The Astrology Bro Weekly Horoscopes: June 29th to July 5th 2025
A Juicy Venus-Uranus Firework on July 4th + What’s in Store for Each Rising Sign This Week
Happy Sunday, folks!
This is the weekend edition of the newsletter where I share more detailed horoscopes for each sign, written from the perspective of your rising sign.
We’re working with some major long-term transits that continue to unfold this week, plus a Mercury–Pluto opposition today (June 29th) and a firework of a Venus–Uranus conjunction in Taurus hitting on July 4th. After that electric high five, Venus slides into Gemini while Neptune stations retrograde, both on the same day.
I’ll keep this intro short since the horoscopes themselves ran long (classic), but a couple quick notes:
Since this is the first proper weekend horoscopes edition, I focused more on the bigger-picture transits. Things that are shaping the longer arc for each sign but are certainly still showing up in the week-to-week. Going forward, I’ll zoom in a bit more on the near-term dynamics and use the daily emails to tackle broader themes on their own.
I’ll also cover Venus in Gemini and Neptune retrograde more deeply in a newsletter later this week.
Enjoy the read, and I hope you find something useful in it. If you do, please share it with a friend!
Cheers, y’all.
Aries Rising
With Saturn and Neptune sitting in the early degrees of your 1st House, you're in the midst of a long-term process of redefining yourself. It's a raw and immediate reckoning with some part of you that you thought was you, which now seems to weigh you down and hold you back. If you think about "you" as a box containing all these different parts, welp, that box has to be something different. A different shape. Different dimensions. And while you feel some inspirational call to do this, it's difficult to put into words, and, for lack of a better term, it can feel foggy. Whoever or however you thought you were seems to crumble when you attempt to define it, like a bad cookie with the wrong kind of butter falling apart in your hand right before you bite. This is a slow-wave process, and it's something you've likely already experienced. But it continues as a background hum of your immediate experience right now.
A Mercury opposite Pluto transit on Sunday, June 29th, may make you feel somewhat strangled against the weight of future goals. You feel unable to mentally align with your unique role and sense of belonging as you undergo a profound transformation in your relationship with the broader collective. Be mindful of insights here as this relatively short-term transit passes by.
When Jupiter entered Cancer on June 9th, it initiated a many-month opportunity to step into your faith in some inner growth path that was previously dormant, though somewhere deep inside you. You are tapping into a deep inner knowing and deeper into what "home" means. Nurturing that inner call can be met with some inexplicable protection, growth, and support. The process itself can perhaps serve as a compass for relearning and building a more expansive inner foundation when the "who am I?" question feels a little existentially shaky.
As Jupiter separates from the mid-month squares to Saturn and Neptune, the Sun also entered Cancer on the 20th, and we're on the heels of the Cancer New Moon on June 25th. This is big-time cancer energy and an opportunity to expand into a deeper, more accessible inner space. There's still tension with unanswered questions, but cultivating faith in returning to the basics and exploring your inner roots can provide new meaning, new layers, and fresh conceptions of who you are becoming.
On July 4th, Venus conjuncts Uranus at 29 degrees of Taurus, right at the end of your 2nd whole sign house. There's an opportunity here to make a choice regarding money. Around a value system. A shakeup in terms of what value means to you. In a sense, this resonates with the Cancer season's call to go inward, where treasures can't be quantified or priced. This adds some final energy to what has been a period of gradual but significant growth in the areas of self-worth, financial resources, and your identity regarding money. That process began in May 2018 and will conclude temporarily on July 7th, 2025, and permanently in April 2026. Sometimes, we only fully understand the impact of outer transits in hindsight when we zoom out or when the slow-moving planet makes its final push through a sign. In these final degrees, different parts of consciousness can delve into those themes, much like an archaeologist excavating a site. That July 4th opportunity or choice—unexpected or otherwise—is related to everything that's been building since 2018. You may have experienced part of this as an "ego shakeup" when the Sun passed over Uranus on May 17th, 2025 or something you maybe intellectually understood when Mercury passed over Uranus on May 24th, 2025.
Mars can continue to work as an energetic anchor for you as it passes through your Virgo 6th Whole Sign House. (It entered Virgo on June 17th and will remain until August 6th). Growth from going inward (that's Jupiter), but action energy from sticking to routines and some consistency that will help you feel powerful during a period that can feel unsettling. Emotionally, this will be the safe spot for the first part of the week as the Moon passes through Virgo.
By the end of the week, with the Moon moving into Libra, it's a good time to reconnect with a friend or partner.
Electronic Song of the Week: Back Home, Caribou
Card for the week: The Hermit
Taurus Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in Aries in your 12th whole sign house, there's an excavator-auditor meeting a shamanic priest that both are trying to simultaneously reorganize things somewhere in your hidden recesses. The 12th House is associated with the deep unconscious and ineffable unknown. It's a long-term opportunity to understand and perhaps rework deep, unconscious dynamics, your fight-or-flight mechanism, or to catch up on the hidden "junk drawer" of your existence. This can reveal and agitate all the things you've spent your life ignoring, both the unpleasant and the limiting, as well as the spiritual and the healing. It's hard to contain these two archetypical energies on their face, but this is especially true in the 12th House. What you can do is cultivate awareness and make space for connecting with your unconscious mind. Remember not to be hard on yourself if you feel a pull to retreat, put up boundaries, or feel "cut off" from something you can't define.
On Sunday, June 29th, a Mercury opposite Pluto transit frames a brief but powerful mental conflict between, broadly, work and home. Between the authentic needs of the private world and a fixed intellectual obsession with “making it.” It may be felt only internally or projected in some interaction or conversation with another. The tension between something profound and something more conscious, bringing awareness to the pressure and intensity of your public or professional role—or the expectations associated with it—against a recognition that it doesn't align with the inner creative mind within you. Bank the insights, but don't dwell or get into needless mental battles as they quickly pass.
We're in full swing into Cancer season, home to your 3rd whole sign house. Jupiter entered Cancer on June 9th, with the Sun joining it on June 20th. The Cancer New Moon was the garnish on top (June 25th). For you, this means applying faith and optimism and—with a nurturing lens—tending to the mental machinery. Or, more broadly, tending to the home of your personal truth. The system for assigning truth and communicating what you is important enough to make known. This can be an abundant time of growth when you focus on exposing yourself to new things and ideas, learning a new skill, or challenging yourself to investigate something you've previously ignored or rejected.
With Mars passing through Virgo in your 5th whole sign house (June 17th to August 6th), you'll continue to find your most energy from stepping into your expressive self, putting your ideas, your will, and your wants out into the world. Fighting for the things that you can uniquely serve well. Actively doing things that you're good at. This will support Jupiter's growth opportunity, helping you discover new things, sharpen your skills, and combine how you construct truth and meaning with how you authentically differentiate yourself from the pack.
On July 4th, Venus moves into an exact conjunction with Uranus at 29 degrees in Taurus in your first whole sign house. This could bring about an opportunity or a shakeup in what you value, your personal style, or your relationships. Whatever it is, it is deeply related to what it means to be you. More broadly, this could put some additional punctuation mark (or else be broadly informed by) the personal transformative change you've experienced since Uranus entered Taurus in May 2018. Look to the Sun conjunct Uranus transit on May 17th or the Mercury–Uranus conjunction on May 24th for clues on what this might mean. These are all different facets of our conscious experience of Uranus in Taurus transit and its impact, as the sequence of these fast-moving planets makes one final high-five past Uranus before it moves into Gemini.
