living as a both/and in a world demanding either/or. Content note: her writings and later disclosures include accounts of childhood sexual abuse and a brief, alleged adult entanglement with her father; she approached these taboos as shadow work, and the ethical complexities remain profound.

Anaïs Nin was Libra energy incarnate: relational, aesthetic, and committed to the ethics of intimacy, forever asking where beauty meets accountability. She teaches us that truth in relationships isn’t the absence of shadow, but the willingness to name it, give it form, and choose with care.

Listen to the full episode here: Coven - Season 2, Episode 3 : Anaïs Nin

JOURNAL PROMPT: Expanding Justice

Justice carries so much more potential than our cultural conditioning around punishment and retribution. At its root, justice means making things right - restoring equilibrium, honoring what is due, creating conditions where all parties can thrive.

Here’s the question to consider:

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Welcome Back <3

This is your monthly guide to Virgo Season 2025.

Helloooo Virgo season, with her signature end of summer haze and almost autumn wonder.

This is THE season of 2025, the astrological climax of the year. We have the Virgo/Pisces eclipse portal in full swing, two New Moons (one to open and one to close the season…the latter of the two is also a Solar Eclipse), one Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, and a powerful grand trine in the air signs between Uranus, Pluto, and Mercury, which are also all forming a kite shape with Saturn and Neptune. The currents are evolving, the tides are changing, and a new reality is dawning. Stay grounded but stay fluid, releasing any unnecessary structures, or anything external that you’ve clung to for a sense of stability and identity. Instead, it’s time to turn inward, deeply connect with our bodies, find the expression of our hearts, and see the identity that exists beyond any external expectations. Now is the time to find our aligned communities, and to create plans of action toward a reality that we want to live in. Reality is shaped collectively, not independently, and shared belief shapes paradigms. As Rick Tarnas says, “World views create worlds…”

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WORD OF THE SEASON

MAELSTROM

noun

1. A maelstrom is a powerful often violent whirlpool that sucks in objects within a given radius. Maelstrom is also often used figuratively to refer to a situation resembling the turbulence of a maelstrom, as when there are a lot of confused activities, emotions, etc.

   source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/maelstrom-2023-11-04

VIRGO SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Friday, August 22

The Sun enters Virgo, Venus in Cancer forms a square to Chiron in Aries at 26º55’, NEW MOON IN VIRGO AT 0º23’ — 11:08 PM (PST)

The New Moon is either happening late Friday night or early Saturday morning, depending on your time zone. This New Moon will be within 1º of a square to Uranus, while Venus forms a square to Chiron. New Moon in Virgo wants a clean slate, a fresh start, a fresh blank canvas with all of the tools needed to paint a masterpiece. The square to Uranus adds an element of surprise - like the paint spills or the canvas tears. The trick here is surrender; rather than throwing out the whole piece, adapt. How can you incorporate the hiccups into the piece? What does it add to the story? This is the 1st of 2 New Moons in Virgo (where the south node is, too) and our perfectionism is being challenged. No more people pleasing, no more rules for the sake of rules, and no more law based morality. Opening Virgo season in this way is a clear declaration that this season is here to unleash our inner collective artist and empath. Question what you have never questioned! Begin the process of self-liberation.

Sunday, August 24

The Sun in Virgo forms a square to Uranus in Gemini at 1º23’

Everything I said up there ^, but today the aspect is exact. Lean into your quirks, challenge your shame, and release your tense grip. What happens if you try to ride the liminal wave instead of steer it?

Monday, August 25

Venus enters Leo, Venus in Leo forms a trine to Saturn in Aries at 0º25’, Mercury in Leo forms a square to Lilith in Scorpio at 16º57’

Venus in Leo is quite happy. In Leo, Venus can indulge, spoil, be spoiled, be movie-level romantic, splurge, and play. Venus in Leo brings bold declarations of love, theatrics, romanticism, luxury, and relationship celebration. There is an immediate trine made to Saturn in Aries, though, bringing a sense of commitment, responsibility, and humility. Saturn in Aries is focused on a singular goal, and personal boundaries/needs, and in this trine to Venus in Leo there will likely be some added enthusiasm, passion, and encouragement. Mercury in Leo will also be forming a square to Lilith, which looks like a layer of intensity and added dramatics.

Tuesday, August 26

Venus in Leo forms a sextile to Uranus in Gemini at 1º25’, then a trine to Neptune in Aries at 1º29’, then an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º52’

Pretty quickly after the trine to Saturn, Venus will sextile Uranus and then trine Neptune, then oppose Pluto. Keep in mind, all of these aspects will be in a 5º orb all week, but these dates they’ll be exact. It seems like Venus is just walking into the party late, loud, and proud. She arrives with drinks, food, games, and style. She’s here to show us the drama of it all, the story behind it, the art.

Thursday, August 28

Uranus in Gemini forms a sextile to Neptune in Aries (exact) 1º26’

The Jupiter trine to Lilith is also exact this day. These are aspects that have been in a pretty close orb for a while, but will reach their peak today. Uranus sextile Neptune is visionary, creative, liberating, revolutionary, and rebellious ideas, dreams, hopes. Jupiter trine Lilith is also liberating, anarchist idealism, hope in an opposing belief, and a collective shift of the status quo.

Sunday, August 31

Mercury in Leo forms a trine to Chiron in Aries at 26º43’

You sprinkle something in a wound, it stings at first but quickly makes it better. Perhaps some healed scar tissue. Mercury in Leo is loud, Chiron in Aries is direct. No passive aggression here, telling it like it is, ripping the bandaid, etc.

Monday, September 1

Saturn retrograde reenters Pisces

Okay, think back to April/May, when Saturn was in the later degrees of Pisces last. What unfinished business did you leave there? You’ll have one last go at Saturn in Pisces before it leaves for good (for the next 30 years, that is). Use these couple of months to tie up loose ends, and get really clear about your energetic boundaries, spiritual discipline, and creative dedication. Saturn in Pisces can feel isolating, disconnected, dissociative, or energetically blocked; instead of resisting these when they arise, try to observe and understand what there is to learn.

Tuesday, September 2

Mercury enters Virgo

Mercury is exalted in Virgo, so if there has been lingering brain fog from that Mercury retrograde, now is likely a time for clarity. Use this energy for efficient, effective, clear strategizing. It’s great energy to make lists, fill out a calendar, respond to emails, meal prep, organize your finances, tidy up your space, make those appointments, etc.

Wednesday, September 3

Mercury in Virgo forms a square to Uranus in Gemini at 1º27’

This is a very creative energy. Mercury in Virgo can be extremely precise and detail oriented, while Uranus in Gemini can bring unexpected ideas to the surface. Together they make a great team, if the two can learn to balance between surrender and dominance. Uranus in Gemini will throw the most unexpected themes toward Mercury in Virgo, and if Mercury in Virgo stays aware, it can catch these themes and organize them in a way that makes both practical and aesthetic sense. If Mercury in Virgo stays too precious in its perfectionistic ideals, it could miss the beauty of Uranus’s chaos. This is the energy of finding a secret third way around a problem, a door you’d somehow missed before.

Thursday, September 4

Jupiter in Cancer forms a trine to the North Node in Pisces at 18º27’, Mars in Libra forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer at 18º36’

Jupiter trine to the North Node feels sweet, abundant, juicy, and exciting. Mars square Jupiter feels frustrating, limiting, and confusing. It’s like Mars in Libra is playing devil’s advocate to Jupiter in Cancer’s idealism…Jupiter in Cancer trine the North Node in Pisces feels like a moment of collective hope in a utopia of sorts, while Mars in Libra says “okay but here’s all the things that could go wrong and why that won’t work”….it’s kind of a buzz kill tbh.

Saturday, September 6

Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini at 1º27’

Reverse reverse….chaos since July 7 gets a rewind. Do over, double check, revisit. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the biggest changes in your life this year; where have you landed, and do you need to make any adjustments?

Sunday, September 7

FULL MOON, LUNAR ECLIPSE IN PISCES 15º22 AT 11:08 AM (PST)

Here we go, eclipse portal opens again. The last time we had an eclipse in Pisces was last September; though the nodes were still in Aries and Libra at that point. That makes this the first Pisces eclipse with the nodes actually in Pisces and Virgo. Right in the middle of Virgo season, and between two Virgo New Moons, this feels like a great full moon to SURRENDER. This Pisces/Virgo nodal axis is really challenging us to release our illusion of control and harsh grip on morality / judgement of others. We’re being pushed to the heart of things, and to recognize the humanity where it exists. Collective liberation, compassion, empathy, and community is growing. It’s a big “find your humanity” moment. As always with eclipses, drink plenty of water, get plenty of rest, and avoid too much activity if you can help it.

Friday, September 12

The Sun in Virgo forms a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer at 19º47’, Mercury in Virgo forms a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer at 19º52’

Sun sextile Jupiter feels like a community gathering, Mercury sextile Jupiter feels like organizing and shared belief. Perhaps a good day for events, parties, planning committees, or family meetings.

Saturday, September 13

Mercury Cazimi in Virgo at 20º55’

Hyper focus on your intentions, observe your moral impulses and obligations, make a plannnn. A Mercury Cazimi happens fairly often, in general it just marks a day of added clarity and enhanced communication. In the sign of Virgo, and near the South Node, we can expect a focus on wiping away the unnecessary details, clarity, order, and rules.

Monday, September 15

Venus in Leo forms a sextile to Mars in Libra at 25º51’

Another sextile, Venus in Leo gives some validation to Mars in Libra; you might have a contrary opinion, but you’ll find support for it. Venus in Leo is authentic and bold, while Mars in Libra says “I see you”…

Tuesday, September 16

Venus in Leo forms a trine to Chiron in Aries at 26º11’, Mars in Libra forms an opposition to Chiron in Aries at 26º11’

Another satisfying healing moment, trigger activated for the sake of understanding and nurturing. Chiron is working this season, bringing our unconscious beliefs and wounds up to the surface for recognition. In a time of tumult and confusion, it makes sense that so many buried wounds are surfacing. Try your best to see them clearly and honestly, and release all judgement or shame associated.

Wednesday, September 17

Mercury in Virgo forms an opposition to Saturn rx in Pisces at 28º46’

Mercury opposes Saturn rx, bringing potential mental blocks, frustrations, limitations, or halted plans. Perhaps what you had planned for and what you actually want turn into opposing things and you’re forced to reconsider. Perhaps what you’ve been working toward all this time isn’t quite what you’d expected. Whatever the case, try to stay patient, open, and adaptable today.

Thursday, September 18

Mercury enters Libra, Mercury forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries at 0º53’, Mercury in Libra forms a trine to Uranus in Gemini at 1º23’, then to Pluto in Aquarius at 1º30’

Grand air trine between Mercury, Uranus, and Pluto…powerful trine here alone, but with the opposition between Mercury and Saturn / Neptune, this creates a WILD kite shape! All of the outer planets involved, plus trickster, quick, creative Mercury… the focal point here is Saturn and Neptune. Kites are extremely potent shapes for dramatic change, creative growth, expansion, and opportunity. Uranus, Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune are all retrograde, while Mercury is direct. This means Mercury will have a massive impact on this configuration. The element of air is concerned with social issues, society, communication, and information. There will likely be very important, significant, and world-wide news this day, something unexpected, transformative, powerful and possibly hopeful. If not directly hopeful, it’s at least a day that shifts the trajectory of the collective paradigm. A fated, intentional, important day.

