If you've been feeling this energy build the last few days the way I have, and especially if its waves today have felt a little "extra" as you try to sort through the messages and lean into the lessons, know that you are definitely not alone in that. With the Pisces Moon's psychic sensitivity, the Virgo Sun and Mercury emphasizing analysis and "teaching moments," and of that making a tense, action-provoking square to Uranus the lighting-bolt of awakening, the air (and many people's nerves) are buzzing. But it's all for the purposes of our continued growth if we're able to ride the waves.
What shape has your week taken? Could you see it by looking directly at it as it happened? The effects of the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse and Leo New Moon are still taking shape; these horoscopes are designed to help you see that shape more clearly, and work with its energy and insights as we head toward the lunar eclipse on Aug. 28.
This New Moon is the turning point of this month's lunar ebb tide, and it's potentially offering up treasures on the beach of consciousness before the tide begins rising again -- thanks to its close conjunction to retrograde Mercury in Cancer.
This past Tuesday, June 30, I experienced one of those moments when the themes of an astrological aspect come alive unexpectedly and my brain starts firing off associations faster than I can record them.
When the Sun enters Cancer on June 21, heralding the longest day and a new season, it immediately contacts Chiron, which entered Taurus on June 19. They describe an opportunity to precipitate awareness into meaningful action.
As the Sun moves through mercurial Gemini this month, the days of Northern Hemisphere spring lengthen, warm, and loosen until the Sun crosses the threshold into Cancer on June 21. We also get the final two major planetary sign changes of 2026 and Mercury retrograde + Full Moon end the month.
Gathering together what Uranus has exploded and inspired as Venus leans in for a goodbye kiss: personal reflections on the last seven years or so, and some thoughts about collective effects of Uranus transiting through Taurus. It's been a wild ride for this little bull.
I wrote this piece in 2019, as I first became acquainted with the groundbreaking -- literally -- transit of Uranus through my Sun sign. I had just returned from an experience that felt emblematic of this transit, and synchronicity was drawing my attention to all sorts of thematic signals. Uranus leaves Taurus in a few short days. I am still trying to gather my thoughts well enough to write a follow-up piece to this one, given how much has changed in the last seven years.
As spring kicks into gear, this month's astro-energy follows suit and starts big, with a Full Moon on April Fool's Day. If you feel like you're still working out some March squishiness at first (like a mental-emotional mud season), the metaphorical ground should start drying out soon and offering better traction as April fires up in earnest.
With the Pisces New Moon being prodded by Uranus, Mercury stationing direct, the Sun leaving Pisces and entering Aries, plus a pair of favorable aspects to Jupiter in Cancer, this week is a curious mix of energies. Sailing through the seas of this Mercury storm phase will likely go better when using two guidelines from actual stormy sailing.