Make sure to have some fun in the first part of this week and do something spontaneous and wholly and expressively you, as that will feel comforting with the Moon in Virgo. As it moves into Libra, comfort for the next few days comes mostly from routine.
Electronic Song of the Week: Sentient Again, Luzi Tudor
Tarot Card of the Week: The Hanged Man
Gemini Rising
Saturn and Neptune continue to occupy the early degrees of your Aries 11th Whole Sign House, an easier-said-than-done opportunity to redefine your sense of belonging and communion with broader communities you identify with. A desire to merge into some idealized version of a larger future, while also feeling cut off and pessimistic about what that would even look like. Or it's your own hopes, dreams, and vision for the future that are being shaped by the meeting of these vastly different archetypal energies. A deep longing that meets “it will only ever be longing.” This is something that will be gradually felt and integrated over time. Pay attention to how you might get serious about addressing that feeling of being cut off from a larger order belonging and restricted by your vision of the future. A also craving for that space is there, even if it may not be able to be filled right now.
As Cancer season has kicked off in your 2nd House (Jupiter entered Cancer on June 9th, with the Sun joining it on June 20th, and a New Moon garnish on June 25th), this is broadly a time of growth and opportunities for abundance concerning money. Not just money but also your sense of personal resourcefulness and expansive faith in your ability to manifest. Faith in nurturing your own self-worth. There isn't necessarily something that happens this week because it's still the early innings of a multi-week (and multi-month) opportunity to create that growth. But it doesn't come from nothing. It requires creating and nurturing the things we value—with optimism, faith, and some level of healthy risk.
With a Mercury opposite Pluto transit on Sunday, June 29th, there's perhaps a confrontation between your own unique mental framework (e.g., how you speak, how you play with words, how you wield your intellect as a significant part of who you are) and some more profound buried truth. This can be a felt inner tension or something cast onto an external experience, such as a challenging argument or debate. Take note of where there's an opportunity to change your narrative or where those narratives might be controlling you or stunting change in other parts of your life. This transit passes quickly over the following days.
Mars in Virgo in your 4th Whole Sign House indicates that you will feel most powerful and energized from feeling connected to "home"—whatever that might mean to you. (Mars is transiting Virgo from June 17th to August 6th). Completing projects around the House, refining, improving, or fixing things in your private life—whatever it is, this energy works together with that Jupiterian step into a deeper faith and deeper growth around what you value. Perhaps this means focusing on things deeply connected to your inner "you" that may prove lucrative (or not). But, in any case, it can help you expand your personal resourcefulness.
July 4th brings some fireworks, even if you may not be able to see them so clearly at the moment. Uranus, like the rearview mirror warning that "objects are closer than they appear," is about to complete its multi-year trek through your 12th House in Taurus, which began in May 2018. Slow-moving planets in the 12th House affect us deeply but in ways that are difficult to contain. The 12th house represents the deep unconscious, things that are buried and hidden, invisible wiring, and our connection to the spiritually transcendent. Sometimes, we can't appreciate the impact of their cards until the final leg. Consider how deep tectonic currents may have shifted for you since May 2018 and what gradual but significant reshaping has occurred regarding your unconscious identity, hidden entanglements, and unattended personal baggage. Venus crossing over here is an opportunity to receive a gift or to realize that a choice has been made or needs to be made. It's difficult to predict, but it will set the table for the next phase of Uranus in Gemini, which, for you, is big. It will enter your first House, where there will be radical shakeups in your very identity, appearance, and everything you put into that bucket of "you." For clues, look to the Sun conjunct Uranus transit on May 17th or the Mercury conjunct Uranus transit on May 24th, as these are other steps in the final transit sequence of Uranus in Taurus. Those moments may have passed messages to different facets of your consciousness that are broadly related to this Uranus-in-Taurus theme that's played out over the past 6-7 years.
On a more minor note, the Moon will be transiting through your 4th House for the first part of the week—comfort and safety in the home, taking some time away from the world in private or with close family. In the second half of the week, the Moon enters your Libra 5th House, which presents an opportunity for creative expression, making something more beautiful, and doing something that's wholly you and entirely for the sake of fun.
Electronic Song of the Week: Opal - Four Tet Remix, Bicep + Four Tet
Tarot Card of the Week: The Magician
Cancer Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in the early degrees of Aries in your 10th Whole Sign House, your career and professional/public legacy need new boxes. You feel inspired to get more serious or rework your professional life but that be blocked. You need to mature and take braver ownership (plus the accountability that comes with it) of what you want to conquer "out there." With Neptune, it feels foggy as to the "OK, how do I actually do that?" This is a slow hum for you that might feel salient, even if it can't all be figured out overnight.
And yet, with that, there's an expansive optimism and faith about growing the shoes of who "YOU" are. Cancer season might as well be "YOU" season, with Jupiter having entered Cancer on June 9th, the Sun following on June 20th, and a nice little exclamation point on the start of this new personal growth phase with the Cancer New Moon on June 25th. With Jupiter transiting the first, our life trajectory receives a boost of healthy self-belief in what we might step into for ourselves. You may have faith that you can nurture a more abundant, protected, expansive, and spectacular version of yourself by focusing on nurturing the roots and foundation. This is a multi-month process, but use these early innings to set the stage and begin tending to the seeds. Right now, you have the master green thumb, as it were, but it still requires you to plant, care for, and focus on the things that you hope to harvest abundantly. It won't just be handed to you.
On Sunday, June 29th, a short but poignant opposition between Mercury in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius forces you to wrap your mind around personal security and how you define and communicate what you value. A brief but potentially profound realization of how your rationalization or intellectual understanding of how you may have been resisting fully grieving or letting dead things die. This is a momentary insight into a multi-year transformational period, revealing how themes of metaphorical death, loss, and letting go may not be worth resisting. The realization that they are necessary and painfully beautiful moments to grieve what was cared for, while accepting that they need to be fully let go of and cleared to pave the way for a lovely new creation.
As part of this significant growth phase for you, this week (with Mars transiting Virgo until August 6th) you will continue to be energized (and most tapped into the opportunity for abundant growth) when you get honest and direct about what truth means to you. You can't grow by living through someone else's meaning—their idea of what's worth focusing on and what's not. Collaborating with and participating in the world in any capacity requires some degree of compromise. Still, your sense of truth is rigorously examined, refined, and oriented toward achieving practical outcomes. Fight and stand up for yourself and whatever truth means to you. And do it productively and authentically. Resist nagging or getting into needless zero-sum battles over things that, while they might not square with you, don't ultimately matter.
