Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lanyadoo. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no-bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. So, unfortunately, as I expected, the last week has been fucking bananas in the world, and I think most people are feeling pretty dysregulated. If you're very involved in social movements and politics, if you are directly impacted by any of the many things that are happening that are deeply scary, then you know. You know that you're feeling fucked up because of the world. And then I think there's a lot of people who just don't pay attention to those things or don't give too much energy to those things, and you all are also feeling dysregulated and off.

And that's because things are changing, and they're changing quickly, and it's a lot. There is a lot of human suffering. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now. As I've said many times before, the astrology of June 2025 heats up and then fucking pivots—big changes in July. There are tons of things that we can talk about in regards to the specifics of what's happening astrologically and how it's going to impact us as a collective, how it's going to impact ongoing wars, whether we're looking at civil wars, how it's going to impact the health and safety of people.

But I want to acknowledge that I'm an astrologer. I dedicated the last—more than 30 years of my life to astrology. We can focus on the details of the astrology and the moment that one thing happens and what it means for the next thing. That's actually not what's important. That's not what's important. It's not the point of astrology, even. What's important now is that you understand and accept where we are in history.

If you get tons of astrological or spiritual or historical or political information, and with that information, you are freaked out, shut down, you start making connections that don't exist or chasing rabbits down holes of misinformation or hypothesis—all that does is it distances you from your own power.

The truth of the matter is we are in a fucking time right now. Things are heating up. They're going to get hotter week by week. It is important to understand where we're at as a collective and where you're at as an individual and, with that understanding, cultivate acceptance. Acceptance is presence. It's not consent. There's not an ideology associated with it. Acceptance is presence. You can't accept something that you're not present for.

This is a time to accept where you're at so that you can cope with where you're at, with where we're at. This is a time for resistance, for accepting reality—right? Saturn and Neptune sitting on top of each other, Jupiter square to them—reality is unclear. What is actually real? What is happening in the world? What is happening inside of you? What of the many of your parts are the parts that are the more real ones, the more important ones? Are you supposed to do more or less?

I don't fucking know. You don't know. That's the astrology of this time. So, if you can accept that things are not perfectly clear, that the path forward for some people might be absolutely certain but for most of us is not, then we can go about doing the work of, instead of pinning our hopes on certainties, resisting tyranny, cruelty, inhumanity, whenever we can, however we can. Resistance to fascism, to ableism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, resistance to war, apartheid, and genocide—these things are not a performance, although performance can be a powerful tool of resistance, right?

Resistance is essentially a failure to comply with the status quo. Resistance requires that we don't consent to things that are out of alignment for us. In regards to your personal patterns, your personal life as individuals which, of course, make up the collective, we all have patterns. We all have habits and tendencies, and some of them are really beautiful and really helpful, and some of them bring us into ruts or into self-destruction.

Cultivating the willingness to resist the parts of our impulses, our feelings, our thoughts, our behaviors that misdirect from wellness, from alignment—this is part of life. And in the context of really fucking scary world events, you are being asked not just to show up as an activist or an organizer or whatever the hell else. You are being asked to actively engage with your shit so that when your strongest feelings emerge, you still take pains to identify, "What are my wisest impulses?" and not just chase your strongest impulses. That's fucking Pluto. We all have Pluto in the chart.

A very natural human response, thanks again to Pluto, is to seek to control what comes next, to control the present, and to do so in efforts to be more safe. Here's the thing. You don't have any control. I don't know; maybe you got a lot of control. But in general, in terms of world events, in terms of so many things that happen in our lives, in our bodies, in our hearts, we don't have control. But what we can do is seek to be intentional and present co-creators, co-creators of our own internal landscape, co-creators of the world.

Being a co-creator does not mean that you will have control, and it doesn't mean that you'll be perfect. It simply means you are actively rising up to engage with the people you have in your life, with the world at-large, and with your own internal landscape—your mind, your heart, your body—that you will engage with these things in a way that reflects, first and foremost, reality, and secondly, what you believe to be right, what you believe to be important.

And within that, grieve your losses. Hold space for your mixed emotions. Give yourself time and space to fucking zone out and not always be working on a thing. Life is complicated, and there is not just one way of being. There's not just one way of thriving. And similarly, when we are looking at the larger problems that are happening in the world, in the resistance to tyranny, in the resistance to war and genocide and eugenicist projects, there's not only one way to resist. There's not only one way to participate and to co-create.

But I want to say to you with the fullness of my heart it is important that you find your way. And you know what? You may find your way and then realize in a matter of days, weeks, months, "Oh shit. There's a different way. There's a better way." Don't feel guilty. You tried. Give yourself the gift of humility, owning where you were wrong, where you misunderstood, where you may have fucked up. And give yourself the grace to learn from those mistakes. That's the difference between guilt and humility. You can learn from your mistakes and change and evolve. That's how the world is built. That's how a person evolves.

And I want to invite you to this moment. This moment is fucking terrifying, but you are here. Fucking weird, right? How did you end up here? How did you end up now? You are here. This is the only timeline that you are responsible to. This is the only meat suit that you live in. You're here now, and you have a responsibility to yourself, to the people around you, and the communities that you are connected to, which, by the way, is all communities. We are all interconnected. You have a responsibility to Earth. What does it look like? What does it feel like? I don't know. It's going to be different for you than it is for me than it is for them.