Friday, September 19

Venus enters Virgo

Venus is less happy in Virgo than Leo, in fact Venus is in its detriment in Virgo. That’s okay though, balance is always important, as Venus knows. After the overindulgence of Leo, Venus in Virgo brings frugalness, humility, service, and patience. Our relationships get refined, purified, and cleansed of any unhealthy lingering patterns.

Saturday, September 20

Venus in Virgo forms a square to Uranus in Gemini at 1º22’, the Sun in Virgo forms an opposition to Saturn in Pisces at 28º30’

The most potent aspect today will probably be the Sun’s opposition to Saturn, which will carry over tomorrow into the New Moon, where it will also oppose Neptune. I’ll talk more about that below. Venus’s square to Uranus is likely to bring some uncomfortable but necessary relational shifts, stirring up feelings to the surface that need to be addressed before moving forward. Remember that there is no space for control in love — these two are diametrically opposed concepts. Love is freedom, trust, surrender, acceptance.

Sunday, September 21

NEW MOON, SOLAR ECLIPSE IN VIRGO AT 29º05’ — 12:54 PM (PST)

A very VERY wild New Moon. Probably the most intense of the year. A solar eclipse that is within 1º of an opposition to both Saturn and Neptune…there are some hard and extremely necessary lessons we are learning as a collective. Be aware, be safe, drink water, don’t force anything, and if you can, try to observe with distance. Remember to breathe …

A solar eclipse marks a time of potent change…astronomically, eclipses happen at the Lunar Nodes (the points where the Moon’s orbit intersects the ecliptic). When the Moon passes over the South Node, or the part of the ecliptic between the Sun and Earth, we get a Solar eclipse, as the Moon appears to block the light of the sun as observed form Earth. Symbolically, this is an energetic vortex, a literal temporary blackout of our life sustaining light source. Eclipses happen every year, multiple times a year, and generally they mark the points of the year where we’ll experience the most activity. The energy is unpredictable and unstable, and typically shakes things up, moving the collective currents around into ways that challenge our perspectives and habits.

This particular New Moon / Solar eclipse is interesting because it will be forming a close opposition to Saturn and Neptune. Saturn and Neptune have been arguably the most significant archetypal influences over the past year, and will continue to be so for the coming year. This day and the surrounding weeks will likely be the climax point of the Saturn/Neptune energy, making the lessons from these planets especially clear.

Saturn and Neptune together are contradictory…on one hand hopeful, idealistic, motivated, and inspired, and on the other restrictive, dissociative, depressive, and stuck. These are slow moving planets, both literally and metaphorically. Saturn is the planet of time and patience, and Neptune is the planet of liminal spaces, forever lingering. This is showing us the importance of trusting in timing, valuing patience, and moving slowly but intentionally.

This eclipse is likely going to be aligned with old kingdoms dissolving while the foundations for brand new worlds are poured. The best thing you can do to work with this energy is surrender to the waves, allow the excess to melt away, and loosen your grip, but hold firm to what you know your heart feels.

VIRGO SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Where is your body? How do you fill each hour of your day? What are the structures you’ve found around time, and how do you feel about them? The most sacred space is the mundane: that which we have near to us, always. That which is so ritualized it becomes habit, unconscious patterning. This is what we hold closest to our hearts, clearly, this is what we prioritize most. The shadow side of the 6th house is binding, enslavement. Are you at the mercy of your obligations? Do you feel enslaved by a job? A habit? It’s time to take accountability; recognize the element of choice you have in any situation where you feel bound. What is the binding, actually? Health, of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual kind will all be significant this season. Prioritize nurturing, feeding, resting, and strengthening. The grand air trine is happening in your air houses…expect significant increase/clarity/focus in the realms of the social, intellectual, and communal. This could look like being thrown into a brand new, vast community, deepening your relationship with your closest friends/siblings, breaking away from unhealthy relationships, meeting a very significant person or partner, or perhaps discovering a new obsessive intellectual pursuit.

Taurus

Your inner child + artist is awakening this season with a passion you possibly have not felt in years. All the ways in which you’ve made yourself small or digestible can no longer be sustained. The eclipses are happening in your 5th and 11th house, so it’s also likely that you’ll be thrown into surprising new communities or social networks. Actual children could also be significant teachers for you this month. You are activating your pleasure, or at least getting a very up close and personal examination of your blocks around pleasure. The grand air trine is happening in your earth houses, so important for you to find extra time to ground, center, and organize. Your routines and health will be important, but mostly for the sake of creating rituals that help you feel stable, safe, and grounded. There could be added emphasis or expansion on your resources and/or career, too. It’s a season to embrace your inner child, while finding solid ground to build upon.

Gemini

Home! Your personal tree of life is front and center. Your roots are getting a total cleansing, your home and upbringing (possibly parents) are playing a significant role this month. Maybe you’re moving homes, or your parents are moving, or you’re finally releasing some deep rooted attachments to your past / upbringing. In the process, you’ll be left with greater clarity around your place in the world, your sense of belonging, and how your natural gifts and abilities can be assets to society. The grand air trine is happening in your fire houses; you’ll likely experience intense activation and energetic bursts of creativity, the desire to play, and to examine your capacity for/the ways you prioritize pleasure. Let your inner child / inner artist lead the way this season; this particular inner voice will guide you to the type of home that is most nurturing to your soul.

Cancer

Your immediate perception of reality is going through a massive shift this season, as are your existential philosophies, your spirituality, your communication patterns, and your capacity to think beyond what is immediately known. Perhaps you’re dealing with a big personal change, which encourages an individual paradigm shift. There is likely to be continued focus on your vocation, career, or what you feel is your calling in the world, as well as a focused understanding of your home and upbringing. The grand air trine is happening in your water houses, meaning your emotional attachments, psyche, intuition, and emotional body are going to be massively activated this season. Particularly, with Mercury and Mars in your 4th house, you’ll be getting extremely clear and brutally honest about familial and ancestral patterns that have perhaps been unconsciously keeping you bound. It’s time to allow yourself to feel everything you have avoided. Allow the water within you to be cleansed, by acknowledging the impurities that rise to the surface before discarding.

Leo

A big emphasis this season on responsibility, and accountability for ones own experience, resources, and values. The 2nd house is about money, but it would be reductive to stop there; the 2nd house also relates to our values, assets, needs, desires, security, and style. It is also about money, but it’s far more layered than “how we make money”. It’s about everything that money represents, and not only how we attain it, but how we feel about it, how we attract it, how we want it, and where we find it. This season is going to be an opportunity to make sure your values are aligned with your actions. You’re likely going to become very clear about what it is you actually want, and how exactly you plan to get it. This will come with a better understanding of the resources available to you, and an understanding of the resources you’ll need from others. The grand air trine is happening in your air houses, of intellect, social dynamics, friends, and partners. This means you can expect an added emphasis on your communication patterns, your habits of perception, and where your mental attention is directed. Where attention goes, your reality follows.

Virgo

This is a massive season for you. It is for everyone, but as a Virgo rising, you’ll be experiencing the Sun, the New Moons, the solar eclipse, Mercury, and Venus all through your 1st house of the body, the self, identity, and ego. The Full Moon will be happening in your 7th house of partners and the general “other”. Basically, this looks like a total ego-sweep. All the ways in which you identify and know yourself will likely come into question. Questions as small as, “Why have I always dressed this way?” to as big as, “Should I change absolutely everything about my life?” may arise. What is important to you and why? With the grand air trine happening in your earth houses, there will probably be a tone to your season of material security, career, resources, and health. This could look like pretty significant career changes, income changes, or just a complete re-prioritization of your values. There will be much insight into yourself gained through partnerships and interpersonal relationships this season. Try to be aware of the many potent mirrors that surround you.

Libra

Big ol endings for you. A season to rest, retreat, meditate and release unwanted psychic baggage. Certain unconscious cycles are nearing their close, and with it you may find yourself more fatigued or under the weather than usual. Listen to your body and take the time and nurturing you need. Understand that as some things exit your life, you are inevitably making space for what is more aligned. Try to surrender, nurture, heal, and rest to allow the psychic energy to flow through you in the way it needs to. The grand air trine is happening in your fire houses, which means whatever endings you experience truly are paving the way for a more authentic and aligned version of yourself. Mercury and Mars activate your 1st house, bringing a sense of clarity and inspiration to find the most authentic expression of you. Understand the difference between self-fullness and selfishness this season. It’s going to be important for you to find plenty of alone time, to get to know the new version of you that is just beginning to break from its cocoon.

Scorpio

It’s time to get really honest with yourself about the communities you surround yourself with and the role you play within them. In what ways have your social circles kept you bound? What role have you assumed in your friend groups or community spaces? Is this a role that feels aligned? Are you around people who support your most authentic self, or are you perhaps in circles that have certain outdated expectations of you? There are some endings here, with the grand air trine happening in your water houses, and an added emphasis on the 12th. What chapters need to be officially closed? Where have you been lingering, and what have you been holding onto because of some deep perceived emotional attachment? If there is any fear of abandonment, it’s time to examine honestly, and notice how it may be holding you back from placing necessary boundaries. The Full Moon / lunar eclipse in your 5th house is likely to activate a burst of creative inspiration and child-like wonder / pleasure. Let this be a light to guide you through potentially rocky emotional waters.

Sagittarius

The fruit from your personal tree of life is here to harvest; how does it taste? If you are unsatisfied with what you see for yourself in the world, now is the time to make some serious changes. Important to begin with the roots, and work upwards. If the fruit is unsatisfactory, how are the roots? Is any pruning necessary? Get honest with yourself about family dynamics, your upbringing, and any patterns you carry from parents or parental figures. If the legacy you are beginning to leave behind feels unaligned, what can you do to shift? It’s imperative that you use this energy to redirect your focus where needed. This is a harvesting time now, but it isn’t the last; simply a moment to assess your current trajectory. Remember that time is an illusion, and you do have access to your past and future self right now. Try to tap into these versions of yourself, and see where integration may be helpful. The grand air trine is happening in your air houses of social dynamics, partnerships, relationships, and intellectual affairs. Pay attention to the people you are surrounded by; what can you observe from these mirrors? Activation in your social circles in particular, and the 11th house is considered the house of good fortune, which means exciting opportunities may be on the horizon.

Capricorn

Your mind is being challenged, your philosophies expanded, and your spirituality cleansed. In what ways are you holding onto outdated belief systems that are possibly keeping you bound? With the New Moons and solar eclipse happening in your 9th house, this may be a time to completely wash away a belief system you’ve been clinging to for a sense of self or security. As eclipse season shakes up your ideas of reality, spirituality, and life itself, allow yourself to dissolve in the process, and see where the currents take you. You’re experiencing an important paradigm shift, that is aligning you onto a new path of your choice. It’s important to take ownership of this direction, and to recognize your own role in your destiny. Think co-creation, rather than total autonomy or pre-destination. Take what is thrown at you and receive, while moving with the energy through your body, like a divine partner dance. The grand air trine is happening in your earth houses, so an added big emphasis this month on your career, resources, health, and ideas of security.

Aquarius

All that is hidden becomes known, in your own psyche and in the shadows of your partners, romantic or otherwise. Attachment patterns cleansed, the ways in which fear motivates your relationships becomes apparent, and several potent opportunities to find more autonomy and freedom in your choices, values, and time. This may be a time to examine any shared resources; themes of divorce, inheritance through death, marriage, moving in with a partner, etc could all be relevant this month. You are being directed to find an expanded sense of authority with your experience. If you have found yourself dependent on others to make your decisions, or defaulted to a passive role in relationships, now is the time to put your own values and ideals forward. The grand air trine is happening in your fire houses, meaning your inner fire is being ignited, sparking your passions, your desires, and your creativity. Allow this light to guide you through any confusing psychic / mental dynamics. Your heart is your personal connection to divinity and freedom.

