We explored the stories that formed around our earliest wounds and the way they became embodied, and then how scarcity, money, and visibility can become another arena in which we try to prove our worth in the world. Perhaps nowhere is that impulse more intimate than in our relationship with our bodies and appearance.

It’s worth mentioning that Taurus is ruled by Venus, and Venus rules relationship, pleasure, attraction, and beauty. Taurus brings these Venusian themes into form through sensuality, nature, matter, the five senses and our physical experience of being alive.

So when Chiron moves through Taurus, it exposes wounds around whether we feel safe inside our bodies, whether we experience ourselves as beautiful or attractive, and what we believe we need to do in order to be ok in a world that consistently reflects back to us that we’re not enough as we are.

This is where the series becomes particularly personal, because we can intellectually recognize an old story and consciously challenge a scarcity narrative, but we can’t step outside of our own physical bodies. They’re the vehicles through which we live our lives.

Our bodies age, hurt, desire, feel hunger, get tired. They go through change, get sick, scar, and sometimes stop functioning in ways that frustrate us. All the while, our bodies are consistently being looked at by others.

Being Seen and Being Looked At

Part 2 explored our increasingly complicated relationship with visibility and the ways being seen can become entangled with worth, money, success, and belonging. But being seen and being looked at aren’t necessarily the same thing. Being witnessed is relational. Being looked at is evaluative.

When the gaze of others becomes internalized, eventually we learn to look at ourselves from the standpoint of someone else. We pull in our bellies, fix our hair, tuck this body part or that, take another photo, add another filter.

I don’t want to make the argument here that physical beauty doesn’t matter other that caring about how we look is somehow spiritually immature, because that’s not it. Beauty does matter. We are affected by it. We notice what moves us and sparks joy.

Taurus itself is Venus-ruled and deeply sensual, and adornment is also very much a Taurus thing. Pleasure is too. Being delighted by color, texture, scent, clothing, hair, jewelry, skin, and physical strength can all be deeply pleasurable human experiences. Plus we’ve adorned ourselves for thousands of years as a form of creative expression, ritual, identity, art, play, and devotion.

My curiosity isn’t what we do with our bodies but the stance from which we’re doing it. Is it from care? Or correction and punishment? Is it from a place of fear, or from pleasure? Is it for acceptance? Are we tending to ourselves as an attempt to escape ourselves?

A person can exercise because she hates her body, or because it feels good to build strength. She can wear makeup because color and beauty are creative to her, or because showing her unaltered face feels unsafe. She can dye her gray hair because she loves playing around with color, or because she wants to hide the evidence of aging. Often, if we’re being honest, our motivations are mixed.

The Economy of Inadequacy

We’ve heard the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, and yet we have been force-fed beauty standards for hundreds of years.

Consider who taught you what beauty looks like. What did society or people in your family say about bodies, weight, aging, appearance, or style? We’ve been consistently fed images of prescribed beauty in magazines, television, and movies.

For those born during Chiron in Taurus from 1977-1984, this isn’t an abstract generational theme. We were born into a culture that increasingly taught us to monitor our bodies and compare them to others. That history certainly didn’t begin with us, but the late 1970’s and 1980’s brought an especially potent combination of diet culture, exercise, plastic surgery, increased awareness of eating disorders, body image issues, and dietary discipline as a moral virtue.

Then came the 1990s, when dietary fat itself became the enemy and we saw an influx of foods that were “fat-free” while the waif-like body became a cultural ideal. For many women in my generation, our bodies weren’t simply something we lived in, they were something we had to control and perfect.

There is, of course, an enormous economy built on keeping us fixated on this. The beauty and wellness industries aren’t themselves the problems though. Skincare, nutritional support, herbs, exercise are all helpful in sustaining us and improving our quality of life. But, there’s also a particular economic model that depends on us remaining consistently in process, and consistently dissatisfied or deficient.

From a health standpoint, some of that may be genuinely true. Mineral deficiencies happen, hormonal imbalances happen. Certain interventions can be life-changing. But I think there’s a big difference between responding to the body and becoming suspicious of it and looking for things to be “wrong”. There’s also a difference between repair and optimization which assumes there’s always another version of us we should be working towards.

Somewhere underneath the endless need to improve ourselves is the same Chiron wound and a distorted belief we started with: there’s something wrong with me, and I need to fix it.

Anti-Aging and the Resistance to Change

Anti-aging is a cultural phenomenon that fascinates me because I’m not convinced it’s only about beauty. I think it has something to do with a cultural, unconscious fear of death.

This makes sense because the Taurus/Scorpio axis involves life (Taurus) and death (Scorpio). Aging is what makes the inevitable process of change visible, so it’s no wonder we live in a culture that seeks to hide its evidence.

Botox Cosmetics, for example, was approved in 2002 and Restylane (a dermal filler) was approved for use in late 2003. Medi-spas expanded afterward from 1,600 in 2010 and to more than 10,000 by 2023.

It’s not that these approaches are inherently wrong. I’m certainly not interested in policing people’s choices on what they do to their bodies. But, I am interested in what this normalization reflects, because it asks the question: when did aging move from a natural process to something we feel the need to interrupt or pretend is not happening?

There is little encouragement to age gracefully, and somewhat of an expectation to look as young as possible for as long as possible, as if aging is “bad” and should be avoided. The irony is that Taurus loves slowness, so slowing down the aging process makes sense here. But the Taurus/Scorpio axis also understands seasons, ripening, maturation, gestation and the long arc of organic development and the cycle of death and rebirth.

Nature doesn’t stay in spring forever, why do we expect ourselves to? Why is the evidence of age, or our facial expressions something that needs to be minimized? Why do we only consider youth as beautiful?

Which leads me to another intervention that has come on the scene recently which is GLP-1 medications, something our bodies already produce. These peptide hormones are involved in appetite and glucose regulation, and these medications are used for diabetes and weight management as they act on that same signaling system. However, appetite is not only about food.

Taurus rules appetite in a larger sense. Emerging research suggests that GLP-1 medications may influence reward and craving beyond food. My curiosity lies in what else happens when we turn down the volume on our appetite? What does that do to other signals in our bodies?

And then there’s another natural process that raises another version of this question — menopause. Unfortunately some women experience symptoms that genuinely disrupt their health and quality of life. Hormone therapy in particular can be effective for symptoms so I’m not suggesting women should suffer through something simply because menopause is a natural process. But something in this makes me wonder how often normal bodily transitions become framed as problems requiring intervention, rather than experiences to embrace and become curious about.

Sometimes there are physiological issues that require treatment, but the shift I’m interested in is moving away from treating every signal from the body like an inconvenient malfunction to be silences as quickly as possible. I think Chiron in Taurus invites this shift too.

Is Rebellion Repair?

When Uranus moved through Taurus from 2018-2026, we saw visible disruption of conventional ideas about body types, beauty, food, and our health. We saw the growth of body-positive and a greater conversation around fat-phobia and cricisticm of impossible beauty standards.

However something else emerged during this time as a rebellion to such standards— genuinely unflattering fashion. Oversized silhouettes, strange shapes and proportions, gender neutral clothing, chunky shoes. Clothing that seemed to deconstruct everything we’ve come to consider aesthetically pleasing in terms of fashion. I’m all for fashion as an expression of art, but I’m also curious how some of it has become merely an act of rebellion rather than an act of repair.

Women who claim to “refuse to dress for men” are still centering men in that same sentence. The notion of not caring whether one is attractive still references attractiveness. Rejecting beauty culture can become its own aesthetic performance with rules about how an empowered person is supposed to look and behave.

Chiron, on the other hand, asks a different question. Who are you when you no longer need to obey or rebel? That, to me, is where becoming beautiful to yourself begins to take shape. It’s less about needing our bodies to make a statement at all.

The Medicine We Forget

There’s another relationship we need to repair here that is really fundamental to all of this—our relationship with our home, the Earth.

The minerals in our bones came from this planet. Our food grows from the soil. Plants contain medicine. Sunlight changes our chemistry. Darkness affects our sleep. Water sustains us. Seasons affect our rhythms. We are animals in nature even when we forget that we are.

Modern wellness performs an interesting trick: it takes substances from the natural world and isolates them processes them, packages them and sells them back to us as interventions and protocols. Again, this isn’t inherently bad, but it is a little odd to me. It makes me wonder whether something gets lost when we begin assuming that medicine is primarily something manufactured, purchased, and administered outside of us.

We forget that medicine can also be food, touch, movement, sleep, water, plants, connection with animals and spending time in nature. Perhaps since Chiron is in its own Chiron Return in Taurus, we’re getting a chance to widen our language on what we define as medicinal.

This is also where the concept of abundance doesn’t mean that there are infinite resources available all the time, but there are far more resources available to us in nature than we’ve been taught to notice because we’re grossly disconnected from Earth.

Chiron in Taurus is finally making these issues impossible to ignore. Perhaps our work ahead is in repairing our relationship to Earth while also repairing our relationship to ourselves and as stewards of the Earth.

Tending to Bodies that Hurt

This is a tender place for so many, myself included. When our bodies experience change, breakdown, illness and disease, sometimes no matter what we do, things are simply, hard.

When I was eight weeks pregnant with my daughter I woke up with sudden hearing loss in my right ear. Over the years my hearing has also deteriorated in my left ear. As someone who loves music and conversation as much as I do, I’ve been in deep grief about this loss.

Acceptance of it doesn’t require pretending that I don’t wish my hearing would return. I’ve encountered a much more difficult conversation with embodiment than simply learning how to appreciate what I see in the mirror. Maintaining a loving relationship with your body when it doesn’t change in the way you want or when you’re in constant pain, is quite the challenge.

Chiron in Taurus asks us how can we feel at home inside of bodies when we cannot completely control them. What happens when they don’t function the way they used to? What do we do when no combination of diets, supplements, protocols, or practices seem to shift how we experience them?

This is where the mythology of Chiron becomes profound. Because Chiron never actually healed his wound, he just learned how to live in relationship with it. That doesn’t mean suffering in pain is secretly a blessing or that we should stop trying to improve our quality of life. Maybe it means healing isn’t always measured by whether the condition disappears. Perhaps it can also be measured by our remaining capacity to inhabit and enjoy our lives even when some part of the wound remains.

Despite my desire for my hearing to return, I recognize I can still relish in what I can hear, and I don’t need my full capacity to return before allowing myself to experience what’s still available now.

Which is another invitation of this Chiron in Taurus journey — that of presence to the moment, without asking it to be anything other than it is. Without asking ourselves to be anything other than we are.

Back to the Beginning

Chiron is currently retrograde and retracing the ground it covered since it first entered Taurus in June. On September 17th, it will move back into Aries for one final stretch before returning to Taurus on April 14th, 2027, when the longer journey through Taurus really begins.

When Chiron returns to Aries, it’s asking us revisit the wounds around our identity, instincts, and actions. After nearly eight years of Chiron moving through Aries, this is its final pass through the sign before it won’t return for decades. It feels less like starting another healing journey and more like going back through the house one last time before moving out so we don’t carry those wounds with us into the next chapter of the story.

We’ll be looking back at how we prove our right to exist, how we abandon ourselves to remain acceptable, our resistance to anger, and our fears of risk-taking. Then Chiron will return to Taurus and ask how we inhabit our bodies, what nourishes us, how we receive, what pleasure looks and feels like, how we define beauty, and reconnecting with the Earth. This is all something worth keeping nearby until Chiron returns to Taurus and we begin this journey again from a slightly different place.

Embodying a Different Experience

What follows are for paid subscribers who want to bring these concepts into the body through direct experience. These aren’t meant to become another checklist of things you need to do to, but they’re invitations to become curious about what happens when you encounter your life in new ways.

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Welcome to Part 2 of the Chiron in Taurus Practice series. In this installment we explore scarcity imprints and the concept of enoughness in relationship to the material realm.

The themes around material survival have been quite loud lately, haven’t they? We’ve had the cyclospora outbreak that has us questioning the safety of what we eat and who we trust to produce our food, alongside people tightening their purse strings in an effort to maintain some sense of security and control amid uncertainty.

Many of us (myself included) have confronted residual wounding around security and stability since Chiron entered Taurus — and maybe even longer, since Uranus was in Taurus from 2018-2026. Now Chiron is retrograding back through Taurus until September 17th to retrace the brief terrain it covered since June, before it re-enters Aries for a final integration of that particular healing journey.

From what I can tell, the overarching theme of Chiron in Taurus seems to center around the concept of scarcity in all its forms, but more simply around enoughness. Chiron is revealing how we unknowingly and without our permission, inherited survival instructions and mental narratives that inform how we relate to money — whether we physically brace for loss, fear dependency, or resist receiving because of what it might ask of us in return. Tack on the fact that we’re also in eclipse season, which means we’re closing and beginning chapters that may not have started with us.

The solar eclipse in Leo on August 12th, for example, sits on the south node, the point of release and the past. Two weeks later, on August 27th/28th there’s a lunar eclipse in Pisces which squares game-changing Uranus, ruler of the future. We’re crossing bridges from one way of being to the next, which is indicative of Chiron as it’s the bridge between Saturn and Uranus: our 3D reality and the transpersonal/spiritual realm. The irony is that this earthly/physical realm is not really separate from the spiritual/invisible realm, but from our limited human perspectives and the narratives we were given, indeed they seem to be.

Money at Center Stage

Money has always been center stage in my life despite wishing otherwise. With Saturn as the ruler of my chart seated in the 8th house of other people’s resources and in a tense square to my Moon of what nurtures and sustains me, money has always come with strings attached, or it didn’t come at all. It’s common with this placement to feel restricted in getting one’s needs met along with a pattern of self-sufficiency.

I also have Chiron in Taurus in my 4th house which makes my foundational sense of security genuinely unstable. ‘I wish I could, but I can’t’ was a mantra I heard all throughout my childhood. There was technically enough, thankfully — but never more than enough, just barely enough. However, despite not having a lot growing up, I’ve always been aware that I have a lot more than others.

My mother was the main breadwinner. She worked as many jobs as necessary and still managed to keep a clean house, even though I had imitation Z. Cavariccis and fake Keds, and didn’t have the kinds of snacks my friends had at their houses. I didn’t get to go to sleep away camp like my friends, but I did get to be at a basketball camp for one week every summer because my mother was the nurse there. Her core teaching was that money was hard to come by and required sacrifice and suffering. What wasn’t spoken but felt, was that everyone else seemed to have more and, had it easier, and that we were the oddballs out.

My father who left when I was 7 used to say, “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy a lot of glad”. It was evident he didn’t have a lot of glad, so I knew not to ask him for money. Despite being an intellectual and a genuinely creative and sharp chap, he never once found a way to support us financially, and spent his final years living off of VA benefits. His natal chart was one built for ideas, but with no constructive capacity on how to bring those ideas into form.

My parents did their best and that best was what it was. It didn’t get in the way of me experiencing the world of wealth through friends, and eventually through my ex-husband whose relative was a billionaire. For a handful of years I got to visit a version of wealth that made money seem like it actually did grow on trees. I got to stay at mansions in Montecito with staff and security, eat gourmet meals, receive my first (and only) facial in the comfort of someone else’s home free-of-charge, and I was gifted luxury bath and beauty products that were casually left in the guest rooms. It was incredible to experience all of that, but I knew it was never mine. It felt foreign and distant, and impossible for me to achieve someday.

Especially since, after my divorce, I filed for bankruptcy and accepted less than I was technically owed, because asking for the rest felt like a fight I didn’t have in me at the time. Since then, I’ve turned down positions with more pay because some part of me wasn’t sure I could handle what came along with the title. I’ve also undercharged and overdelivered so consistently it became a personality trait before I noticed it was me operating from my wound.

Today, I’m slowly learning how to receive and value myself, and how to ask for more without giving more away in exchange. But, I’m still in that process and I’m writing this piece from inside of it, which is to say, I have yet to master this material realm. I’m not coming here to share what I’ve learned from reaching the mountaintop. I’m in it with whomever is reading this that feels far away from any semblance of lasting security.

I also share this because I know stories like mine aren’t unique. I’ve heard variations of this from clients and from women in particular, who were taught that wanting more, or god forbid asking for it, is its own kind of character flaw. These stories have roots and they go deeper than any one childhood.

I'm also highlighting how this shows up for me astrologically so you too can look at where Chiron is in your chart and what house it inhabits. That may give you some insight into where and how a scarcity story is aching to be healed.

Original Sin

Which leads me to address a fundamental concept that bleeds into every facet of our human experience. And this isn’t intended as a stab at organized religion as a whole, so much as it is to point to the unconscious imprint of original sin that says we arrive already in a deficit, already lacking, already damaged, already separate, already in need of correction before we’ve done anything at all, and that there are specific things we must do to become worthy of our wholeness again.

This unconscious imprint is there without us needing to buy into it or believe it at all. What’s interesting to me is how this fits beautifully with the archetype of Chiron, who himself was rejected at birth and chose mortality as a way out of his pain and suffering. I’ve also been curious about the fact that Chiron’s orbit sits between Saturn (matter) and Uranus (spirit), and how it acts like the umbilical cord that gets cut at birth, and yet that same separation wound is also the key to re-membering our inherent wholeness.

The key for me is understanding that our primal wound is the illusion that we’re cut off from source and our connection with the divine when we enter this earthly plane. This lie is pervasive in our culture and it feeds directly into transactional dynamics that tell us there’s always a gap to close and that we’re never quite enough.

