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 I have a question. I have a question for you. Are you taking good care of yourself? Are you checking in with yourself and listening to yourself, to what you need, and making choices—small ones, big ones, medium-sized ones—that are authentically supportive, not just about zoning out or coping, although those things are valuable and sometimes the best a person can do? But are you really thinking about and taking strides towards caring for yourself? If not, then maybe this is a good time to think about that a little bit more.

On that tip, are you letting other people take care of you? If there is someone—maybe it's somebody in your life that you're close to. Maybe it's a random person. Maybe it's a system or something that's not particularly personal to you. If there are resources available to you that can support and help you, are you receiving them—not just are you taking them, but are you allowing yourself to metabolize support?

Because there's so much in the world that is deeply destabilizing and frightening right now, it is really important to be able to not just receive and take in support where it exists, but also to metabolize it, to identify, "Oh, wow. I've experienced the kindness of a person or the support in this moment that I needed it in some way," and to allow yourself to hang out in that awareness, to digest it, to allow it to fill you up, because things are hard and they're not stable. And how you navigate life, how you navigate the beautiful times, the challenging times, everything in between—that adds up to equal the person that you are.

And so I want to just invite you to be thinking about this: showing up for yourself, receiving support where it exists, and then from a place of having already spent some time and authentic energy reflecting on these things, ask yourself, how are you showing up with and for others? Have you communicated to the people in your life what you feel about them, maybe your limitations? And have you communicated in ways that facilitate clarity and care? Have you had something extra to share? And if so, have you been sharing? Have you been thinking about what's going on in the world, and when you perceive, when you understand that something is wrong, have you been able to come out of your own fear and your own destabilization to identify a way—small, medium, or large—that you can run and assist? That's a sport metaphor, by the way, in case you weren't expecting it. I wasn't it. It just came out of my mouth. But you know what I'm saying. Have you been able to show up with your actions for other people, whether it's people really close to you in your personal life, people in our outer circles that you have contact with, or with communities that are larger and that you know need help, support, care?

If you feel completely overwhelmed, if you feel guilty, if you feel enraged, if you feel resentful, it's hard to really sit with these really simple questions and find your answer. To find your answer is to cultivate presence and self-awareness. And that presence and self-awareness serves as a foundation for you to be a person consciously and with care, and it serves as a foundation for you to have a healthy and sustainable relationship to yourself wherever you're at. It also serves as a foundation for you to be able to show up with and for others in the really trying times and in the good times, to celebrate the wins but also to protect each other through the losses and the threats, the risks. And there's actually a fair amount of those right now on a collective level.

So I just want to invite you to reflect on this stuff, and I want you to know that these questions I'm posing and these reflections I'm encouraging are good anytime regardless of the astrology. But this week, the astrology is sharp is the best way I can put it. It's sharp. It's pokey. And it would be very easy—very easy—to slip into self-protective modes, acting in ways that reflect your survival mechanisms instead of your present circumstances, or your integrity, to be honest.

This is a time where it would be easy, very fucking easy, to get wrapped up in your activation instead of keeping it simple, staying present, supporting yourself where you're at, meeting your circumstances, your relationships, the world where it's at. When we can, in the present, meet ourselves and others, meet the day where it's at instead of lamenting why it's not the night, we have more power. And when you have more power, that doesn't mean good or bad. It just means you have greater access to utilizing the resources available to you, whether they're internal resources or external ones.

So, this week, you're going to get activated. Something or someone is going to activate you. And also, so am I, and so are they, and so is he, and so is she. You get where I'm going with that—all of us. All of us. All of us are activated—not all at the same time and not all in the same way, but we're all activated. So what you cannot control is how I feel or what I do. What you cannot control is how other people live, where other people are from, what they're choosing to do at this time. But you can actually have some measure of control over who you choose to be.

I want to encourage you to be kind. I want to encourage you to understand that kindness isn't always ease. It sometimes means meeting yourself or others in great struggle and confronting it head-on. I want to encourage you to stick with your integrity and your values and your convictions, even when—or maybe even especially when—it would be easiest not to, when no one's looking, when things are hard.

Over on my Patreon, we are talking about lots of spiritual content, and recently I did an hour-long live—spontaneous live class that is available to all my patrons about energetic shielding, energetic boundaries, like step by step how to do it. And I invite you to go check that out if that sounds like it's supportive to you.