Your resistance to accepting that we are where we are is understandable because it's scary. Learning how to be scared without self-harm, without collapse, without hypervigilance, is a skill that nobody is good at cultivating, okay? Nobody is good at it. But it's a skill, and it's one that each and every one of us must cultivate at this time. That's just what's up. That's the fucking assignment. Resisting the assignment only makes it worse.

Now we're going to get into another very fucking busy week in the stars. And within this week, just like within every week astrologically, there is possibility and potential.  When any astrologer—me included, of course—looks at planetary movements, what we are looking at is how energy kind of organizes and shapes itself. And what you, as a living being with agency, gets to do is engage with, shape, and organize yourself in connection and collaboration with this energy.

What I'm trying to say is there's a lot of possibilities for how things go, and there are strong probabilities in how things go. And whether we're looking at the astrology for the week of June 22nd through the 28th—which is what I'm about to share with you—or we're looking at the astrology of these times or we're looking at the astrology of your birth chart—what's happening to you right now—the easiest thing is to fall into probability. It's what most people do most of the time, especially as we age.

Probability has a strong pull. It's a deep groove that things, including your mind and habits, fall into. But there's always possibility. Possibility takes more energy to engage with. It takes more intention to point yourself towards, and it takes your willingness to fail. It takes your willingness to stand out, to falter. And that's what most of us, a lot of the time, struggle with. But possibility is exploration of what can be. And if you have any amount of clarity of what you want, of how you want to be, of who you want to be, of what you want the world to look like, then shifting away from those well-worn grooves in your nature and in the world and embracing what could be and taking active steps to co-creating what you wish to have happen, what you wish to be—that is really powerful. It actually gives you more energy because when we're in our ruts and our grooves, we often lose energy, whereas when you generate energy with which to change yourself or the world, it can feed you.

Now, I don't mean to be a Pollyanna and suggest that it will always work or that it will always feel good. But I do want to invite you in these incredibly trying times to explore what is possible and to co-create the present and future that you want to live in.

Okay. Now, as promised, June 22nd through the 28th of 2025 is the astrology that we are about to look at. And it starts off strong. So this week starts off on Sunday, June 22nd, with two exact transits. The first one is a Mars sextile to Jupiter with Mars at almost 3 degrees of Virgo and Jupiter at almost 3 degrees of Cancer. This transit is exact at 3:32 a.m. The next transit will be exact at 11:36 a.m.—all Pacific Time. And the Sun will be at 1 degree of Cancer and 35 minutes, forming an exact square to Saturn at the same degrees of Aries. These are very different transits.

And before I break down the details, let me just remind you that it's a lot of information that I'm about to drop, so there are transcripts available for each and every podcast episode. And so, if you wait about 24 hours before going to my website, you can get the full transcript there. And also, if you want to use the same transit-tracking tool that I use, you can go to astrologyfordays.com and subscribe there to my little astrologer's pro tool for tracking transits and the planets in general.

Okay. So Mars sextile Jupiter is a lovely transit. This transit is very welcome in the context of the Sun/Saturn square and the next transit that I'm going to talk about. So Mars sextile Jupiter is a transit that makes you feel brave, that connects you to possibility and excitement and potential. Jupiter loves looking forward. Jupiter is about expansion and growth and about learning and experiencing things. Mars is ambitious and embodied. Mars is all about assertion and passion. And so, when these two planets form a sextile, which is a spark that is supportive and dynamic—so a spark of energy occurs between these two planets. What tends to happen is you feel like, "Okay. Let's fucking do this." It can make you feel passionate, which can be about a thing, about a process. It can mean that you're horny. Mars sextile Jupiter is a transit that will make you feel like, "Okay. I need to move forward. Here's how I'm going to do it," or, "I'm just going to take a chance. I'm going to jump in and see what happens."

This transit can make you feel competitive. It can find you behaving in ways that are kind of aggressive or a little bit trampling on the preferences or rights of others if you have a tendency in that direction already. So, if that sounds like maybe it's you, then I want to encourage you to do a really good job of paying attention, of listening on and around this day, because you can really learn something, and not just learn something intellectually, but learn it in an embodied way because Mars is so much about embodiment. And so pay attention to what's happening around you.

Now, if you are someone who needs to giddyap and go or you tend to be a bit more retiring, this transit is absolutely fantastic for you because it increases your energy and your enthusiasm and your willingness to put yourself out there. The best way to make use of this energy is from within your body. And a lot of us spend a lot of time and energy avoiding and abandoning the body, so that's not as easy to do as it maybe technically should be.

But if you are somebody who has been trying to—I don't know—connect with your body in some way, whether it's around your physical health, your sexuality, supporting your mental health, your emotional health, making some sort of shift on a material plane, this transit is fucking fantastic. It's really, really helpful.