This can inadvertently show up as an inability to rest, a suspicion of ease, a reflex to earn your seat at the table of life, an inability to receive without feeling like you owe something or someone in return. And this also connects to the Taurus/Scorpio axis running underneath this whole transit because it looks at power dynamics, self-sufficiency, dependency, and the duality between scarcity and abundance. It addresses what belongs to me and what is owed. It shows us what we can hold and what we’re afraid could be taken away.

It’s worth naming, too, that money is one of the few remaining subjects people don’t actually discuss with each other openly, even in close relationships. Numbers in the bank account often stay hidden, unless it’s being used to sell something as proof of success. What is it about money that we are afraid to share? Why does it exist in the shadow? Why is there shame and guilt associated with it?

My sense is that it’s tied into the original imprint of scarcity that was handed down for generations. The quiet undercurrent that informs how we relate to money, and to each other. Meanwhile, money often becomes visible anyway through the cars we drive, the houses we live in, the trips we take (or don’t). But even those can be illusions or something we hide behind. We’re surrounded by financial information we’re not allowed to name out loud, which makes the whole subject all the more isolating and taboo.

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The Currency of Being Seen

The inherited deficit story now lives blatantly in “How To” formulas that are rampant on social media. Things like, “How I went from 150K to 800K followers in three weeks”, “How I make $30k per month on Substack”. It’s an approach that’s packaged like it’s generous and helpful, but actually transmits something else: you’re not enough as you are and what you’re doing is wrong. It’s a comparison trap that shows you someone else’s process and has you left wondering if yours is/was a failure.

I’ll admit, my own reaction to this approach is not neutral at all. Something in me wants to scream and tantrum about it and I’m looking at that directly. Especially now with both Jupiter and the south node in Leo, which is, as paradoxical as it sounds, both expanding our desire to be seen and forcing us to recognize the shadow of that same need. Together they make this whole performance ritual all the more visible, illuminating how it’s become the default and something you have to do to in order to keep up, make money, and stay relevant.

What we’re living through is a visibility race with no finish line and the goalposts are designed to move so some people can never quite catch up unless they follow the unwritten rules of social media, which look something like:

“Just share, just be yourself. Document, don’t create. Serve your audience. Think of ONE person you’re helping and talk to them like you would a friend!”

Those guidelines can make social media feel less performative, but they don’t eliminate the underlying dynamic of making something public because you need it to be seen to produce more clients, sales, or opportunities. Self-promotion isn’t inherently narcissistic or manipulative on its own, but let’s not pretend that social media isn’t performance for attention.

Of course artists have always needed patrons, galleries, publishers, agents and audiences, but creating something and getting it seen are two different jobs. Not everyone is built for both, but somehow along the way social media collapsed those into one job for one person and simply called it “showing up”.

This is where the wound and the culture are interlocked. The game itself is built upon scarcity. You have to compete, differentiate yourself, create urgency, and build authority. The paradox of visibility is that we do need to be seen. We need others to know what we do and what we offer. But what does it mean when visibility itself has turned into currency?

Somewhere along the way, this has also turned into a popularity contest. Follower counts became a form of social proof, and popularity became connected to credibility, success, income, and impact as though all of those things fit neatly together. More followers means you must be doing something right. Fewer followers means you haven't figured it out yet. Poor you.

And maybe that's what bothers me most about all of this: I don't actually believe popularity is a particularly good measure of value. I don't believe the person who commands the most attention is necessarily making the most meaningful contribution. And yet we've built an entire economy that increasingly behaves as though they are the same thing.

Even a lot of supposedly generous marketing that says to just give value can still operate within that structure. Everyone watching everyone else’s engagement and wondering if there is enough room, attention, or money in it for all of us to be doing this work at the same time.

The compare-and-despair economy runs on urgency and lack: someone else has more, therefore you have less, therefore you must move faster or do exactly what they are doing because that’s the proven method, even if it’s not in alignment with your own true self-expression.

There’s a storyline here that everyone gets it but I don’t, everyone else is good at this, but I’m not.

And this is where I have to turn the mirror back on myself, because I recognize this story. It’s the unspoken message I absorbed growing up. Everyone else had more and somehow had it easier. Social media pours salt on that wound. And it’s funny because I wonder if I would be questioning any of this if I were winning at the game. I honestly don’t know. Maybe part of what I’m calling refusal to play the game is actually my disappointment. Maybe part of it is exhaustion after years of trying to figure out how to do this whole thing.

Though I don’t think this is about switching the script and claiming it’s an abundant world and everyone can win here, because I think that’s a strategy that still accepts the game as it’s designed, it just imagines there are trophies out there for everyone, when really, there aren’t. So maybe it’s more about questioning the rules entirely.

Because right now there is real support in questioning and becoming aware of the paradigm we’ve unconsciously agreed to. With Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Pluto and the north node in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, we’re asked to start operating from our own internal signal instead of outsourcing our worthiness to someone else’s metrics. It’s time to actually experiment with another way of getting our work into the world, and getting paid for it.

The solar eclipse brings all of this into sharper focus revealing the complicated relationship we have with visibility, recognition, and being witnessed. What happens when being seen stops being an expression of our creative life force and starts feeling economically necessary? When does sharing become performing? When does recognition become validation? And how much of ourselves are we willing to shape around what gets rewarded in order to simply survive?

The lunar eclipse in Pisces takes this a step deeper to address the guilt, shame, and comparison that can arise when our reality doesn’t match what we think we deserve. It also asks whether we can we trust life to support us? And more importantly, can we trust ourselves?

Which leaves me wondering: what do I actually have to do to sustain myself in a system that fundamentally runs on the concept of scarcity? How I can I change how I relate to that without pretending I can simply opt out of the material plane I live in?

Here’s my truth in all of this: I don’t want to perform for my dinner. I actually refuse to do it. I don’t want to continually manufacture visibility in order to justify the existence of what I create. I don’t want to show up on Instagram or Substack with a song and a dance, a trendy reel, fishing for clients or having to post on a schedule so the algorithm rewards my behavior. And yet, I don’t know what to do to erect a parallel structure outside of these systems as they are.

I honestly have no idea what comes after this. I don't know whether influencer culture is ending or simply changing shape. I don't know whether there is some better model waiting to emerge, and whether I will even fit into whatever comes next. But I can at least question the metrics because I no longer believe more followers automatically means more value, more money, or that more visibility means more impact. And I won’t keep playing by those rules simply because someone tells me this is “just how it works”. There’s a difference between failing to win the game and questioning whether you even consented to play the game in the first place.

When Healing Doesn’t Pay the Mortgage

I have spent years examining my relationship with money, worth, receiving, dependence, and security. I have spent thousands of dollars on coaches, therapists and programs to try to heal my money wounds. I would like to tell you that it produced lasting financial stability. It hasn’t yet. But I’m not willing to turn that reality into evidence that I haven’t healed enough, believed enough, manifested correctly, or uncovered that one subconscious block that will fix it all.

I’m starting to see that marketing culture and healing culture can make strangely similar promises. Marketing says: follow the formula and you’ll succeed. Healing culture says: heal the block and abundance will follow. Both can leave you assuming that if the desired outcome hasn’t arrived, there must still be something you’re doing wrong. It’s the original deficit story all over again.

To me the Chiron journey is not about becoming the perfectly healed authority who teaches from the mountaintop or shows us that inner work makes us invulnerable to real life challenges. It asks what wisdom we gain when a wound remains partly unresolved, without romanticizing our suffering or pretending the wound is secretly a blessing.

There’s another piece in this that’s important to acknowledge: Saturn and Neptune moving through Aries can instigate an impulse and illusion that we must do all of this healing work alone, which further exacerbates the separation wound. Yes, self-responsibility is essential, but the north node and Pluto are in Aquarius now, which shows us how much we need community and collaboration in order to survive. Because when we isolate, we actually miss the opportunity of being truly seen. Evolution doesn’t happen in isolation, and understanding and healing often happen in relationship.

Perhaps healing our relationship with security begins with questioning whatever version of healing we think we need to have in order to prove to ourselves that we are enough. The notion that “True security comes from within” can even become its own bypass because material security and money matter. Inner security may help us respond to instability, yes, but it doesn’t pay the mortgage.

And here’s the thing about affirmations, since I know some of you have tried them and wondered why they didn’t work out the way you intended: what I’ve come to understand is that they were never going to be enough on their own (ironic, I know). You can repeat a sentence over and over, but when your nervous system is still bracing for loss, that sentence doesn’t get absorbed as truth, it just gets logged as one more thing that doesn’t match reality. Which is to say, it’s not that inner healing work doesn’t matters. It’s just not a cure-all. You can be aware of your wounds and still struggle financially because you live inside difficult economic and systemic structures. You can change your relationship with receiving without feeling like it’s your fault, even if what you want doesn’t arrive the way you want it.

I’m not claiming to have answers to this part of the puzzle yet, but I’m open to receiving them as I continue to ask big questions. But, I’ve included some practices below that have helped move the needle in my own healing work around money.

It’s not lost on me that this part is somewhat ironic given that this platform runs on the same visibility economy that drives me nuts, and the paywall is its own survival strategy inside a system I’m simultaneously calling out yet also dependent upon. Seeing the cracks in it doesn’t resolve the problem, but not naming it also feels inadequate in its own right because I don’t get to opt out of capitalism quite yet.

There are 8 practices below for paid subscribers. Of course there’s no need to do them all, but find one or two that register as either resistance or excitement in your body, because usually those two co-exist on a razor’s edge and working with them may help you expand into your next iteration with more capacity to receive.

Practice 1: Building Capacity

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When Chiron first entered Taurus in June, I wrote about the larger collective terrain of this transit. If you haven’t read that piece yet or you’d like to revisit it, you can find it here.

As promised, this is the first installment of my Chiron Healing Practice Series, which offers somatic practices and journal prompts intended to transform survival strategies so you can expand your capacity to receive all the Taurus things, like pleasure, abundance, and ease.

In a time when everything moves fast and we’re inundated with information from every angle, the practices in this series invite you to rebel against everything within you that wants to rush through this process.

These simple, slow, sensory, repetitive and embodied practices reflect the way Taurus approaches healing—with patience, steadiness, and attention to the five senses. The simplicity of carving out undisturbed presence for these cannot be overstated.

I’m writing this with the long haul in mind as Chiron is only in Taurus through September 17th, after which it will retrograde back into Aries until April 14, 2027. Whenever you’re reading this — now, or a year from now— these practices are something you can return to.

In this series, we’ll explore three parts…

Part One looks at the unconscious narrative of “enoughness” we formed around our self-worth. We look at how wounds become conclusions, how those conclusions become embodied, and how you can transform that adaptation into a different lived experience.

Part Two explores our relationship with material security, money, values, scarcity imprints and fears, and receiving. We’ll look at inherited beliefs that consider support weak, dangerous, temporary, or simply unavailable. We’ll reframe how we approach generosity, abundance, and surviving in a world that’s competitive rather than collaborative.

Part Three turns the lens on our bodies and our relationship with the natural world, beauty, aging, illness, rest, and bodily change. We’ll look at the possibility of relating to our bodies as something to love and care for rather than fix or correct…as something safe and pleasurable to inhabit, rather than run from.

Each part includes a public reflection followed by a paid section that features journal prompts and embodiment practices for bringing the work into your lived experience.

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A Shift in Perspective

While a core tenet of my work centers around the concept of, ”Change your perception, change your life”, this doesn’t mean perception creates every condition, or that all suffering can be simply thought away, though I consider that may be true on a quantum or holographic level.

I believe in and have witnessed miracles, but sometimes affirmations and mindset shifts cannot magically supply materially resources exactly when we need them. And certainly no perceptual shift can prevent the inevitable reality of aging, loss, or death.

But, our beliefs do influence our actions: whether we think we deserve help, whether we’ll ask for what we need, interpret receiving as dangerous, punish our bodies or care for them, or whether we allow our wound to become our identity.

We can change how we relate to what happens in our lives. Self-empowerment is not about believing we control everything, it’s more about recognizing we have self-agency in how we choose to work with what shows up.

In the mythology of Chiron, he never fully healed from his wound. But he learned how to work with it without requiring the wound to disappear. He then taught others how to do that for themselves.

This is the potential of working with our Chiron wounds. The Wounded Healer is both wounded and fully capable of experiencing something more, not in spite of the wound, but because of it.

All that said, healing the Chiron wound in Taurus can be especially complex as it relates to wounding around basic survival needs such as money, medical care, safe housing, nourishment through food, rest, freedom from abusive relationships, or even simply feeling safe in our own bodies.

This is not to bypass those real, lived experiences, but to offer, even in the most challenging moments of crisis, simple practices that can help you regulate and return home to yourself — to experience a different experience within your current experience.

Identifying Without Identifying

I think the first person I heard articulate this idea was fellow astrologer, Adam Sommer, who described our Chiron wounds as the lies we were told, or the conclusions we made about ourselves that were installed before we had the perspective or developmental capacity to challenge them. They become the central wounds around which we organize our self-concept, expectations, and behaviors.

Let’s say a parent jokingly repeated a phrase throughout your childhood like, ”None of you are any good.” As a child, you wouldn’t have had the developmental capacity to contextualize it as teasing or sarcasm. That phrase may have landed as truth in your unconscious to become an organizing principle that formed an inner narrative, such as: “I’m not good enough”.

From there, you might have developed unconscious behaviors to prove, accomplish, or make yourself indispensable to others as validation of that that internal narrative.

Maybe you grew up in an environment where financial support was inconsistent, if not available at all. Your organizing principle and inner expectation might have become: “I must never need, because there’s never enough anyways” — or— “I must hold on tightly, because something will get taken away”. This could make asking for help difficult, or you could hoard money or resources in fear of loss.

Maybe there were quiet expectations present in your household about how you should look or present yourself. From there you concluded how you look is the reason you don’t feel loved or accepted as you are. The adaptive behaviors for this could include anything from an eating disorder to other forms of self-harm or self-loathing.

If your unconscious story is, “I’m not good enough,” no amount of accomplishment or proof will permanently override that program because your system will continue to return to where that belief was installed, and where it got stuck.

Protective patterns live in our bodies and show up in how we posture and position ourselves in life. We learn to brace before disappointments, give before anyone asks, anticipate rejection, save every penny, or spend every cent before it runs out, ignore fatigue, mistrust pleasure, or prepare for loss when something good arrives.

We often don’t even realize we’re doing these things until we slow it all down, stop distracting ourselves, stop anticipating loss, and actually pause to encounter the driving narrative underneath. Chiron in Taurus offers us an opportunity to change this approach so we unlearn survival patterns that continue to keep us from receiving the life we want.

What Becomes Possible

We often focus on what a protective strategy costs us, but it’s equally important to see what it prevents us from experiencing. Sometimes the things that protect us from a feared outcome are also shielding us from their opposite expression like intimacy, delight, or growth.

This is why transformation can feel paradoxical: we want change, but we’re scared to actually receive what we want because, what happens if we actually get it? What might be expected of us? What if it’s taken away?

If I no longer need to be perfect, I might finish actually finish what I begin. Then what?

If I didn’t need to be self-sufficient to prevent disappointment, I might allow someone to support me. What would that be like? What might that mean about me?

If I didn’t overextend myself to ensure acceptance, I might see which relationships withstand me setting boundaries. Who would stay? Who would go?

If I don’t need to hide who I am from criticism, I might share my work more freely. What if people don’t care?

If I didn’t brace against pleasure, I might receive something without expecting it will leave. That would be feel strange.

We may unknowingly operate out of old painful stories, but at least they’re familiar and our nervous system knows how to respond. New possibilities, on the other hand, require us to experience ourselves differently and to be different versions of ourselves — and that can be terrifying.

Embodying a Different Experience

The practices that follow are for anyone who has tried to change an old belief through insight alone and discovered that understanding where it came from does not necessarily change how it lives in your body. We can’t always think our way out of an old story. Your body might need to feel another experience to really believe change is possible.

The following practices are Taurus-focused. They invite physical stillness, sustained eye contact, repetition through writing with your hand (not on a laptop), pleasurable and presence-saturated experiences, and compassionate contact with yourself.

Instead of trying to disprove a belief, you’ll experiment with what it feels like to remain present with what surfaces while giving yourself a chance to experience something new.

This is not a checklist or another thing to add to your to-do list. Think of it like a menu: pick one, maybe two that speak to you. Keep it simple and consistent. A small practice returned to more often will do more for you than several practices attempted once.

I’m sharing these as experimental practices that I will do alongside you in real time. I hope we can all report back on what, if anything, actually shifts. Sometimes change is loud and obvious, but more often (especially with Taurus), change is subtle and takes consistency and patience.

There’s no way of doing this wrong, other than trying to do it right.

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As the nodes prepare to leave the Virgo/Pisces axis I keep thinking about how many people I’ve spoken to recently who feel stuck, confused, or uncertain about where they’re going. Which makes sense as this is the nature of having the north node in Pisces—it’s a directional compass that points to the liminal space of uncertainty.

This transit wasn’t designed to be a time when we figured it all out. If anything it’s been a transit that’s taught us how to let go of figuring anything out at all. It’s taught us to release all the shadow Virgo things: expectations, control patterns, perfectionism, worry, and deluded fantasies that if we just do the “right” thing, we can bypass uncertainty altogether.

The Virgo part of us will always crave clarity by way of control, but the Pisces part of us knows that clarity only arrives after surrender.