In times of instability, whether it's in a collective or on a personal level, when you abandon yourself, it is really hard to navigate in a healthy, self-appropriate way. And listen. You're not always going to be healthy and self-appropriate. That's not a thing. We all make mistakes. I want to invite you to be kind to yourself when you make mistakes and be kind to others when they do it, to understand that there is a difference between being a bad person and doing a bad thing, to understand that there is a difference between what is hard for you and what is wrong with you. And if you are kind to yourself and others, it's easier to notice those differences in the moment.

A lot of the astrology of this week is going to make you want to fight, or it's going to make other people want to fight. And the question is, do you know who you're fighting and why? Do you know who your true adversary is? Is it the person who has a different opinion that you or who did it differently than you? Is it the person who has a different worldview than you? Or is it the people, the systems, and institutions that pit us against each other, that hold us down, that keep us small, that keep the planet unhealthy? The truth is you may get it—you may learn something, you may understand something about yourself and the world—before me. It might take me another year to get there. Does that make me your enemy? Does that make me your adversary? I don't know. It depends on the context, right? It depends on the situation.

These are just good questions to ask without jumping to conclusions, without moving away from the nuance. Having opinions is great. Being able to discern what of your opinions is reactive, what of your opinions is just you off-gassing, what of your opinions is actually clear attitudes, beliefs, and opinions—it's just valuable to explore this stuff, and it's hard, especially this week with the astrology we're about to face. So let me get into the horoscope.

This week, we are looking at the astrology of June 29th through July 5th of 2025. And as I told you last week, we start off this week on Sunday, the 29th, with a Mercury opposition to Pluto. Here we have Mercury at 3 degrees of Leo and 11 minutes opposite to Pluto at the exact same degrees of Aquarius. Now, this transit is very intense. Whenever any planet forms an opposition to Pluto, we know shit is going to get intense, and we know that there's going to be power struggles. So Mercury opposite to Pluto—which, by the way, is exact at 12:57 a.m. Pacific Time—is likely to kick up power struggles with Mercury. So we're talking about your friends, within communication, in your beliefs, and in your attitudes.

This transit creates a tension around your thinking and communicating, which of course encompasses listening skills. Your ability to comprehend information and make sense of it is triggered by this transit. So you may feel oppressed or pressured by something someone else communicates or the way someone else communicates. You may find yourself in a really Plutonian mindset, where you are looking to annihilate something or someone, where you're looking for power and only seeing struggle, where you are seeking depth and understanding.

The thing about this transit is it is conflictual, and it brings shit to the surface. It is about power and how it's expressed, how it's communicated. This can come up in the context of somebody being really manipulative or cruel, somebody being very biting. And of course, if you are that somebody, try to notice it. Take ownership of it. Make some sort of amends. Apologize. Rein your shit in and redirect it. You may be doing this towards yourself in your thinking, or it may be towards someone else. And of course, kindness is the ideal here. This can also show up in the context of somebody being really mean to you, somebody fucking with you, essentially, somebody being cruel, again, manipulative—that kind of a thing.

This can also show up in the context of propaganda or people with a great deal of power communicating and flexing that power. The thing about when we're looking at systems or people or institutions, companies, corporations with power is that they don't just have power; in the modern world, they have a lot of information about how to manipulate you based on what the algorithms have communicated to them about you and how your mind works.

So know that you, me, and everyone else is very susceptible to manipulation on and around this date, which means have some fucking grace if people are showing their ass in some way. Have some grace if you catch yourself spending half a day on something that you realize is total propaganda and not real or fixating on something or someone that actually is not powerful in your life; you're just giving it power.

I'll tell you I'm recording this on Saturday, the 28th, and I caught myself this morning fixating on something someone said that annoyed me. And I was really caught up in a fixation about it, and then I was like, "Oh, here, I'm feeling the transit. That's the transit in action." I'm fixating on something and someone that has no power or true, real importance over me or my life. But there was this negativity, resistance, and struggle energy that I was bringing to my thoughts. And what a waste of my very precious and limited energy that was. And when I recognized, "Oh, I am struggling with something and someone in my own mind for no reason other than I'm essentially choosing to do it"—the thing was annoying, but it wasn't that big a deal—once I recognized that, I started to have my own energy back, not instantaneously, but soon enough.

That's the potential of this transit. The positive potential of this transit is we can bring greater awareness, complexity, nuance and depth to our understanding of what's happening relationally because Mercury is very relational. That relationship might be to you and someone else, or it might be, as I just shared about myself, in my own mind. It wasn't really about my reaction to that person. It was about the story I was telling myself and the conversation I was having with myself in my mind.