But because the astrology of these times is so fucking bananas, I gotta say that we have to hold this transit in context. And the context is that later this morning, we have the Sun square to Saturn. And Sun square to Saturn, by contrast, kicks up fear. It kicks up scarcity-mindedness, pessimism, insecurity. It may have you feeling like you're comparing yourself to other people, you are shrinking in the presence of adversity—that kind of shit. Sun square Saturn can kick up depressiveness. So it's not going to create clinical depression out of nowhere; don't worry. But it is a transit that can make you feel like, "Fuck. I'm stuck.  I don't know how to get out of here.  I don't know how to cope with whatever's up"—that kind of thing.

Sun square Saturn is a total killer of sexual desire for most people, while Mars sextile Jupiter increases it. So that doesn't mean one cancels out the other. I mean, it might for you, depending on how it hits your birth chart. But it also might mean that you feel both of those things at the same time, and it's confusing and dysregulating to be a person.

So Sun square Saturn is a transit that is heavy. The consequential nature of Saturn, that part of you that has to accept that we are in this reality and deal with this reality within the confines of this reality—that's fucking Saturn. The Sun is your identity and your sense of self. The Sun is related to your will. Now, Mars, by contrast, is your ego. These two things are very connected, but they are distinctly separate things.

So having Mars be strengthened by Jupiter today and the Sun be kind of stripped by Saturn today is a mixed message. But that mixed message means that you can work with courage, passion, and embodiment on becoming more clear about what is happening in the present moment and who you are within it, because the who you are within it—that's the Sun. Whenever we're dealing with a planet squaring Saturn, we are dealing with challenges, responsibilities, obligations, limitations—a.k.a. fucking reality, right? And you are being confronted by these things in a way that asks you to show up as yourself. Don't show up as you think you're supposed to be or you think somebody else would do it, but show up as yourself.

Generally speaking, when this transit occurs, you gotta rise to the occasion. You gotta do something. And the Mars sextile to Jupiter, in a very different vein, is also about showing up and doing something. So the question to ask yourself is, is what you need to do—I don't know—get more education, get more information? Is what you need to do rest and digest, cultivate patience and presence? Or is what you need to do more about taking responsibility on the material plane, engaging with projects, people, or situations—a.k.a. realities—in efforts to co-create them, to facilitate them?

This is not a time for avoiding engagement. This is not a time for avoiding reality. I cannot stress this to you enough. It is not the time, okay? Whenever the Sun forms a square to Saturn, it's consequential. In other words, it creates consequences, and it also confronts you with consequences. It's both. And so how are you going to show up for that? What does it mean to show up for that? And genuinely, for some people, it means doing less, and for others, it means doing more. If you're looking for a singular answer, I want to encourage you to seek it inside of your fucking self. Seek it inside of yourself.

The Sun square to Saturn will often kick up, as I said, depressive feelings. So you may feel really lonely or stuck. You may feel isolated or just like you don't have the energy to follow through. You may also feel really kind of weighed down by the expectations or attitudes of others, in particular people who you think are more experienced than you or people who have some sort of authority over you.

This transit will often coincide with an identity crisis or a crisis of confidence. It's hard, right? It's hard. It's a hard transit. And the best way for you to engage with this is head-on. It's with intention and care. And if you can avoid being fixated on outcome but instead engage with your own energy, with your will, with your identity, in ways that reflect what you believe to be right, with your integrity—which is very related to Saturn—then you're pointed in the right direction.

This is not a time for outcomes. As much as this is a consequential moment, it's not an outcome moment. Squares are when things take a turn. What is a square if not one turn after another turn after another turn? It's when things take a turn. So how you show up for this moment is important, but it's not all she wrote, if you know what I'm saying.

Now, you may be feeling particularly low energy on and around this date, and it's not just because of the Sun square to Saturn. It's because on Monday, June 23rd, at 1:29 a.m. Pacific Time, the Sun will be at 2 degrees of Cancer and 8 minutes, forming an exact square to Neptune at the same degrees of Aries, a.k.a. a fucking Sun square Neptune. Now, you should be zero percent surprised that right on the heels of the Sun square to Saturn we have a Sun square to Neptune, because Saturn and Neptune are very close to each other right now. So whatever happens to one happens to the other.

Now, Sun square Neptune is a transit that is very exhausting. It can make you feel psychologically or physically like you have no spoons; you just don't have the energy with which to do a damn thing. You may feel like sleeping. You may feel that you need rest. And here's the thing. If you need rest, then the most progressive and healthy thing for you to do is to rest. And if caving to exhaustion is an escapist tendency that you have, then it's not a good idea to pursue it because the Sun square Neptune overlaps with these other two transits I just told you about that are asking you to take responsibility and to show up and to be brave.

This transit, Sun square Neptune, is demoralizing. Your will, your identity, is being put through the sieve that is Neptune. So Neptune functions like a sieve. It doesn't hold a solid container, so a lot of your energy gets lost whenever you're going through a transit like a conjunction, square, or opposition to Neptune. It increases susceptibility in all contexts, so susceptibility on a health level—so you want to take good care of your health. It can also make you susceptible to misinformation and disinformation, to spiritual grifts, to illusion and disillusionment—also your own tendencies towards escapism.