I called this transit a vision quest when it started out in January 2025. I still think it holds true as we’ve been orienting to a new reality while old familiar maps fall away. We’re listening, watching, waiting for a higher vision that’s calling us onward. We’ve also been strengthening our intuitive muscles by being stripped of our outdated coping strategies.

We’re still free-falling into the wild unknown.

Now we hear a new train in the distance as the nodes will shift into the axis of Leo and Aquarius on July 26th. But before we lean into what’s coming, it’s worth pausing to honor the longer arc of what’s led us here.

Since 2018, we’ve done some serious foundational work that this nodal shift will build upon. Chiron entered Aries in 2018 to heal our wounds around identity and Uranus entered Taurus to disrupt everything we’d come to rely on for security. Saturn also paved its way through Pisces in 2023 and restructured what was washed away by Neptune since 2011. Pluto, of course, did a massive demolition project on our societal structures from 2008-2024.

These weren’t comfortable transits, but they did some deep clearing work. Recently the south node in Virgo asked us to stop proving through doing, and soon the south node in Leo will ask us to stop performing to impress, to stop managing how we’re perceived, to stop curating our visibility, and to stop presenting a version of ourselves we constructed for approval, rather than the version that’s born from our truth.

Where the south node in Virgo has helped us release over-functioning and hyper-vigilance, the south node in Leo will take the baton and help us shed yet another layer of what prevents our true expression so we can shine as we were designed—to make this world brighter.

All this is to say, the preparation for this next phase has been years in the making.

The Bridge

There’s a brief but significant bridge moment here. Jupiter is currently in Cancer, and it’s the ruling planet of the transiting north node in Pisces. This magnified the deep, reflective, intuitive, and receptive quality of the nodal transit. We’ve been growing through softening, feeling, trusting, forgiving, grieving, dreaming.

But on June 29th, Jupiter moves into Leo while the north node remains in Pisces for one more month, which means the ruler of the north node moves from a moon-ruled sign to a sun-ruled sign — from a reflective principle to an emitting principle. We switch gears and cross a bridge from intuition to expression. It’s like the sun starts shining through the fog and we can start to see where we’re going (finally).

This is not the full Leo/Aquarius story yet, but it is a golden thread between the Pisces/Virgo healing work and the next evolutionary assignment. After so much dampness, heaviness, processing, and emotional clearing, something in us begins to remember warmth as our creative life force energy returns.

A New Syllabus Arrives

I like to think of the nodal transits as soul coursework that elevate us to the next grade level every 18 months. If we’re paying attention to astrology, we get the syllabus ahead of time…so, here’s your syllabus.

Our next course begins July 26, 2026 and goes through March 26, 2028 as the north node moves into Aquarius, and the south node into Leo.

The last time the north node was in Aquarius and the south node in Leo was 2007-2009, and the last time the north node moved through Leo and the south node was in Aquarius was 2017-2018.

It may be worth reflecting on what was evolving in your life during those periods—particularly around visibility, creativity, belonging, leadership, children, individuation, freedom, community, and the tension between authenticity and approval.

With the north node moving into Aquarius you’re about to piece together a most paradoxical puzzle, which says:

This may feel like a big ask, but the reward is: liberation.

To understand what this means, we must understand Aquarius. Though it’s often reduced to being the weirdo intellectual of the friend group, the detached observer, the rebel and the outsider, it’s also a highly attuned transmitter that senses into frequencies and sees patterns (and ways out of them) before the collective recognizes them.

There’s something deeply spiritual about Aquarius because it invites us to consider new angles and possibilities that guide us towards a higher consciousness. Aquarius is also, at its best expression, about feeling free to be our true selves, which in turn inspires others to do the same.

If you haven’t read my piece on the Aquarian Frequency, now would be a good time to brush up on what this sign is about because, yes, even if you’re not an Aquarius Sun, Moon, or Rising, you have Aquarius somewhere in your chart, and this area of your life will call for your attention over the next 18 months.

The Aquarian Way

When the north node moves into Aquarius, the directional pull shifts toward something both highly individual and in service of the collective. We’ll be guided to understand how our individuality is actually a contribution to the larger scope of life precisely because, we refuse to perform for it.

This isn’t so much about doing anything so much as it’s about being the specific frequency that only comes through you when you’re not contorting yourself for approval.

When we no longer erase ourselves for the sake of the collective, we become freer to contribute from the coherence of who we truly are, and there’s less overall distortion in the collective field. When people become deeply connected to what’s alive and real within themselves, it gives others permission to do that, which creates a win-win for all.

It makes me think of a quote often attributed to Howard Thurman that says:

The north node in Aquarius calls for a new expression of leadership as the old models of leadership fall away with the south node through Leo.

We’re called to become the leaders we’ve been waiting for—the ones who live in alignment with our hearts. The ones who know that collaboration includes and honors each individual as the way forward.

A key consideration here is that Saturn, the master builder and traditional ruling planet of the north node in Aquarius, is currently in Aries. This shapes the road to authentic self-expression in a harmonious way, but not without its share of blocks, delays, consequences, and limitations. It will call for discipline, self-responsibility, patience, and the resilience to stay the course without self-abandoning.

You already have some support with this as Pluto has been slowly excavating the Aquarius house in your chart since 2024. Now as the north node moves into that same territory, something new will be rebuilt and reborn through your unique expression.

In our call to create a new future, this is our opportunity to embody the true essence of who we are and who we were before life and the world told us to be something else—because the future we all want to live in cannot and will not be built on a foundation of self-abandonment and self-erasure.

The Shadow of Leo

Like Aquarius, Leo is often misunderstood. It’s actually not inherently performative or drama-seeking. In fact, many Leo-dominant people are surprisingly shy, because visibility itself is vulnerable. This is particularly true for Leo Risings, in my experience.

With Leo’s ruler being the Sun, we have to remember that the Sun is never really “off.” It doesn’t try to shine. It doesn’t ask for permission. It simply shines because that’s its nature. Even on cloudy days, the light still comes through, and there’s something confronting about that kind of visibility when there’s nowhere to hide.

To be seen is to not only be potentially admired, but to also to be witnessed in the rawness of our flawed humanness. Solar light doesn’t just illuminate, it also exposes and reveals what’s been hidden. It casts shadows and shows us the prevalence of contrast.

The shadow of Leo often forms around the wound of not being truly seen, not celebrated, not seen as special, not chosen or mirrored accurately. When the heart’s natural radiance is not received well, the self can begin to organize around performance and what behaviors get attention rather than emitting one’s true essence. This is how Leo’s light can get distorted.

In the shadow of Leo, instead of shining because it’s natural to shine, we shine in order to be validated. We don’t create from the heart, we create for applause.

Instead of expressing our truth, we craft an identity. Instead of being generous and courageous leaders, we feel entitled to maintain a certain image of power and prestige.

Leo’s shadow is not only narcissistic or spectacle though. Sometimes it’s shame or fear of rejection, from which we hide ourselves because we’re afraid of being seen as “too much”.

Inside the shadow is usually something much more tender: our inner child aches to be delighted in. It’s that part of us that wanted someone’s face to light up when we entered the room.

Sometimes that shadow expression can show up as the person who dominates the conversation, but it can also be the person who refuses to enter the conversation at all. It can be the performer, but also be the person who hides their gifts because visibility doesn’t feel safe. It can be grandiosity, but also the collapse that happens after we feel unseen.

With the south node moving through Leo, we’re asked to drain and release ego identification and identities structured around approval. It’ll expose what’s become overdeveloped or exhausting to maintain. People may confront false identities, fear of visibility, and start to see that why they do what they do isn’t really about what they want.

It’ll ask: who are you beneath performing, conditioning, branding, coping, trauma responses, and inherited identities? Are you willing to organize your life around what is actually resonant with your heart?

Whatever answers you hear will help you embody Leo at its highest expression which is radiant selfhood, creative life force energy, confidence, and the courage to be seen in our authenticity.

A Planetary Paradox

On June 29th, about a month before the nodes change signs, our expansive sky god Jupiter moves into Leo until July 27, 2027. The last time it was in Leo was from July 2014-August 2015, and the last time it was together with the south node was in 1990. Reflect and review accordingly as you could hear some echoes from those times.

Jupiter is an amplifier. It always magnifies the issues or themes related to whatever sign it’s transiting, but unlike Saturn which requires hard work and effort, Jupiter provides opportunities for growth more gracefully. While it transits Leo along with the south node, Jupiter will expand whatever unprocessed material the south node brings up for release.

Yes, Jupiter can bring the bounty, but it can also show us that too much of a good thing is still too much. But that’s where having the south node present can be supportive and tone down the bigness Jupiter can bring. So while false identity structures get stripped down, Jupiter can expand our authentic essence, our confidence, our creativity, and what brings us joy.

The south node will drain the charge around needing to perform for applause or recognition. It will challenge our inner child to do what it loves while no one is watching. Together these two energies can help us see our authentic self more clearly so we expand into being more of ourselves, even if no one else cares.

This could be especially loud in November when Mars, Jupiter, and the south node come together in Leo. It could be a time when the desire to act, express, create, or be seen intensifies. The question will be whether that drive is coming from the authentic heart or from the wounded ego’s need to prove something.

Then from January-April 2027, Mars will retrograde through Leo (but with the pre and post shadow periods we’ll feel this from November-June 2027). This brings more focus around creative expression but could also bring up themes of frustration, competition, rejection, defensiveness, or a crisis of courage. Outward expression turns inward, asking us to return to the heart of the matter, which begs the question: why are we creating/performing/pursuing or fighting to be seen in the first place? What drive is underneath it all?

The Math of the Moment

I see a special kind of spiritual mathematics unfolding in this next chapter. There’s an identity recalibration that’s happening through subtraction, not addition.

For years, many people have approached growth as accumulation: more information, more strategy, more practices, more certifications, more ways to improve the self. But almost every spiritual tradition eventually guides us to some version of an entirely different equation:

We become more of who we are by doing less. We become more who we are by subtracting who we aren’t.

Buddhism teaches us to release attachment to the false self. Taoism guides us back into simplicity, allowance, and ending control patterns to return to right relationship with the flow of life. The mystical traditions of Christianity reveal that the kingdom of God lives within. Sufism speaks of polishing the mirror of the heart. Vedanta points toward the deeper Self beneath conditioning.

In other words, your alignment with truth and your wholeness increases as your fragmentation through falsehood decreases. Carve away all that is false until our truth is the only thing that remains.

Jupiter will show us where we’ve been acting, the south node in Leo will help us drop the mask. From there, our raw, authentic light can shine through. It’s a time to be stripped of what isn’t essentially you as the fire of inspiration burns away what’s no longer alive in you.

Layered beneath all of this is a wound that will need tending as Chiron entered Taurus on June 19th for a three month preview of its long-haul transit from April 2027-July 2033. (Read more about it here).

This means Chiron in Taurus is present in the ingress chart of this nodal transit, which adds an interesting caveat to the subtraction work above. As we release, we also heal the wounds that shaped our beliefs around self-worth, safety, and receiving. The wounds that said our light wouldn’t be welcome without a costume so we learned to make ourselves smaller, quieter, less demanding, and less of a big deal.

Taurus also squares Leo, so there’s a general and persistent tension throughout the entire nodal transit. It carries questions that live in the body instead of the mind, such as: Is it safe to be seen? Am I worthy of this attention? Can I receive acknowledgment and recognition or feedback without bracing for the consequences?

The path forward is not through pushing or trying harder, but relaxing into what feels good, what brings us more joy, and what inspires us.

Where We Go From Here

There’s been a great deal of damp heaviness in the past stretch of time. It’s like we’re finally stepping out of the water after an incredibly long swim with wrinkly skin that yearns to dry out in the sun.

We want our creative life force back. We want to feel inspired again.

With the presence of Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and the south node in fire signs and Pluto, the north node, and Uranus in air signs — there’s more ease and flow in making this happen. So lean in. Use this time to remember that inspiration and being who we really are is not something we have to chase. It is something we open up to receive. It returns when we’re willing to release outdated identities, obligations, and old emotional cloaks that dim our light.

Allow the magnificence of your soul’s light return! May you meet it with courage, humility, and grace, because the medicine we all need is you and me being who we really are, together.

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What This Looks Like For Each Sign

If you’re a student of astrology, it’s worth reflecting on the aspects and house placement of your natal Sun for this transit as this will give you a more nuanced, personalized perspective of what this particular amplification might reveal for you.

It might also be worth paying attention to where the Sun is shining in your chart throughout the next solar year as well.

All of this lands differently depending on where Leo and Aquarius fall in your own chart. Here’s a closer look at what could come up with Jupiter and the South Node in Leo and the north node in Aquarius.

Read for your Sun, Moon, Rising, or Stelliums for a fuller picture.

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Randall is a chiropractor, but the work he does extends beyond traditional chiropractic care because he blends structural bodywork, energy medicine, and medical intuition to listen to the body with his whole being. His work is subtle, specific, and often difficult to describe because it moves between the physical body and the invisible energetic patterns that shape our lived experience.

This conversation moves through a lot of doorways, which feels fitting because the work itself is multidimensional. We talk about what it means to sense and clear energy that may not belong to us, including familial, ancestral, relational, or environmental material we may unconsciously carry. For sensitive people, healers, and empathic transmuters, this can show up as physical symptoms, emotional heaviness, pain, digestive issues, or a sense of not fully inhabiting ourselves.

Randall shares how he distinguishes between a person’s own material and energy they may be unconsciously holding on behalf of someone else, and how that can interfere with the body’s ability to maintain coherence.

We also bring in the astrological timing of this conversation, including Chiron moving into Taurus, the north node in Pisces/south node in Virgo, Uranus moving through Gemini, Saturn in Aries, and Jupiter’s recent transit through Cancer. These transits speak to themes of embodiment, intuition, self-responsibility, ancestral healing, boundaries, and returning to the body as a source of intelligence.

Another thread of this episode is the difference between outsourcing healing and learning to reconnect with our own innate wisdom, as we both believe that the body is not a machine, it is a living, intelligent system. Symptoms are not random inconveniences, they’re often invitations to listen more deeply, slow down, notice what needs attention, and return to a more intentional relationship with ourselves.

What we didn't expand on is that our work together is something that feels almost like time travel, as together we can access the age or moment when a part of us became lodged, frozen, or exiled, and then repair, reclaim, or release what’s needed. This is where our blend of analysis, intuition, witnessing, meditation, and body-based healing comes together in a powerful way.

We also talk about the importance of relationship as a vehicle for healing. While AI and other tools can help us connect the dots intellectually, there is something uniquely transformative about being witnessed by another human being. Healing requires presence, attunement, accountability, sometimes touch, a felt sense of safety, and the experience of being seen in ways we cannot always see ourselves.

This is also why Randall and I created our shared offering, the Integration Intensive, a 90-minute session that combines astrology, intuitive counseling, parts work, psychological integration, structural bodywork, and energetic release. I help illuminate the psychological narrative, astrological timing, and inner material that is ready to be addressed, while Randall tracks how this lives in the body and energetic field, while supporting its release.

Together, our work bridges insight and embodiment to facilitates deep change in a short amount of time. This is for you if you feel ready for a quantum leap, are frustrated in your healing process, or want to experience a new level of healing.

We close our conversation talking about intuition, the sixth sense, and the gifts so many of us carry but were never taught to trust. This is meaningful since Chiron moves into Taurus on the 19th, which invites us back into the body, back to our instincts, back into the wisdom of the earth, and into a more embodied relationship with the healing process.

This episode is an invitation to remember that healing is not always about fixing ourselves. Sometimes it is about releasing what was never ours to carry, listening to what the body has been saying all along, and reconnecting with the innate intelligence that has always been within us.

If you’re interested in learning more about Dr. Randall and his work and you’d like to book a session with him or with us in our Integration Intensive, please visit The Healing Garage.

On June 19th, Chiron will return to the sign of Taurus where it was when it was discovered on November 1, 1977. This is a preview transit as Chiron will not move away from 0 degrees of Taurus through September 17, 2026. It will continue its long-haul transit on April 14, 2027 through July 19, 2033.

This means Chiron is beginning its own Chiron Return in terms of its presence as an archetype in our collective consciousness. I’m fascinated with this because with its discovery came the rise of the holistic health movement. So the return of Chiron to its own natal Chiron signals a collective re-membering of what healing and health actually mean to us.

We’ve been somewhat preparing for this with the transiting nodes in the healing axis of Virgo and Pisces over the past 17 months. This has helped us release outworn Virgo patterns of hyper-vigilance, over-functioning, over-serving and self-sacrifice while strengthening our Piscean trust muscles and grounding us in our intuition.

With Jupiter as the ruling planet of the north node transiting through Cancer, we’re still growing our capacity to receive care, honor our needs, and let nourishment become part of our healing path. This is essential medicine we’ll bring with us through the Chiron in Taurus transit because we now know we cannot heal our worth, our bodies, our money stories, or our sense of stability while continuing to abandon ourselves through patterns of depletion and burn-out.

Chiron in Taurus will take this process a step further by softening our survival strategies through slow, incremental, repetitive methods — the way Taurus does healing. We’ll see that healing doesn’t always require a descent into crisis in the Scorpionic way that our cultural and spiritual mythology is oriented around, ie: dark night of the soul, breakdown, shadow and catharsis.