Mercury opposition to Pluto can be a transit where you go deep and have some sort of breakthrough, healing, or understanding. It's better for psychology and self-analysis than it is for processing and conversating because the Plutonian land mines are too sensitive. It's too hard to have a conversation without going into manipulation, resentment, or trying to win points. And so, if somebody is really fucking dead set on processing with you, I would encourage you to just reschedule it. Just be like, "Okay. Let's do it in 72 hours when the transit passes." Now, there's reasons why you wouldn't want to do that at all this week, but it's better than doing it on this date.

In regards to the world, we may get some sort of really bad or existential-feeling news. Pluto is our flight-or-fight mechanisms. It's your feeling of, "I'm going to live through this," or, "I can't live through this." And so Mercury, related to communication and the news—there may be something communicated that is deeply scary. Again, it could be abuses of power, misuses of power. It can be people seizing power back from something or someone that is oppressing them. But you want to be on the lookout for propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation, for abuse of power within communication, and to make sure that you're not jumping to conclusions based on your strongest feelings instead of your wisest feelings. Capisce?

Plans made and contracts signed during a Mercury opposition to Pluto are generally tumultuous, so best wait a little bit before you make your plans or sign those contracts if you can. Now, we're coming up very quickly on a Mercury Retrograde, so you don't have all the time in the world, but today is not the day if you can avoid it.

Another thing I want to say about this transit is it can increase your paranoia. So, if somebody looks at you sideways or says something in a weird way and you're like, "They're mad at me," or, "They're judging me," or, "They hate me," or whatever, just take a beat and be like, "Oh, is this the Mercury opposition to Pluto?"

You know, the thing that's really interesting about astrology is one can tap into the energy of a planet or of a transit—so, as an example, when I caught myself fixating and returning to thoughts about something I read, I recognized, "Oh, the texture, tone, and experience of my fixation on this thing I read was Plutonian. It was intense. It was driving. It was resentful"—all this kind of stuff. It was Plutonian. And because I could feel and tap into, "Oh, this is Pluto," and I was aware that the transit was happening, I was able to more easily release. Now, you may have a really hard time tracking what it feels like to experience Pluto, or it might really click for you. So there's lots of ways of being is what I'm trying to say. There's not just one way of being.

But if it is helpful for you to know how Pluto feels so that in the moment when you're caught up in a Plutonian compulsion, you can be like, "Oh. This is a Plutonian compulsion"—because the work with Pluto, the assignment with Pluto, is always the same thing: it's to release attachment. So, when I say release, I want you to visualize or remember being in the ocean and being pulled by undertow, by a riptide. If you try to fight against it and swim away, the riptide or the undertow—it'll pull you under because it's stronger than you. It's stronger than a human. Undertow of ocean beats human.

So, instead, what you're meant to do is you're meant to let go. Don't fight it, and let your body just move away. Let a little bit of time and a little force of nature pull you out of that Plutonian moment. That only happens when you don't actively engage it. That's hard. So letting go is not letting go of caring about important things. It's not letting go of caring for yourself or others. It's releasing the struggle when you recognize that the lesson of the struggle is to not struggle. Pluto is really interesting that way.

Being triggered by Pluto is literally designed to make you want to engage with the trigger. But we're actually meant to release attachments to whatever that trigger is in the moment so that we can be more present and healthier in how we identify and engage with what's important instead of just what's activating. So there's a lot of healing potential here, but you kind of gotta navigate a land mine in order to get there.

Now, that brings us to the next exact transit of the week. But before I actually speak to what's happening on Friday, July 4th, I want to just acknowledge July 1st is Canada Day. And we're in Jupiter in Cancer times; you know what time it is, right? Nationalism, patriotism—these things are really up, and they can be very divisive. They can be very divisive and very problematic. And also, we are living through a time where the United States is threatening Canada with annexation, which is—it's a threatening time between neighboring nations that have always had peace.

Canada Day, the 4th of July—Independence Day in the United States—they're very close together, and these countries have been very close together. But things have changed. So it is important for me to acknowledge that and to acknowledge that that Mercury/Pluto conjunction, which is exact on Sunday, will be very much felt on Tuesday, the 1st—Canada Day. So we're talking about neighbors—which is Mercury; Mercury governs neighbors—and Pluto, which is power struggles. So there is a concern here that I would have as an astrologer about what we're going to see between these two neighbors and who it serves or what kind of power struggle is going to be activated here.