This significant personal growth phase for you was influenced by a profoundly changed orientation to and definition of your highest goals and aspirations. Or a new sense of belonging to a broader collective group that aligns with new ideals that you have been growing into. On July 4th, Venus makes a direct conjunction with Uranus in Taurus in your 11th whole sign house, which will potentially bring a significant opportunity to step into a new role, choose a new goal, receive some support, or share a mutual smile from a collective audience. It's another punctuation mark and a moment to realize what the Uranus-through-Taurus trek since May 2018 has meant. We had other moments to gain a more conscious understanding of this when Mercury transited Uranus on May 24th and the Sun conjunct Uranus on May 17th. There, you may have gained some insight or otherwise felt the interior of that change meeting your ego. With the Venus conjunction, there's an unexpected opportunity and choice to act on it in a way that aligns with your values.
Early in the week, with the Moon traveling through your 3rd, it's a good opportunity to emotionally connect with that Virgo Mars stuff—pick a new book or maybe read a new article. As it moves into Libra later in the week, recharge at home.
Electronic Song of the Week: And We Knew It Was Our Time, Lane 8 + Massane
Tarot Card of the Week: The Fool
Leo Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in the early degrees of Aries in your 9th whole sign house, there's a long-term process in terms of how you are defining the overarching narratives that you use to approach and operate in life, as well as your identity to them. The 9th House can represent our overarching philosophical frameworks, educational foundations, and our sense of wonder and mythological meaning that we bring to mundane experience. In some ways, these need to mature and become more focused. The big, overarching explanations you've applied to everything are being put to the test. You're deeply inspired by those same systems of narrative, but where are they leading you astray into delusion? How can you contain your inspiration to grow them within the practical realities of life? That will continue to be the background music for you.
Cancer season for you means an opportunity for significant spiritual renewal. Healing from the invisible outside into the visible. This is often a time when you develop new spiritual or intuitive talents or new means/methods of self-healing and renewal. It could mean experiencing more expansive access to the growth of something deep below the visible surface, which can produce larger, more abundant material outcomes in later cycles. When I say cancer season, I'm referring to the Sun, which entered Cancer on June 20th, and Jupiter's trek through Cancer from June 9th, 2025, to June 2026. Not for nothing, the Cancer New Moon (June 25th, 2025) added an exclamation point to the start of this spiritual growth phase, giving you the bell ring to start nurturing whatever is hidden in your inner, ineffable junk drawer of life.
Mars continues its trek through Virgo in your 2nd Whole Sign House (June 17th to August 6th) and wants to work together harmoniously with this Jupiter transit. You feel powerful when you focus on what you value and remove what you don't. Energy to drive that organization forward. We need to cast aside things that aren't worth our energy and that we don't want to keep hanging onto. It's an opportunity to get more surgical about handling and managing money and what defines your sense of personal value and resourcefulness.
A short but poignant Mercury opposite Pluto transit on Sunday, June 29th, is perhaps a confrontation with how you relate to the "other" generally. How do you let the shadows of your own larger-than-life being and zest for life get cast unfavorably upon others you interact with and care about? Is there an opportunity to rethink those tendencies so that the beautiful and over-the-top extra-ness of a Leo Rising life is wielded to lift others up, to celebrate their different ways of doing things that don't have to challenge you or trigger knee-jerk judging or devaluing?
On July 4th, Venus meets Uranus in its final degree of Taurus, finally catching up to give one last high five after the Sun and Mercury have already done so (on May 17th and May 24th, respectively). This is your 10th Whole Sign House, which represents public life, professional reputation, and the legacy you build in the world. This is an unexpected opportunity, or a deliberate and change-producing choice to do something different and assign value differently to some essential aspect of this Uranus-in-Taurus cycle. This cycle began in May 2018 and has slowly, steadily—and certainly not always electrically—materially changed how you relate to the world, professionally and publicly. Sometimes, you see some extra fireworks or—if not—at least some more profound or conscious insight into the legacy and meaning of the slow-moving transit. Its meaning and impact. When the Sun met Uranus on May 17th, you perhaps felt the weight of this long-term change poignantly against your ego. Or when Mercury met Uranus in Taurus for the last time on May 24th, maybe you had some intellectual appreciation of it. With Venus, there's a positive opportunity—again, of choice to change something—which will set the stage for Uranus's next phase in Gemini.
As for the Moon: The first part of the week will be in Virgo, where you may feel comfortable focusing on inner and material resources, taking stock, and enjoying the things you value. Later in the week, as it moves into Libra, it's a good time to pick up a book, get back on the podcast game, or strike up a conversation with a stranger.
Electronic Song of the Week: Hide U - Tinlicker Remix, Sian Evans + Tinlicker
Tarot Card of the Week: Wheel of Fortune
Virgo Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in Aries in your 8th Whole Sign House, conflicting archetypical forces of wanting to dissolve boundaries and limits vs. being forced to practically obey existing ones meet in relation to your personal shadow, matters of intimacy, shared resources, metaphorical death, and endings. Deliberate work is needed to both address dark blockages and to reimagine their broader spiritual purpose. You're in a significant phase of working through parts of your shadow, building boundaries around a new skin to step into and out of the old. This is a profoundly inspiring process, but it can also feel confusing. You become vulnerable as you open or reconstruct the container around these deeply poignant (and sometimes terrifying) themes in your life. It exposes you to leakage from those with whom you are deeply entangled. Some of this may be triggered by the jagged and nitty-gritty deepening of relationships, romantic but also otherwise. You're working through the shadow while imagining a version of life having come through the other side.
The power of this Cancer season will be felt in terms of your connection and larger belonging to a different type of community or a more inspired and imagined future. Jupiter is in a months-long trek through your 11th Whole Sign House, along with the Sun (where it will stay until late July). The 11th represents your hopes and vision for the future, the related ideals, and its your sense of belonging and communion to a broader community and its collective evolution. Growing into expanded roles and influence to care for something broader than just family, relationships, and career. Nurture seeds connected to that abundant future you have your eyes on with the faith and inner belief that by nurturing them, it can all me manifested in a gigantic way.
Mars continues to move through Virgo (June 17th to August 6th), which means that your scalpel—the one you take to cut, organize, and classify your life experience—has a jet motor. You'll find the most energy this week and the following weeks when you tap into your unique identity, connect with what sets you apart in all its gifts and flaws and act with calculated spontaneity. Just be mindful that your will is a little sharp, and you can be slightly prickly. Wield this with love, as there's an opportunity to refine "you" and be more surgical and strategic about how you show up as yourself. Still, you want to wield it to support Jupiter's growth and faith in a more idealized, abundant reimagining of your future world.
On Sunday, June 29th, Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius. The mind feels funky with Mercury moving through your 12th House from June 26th to September 2nd. A little more reserved, a little more turned inward. Honestly, your mind feels like it's frolicking through Alice in Wonderland. Decisions? Clear communication? There's an ambivalence to it. More solitude is sometimes necessary here to travel where the mind wants. Let it be a bit, and don't stress too much if you feel mentally glazed over for the next few weeks. When it does make that opposition to Pluto, there are realizations about how parts of your routine and daily protocol might need to be adjusted or transformed in such a way as to better integrate the dreamy aspects of yourself that are asking for more space to live in your practical, everyday life.