Though that model is real and has its place, Chiron in Taurus will show us it’s not the only model. It will invite a new conversation around pleasure, our bodies, the rhythms and seasons of the earth, the process of creation, and trusting our five senses.

We’ll see how we’ve been conditioned to dismiss certain forms of healing because they are slow, natural, or simply not profitable. We’ll also be asked to look at the result of being trained out of trusting our animal instincts, our appetite, our symptoms, our pace, and our direct relationship with life.

Some of what Chiron in Taurus brings may feel familiar because Uranus moved through Taurus from 2018-2026 shaking up our relationship with money, food, our bodies, beauty, nature, stability, and survival.

Uranus in Taurus disrupted the old value system and exposed how unnatural modern life had become for humans. It awakened movements around slow living, eating at home, reconnecting with the earth, and resisting anti-aging culture. We’ve been in a process of redefining what security, stability, values, and presence mean.

The distinction is that where Uranus brought the recking ball, Chiron will bring the repair. Uranus in Taurus woke us up to what was no longer sustainable, Chiron in Taurus will ask us to tend to it more deeply.

It’s one thing to reject impossible beauty standards, it’s another thing to heal the body shame. It’s one thing to start growing your own food, it’s another thing to heal the nervous system patterns that say it’s not ok to slow down.

Chiron in Taurus is a more intimate invitation to heal the deeper fractures that we know exist. It’s less of a rebellious aesthetic or trend, and more about true embodiment and reclamation.

About Chiron

Chiron was an immortal centaur who was wise, kind, and educated in herbalism, astrology, surgery, and medicine. He was a teacher to many, Chiron was considered different than other centaurs, was rejected by his father, and was later wounded by a poisoned arrow. Unfortunately he couldn’t heal his own wound and as an immortal this meant he would have to live in perpetual pain, so he chose instead to sacrifice his immortality.

Chiron’s archetype reflects our primal wound of separation that happens at birth continues through the ruptures we experience in early childhood. Its symbolism speaks to the part of us that feels deeply misunderstood, out of place, or that something is inherently wrong with us.

Chiron’s 50-52 year orbit means we spend half a century working on healing these wounds, but over time we acquire wisdom that becomes our unique medicine to share with others who suffer from the same wound.

Chiron’s glyph is shaped like a key to symbolize what we unlock when we commit to our healing. By accepting our pain and tending to our wounds, we reclaim our wholeness and re-member ourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience. This is also evident in Chiron’s orbit between Saturn and Uranus, which serves as a cosmic bridge between our three-dimensional reality to our transpersonal reality.

Chiron’s myth informs us that our wounds are not burdens, but doorways to our healing. We can learn to turn our victim stories into victory stories by becoming empowered participants in our healing journey. Chiron’s myth reminds us that our pain in human form is not forever, but the wisdom we share with others can have a lasting impact.

What Chiron also does is confront us with a powerful question: what does it mean to live with a wound that doesn’t fully disappear?

The point is not that the wound disappears and only then can we become qualified to speak about it. The point is that we stop being entirely organized around it and collapse in shame every time we touch into it.

We stop making our wound our whole story and start translating our wound into wisdom to share with others.

It’s about acknowledging our wound while knowing that it doesn’t have to define us or influence how we move through the world. It’s about learning that what was once a source of pain can become a source of wisdom and strength.

Reflecting on Chiron in Aries

Chiron has been in Aries since 2018, confronting us with wounds around identity, anger, and our right to exist. It’s amplified the wounded masculine, “us vs. them” narratives, and showed us the consequences of avoiding risk and conflict.

The Chiron in Aries journey has been helping us heal distortions around identity so we can become confident spiritual warriors who don’t fight for domination or control, but stand rooted in truth, and lead with courage and compassion from a place of self-sovereignty.

It’s been an opportunity to take action despite fear, take bold steps without external validation, and to transform reactive tendencies into deliberate responses. This healing journey also invites self-responsibility and deep self-respect.

The Chiron in Aries journey isn’t over just yet though as Chiron will retrograde back into Aries before it fully settles into Taurus in April 2027. For the next three months, we’ll build upon what we learned from our Chiron in Aries experiences so that the healing we do can land more fully in our bodies.

Let Me Hear Your Body Talk

With the rise of AI and digital life, Chiron in Taurus invites us back home into our bodies and our five senses. We could see a greater rise in the slow food movement, regenerative farming, herbal medicine, body-based healing, aromatherapy, and sound or art therapies.

People may be more drawn to the outdoors, simple pleasures, and slow, rhythmic routines. Not just to romanticize the past or reject modern advancements, but because we’ll recognize that healing cannot happen when we’re severed from the earth or our bodies. This could look like feet on the grass, hands in the dirt, seasonal meals made at home, a consistent bedtime, and walking meditations that help our nervous systems relax and trust the predictability of life.

We may also reclaim trust in our lived experiences and reclaim our bodies as sensing instruments and reliable sources of data. We could heal years of conditioning that trained us to neglect our animal instincts. We could also unravel impossible beauty standards and make peace with aging as we resist feeding industries that profit off our insecurities.

This will be a chance to reclaim the body as a vehicle for healing rather than simply a source of pain and suffering. Chiron in Taurus may expose where we don’t feel safe in our bodies or treat them as the enemy. It’ll show us how we learned not to need to much, want to much, ask for too much, or trust in support unless we earned it first.

We may also learn how to listen to and respond differently while tending to important and necessary cues like hunger, pain, desire, or grief. We’ll get to see that managing, optimizing, diagnosing, and fixing our bodies is neither sustainable nor effective, while remembering that our bodies are inherently intelligent and designed to heal.

We may also be asked to transform our relationship with pleasure. Where we once saw pleasure as indulgent, dangerous, selfish, impractical, or unavailable, we may begin to recognize it as a pathway to healing, renewal, and embodied trust.

Healing might come through creating consistent and repeatable systems in your life that are enjoyable, and even fun! You might start feeding yourself well, charging or asking for more, resting without having to earn it first, making your life more beautiful, and letting pleasure be part of your repair.

Physical movement and exercise could become something we do because it’s restorative instead of just to sculpt our physique.As an interesting astrological side note: Joseph and Clara Pilates opened their New York studio in 1926, the same year Chiron first entered Taurus in that cycle. Then in 1934, during Chiron’s brief return to Taurus before moving into Gemini, Joseph Pilates published Your Health, which included his philosophy of corrective exercise, body-mind healing, posture, breath, and vitality.

I love this little historical rhyme because Pilates is such a Chiron in Taurus modality: it’s slow, repetitive, strengthening, stabilizing, and deeply rooted in the intelligence of the body.

Show Me The Money

Taurus also relates to material comfort and our primal survival needs like food, shelter, stability, and the resources we need to feel rooted and safe in our lives.

When Chiron moves through Taurus, it may reveal the wounds we carry around these themes so we can begin to close the loop on beliefs that keep us stuck in patterns of unworthiness, scarcity, and constant struggle.

We may see the truth of our self-worth stories and notice where money shame and distorted ideas around support have shaped what we allow ourselves to want, receive, earn, enjoy, or keep.

For some, the money wound is obvious: there was never enough money, stability, food, shelter, or support. For others, there may have been enough material support, but not enough love, presence, attention, affection, emotional or physical safety.

Either way the overarching theme of enoughness will come into focus.

We’ll get a chance to reclaim the parts of ourselves that learned to settle for less, brace for collapse, reject support, distrust ease, or believe that wanting more made us greedy, selfish, unsafe, or impossible to love.

We’ll also encounter our fear of loss, our fear of dependency or needing anything from anyone, and address any fears of wanting more than what’s been available. This transit may have us look more honestly at family systems, class systems, obligations, debt, inheritance, autonomy, power, survival, receiving, and self-esteem.

Scarcity fears may also be amplified and become more obvious due to economic instability and job loss due to AI. This means we may be actively working towards healing economic imbalances and disparity. We may also shift how scarcity lives in our bodies so that it no longer informs our capacity to receive. We may even become more creative and innovative due to necessity as I explored in my Uranus in Gemini Pt. 2 post.

During the arc of the Chiron in Taurus transit, we’ll also have aspects to Pluto in Aquarius, Jupiter and the south node in Leo and eventually Saturn in Taurus, which could activate bigger questions around who owns what resources, how wealth is distributed, and who feels safe inside the systems we live in.

These additional planetary transits will also influence the quality of Chiron in Taurus in terms of how we safe we feel with visibility and success so we tend to the places inside that still don’t feel safe enough to receive, create, or lead. This will invite us to integrate the parts of us that learned to survive by shrinking, bracing, pleasing, proving, or staying hidden. We’ll also see how nervous system regulation is the foundation for how we show up in the world.

The Chiron Return

For my fellow Chiron in Taurus folk born from roughly 1977-1984, we’ll be starting our Chiron Return, which happens around ages 49-52, when Chiron returns to the same sign and degree it occupied when we were born. This often marks a threshold in our healing journey when we begin to relate to our wounds differently from a new perspective.

This process may bring up deep material around all that I mentioned above, but also the generational component of what we’ve come to learn about health, healing, trauma, the nervous system, herbalism, astrology, food as medicine, and alternative healing modalities.

If you were born with planets or angles in the fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius, this transit could feel more potent for you as well.

To understand what this transit will reveal and heal for you, look to the Taurus house in your chart to see where you’ll being asked to heal your relationship with safety, worth, pleasure, support, money, embodiment, and receiving.

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Since then, I’ve had a few more random thoughts, so here’s part 2!

The Moment We’re In

You’ve probably noticed a mixed bag of responses when it comes to the topic of AI. Some people love it, use it regularly, and say it’s made their lives easier, while some hate it with a burning passion.

There are also some of us (including me) who wade in between, remaining rather neutral about it. We’re curious about where it will go and accept that it’s here to stay, whether humans like it or not. These varied and extreme responses seem right on time with Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus now in Gemini through May 22, 2033.

When Uranus moves into a new sign, we know to expect change. When Pluto is present we know that transformation is inevitable. Both of these planets together bring up a very human response: fear.

The good news is that Uranus and Pluto will be in a supportive trine throughout Uranus’ journey in Gemini, which suggests we may actually adapt to change faster and easier than we think.

As we experience the rapid rise of inventions and advancements that come with this transit, we could also experience more of what many people claim they want: more freedom to be human and enjoy life.

Some may consciously choose this through an analogue lifestyle as a response to increasing complexity or, the influx of AI could actually give people more time to be—well, more human.

The road from here to there may be a bumpy one though, especially for those still holding tightly to the way things have been or holding out for some semblance of certainty. For those who are less attached, flexible, and lean into the changes, the ride could be far more enjoyable and exciting.

The cool thing about Uranus in Gemini is that it gives us options.

We get to awaken to the power of choice and see how that choice extends to how we perceive reality. Do we ride the razor’s edge of fear? Do we expand into possibility with a sense of curiosity and excitement? Or, do we watch in amazement as the world we’ve come to know completely transforms? Maybe a mix of all three, or maybe something else entirely.

Anyway you go with Uranus, you’ll get whatever wake-up call you need to help you become more free.

We’ve Been Here Before

To say we’re living in “unprecedented times” is not quite accurate as we’ve been in a similar landscape before since Uranus moves through Gemini every 84 years. Each transit acts like a jolt to the collective nervous system that initially freaks people out, but also breaks up mental stagnancy and opens portals to expand our human consciousness. These periods are known to change life as we know it in irreversible ways.

For context, Uranus was discovered in 1781, shortly after the start of the Industrial Revolution. Its discovery was meaningful because it symbolized a leap in our collective consciousness that opened us up to new ways of seeing and forced us to question what we had come to know.

William Herschel used a telescope differently than other astronomers at the time, and in doing so saw something beyond what humans had assumed was “the end”. This moved all of humanity beyond the boundary of Saturn, and opened doors to new perceptions of reality that couldn’t be seen with the naked eye. All with the help of technology. In a way, technology became the bridge that took us from Saturn (our three dimensional realm) and Uranus (the transpersonal realm).

The most intriguing part in sharing this is that Uranus was in Gemini at the time of its own discovery. And you know where Pluto was? In Aquarius. They weren’t aspecting each other like they are now, but that’s even more of the point.

In this moment, we have the beneficial support from not just two, but all three outer planets in a harmonious relationship since Neptune is also in Aries sextiling Aquarius and Gemini. This gives us a supportive, inspired, and motivated edge to adapt to what’s ahead.

The Fear of Technology

Uranus was in Gemini for two periods during the arc of the Industrial Revolution—an era that radically shifted how people lived, worked, and thought about life. Uranus was also in Gemini most recently from 1941-1949. As you can imagine, people in those periods were just as scared of uncertainty in regard to technology as people are today of AI and robotics.

During the Industrial Revolution, people feared their skills would be replaced by machines. They also feared electricity, seeing it as dangerous and disruptive to sleep and daily rhythms. There were even campaigns to deter people from using it, which created distrust among the general public who didn’t fully understand it. People looked at electricity as something divine or forbidden, fearing that scientific discoveries would interfere with people’s relationship to God or their connection with the natural world.

In the 1940’s, people faced existential threat as technology merged with warfare tactics alongside the reality that humans created (and used) weapons of mass destruction. Each of those periods marked times when people were living through the collapse of what they knew, which forced them to adapt and reorganize their reality.

These echoes from the past sound quite familiar given what we face today. Even though this particular moment isn’t identical to those times, there’s certainly a rhyme—which is something I love about astrology, because it reflects how we return to similar territory with (hopefully) a new perspective.

It also shows that when an outer planet ingresses into a new sign, it signals that we’re ready for change (whether it feels that way or not). After all, we’ve been primed for a certain level of chaos and disruption after having had Uranus in Taurus since 2018. Hopefully since then we’ve learned a thing or two about cultivating presence, detachment, and grounding amid the prevalence of change. There’s a certain kind of resiliency and robustness that we’ll take with us as we fly into the unpredictable skies of Uranus in Gemini.

No doubt, this could be an era that turns our consensus reality upside down. But it might also break us free from outworn ideologies, and inspire us to experiment in new, exciting ways.

Is it scary in some ways? Heck yeah it is. But let’s not forget we’re living proof that people survive and thrive despite their fears and despite the challenges they face in times of great change.

And, aren’t we grateful for electricity now? The things we commonly take for granted are the exact things people feared during those periods of upheaval and disruption.

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Something I think about a lot is that humans are inherently creative, and simultaneously, destructive. These polarities cannot exist without each other.

A seed has to crack open to become a flower. The egg and sperm get destroyed as they merge into a cell that becomes a human body. Paper was once a tree. All innovation must dismantle whatever came before it in order for it to be, innovative.

We participate in this cycle of regeneration whether we’re conscious of it or not. And yet when we see something like AI emerge, fear emerges as well. Because it isn’t just about what might happen if the technology gets into the wrong hands, it’s about what it might change.

Change is the thing we fear.

And that can be said about so many facets of our lives. We cling to things—our identities, our roles, the structures we rely upon to orient ourselves and make sense of life and give us a sense that all is well in an uncertain world.

Yet we also know things will change, and that we will change. And still there’s something inside of us that is generally resistant to it. Oddly enough, we’re paradoxically also driven to change and evolve. It’s something we want, and something we cannot avoid.

Which brings me to the fact that, humans created AI. And now many are afraid it’ll destroy us. It’s puzzling to wonder why we create things that could potentially bring us harm (and sometimes does bring us harm). But that’s a real part of who we are as curious creatures, and there’s something almost poetic about that. It makes me think of the ouroboros eating its own tail because, that’s us…serpents eating our own tails.

We fear change in its inevitability, but it’s also what we crave. And we cannot help ourselves but be creative and destructive in some way. It’s the cycle of life that lives and breathes through us.

So what is there to fear then if we know the terrain of change so well?

Greeting the Unknown

Here are some questions to sit with or journal about right now, or to come back to at different points while Uranus is in Gemini:

1. What’s my relationship to change?

2. Can I remain open and curious at the edge of the unknown? If not, why not?

3. What is the worst that could happen? What might I do if the worst does happen?

4. What parts of my life do I cling to? What do I know needs to change in my life, but I am hesitant or avoidant to change it?

5. Do I only take risks when I know the outcome?

6. Am I willing to participate in something if I don’t fully understand it yet?

7. What do I need to know in order to feel safe enough to experiment?

8. What could happen if I stopped trying to preserve what was, and instead started co-creating with something new and unfamiliar?

Notice what this brings up in you and what it reveals about how resistance lives within you. Then question where that comes from and how it can change shape if you loosen your grip on “the known”. Notice what happens in your body when you consider the unknown—breathe into it, allowing your breath to create more space and openness around that unknown.

Focusing on the breath can be a very helpful practice in these times as it naturally puts us into a dialogue with the mind and body. It’s also helpful to notice the breath as it points us towards the effortless and constant flow of change.

It reminds us that there is nothing to force or control, only to witness with curiosity. See what shifts as a result of this awareness.

Because this is not the time to reach for certainty or back-track into the past. This is a time to remain flexible, and be willing to engage with new ideas and concepts that shatter what you’ve known before. It’s a time to be inventive, experimental, adaptable, and resourceful in ways you’ve never imagined, simply because you never had to before.

Uranus in Gemini offers all of us an opportunity to think beyond how we see the world, to ask questions on questions, and to stay in an on-going, dynamic dialogue with life and each other. Let’s never assume we have the answers because there is so much more to life that we just don’t know (yet).