Now, we're going to be feeling that Mercury/Pluto opposition. It gets weaker as it separates throughout the week, but we're going to be feeling it all week up until Sunday, next Sunday, the 6th of July. Also, on July 4th, we have a very important transit. It is the last exact transit to Uranus before it ingresses into Gemini, which will be happening next week. We're going to talk about it a lot. But this week, on Friday, July 4th, Venus is going to be at 29 degrees and 52 minutes—very anaretic, which means peak Taurus energy. And it's going to be sitting right on top of Uranus at the exact same degrees of the same sign. This will be exact at 5:45 a.m. Pacific Time.

So what we're dealing with is the planet that rules Taurus—Venus—at the most anaretic, peak Taurus degrees, 29 degrees and 52 minutes, sitting on top of Uranus at 29 degrees Taurus and 52 minutes. Here, we have a very important transit. It's important to know that Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018, and the world, my friends, has changed dramatically since then. Uranus is going to pop next week into Gemini. It'll stay there for several months. It'll pop back into Taurus, be very anaretic again, and then move on. But if we hang out here with this final push of Uranus in Taurus with a Venus conjunction, we know that there's going to be, on a collective level, something very important around human rights because when Uranus transits through Taurus—and if you've been listening to the podcast for a long time, you've heard me say this many times before—we are always going through a radical shift and upset around who we value in society and what we value about them.

You know the gymnastics that people have to do to say, "Hey, I'm human. Hey, you should care about me," whether we're talking about people in Palestine, Trans people, people who are immune compromised or disabled—whatever it may be—the gymnastics that we have to do to say, "I am human. Care about me and my suffering. Care about the collective conditions that are harming and oppressing me just for being alive"—that's very Uranus in Taurus.

Uranus is all about independence and autonomy. It's about unpredictable change, progress, experimentation, investigation. Mercury is about curiosity, but it's curiosity about yourself and the people around you. Uranus is curiosity on a whole other scale. It literally governs invention and electricity.

When Uranus is in the zodiac sign of Taurus—which, again, is around values and security and stability; it's a fixed sign—what we tend to do as humans is get so frightened about our own individual safety or the safety of our own individual groups that we belong to that we either actively participate in or we passively participate in the trampling of rights of others.

When your life is destabilized, when you're struggling to take care of yourself and to survive, it makes sense that you're not focused on the survival, needs, or happiness of other people; you're focused on keeping your head above water. That's human. That's okay. But when we do this as groups, we are easy to manipulate. We are easy to pen in and to convince that it's okay that those people are suffering because at least you're not—at least, not yet. Fucking Uranus in Taurus.

Now, this Venus conjunction to Uranus is really an ethical pickle. It's a transit that is asking you to be the change. What I mean by that is to embody your values, even if that means you're going to be behaving in ways that are radically different than the way you were acting last week, even if that means that you're going to be showing up in ways that are unexpected to you or to others, even if that means some personal risk or accountability from you. As the expression says, it is impossible to have ethical consumption under capitalism. There's no way to be perfect. But the compromises you make, the concessions you make to your ethics—the more conscious you are about them, the more intentional that you are about them, the better.

So Venus conjunct Uranus is a transit that is destabilizing. It destabilizes you in terms of your personal relationships, with may be romantic; they may be not. It destabilizes you in terms of your self-worth and/or the value you place on others. It can be destabilizing around your finances, which could be about your money—like the money you have liquid; it's not about your savings or your investments if you have that kind of thing—it's instead about what you got—or about your personal possessions. It can even be destabilizing around your art practice or your creative life, your creative practice.

And that destabilization is not bad, and it is not good. It is just destabilization. It's change. And with change comes the potential for invention and reinvention. We are in a whole new world, my friends. Things are changing completely, really radically—radically changing. And they're going to continue to change and change fast. And within that is an opportunity for us to envision and co-create and build something new. That truth exists on the collective as well as on the personal. In fact, participating in collective change without changing yourself as an individual—it doesn't really work. Changing yourself without participating in the world in new ways—that doesn't work either.

So it's about recognizing who you are and how you show up. It's about recognizing what you value and how you embody and express that value. It's also about diplomacy. The moment for it—like when is it important to just be like, "Yes, yes, yes," and when is it important to say, "Yes, but also…" or "No"—right? Venus conjunction to Uranus is destabilizing. That's the job of the transit. And so how adaptable are you? And when you adapt, do you abandon yourself and your ethics, or are you able to pivot in a way that encompasses and embodies them?

When you are agitated, when you are changing, when you are exploring, can you do that within your close relationships, or do you shut other people out? Do you maybe get needy and cling to other people and their opinions? Again, I want to point you away from thinking anything is good or bad and instead point you towards authenticity and alignment.