There's a meaningful difference between taking a break and giving yourself respite and disassociating. On the surface, those two things look really similar, but one is about replenishing yourself, feeding yourself, being present while not in the pursuit of doing, and the other is simply about disassociating. It's about detaching and disconnecting from yourself instead of replenishing and caring for yourself. Now, sometimes it feels like the most caring thing you can do for yourself is to zone out, and that's real. But the Sun square to Neptune actually wants you to replenish, to care for, to support your psyche, your spirit, your heart, and your body. Those things are foundational to being able to show up with and for others, with and for the world.

Now, Sun square Neptune is a great transit for burnout. It's a great transit for empathy fatigue. It's a great transit for projection onto others. So that makes it kind of a hard transit, right? Not things we want to cultivate. You may be confused during the Sun square to Neptune. You may be anxious and discombobulated. You may find yourself panicking about something, and that thing may be real or imagined. You may have a paper cut and feel that it is a gash. And this further begs this larger question that we are all going through of, "What is real? If it feels terrifying, does that mean that it is bad? If it feels terrifying, is that my emotional response to the thing, or is that information about what the thing actually is?" How do you know what is real?

The Saturn/Neptune conjunction that is this umbrella transit that we are going through currently is asking you that. It's asking us as a collective that. And then these Sun squares to Saturn and Neptune are making it really personal because the Sun is very personal to you. How you engage with anxiety, how you engage with reality, is being tested during the Sun square to Neptune. My best advice is to keep things simple. And for a lot of people who are super intellectual or super hypervigilant, simple might seem like it's not enough. But simple is about the pure foundational elements. Stick to the foundations. If you can do that, then you'll be able to more easily cope with what comes up.

This is fucking messy. This is a messy transit. And Mars/Jupiter is egging you on to be brave, and Sun square Saturn is heavy and consequential and making you feel like everything is super important. And then Sun square Neptune is like, "Oh fuck. And now I'm anxious, and I don't know what to do." And you may find yourself, again, really jumping to conclusions. So let me remind you that your algorithm on whatever platform you spend time is tailored to you and to what whoever owns that company wants to feed you.

In other words, even though you may trust the people who you are learning from or who you're being influenced by or whatever the fuck it is, it's your job to do due diligence, to explore ideas and news and information to verify that it is true. And it is on you to own what you can tolerate and what you can engage with in a healthy way. I say this because this transit kicks up a lot of anxiety. And there may be serious mis- or disinformation this week, and in particular around this date. Not everyone is going to prioritize being authentic and truthful and present.

A very common response to anxiety is to jump to conclusions. So you may do that or someone else may do that, and that someone else may have power, may have a large platform—whatever the case may be. In regards to your personal life, things are messy and unclear. And so it's a terrible time for making permanent decisions. If you can avoid it, avoid it.

You may find that either you or a person that you are in some sort of a close personal relationship with are acting in ways that are super confusing because Saturn is so heavy and reality-based, and Neptune is literally as light as the clouds and fog, and it is escapist. So we're all likely to be giving very mixed messages. We're all likely to be confused and confusing in how we show up and engage in our relationships and in general with other people.

Again, be honest. Keep it simple. If you know you have someone in your life who—you really like them, but fuck, they make you feel shitty every time you hang out with them—don't hang out with them. Cancel plans. If you know that you have certain things that you do that always make you feel bad, don't do them. Do your best to avoid that. Engage with possibility instead of slipping into the groove of probability.

When we go through a Sun square to Neptune, it's not a good time to fuck with drugs. I'm not talking about pharmaceuticals. I'm talking about consciousness-raising drugs. And I know I get teased for only ever saying when not to do drugs, but it is worth me saying that I'm not going to sit around and tell you to do drugs. That's just not—I'm a triple Capricorn. That's not what I'm going to do. But I will warn you when it's a not-safe time. So I'm just mentioning the times that aren't safe. There are other times that are safe, but I'm not going to tell you to do drugs, ever, because that's just not who I am. But you get to be who you are.

This transit is not good for weakening the veils because the veils are already weak, if you know what I'm saying. If you are a person who does energy work, do not do anything outside of your habits and your typical life. This is an important time for doing boundary work, whether that boundary work is on a spiritual level, on a psychological level, or on a physical level. We're back to masks or safer sex implements. These are boundaries. These are physical boundaries. This is a good time for getting your buns into nature. Go touch grass. Go hug a tree.  Can you go swimming? Go swimming. Be connected to this beautiful Earth that we live on, this resilient, gorgeous, supportive planet that we live on.

Another really beautiful thing to do under this transit is immerse yourself in the arts, whether it means going to the studio and making stuff or it means listening to music or whatever vibes for you. Tapping into vibes that help you get present and elevate—that's a really good use of this energy.

While the Sun square to Neptune absolutely is and can be related to humanitarian causes, it's also really unclear. It's messy. Its messaging is messy. And it's a transit that makes people feel unsafe. Because of that, it's important that if you're going to engage in any form of activism or social movements, that you are informed, that you're not going in half-cocked. So, again, this is where you want to double-check your sources. Make sure that you are tapping into that Sun square to Saturn by tapping into reality, tapping into what's actually happening and what the boundaries and rules are of whatever it is that's happening.