Real-Life Implications

Now that AI is here, how do we thrive because of its existence? How do we use technology with consciousness and discernment?

I’m not claiming to have the answers or know anything about where all of this will lead us, but I do trust in humanity’s capacity to handle this leap with some level of grace. Because truly, we don’t give ourselves enough credit for being as innovative and solution-savvy as we actually are.

Will AI and robots replace some jobs? Sure, it’s already happening. And they’ll continue to replace mundane ones that people probably don’t want to do anyways. This will force us to find new income streams, come up with new roles, and engage in trade or business in entirely new ways. We must reorient to these changes instead of holding steady to old, outworn systems.

We’ll also have to leverage our skills and position ourselves in a way that clarifies why we do what we do, and why it’s better than using AI. We’ll need to signal to each other that no matter what AI can do, humans can do it better—if not more, humanly.

It’s really quite simple and therefore incredibly complicated: we cannot do things the same way anymore.

And therein lies the opportunity. As we move out of unconscious habits and patterns and lean into change, we might actually find solutions to problems we’ve been facing for a long time, and even correct problems we created when we didn’t know better.

And look, no matter how sophisticated technology becomes, there are things it won’t be able to replace, like embodied presence and co-regulation and emotional empathy. Even if people use AI to process information and ideas, when it comes to transformation through accountability and life experience, many people will still seek support from another human.

Because hey, we’re way more than data machines. We’re gifted, creative creatures with soul, empathy, physical warmth, and the capacity for relational attunement—which for the moment cannot be replicated or replaced by AI.

I think we might even find we’re even more valuable as AI continues to grow and evolve, simply because we’re human.

And as far as the environmental implications of AI advancements, there are always consequences to modern-day conveniences. But I believe humanity has enough ingenuity to come up with solutions for even those issues.

And what’s the worst that could happen? We go the way of the Dodo bird? Well, maybe that’s part of the master plan then. We just don’t know.

Moving Forward

What I hope I’m conveying here is that the fears we have today, though certainly valid, are not unlike the fears generations before us have experienced. Perhaps remembering that will give you a bit of hope that maybe we’re not on the brink of mass extinction (even though it might look like we are). Maybe we’re actually on the brink of mass awakening and maybe you can be excited about what is to come instead—even if you’re grieving that things will no longer be the same.

The astrology right now is fertile with reinvention, too. Pluto in Aquarius is helping us reclaim our inner authority, Neptune in Aries is helping us take action towards our visions, and Uranus in Gemini is helping us shift how we perceive ourselves, connect, and relate to change.

My work serves exactly this type of moment of transition we’re in. I’m here to help people see possibility and cultivate capacity for change even in the presence of fear. Because how we look at life (and ourselves) makes all the difference in how we experience it.

If you want to experience more freedom and joy and move through life with greater ease, clarity, agency and self-trust, schedule a session with me below.

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As I write this, there’s a pileup of planets in Aquarius and my 1st house so, here’s a piece about Aquarius no one asked for!

As someone with Aquarius rising with its co-rulers Uranus and Saturn strongly configured in my chart, I love Aquarian energy. Aquarian themes have shaped how I perceive, question and engage with the world, and I’m so excited to participate in the Aquarian wave that’s building right now.

It also feels especially relevant to talk about this sign as Uranus stationed direct on Feb. 3rd, Saturn will move into Aries on Feb. 13th, and we have a solar eclipse in Aquarius on the 17th.

This piece is not just for people with Aquarius placements though—we all have Aquarius (and ruler’s Uranus and Saturn) somewhere in our charts. Yes, there are some of us who have more of this energy, but we’re all going to go through an Aquarian “car wash” through the next decade, we might as well understand what this is sign is about.

Heads up: it’s lonnnng.

Neptune has moved into my 3rd house of writing/mind and there is zero containment for the flow of ideas and inspiration. This might be one you save and come back to because I go on a tangential path of exploring Aquarian themes to the transit of Pluto in Aquarius to the nodes changing signs in late July.

I probably could have made this three separate posts, but I smashed it altogether because well, let’s get Aquarian and do things differently, shall we?

Let’s dive deep and zoom out!

Aquarius: The Pheasant in the Barnyard

The first time I heard this phrase was during my first astrology reading with astrologer Tom Brady who said:

“You were born with Aquarius Rising. You’re like a pheasant in the barnyard. You have the capacity to shine out into life in a very free and independent way…

Uranian people often stir up a lot of jealousy and resentment in others—but at the core, you’re an independent character. You’re like that line in Bob Dylan’s song that says, "Billy, they don't like you to be so free.”

His words articulated something I had always felt but never had language for. He described my lived reality as an Aquarius rising with Uranus as a dominant force in my chart. Being an outsider was part of my design!

Aquarius can at times feel like it doesn’t belong in the barnyard because it’s different, often misunderstood, and sometimes even despised by others.

I thought about Aquarius in this way recently when Peta Kelly said: “People hate seeing freedom, integrity, and self-respect in others when they do not have it in themselves”.

This is especially true for Aquarius as it’s a sign that tends to receive enormous projection from others since it’s the awakener and disruptor of the zodiac. It’s not here to be liked by everyone, it’s here to awaken what’s been dormant in the collective unconscious.

Aquarius is destabilizing. It disrupts others’ worldviews and rattles others’ sense of security. It doesn’t perform for belonging or approval. Rather than complying with outworn ideologies simply because they’re popular, loud, or morally acceptable, Aquarius wills sometimes even self-ostracize before it betrays its own truth.

Aquarius are frequently seen as odd or eccentric because they’re tuned into a future not yet accessible to others. What they see and sense can appear strange, tone deaf, or “out there”. Ironically, Aquarians are often the trendsetters and already ‘in the know’ long before the majority catches on (and they rarely receive credit for it).

Aquarius is also unpredictable. Insight can arrive suddenly and their path can leap or change course without advanced notice. They can shock others by saying something that’s been avoided or by refusing to uphold shared illusions.

Historically, this has made Aquarius figures catalysts for cultural shifts. They’re the visionaries, rebels, innovators, artists, inventors and thinkers of society whose ideas suddenly expose a different take on reality.

Aquarius asks questions, lots of them. Questions like: what if there’s another way?

Aquarius likes to push the envelope and shake things up because they’re here to bring about change, which can threaten people’s sense of security.

All of these qualities serve a larger evolutionary function though: they disrupt stagnation, interrupt patterns, and remind us that reality is not fixed, even though paradoxically, Aquarius itself is a fixed sign.

Of course, every archetype has its shadows.

The distortions of Aquarius can include: intellectual superiority, confusing their perspective as the ultimate truth, avoiding vulnerability through emotional detachment, resisting structure or discipline even when it’s supportive, or over-identifying with being an outsider or the “different” one.

These patterns often emerge when Aquarius doesn’t integrate its polarity of Leo and when the head isn’t balanced with the heart. This kind of Aquarian detachment is sometimes how they protect their deep sensitivity and fear of rejection or exile.

An integrated Aquarius is one who remains radically true to itself and knows that its unique perspective is actually something everyone has access to. What makes Aquarius different is precisely what enriches the whole so that even when it stands apart, it still has value and purpose.

The Aquarian Glyph: Consciousness + Frequency

Aquarius is the final Air sign known as the Water Bearer. It’s a pairing that often confuses people, especially since the glyph of Aquarius looks like waves.

In astrology, water symbolizes consciousness, emotions, and the collective psyche. The key distinction is that Aquarius doesn’t drink water or swim in it. It observes water as it pours it. It washes away outdated paradigms while simultaneously pouring forth new ideas and insights from a different perspective.

Aquarius reminds us that, unlike other animals, humans are capable of witnessing our consciousness and can choose how we see and interpret our experiences, which is what sets us apart and what sets us free.

Aquarius also connects us with transpersonal awareness. It functions like a radio transmitter and a lightning rod in a storm. This electrifying quality reflects its modern-ruler Uranus, which was discovered during the Industrial Revolution and the birth of electricity. Its symbolism perfectly mirrors Aquarius’ role to awaken new perceptions in humanity and shine a light into the future.

Aquarius is also the sign of the group, friendships, communities, networks, and the kinds of alliances that make social change possible. Aquarius’ humanitarian approach calls for structures that reduce suffering, produces ideas that liberate, and creates futures that include those who were previously excluded.

Physically, Aquarius corresponds to the ankles and the circulatory system, which points to its connection to pathways of distribution and how its insights often ripple throughout systems and timelines. Ankles are also how we change direction and move forward into the future, which is another Aquarian theme.

Uranus & Saturn: The Rebel and the Elder

Aquarius is co-ruled by Uranus and Saturn: a paradoxical pairing because Uranus disrupts, while Saturn stabilizes. Uranus liberates, while Saturn matures. Saturn’s visible to the eye, while Uranus requires a telescope to be seen. Saturn governs the limits of the 3D world, while Uranus points beyond it to the transpersonal realm. Saturn is the elder, while Uranus is the rebel.

This reflects the inherently paradoxical nature of Aquarius that is aimed at holding contradictions as a greater truth.

The mystic philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, born with both his Sun and Saturn trine Uranus and his Moon square Uranus, once said:

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

This statement beautifully reflects Aquarius’ co-ruling planets as they infuse the sign with the capacity to bridge realities of being both human and spiritual.

These planets also point to how evolution is about change (Uranus) and time (Saturn). Uranus awakens what’s possible, while Saturn evaluates whether the integrity of new structures are built to last.

That’s why Aquarius is the archetype of the responsible rebel—someone who doesn’t burn everything down for the sake of it, but refuses to prop up systems that are outdated.

Aquarius is driven by a deep instinct to improve conditions for humanity, whether through social reform, innovation, activism, art, or shifts in consciousness. Because of this, Aquarius stands at the threshold between the past and the future and sees where we’ve been and how things could be done differently going forward. It translates change into something that’s both necessary and exciting.

That’s the Aquarian archetype in theory, but how does it express itself through a human life while shaping identity, emotion, and perception through the natal chart?

Let’s take a look…

Aquarius Rising: An Unmistakable Frequency

People born with Aquarius Rising often have a unique way of perceiving the world, and a sense that they’re tuned into a slightly different channel than everyone else in the room.

They’re often oriented towards what’s emerging or unconventional rather than what’s already established or socially approved. Many intuit shifts in culture, consciousness, and possibilities before they’re noticed by others.

A few well-known figures who were born with Aquarius Rising are:

David Bowie — an icon of Aquarian weirdness. His genius came through his music, but also in his refusal to stabilize into a single identity. Ziggy Stardust wasn’t just a costume or character, it was a transmission he treated as a living experiment.

His movie Labyrinth speaks to this as does his statement that rings true as someone with an Aquarian perspective:

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Abraham Lincoln was another Aquarius Rising who expressed his unique perspective through his awkward, melancholic, solitary and intellectual personality. His vision came about through his capacity to see beyond the norms of his time. As Lincoln once reflected: “The best way to predict the future is to create it”, which captures Aquarius’ futuristic slant as well as its inventiveness.

The same unfiltered channel of Aquarius rising also ran through Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin who seemed more like conduits than performers. They both exuded a raw aliveness that made people uncomfortable. Unfortunately their lives also reflected the danger of being too open an electrical circuit without enough grounding.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. - Jim Morrison

There’s also Duke Ellington, whose innovative approach to jazz elevated collective intelligence. He wrote music for individual musicians and highlighted their unique talents rather than forcing them into rigid boxes.

And one of my personal favorites on this list is philosopher and spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had his Moon conjunct his Aquarius Ascendant. Krishnamurti rejected spiritual hierarchy, gurus, and inherited belief systems altogether. His book Freedom from the Known is essentially an Aquarian manifesto and an invitation to see reality with fresh eyes.

Of his many wise transmissions, he said:

A free mind never concludes. A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind, it is not a living mind.

This speaks to his constantly questioning, fresh perspective which is often seen with Aquarius risings.

Across all of these lives, it’s clear that Aquarius Rising individuals function as both a receiver and transmitter of an emerging consciousness. Through their unique perspectives, they’re like antennas of the future pulling in new thought, culture, and possibility into the collective field.

Aquarius Sun: The Revolutionary

Aquarius Suns are radical, rebellious souls who march to the beat of their own drums to challenge systems and authority.

Bob Marley (born Feb. 6th) is the epitome of Aquarian energy. He used music as the vehicle for his spiritual and political transmissions that to this day cross borders, cultures, and belief systems.

With an Aquarius Sun trine Uranus, and Venus sextile Uranus, Bob Marley embodied the Aquarian drive to awaken consciousness and find freedom within. As he most notably said, “Free yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds”.

Franklin D. Roosevelt also embodied his Aquarius Sun through experimental leadership through the New Deal, which was a series of radical social trials designed to stabilize the collective during crisis. FDR understood that sometimes it’s necessary to reinvent the rules.

Aquarius Sun scientists like Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Edison all of disrupted prevailing worldviews by insisting reality be observed and experimented with rather than believed. They were not afraid to ask: what if we’re wrong? Which led them to discoveries and inventions we still benefit from today.

Yoko Ono and Charles Dickens are also Aquarius Suns who used their art to expose social conditions others preferred not to see. Yoko Ono spoke Aquarian truth when she said: “You change the world by being yourself”.

There’s also abolitionist Frederick Douglass who embodied his Aquarius Sun at its most courageous. He was an intellectually sovereign and morally uncontainable truth-teller in the face of injustice. Benjamin Franklin was also an Aquarius Sun who believed it was imperative that people challenge authority when he said: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

Lastly, there’s Mozart—an undeniable genius who had an Aquarius Sun with Moon square Uranus said:

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

His rebellious nature came through his refusal to submit to systems that constrained his creativity. In true Aquarian fashion, he chose creative sovereignty over security and trusted that his innovation would carry his brilliance forward. He was right.

Aquarius Moon: Emotional Intelligence

Like all Moons in air signs, emotion passes through a mental filter first to gain perspective, but contrary to what some believe, Aquarius Moons feel deeply. They just often leave some space between their feeling and their expression…or they express their feeling in unique and shocking ways.

Some Aquarius Moons protect their sensitivity through the use of humor. Bill Murray and Mel Brooks are two examples of Aquarian Moons who use their absurd wit to reveal new slants on emotional truths.

Mel Brooks spoke through the sensitivity of his Aquarius Moon lens when he said:

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh—because if you don’t laugh you’re going to cry and never stop crying.

While Bill Murray spoke through his Aquarian Moon oddness and depth by saying, “I’m a nut. But not just a nut”.

Gene Wilder, another Aquarius Moon, also expressed himself through his quirky sense of humor. But beneath his ability to make others laugh was deep emotional intelligence. He had a special way of speaking about serious matters that ended up being funny.

As he once put it: “I’m going to tell you what my religion is: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.”

And Princess Diana, who also had an Aquarius Moon conjunct her south node and opposite Uranus, bore the gift and the burden of being a rebel who refused the cold expectations of royalty.

She literally touched those deemed “untouchable,” spoke openly about mental health, and disrupted old systems with her human vulnerability. She embodied the integrated polarities of the Leo/Aquarius axis by saying, “I don’t follow the rulebook, I lead from the heart, not the head”.

Aquarius Moons have emotional depth and awareness that speaks through the heart, which makes their vulnerability transform into a strength.

Other Uranian/Aquarian Archetypes

Even if someone isn’t born with astrological placements in Aquarius, some people have strong Uranus placements in their natal charts that show a rebellious, future-oriented, or eccentric personality. (This was really fun to research.)

Having studied the New Testament thoroughly between the ages of 9-13, I got to know the archetype of the ultimate rebel, Jesus Christ, very well. Even though I have no evidence to prove it, I suspect he carried strong Uranian or Aquarian signatures in his birth chart.

He didn’t organize a revolt per se, but he did speak radically, confronted authority, and refused to collapse his identity and beliefs. Though I personally believe his teachings were grossly misinterpreted throughout history, it’s clear he served as a channel for a new consciousness that empowered people to find God within themselves as a direct connection to Source.

Another Uranian/Aquarian figure was futurist and architect Buckminster Fuller, who had his Moon and Sun trine Uranus, Mars square Uranus, and his Midheaven in Aquarius. He asserted that transformation happens when we build new models that render old models obsolete—a unique approach that invited a shift in consciousness from reaction to creation.

Physicist Albert Einstein echoed this concept as he had Venus opposing Uranus. He was quoted as saying, “We cannot solve problems with the same consciousness that created them”. His genius proved that progress doesn’t come just from improving outdated structures, but from shifting awareness entirely.

Viktor Frankl, a philosopher, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor had his Sun square Uranus and Midheaven in Aquarius. He wrote the amazing book, Mans Search for Meaning and founded logotherapy, an existential psychological theory, which can be summarized by his words here:

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Psychologist Carl Jung also carried a Uranian signature with a Sun/Uranus conjunction. He recognized that healing and evolution occur when we integrate the unconscious and cultivate greater self-awareness. He had a way of understanding the human psyche that had not been explored by others in his field.

His famous quote speaks to the energy of Uranus and the Leo/Aquarius axis when he said: “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”

Ram Dass also had a Sun/Uranus conjunction which shown through his memorable spiritual teachings. Elvis Presley, who had Uranus square his Sun, shook his hips and the culture with a massive wave of generational change.