Since May 2018, you've been embarking on your own scalpel-driven journey to liberate yourself from a view and philosophy of the world which you no longer resonated with. It’s contributed to creating a significantly altered philosophical narrative and approach for assigning the deepest of life meaning. The full extent of such change may only now be becoming more conscious. Uranus is nearing completion of its trek through Taurus in your 9th whole sign house. When fast-moving planets like the Sun, Mercury, or Venus pass by in sequence for the last time, it represents how different facets of our conscious experience become more directly aware of the changes that outer planets have wrought on us, for better and worse. You might have faced a direct ego confrontation with the consequences of that changed worldview when the Sun was exact with Uranus on May 17th. Or you intellectually realized something about it when Mercury aligned with it on May 24th. With Venus here, there's a potential unexpected gift or a chance to make a surprising choice that, in a broader sense, has been waiting in the wings. Liberating you to step into a new orientation of how to actively love and value the meaning-making and the philosophical framework that's been earned from patiently accumulating the wisdom of life.
The Moon begins the week, going through Virgo and your first House. You find comfort in reminding yourself who you are. By the end of the week, it moves into your Libra 2nd house. You'll feel comfortable spending time with the things you value—balancing the desire to constantly improve and optimize with the serenity of simply enjoying them.
Electronic Song of the Week: Until There’s Nothing Left, LP Giobbi + Alabama Shakes
Tarot Card of the Week: Death (This is the good kind of death, that paves away for the beautiful new).
Libra Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in Aries in your 7th House, a confrontation between restriction and limitation meets the archetype of inspiration and boundless transcendence. Neptune is considered the higher-order version of Venus—a more sacrificial, self-erasing type of love. The combination of these disparate themes, as they relate to close partnerships, long-term partners, or marriage partners, is emerging. Juggling the deep love you feel for another with the frustration of having to make the practical work. Getting lost in idealizing another and then getting hit with the sobering hangover of their limitations. It's something that may simply arise in the process of relating to that intimate other. Other times, these themes are projections you make onto others or in moments of your direct experience with them.
You've been radically reformed in many profound ways over the past 6-7 years since May 2018, when Uranus began its trek into Taurus, your 8th Whole Sign House. The 8th represents metaphorical death, the shadow, the deep issues of security and personal autonomy that get triggered by the nitty-gritty of complex and intimate relationships. Deep shadow work doesn't necessarily come easily to you, and it makes sense why there's Taurean fixedness or resistance in this area of your chart. Still, you've made it through, and whatever that cycle was meant to shed for you has left you exiting the highway with better skin or some sense of having grown from your attempt to integrate it. With Venus about to hit Uranus directly in Taurus for the last time on July 4th, there's a chance for some previous deep jolt around those deep intimate partnerships, intertwined finances, or something deeply related to your shadow. Secret desires come to light. A breakthrough in a relationship or a breakup. Possible. Or perhaps a profound financial lesson in commingled resources—an unexpected challenge or opportunity. It could be a final breakthrough of something you're finally ready to shed, such as jealousy patterns in relationships or your previous tolerance of unhealthy dynamics. Given that Venus is at home in Taurus, though, there's hopefully some element of choice here to make a final valuation on this many-year journey. There may be clues if you look back upon when your ego might have confronted these final Uranus themes when the Sun brushed up against it on May 17th. Perhaps there was an intellectual-level realization when Mercury touched it on May 24th.
Yes, there might be challenges in relationships or, more broadly, about those dark, jagged issues that tangle your sense of security in the context of becoming intimately invested in others. But you're also at the start of a many-month opportunity to grow expansively, perhaps publicly or professionally. To nurture new seeds that sow new, abundant, and emotionally centered power. Jupiter entered Cancer on June 9th, and the Sun joined on June 20th. The New Moon in Cancer on June 25th was like, Alright, baby, Cancer season, game on. This growth—professionally, publicly, or otherwise whatever this might mean for you—won't just happen. You have to sow and water the seeds. You have to have faith in the path and walk it. It's OK for the path to change—or for parts of it to be pruned—but it requires that you actively take the risk of building something, relying on the trust that you'll find protection for yourself even when it feels vulnerable.
To maximize this opportunity, you must also pay attention to Mars in Virgo, trekking through your 12th House, which entered on June 17th and will stay until August 6th. The 12th house is associated with unconscious and hidden things that are deeply repressed from conscious integration. Your outward will and fighting spirit feel somewhat sleepy. It's hitting the snooze button. You're not necessarily one for being overly feisty or overly Martian and aggressive, but even so, you may feel a little bit extra low-energy, like you need to recharge more on your own. That's OK. The real work here is in investigating and auditing your own unconscious patterns. Really challenge yourself to identify what's not serving you, be unafraid to clear away things that can go, and learn to find power in allowing and accepting the ugly cobwebs of your inner junk drawer. This process will support your growth but understand that growth doesn't mean instant gratification. It doesn't mean instant results. Probing the inner with bravery can help you develop the love and faith to grow into the shoes of a new, powerful legacy gestating for you in the public world.
Don't let your mind get too ahead of yourself, although it could be a bit as it passes through Leo in your 11th whole sign house from June 26th to early September. There's something to be learned from communicating with broader communities that you connect with and find a sense of belonging in, which can inform the public and professional seeds you have the opportunity to sow. On Sunday, June 29th, Mercury opposes Pluto in the 5th House, which is a call for you to go deep and purge the outdated or decaying ideas of what "belonging" really means to you. Over the next several years, Pluto will transform what it means for you to creatively and authentically show up and kill away how you might have been doing that in false, surface-level ways. The actual Mercury-Pluto transit is brief but can provide valuable insights or sometimes intense realizations. On the other hand, with Pluto spending the next several years in your 5th House in Aquarius, the reshaping and the transformation of how you create authentically and find spontaneous fun will be a multi-year theme.
Let's not forget the Moon, which will pass through Virgo in the early part of the week—that 12th house stuff—and there may be a need to retreat, stoke the imagination, and do some dream journaling. The Moon enters Libra in your first House by midweek. These are days when you might feel most emotionally connected to being authentically and harmoniously who you are.
Electronic Song of the Week: After the Rain, Virtual Mage
Tarot Card of the Week: The Emperor
Scorpio Rising
Saturn and Neptune in Aries create tension between the archetypal experiences of restriction, limitation, and discipline and the archetypal experiences of boundarylessness, inspiration, fantasy, and eccentric creativity. The arena for their meeting is your 6th Whole Sign House. The 6th is about how we choose to operate and set up our lived life via our habits, routines, and decisions about what we consistently actually do from the infinite well of possibility about we theoretically could do. This subtle, long-term tension will continue to paint broad, energetic themes in your life. It can be both challenging and exciting. It requires applying more discipline and structure to your daily life, protocol, or—more broadly—how you organize and integrate all the invisible chaos and formless unknown into a daily regimen. At the same time, it also is a longing to tap into an energy that simultaneously wants to say, "fuck rules, I just want to paint. Or dance. Or vibe with this collective, infinite universe—whatever that means. Who knows. Fantasy and responsibility: What do these mean to you as you have previously and will continue to structure your life? How can they work together in new ways and reform a life protocol that reflects the purest and most authentic "you?"