Now, Mars sextile Jupiter makes things happen quick. Sun square Saturn makes a person feel depressive or like nothing good is going to happen; everything's heavy and bad. Sun square Neptune makes a person feel anxious and panicked and to jump to conclusions. So, because all these three transits are overlapping with each other, there is a real risk that you will feel like you are being pushed to feel, think, do something, that the world or your life is happening quicker than you know how to keep up with. And that may or may not be true.

But I want you to know that these transits are kind of organized to confront you with yourself. So, as much as I want to encourage you to engage responsibly with your life and with the world, these transits are going to show you something about yourself. And it's really wise to pay attention to whatever it is that you're being shown about yourself because it is only with awareness that we can grow and evolve, that we can show up.

What you may be seeing about yourself is—I don't know—how you respond to anxiety or how you disassociate from stress or whatever the fuck. Without judgment, try to be here. The thing is every single one of us struggles. Every single one of us is imperfect. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to feel good all the time in order to be on the right path. The path that you're on is a co-creation between your choices, how you choose to engage and show up, and what's happening around you, how other people and circumstances are developing. Keep on coming back to this moment. Keep on showing up for this moment. And that will make these challenging transits easier to engage with and more useful in the long run.

Now, that brings us to Tuesday, June 24th—Tuesday. We're only on Tuesday. Okay. So, at 12:16 a.m., Mercury will be at 26 degrees of Cancer and 36 minutes, and Chiron will be at the same degrees of Aries. That means, my friends, Mercury square to fucking Chiron. A couple hours later, 8:17 a.m. Pacific Time, we have a Sun conjunction to Jupiter. The Sun will be at 3 degrees of Cancer, 22 minutes, and Jupiter will be at the exact same degrees of Cancer. So we got a lot of Cancer vibes going on.

Here's the thing. We're going to be feeling this Mercury/Chiron square since the start of the week. And the Sun/Jupiter conjunction—we're going to be feeling it the 23rd through the 25th. And if you thought that was a lot of Cancer energy, these two transits, I just gotta say the Moon moves into Cancer later that night, 8:44 p.m. So it's very Cancer vibes, which just means it's emotional. And the thing to remember about Cancer—I'm not talking about people who have the Sun in Cancer, because we do not pathologize with astrology here at Ghost of a Podcast. I'm talking about the energetics of Cancer, which exist in all of us.

Cancer energy is deeply emotional and also can come at things sideways, can be a little—whether it's passive-aggressive or just—because there's so much emotionality, the drive to self-preserve and self-protect is very strong. So you want to just be aware of that activated inside of you but also inside of other people. Show yourself and others grace. Grace. Just give people a fucking break for being off or imperfect or whatever it is. I'm not saying don't have boundaries. I'm not saying don't have discretion. Please, I beg of you, have discretion. Have boundaries. But that's not instead of empathy. That's alongside it.

So let's start with Mercury square to Chiron. This transit is one that challenges your thinking and your psychology, which can very easily turn to challenging your friendships, your relationships with people that are inherently platonic or the platonic side of relationships—in other words, camaraderie, friendship, neighborly dynamics—right? That's all Mercury.

Mercury/Chiron square can activate negative thoughts or insecurities in general. The thing you want to look out for is self-fulfilling prophecies when you find yourself looping on narratives that you've had for years and years and years and you're applying them or projecting them into your current situation or your current relationships.

The potential of this transit is that you engage in real self-reflection, when you really unpack and explore your own thinking and attitudes. It's really hard to change your mind. It's really hard to evolve your psychology. It sometimes can happen in an instant, but a lot of the time, it takes practice and happens slowly over a larger period of time. And a transit like this one can trigger growth spurts or trigger your thinking or your psychology in such a way that you feel like you're regressing. But what's really happening is that the things that have not yet come to healing come to the surface.

Because Mercury is involved, we are really looking at and dealing with communication. So this is not just about what you say and how you say it. It's about how you listen or whether you listen at all. If you find yourself in conversation with someone else or even consuming some sort of news or learning something, and as you are listening or ingesting information, you are constantly rebuking, rebuttaling, pushing back, thinking of what you would say -- then you're not fully listening, you see?

Listening to someone else means actually just being open and present—not without discernment, not without boundaries, but open and present. If you are actually listening, something can happen. Something can happen. It might change your mind. It might not change your mind. It might open doors. It might not open doors. But not listening is guaranteed to not facilitate progress.

When Mercury and Chiron form a square to each other, it's challenging. We may see really challenging news. There may be some sort of bad news that you get, if this transit is hitting your chart directly. When I say bad news, I mean—"bad" is such an imprecise word, right? It may be triggering and activating in such a way that you draw negative conclusions; you think it's hurtful or harmful in some way. Or it may be bad news in that it's not what you were hoping for; it's not what you were expecting. And so, in response, your thinking goes in a negative direction.

The best thing you can do during a Mercury square to Chiron is be open to learning—learning about yourself, learning about others, getting more information about the world. As you get more information, you have more information. And collecting data is useful. What's essential is that you make use of the data, though, right? So you have to unpack the data, digest the data, make sense of the data. And that, in part, means verifying it. "I feel really down and low today. Why is that? What is it that I need to do to support myself around that? How do I know that I'm feeling down and low? Is it actually my body that just needs rest, or is there a problem that needs attending to? Is there a problem that needs to be put on a shelf for a while?"