Pisces

Partnerships, relationships, projections, and your feelings toward the “other” are the highlight this season. This could be a time for ending relationships that no longer feel aligned, or perhaps just finally releasing unrealistic expectations of others, or calling back the projections you’ve placed onto others, and recognizing these patterns as your own to heal. You’ll understand your specific role in partnerships, what feels supportive and positive vs what feels toxic and binding. It’s a great season to step into your heart and your self, and become grounded within your own body and experience. The grand air trine is happening in your water houses of emotional attachments and sensitivities, with a particular emphasis on your 8th house of shared resources, psychic awareness, and the hidden emotional currents beneath all relationships. Take accountability, responsibility, and direct your life toward what feels most authentic to your heart. Difficult but important and rewarding boundaries may be needed.

VIRGO SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Jenna; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Virgo season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

Journal Prompt: Integration, Letters to Self

We’re going to write 4 letters with this prompt, so get your pen and paper ready, and create a space that feels sacred, cleansed, and safe. Do some breath work and meditation to get grounded beforehand, and maybe light a candle or brew some tea. We’re connecting with our current, past, and future selves.

Letter #1: Pick an age from your past that feels especially sensitive. Tap into that version of you, and write a letter to your current self from that place, expressing any fears, hopes, dreams, or concerns that come to mind. Try, if you can, to write in the style of handwriting you may have used at that age.

Letter #2: Now, from your current self, write a letter to that past self. Explain how you got to where you are now, and ease any anxiety that version of you may have felt. You survived, didn’t you? Let them know exactly how you did it. List anything you’re proud of or grateful for, and let them know of any dreams that came to pass or did not.

Letter #3: Next, write a letter from your current self to your future self (any age that feels applicable). Ask them questions, fill them in about your life, list your hopes, dreams and fears for them.

Letter #4: Finally, write a letter from that future self to yourself now. What do they want you to know? Really try to connect with this version of yourself, and see what insight they have to offer.

Once complete, read all of these letters back in order, and see what wisdom you have to gain from yourself.

COVEN SPOTLIGHT: TERESA URREA

Coven is a podcast devoted to communing with our dream coven by bringing to light the lost stories of enigmatic figures throughout history whose lives echo the complex archetype of the witch. In each episode, we take turns selecting a figure to feature, and the other co-host performs a blind natal chart reading before their identity is revealed. Together, we explore how their life, legacy, and astrology illuminate the witch’s ever-shifting form

In Episode 9 of Season 2, we featured Teresa Urrea: healer, mystic, revolutionary, and, according to some, the most dangerous woman in Mexico.

Born on October 15, 1873, in Ocoroni, Sinaloa, Teresa (known as Teresita) had a Libra Sun in the 12th house with a Scorpio rising, giving her an aura of mystery, spiritual depth, and guarded intensity. Her Venus–Jupiter conjunction in Virgo, recently echoed by the Venus–Jupiter conjunction we experienced in Cancer during Leo season, speaks to her role as a healer and reformer whose gifts were directed toward service, health, and the upliftment of her community.

Teresa apprenticed for a Yaqui curandera and began learning herbal medicine and midwifery as a teenager. At 15, she entered into a cataleptic state that lasted 14 days, a deathlike trance from which she awoke with visions, prophecies, and the capacity to heal. Her first miracle came when she laid hands on a young girl with a shortened leg, who then walked without crutches. Word spread quickly: her family’s ranch became a pilgrimage site where hundreds, sometimes thousands, gathered daily for healing.

Teresa healed with earth, herbs, saliva, and sometimes blood, insisting that her abilities were a divine gift never to be sold. She mixed Catholic prayers with Indigenous practices, blending cosmologies in what might be called integral hermeneutics, dissolving barriers between worlds. The government accused her of witchcraft and sedition, and newspapers alternately exalted her as “La Santa de Cabora” and derided her as the “Nogales Witch.” For Porfirio Díaz, the dictator of Mexico, she was simply “the most dangerous girl in Mexico.”

Despite her insistence on nonviolent resistance, her name became a battle cry for Indigenous uprisings against land theft and oppression. Rebels shouted “¡Viva la Santa Teresa!” as they fought federal forces, and her influence grew so threatening that in 1892, at just 19 years old, she was exiled from Mexico under the watch of 500 soldiers. She carried her healing north to Arizona, Texas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, treating both the poor and the powerful. Wherever she went, hundreds lined up each day for her touch.

Astrologically, her chart reveals this double-bind: Moon–Uranus in Leo made her a disruptive public figure, while her Venus–Jupiter conjunction in Virgo marked her as a servant of the people, a healer whose charisma was tethered to humility. With Saturn and Mars in Capricorn, her willpower was formidable, allowing her to endure exile, assassination attempts, and harassment while never ceasing her work. She embodied the paradox of Virgo: humble and reserved, yet radically transformative through acts of service.

Teresa Urrea was Virgo energy incarnate: humble, service-oriented, precise in her healing, and yet revolutionary in the quietest, most dangerous way. She teaches us that service itself can be radical, that healing can be rebellion, and that the most dangerous woman in Mexico was also its most devoted healer.

Watch the full episode here: Coven - Season 2, Episode 9: Teresa Urrea

VIRGO SZN TOOLBOX

This section is your energetic toolbox: tips and tricks to work with the archetypal signatures of this Virgo season.

On August 22, the sun moves into Virgo, the sign of devotion, clarity, and refinement. Virgo, often associated with Persephone and the underworld, represents a time of inner reflection and preparation — facing judgments for our actions taken since the Spring equinox. Virgo season ushers us into Libra season, when fall begins, signaling less light and more cold. Virgo season invites us to tend to the details that sustain our lives, to care for our bodies and environments, and to bring sacred attention to the ordinary. It’s a time for healing, service, and reconnecting with the rituals that keep us whole.

Daily Rituals

Virgo thrives on routine. Create a morning or evening ritual — tea, journaling, stretching — that grounds your days in steadiness.

Medicinal Herbs

Virgo is tied to herbal medicine and natural remedies. Brew chamomile, lavender, or mint tea to honor the body’s wisdom and call in calm.

Declutter

Virgo season supports clarity. Choose one small area — a drawer, a desk, a shelf — to clear out each week. Release what no longer serves you.

Attention to Detail

Practice slowing down and noticing — the pattern of leaves, the taste of your food, the words you write. Virgo teaches that presence is a prayer.

Nature Walks

Virgo is an earth sign. Go outside, notice the subtle shifts of the season, and let the ground beneath your feet bring you back to center.

Breath & Release

Try breath work or gentle yoga that emphasizes twists and forward folds, helping you process, digest, and let go.

MOON LOG

The most personal of the celestial bodies - what is the moon up to this month?

New Moon in Virgo – Friday, August 22nd

The new moon in Virgo arrives the same day the sun moves into Virgo, marking a powerful reset. At this lunation, plant intentions around health, healing, and the rituals that sustain you. Virgo calls us to refine, to purify, and to honor the sacred in small details. Begin new practices that support your well-being and align your daily life with devotion to what matters most.

Waxing Crescent Moon in Libra – Tuesday, August 26th

As the moon grows in Libra, it reflects the need for harmony and balance. This is a time to bring care to your relationships and seek beauty in your surroundings. Libra reminds us that our healing is not just personal but relational. Small gestures of kindness and diplomacy now set the stage for smoother paths ahead.

First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius – Saturday, August 30th

The first quarter moon in Sagittarius invites boldness. Virgo’s careful planning now meets Sagittarian fire, pushing you to step out of hesitation and move forward. This is a time to trust your vision, take risks, and let curiosity fuel your next steps. Momentum builds when faith and effort meet.

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Capricorn – Wednesday, September 3rd

As the moon brightens in Capricorn, discipline and structure take the spotlight. Virgo’s focus on detail is supported here by Capricorn’s long-term perspective. Refine your goals, stick to steady routines, and honor the power of patience. What you’re building now has the potential to last.

Full Moon + Lunar Eclipse in Pisces – Sunday, September 7th

This full moon and lunar eclipse in Pisces opens a portal of endings and revelations. Where Virgo seeks order, Pisces dissolves boundaries, reminding us of the mystery we cannot control. This eclipse highlights dreams, intuition, and the longing to surrender. Release what no longer serves, and allow yourself to be moved by forces greater than your own will.

Disseminating Moon in Taurus – Wednesday, September 10th

The disseminating moon in Taurus brings grounding after the intensity of the eclipse. This is a time to integrate what you’ve learned through your senses and your body. Taurus encourages slowness, gratitude, and connection to what nourishes you. Share your insights with others in practical, steady ways.

Last Quarter Moon in Gemini – Sunday, September 14th

The last quarter moon in Gemini invites reflection and conversation. This is a moment to let go of outdated thoughts, stories, or narratives that no longer serve your growth. Gemini offers adaptability: release rigidity, and let curiosity reopen your perspective. What mental clutter can you clear to create space for clarity?

Balsamic Moon in Leo – Wednesday, September 17th

The balsamic moon in Leo closes Virgo season with quiet creativity and warmth. This is a time to rest, recharge, and gently reconnect with joy. Give yourself permission to be playful in subtle ways, and prepare for the new cycle by tending your inner flame.

New Moon + Solar Eclipse in Virgo – Sunday, September 21st

Virgo season ends with another powerful eclipse, this time a solar eclipse in Virgo. This lunation marks profound beginnings disguised as endings. Eclipses bring unpredictability and transformation, and in Virgo, the changes may come through your daily life, health, or habits. Trust that what falls away is making room for greater alignment. Begin again with reverence for the details that sustain your wholeness.

INTENTIONAL RECIPE: Miracle Healing Broth

Virgo season is a time for cleansing, grounding, and returning to the essentials that nourish body and spirit. This broth, adapted from Angela Liddon’s recipe, is simple yet powerful—a soothing elixir to support digestion, immunity, and renewal. Sip it warm as a daily ritual or whenever you need to restore balance.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon virgin coconut oil

• 1 ½ cups diced onion

• 6 medium–large cloves garlic, grated on a microplane

• 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger

• ½ teaspoon ground turmeric, or to taste

• 1 (14-ounce / 400 ml) can light coconut milk

• ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt, or to taste

• ⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste

• Up to ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste

• ½ teaspoon fresh lemon juice, or to taste

Directions:

In a medium pot, melt the coconut oil over low–medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and ginger, stirring to combine. Sauté for about 5 minutes, or until the onion softens.

Stir in the turmeric, then add the coconut milk. Bring to a low simmer over medium–high heat. Season with salt, black pepper, cayenne, and lemon juice to taste. Simmer for 3–4 minutes, or longer if desired.

Set a fine mesh sieve over a bowl and carefully pour the broth through. Use the back of a spoon to gently press the solids and release a little more broth. Compost the solids.

Pour the broth into one or two mugs and sip warm. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days, or freeze for 1–2 months. To reheat, whisk gently in a small pot over medium heat until warmed through.

Virgo season reminds us that healing often begins with small, intentional acts of care. Let this broth be your reminder that nourishment is medicine.

That’s all for this month! Sending peace, support, inspiration, and clarity for your month ahead. See you in Libra Season!

Love,

Jenna and Coco

Welcome Back <3

This is your monthly guide to Leo Season 2025.

