Episode 299 | Mercury Retrograde: Permission to Pause!
Mercury stations for its latest retrograde period. An Aries Last Quarter Moon issues a final call to action. Mars makes a conjunction with the South Node, Mercury and Venus highlight heartfelt communication, and a listener question about synastry.
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Astrology Highlights for July 7-13, 2025: Big Changes on a Human Scale
Grow attached to too many routines, and you run the risk of getting bored, stale, sleepy, uninspired; of losing your temper over unimportant things that have resisted your need for them to stay the same. Uranus is anathema to routines, especially in Gemini, which revels in variety, new ideas, new messages. Without change, without disruption, forward motion isn’t going to happen. We’ll just keep telling the same old stories and doing the same old things in the same old way.
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Episode 298 | Capricorn Full Moon: A Big Shopping Bag!
Episode 298 | Capricorn Full Moon: A Big Shopping Bag! This week, Uranus enters the sign of Gemini for the first time since the 1940s. Venus and Pluto examine power and control in the realms of relationship and money. The Capricorn Full Moon and its ruler, Saturn, stationing retrograde, explore …
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Astrology Highlights for June 30 – July 6, 2025: Charm School
Libra has a way of persuading others to do its bidding while making them believe it was all their idea. It feels good to do things for someone who is smiling, flattering you, and making you feel smart and good-looking.
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Episode 297 | Venus Enters Gemini: Flirty!
At the Venus-ruled Libra First Quarter Moon, use charm and social connections to further New Moon goals. Venus gets an electrifying embrace from Uranus in Taurus, then bounces into flirty Gemini; opportunities arise when Venus meets with Saturn and Neptune in Aries.
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Astrology Highlights for June 23-29, 2025: Home Away from Home
The process of becoming part of something means that the scrappy, individualistic, Aries part of us is in some way broken down. Warriors aren’t necessarily comfortable in their own village, at supper with the people they have fought to defend. This New Moon asks the question: How much of your individuality are you prepared to set aside so you can sit comfortably at that supper table?
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Episode 296 | Cancer New Moon: Phoning Home!
The Sun’s square to Neptune asks, “Who are you, really?” As the Sun conjoins Jupiter just in time for the Cancer New Moon, we learn something about traveling far to find our tribe and the wandering ways we might have to sacrifice in order to belong. And Mercury enters Leeeeoooo for a storytelling journey that involves the mentorship of Saturn, the imagination of Neptune, and the soul-bearing honesty of Pluto. And a listener question about the Part of Fortune. Plus: Phoning home, sitting at the supper table, and the stuff of legend.
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Astrology Highlights for June 16-22, 2025: Midway and Head-On
The Cancer Solstice marks the year’s midway reevaluation point. Even if we’ve been underachievers in the first half of the year, there may still be time to reach our goals. But we can’t speed our way through this transition.
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Episode 295 | Mars enters Virgo: To the Editor!
Mars enters perfectionistic Virgo, gets an energizing boost from Jupiter. Jupiter and Neptune debate the differences between knowledge and faith. The Sun enters Cancer Solstice, gets a reality check from Saturn. The Pisces Last Quarter Moon resolves New Moon plans.
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Astrology Highlights for June 9-15, 2025: Make the World Your Home
The Sagittarius Full Moon: “Is this enough?” And with the Sun and Moon both trine Mars in Leo, this question contains another, nested within it like a Matryoshka doll: “Are you courageous enough to make your life bigger?” Is there a part of your life that you’ve outgrown? How free do you feel? Is this enough?
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