Author Tom Robbins who had Uranus trine his Mercury, square his Sun, and sextile his Mars/Venus conjunction infused his writing with Uranian genius. Philosophical, weird, and wildly original, his words were eclectic and electrifying.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. - Tom Robbins

Other Uranian disruptors include: Bob Dylan who has Moon conjunct both Saturn and Uranus. His political ideology for social awakening still echoes through his poetic lyrical transmissions.

Eccentric surrealist painter, Salvador Dali, who had Uranus square Moon and embodied his Uranian strangeness through art that defied logic, time, and conventional reality.

And inventor Nikola Tesla, who had Sun sextile Uranus and whose visionary ideas shaped the modern world as we know it. He was also responsible for the concept of “free energy”, which is just about as Uranian as it gets.

Finally the creators of my favorite childhood show, The Jetson’s, both have important Uranus aspects. William Hanna, a t-square with Uranus opposite Sun and Moon square Uranus, and Joseph Barbera had a Moon/Uranus square. These two inventive minds created a series that made time travel accessible for children, and awakened our imagination to what might be possible in the future.

The common thread across all of these figures is that they had the capacity to think outside of the box and imagine new worlds. They encouraged outgrowing outdated structures so that what was never imagined previously could merge through the current reality.

Aquarius + The Tarot

The Aquarian archetype also shows up in the Tarot with the Star card, which represents hope, renewal, and rebirth. The Star offers guidance and integration after the collapse of the card that precedes it, which is the Tower. It hints that faith can arrive after disillusionment or when structures have failed. It symbolizes that a new frequency is ready to emerge.

I feel this card reflects the exact moment we’re living in right now. As we watch the Tower of cultural structures, ideologies, and beliefs crumble, we also see our collective consciousness evolving into something new.

Zoe Skylar, a poet with Moon in Aquarius and Sun trine Uranus, wrote what I feel speaks beautifully to this time of transition:

For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.

So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.

This is your birth.

I also personally feel this time resonates with The Hanged Man card: an archetype of voluntary suspension, surrender, and radical perspective shift. The Hanged Man invites us to suspend old beliefs and invert our perspective to see reality from an entirely different angle, which feels very Uranian/Aquarian to me.

What’s powerful about this card is the sequence surrounding it, because The Hanged Man is preceded by the Justice card, which reflects reckoning, truth, and karmic rebalancing. The Hanged Man is followed by the Death card, which symbolizes the irreversible shedding of an old identity so something entirely new can be born.

These cards reflect the current moment as one of realization that precedes transformation and how our awareness, surrender, and rebirth is the very rhythm of Aquarius-driven evolution.

Becoming Aquarian: The Wave of the Future

To catch the wave of the Aquarian future, it’s helpful to understand that in some schools of astrological thought (one I personally agree with), Aquarius rules the 11th house of communities, networks, collective vision, and the future itself. It reflects how consciousness organizes, connects, and evolves on a collective level.

At its highest expression, the Aquarian frequency is built through resonance and mutual respect for differing values and each person’s sovereignty.

Used consciously, Aquarius liberates, decentralizes, connects across differences, and accelerates innovation. Used unconsciously, the same energy can crush individuality into conformity while creating tribal groupthink that seems “right” simply because it’s repeated.

We see this through social media algorithms that continually feed the same narratives back to us, narrow our perception, and block new insights from entering. This creates collective echo chambers and group assumptions that there is a right way to be a human. Expectations are then enforced to repeat specific language, share approved narratives, and publicly align with others while ignoring personal integrity and/or needs.

The exhaustion we’re witnessing and experiencing now is built on this distortion of Aquarian consensus that insists there’s only one correct lens, one acceptable position, and one approved way of seeing things. The attention economy of social media amplifies this through constant activation while equating engagement and visibility with moral goodness. Outrage is demanded as proof of care and silence is treated as complicity. Yet endless emotional flooding rarely produces lasting change, it more often produces burnout, polarization, and reactivity.

The conscious and integrated Aquarian frequency actually transcends such extreme expectations as it rejects binaries because it sees beyond either/or thinking into both/and territory. It understands that truth rarely lives at the extreme polar ends, but often in the space that holds multiple perspectives, contradiction, nuance, and complexity.

The Aquarian frequency also knows that when ideological group pressure creates scripted identities and forces belonging through beliefs, it’s a radical act to stay sovereign and willing to connect with others who think differently.

Aquarius understands that no single group owns “the truth”, and that living systems must continually update their rulebooks as reality reveals new layers of complexity, insight, and information. When polarized systems demand compliance and full acceptance of approved narratives, Aquarius energy remains curious, observational, and open to evolving its understanding.

And this is where technology enters the story, because Aquarius governs the invisible networks that shape our collective consciousness through media and digital platforms.

That’s why the Aquarian era isn’t just about what we think, but how we’re being shaped to think. This means we must keep ourselves aware and awake.

As we live through a rapid shift in innovation and technology as well as the collapse of beliefs and ways of being that no longer reflect individual lived realities, we see a deeper archetypal shift: our collective consciousness is reorganizing itself.

Which brings us to Pluto…

Pluto entered Aquarius in March of 2023 and will remain there until January 2044, marking a generational transformation of how power, technology, community, and individual authority function in society. This era will reveal both the genius and the distortion of Aquarian energy.

Pluto carries the themes of shadow, power, death and rebirth; when it moves through Aquarius, it innovate systems and dismantles unconscious conformity, while exposing collective shadows. It forces a reckoning with how much we’ve outsourced individual authority to collective ideologies, hierarchical structures, and machines.

Under Pluto in Aquarius, the deeper question is not whether technology is good or bad, but whether our relationship to it supports or destroys our inherent intelligence. At the same time, this transit offers the possibility for rebirthing individual sovereignty, the creation of conscious communities, a decentralization of power, and a realization that human consciousness is the source of technology—not the other way around.

As Pluto continues its long initiation through Aquarius and the north node begins to pull our collective attention toward Aquarian consciousness, the rulers of Aquarius reveal how this transformation is meant to take root within us.

With Saturn moving into Aries on the 13th merging with Neptune on the 20th, we’re asked to mature our sense of self-authority while taking responsibility for our identity, beliefs, and reactions. In late April, Uranus will enter Gemini. Rigid thinking will give way to curiosity while different ideas and questions will invite new forms of communication. New foundations can also re-organize through conscious participation and strong, responsible people with open, flexible minds.

These collective transits compliment each other and teach us that the future of our survival depends on individuals who know who they are, and are willing to stand by that, even when it’s uncomfortable. This is how humanity will outgrow its herd mentality and replace survival-based belonging with authentic respect and connection.

The thing to remember in these times is that not everyone is tuned to the same channel, because there isn’t just one channel—there never has been. Each of us is a transmitter, receiver, and a distinct expression of the divine signal moving through form. Contrary to what’s expected, we aren’t meant to broadcast the same message; we’re meant to broadcast our own message, truthfully.

The planetary configurations of this time call upon our courage to keep transmitting our truth, even when the room goes quiet. This means, align with what is true for you. Paradoxically, this is the greatest service you can offer the whole because when each person stands rooted in their own integrity, the collective becomes wiser, more nuanced, more alive, and more free. Aquarius reminds us that connection does not require agreement, and being of service does not require self-erasure.

As we navigate this threshold, we’re called to explore new perspectives and approaches that haven’t been validated yet. We’re called to move beyond our differences to find a shared goal that will help us move forward, together.

Under Pluto in Aquarius, we’re all being asked to discern and decipher our own signal. Are we vibrating at the frequency we wish to see in the world? Or are we perpetuating and feeding systems that thrive on chaos and division?

This time encourages us to mature our responses so that we’re responding from a place of coherence and self-authority.

With that in mind, here are some challenging questions to consider or journal about as you navigate these times:

• Can you articulate what you actually believe and prove what you claim to know?

• Have you been quoting a collective script, or is it uniquely your own?

• How do you decipher truth from fiction?

• Are you questioning and researching the sources from which you receive information? Who funds them? What agenda do they serve?

• Are you able to sit with uncertainty or does it ignite anxiety?

• Where have you inherited beliefs you no longer believe, yet still perform?

• How do you silence your own truth in order to avoid exile or judgment?

• How do you borrow language instead of speaking from your lived experience?

• In what places in your life do you confuse belonging with alignment?

Our Nodal Curriculum

In late July, the transiting nodes will move into the Leo/Aquarius axis, but we’ll get a preview of this energy at the solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17th.

I find nodal transits to underscore all other transits as they enhance our collective curriculum for an 18 month period. I have no doubt this nodal transit will bring significant shifts and events.

When the south node moves into Leo, we’ll likely see performative impulses diminish along with a chronic need to be seen, validated, and applauded for our contributions. We may also develop a new understanding of what healthy narcissism looks like as an ability to see the best in ourselves without external validation and affirmation. We’ll see where visibility gets confused with self-worth and how courage is distorted into constant risk-taking or “look at me!” spectacles. We may also witness the end of influencer culture and a collective reclaimation of our attention that has been extracted from social media for years.

The north node in Aquarius may ask something else of us: to observe before engaging, to create without attachment to it landing, and to lead without centering the self. This is the shift from performing to witnessing, and from dramatic self-expression to conscious participation (or conscious exclusion). It will also be an opportunity for people to fly their freak flags, launch radical ideas, and bring their unique medicine into the world.

Leadership will likely change shape to be less hierarchical and more toroidal. People may be more eager to hear from quiet, shy, or unconventional leaders over ones who’ve been known to take center stage.

The south node in Leo may also unravel the Hero/Martyr paradigm which equates worth with sacrifice, righteousness, and being “the one” who saves others.

This feeds on another dying loop: that of the victim–perpetrator–rescuer cycle that is dissolving as Saturn and Neptune enter Aries. The drama-trauma cycle may also lose its appeal as the world may no longer be organized around heroes and villains or even having “an audience”.

This may call us to see that what lives within us often shows up as fate. As Jung said, “whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event”.

In other words, nothing outside of us isn’t already happening within us. In a quantum sense, there is no “out there”, it’s all a holographic reflection of our internal reality.

As Laura Day said:

If battles are happening outside you, they are also happening inside you. Change you, change the dynamic. When you recognize yourself as the creator of your reality, you understand that you are also its agent of change.

The Leo/Aquarius axis will challenge us to see ourselves as agents of change and creators of our reality. We’ll have to face our ego-drives, wounds, and impulses and how they are reflected in the hologram of the collective. We’ll see how change really does start within.

As Viktor Frankl said: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Only then will we actually understand what it means to “be the change we wish to see in the world".

This month’s solar eclipse opens us to this unique collective chapter. It serves as a portal of change that helps clarify our individual signals underneath the noise of consensus. When we burn away borrowed scripts and return to a more intimate relationship with our individual truths, we become conscious transmitters of an Aquarian frequency. And when we authentically express who we are, we inspire others to do the same.

There’s no “saving the world” anymore, there’s only creating something new we’ve never experienced before. We already know that doing the same thing over and over will give us the same results—we’re done being insane. It’s time to embody the courage and creativity we were born with to architect a new future.

In many ways, this Aquarian initiation asks us to become the very thing many people fear: being the pheasant in the barnyard, the one who doesn’t quite belong, the one who sees something we’re all yearning for but resisting. To be the one who stands out amongst the herd.

Every Tower moment is followed by the Star. As we continue to witness the collapse of the known, we also clear space for a higher vision to emerge. In that higher vision is a world of sovereign beings who ask bigger questions, choose unique perspectives, carve new paths, and are capable of building new realities rooted in integrity, creativity, and conscious connection.

As each of us learns to stand rooted in our own embodied truth while remaining open to possibility, we become living transmitters of the Aquarian frequency and the ones who quietly midwife the next era into being.

I’m personally excited for us! And I look forward to walking beside those of you who also feel the call to create a brighter future. Let’s do this!

Are you an Aquarian or Uranian person? If so, I’d love to hear how this landed for you. Comment below!

If you feel inspired by what you read here or if you’re an Aquarian/Uranian person and feel pulled to view your life through a different lens and really make change, I invite you to work with me. This Aquarian perspective is central to my approach.

Welcome to the biggest, boldest month of 2026. A month that embodies two parts: the beginning as an end, and the end as a beginning.

As we close out the Snake Year in Chinese astrology, we transition into the Year of the Fire Horse on the same day as the solar eclipse in Aquarius.

Coincidence? I think not.

We start the month with today’s full moon in Leo and Uranus stationing direct on the 3rd/4th, with Mercury squaring Uranus in Taurus on the 5th, and Venus squaring Uranus on the 8th. All of this suggests potential for mental downloads, tech glitches, and restlessness, as well as unexpected shifts in money, values, or relationships.

Mercury enters its pre-shadow phase on the 11th and two days later Saturn enters Aries completing its journey through the last sign of the zodiac. Saturn’s ingress into Aries and Uranus stationing direct are significant because Saturn and Uranus co-rule the sign of Aquarius where we’ll have a solar eclipse on the 17th.

As Saturn enters Aries, we experience a “handing of the torch” in our systems and structures, as well as the end of the Martyr era and the victim-perpetrator-rescuer consciousness that has long dominated our collective psyche.

The eclipse that follows provides a preview/trailer for our future film coming late July 2026 when the nodes move into the Leo/Aquarius axis. And because the eclipse squares Uranus in Taurus, it includes a plot twist we could never have anticipated.

This solar eclipse invites innovation and pattern-interruptions around groupthink, ideological loyalty, performative morality, and old paradigms of thinking. It cracks open social narratives, visions for the future, and gives clues to what role you will play in the next chapter of our collective evolution. It will also expose where you’ve been aligning out of fear of exile rather than your actual truth.

Three days after the eclipse on the 20th, we have the much anticipated Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0 degrees Aries—a rare and foundational seed that asks who we’re willing to become over the next 36 year cycle. Saturn says, “it’s time to take responsibility” while Neptune says, “you don’t actually know what you’re doing yet.” That alone is a destabilizing paradox, but that’s what this time is about.

As we move through a complete identity reformation, we’ll witness the collapse of false authorities—both internally and externally. This transition calls for people to take greater responsibility for themselves and to choose sovereignty, courage, and action with integrity.

This inevitably shifts how we relate to life going forward, as identities based on fantasy, avoidance, or martyr/savior mentalities will not withstand the long-game or thrive in the energetic landscape we’re moving into.

Amid the big changes this month, Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces on the 25th and two days later, Mars squares Uranus, igniting action in the name of freedom, ideals, and our future vision just as it crosses the eclipse degree. This is interesting because Mars and Uranus demand movement forward, but with Mercury retrograde in Pisces, we may be confused as to where to direct our aim.

This looks like needing to act without certainty as we reorient, reflect, and integrate. But this could also present an opportunity to unlearn something while releasing outworn mental narratives that prevent us from taking risks. The relief here comes from knowing that we don’t know what we don’t know—and that’s ok. We just need to follow our intuitive hunches and trust where we’re being guided as the best step forward.

Ultimately, this month hinges on two intertwining themes: a new spiritual directive and a collective pattern break, which says something we can all sense: change is imminent—and it’s about damn time.

A Pivot and a Preview: The Solar Eclipse in Aquarius

Eclipses happen when the Sun and Moon align within 12-18 degrees of the transiting nodes, regardless of sign. The 9-degree proximity we see in this month’s eclipse is astronomically significant enough to classify it as a true eclipse. So even though we currently have the transiting north node in Pisces, we’re experiencing the new moon in Aquarius at 28 degrees as an eclipse—a bigger and bolder new beginning.

Eclipses mark turning points that align us with a destined path and require us to surrender knowing how things will shake out. This is particularly true because this eclipse squares unsettling Uranus, which means there is bound to be some element of surprise in the mix.

Though this eclipse will be interpreted through the lens of Aquarius, it weaves in the ongoing Virgo/Pisces themes we have been navigating since January 2025, while giving us a preview of the emerging Leo/Aquarius axis that will unfold in late July.

Symbolically, this means we’re in the midst of releasing patterns of self-sacrifice, perfectionism, and over-thinking while reconnecting with faith and trust in our intuitive inner compass. Meanwhile the themes of Aquarius and Leo beckon us toward change, independence, authenticity, and creative self-expression as essential contributions to the whole.

We’ll also be more future-focused as this is Aquarian territory. It observes reality and asks: What hasn’t been tried yet? What perspective has yet to be considered? It gets experimental and approaches things differently, with curiosity and innovation.

This solar eclipse in Aquarius also reminds us that the future is not built by consensus. It’s built by those willing to stand at the edge of the known and hold a vision others aren’t ready to see yet. This is not easy and something the current collective struggles to tolerate. There’s a pressure to unify through sameness, to prove goodness through identical behavior, identical language, and identical stances. But that’s conformity—that is not the Aquarian way.

Radical change doesn’t come through enforced belief or ideological purity. It emerges through individuals willing to think, feel, and perceive beyond inherited frameworks and take courageous risks into the unknown. This is what the eclipse in Aquarius instigates for all of us.

As this axis comes online, many of us will feel a dissonance or internal friction that clarifies the edge of who we’ve been and who we’re becoming. We’ll be challenged to break free from identities and any limiting thoughts, systems, or ideologies associated with them. This is no doubt uncomfortable. It requires us to step beyond what we’ve adapted to out of survival rather than our true authenticity.

We’ll be asked to evolve our consciousness by imagining new possibilities and to start seeing life (and ourselves) through a different lens. As Albert Einstein said, we cannot solve old problems using the same consciousness that created them. We have to get creative and use our imaginations to think up new solutions.