Happy Leo season! We’re in the peak of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, with the energy of the Sun, the Lion, and fixed fire. This Leo season, like the rest of this year, is intense. Venus and Jupiter dance together through Cancer, while Mercury retrogrades around the Sun in Leo, and Mars faces off with Saturn and Neptune…we can expect nothing short of real-life reality TV. There are not a lot of major transtis happening this season, but the ones that do show up are SERIOUS about it. Our hearts are likely going to be tested, our communities strengthened, and our values clarified. Besides the drama, Leo is known for integrity, courage, and authentic expression. This season is going to ask us to zero in on our intentions, connect with our individual and collective heart, and figure out what is worth fighting for. How is your own inner light begging to be seen? In what unique ways can you honor the voice inside that desperately wants you to express? Do you have wounds around your expression and visibility? Our authentic expression is so important, especially at a time when silence is used as a weapon.

This newsletter contains a word of the season, significant transits, horoscopes, a journal prompt, a Coven Podcast spotlight, toolbox, moon log, intentional recipe, and inspired playlist. Written by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez, edited by Josh Brumley.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

EFFULGENCE

noun

1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

A brilliant radiance or splendor that streams forth from within…Effulgence is brightness taken to the extreme. You may be dazzled by it, stunned by it, or even overcome by it. Usually used to refer to the sun or some other mega-star, but can also be used more figuratively.

LEO SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Tuesday, July 22

The Sun moves into Leo, now forming a sextile with Uranus in Gemini at 0º38’

Right at the peak of Summer, as the Sun is arriving home, it turns and gives Uranus in Gemini a quick, “I’m watching you,” as it walks in the door. Let the games begin.

Wednesday, July 23

Venus in Gemini forms a square with Mars in Virgo at 21º01’

As Mars nears the South Node, Venus and Mars will maintain their square, moving 90º apart from one another for a few days. Expect some friction, perhaps tension during this transit. Venus in Gemini wants to fuck around and find out, which is anathema to Mars in Virgo, who wants to sit in the war room and get its plan of action figured out. Aggressive perfectionism meets trial and error, forced acceptance of anything short of perfection. This is a time to examine our fears of both failure and commitment, while remaining open to new pathways forward. Playful, yet efficient.

Thursday, July 24th

NEW MOON IN LEO AT 2º08’ 12:12 PM (PST), The Sun (and Moon) in Leo form a trine with Saturn in Aries at 1º49’, Sun (and Moon) in Leo form a trine with Neptune in Aries at 2º04’, Sun (and Moon) in Leo form an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius at 2º36’

OKAY. The New Moon is opposing Pluto WHILE trining Saturn AND Neptune and ALSO sextiling Uranus - each within the first 2 degree points of its current sign. Typically I would see this as a “fresh start, no bullshit” kind of transit, but pretty much everything is retrograde at the moment (Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto), so maybe a little bullshit. Mostly, i think this is the energy of “new life!!!” but don’t expect it to go exactly how you plan. A good example - you get your dream job offer, and it’s not at all what you’d imagined. It becomes another stepping stone and big lesson, and through this you understand what your heart ACTUALLY wants…still just as significant to your story as you hoped, but in a way you had not expected and would not have been able to see clearly before.

Monday, July 28th

Venus in Gemini forms a sextile with Chiron in Aries at 27º09’

Get curious over critical, Venus in Gemini wants to explore and experiment, you might find some hidden wounds as you lift the stones in your psyche you’ve never seen beneath.

Thursday, July 31

Venus moves into Cancer, The Sun forms a conjunction with Mercury in Leo at 9º00’

Mercury Cazimi - Mercury is in Leo (home of the Sun) while it is conjunct the Sun — this is dramatic. TMZ, big reveal, drama, secrets out.

Venus in cancer is doting, nurturing, adoring and boundless - a cozy comfy, safe love. Protective and communal, family oriented and attached. Emotional attachments are top priority value for Venus in Cancer.

Overall, big news day.

Friday, August 1

Venus in Cancer forms a square with Saturn in Aries at 1º37’, Venus in Cancer forms a square with Neptune in Aries at 1º58’

Cozy, safe, protective Venus faces off with defensive, angry, vengeful Saturn rx in Aries, then to the disillusioned Neputne rx in Aries…the drammmaaa gets catty. Venus in Cancer will never give up on what or who she loves.

Thursday, August 7

Mars moves into Libra

Devils advocate, justice, and morality. Emotions take a backseat to reason, this is the placement of lawyers. Mars in Libra is fighting with words and rules as opposed to direct attacks. Mars is in its fall in Libra, which means that rather than the usual direct, impulsive attack of Aries, Mars in Libra is patient, observant, cautious and fair.

Friday, August 8

Mars in Libra forms a trine with Uranus in Gemini 1º07’, Mars in Libra forms an opposition with Saturn in Aries 1º20’

Forceful justice? Critical thinking? Productive arguments? Breakthroughs through logic and reason? There’s a fight between impulse and rationality - and there’s mutual reception with Mars and Saturn (Mars is in Libra, the sign of exaltation for Saturn, while Saturn is in Aries, the home of Mars). So they’re fighting but they are also kind of getting along. Like when the enemies become besties because they have another mutual enemy.

Saturday, August 9

FULL MOON IN AQUARIUS AT 16º59’ 12:55 AM (PST), Mars in Libra forms an opposition to Neptune in Aries at 1º50’

This Full moon is closely t-squaring (though not exact) Lilith in Scorpio, and the traditional ruler of this Full Moon (Saturn) will still be opposing Mars (still in that mutual reception tho). Full Moon is also close to Pluto. The modern ruler of the full moon is Uranus who just recently entered Gemini. Tense day, ngl.

This is the energy of stirring the pot. It’s kind of the energy of a fight, but the underdog comes out on top. It’s a public brawl, and the stronger heart has the advantage. Collective awareness, class consciousness, etc. Illuminating secrets and not fearing the consequences.

Sunday, August 10

Mercury stations direct in Leo at 4º15’, Mars in Libra forms a trine with Pluto in Aquarius at 2º12’

And the mask melts into the truth. The season wraps and life moves on. Mars trine Pluto is cutting and intentional. Journalism will be doing some important work this month.

Monday, August 11

Saturn in Aries forms a sextile to Uranus in Gemini at 1º12’, Venus forms a conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer at 14º03’

The Saturn-Uranus sextile that has been forming for a few weeks becomes exact today, on the same day as Venus Jupiter conjunction.

Relationship focus expanded! Magnified relational activity, perhaps some feeeel good things, especially centered around community care and the home and emotional attachments. Releasing unhealthy attachments, clearing space and finding gratitude. Also a good art day.

Thursday, August 14

Mercury in Leo forms a sextile with Mars in Libra at 5º04’

These two will be moving together in a sextile for a few days; there’s passion to get shit done that MATTERS, from a place of reason.

Saturday, August 16

Venus in Cancer forms a trine with the North Node in Pisces at 19º26’

Do you care yet? This is some guidance in the realm of family, community, empathy, and support systems. Intentional, fated moments of connection, powerful introductions and supportive realignments. We’re coming back into our bodies, allowing ourselves to feeel.

Tuesday, August 19

The Sun in Leo forms a trine with Chiron in Aries at 26º59’

We’re kind of playing with fire here - putting pressure on an old burn scar, etc. What kinds of wounds does your light illuminate? The Sun shines the light on the places that never quite healed…

LEO SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Play, let yourself experience pleasure, come back to your heart this season. You are getting really clear about what you value at home, what you need from a sanctuary to feel truly healed and protected, and what you need from others, emotionally. As you get clear about your own heart, the hearts that you attract will shift in response. There may be a significant person in your life this season who triggers a deeper analysis of your own psyche and the ways you have previously identified; rather than allowing this to completely unground you or inspire defensiveness, try to take on the role of observer, and notice what this person has found that you possibly couldn’t see before. The Full Moon will illuminate your desire to be seen and the ways in which this has either been celebrated or hidden in your own life story.

Taurus

The focus on your roots this season. Your deepest emotional attachments are revealed, and you’re getting an opportunity to reexamine your responses to them. In what ways have you been unconsciously playing out the patterns of your childhood? There is possibly an added emphasis on your siblings, or friends that feel like siblings, and their emphasis on your psychic patterns of perception, as well. You’ll be getting a lot of clarity around your habits, around all of the unconscious blocks you’ve developed through the years, and anywhere you may feel “bound”. This could be an intensely liberating season for you, if approached with intention and compassion. Likely to stir up some feelings of frustration and even rage, remind yourself that there are lessons to be found through it all. Release the shame and turn toward that which feels genuinely just good.

Gemini

Uranus now in your 1st house, the Sun and Mercury retrograde through your 3rd house, and the Full Moon in the 9th, this season is helping to completely reshape your mind. All of those intuitive moments of habits and reaction are being observed with microscopic intensity. You’re experiencing an unravelling, of sorts. Jupiter and Venus in your 2nd house might bring some hard earned rewards, at long last. The Full Moon in your 9th house wants you to break from the known and expand into the possibility of new horizons. What sort of life would you explore, if you just could? Allow yourself to dream this season, break the barriers in your psyche of what is possible. Dissolve into curiosity, and defend what feels GOOD.

Cancer

Gather your resources, collect your materials, asses your possessions and get honest about what matters. Your sense of self and your perspective of your own identity is completely expanding while Jupiter ventures through your 1st house. Venus there too seems like a sweet moment of celebration for YOU. There will probably be some familial tensions, a little strain between what you see and want for yourself moving forward, vs what your family might still expect from you. You’re learning how to honor your roots, while severing ties that keep you bound to versions of yourself you’ve outgrown. The Full Moon is shining a light on resources from others VS independent resources, and this could be physical (money) or emotional (generational trauma / psychic gifts). Whatever the case, there seems to be a pretty big emphasis on resources, values, and the ways in which these are accumulated in your life.

Leo

It’s your timmmeeeee; the light is on your expression, your calling to be seen, your feelings of inadequacy, and any shame you hold around being seen. It’s a season to boldly embrace your light and to do something about it. Disrupt your unconscious thought habits, bring awareness to your cycles of intuitive action. You have an opportunity this season to cut off all the excess, to get directly to the core of your heart. Where is it leading you? The New Moon in your 1st house is an extremely powerful, potent new chapter for you, probably surrounding a massive reflection of years passed. Layers upon layers of healing that will finally become apparent, and provide you with an opportunity to see clearly, nurture, and move on at last. As all that you know yourself to be unravels, shifts, and aligns, your world view shifts along with it. Find ways to stay grounded as much as possible this season, and don’t be afraid to call on support as needed.

Virgo

All that was hidden becomes known, anything buried is uncovered, and you’re given the opportunity to process all that you have been unconsciously holding. With the Sun and Mercury illuminating your 12th house, Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 8th, and the Full Moon + Pluto in your 6th, this season is likely to be somewhat intense for you. It’s like you found a time capsule beneath an old creaky floorboard; this season represents you dusting it off and opening it up. Simultaneously exciting, a little scary, healing, nostalgic, and sad. Venus and Jupiter are venturing through your 11th house though, of fortune, dreams, and friends, which means you’ll likely find yourself surrounded by an expanded community of aligned, supportive, and loving people. Keep a particular watch your finances this season, could be a good idea to hold to a strict budget, if even just for a month.

Libra

You are realigning yourself with the communities and places that are the most aligned for you. This could be a big shift of a season, with romantic partners, jobs, friends, etc. Take extra care of your body, prioritize what feels pleasurable, allow yourself to prioritize what feels good to you, regardless of how that may be perceived externally. It’s a season for you to get back into your body, to start to feel your own needs, and to find ways to meet them. You’re finding your most aligned place in the world, understanding new ways to share your gifts with society, and perhaps shifting many external elements of your life around. It’s a good season to try new things, find yourself in unfamiliar places, and stay open to your curiosity.

