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. This is Episode 535, and I just want to take a moment to say consistency—it's a part of my love language, not that I'm a fan of the idea of love languages. But I really do love making this podcast. When I saw that I was creating Episode 535—I think I've taken two, maybe three, weeks off since I started the show, and I just really love creating it. And it's kind of wild to think that I've done 535 episodes.

So, whether you are just joining me here or you've been with me from the start, I just want to say, yeah, fuck, there are endless things to talk about in the realm of astrology, and there are endless things to talk about for people of conscience and for people who are interested in the world. And so we are those people, and it's kind of exciting.

Anyways, we have a lot of astrology to get through this week, and the same thing will be true next week. We are looking at the astrology of June 8th through the 14th of 2025. Before I delineate the transits that are exact this week, I want to let you know that we are feeling transits that won't be exact until next week on top of everything that's happening this week. And this week is a lot.

I want to kind of give you this perspective of the umbrella energy, the foundational energy. You can think of it either way, whatever you prefer. But in the backdrop of everything we are going through, we are feeling the mounting energy of the Mars/Uranus square that will be exact at the start of next week and Jupiter's square to Saturn and to Neptune and the larger theme of Saturn and Neptune sitting on top of each other in Aries.

The overall energy, the overarching energy, of that Saturn/Neptune in Aries conjunction that pretty much colors everything right now is disorienting—thanks, Neptune—confronting—thanks, Saturn—and makes it hard to stay embodied—thanks, Aries. When Saturn and Neptune meet up in Aries, we need to be aware of how the system, like the hierarchies and the powers that be, organize themselves in reaction to religion and in regards to militarization.

When these two planets come together in Aries, you and I need to be honest about the ways in which we or you or I distance ourselves from taking personal accountability, from staying engaged, and for aligning ourselves with actions because of the ways in which we experience insecurity, guilt, fear, and anxiety, all feelings that Saturn and Neptune govern.

This is a confronting time that is inevitably going to provoke anxiety. We can't know what's going to happen next. But what you can do is strive to stay connected to your body, to notice what's happening inside of you so that you can use that information to make the best and most sustainable choices for yourself and in relationship to the world, so that you can be the person you want to be. If you believe there are things wrong with the world, then the question becomes, well, what are you doing to change those things? How are you engaging with the world? And when I say with the world, I am talking about social and political issues. I'm also talking about your work life, your friend circle, your family.

There is the universe that is wild and confusing and magical that lives inside of you, that is you. And then there is how you bridge that gap between everything that's happening inside of you and how you behave and how you participate, whether it's towards yourself or towards others, in your very personal life or in regards to how you engage in public.

So this Saturn/Neptune energy is a lot. It's really hard to be present for by nature. And as we, in the world and in particular in the U.S., are dealing with a kind of strategy of terror from the ruling regime, especially pointed towards people who are suspected of being immigrants or here illegally—and of course, we are talking about people of color, and in particular Brown people who are being targeted at this time. This campaign of violence, this campaign of intimidation—we are also seeing this in regards to the stripping of women's rights, Trans people's rights, Queer rights. We are seeing this across fucking boards.

This campaign of terror—the terror is the point because the way individual humans react when we are agitated and frightened is rarely from our wisest parts. We tend to react by shutting down, by disassociating, by projecting, by doing all these things instead of actively dealing with the thing that we're scared of. And then, as a collective, we tend to kind of bounce off each other. So the fear is the point.

And you can't control the world. You can't fix the things. The things are too big. But what you can do is strive to notice what's happening inside of you, and instead of descending into guilt or fear or anxiety or blame—instead, take care of yourself so that you can show up, not just for yourself but with others and for others. Capisce?

Now, on top of that, we've got this fucking Jupiter square to Saturn and Neptune that we are very much under the influence of, even though it's not yet exact. And what Jupiter does is it tests how well we've put things together. It tests our sense of proportion and pacing. And so how do you pace yourself? How do you engage with limitations and opportunities? Are you able to assess the difference between illusion and reality, fear and reality?