Because Taurus is a fixed sign and Venus is a planet that likes everything to stay stable and consistent, a Uranus/Venus conjunction in Taurus is going to kind of trigger or activate parts of yourself or your life that you do not feel comfortable changing. And that's kind of cool, right? It's not easy, per se, but it's cool because it helps you to not get in a rut. It helps you to not be stuck. It helps you to be more authentic when your habits would just have you do what you've always done. That's kind of cool.

This Venus conjunction to Uranus—again, it's happening on fucking 4th of July. So it's an unpredictable energy. Uranus governs explosives, literally. Now, fireworks are explosives, but there's lots of other explosives. So you want to be careful, right? Just be mindful. Be careful. This transit on a collective level is going to bring about the unexpected. Now, it could bring about something unexpected or out of left field around women's rights or Queer rights. Because of Uranus's involvement, it could be quite progressive. But again, when I say progressive, I have a definition in my mind that might be radically different than what a person in power in the United States has in mind. You know what I'm saying?

So we want to be open to what comes so that we can pivot, so that we can meet the moment, whatever that moment is. Another thing that could happen on the collective level is related to money because Venus is about what you have liquid. So it's about the dollar. It's about possessions, that kind of thing—again, something unpredictable. How you adapt, how you respond, how you show up when things rattle you is really important. And then how we as a collective show up when things rattle us—again, really important. Don't abandon your values just because you're scared.

Now, on a much more personal level, this transit can create excitement and change—so and/or—within your personal relationships. This is a good time for flirting, for playing, for experimenting and exploring on a romantic level. Now, that could be romantic and sexual, or sexual, or just romantic. This is a great time for experimenting and exploring within your art practice or your creative life. This transit is one where you may chafe at restrictions or limitations. You may feel stuck or claustrophobic with your partner, or somebody might feel that way with you.

This is a time for embodying your values. So, if you're feeling stuck, is that because of how the other person is behaving or because of how you're fucking behaving? Explore the varied ways in which you embody what you value, your self-worth, your care for others, and whether or not it's in alignment for you, whether or not it's truly authentic, because if you're not behaving in authentic ways, you're going to feel stuck one way or another. This is a time for choosing authenticity, really. And if you don't know what that means, then this is the time to explore, what does that mean?

Sticking with the personal here, I gotta say—not a great time for spending a lot of money, especially on something impulsive. Impulsive purchases are poorly starred under this transit. If you're somebody who has an inclination towards infidelity, yeah, don't fucking do that. I mean, maybe I would say that to you in general, but certainly under a Venus/Uranus conjunction. Chasing novelty is very enticing, but it's usually about something else. So try to hang out with that something else.

Some people will really enjoy this transit, and some people will really not. This transit does kick up nervous system activation, which can make you feel dysregulated or it can make you feel excited and dynamic. It really just depends on how it hits your chart and your nature. So be curious. Be curious. Be open. And know that your day is not likely to go as planned, and you might have to adapt. You might have to pivot. If you can do something fun and exciting on and around this date, that's great. That's ideal, and it's a good use of the energy.

Now, if we're still in the market of exploring energies as they are activated, the thing that's going to be super obvious is Uranus. Again, Uranus is unpredictability and the nervous system and change and all of that kind of stuff. But I want to invite you to check in with Taurean energy on and around this date—generally this week, and certainly the second half of the week—because we are at peak Taurus energy here. Everyone has Taurus in them. Even if you don't have a planet in the zodiac sign of Taurus, Taurus is in your nature. This transit is kicking up peak Taurus energies. So your relationship to being materialistic and consistent, hedonistic on a material, sense-based level., sensuality in general, your relationship to loyalty and stability, security—on a material level, especially—the ways in which you are or aren't trustworthy or reliable—these are all peak Taurus themes.

How you do or don't center showing up in alignment with your values, how you do or don't center loyalty to the truth versus loyalty to your immediate comfort or the immediate comfort of others—these are really important Taurean themes. So be mindful of them. Stay open to them. Keep them in your thoughts.

This is a pivotal time astrologically and likely for you, whether it's pivotal in your personal development, in your life, or if you're just seeing pivotal changes in the world around you and you're aware that it's going to hit you one way or another; it's going to trickle down to you one way or another. It's a pivotal time. So strive to meet this moment with intention, integrity, and care.

As always, I hope you got value from this episode, and I invite you to join me over on my Patreon to learn more. Check out my shop page on my website, where you can take classes with me. And do check out the contact form on my website, where you can send in a question to be considered for the podcast, where I give you a reading.

Take really good care of yourself and others this week and always, and I will talk to you in just a couple of days.