Scorpio

You’re at a crossroads of a new path in your life. Either you’ve finally allowed your authenticity to win, and you’re shaping your life around it, or you’re reaching a breaking point of understanding that your authenticity needs to be released, and you’re at last allowing the outdated structures to crumble around you. Whatever the case the New and Full Moons this season will be significant for you, illuminating important insights about your roots in order to clear the skies for new branches. You may find yourself traveling more, enjoying and exploring cultures foreign to you, learning new wisdom traditions, or perhaps find yourself in front of large crowds, public speaking, or publishing some kind of writing. With Mars going through your 12th house, take all the rest you are presented with, allow yourself to process the changes fully, and don’t force your body into anything.

Sagittarius

The dawn is just beginning to rise over a land that is far more vast than you ever could have imagined. Allow yourself to be still this season and observe. Notice how it feels in your body to see just how far it goes. The sun drips across the landscape like gold oil, and your heart is warmed with it. You’re being refined, and with it, you’ll start to feel your own pleasure again, and with that, you’ll become really clear about who inspires it in you. Would be a good idea to keep a journal close this season, as you’ll likely be receiving insights in flashes and impulses to investigate new ideas. Partners in your life may also inspire a new venture for you to explore; keep your heart and your options open.

Capricorn

Something from the depths is stirred awake. You’re examining your attachment patterns with a microscope, and noticing how they bleed out into every aspect of your life. In what ways does your upbringing influence your patterns of intimacy influence the way you show up in the world? There will likely be a major relationship step taken around the Venus-Jupiter conjunction, happening in your 7th house of partnerships. This could be taking the next steps in an existing relationship, starting something new and promising, or perhaps finding the courage to leave behind something that hasn’t felt right for a while. Mars is bringing the fire to your 10th house of vocation, reputation, and career. Let this move you forward with passion, but don’t get too swept away in the currents. The Full Moon will be illuminating your relationship to resources - money in or money out, what does it mean to you, beneath it all?

Aquarius

Partnerrrrrrssssss - the focus for you this season is big on your relationships. The ways in which you connect with the world around you are made front and center. Any unconscious patterns become conscious, and you may have important realizations about the ways you submit to the roles that you perceive are expected of you. Allow this to be a moment of liberation, and further alignment with your fundamental heart. Also, your mundane life may start to feel more enchanted, as you expand your perception of your daily reality. Or, perhaps, you become aware of the ways in which you feel bound by your unconscious habits, and feel inspired to find more magic within this reality. Whatever the case, habits are pausing, cycles are being interrupted, and patterns are shifting. You can expect your perspectives to be challenged from all angles.

Pisces

Unwind, unravel, excavate and release any expectations. This is a season to restructure your schedule — what have you been filling your time with that you don’t even enjoy anymore? What part of you feels obligated, and why? These are the questions for you to sit with this month. What would happen if you prioritized your pleasure? Your joy? There may be tension surrounding your resources this month, perhaps a push-pull between your own independent resources and those that you share or receive from others. Is it time to find more autonomy? The Full Moon is illuminating your 12th house, signifying the end of a cycle of some kind. What transformative chapter are you closing out right now? What are the major lessons you’ve learned? What are you bringing with you into the next?

LEO SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Josh Brumley, Ely Klem and Pam Ellick; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Leo season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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Welcome Back!

This is your monthly guide to Cancer Season 2025.

Happy Summer Solstice! We're diving headfirst into what might be the most revolutionary and emotionally charged period of the year. As we cross the threshold into Cancer season with the weekend's Solstice, we're entering the energetic Full Moon / climax period of the year. This isn't your typical gentle Cancer season of quiet beach days and family barbecues (though there may be plenty of that too). With Uranus preparing to shake up everything we thought we knew, Jupiter amplifying our capacity for community care, and a New Moon that's practically begging us to manifest something meaningful for the collective, we're being called to reevaluate every aspect of our lives.

It’s time to get loud about what matters, to trust our own voices, and to remember that our internal work is inseparable from our collective liberation. It’s also important to remember that your community consists of the people around you, not the plethora of names and faces on your socials. Go outside, meet your neighbors, have people over for dinner, organize, plan, and actually take the risks you’ve been considering for years. More than ever, we need to feel deeply connected and unified. Know that one of the most powerful ways to fight is by boldly following your heart, and remember that joy, rest, celebration, art, hope, and inspiration are all active acts of resistance against a paradigm that encourages fear, division, and powerlessness.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

APOKALYPSIS

noun

Yes, this is where the word “apocalypse” derives from, but the etymology isn’t nearly as destructive and dark as its recent descendant would have us believe.

“The Greek apokalupsis comes from the verb apokalupto (“to reveal”) and the suffix -sis, which denote actions. In its own turn, apokalupto comes from apo- (“away, off”) and the verb kalupto (“to cover”). So all in all, apokalupsis is the action that lays something bare by removing the cover off it.” - Eleftherios Tserkezis

This refers to a revealing, or an uncovering of truth.

CANCER SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Friday June 20th:

The Sun moves into Cancer

Welcoming the Summer Solstice, and Cardinal Water, Cancer is the sign for beach days and waterfalls and pool parties and barbecues and family reunions and community gatherings. It’s like the Full Moon of the year. Similar to the energy of a Full Moon, we can expect the solstice to be a point of high activity and intense emotions. With the Sun in Cancer, we're reminded that caring for others begins with caring for ourselves, and that emotional intelligence is just as valuable as any other skill we possess. This Solstice in particular comes at a time of already busy, revolutionary astrology. Think of now through August as the peak, or climax of the year, energetically.

Saturday June 21st:

Mercury in Cancer makes a trine to the North Node in Pisces 22º11’

Intuitive communication, guided perspectives, emotional messages, leaning into the unknown, like a mental trust fall. Probably a good time to send that email, apply for the job, have the important meeting, make the big announcement, etc. Trust the wisdom that comes from your heart-mind rather than overthinking every decision.

Sunday June 22nd:

Mars in Virgo makes a sextile to Jupiter in Cancer 02º51, and the Sun in Cancer makes a square to Saturn in Aries 01º35’

Mars making a sextile to Jupiter is focused intention, a plan to work toward the big picture, intentional action toward a big dream. The Sun squaring Saturn is dissonance between our attachments and our autonomy - where is our authority? To what are we allowing power over our actions?

Monday June 23rd:

The Sun in Cancer makes a square to Neptune in Aries 02º08’

Neptune's fog rolls in, making it harder to distinguish between what we want and what we think we should want. Rather than fighting this confusion, use it as an opportunity to question the stories you tell yourself about who you are. Pulling focus to the illusions of self — who are we without our communities? Let this work toward dissolving our rugged individualism, and begin strengthening our tribes.

Tuesday June 24th:

The Sun makes a conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer (Jupiter Cazimi) 3º22’

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and today it is joined by the Sun, illuminating themes of community care, expanded nurturing, ancestral remembering, and the vast ocean of our emotional attachments. A Cazimi occurs when a planet is within 17 minutes of the Sun, creating a "heart of the Sun" moment that purifies and amplifies the planet’s gifts. With Jupiter in Cancer, this means your capacity for nurturing and emotional wisdom is being divinely activated. How can we further align ourselves with our communities? Where do we uniquely shine, and how does it help to mend the gaps in our collective net? What is slipping through the cracks, and how can you provide unique support? Pay attention to opportunities to mentor others or to receive guidance from those who've walked this path before you.

Wednesday June 25th:

NEW MOON IN CANCER, 4º07’ at 3:31AM PST, and New Moon makes a sextile to Mars in Virgo

This New Moon is almost exactly conjunct Jupiter, and sextile to Mars in Virgo, making it a fantastic Moon to work with when it comes to intention setting and manifestation. Specifically, this is a great New Moon to work with community centered intentions; manifesting from a place of care, of bringing something into the world with the intention to help the world. If your manifestations are rooted in the greater good, you’ll be unstoppable with this New Moon. This is not a New Moon for self-focused manifestations. What are you birthing into existence? What gift do you want to offer the world? Mother Mary energy….set your intentions with both your heart and your hands ready to do the work.

Thursday, June 26th:

Mercury in Cancer makes a sextile to Uranus in Taurus 29º28’ and Mercury enters Leo

Mercury in Leo is LOUD, Mercury sextile Uranus is also loud, it’s kind of a loud day. Mercury in Leo makes demands, expresses via microphones and megaphones, sees the world as a stage, and boldly trusts in its own unique perspective. Your ideas deserve to be heard, and your perspective matters. Don't dim your light to make others comfortable.

Friday, June 27th:

Mercury in Leo makes a trine to Saturn in Aries 1º44’

A day to trust yourself, to take the leap from a grounded yet bold place of passion, self love, determination and resilience. This is not a day to listen to ANYONE’S perspective but your own. A day to connect with your heart, your inner authority, your inner motivation. Speak your truth, be brave, be loud. Trust your instincts and speak with the conviction of someone who knows their worth.

Saturday, June 28th:

Mercury in Leo makes a trine to Neptune in Aries 2º9’

What if your life was an ongoing piece of art? What would this part in the story be? This corner of the painting? This moment of the song? Channel your light into some kind of artistic expression, allow yourself to be seen, and get creative. Your words can be medicine today, your art can be prayer, your very presence can be a gift to the world.

Sunday, June 29th:

Mercury in Leo makes an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius 3º10’

So many bold declarations this week - Mercury opposing Pluto wants to say the quiet part out loud, especially Mercury in Leo. Information leaks, and it’s dramatic, possibly even performative. Think TMZ, paparazzi energy.

Wednesday, July 2nd:

The Sun in Cancer makes a trine to Lilith in Scorpio 10º50’

Emboldened, encouraged. Feeling empowered to do the risky thing regardless of how it might be received or perceived. The Sun in Cancer's nurturing light creates safety for these shadow aspects to emerge and be integrated. This is a day to reclaim your power, especially in areas where you've been silenced or shamed.

Friday, July 4th:

Venus makes a conjunction to Uranus in Taurus 29º52’, Neptune stations Retrograde in Aries 2º10’, Venus enters Gemini

Right before Uranus leaves Taurus, it’s met with the careful, considerate, and nurturing Venus in Taurus. Relationships are likely to be met with unexpected surprises — perhaps a spark of true love or a sudden realization of a desire for freedom. Either way, this energy is intriguing, captivating, and shocking. Venus ingresses to her new home shortly after, leaving her comfort zone in Taurus, for the curious, playful, and flirty Gemini, suggesting that the best way to handle any relationship surprises is with curiosity rather than attachment. Neptune stationing retrograde begins to reveal bits of truth behind certain illusions or facades we’ve fallen prey to.

Sunday, July 6th:

Venus in Gemini makes a sextile to Saturn in Aries 1º’53, Venus in Gemini makes a sextile to Neptune in Aries 2º10’, Mars in Virgo makes a sextile to Lilith in Scorpio 11º22’

Venus enters Gemini and immediately gets to work. She forms a sextile with both Saturn and Neptune, while Mars sextiles Lilith. A lot of sextile aspects this season - think of this aspect like the energy of a crescent moon, or the planet Venus. Subtle, but powerful, often overlooked, but always influencing the undercurrents. Today, the sextiles are spicing up the energy a bit, introducing ~manageable~ chaos, and an insatiable curiosity to dive a little deeper. This is a day for subtle but significant shifts in how you relate to others and yourself. Pay attention to the quiet opportunities that present themselves, as they may be more powerful than the loud, obvious ones.