And yes, this means things may get more chaotic at first. When old structures dissolve and new frequencies emerge, there is noise and interference as signals overlap. Confusion always increases before clarity arrives. Rather than rushing to make decisions (though this month will tempt us to do so), we’re invited to move forward intuitively and let our inner geniuses take the lead.

This month heralds a tremendous amount of change. It’s not a time when we’ll have all the answers, but as we loosen our attachment to what’s familiar, we can move into new territory that is profound, fresh, and alive with possibility.

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Stay tuned for my next essay which will dive deeper into the frequency and symbolism of Aquarius, the paradox of Saturn and Uranus shaping the next era, and the archetypal curriculum of the upcoming nodal transit through the Aquarius/Leo axis.

This is not necessarily a prediction piece, more like a reflective transmission that moves between the personal and the collective, the historical and the archetypal. It’s not meant to be consumed quickly. It’s meant to be felt into, the way one senses a change in weather before it starts to rain.

I name what’s unfolding here not as a universal truth, but as a perspective to consider as you sense what is emerging in your life at this time.

An Invitation

As someone born when Saturn squared Neptune in 1980, I recently reflected on what happened when Saturn and Neptune interacted with each other and my natal chart throughout my life. I discovered all transits pointed to major initiatory experiences and profound shifts in consciousness.

As I stand at this next threshold, I anticipate yet another significant shift—though I’m not certain what that is. Despite more than two decades studying astrology, I know well enough to take educated guesses as to what might unfold, but I also know well enough that I actually know nothing.

That in itself feels oddly relieving, simultaneously exciting, and also—terrifying.

I share this to acknowledge what follows here is not a detached commentary, but a perspective spoken from within the field we’re all inhabiting. I’m also aware this moment evokes everything from anticipatory excitement to existential dread—a paradox that makes sense when the changes we face are inevitable and also, irreversible.

However, I hope this invites a perspective shift in how we relate to and respond to what this moment asks of us—to employ our curiosity, and consider new ways to respond to familiar patterns and echoes from the past.

Perhaps then, we can really see how powerful we are as expressions of the divine, and that the challenges we face are simply opportunities in disguise.

The Threshold: Saturn and Neptune at the Aries Point

On February 20th, Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries—what astrologers call, the Aries Point. This is the beginning of the zodiac and the spark that begins the cycle of life. The “zero point” is often called the beginning, the void, or the ground of being in physics, mysticism, and philosophy. This point of activation, whatever it is called, are about to be activated by both Saturn and Neptune.

Saturn and Neptune are contrasting energies. Where Saturn rules form, Neptune rules the formlessness. In Aries, their conjunction ignites entirely new structures (Saturn) in consciousness (Neptune) and a reformation of our identity, will, and agency (Aries).

When these planets come together, it’s not that they cancel each other out, it’s more that they neutralize each other and reconstitute. They create coherence between chaos and order, structure and release, the visible and the invisible. Together they represent the sacred “both/and”, where endings and beginnings blur, and time and timelessness converge.

Their conjunction is like striking a tuning fork that sends a frequency into the field, setting the tone for the next 36 years. This particular tone carries the frequency of Aries, the sign of the individual, the pioneer, the beginner, and the child.This signals an initiation into an identity reformation that will evolve how we perceive, relate, and respond to ourselves and life itself.

At this threshold, tending to our inner life becomes non-negotiable as it directly echoes into the outer world. We cannot navigate what’s emerging—personally and collectively—without turning the gaze towards ourselves first.

As Shaun Higgins reminds us:

“The quality of our inner life shapes the coherence of the world we inhabit.”

In other words: reality organizes itself around what we consistently inhabit — emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Our beliefs and intentions are not what we say, they’re what we live. They’re who we are.

Inner Architecture and the Quantum Field

The unseen architecture of reality is what physics call the quantum field. Everything that has ever been, and everything that could be, already exists here as frequency and information. The field does not judge, it mirrors and responds.

Whatever we consistently focus on with attention, emotion, and belief organizes matter around that signal. Saturn gives those possibilities form. Neptune dissolves our perceived limits of what is possible.

Together, Saturn and Neptune in Aries initiate us into a sobering yet empowering truth: we are not passive participants in this quantum reality. We are co-creators.

Not through force or control, but through coherence between who we’re being and how we’re acting. This is not just about what we do, but about who we are at our core.

Biologically we see this with our Reticular Activating System which continually scans for evidence that reinforces what we believe to be important or true. What we attend to, we amplify; what we embody, we encounter.

This doesn’t mean we are responsible for everything that happens (though perhaps that is true). What it means is that we have choice in how we meet what happens and how we participate in shaping what comes next. The work of this moment then is to cultivate enough inner coherence that our responses are conscious rather than automatic.

This shifts the internal inquiry from: “Why is this happening?” to, “How is life asking me to respond? And what can I do about it?”

This is how self-reflection and inner work becomes a contribution to the whole. Because if inner coherence shapes reality, then how we manage intensity, attention, and impulse becomes not only a personal concern, but a collective one.

Being a Peaceful Warrior

Aries is the sign that brings instinct, urgency and the impulse to act. Without regulation, this energy can regress into reactivity through impulsive speech, aggression, polarization, or burnout. Saturn in Aries offers the possibility of maturing this tendency.

Like an Elder guides a Child, Saturn helps tame impulses so they become discernment. In a world that demands constant attention and responsiveness, discernment includes knowing when not to engage, so that our energy is not distorted or exhausted before it has a chance to be used intentionally.

Neptune and Saturn in Aries together encourage self-regulation and boundaries not just as self-care, but as personal responsibility that serves the collective. Doing so ensures that when we act, we’re acting from conscious clarity rather than unconscious reactivity.

This awareness energetically sustains the most important instrument in catalyzing effective change—ourselves.

This is where the deeper teaching of Neptune in Aries and the archetype of the Peaceful Warrior come into focus. To become someone who is not passive, but anchored. To know when to act and when to stay still.

Together, Saturn and Neptune ask us to embody courage, conviction, and strength that does not need to prove itself through force. To blend the innocence of the child with the maturity of the initiated adult. To become someone who has learned how to wield power without being possessed by it.

Discernment in a Synthetic Age

There’s another dimension here that cannot be ignored, and that is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and synthetic reality.

As AI-generated language, images, and narratives become increasingly indistinguishable from what is human-made, the question of what is real grows more urgent, and more complex.

Neptune rules illusions, but it also heightens sensitivity and intuitive perception. Saturn, in close proximity, offers a protective counterbalance and capacity to cut through distortion without collapsing into suspicion and paranoia.

Together, they refine an essential human faculty that cannot be automated: our instinctual sense—the subtle internal signal that recognizes misalignment before the mind can explain it. In a time when we are constantly told what to believe, this transit asks us to identify truth through lived resonance, and to trust what feels aligned in the body as much as what appears convincing on the screen.

Discernment is no longer optional, it’s practically a survival skill, and intuition is its primary instrument.

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A Transition

As we cross this threshold we move from diffusion to definition, from consumption to creation, from dreaming to doing.

The gift of Saturn and Neptune in Aries is that we can use our will in a focused and deliberate way to bring our visions into form. The work of this era is not to suppress our Aries fire, but to grow it up. To let instinct be guided by inspiration, and power be shaped by response-ability.

This time asks us to take initiative through disciplined action and to harness our will where energy has been dormant for a long time—because vision without responsive action is simply a dream.

This is not about forcing the outcomes we desire. It’s about becoming a clear channel, focusing on what we want to create, and taking action step by step.

As astrologer David Coleman writes:

“A vague wish scatters energy, while a focused intention acts like a lens, concentrating the light of will.”

This shift doesn’t happen all at once, it’s a process that requires consistent practice. It begins wherever and whenever we act with intention and commit ourselves from the inside out.

Responding to Historical Echoes

We’ve been here before in different ways. The last time these two planets conjoined was in the last cardinal sign of Capricorn in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. Long-standing structures collapsed to make way for something new.

Go back even further to the American Civil War when Neptune moved through Aries and Saturn was in Libra (the opposite sign of Aries). As moral frameworks dissolved, Transcendentalism emerged—a movement centered on individual conscience, inner authority, and intuition over institutional doctrine.

Today’s configuration carries a similar signature.

While the battleground is less overtly physical and far more ideological, technological, and psychological, the underlying tension is familiar. What differs now is our awareness, resources, and tools to respond differently to what shows up so we can break cycles instead of re-enacting them.

With Pluto moving through Aquarius until 2044, Uranus moving into Gemini in late April, and the transiting nodes moving into the axis of Leo and Aquarius this summer, we have quite an arc of change ahead. We’ll be called to creatively innovate, and respond quickly. We’ll be called to embody new expressions of leadership, courageously.

There is still much to learn, awaken to, and change in our speech, thinking, and interactions with each other. We will be challenged. We will be tested. But we were made for this.

This new era also highlights something important: not everyone’s role in this time is the same. Some of us are called to witness. Some to act. Some to tend, translate, support, build, protect, or imagine and inspire.

Saturn and Neptune in Aries don’t assign us a role, they ask us to discover it. Not by comparison, performance, or pressure, but by returning to ourselves as our own authority. By connecting with what inspires us to show up and from there, commit to seeing that through.

The future we’re building together calls us to align with a new frequency. To commit to the quiet, disciplined work of living in accordance with what we desire to see in the world. This means becoming clear conduits of change through our attention, will, and choice, which will shape our future far more than we currently realize is possible.

On the other side of this threshold, there will be no saviors or gurus — only the one who lives inside of you. It’s time to follow your inner compass as the only true guide there is.

We explored our shared experiences of losing hearing in one ear during pregnancy (what are the odds!?), and how our initiations into motherhood activated dormant gifts and unresolved emotional material for both of us. We also spoke about how physical symptoms, emotional states, and intuitive gifts are deeply interconnected and how ancestral patterns are not invitations for conscious choice, healing, and evolution.

Our reflections highlighted how sometimes physical symptoms can relate to lineage patterns, emotional suppression, or intuitive recalibration and how loss of one sensory channel has heightened our awareness in other senses.

Our dialogue weaves our personal experiences with professional insights, touching on postpartum anxiety, intuition, choice, and the evolving role of astrology in a changing world.

We briefly mentioned a bit about fate and freewill, and using astrology in a way that activates choice in how we respond to what shows up. Lastly, we share our sense that the future calls for ore creativity, parallel structures, and a deeper trust in our inner authority.

If you’re interested in experiencing Annie’s gifts through her exciting offerings for entrepreneurs and mothers this year, you can find her at https://anniebertrand.com/.

Jess shared her journey of ending her career in public relations and real estate after experiencing burnout and chronic pain. This led her toward deeper healing work which helped her finding her voice and learn the specific modalities she offers. Her podcast serves as a platform for her voice and explores the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and consciousness.

We also discussed how astrology is a language that helps contextualize our lived experiences (both in our present and potential past-lives). Jess also reflected on how understanding her natal chart helped her make sense of both her physical healing journey and her devotion to learning, teaching, and exploration.

We also talked about past life regression as a way of working with the subconscious and how it can be similar to parts work. Jess shared her experience navigating this work given that she has aphantasia (the inability to see images with the mind’s eye), and how it strengthened her other intuitive channels such as claircognizance and clairsentience.

A central thread of our conversation was the importance of embodiment and nervous system regulation and how we can bring insight from the abstract through the body so it can actually be lived and healed.

We closed by reflecting on the collective and personal transitions underway, including the Saturn/Neptune conjunction moving into Aries, and the power of small, courageous acts of self-alignment to create meaningful change.

To learn more about Jess and her unique offerings visit her website here or follow along her Substack here.

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A month ago, I opened this anonymous advice column called Ask The Oracle because I grew up loving advice columns and the way one person’s courageous question could offer healing for many.

This month I’m providing the entire response for free, but moving forward the bulk of the responses will be available to paid subscribers to make this work sustainable.

This was the first question to arrive:

Why do I care so deeply about growth when others don’t? Why do some souls come in with intensity, purpose, and a drive to evolve while others seem content without making massive changes or asking big questions?

I love this question because I too have wondered why some people burn brightly with purpose while others seem ok with not taking action.

Have you ever wondered why some people come in inspired to complete their spiritual to-do list while others don’t seem motivated to move things forward?

My answer is quite simple — look through the lens of astrology! It’s where we see we’re all made of the same cosmic “stuff”, just configured differently.

We each have a unique frequency and individual curriculum here on Earth School as seen through our natal chart and the presence of different elements and modalities within the zodiac.

Cardinal signs initiate, fixed signs stabilize, and mutable signs adapt and shift. We’re all made of the same energy, but some of us have more emphasis in certain modalities and signs, which fine-tunes the unique “sound” we emit.

Our natal chart reveals a whole spectrum of potential life lessons and growth opportunities that are unique to our soul’s journey.

Some souls incarnate as cycle-breakers, game-changers, activators, and destabilizers. They come here to disrupt patterns that have run through their family line for generations. You can see this in charts where the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) aspect the personal planets or the angles (ASC/DSC/IC/MC).

These souls are wired for transformation. They’re here to move energy in themselves, their lineage, and sometimes in the collective. But simply having the potential for transformation doesn’t mean someone will choose to harness it.

Which begs the question, why do some souls seem to avoid change?

We all know that change is inevitable, but we also know it’s often uncomfortable too. Change requires awareness, effort, self-honesty, loss, exposure, accountability, and sometimes forgiveness. Some people, even if they have the potential to change, simply don’t have the bandwidth because they’re stuck in survival mode and living in chronic stress. In these cases, transformation may feel impossible or too destabilizing. Change for them may look very different.

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It’s also important to consider that some lifetimes are about building while other lifetimes might be about dismantling. Some are about integrating, while others are about transcending. Some people come in for a lifetime of what looks like rest, while others come in hot with a backlog of karma they’re ready to metabolize through lots of action and excitement.

The world needs a blend of the disruptors and the stabilizers, initiators and maintainers, the ones who crack things open and the ones who hold containers together.

This duality is what makes life as beautiful as it is.

We’re each different instruments playing different parts in the grand symphony of life.

I think knowing about astrology can help us anchor into this truth because it highlights the balance that comes through polarities.

Every sign has a counterpart across the wheel that holds its opposite, complementary frequency. Aries needs Libra. Taurus needs Scorpio. Gemini needs Sagittarius, etc. This tension of opposites is what creates harmony and wholeness.

Purpose isn’t always loud or visible either. Some souls grow like wildfires. Some grow like slowly like trees. Neither is better, they both impact the world. What matters is this: if you feel called to express energy through change in this lifetime, there is a reason your inner flame won’t go out. But, there’s also no rush to any finish line either.

Nature is an incomparable teacher and it never rushes growth from season to season. It always arrives at its next iteration in its divinely orchestrated timing.

You may be in a season of activation right now, while others may be in seasons of integration. How you honor the timing of your own season is what’s important.

In the hologram of life, we’re all mirrors for each other anyways. Someone’s simplicity might reflect a part of you longing for rest and grounding, while your activated evolution might reflect their dormant potential.

We awaken each other by contrast as much as we do by resonance.

In the end, as Ram Dass said, “We’re all just walking each other home.” No one is ahead or behind. We’re simply walking different paths that all lead to the same place.

I hope this has been helpful to those of you reading who might need the reminder that you’re right on time wherever you are on your journey, and that you get to do your life in your own unique way. And what a gift that is!

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A gentle invitation…

If you feel curious to explore your purpose and path in a deeper way and if you know you came here with a giant assignment but you’re not clear on how to begin, this is the work I do in my Alignment Journey.

It’s an astrological counseling journey designed to help you:

• unravel lineage patterns and soul contracts
• track your timing and life cycles through your natal chart
• build inner safety required to follow your calling
• move from self-awareness into embodied action

We meet bi-weekly for six 60-min sessions in person in Santa Fe or via Zoom.

I’m welcoming two more clients for The Alignment Journey through the end of January. After that, my focus shifts to a new group offering and my creative pursuits.

If this feels like your season of activation, message me to inquire:

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Ask The Oracle is a space to bring your burning questions about purpose, relationships, spirituality, timing, identity, healing, or anything you’re wrestling with in your inner life.

It’s completely anonymous. You can literally ask anything.

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Thank you for your curiosity, courage, and for caring enough to ask the big questions that lead all of us to greater clarity and ease.

Our conversation moves through so many layers: creative, professional, cosmic, personal. We talk about our shared love of astrology and human design, and the way Sunita blends both into her work as a problem-solver, pattern-breaker, and business visionary. She has a rare ability to cut through illusion with clarity and precision, which truly feels like her superpower.

We also explore the deeper parts of her story: experiences with racism, discrimination, and social-media targeting that shaped her resilience and leadership; the initiations that strengthened her voice; and the clarity she brings to others through her consultations and her work in human design.

We talk about visibility, the pressure to self-censor, the fear of judgment, and the importance of sharing our personal experiences even when it feels uncomfortable. We also go into what’s shifting in the coaching, spiritual, and creator landscapes, the ways we’re both learning to trust our own voice in a changing industry, and the possibility of future collaborations between our worlds.

If something in this conversation lands, resonates, or opens something for you, I’d love to hear from you in the comments! These episodes always feel more alive when you respond and engage. Please share with anyone you think could benefit from Sunita’s incredibly rare and valuable work.