In order to use data, you must first work with the data, explore the data. When Mercury forms a square to Chiron, we can do that in a way that reflects our core wounding and insecurities instead of wisdom, presence, curiosity, which is what we're being challenged to do. Unfortunately, this transit, not dissimilar from the Sun square to Saturn and Neptune, kind of brings up some level of suffering, whether it's suffering on the collective level and in the world, suffering in our communities, or suffering on an individual and personal level—or maybe all the fucking levels.

If you cut yourself and start to bleed, is the best thing to do to say, "Oh shit. I gotta get—I don't know—rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, a Band-Aid," or to lament that the cut ever happened or your blood is flowing? Show up for your wounds. Don't judge yourself for the wounds or, if you're in an active state of suffering, go into some sort of intellectual analysis that is divorced from your lived experience. Instead, show up. Show up. Tend to whatever is active.

Now, luckily, we have a Sun conjunction to Jupiter active on this day that will be incredibly supportive for that. The Sun conjunction to Jupiter increases your resiliency, your vitality. It gives you a sense of courage, capacity, curiosity, and optimism, which could we not all use? This transit is associated with luck, technically speaking. And listen. If it hits your chart directly, maybe something really lovely will happen to you, for you, around you, but I tend to find that it's not really about luck. It's about an openness to possibility, an openness to things going well. And so it's one of those things.

Sometimes, when you're open to positivity, what you tend to see is all the reasons to be positive. Sun conjunction to Jupiter does offer strength and wellness. It offers growth. The kind of negative risk is that it expands the wounded thinking or the difficult relationship dynamics or the challenges with communication that the Chiron/Mercury transit brings up. That's the risk. The risk is that you get up on a soapbox or somebody else gets up on a soapbox and is like, "This is how you're supposed to be. This is how you're supposed to think and feel." Don't do that. Shoving your truth down the throats of others rarely makes other people have "aha" moments. Communication is about listening. Teaching requires humility. So that's the risk, that you'll just shove your truth down someone else's throat or that you're going to have to deal with someone else behaving in this manner.

The positive potential which is great with this transit is that you will be open to and experience growth, expansion, evolution, possibility, that you will experience yourself or something in the world, in your life, that really puts you in contact with your capacity, with the capacity of others, with happiness and wellness in general. That's the positive potential here.

And we love to see that there is a Sun conjunction to Jupiter and also a Mars sextile to Jupiter this week because these are really lovely, supportive transits. The risk, again, with a Sun/Jupiter conjunction is being egocentric and only really valuing your own perspective. So be on the lookout for that. The truth of the matter is there are a lot of ways of being. There are a lot of truths. If you believe that your perspective, your way of being, is the only acceptable answer to all of life's questions, then you are probably dealing with an internal problem.

The cool thing about astrology is it shows us that we are made up of the same 12 signs, the same 10 planets, the same 12 houses, but there are these countlessly different ways that it shows up, that it plays out. And so we get to be different. We get to take a different approach from the next person in engaging with a problem or an opportunity. There's not only one way of doing it. So remain open and curious to what's right for you, for what you believe to be the truth, and where you feel fixed around that and whether or not your perspective needs to be a little bit more open or a little bit more adaptable.

Now, this brings us, my friends, to Wednesday, June 25th, when we have a New Moon in Cancer. The Moon and Sun will both be at 4 degrees and 8 minutes at 3:32 a.m. Pacific Time. Now, I want to point out that this New Moon encompasses all of the transits we've already been talking about. And New Moons are always a time for setting intentions, for getting present and whole around how you feel and where you're at, who and what you are in this moment, and for setting intentions for what comes next. New Moons are always the seed planted, and that seed will break ground within a month. It'll grow within a month. So this is an important time for being intentional, for being present.

Let's unpack this New Moon. Jupiter is very close to the Sun and Moon in Cancer—beautiful, wonderful news. When Jupiter, at 3 degrees and 32 minutes, is hanging out on top of the Sun and Moon at 4 degrees of Cancer, we are excited because that is expansive. It indicates exceptionally wonderful things. And before I say anything more about this, I want to say that Saturn being at almost 2 degrees and Neptune being at 2 degrees of Aries are forming a square to Jupiter, the Sun, and the Moon. Now, the Jupiter conjunction is tighter to the New Moon than Saturn and Neptune are, but only by one or two degrees.

So I want to just name that I imagine that the internet is going to be flooded with Jupiter conjoined this Cancer New Moon is beautiful and magical. That is not the full picture by a long shot. On paper, Jupiter conjunction to the Sun and Moon is just the perfect time for manifestation. However, the Saturn and Neptune square create all the things we've been talking about throughout this episode: this confusion, this heaviness, this demoralization, and a difficulty in identifying what is real, what is important, what is true. And because of that, it is a bad time for doing manifestation work. Now, listen. If you have a spiritual practice in which you do manifestation work and you are trying to manifest clarity, go for it. But trying to manifest something material, something fixed, is poorly starred. It's not a great time for doing that.