These are actually really hard things to do, and they require that you stay present with all your parts. They require, like in the context of—I don't know—fucking scrolling in the internet, that you check the date a thing was written. Check the attribution of who actually wrote it or said it to make sure that something's real, whether we're considering the idea of your parasocial relationships or what you're being exposed to with AI and whether or not it is rooted in reality—and while we're at it, what the fuck is reality? You know what I mean?

Jupiter is, in general, a planet that is associated with growth and expansion. But it is forming a square to this Saturn/Neptune conjunction, which is essentially egging on and expanding that very challenging energy. So things are happening fast. They've been happening fast for a minute now, but they're speeding up. Now, again, these transits are exact next week, not this week. We will talk about it more as we go. But I want to name that.

You are not in a rush, probably. I don't know. Maybe you are in a rush. But if you are in a rush, how can you engage in such a way that you don't lose things, make mistakes out of being basically scattered? Because this Jupiter/Neptune square can make a person very scattered. You live in a body. You live at this time. You live on this Earth. And for as long as those things are true, navigating those things is your assignment. So this is an important time to be mindful, to be thoughtful, to be curious about those things.

But that's not all. And I warned you there's a lot going on this week. The other thing that's going to be exact next week but we are very fucking much feeling this week is the Mars/Uranus square. It is agitating, irritating, activating, explosive, rebellious, and revolutionary energy. Again, it pushes you to be in your body, but then, when you actually are in your body, it may connect you with how restless and uncomfortable you feel in your meat suit. And it may be about your meat suit, and it may be about your nervous system, compelling you to a state of overstimulation, to a state of reactiveness.

Now, being reactive is not inherently good or bad. It depends on what you're reacting to and how you are reacting. So you and me and every-fucking-body else is likely to be pretty damn reactive this week. And that reactiveness is going to be defensiveness in a lot of people. It's going to be kind of knee-jerk reactions in a lot of people. It's going to be violent in some people. And violence, of course, is a thing that occurs on many levels.

Now, as you've heard me say before, Mars is the kind of violence that we see that is punch-punch, bang-bang. Uranus is explosives. Mars is the planet that governs police and policing. Uranus is a fucking vigilante. So am I on the fucking lookout for ICE this week? Yes, and so should you be. We may see groups of people coming together to attack individuals or other groups of people, and just as possible, we may see groups of people coming together to protect individuals and other groups of people.

It is really important that we protect each other. I'm recording this on Saturday, the 7th, and I woke up to all of this footage and news of ICE raids and attacks in LA. Things are happening fast, and they may be very violent. And it's important to remember that we are all here. None of us are excused or absolved of caring about this, of doing something about this. And there are a lot of different ways of engaging with justice-oriented work. Find yours. Find yours. If it's a teeny, tiny, small way, great. If it's a big, old way, great. Find yours. Doing nothing is a force of will. And doing nothing is assisting the oppressors, the perpetrators. So find something to do to show up, to light up dark pathways, to protect the vulnerable. Whatever it is that needs doing, do your best.

Now, one more thing I'll say about this Mars/Uranus square energy that we are going to be feeling all week as it builds up towards exactitude next week is that, yeah, you may be fucking annoyed, right? You may be jumpy. You may be defensive. And everyone else may be as well. The opportunity here, on a spiritual, psychological, and emotional level—and on a practical level—is to notice how you feel and, from that noticing, practice being present with it.

The very practice of staying present with your challenging, fucked-up, difficult emotions—whatever they are—I know it sounds so small, but it is radical, and it is transformational because most of the time, when most people feel any kind of shitty, challenging feeling, what do we do? We disassociate. We jump on ourselves and go into negative self-talk. We project out. We redirect. In other words, we abandon ourselves. And so we never really develop the skills for coping with those emotions or for even understanding those emotions—what sparks them? What are they made of? What do they need?