Links to access Sunita’s offerings below:

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True to Scorpio, today’s new moon is dredging up all the Scorpio stuff: the shadow material we’ve repressed or hidden away, the stuff we’ve been avoiding that’s ready to be confronted, truths that needs to be spoken.

Scorpio energy has that potential as it reveals what’s under the surface. It’s raw. It’s deep. It’s humbling. But this new moon is unique in that it’s cazimi to Mercury retrograde, and it opposes Uranus. Whatever is revealed today/this week may surprise us, but it can also unlock the cage of something that’s been trapped inside for a far too long.

This could happen through a psychological purge, a reclamation of power, a powerful insight, or the transmutation of an inner narrative that’s been looping in the background. We could have breakdowns, breakthroughs, reversals, or unexpected change that shifts how we think about ourselves and the world.

There are 7 planets in water including the north node in Pisces, which means this time is ripe for cleansing inherited shame, opening up our intuitive pathways, and grounding our creative channels. And with 6 retrograde planets there are so many opportunities to reprogram the narratives stored in our bodies and minds.

Many of us are feeling a nervous system activation as an internal rearrangement takes place (I know I am!) And with Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, we’re widening our capacity for more of what brings us nourishment.

Since Jupiter rules the transiting north node in Pisces, this Jupiter retrograde is a big deal as it’s pointing us towards our inner truth and reconnecting us with our inner gnosis. Pay attention to what rises to the surface of your emotional awareness.

This is not a time to “figure it out” as much as it is a time to tap into our inner reservoirs that already have the answers we seek encoded within. The key to accessing them is in removing any distortions or interferences from the past that cloud your vision.

This new moon could also bring something poignant to our awareness — we’ve been carrying too much — ancestral residue, empathic overload, and roles we’ve outgrown. It’s time to let it all go.

This all speaks to the fact that we’re in a major energy upgrade as we rearrange our emotional, mental and energetic fields to hold a higher frequency. Energy is starting to move down through the psychic body instead of constantly spinning around in the mind, which could bring a sense of relief.

As much as this new moon is a new beginning, it’s also part of a bigger ending woven into the fabric of 2025. We’re clearing out, creating space, and opening up to receive the true new that begins in 2026 when Saturn and Neptune join at the zero degree point in Aries.

Until then our internal systems will continue to get recalibrated. This week you could get a glimpse into where your power has been hiding: possibly buried under stories of pain and suffering.

Now is the time to hand the mic over to the part of you that got you through all of that…the empowered part. What has that part known all along? How might that wisdom help you move forward?

If we zoom out on the larger narrative unfolding, we’re also halfway through the nodal transit through the Virgo/Pisces axis that began in January, which is helping us spiral up on our evolutionary path.

This is important to consider because the new moon is one degree away from where the solar eclipse in Aquarius will be squaring in February. Something that begins now will set the tone for the next six months and the February eclipse may ask us to restructure it or take action on it.

For now though, the invitation is to align with the current flow and feel into the truth of your experience. Ask yourself: what feels nourishing to your soul and inspiring to your spirit?

As we continue to metabolize our wounds into wisdom, know that there’s no need to force anything right now. Trust in being with what’s showing up so your emotional compass can reorient towards what’s true for you.

I’d love to know in the comments, what’s stirring for you around this time? What’s being revealed? What is being shed?

Wishing you empowering revelations this week!

Mercury just stationed retrograde in Sagittarius and my 11th house of community and I’ve decided, to hell with it, I’m starting something new during Mercury retrograde!

As Uranus retrogrades back over my Mercury in Taurus, I’m daring to experiment with new methods of communication and see what resonates.

Introducing: the Listening Lounge…a chat space for subscribers to Tapped In.

If you haven’t played around in the Chat feature yet, think of it like a private chatroom from the 1990’s (the OG social media). You’ll find it in the Substack app by tapping the little speech-bubble icon at the bottom.

This will be a space for casual connection: I’ll post questions and astro-updates, and you can jump into the discussion whenever you feel called. Just make sure you’re subscribed to Tapped In so you can join the conversation.

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How to get started

1. Get the Substack app by clicking this link or the button below. New chat threads won’t be sent sent via email, so turn on push notifications so you don’t miss conversations as they happen. You can also access chat on the web.

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2. Open the app and tap the Chat icon. It looks like two bubbles in the bottom bar, and you’ll see a row for my chat inside.

3. That’s it! Jump into my thread to say hi, and if you have any issues, check out Substack’s FAQ.

As Mercury prepares to station retrograde in Sagittarius tomorrow (Nov. 9th) we’re invited to reexamine the stories we tell ourselves about truth, meaning, and our direction.

All retrogrades invite us to slow down and listen, but this one will likely stir up bigger questions within and around us.

Sagittarius energy is all about the quest. It’s the sign of the philosopher, the meaning-maker, and the traveler who seeks to connect the dots between personal experience and universal wisdom.

When Mercury retrogrades through Sag, we’re invited to revisit what we believe and why. It’s a good time to acknowledge (such a Sagittarian word) where our inner narratives may have become dogmatic or outdated, and to open up to new insight and understanding.

As of yesterday, Uranus is also retracing its steps back in Taurus, bringing revelations through not only the mind, but also through the body. It’s a time to review our relationship with stability, the material world, our values, and the ways we embrace or resist transformation.

Since Uranus entered Taurus in May 2018, we’ve been learning how to loosen our grip and become more present with the dynamic changes of life. We’ve hopefully learned a thing or two about being present as it is what keeps us rooted even when everything around us is in flux.

As these transits invite us to pause, reflect, and ask questions, it feels like the perfect moment to open up my new advice column.

When I was younger, I loved reading advice columns…didn’t you? I always found the answers intriguing and wondered how I would respond.

I created “Ask the Oracle” as a space to ask questions that sometimes feel too challenging or complex to bring to the people in our daily lives.

In my work with clients, I find that similar themes arise again and again within the collective field, so my hope is that whether you ask a question or just read the responses, you’ll find some insight and resonance in what’s shared here.

These submissions are completely anonymous so feel free to ask your most raw, vulnerable, and private questions. I invite you to send in a heartfelt inquiry about timing, transition, relationships, purpose, healing, or any crossroad you’re contemplating.

Each month I’ll select a few to explore in a column that weaves astrology, psychology, and intuition that offers guidance.

Who can participate:
All subscribers are welcome to submit questions, though the answers will appear behind a paywall available exclusively to my paid readers.

Submissions will remain open, and I’ll gather a few questions each month to explore in depth.

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*Reminder that these submissions are anonymous. I’ll change small details as needed to preserve privacy.*

I look forward to engaging with your questions! Know that your question might spark a response that someone else needs to hear too. We’re all in this wild ride together!

Thank you for bringing your honesty, curiosity, and trust to this space.

With love,
Danielle

Tomorrow’s new moon in Libra restores a sense of balance following one heck of a wild eclipse season and a topsy turvy 2025.

Despite the fact that Pluto is squaring this lunation and its also quincunx to Saturn, we have Venus (Libra’s ruling planet) in her home sign of Libra and a harmonious grand trine between Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury.

This offers potential for collaboration, grace, openness, and equilibrium.

This also eases the fact that Mercury entered its pre-retrograde shadow in Scorpio today and is also conjunct Mars.

Thoughts and words may be pointed, intense, obsessive, or probing to the depths of our shadow, but this energy can also be used to tap into our inherent power and catalyze something that’s been needing to change in our lives.

This can also help cut through any confusion or cloudiness that might slowly. be resurfacing as Neptune moves back in Pisces in two days. This shift marks the final descent and release point before both Neptune and Saturn cross the Aries threshold in February 2026 for a bold, new beginning.

The Mars/Mercury conjunction also gives us a preview of what to expect during the Mercury retrograde cycle, which begins November 9th in the sign of Sagittarius. I suspect this will be a very interesting Mercury rx as not only will Uranus have moved back into Taurus on Nov. 6th, but Jupiter will also retrograde on Nov. 11th.

All of these retrogrades happening simultaneously speak to endings and mirror the natural pull towards inner reflection that typically occurs in the final months of a calendar year.

This gives us a chance to truly reflect on how our beliefs, values, and decisions have been shaping our lives while giving us a chance to realign with our greater vision.

If you haven’t been doing this already, now is a good time to start embodying the feeling of what you want in your life — an activity that is equal parts discipline and surrender. Make this a conscious practice as the frequency you bring to the now moment will set the stage for the new beginnings that take shape when Neptune and Saturn meet in Aries in early 2026.

This kind of practice might also help you encounter the tender places within still seeking integration as Jupiter also squares Chiron…a transit that serves as a healing checkpoint.

This might highlight where we’re still be caught in old emotional patterns or ancestral conditioning — how we keep looping on old wounded stories or how we unconsciously reject, punish, or exile parts of ourselves.

When we contact these stories and get honest with ourselves, we open the portal to seeing how these beliefs and behaviors limit our capacity to receive what nourishes us. This inner healing is supported by a harmonious trine between Jupiter and Saturn, which resolves the ongoing tension that occurred between them over the last year.

This means optimism and faith become more accessible while growth becomes more sustainable and more meaningful. This expansive opening as arrives just as we approach a significant threshold in the collective story since the last months of 2025 truly signal the end of an era.

Consider these next few months as a rehearsal for the upcoming Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0 degrees of Aries — the zero-point moment that will seed a brand new cycle of creation and manifestation…a topic I’ll explore more in an upcoming piece.

Until then, wishing you a blessed new moon and a productive, empowering week!

Note: The Moon goes void-of-course from 8:25 am to 11:42 am ET, which means if you’re planning to set intentions, try not to do so during this timeframe as it’s like stamping “void” on whatever you’re initiating.

For those of you who are new here, check out some of my other posts that go deeper into some of the topics mentioned above:

Uranus enters Gemini: What to Expect

Neptune in Aries: Becoming the Peaceful Warrior

Trusting the Tension of the Moment

Saturn Enters Aries

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For those who aren’t paid subscribers yet, these curated playlists are cinematic soundtracks designed to accompany the emotional energy of the times.

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Some of you have been with me for the long-haul and might remember the days of my first podcast, Bridging Realities (circa 2016) which ended when Chiron entered Aries and my 3rd house of communication in 2018 and I stepped away from podcasting to focus on parenting.

It’s wild to think how much has unfolded since then!

Those of you who know me know I’ve always loved to talk and process (classic Gemini Moon here) so it feels exciting and fun to bring podcasting back into the mix.

Whether you’ve been with me since those early days or you’re just tuning in for the first time, I’m so grateful you’re here. My hope is that you find a nugget of inspiration as we explore what it means to be tapped in to the mysteries of this life.

This first episode features a conversation I had with my brother Matthew, who just published a book called, The Psychedelic DJ.

Matthew is a counselor, psychedelic therapy guide, and a DJ of over thirty years, with fifteen years of clinical experience in addiction and mental health counseling.

Matthew is gifted not only at holding space, but also at creating audio journeys that help people access nostalgic memories, buried feelings, and deep truths.

I actually had the recent unexpected pleasure of experiencing my brother in his role as a guide when I accidentally macro-dosed LSD. (Yes — that really happened — a story for another time).

Not that I had any doubt of his talents before, but after that experience, I now know the true gifts of his work and how it can serve others.

If you’re considering exploring your inner world and seeing life through a new lens with the help of psychedelics, he is the guide.

Not only will he curate your journey with the most beautiful and profound soundtrack, but he’ll witness you with the most kind, loving, compassionate and deeply anchored presence that comes from someone who’s gone through the fire and come out the other side, transformed.

As cosmic timing would have it, we recorded this conversation on the full moon in Aries in my 3rd house of siblings. We talked about his creative writing process, faith and doubt, music as medicine, a bit of our personal history, and how his natal chart and transits mirror the evolution of his book.

This is a casual, “show-and-tell” type of exchange that inspired me to start Tapped In: Conversations - a podcast where storytelling meets astrology.

Part of my vision for this podcast is to weave real stories with individual charts — not as formal readings, but as explorations into the potential of how astrology lives through our lives.

I’ll be inviting guests, clients, and community members to share a snapshot of their journey (a transition, a breakthrough, or a season of change) and we’ll link the themes and timing back to their chart.

My hope is that these episodes will show you how astrology illuminates the human experience so you can recognize the patterns, purpose, and meaning behind events that occur in life.

If you feel called to share your story on the podcast, I’d love to hear from you!

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If you enjoy this kind of dialogue, please subscribe to Tapped In for more conversations that bridge the mystical and the everyday.

I hope you enjoy!

(A pic of the sky last night as the full moon was rising)

In the earlier days of my private practice, I wrote regularly about new and full moons. More recently, I’ve narrowed my focus to eclipse cycles and planetary shifts. But something about today’s full moon in Aries feels especially potent because it’s not just another full moon — it’s the closing of eclipse season and a cycle that began in July 2023, when the transiting nodes entered the Aries/Libra axis.

Since that time, we’ve been learning what it means to lead and relate from a place of connection with ourselves first — to orient our lives from our own center rather than self-abandoning out of fear of rejection. To highlight the me in the we.

Of course, we’re not done learning these lessons as Saturn and Neptune will both transit Aries again, but there’s something to celebrate (or at least honor) in the light of this full moon.

A Personal Reflection

For me, this lunation illuminates my 3rd house of communication and writing, while Mars (Aries’ ruler) activates my 10th house of career and public image in Scorpio. This cosmic interplay feels like the apex of what began in July 2023, when my relationship with writing went through a kind of “dark night of the soul”.

It’s not something I’ve talked about, and maybe not something you’d guess considering I share my writing here, but over the past two years, I struggled to find a flow with writing. Sharing online started to feel like a performance and a bid for attention in an already noisy crowd. If a transit was coming up, I felt I like I had to say something, even when I wasn’t inspired. Writing took a lot of time and energy, and after all that I put into it, I felt like I was speaking into a void. No responses, a few likes. The lack of engagement left me wondering what the point of it all was.

Eventually I considered leaving social media altogether. When I joined Substack last December, it was an experiment in reclaiming my voice and giving this whole thing one last go. A month later, the nodes shifted into the Virgo/Pisces axis, and I began detoxing patterns of perfectionism and over-efforting. Writing became more fluid and freeing again.

With Saturn also transiting my 2nd house of values and resources in Pisces since March 2023, I was also in a process of taking inventory of what drained, distracted, and disconnected me from my inspiration.

During the recent lunar eclipse in Pisces, it became clear: the drain is Instagram.

Social Media: The Collective Mirror

We’ve all been living through a collective identity experiment since Uranus entered Aries in 2010. We’ve witnessed the rise of the selfie and the global cry of “Notice me! See me! Hear me!” through our screens. Social media provided a platform to be seen and heard. It became a place for people to be witnessed in their vulnerability and awakened the importance of the individual. But when Chiron entered Aries in 2018, it also exposed a deeper wound around insecurity, self-worth, and the right to simply exist.

Then, Pluto entered Aquarius in 2023 and since then astrology has become part of the cultural mainstream, which is amazing. The collective hunger for astrological insight is growing, but so is the pressure to keep producing, posting, and staying relevant. I’ve even struggled writing this piece and wondered how to make it less about me and more about us. But I know that part of the medicine of this moment is realizing that our individual stories are also important to the collective story. Again, the me in the we.

Moving On

Instagram taught me a lot about visibility. It held up a mirror to my wounds and helped me reclaim my essential worthiness that isn’t measured through hearts, likes, and fleeting bursts of approval. I’ve learned that I still attract the quality of people who resonate with my message and frequency, and that’s what truly matters.

Coming to this realization is why I’ve decided to make Substack my creative “home” for now. There’s something slower, quieter, and more reciprocal here. This place invites more contemplation rather than quick consumption. Here, I can breathe between sentences and remember why I love writing.

And, since Saturn is now back in my 2nd house of values and resources, I’m also restructuring the ways in which I receive, and building structures that allow for true reciprocity. I’ve therefore turned on paid tiers that honor the time, attention, and heart that go into this work, which allows me to keep showing up here with integrity and presence.

What to Expect

As a subscriber, you’ll continue to receive occasional free essays, reflections, and astro-musings as I feel inspired to share them. But, if you’d like more of my offerings, your paid membership of $7.77/month or $77/year will give you access to:

• My curated playlists (beautiful soundtracks to accompany your life)

• Extended personal transmissions + astrology teachings

• An anonymous advice column where you can submit questions + receive astrological + channeled wisdom from me.

• A private chat so we can stay tapped-in together more frequently.

If you choose to be a Founding Member ($144/year) you’ll also receive a live seasonal “Zoom-Out” Q+A with me via Zoom.

If this speaks to you, I’d be grateful to have your support!

Coming Soon — A Memoir Project

Alongside these changes at Tapped In, I’m creating a second publication that I’m super excited (and nervous) about.

It’s a serialized memoir about my Saturn Return and delves into the process of being both the villain and the hero of my own story during my spiritual awakening and my journey to finding true love.

Stay tuned! More on that soon.

In Closing

This full moon is closes a chapter. It marks the completion of an old cycle — and hopefully offers a renewal of self-confidence and a surge of courageous inspiration to pursue what your soul is calling you toward.

If you’re inspired to share, I’d love to hear how are you prioritizing yourself in your life right now. What wounds have you been healing around identity, courage, or self-assertion since July 2023?

Share in the comments below…

Until next time, thank you for being here and for for valuing my evolving journey.

With warmth + gratitude,
Danielle