Monday, July 7th:

Uranus enters Gemini, Venus in Gemini makes a trine to Pluto in Aquarius 3º00’, Mercury in Leo makes a square to Lilith in Scorpio 11º26’

Uranus enters Gemini at the same MINUTE that Venus makes an exact trine to Pluto. Later, Mercury squares Lilith. This day will likely be loud. Uranus is the archetype of entropy, liberation, rebellion, innovation, revolution, surprise, chaos, risk, inspiration, and change. You never really know what’s in the cards with Uranus, but you know it will be bold and most likely loud. In the chatty, curious, busy sign of Gemini, this creates an energy of instability, rapid momentum, and a f*ck around and find out kind of vibe. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was 1941-1948 so…do with that what you will.

Thursday, July 10th:

FULL MOON IN CAPRICORN 18º50’, 1:37PM PST

Standing on BUSINESS. The ruler of this full moon is Saturn in Aries, so the themes are centered around authority, autonomy, willpower, and courage. Capricorn's mountain-climbing energy, guided by Saturn in Aries, insists that you stop waiting for permission to build the life you want. If you took complete responsibility for your own life, what would it look like? If you were capable of gathering all the resources you need, what would you do? This Full Moon is kind of intense, especially with Uranus’s recent ingress into Gemini. It is on us to create the new paradigm. This is no time to give our power away.

Saturday, July 12th:

Saturn stations retrograde in Aries 1º56’

Where has your power gone? Who has your time? Saturn in Aries wants us to reclaim what has always been ours. This retrograde will make it very apparent where we are incorrectly giving it away, and begins a deep audit of our personal sovereignty. Where you feel resentful or depleted is often where boundaries need to be established.

Sunday, July 13th:

The Sun in Cancer makes a trine to the North Node in Pisces 21º15’

Move. Schedule that meeting, tour the apartment, apply for the job, submit your art, text the person. Make moves. If something feels right, it is. The path is unfolding in front of you as you walk, but you have to keep moving to reveal it.

Thursday, July 17th:

Mercury stations retrograde in Leo 15º33’

Here we go again. In Leo, think of this like an instant replay of everything that didn’t work over the past month. Think before you speak, breathe before you react, and try not to cry over spilled milk. For Mercury in Leo, everything is a big deal. For Mercury retrograde in Leo, we are challenged to discern between what is actually a big deal vs what is a minor inconvenience. Your ego might be more sensitive than usual, and miscommunications can feel like personal attacks on your character. The lesson here is to develop emotional regulation around your self-expression. It’s a great time to reflect on our individual and collective pride.

Friday, July 18th:

Mercury rx in Leo makes a sextile to Venus in Gemini 15º34’

Revisit a relationship conversation. Something that felt like a big deal before - can you see it from another perspective? What seemed like a major betrayal might actually have been a minor misunderstanding. This is a good day to approach conflicts with humor and flexibility rather than defending your position at all costs. Sometimes the best way to resolve a dramatic situation is to simply stop taking it so seriously.

Saturday, July 19th:

The Sun in Cancer makes a sextile to Chiron in Aries 27º06’

Moment to slow down, acknowledge what hurts, and nurture accordingly. Tend to your wounds with the same care you would show a beloved friend.

CANCER SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Home, family, roots, belonging. You’re expanding your roots; taking where you were planted and digging deeper, or allowing yourself to explore a new side. As your roots expand, deepen, or widen, notice how your tree grows stronger, taller, larger in turn. You’ll be spending a decent amount of time with your inner child this season, perhaps seeing the world as you saw it then. Allow yourself the pure hearted perspective of yourself at 8, and see where it leads you. Venus and Uranus enter your 3rd house, and begin spicing up your known reality - perhaps new information is discovered, or you stumble on a new area of interest, or a hobby becomes a promising business venture. Whatever the case, your daily, mundane perspectives and interactions are in for an interesting turn of events. Mars through your 6th house highlights where you might need to spend some extra attention, especially when it comes to your health, your “day job”, and your chores around the home.

Taurus

The Sun joins Jupiter in your 3rd house of siblings, information, communication, and immediate communities. The third house is governed by Mercury, so in many ways it is the lens through which we perceive the world, and how we, in turn, interact with it. You’re finding new paths of understanding these interactions, expanding your capacity for close platonic connection, and finding a level of self-awareness and trust that was previously hidden to you. You may find yourself curious about new topics, and have the urge to dive deep into a particular area of research or study. The Full Moon illuminates a path of wisdom; perhaps important epiphanies await that alter the course you choose to take moving forward. Mercury is urging you to reflect on your upbringing, your roots, and your relationship to home. How has your upbringing shaped your current perspective of the world? Is there anything that needs realigning here? Uranus will at last be leaving your 1st house of identity and the body - for the past 7 years, you’ve been experiencing radical transformations to your identity, your appearance, your sense of self, and all of the ways you move through the world. Now, it shifts into your 2nd house with Venus, urging you to find creativity in your style, take risks with your resources, radicalize your values, and find more spontaneity with your time.

Gemini

This could potentially be a season of expanded resources for you, Gemini. Perhaps an independent business venture sees success, or you massively upgrade your closet, redecorate your home, or get a raise from work. Jupiter Cazimi in your 2nd house wants to pour safety, nurturing and care into your pool of resources and values. The Full Moon in the 8th house means this could be coming from another; someone else's resources overflowing into your own. Mercury is sparking your inner creative spirit in the third house, encouraging you to see the world as a work of art. This could also mean significant conversations between siblings or friends that feel like siblings, that could reshape some of your perspectives. As Venus and Uranus enter your 1st house, you can expect a 7-8 year period of radical identity transformation. All of the ways you’ve held firmly to your identity will begin to shift, from the way you feel inside to your personal style. It’s time to embrace a more authentic version of yourself, allow yourself to be bold in your expression, and take up the space you’ve been avoiding. Mars in the 4th house targets your foundation, your roots, and your home space. Protect your energy at home, place boundaries where needed, and defend your emotional security.

Cancer

What is meaningful to you? What gets you out of bed in the morning? Are you living in a way that feels aligned with your truth? Sometimes, we incorrectly assign our purpose to things we don’t actually care about. For example, our day job that we have to make ends meet can easily take priority over spending intentional time with loved ones, or nurturing our individual creative projects. It isn’t bad to prioritize money, but important to check in with ourselves about the motivator. Are you prioritizing money because you want to, or because you are afraid? And are you prioritizing money more than you are prioritizing time with loved ones? Its a season to check in with yourself about your values. If something feels off, it’s time to begin a significant restructuring of your attention. For the past 7 years, Uranus has been completely transforming your visions for the future. Now that there’s somewhat of a solid ground to build on, it’s time to explore what can be released. You are strengthening your relationship to yourself and your own needs and desires, and in doing so you will inevitably neglect what no longer fits. This is a season for fierce self-trust and acceptance for you.

Leo

Much of this season might feel like you’re walking through a dark tunnel, trusting that you’re being guided to a beautiful, abundant place, but unable to see the path in front of you. It’s important that you just keep moving. You are being guided somewhere magical, and you aren’t supposed to see. It’s a lesson on trust; know that you have been putting in the work and aligning yourself with your heart. There is still work here, but more than the active, building work this season, it’s about trusting that the work you have done is enough to carry you along to the next destination. The work becomes moving forward on the foundations you’ve built, trusting in your past selves, your communities, and your spirit team to carry you the rest of the way. Venus and Uranus shift into your 11th house, offering surprises from your communities, perhaps enlightening opportunities that present unfamiliar but exciting ways ahead. Expect changes in your social circles and community environments, and unexpected but influential encounters. For the past 7 years, your place in society has radically shifted; what you’d imagined for yourself in 2018 has likely completely transformed. Now that your vocation settles into a tangible image, what might you picture surrounding it? Who might you picture surrounding it? Mars in your 2nd house is urging you to get your resources under control. Start a budget, get real about your finances, and get creative about ways to generate more independent income.

Virgo

Big community season for you. Find time to be around people you love, often. Find ways to get involved, ways to support, and allow yourself to be supported. You’re being shown the abundance that comes from communal focus. Where do you have specific gifts to share with the society? Are you around people who celebrate your uniqueness? Notice how embracing individuality inevitably strengthens the group as a whole. When our differences are celebrated, we feel confident, genuinely loved, and supported; in turn, we are able to offer the same. Your ideas of life, your philosophies and your spirituality has undergone a massive, enlightening shift over the past 7 years. Now, as Uranus enters your 10th house, prepare for your entire public persona to shift. Whatever is not authentic will be removed, allowing you to fluidly accept new truths as they arise. What do you have for the world? What unique blend of talents, experience, expertise, wisdom, and care do you have to contribute? We’re all leaving our mark on society, whether we like it or not. You’re entering a 7-8 year cycle that pulls focus on exactly what this looks like for you. A lot of this begins with some serious self-reflection, and with Mars in your 1st house, you can expect exactly that. Remember to be gentle with yourself; just because the overly critical voice in your head is loud, does not mean it’s right.

Libra

Time to be seeeeeeen! Take center stage, take up space, believe that what you have to say and show is worthy of attention, that it can and will help. As a Libra rising, you’re often comfortable blending in, passively supporting others and maintaining a persona that is not offensive or too eccentric. However, as a Libra rising, you also have a natural ability to be a social leader. It’s important that your perspectives are heard, that you trust in your own voice enough to speak up. People will listen! Especially this season, with the Sun AND Jupiter moving through your 10th house. A huge spotlight on you, and a good opportunity to say what you want to be heard, and do what you want to be seen. Uranus begins to disrupt your personal philosophies and perspectives of the world, perhaps bringing alarming spiritual insights or enlightening messages. It’s time to get honest with yourself about the path you’re on and if it still feels aligned. Pay attention to that side project that feels more fulfilling than your main gig, explore what it would look like to place this front and center. You’re entering a powerful time to take the risks that light up your heart. An ancient call stirs from within you on this Full Moon in Capricorn; what gifts do you carry from beyond this lifetime?

Scorpio

Just like trees in the summer grow a thicker inner ring reflecting their rapid growth, this is a season of explosive expansion for you. The New Moon, Sun, and Jupiter all illuminate your 9th house of higher perspectives, wisdom, philosophy, and cultural awareness. This could look like travel, taking a class on something you know nothing about, picking up a new hobby, starting a podcast, writing or publishing a book or blog, and generally putting your ideas out into the world. This is not a time for you to be quiet or withdraw. What you are learning right now is a gift to the people around you; make your voice heard, and trust that what you are finding interesting is intentional. These random sparks of interest may prove to be deeply impactful for others. Find ways to share what will be so loud in your mind this month. Not only are the Sun and Jupiter in your 9th house of public speaking and teaching, but Mercury is going through Leo in your 10th house of public reception and engagement. Big words month. Venus and Uranus venturing into your 8th house begin an unsettling but important period of questioning your emotional attachments and values. What have you been unconsciously tethered to, and why? This could also begin a period of sexual exploration and liberation. Tap into your reservoirs of pleasure and shame, and see where you may have unintentionally crossed the wires somewhere along the way.