In fact, as much as Jupiter's presence in this New Moon represents emotional resiliency and happiness and optimism and luck, Saturn forming a square to all three of these planets—Jupiter, Sun, and Moon—indicates the inverse of that. It's restriction and delays and frustrations. Neptune indicates confusion and anxiety and uncertainty. And so this New Moon is a really good time to practice being brave enough to remain emotionally present with the mess, with all of it. That is what I believe to be the assignment of this New Moon.

Now, Mercury is still square Chiron. We have Mercury also building towards an opposition with Pluto, which won't be exact until next week. We have Mars separating from a square with Uranus—all of this to say there is a lot of tension building inside of you. There is a lot of tension building inside of all of us. And so, again, we are likely to see unpredictable news, like dramatic, potentially violent, unpredictable news. We are likely to see communities coming together to fight for what they believe in or to fight against oppression. We are likely to see some people, and potentially people with power—aggression and ambition unchecked.

And the thing about Jupiter conjunct the Sun and Moon is that it can further a sense of entitlement and unchecked growth, unchecked expansion. We have to remember that growth is not inherently good or bad. You can grow something that is inherently destructive or that brings you further and further from alignment. Unethical and unjust systems can grow. Growth is not inherently good or bad. We want to be intentional about what grows and what shrinks because sometimes some things need to get smaller in order to be contained.

This New Moon is a good time to not only be emotionally present but to be accountable to what comes up—what comes up in your personal life, what comes up in your heart, in your psyche, and also what comes up in the world. How are you going to be accountable to that? Now, the zodiac sign Cancer is associated with nationalism. It's associated with a sense of tribalism, like, "This is mine, and this is ours and not yours." We may see very dramatic moves in that direction.

Jupiter has a funny way of justifying whatever the fuck it wants, and so there is a risk this New Moon that you or someone else—that someone else might be a person in your life or a person with power in the world—feels justified, whether it's spiritually justified or just personally justified, in taking what they want or in blocking others from getting what they want or what they need. And that can get really fucking messy.

So, again, this New Moon is asking you, what do you believe to be real? What do you feel? How are you going to be accountable? How are you going to show up and care for yourself, as well as how are you going to show up and care for others?

One more thing I'm going to say about this New Moon is it's going to be majorly emo. Because the Moon governs Cancer—the zodiac sign of Cancer—when the Moon is new or full—but now we're talking about new—in the zodiac sign of Cancer, we know that emotions are going to be strong and come to the surface, which means that your coping mechanisms, your patterns, habits, beliefs, attitudes, and tools and resources for coping with your emotions are going to be activated.

So show up. Show up for your feelings, for your needs, for your wants, with empathy, kindness, patience, boundaries—boundaries—and an openness to possibility. That openness to possibility is supported by Jupiter, but it is being challenged by Saturn and Neptune. So keep it simple. Keep it present. That's your best move this New Moon.

Now, we have several more transits happening this week, but they're all much more supportive. On Thursday, June 26th, Mercury will be at 29 degrees and 29 minutes of Cancer—very anaretic, peak Cancer vibes—forming an exact sextile to Uranus at the same degrees of Taurus, again, giving peak Taurus vibes. Uranus in Taurus is a very big topic in this moment because Uranus is at peak Taurus vibes. This is something we will talk about next week when there's a little bit less happening. So that Mercury sextile to Uranus is exact at 2:45 a.m. Pacific.

Later that morning, 7:11 a.m. Pacific, the Sun will be at 5 degrees and 14 minutes of Cancer, forming an exact sextile to Mars at the same degrees of Virgo. These are influential to the New Moon chart. They're part of that energy. Mercury sextile to Uranus is a dynamic transit that can make your thinking more experimental, more expansive. It can help you to feel more curious. This transit can coincide with a lot of exciting things happening, and those exciting things may help you to learn something new.

They may bolster your social life. It may be that you're DMing with people that you want to talk to or you run into lots of different kinds of people in your day-to-day life. This is a great time for taking chances and exploring possibility. It's a great time for problem-solving, so you can return to something that you may have been struggling with or felt blocked around and make real progress under a Mercury sextile to Uranus. Be open to exploring ideas.

Now, the Sun sextile to Mars is a fortifying transit. It takes the will—your Sun—and Mars—your ego—and it has them happily playing with each other. So your sense of self is strengthened with a sense of resiliency and passion. This can be a great time for hooking up. This is a great time for making progress, so this means doing shit, setting intentions. Fortifying your mental health, your physical health, is good for your confidence and for your virility, your sense of strength and resiliency in your body.

If there's shit that you need to do, Sun sextile Mars helps you get it done. If there's a challenge that you want to take on that requires bravery and a confidence boost, Sun sextile Mars is here for you. This is a transit where it serves you well to be direct, to be forthcoming, and not just with your words but with your actions. So this is a time for you to follow through. You say you're going to do a thing; do a damn thing.

If you've been feeling particularly just fucking—just emptied out and stressed and these other, more challenging transits have fucked you up at all, the Sun sextile to Mars is really a good resource to tap into. It can help to connect you to your body, your sense of vitality and strength. Whether that means kind of bringing your energy together or doing something with your body that helps generate more energy and confidence, this is the time to do it. An easy way of doing that can be—I don't know—dancing in your bedroom or taking a walk or doing something that you really enjoy with your body. Anything you enjoy with your body that helps you to get more present is well starred under this transit.