That energy is somewhat in tension with the abundant Jupiter in Cancer season, which is even more Cancerian with the Sun having entered Cancer on June 20th and the arrival of a Cancer New Moon on June 25th. The tension was more poignant when Jupiter made exact squares to Saturn and Neptune mid-month. While it's less salient now, it will still require some reconciliation with the Saturn and Neptune stuff I mentioned. You're in the early innings of a deep and abundant expansion or rebuilding phase of—quite broadly—your narrative and your overarching philosophical and spiritual framework. This is the 9th house—how we assign meaning and purpose and possibility from assembling and consolidating what we've learned. This Cancer season is about growing and manifesting future abundance by starting with first principles, starting at the bottom, and nurturing those principles as seeds into something that can be very big and powerful. You're crafting bigger shoes for you to learn how to step into faithfully. You may say, "huh, a life narrative? That's not sexy." But don't get it twisted. In many ways, one's narrative for meaning forms the spiritual container and blueprint for all growth, activity, and success that extend to all other parts of life. Someone locked into a worldview of nihilism and hopelessness will remain limited by its bounds. Someone who perpetually lives in fantasy will find alienation and frustration from getting lost in something too big. However, something that aligns with our desired direction, built on optimism, healthy risk-taking, and a reimagining of what it truly means to play it safe versus going for it, will provide the blueprint for manifesting and building it. It's work and deep care for something that must be built actively. The framework. So, sow the seeds and mythologize your meaning so that it can support you, especially when you're facing frustration and confusion about how to construct your day-to-day life.
The multi-year impact of Pluto in Aquarius goes well beyond the scope of a weekly horoscope. Still, note that you're also in the early innings of a deep and transformative process—a profound shedding of skin around what it means to feel at home and safe. A reintegration around how you think, grounded wholly in yourself, without permutation. This will be a profound confrontation with your familial past and ancestral legacy, particularly regarding how these factors have shaped your inner personality and subconscious. As Mercury Leo passes through your Whole Sign 10th house (June 26th to early September), you can become more conscious about how that theme underlies your sense of personal power and effectuality in the public or professional world. Of course, that underlying Pluto process will last for years. While generally, with Mercury in Leo, your mind is on matters out there in the world. When it makes an exact opposition to Pluto on Sunday, June 29th, you might become aware of how those themes are connected. Sometimes, through a challenging conversation with a family member or someone at work. You may find yourself siding with one side or the other of the opposition while projecting the opposing view onto a specific person.
With Mars in Virgo continuing to move through your 11th Whole Sign House(June 17th to August 6th), remember that your personal will and action energy want to work with Jupiter passing through Cancer. The 11th is our sense of the belonging to the larger collective but also our idealized future hopes and aspirations. This means actively asserting yourself in broader communities, taking leadership positions, taking action, and bringing service-oriented energy to those opportunities—when they arise—will support your growth into a faithful and expanded sense of philosophical or spiritually meaningful direction.
Lastly, on July 4th, Venus makes a direct conjunction with transiting Uranus, just about nearing the end of its trek through Taurus—your 7th Whole Sign House—where it's been since May 2018. Uranus likes electric and Promethean change and innovation. Upheaval, even. Sometimes, that energy can be challenging, and at other times, it can be profoundly liberating, freeing us in ways we welcome. And yet, the upheaval has been somewhat muted in Taurus, the fixed earth sign. Still, in sum, there's likely been significant change in areas of relationships, perhaps in a specific relationship or, perhaps more broadly, in how you relate intimately and directly with another. With slow-moving transits (and especially in this instance), it may mean that some part of the deep-seated call for change has been resisted or suppressed. Something may have been brewing there. Still, it has not manifested explosively, even though it might have needed to. The end of a slower outer planet transit cycle can sometimes ignite energies that have been lying dormant.
Sudden and potentially surprising issues around love are certainly on the menu. Remember, with Venus at home in Taurus, whatever unexpected changes may come here, there's not necessarily anything to fear. It could be changes in a relationship. A deepening. A commitment. A reorientation. A new relationship. Or it could indicate the end of a relationship. Sometimes, it's less cut and dry, such as when the terms or the context around a relationship have changed or will change in the future. With Venus, there can be an opportunity for a deliberate choice. After all, Venus is not just about love, beauty, and money; it's also about what we let in and say no to.
Even if the exact context for this transit arises unexpectedly, if a choice has to be made, it can be made with agency and a value system formed from the wisdom Uranus has delivered to you since 2018. A few weeks back, the sequence of both Mercury and the Sun's last conjunctions with Uranus in Taurus (the Mercury conjunction going exact on May 24th and the Sun conjunction going exact on May 17th) reveals clues about what this Venusian firework looks like. (We can think about these fast-moving transits as different elements of our conscious existence peeling back a specific part of a standard, larger archetypical theme).
On the Moon front, in the first part of the week, the Moon travels through Virgo, making it a good opportunity to connect emotionally with the collective. Or emotionally connecting with some future vision you hold. (For example, identify something you're interested in and connect with other people who are also interested.) In the second half of the week, the Moon enters your 12th House and Libra, which means you feel slightly more reserved and introverted, requiring some unstructured time to sit with half-formed feelings and meanderings. Do what you need.
Electronic Song of the Week: Life is Like, French 79
Tarot Card of the Week: The Chariot
Sagittarius Rising
With Saturn and Neptune in Aries continuing to sit in your 5th Whole Sign House, there's a clash between "getting real and quitting the silly games" and "Nah, fuck rules, I'm gonna move to Austin and go all in on becoming a stand-up comedian." This is a jagged combination in House 5, which is all about creating, memorializing, and making art and containers that reflect your most authentic and unique self. It can inspire us creatively, but it can also suffocate every idea with the pessimism that it cannot happen or will not be worthwhile. However, this can be a tremendously powerful opportunity to bring a deep, creative endeavor into a structured form—to incorporate discipline and work ethic without suffocating the fun of the creative process, perhaps providing a structure that leads to higher-order inspiration. And maybe you're not a novelist or a painter but think about what this theme of creative expression might mean for you. It will be imperfect and jagged, but those colliding themes will continue to hum in the background for you.
Now, Jupiter is separating from an exact square to both Saturn and Neptune in your 8th Whole Sign House, which means that there's a riddle or tension between that clunky weight on your creative process and self-expression and your faith and optimism and your pull to grow, maybe somewhere completely different. The 8th House rules our shadow, our relationship to the deep, jagged extremes, our connection to profound intimacy, and metaphorical death and endings. Naturally, it can be challenging for you to confront these themes directly in your life, and whatever is here can sometimes hinder the very act of freely creating and living life as your most authentic self. Sometimes, you want to keep them safe and out of sight. But here is a graceful opportunity to nurture those parts, to let yourself expand into and from them, to build, in some sense, a place for them, which is necessary to fully step into growth and abundance. The danger is in getting stuck there or trying to nibble the edges. You want to fully immerse yourself in the shadow and expand and nurture your relationship with it from a place of unconditional care. Do not recklessly indulge too far into the dark, self sabotaging parts of an already kept-secret private darkness. Approach with faith and authentic care, not escapism masking ad that. This is a many-month process, but with the Sun recently entering on June 20th and the Cancer Season's chef's kiss of a June 25th Cancer New Moon, the seed-planting phase is officially in full gear. Now's the time to start planting seeds.