Sagittarius

Your unconscious patterns, habits, and attachments are being thrown into the light for you to see clearly, in order to restructure and cleanse where needed. Uranus is leaving your 6th house behind after 7 chaotic years, hopefully allowing you to find a more solid ground to stand on moving forward. Mars in Virgo in your 10th house is encouraging you to grab hold of the reigns that have been aggressively pulling you forward. Where do you want to go? You have the momentum behind you, where will you direct it? What would you do if you knew you had every resource already? Try to take small step in that direction this season, even if it means walking into murky water. Your writing is likely to be inspired and creative this season; journaling, stream of consciousness, and poetry could be helpful tools. With Uranus moving into your 7th house, you are entering a period of heightened relationship activity. This could be a period of time that you meet significant people in unexpected ways, or have abrupt, powerful, and fast paced connections — romantically or otherwise. Exciting and surprising relational developments, whatever the case.

Capricorn

It’s time for you to explore what it would look like to release your attachments to routines. As a Capricorn rising, you are likely someone who gets comfortable in routines quickly, and may need that extra push to break into new territory. With Uranus moving into your 6th house, you can expect exactly this. You’ll likely begin feeling a push toward spontaneity in your daily life, and an urge to fill your time in more authentic and autonomous ways. Liberate your time! With the Sun ascending over your descendant, you are, in many ways, beginning to wake up from a 6 month slumber, and with Jupiter by its side, it’s like you’ve been jolted from your sleep with a bucket of ice water. Expect significant expansion through your partnerships and collaborations. This could also be a period of time where you meet significant people in your story moving forward. Keep your heart and mind open, and pour into those that inspire you, without the expectation of reciprocation (but be prepared for an overflow of return). Your sensitivity to your environments and relationships are especially heightened with Jupiter in Cancer, and with Mercury in your 8th house, you’ll be extra attuned to those voices in your head. Trust that if something feels off this season, it is, and if something feels promising, it is.

Aquarius

The Sun, New Moon, and Jupiter in your 6th house are urging you to find intentionality in the ways you fill your schedule. There may be expanded activity in your life, forcing you to restructure the ways you organize your time. This will cause an observation of the ways you’ve unconsciously been filling your days; where your “time in between” goes. The Full Moon in your 12th house triggers the work of translating the invisible in your psyche. Pay attention to your dreams, if you are able to sleep, and if not, try journaling your spiraling thoughts that are keeping you awake. Venus and Uranus going into your 5th house are likely to spark some serious creative inspiration for you. If there is any medium of art or creativity that you’ve been neglecting, now is the time to reawaken it. If you are already active in your creative work, now may begin a period of time that brings new, exciting inspiration. This is also a period of time where unplanned pregnancies could arise, so use protection if this is something you do not want! Mars in the 8th house might trigger an extra critical inner voice; be gentle with yourself, and when the inner bully arises, kindly remind it that you are, in fact, capable, resilient, and worthy.

Pisces

This is a time to center your pleasure! Find the things that bring you pure joy, and prioritize them this season. This is not a one-size-fits-all situation; it could mean time with family, parties with friends, solo vacations, immersing yourself in art, going dancing, one night stands, or wholesome nights in with a partner. Whatever the case, you are being pushed to allow yourself to play and enjoy your experience. Find the people who celebrate your authenticity, individuality, and autonomy, and can hold your multidimensionality. This is a time to figure out how to unwind while remaining fluid. It’s essential to surround yourself with people who can support this. Uranus moving into your 4th house begins a season of upheaval, new foundations being laid, and new roots beginning taking hold, while the old are simultaneously pruned. You have an opportunity to redefine what home means to you, and allow the outdated versions to fall away, or be composted. Be wary of tensions between partnerships, and a tendency to try to fix what is not broken.

CANCER SZN PLAYLIST

Curated by Josh Brumley and Jenna Scott; this playlist is intentionally designed with the transits of Cancer season, and intended to carry you through these specific energetic currents.

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This is your monthly guide to Gemini season 2025.

If Taurus season was the crucible, melting and re-shaping us into an alembic strong enough to hold the powerful transformations at play, Gemini is the season to gather the supplies and begin mixing the elixir. What do you want to include? Be specific, get creative, do your research, and be flexible in your mind but firm in your intuition. Gemini brings to the forefront our perspectives of duality and binaries. We’re being challenged to think beyond our familiar structures. It’s not this or that, it’s all or nothing. Can you hold excitement and fear at once? And while you’re in there, what else do you notice? Can grief co-exist alongside gratitude, anger, love, resentment, forgiveness, peace? These are the questions that Gemini season brings to the surface. This Season is another big one, as all of 2025 has been. We’re seeing Saturn join Neptune in Aries at last, Jupiter moving into Cancer, and Mars finalllyyyyy leaving Leo (after nearly 7 months, including the retrogrades). It’s a time to rejoice and a time to fight. Both can be true. Celebrate what refuses to be defined. Become curious about what is unfamiliar.

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WORD OF THE SEASON

APERCEPTION

noun

intellectual integration; the mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he or she already possesses; fully conscious perception

GEMINI SZN TRANSITS

This can be a lot to take in at once; I recommend reading these throughout the season, as they arrive. Remember: Astrology provides a framework for understanding cycles and energies, but you always have agency in how you work with these influences. Use this forecast as a tool for reflection and conscious action rather than prediction.

Tuesday, May 20

The Sun Moves into Gemini

The Sun in Gemini is the intellectual creative, the mad scientist, the forever curious and observant, the social butterfly and the forever student. Gemini's mutable air energy encourages us to gather information, make connections between seemingly disparate ideas, and approach life with childlike wonder.

Wednesday, May 21

Venus in Aries trines Mars in Leo at 15º

Passion is high and mutually supported - what you desire is what desires you - that kind of energy. There’s a harmonious flow between our desires (Venus) and our actions (Mars). With Venus in assertive Aries and Mars in expressive Leo, there's a beautiful reciprocity between what we want and how we pursue it. This aspect supports bold romantic gestures, creative inspiration, and authentic self-expression.

Thursday, May 22

The Sun in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries at 1º

Potential for confusion, misunderstandings, or perhaps healthy dissolution. This sextile can bring spiritual insights through intellectual pursuits, enhance imagination, and soften rigid thinking. Be mindful that communication may be less precise during this transit; poetry might flow more easily than technical writing.

Saturday, May 24

The Sun in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius at 3º, and Mercury conjoins Uranus in Taurus at 27º

From the dissolution and confusion earlier this week, perhaps something new arises from the mist today. What needs resurrecting? An old idea? Creative project? This trine helps us see beneath surface-level communications to the power dynamics and deeper truths hidden within.

With Mercury also conjunct Uranus in the later degrees of Taurus, the creative potential is high. What would happen if the crazy idea was the one you followed? This brings unexpected breakthroughs, particularly regarding practical matters, values, and resources. This conjunction can trigger brilliant but unusual ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Technology, innovation, and unconventional approaches to material concerns may suddenly seem not just viable but necessary.

Sunday, May 25

Saturn enters Aries, Mercury enters Gemini, and Mercury sextiles Saturn at 0º

Massive shift - Saturn enters Aries for the first time since 1996. Time to take responsibility, accountability for our actions, reclaim authority over our lives and decisions, and find the motivation, courage and confidence within ourselves to take the necessary steps forward. Saturn in Aries challenges our impulses, urges follow through on those random creative inspirations, and encourages strong boundaries. It rewards a deep self awareness, acting from authenticity, and holding firm to your inner voice.

Monday, May 26

New Moon in Gemini at 6º (8:02PM PST), and Mercury in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries at 1º

New Moon in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, who has just entered its home sign of Gemini awfully close to this New Moon means WRITE IT DOWN. Especially with Saturn freshly in Aries - the ability to manifest real, tangible things is potent. Write down exactly what you’re working towards, and be specific. Explore all the emotions you’ve been processing this year; we’re right in the middle of a massively transformative year. Give yourself a check-in; reflect on life a single year ago and note the changes. Do you feel grounded? If not, try implementing one routine during this moon cycle that helps you quiet your mind and feel at peace.

Tuesday, May 27

Mercury in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius at 3º

Powerful messages and unintentional (or intentional) spell casting. Research, therapy, occult studies, and transformative conversations are all highly favored under this transit.

Thursday, May 29

Mercury Cazimi in Gemini at 8º

Big Mercury month, as the Sun moves through its domain and Mercury itself makes several significant aspects. Where is our attention? Notice how our attention determines our perspective. What are you allowing into your psychic awareness? How can you be open to multiple realities, while remaining grounded and connected to your own intuitive experience? Again, a great day to WRITE IT DOWN.

Sunday, June 1

Venus conjoins Chiron in Aries at 25º

A little tender but in a good way, hopefully. When the massage therapist finally finds that sensitive spot on your back that REALLY needs work. It’s painful but SO satisfying. This transit can bring relationship patterns into awareness, particularly those involving assertion, independence, and initiative. It offers an opportunity to heal old wounds around rejection, aggression, or fear of taking action. The self-directed nature of Aries suggests this healing comes through self-validation rather than seeking external approval.

Wednesday June 4

Venus in Aries sextiles Jupiter in Gemini at 28º

Shortly after Venus conjoins Chrion, it gets a little boost from Jupiter. When we gently dig into a pain point, our capacity for care expands. The late degrees indicate we're harvesting the wisdom of Venus in Aries and Jupiter in Gemini before they change signs. This aspect expands our capacity for self-love and assertive expression of our desires while broadening our perspective on relationships through communication and intellectual connection.

Thursday, June 5

Mercury in Gemini squares the Lunar Nodes at 23º, Mercury in Gemini sextiles Mars in Leo at 23º

More Mercurial activity; keep that journal on deck. Mercury squaring the Lunar Nodes asks us to shift our perspectives, see something from a new angle, etc.

Friday, June 6

Venus enters Taurus

Once again in one of her homes, Venus in Taurus is sensual, grounded, nurturing and satisfied. After the assertive, sometimes impulsive energy of Venus in Aries, Venus in Taurus brings steadiness and contentment to our relationships and financial matters. This ingress supports connecting with nature, enjoying sensual pleasures, and building material security through steady, intentional choices. In relationships, Venus in Taurus values reliability, physical affection, and shared sensory experiences over dramatic gestures or intellectual stimulation alone.

Sunday, June 8

Mercury conjoins Jupiter in Gemini at 29º, Mercury enters Cancer

Just before Mercury and Jupiter leave Gemini behind, they meet up to discuss the details. What have you learned in the past year with Jupiter in Gemini? How has the overstimulation perhaps allowed for an awareness of our intellectual capacities? What does mental burnout feel like? With so much information hitting us at such a fast pace, where does that leave our conscious awareness? How have we expanded our capacity to hold information?

Monday, June 9

Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries at 1º and Neptune in Aries at 2º, Venus in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius at 3º

Some tension, a little conflict, but productive and necessary changes. Blocks in the way, but perhaps intentional to slow down and reassess.

Mercury in Cancer square Saturn in Aries can manifest as difficulty expressing vulnerable feelings in a direct manner or tension between personal needs and family obligations, while Mercury square Neptune adds confusion to this mix, blurring the lines between emotional truth and projection. This can make it difficult to distinguish between intuitive guidance and emotional reactivity.

Meanwhile, Venus in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius creates tension between our desire for stability and comfort (Venus in Taurus) and the need for radical transformation at a collective level (Pluto in Aquarius).

Tuesday, June 10

Jupiter enters Cancer

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and that is great news for us. For the next year, we get to reap the rewards for all the hard work we endured during Mars’ long transit through the sign earlier this year. Jupiter in Cancer wants to give, grow, harvest, and celebrate. It’s sentimental, loving, joyful and abundant. It’s safe, warm, wealthy, and nurturing.