I want to invite you at this time to notice what's happening inside of you. All this fucking Mars/Aries energy is about embodiment. So embody it. I'm not saying embody it and then be a jerk. I'm saying that self-awareness is simply that. It's being aware of yourself and choosing to not abandon yourself. That strengthens your relationship to yourself so that you can trust yourself, so that you can take care of yourself; you can show up for yourself, and it has a cascade effect to the rest of your life, to your relationships with other people. And that's really big.

Much more to say about that, but that's enough for now. Let's dive into the first exact transit of this week. So the first exact transit of this week occurs on Sunday, June 8th, at 1:12 p.m. Pacific Time. It's between Mercury and Jupiter. They are sitting on top of each other in the very anaretic degrees of Gemini. Mercury and Jupiter are both at 29 degrees of Gemini and 46 minutes. If you think to yourself, "Do the minutes really count, Jessica?" the answer is fuck yes, they do. We can talk about that later. But for now, trust me when I say this is peak Gemini energy.

Mercury is the details, and Jupiter is the big picture. Mercury is your ideas, and Jupiter is your experiences. And so, when Mercury and Jupiter meet up, it can be expansive. It can be interesting. It can be busy. It can be overwhelming. It can be chaotic. It can fuck with the truth so you don't know what is true, either because someone is lying, you are exposed to gossip or propaganda, or you or someone else confuses facts and beliefs. Now, beliefs are important, but they are not facts. And facts are important, but they exist in an ecosystem of beliefs.

So, when Mercury and Jupiter meet up, we expect things to be busy. For some people, this transit will put you in a really positive frame of mind, such that you are looking on the bright side of life; you feel a sense of possibility. You explore what could happen, or plans and ideas just kind of come to you. Jupiter has this meteoric way about it. And so there is this way that your connections with other people can also just come together; something just happens, and all of a sudden, you're hanging out with somebody you really enjoy, having a fun experience. So it can be really a great transit in that way. Things are busy, and they're dynamic, and they're fun. Fuck yeah.

The other thing that can happen is you can get so wrapped up in an idea and trying to shove that idea down the throat of another, or be on the receiving end of it where somebody is just soapboxing at you and just really trying to shove their beliefs and their ideas down your sweet, little throat, that it can be kind of messy. Jupiter is not a patient or diplomatic energy. And so the kind of passion and fervor that Jupiter can bring to your mind or to the minds of others can lead to well-meaning, obnoxious behavior.

So, if you find yourself all of a sudden realizing that you have been talking and talking and talking at someone and they haven't said anything, then you can be like, "Oh shit. Mercury/Jupiter conjunction in Gemini. Maybe I should create some space for this other person to speak as well." Right?

When we're talking about peak Gemini energies, this transit brings with it the capacity for curiosity, adaptability, and the willingness and ability to connect well with others, to explore ideas and, within that, the possibilities that are inherent within experiences, etc. The key here is to not allow this transit to basically load you up in such a way where you're super distracted and you are just unable to stay with a thought or with a topic.

This is also a time where you don't want to overcommit yourself or take too much on. In terms of news—and gossip, I will say—this is not a super reliable time. Now, there may be good news that crosses your doorstep. There may be good news in the world. And we want to hold space for that. We want that to occur. But Jupiter is truly about expansion as opposed to inherently good, whatever the fuck good is. If you think about it, if you really think about what is good, some of the most challenging experiences you've had in your life which were not fun to go through may have yielded growth, expansion, experiences—whatever—that were inherently deeply good for you. Good is not always what it looks like or even what it feels like.

But sticking here with this Jupiter/Mercury conjunction, be on the lookout for propaganda. Be on the lookout for spontaneous reporting, so people sharing information and news before it's fully baked. And also, don't be that person. This transit is not doing anything to help us to stay present. It's kind of like, "Look over here. Look over there. Look over here," kind of energy. And so curiosity—yes. Restless distraction—try to point yourself away from that.

This is an excellent transit for learning something new, for exploring ideas, for making friends, for listening to people, for sharing and telling stories. Just make sure that you are not soapboxing and lecturing people because, unless you're a lecturer, that's not really what people are around you for, most probably. This is a great time for having exchanges, exchanges where your worldview, your perspective, your beliefs are engaged and hopefully expanded.