Now, that brings us to Friday, June 27th. At 8:53 p.m. Pacific Time, Mercury will be at 1 degree and 45 minutes of Leo, while Saturn is at the same degrees of Aries. So we have a fire trine between Mercury and Saturn. This is very well starred, and it's especially well starred because that Sun square to Saturn puts you in this negative frame of mind, like, "I can't, and I never will be," whereas Mercury trine Saturn opens up your thinking. It still puts you in a serious realistic, pragmatic frame of mind, but it does so in a way where you can actually focus up; you can point your thinking towards what is practical and helpful. You can figure shit out in realistic terms. You can communicate in a clear and consistent way. You can concentrate, so you can listen better.

This transit favors common-sense thinking—classic Saturn shit. If there is shit to do that is administrative, it'll be a good time to do it because Mercury trine to Saturn helps you to be streamlined and organized in your thinking. So, if you know you need to clean your closet, clean your inbox, deal with mundane things, Mercury trine Saturn will help you to do that. If you have plans to make, if you need to cultivate or communicate greater clarity after things were messy earlier in the week, again, Mercury trine Saturn is here for you.

But of course, where we find Saturn we will quickly find Neptune. And that is why, on the 28th, which is Saturday, Mercury forms an exact trine to Neptune at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Time. Mercury will be at 2 degrees of Leo and 10 minutes, and Neptune will be at the same degrees of Aries.

This transit is similarly supportive, but instead of it being a transit that points you towards pragmatic, common-sense thinking and strengthens your sense of concentration and your capacity to really stick with a thought or to learn something in a material way, Mercury trine Neptune is inspirational. It opens up your thinking to be more empathetic, more adaptable and humanistic. It empowers you to have more grace for yourself and others. This can increase your sensitivities in regards to your spirituality, your psychology, and the world in general. It helps you to be more sensitive, to tap into nuance, which is really useful.

The Mercury trine Saturn is super pragmatic, but that Neptune presence—the Mercury trine to Neptune infuses it with light, potential, spirituality and creativity. So it's a lovely set of transits. In a bigger-picture way, it might clarify some of the confusion and mixed understandings that you're having around what is real and what is not real. This is a good time for learning something new. This is a good time for communicating and fleshing things out interpersonally or with a project or whatever it may be. Your capacity for care and consideration of your own needs and the needs of others is increased under this influence. So it's a great time for working with plans that impact us on the collective as well as you on the personal.

Now, this has been a very long horoscope, but I've got one more thing to tell you about. And that is, next week, the first transit of the week is a Mercury opposition to Pluto that'll be exact very early in the morning on Sunday, the 29th. I like to, with these horoscopes, help you to stay as present as possible, so we only look at seven days at a time, except for when we're looking at the bigger-picture shit. But for at least half of this week, you're going to be feeling the effects of the Mercury opposition to Pluto, which is exact on the 29th. And the Mercury opposition to Pluto—again, I will of course unpack it more next week, but I will say it triggers compulsive thinking, power struggles, and it can intensify your survival mechanisms psychologically.

I want to encourage you to be on the lookout with empathy, care, and as grounded in intention as possible. Be on the lookout for your own thinking cycling into the paranoid, the defensive, or the compulsive. Be on the lookout for your own addictive tendencies. And be mindful that while none of these things may be showing up for you in any kind of major way, they may be showing up for your coworker or your partner or your friend or your family member, etc. Mercury opposite Pluto is a very dramatic transit. If your thinking is pointing towards the dramatic, especially midweek onwards, we can kind of think Mercury opposite Pluto.

I want to encourage you to seek peace in your thinking. And when I say that, I want to be really clear I don't mean turn away from that which is not peaceful. I mean, instead, cultivate acceptance and be mindful of the ways in which you may be compulsively seeking control through hypervigilance, escapism—whatever it may be. Seeking peace is not a practice of avoiding conflict. Seeking peace is ultimately the pursuit of truth and justice. And so, as you seek truth through complexity, as you seek justice in your thinking, in your attitudes, your beliefs, and in your actions, you will experience conflict. But there is a greater purpose to it.

That said, there is not inherently a greater purpose to all conflict. If your Mercury is going to struggle, let it not just be restlessness of your mind but a struggle towards advancement, a struggle towards knowing more, understanding more, and doing and being better, whatever the fuck that means, on whatever level you pursue it.

I'm going to run through these transits one more time for you, and I'm going to invite you to join me over on Patreon, where we have more in-depth conversations about the stuff that is coming up in the present moment. You can join me over there at patreon.com/jessicalanyadoo.

Okay. We're running through these transits. Here it is. On the 22nd of June, Mars is exactly sextile to Jupiter, and the Sun is exactly square to Saturn. On the 23rd, the Sun is exactly square to Neptune. On the 24th, Mercury is exactly square to Chiron, and the Sun forms a conjunction to Jupiter. While on the 25th, we have a New Moon in Cancer, on the 26th, we have a Mercury sextile to Uranus and a Sun sextile to Mars. On the 27th, Mars is exactly trine to Saturn. And on the 28th, Mercury forms a trine to Neptune.

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