Mars continues to spend this week in Virgo in your 10th Whole Sign House, which is associated with your career, outer power, and professional/public legacy. A strong connection to your outer power and energy will help you pick your battles more strategically and work smarter, not necessarily harder. Outer power and a willingness to take decisive action about how you want to shape your legacy in the world can provide energy, support, and opportunities to expand into and grow from issues related to the 8th House.
Mercury is in Leo in your 9th Whole Sign House, where it entered on June 26 and will stay until early September, which means your conscious mind and mental pursuits are focused on the state of your own personal meaning, your own narrative for making sense of the world. This is a significant theme to you, Sag. While a Mercury transit through this House isn't always the most life-changing, some subtle insights and reflections are critical to the edifice of everything to you. What does it all mean? Your narratives and heuristics set the limits and bounds for all your exploration and expansion in life, for better and worse. So reflect this week and beyond. On Sunday, June 29th, there will be a poignant opposition to Pluto—which is occupying your 3rd Whole Sign House. Pluto is in the early stages of a many-year trek through the house related to truth-making, learning things with our own hands, communicating, doing the logical grunt work and zoomed-in discovery. All of which underlie those grand, mythological, and philosophical frameworks and shortcuts that you compress into something portable and applicable to engaging life. Pluto forces deep intensity and transformation around what that means to you—forces you to change your relationship to the details, nitty-gritty, the jagged inconsistencies, and slow-earned and unsexy mental fruits that sometimes you'd prefer to let someone else do. With the opposition, it's a short opportunity to gain some intense, occasionally painful clarity on how something you zealously or righteously preached no longer feels true at its core. Or perhaps your understanding and application of certain philosophies have altered how you perceive truth. That's somewhat abstract, but it's a poignant tension to be mindful of. It can sometimes arise in conflicts with others or be played out via projection onto someone else—a la 'This obstinate asshole is challenging something I deeply believe in as flawed at its core.' Avoid investing too much in the argument's content and see if something about it projects a tension you've ignored.
On July 4th, Venus will make an exact conjunction with Uranus in Taurus in your 6th Whole Sign House, which is daily habits, routines, and deliberate protocols that underlie how you live life, day to day, year to year. This may mean significant and perhaps unexpected changes or choices or realizations for you—particularly about how you are inserting your values and your sense of love and beauty in the realm of daily life and its habits, routines, and protocol. Uranus has been moving through Taurus since 2018, which means that in this area, there has been a slow hum of change. This may become apparent upon reflection, or it may feel like a change has been desired but is trapped beneath the surface of Taurean rigidity and adherence to the comfort of the familiar. Take this time to reflect on that period and what the delta is between what it looked like then and what it looks like now. If you're feeling an itch and wanderlust, ask whether it's for the right reasons. I imagine that this will be some of the shadow work that Jupiter will nudge you to have faith to walk into, particularly around the issue of picking up and moving occasionally once things start to feel stagnant, exposed, or restricted. If a change or choice in daily life needs to be made, then make it. But also consider how this Uranian zap of innovation might be an opportunity to insert your unique values—things you find beautiful and love—directly into the beige humdrum of day-to-day obligations. Maybe a shakeup of the daily protocol entirely, to re-ground it around something newly valuable—a new relationship, a new thing you realized you love, or more abstractly, a new avenue of personal value you've connected with. Sometimes, when slow-moving planets near their end, it's a time when we start becoming more conscious of what was really happening during their long cycle, which can be easily forgettable in individual moments because the many-year energy becomes normalized. This is especially true when the sequence of fast-moving planets makes its last pass around the slow-moving planet before it changes sign. Look to the Sun–Uranus conjunction transit on May 17th (where we faced the impact of this directly in our ego or natural embodiment) or the Mercury–Uranus conjunction on May 24th (where we might have had mental insights or were able to put internal words around something we noticed).
With the Moon in Virgo in the first part of the week, you'll find emotional comfort, perhaps in something related to work. Otherwise, you may be more inclined to put yourself and your emotions out there. In the latter part of the week, there's an opportunity to feel recharged by a sense of belonging in broader communities with similar interests.
Electronic Song of the Week: A Little Bit Further, Tourist
Tarot Card of the Week: Judgement
Capricorn Rising
As a cardinal sign, you might be feeling the pressure of Saturn and Neptune in Aries poignantly as they occupy your 4th Whole Sign House. The 4th is the home, the family, the private inner life—all in both their literal and metaphorical/psychological sense. There's a heaviness about home life and, more broadly, your connection to your authentic inner self, your private subconscious, and your emotional world; that's something you don't naturally want to spend time dwelling on. What's to stew on? At some point, we have to move on. With Saturn here—your chart ruler—you are being asked to slow down and build some structure here, or you might feel limited by something you're privately carrying inside, or you're having to examine and harden up walls around family, put up boundaries, or else confront immovable issues arising in these themes. Yet, with Neptune here, there's also a deep inspiration, a deep yearning to let yourself venture here, and maybe some confusion or weariness about what that means or how to practically solve or understand a challenge you're facing. You may feel particularly raw, tired, and vulnerable in this area, and that's precisely what should happen. You may need to reevaluate what it means to be an inner parent for yourself. The narratives you felt needed to keep yourself in line may no longer be appropriate.
And there's some tension with where you want to grow in your relationship life with Jupiter transiting your 7th house of relationships. Maybe growth and expansion in a specific relationship or a general faith and call to expand this as part of your life, which may, up until now, have not been fulfilling in the way you want. Either way that growth process must be reconciled with the inner 4th house themes that need to be worked with. You can't avoid putting yourself out there and stepping into uncomfortable growth in relationships without focusing on the inner part, the inner world, nor can you hide from the growth you're being invited to take, and just focus on the inner, staying private and tucked away. These processes are in tension and must be resolved with attention to both. That tension might have been especially poignant around mid-month when the square between Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune was exact. However, as transiting planets continue to transit in square aspect, this will remain a thematic hum for you.
The good news is that Jupiter, exalted in Cancer (meaning it's generally happy), can be a fantastic growth time to nurture, plant, sow, and farm beautiful, abundant things for you. But it won't fall into your lap. Have faith in taking risks, envision what can go right, and take active steps. With support, things will fall into place more easily. This will be a many-month-long transit, but there's an extra oomph as the Sun moved into Cancer on June 20th, with a New Moon in Cancer punctuation mark on June 25th. This early inning is when you should envision future growth, see what it looks like, and imagine the possibilities of what that abundance means. Then, use this as the starting point for planting seeds to achieve it.
Though in tension with the Saturn–Neptune theme in your 4th House, this Cancerian energy works harmoniously with Mars transiting in Virgo in your 9th Whole Sign House. These signs, when combined, present opportunities—but they must be acted upon. The 9th House represents our overarching systems of meaning, our philosophies of life, education, exploration, and expansion, as well as our sometimes profound religious inclinations. Mars here indicates that we feel energized by taking actions in alignment with those meaning-making endeavors, but also by being willing to take a stand and separate the wheat from the chaff. Cutting away surgically what can no longer live and guide us as a compass. Resist the temptation to become uncompromising, go half-cocked about what matters, or pick fights with people who don't believe in the same things. Mars is the disposition of Saturn and Neptune, and you don't want to pick battles that are just projections or outlets for your own unresolved internal conflict. You want Mars to be the brave leader—to explore and dare to enter new, large ideas and leave behind ones that no longer fit who you identify with at the inner level. You're not beholden to any narrative you have for the world. Your pen is your sword here, and you can rewrite the playbook.