Wednesday, June 11

Full Moon in Sagittarius at 20º (12:42AM PST), Mercury in Cancer sextiles Venus in Taurus at 5º

The ruler of this Full Moon is Jupiter, who has just moved into the sign of its exaltation, and is nearly conjunct Mercury (who is sextiling Venus!!!). Good news awaits. I mean really good news. A REWARD likely awaits. Mercury and Jupiter are still squaring Saturn and Neptune in Aries, but something tells me this will be a scenario where a silver lining turns into some gooollllddd rain. This Full Moon really illuminates the reward for emotional work and authentic communication.

Saturday, June 14

Mars in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus at 28º, Venus in Taurus opposes Lilith in Scorpio at 8º

Tension! Between passion and security, comfort and adventure, what is hidden and what is seen. This might trigger sudden changes in how we pursue our passions, potentially disrupting established patterns in dramatic ways.

Sunday, June 15

Jupiter in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries at 1º

This slow moving transit has been active for weeks, but today its exact. Saturn in Aries might push us to immediately move on to the next challenge rather than fully receiving Jupiter in Cancer's gifts of abundance and emotional fulfillment. Let your hard earned rewards be rewards! Celebrate, allow yourself to feel grateful, and let tomorrow be the day to plan for the next.

Tuesday, June 17

Mars enters Virgo

And now is the time to PLAN. Mars is finally out of the emotionally driven signs of Cancer and Leo, and into the precise, focused, creative and practical sign of Virgo. Mars in Virgo excels at breaking large projects into manageable steps and attending to necessary details. The precision of Virgo helps channel Mars' energy efficiently rather than wastefully. After the emotional waters of Cancer and the dramatic fire of Leo, Mars in Virgo provides a much-needed earth element to ground and direct our actions.

Wednesday, June 18

Jupiter in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries at 2º

Too good to be true? This transit feels like a surge of doubt and uncertainty. Potential for unrealistic expectations or inflated hopes. This can bring beautiful creative inspiration and spiritual opening, but it can also cloud judgment regarding emotional investments and security needs. Discernment becomes important—distinguishing between intuitive guidance and wishful thinking, between genuine emotional abundance and escapism.

Friday, June 20

Mars in Virgo sextiles Jupiter in Cancer at 2º

All eyes are on Mars, now that it’s finally left Leo. Mercury takes a back seat for a moment. This transit snaps us out of the fog of Jupiter squaring Neptune, and brings us down to Earth. What steps can you take right now to go toward those dreams? Mars in Virgo sextile Jupiter in Cancer supports practical actions that nurture growth, efficient systems that support emotional well-being, and detailed planning that honors intuitive wisdom.

GEMINI SZN HOROSCOPES

I recommend reading these based on your rising sign, but it can be helpful to look at your Sun and Moon signs as well.

Aries

Time to bring out your journal, tune into your observable surroundings, and make note of the tangible shifts in your perception. Your awareness is expanding, and you may begin to step into a more clear version of yourself by way of a complete unravelling of the last. As Jupiter enters your 4th house, the urge to uproot and live beyond your comfort zone may arise. Sometimes you’ve run out of space to further expand your roots, and the solution is in planting somewhere else entirely. Your resources might be feeling unstable, but there will be sweet nudges guiding you to more. Saturn and Neptune co-existing in your 1st house marks a profound period of identity reinvention—who you thought you were is dissolving into who you're becoming. Mars and the South Node in your 6th house are clearing out outdated routines that no longer serve you. Though Venus and Uranus in your 2nd house might make resources feel unstable, they're actually guiding you toward more authentic values.

Taurus

The spotlight is on your resources and values with the Sun, New Moon, and Mercury activating your 2nd house. What truly matters to you? The Full Moon in your 8th house reveals profound insights about shared resources and intimate exchanges—it's time to reassess what you give and receive. Saturn and Neptune in your 12th house are dissolving old unconscious patterns, which might feel disorienting but ultimately liberating. As Jupiter moves into your 3rd house, expect an expansion in communication, learning, and connection with your immediate environment. Mars and the South Node in your 5th house are clearing creative blocks and outdated expressions of joy. With Venus (your ruler) joining Uranus in your 1st house, you're experiencing an unprecedented personal revolution—embrace these surprising changes to your identity and self-expression.

Gemini

With the Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 1st house, you're experiencing a powerful personal reset. This is your season to reinvent yourself and set intentions that align with your evolving identity. The Full Moon in your 7th house illuminates relationship dynamics, bringing clarity about how you show up for others and how they show up for you. Saturn and Neptune in your 11th house are reshuffling your social circle and community connections—some friendships may dissolve while more aligned ones take their place. Jupiter entering your 2nd house brings expansion to your resources and sense of self-worth over the coming months. Mars and the South Node in your 4th house are clearing out emotional patterns and domestic situations that have kept you stuck in the past. Venus and Uranus in your 12th house bring unexpected insights from your subconscious—pay attention to dreams and intuitive flashes.

Cancer

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 12th house invite you into a period of reflection and release before your birthday season, Cancer. Honor this time of gestation and inner processing. The Full Moon in your 6th house brings clarity about work routines and physical wellbeing—what needs adjustment to better support your evolution? Saturn and Neptune in your 10th house are dissolving rigid career structures while simultaneously building more aligned professional foundations. The big news: Jupiter entering your 1st house marks the beginning of a 12-year cycle of personal expansion and opportunity. Mars and the South Node in your 3rd house clear outdated thought patterns and communication styles. Venus and Uranus in your 11th house bring unexpected connections and revolutionary ideas through your social networks.

Leo

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 11th house spotlight your communities, friendships, and long-term aspirations, Leo. It's time to reassess which collective visions truly inspire you. The Full Moon in your 5th house illuminates your creative expression and authentic joy—what makes your heart sing when no one's watching? Saturn and Neptune together in your 9th house are dismantling belief systems that have limited your horizons, making space for more expansive wisdom. Jupiter moving into your 12th house begins a year of spiritual gifts and rewards from years of intense emotional work. Mars finally leaving your first house after an extended visit joins the South Node in your 2nd house, helping you release attachments to outdated values and possessions. Venus and Uranus in your 10th house bring unexpected developments to your public role and career path—stay flexible for surprising opportunities. Things are looking up.

Virgo

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 10th house put your career and public role in the spotlight. It's a good time to reassess your ambitions and how you want to be recognized in the world. The Full Moon in your 4th house illuminates home and family matters, helping you balance professional drive with emotional wellbeing. Saturn and Neptune in your 8th house are restructuring deep bonds and shared resources—some connections may dissolve while others deepen profoundly. Jupiter entering your 11th house expands your social circle and brings opportunities through community connections over the coming year. This is a year long period where your ability to network is significantly enhanced. Be prepared to meet people who are perfectly aligned with your dreams and long-term visions. Mars and the South Node in your 1st house initiate a powerful personal clearing—outdated aspects of your identity and self-expression are being released.

Libra

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 9th house are expanding your horizons and worldview. This is a powerful time to explore new philosophical terrain and broaden your understanding. The Full Moon in your 3rd house illuminates your intellectual resources. What is known? What can you do with the knowledge you already have? Take some time to recognize how much you have learned in the past year - your wisdom has been expanding more than you’ve been consciously aware of. Saturn and Neptune in your 7th house are dissolving outdated relationship patterns while building more authentic connections. Jupiter moving into your 10th house brings a year of career expansion and increased public recognition—prepare for your light to shine brighter. Mars and the South Node in your 12th house clear subconscious patterns and psychological barriers that have been operating behind the scenes. Venus (your ruler) joining Uranus in your 8th house brings unexpected developments in intimate relationships and shared resources—embrace the liberating changes.

Scorpio

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 8th house plunge you into the depths of transformation this season. This is familiar territory for you—embrace the intensity of personal evolution. The Full Moon in your 2nd house will illuminate your relationship with material resources and self-worth—what truly sustains you? Saturn and Neptune in your 6th house are restructuring daily routines and health practices—some habits dissolve while more sustainable ones take root. Jupiter entering your 9th house expands your worldview and brings opportunities for education, travel, and philosophical exploration over the coming year - perhaps you get the bug to go back to school, take some classes, or study abroad? Mars and the South Node in your 11th house clear outdated social connections and collective aspirations that no longer align with your evolution; the communities you find yourself within are completely evolving. Venus and Uranus in your 7th house bring unexpected developments in close relationships—stay flexible as partnerships transform in liberating ways.

Sagittarius

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 7th house spotlight relationships and partnerships. This is a powerful time to set intentions for how you connect with others. The Full Moon in your 1st house illuminates your identity and self-expression—how do you maintain authenticity while in relationship? Saturn and Neptune in your 5th house are restructuring creative expression and joy—some forms of pleasure dissolve while more authentic ones emerge. Now is a great time to do some inner child work; what does it look like to take the 8 year old version of you seriously? What were their dreams? Jupiter (your ruler) entering your 8th house brings expansion through deep transformation and intimate exchanges over the coming year—prepare for profound growth through surrender. Mars and the South Node in your 10th house clear outdated career ambitions and public roles that no longer reflect your truth.

Capricorn

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 6th house focus in on your daily routines, work life, and wellbeing. What does it look like to rest in motion? It's time to set intentions for sustainable productivity. The Full Moon in your 12th house is illuminating subconscious patterns and spiritual insights— pay close attention to your dreams around this Full Moon and keep a journal handy. Saturn (your ruler) joining Neptune in your 4th house marks a profound restructuring of home, family, and emotional foundations—some aspects are dissolving while new, more authentic structures take shape. Over the next 3 years, your focus turns to building a foundation that can withstand any storm. Jupiter entering your 7th house brings expansion through partnerships and close relationships over the coming year—expect significant growth through connection, and perhaps prepare to be a support person through significant expansion in the life of a partner. Mars and the South Node in your 9th house are clearing outdated beliefs and philosophies that have limited your horizon. Venus entering your 5th house brings an added sense of pleasure and sensuality to the mix.

Aquarius

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 5th house activate creativity, self-expression, presence, and authentic joy. This is a powerful time to set intentions around bringing more pleasure and playfulness into your life. The Full Moon in your 11th house illuminates your social connections and long-term aspirations—how do your communities support your authentic expression? You’re being challenged to find complete presence, while still working toward certain ideals. Allow yourself to be motivated from a place of complete presence; understand that true presence does not = stagnation. Saturn (your traditional ruler) joining Neptune in your 3rd house marks a profound restructuring of your communication style and thought patterns—your words carry both increased responsibility and visionary potential. Jupiter entering your 6th house expands your daily routines and work opportunities over the coming year. How can the mundane become an enchanted space?

Pisces

The Sun, New Moon, and Mercury in your 4th house zero in on themes of home, family, and your emotional foundations. This is a powerful time to set intentions for creating greater security and belonging. The Full Moon in your 10th house interacts with this by illuminating your career path and public role—how does your professional life support your emotional wellbeing, and vice versa? Saturn joining Neptune (your ruler) in your 2nd house marks a restructuring of resources and values—some material attachments may dissolve while more sustainable, independent foundations take shape. Meanwhile, Jupiter entering your 5th house brings expansion through creativity, romance, and authentic joy over the coming year—your capacity for self-expression and pleasure grows. Mars and the South Node in your 7th house are clearing outdated relationship patterns that have kept you in imbalanced dynamics, while Venus and Uranus in your 3rd house bring unexpected insights and revolutionary ideas—your thinking is becoming increasingly liberated.

Journal Prompt: Breaking Through Binary Thinking

Choose one moment from your past week that felt particularly charged or significant. Set a timer for 10 minutes and write about this moment three different ways:

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