Doing so can help connect you to your masculine and powerful side, which can make traversing into the unknown and the beautiful, yet sometimes unbearable, pain of making oneself vulnerable in expansion and focusing on a romantic other at least a little more manageable.
Mercury in Leo continues to move through your 8th Whole Sign House, where it entered on June 26th and will stay until early September. Mercury here—perhaps reading the tea leaves and wanting to get ahead—has its mind on the personal shadow, the merging of resources, and the nitty-gritty of intimately solving and resolving complex problems, metaphorical deaths, and endings. These things are on your mind, and communications and conversations this week and next month may drift into topics like this—whatever that means for you.
On Sunday, June 29th, there's a direct opposition to Pluto in the 2nd House (where it's only just beginning its many-year trek). This could spark powerful insights or tough conversations about balancing deep personal security and self-protection issues versus intimacy and collective security. Alternatively, it may trigger a discussion or topic that reveals a realization or pain related to money, finances, or self-worth. That transit doesn't last long, although it is informative. Pluto's trip through your 2nd House will continue to force transformation on aspects such as your relationship with money, what you value, and self-worth—but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.
On July 4th, Venus runs into Uranus in Taurus in your 5th Whole Sign House. The 5th is creative self-expression, joy, and the process of discovering and radiating one’s unique identit. Since 2018, a slow but potentially profound shift has been underway in how you express yourself, your relationship to what is considered fun for its own sake, your approach to romances, your attitudes toward children, how you create and express yourself, or perhaps where you feel challenged. Often, it's toward the end of a long-term sign transit where the juicy results and takeaways really manifest into conscious awareness, so think about what this transit over the last few years meant for you. Anytime Venus runs into Uranus, we're talking about unexpected things or choices arising about things we value—money and relationships, literally and abstractly. There may be an opportunity for something unexpected in a romance or an early dating situation. Something fun. Or something we indulge in so heavily, it forces a major change (even if related to something we authentically value). Take it as it comes. It may be somewhat surprising, but the context is deeply rooted in the Uranian cycle through Taurus. Other pieces of that theme might have popped up earlier in the final transit sequences when the Sun made its last conjunction with Uranus on May 17th and Mercury on May 24th.
Early in the week, you'll connect with your emotions by expanding your horizons, taking a short trip, speaking with someone from a different place or perspective, or reading about someone's philosophy. When the Moon moves into Libra, emotional comfort and connection come from putting yourself out there—maybe socializing, sharing your feelings with someone, or focusing on professional and career items.
Electronic Song of the Week: Back Into Your Arms, Modera + Blonde Maze
Tarot Card of the Week: Strength
Aquarius Rising
Spending too much time discussing the slow-moving Pluto in a weekly horoscope seems silly. Still, I can't ignore it when I pull up the weekly charts for Aquarius Rising. It's there, right in your 1st House of “you,” your identity, and your experiencing of being and living that. It's gonna be there for several years. It's nothing to fear, but give yourself a hug because Pluto takes no prisoners, and it wants to annihilate all that is fake about what makes you you. It's an asshole sometimes, but like someone you want to give a loving hug and say 'thank you' to many years down the road once it's all over.
Mercury is moving through Leo in your 7th Whole Sign House, directly opposite your first House. The 7th is 1:1 partnerships, how we relate to others, and long term romantic partners. Some attention this week and the following may center on how you authentically relate to close others—romantic partners or the broader, more symbolic "other." As it makes an exact opposition to Pluto, there can be poignant conversations or conflicts—either externalized or experienced as an internal mental tension—around identity flaws, real or imagined, that affect or burden the ability to truly relate. Unhealthy contrarianism or a natural tendency to focus on the reality of "it's just who I am" may negatively impede the ability to occasionally put the ones we love on a special stage and celebrate them without the need for them to have to earn it or defend the virtue of that experience in any close relationship. It's a brief but potentially poignant transition to make a conscious part of a deeper, more nuanced process.
In the early degrees of Aries, Saturn, and Neptune occupy your 3rd Whole Sign House, meaning this hard, foggy energy is centered around your personal truth-making mechanism. Your 3rd House represents the part of your life relating to how you learn with your own two hands from your own experience, how you identify what seems authentic and genuine and meaningful, and how you communicate it—how you speak, how you play with all of that, and uncover the various experiential rocks in life to orient yourself and understand things. In some sense, you're being confronted with a challenge to reinvestigate what you thought you already learned, to be more disciplined about choosing what to let in, and to be more selective about what information you give weight to. And yet there's also some deep confusion and fogginess—like you have something to say that's deeply important, but you don't have the right words for it. The challenge is to be inspired by personal truth without being deluded. You must speak up and take ownership and authority over what you have to say, but without becoming a slave to what is or isn't.
In many ways, this is an abstract experience that you will slowly come to terms with, and it will persist as a thematic undercurrent in life over the next few months. At the same time, there's a real growth opportunity for you to step into a broader and more expansive life ritual, with Jupiter transiting your 6th house. Your daily life—the daily to-do list, the habit structure you apply that compounds through consistency. With Jupiter here, there's an opportunity to grow and nurture new shoes—a more purpose-driven, inspired, fearless container for your life that can encapsulate your beautifully contrarian, beautifully weird, and intellectually intellectual self. Aquarians want to think about significant impact, big, sweeping alternatives, and substantial, idealistic shifts in life that make a difference in something that matters. However, they can get trapped in the lethargy of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Allowing the intellectual function (large and powerful) to dissect everything into a network of high and mighty ideas on a notepad or whiteboard, never manifesting in reality.
This is a multi-month theme of taking the risk to build a new life at home, but it requires effort. It requires planting seeds and applying a faith (which can't always be understood intellectually) that they can grow into something incredibly abundant. With the Sun having entered Cancer on June 20th and coming off the heels of the Cancer New Moon on June 25th, this is the starting bell ringing to plant those seeds, even though that fundamental idea of what's really true (a concept that, at its broadest boundaries, is so important to Aquarius) is foggy, blocked, or not fully formed.
It's a jagged process of trial and error trying to reconcile the sign-based square between these slow-moving planets. Still, at least on the Jupiterian side, the opportunity and the impact for that growth will be supported over the next few weeks by Mars moving through Virgo in your 8th Whole Sign House, which it entered in early June and will stay until September. The 8th House represents the personal shadow, our relationship to the dark unknown, and our ability to cultivate a sense of security when we have to vulnerably invest major parts of ourselves in that unknown, even when we can't see or control what's going to happen. You can rise, take action, and have the willpower to pick up the scalpel, cut away, and organize parts of that shadow. Parts of yourself or your life that have long since died, that you continue to carry as atrophied dead weight.
It's not hard to see why this action can help us establish a new life routine driven toward growth and abundance. Clearing the cobwebs and dead weight makes room for new life.
On July 4th, Venus directly connects with Uranus, the planet of sudden change, upheaval, and Promethean innovation. Uranus has been moving through Taurus since 2018, and while in the fixed, more stable-minded sign of Taurus, change may have felt less than sudden or Promethean. But if you reflect on the delta between then and where we are now—with Uranus in the final degree of Taurus—something big sticks out. What is it? Taurus sits on your 4th Whole Sign House, representing the inner world, our familial and ancestral inheritance, and our early childhood experiences that now make up our inner, spontaneous life and automatic patterns. It represents the womb and the home, both in a literal and symbolic sense. How has that changed for you? It's sometimes a less-than-settling transit in the place where we derive renewal and emotional and literal groundedness. This last phase can sometimes feel more volatile as changes that may have been brewing underneath, like a years-old pimple, suddenly emerge. Venus here may present an unexpected opportunity or choice related to what we love that aligns with our home. Maybe it's moving in with a lover. Perhaps it's buying a home. Maybe it's simply an electric wake-up call to redesign and redecorate the home. Possibly, it's an opportunity to reacquaint us with our love for our past.
On the fast-moving front, the Moon begins a visit through Virgo in the first part of the week, which might mean something about the shadow stokes the emotions or vice versa—or perhaps it might mean a profoundly emotional moment where we need to grieve or come to terms with some end. The second half of the week moves into Libra, where you might feel emotionally connected to your sense of expansion or exploration. A good time to chat with a faraway friend, open a new book, or connect with things that stoke your sense of broader meaning.
Electronic Song of the Week: HOLD UP I’M DOING SOMETHING, Emmit Fenn
Tarot Card of the Week: The Empress
Pisces Rising
Saturn and Neptune in Aries are occupying your 2nd Whole Sign House, which means you're juggling sobering realities and illusions in the realm of money, your own resourcefulness, what you place value on, and, more broadly, your sense of self-worth. And yet, not all the restrictions or limitations you might face here have to be bad or sobering. Saturn also means discipline and accomplishment, which underlie many good things. Likewise, not all illusions are bad. Some can healthily channel inspiration to make a difference, recreate, or reframe our relationship to something so that it becomes something entirely different. Practically a time where we might have to get more serious and practical about unrealistic money habits. Or maybe a escapism from really being careful in this area is now forced to meet consequences. Or, this could mean a time when you're more seriously and authoritatively stepping into owning a more spiritual or magical or deeply loving conception of your own self worth and resourcefulness.
These archetypes are in dynamic tension with Jupiter moving through Cancer in your 5th Whole Sign House. The 5th is associated with creative self-expression, joy, and the process of discovering and radiating one’s unique identity. There may be tension between being able to spontaneously show up as your whole, expressive, and creative self when you're burdened by thoughts of money. In a broader sense, it's also hard to do this when you feel uncertain or conflicted about what you even value or when you question your inherent self-worth. What do I express as me when I don't even know what to value anymore?
Stay in the pocket of this tension. It'll be jagged—but so is life. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and you're at the early stages of a significant growth opportunity about some new phase related to creation—nurturing something authentically made from the planted seeds to the harvest of something really abundant. This could mean childbirth, but it can also be an encouraging experience that provides life and significant growth opportunities for creative projects or a broader, more purposeful, and explorative experience of your spontaneous, creative, authentic self. Especially in accumulating fun and meaningful experiences—learning through healthy risk-taking, frolicking, and playing in some excesses. The rapture of new loves and romances. The rapture of enjoying the buoyancy and abundance of meaningful micro-experiences that make you "you."
You'll need to pay attention to the Neptune–Saturn stuff, which may feel like it's squeezing this next phase or challenging your faith that it will all work out. However, you must apply your faith and belief in trying. With the Sun having moved into Cancer on June 20th and the recent aftermath of the Cancer New Moon, the planets are screaming at you to plant the seeds—to claim and manifest the abundance that, in some sense, has always existed, in essence, in your deeper core.
It'll be helped by Mars moving through Virgo in your 7th Whole Sign House, where it entered on June 17th and will exit on September 6th. The 7th is partnerships, including long term romantic ones, as well as you rate with the other more broadly. Virgo and Cancer are harmonious, and when planets and energies from these signs work together actively, there's a possibility for opportunity. Your personal will, as well as your sex appeal, is apparent in the relationship sphere. There is an opportunity to feel energized by channeling Virgo's analytical energy, which is a deliberate focus you must muster. This might come from close partnerships or something that you can tap into from your broader orientation with the other. Sometimes, you can gain strength and power from the stabilizing force of a partner. You're naturally skilled at seeing and empathizing with the hidden aspects people can't see for themselves. Accept others helping you improve what they're good at. But be mindful about projecting anger, frustration, or general criticism that you're feeling inside onto a partner.
Your mind right now is considering how all these energies are coming together and are being expressed in your daily life and protocol (Mercury in Leo in the 6th House). Understandable. On June 29th, Mercury will oppose Pluto, which is steamrolling through your 12th Whole Sign House in Aquarius over the next several years. This profound, transformative energy will profoundly level and transform unconscious karmic patterns. And while it will feel challenging and, in some sense, spiritually alienating or confusing, the opportunity is a deep and powerful spiritual regeneration process, cleaning the deepest of thorns that contribute to your self-sabotage and self-undoing. For this brief Mercury transit, there may be an unsettling conscious recognition of how those deep unconscious patterns subtly but powerfully annihilate you from embodying your most authentic life.
On July 4th, Venus traveling through Taurus in your 3rd Whole Sign House makes an exact conjunction with Uranus—the last time these two will meet before Uranus completes its Taurus cycle and enters Gemini in your 4th Whole Sign House. The 3rd is how uncover and assign true with our own hands. The way our mind perceives, decides whats important, and communicates whats most important to say. Taurus's trek here has been somewhat antsy, somewhat gradual. Taurus is a fixed energy that favors the comfort of consistency. Uranus—which usually represents Promethean upheaval and sudden changes or eureka moments—isn't quite so chaotic. This can mean that change has been muted. Slow-moving Uranus through the 3rd has prompted a shift in your intellectual and communicative approach, as well as your method for discovering the truth through your own efforts. Hoe do you think? How do you speak about the things you've learned? In some sense, this transit may have impacted your relationship to and management of your own nervous system. It has likely been remade over the past seven years since Uranus entered Taurus in 2018. With Venus meeting Uranus, sometimes larger shockwaves and send-offs or unexpected lessons put the whole cycle into perspective. When the Sun completed its final transit to Uranus in Taurus on May 17th and Mercury on May 24th, these were opportunities for your ego and mind to connect with that larger transit theme. Here with Venus, there's perhaps some unexpected choice or opportunity—to speak something shocking to someone you love, or maybe you get a surprising message from someone you love. Perhaps some aspect of this Uranus cycle liberates you and allows you to finally say what you've wanted to say in a single conversation for a long AF time.
Let's talk about the Moon, which will start the week in Virgo in your Whole Sign 7th House. You're more sensitive to imbalances in relationships, energetically and practically, and it's a good time to do an emotional check-in and declutter. As it moves into Libra in the second half of the week, there's more emotional tuning into deeper, shadowy topics—making it a good time to journal, breathwork, or practice deep intimacy or vulnerability.
Electronic Song of the Week: adore u, Fred again… + Obongjayar
Tarot Card of the Week: The Sun