And then, finally, this transit can actually be quite good for making plans. Now, everything else that's happening astrologically is not great for making plans. Now, it's not that it's bad. It just is that it's hard. And so, if you feel inspired to make a plan for your future or for something that's important to you—things come together, your ideas come together, opportunities kind of start to manifest or shape themselves for you—I want to encourage you to jump on that and gidday on up.

Okay. Now, that said, this transit overlaps with some really challenging transits. And so we're going to be feeling them all on Sunday, the 8th. We've been feeling them for days leading up to Monday, the 9th. Now, on Monday, June 9th, at 3:48 a.m. Pacific Time, Mercury is now in Cancer. It's at 1 degree and 0 minutes of Cancer, and it's forming an exact square to Saturn at the same degrees of Aries.

Later that morning, at 10:20 a.m. Pacific Time, Venus is at 3 degrees of Taurus and 32 minutes, and it's forming an exact square to Pluto at the same degrees of Aquarius. And then, later that afternoon, at 3:54 p.m. Pacific Time, Mercury will be at 2 degrees of Cancer and 0 minutes, and it will form an exact square to Neptune at the same degrees of Aries.

If you had a hard time tracking that, don't forget you can pause. You can write. But also, there is a transcript for each and every episode that I drop available on my website, so you can always check for that. It usually takes about 24 hours for it to come out. And if you want to be using the same transit-tracking tool that I use, you can subscribe to Astrology for Days, my astrologer's pro tool, over at astrologyfordays.com.

Okay. So each of these transits is a whole fucking lot, and the impact of them all together is even more. So let me actually start with the big picture. Now, we are already dealing with the backdrop that I shared with you at the start of this episode of the Mars/Uranus square and Saturn and Neptune being so close to each other and Jupiter being so close to squaring those two motherfuckers in Aries.

Okay. So that's all happening, and now Mercury square Saturn puts you in a negative frame of mind and is very consequential. Venus square Pluto kicks up obsessions, paranoia, insecurities, self-worth issues. And Mercury square Neptune increases anxiety and uncertainty and has you questioning your place in things and what is even real. And thusly, what we have is a real risk of experiencing your insecurities and thinking that is counter to your actual needs, of fixating on your strongest emotions instead of your wisest emotions, and doing this as though the house were on fucking fire.

Now, listen. For you—for a lot of people—the house may actually be on fucking fire. But if it is not on fire for you, it's important that you remind your nervous system of that. Being aware of terrible things happening to other people, being aware that something terrible might happen to you in an hour, is not the same as something terrible happening to you right now. The brain doesn't know that, which is why fear is so fucking compelling.

So I want to encourage you once again to be here now. Meet the moment from your home on this Earth, which just so happens to be the meat suit you call your body. This home of yours, this meat suit—it is the thing that is with you from the very start till the very end of your journey on this Earth. And within it are so many things, including your memories, the sensations you're experiencing now, the sensations you experienced when you first got here, and everything in between.

When you practice hanging out at home, as it were, you are actually better resourced. Now, that doesn't mean you feel better, right? That doesn't necessarily mean you feel better. When astrology like this happens, yeah, being present is not the key to feeling good, per se, because if you're present, you are likely to be in contact with the ways in which you don't feel good.

And you may be asking yourself, "What is the literal point of staying present with feeling like shit when I have things to do?" to which I would say how you feel and what is real and true for you is how you feel and what is real and true for you whether you abandon yourself or not, whether you care for yourself or not. And so why not practice being a good friend to yourself, showing up, showing yourself kindness, striving to be better to you than the worst people in your life have been to you?

Mercury square to Saturn is kind of a depressing transit. It can put you in a negative frame of mind where you are assessing scarcity and failure first and foremost. It could also just as easily put you in a constructive frame of mind where you are assessing, "What is real? What needs doing? And what are the steps in front of me?" It really depends on both your nature, your circumstances, and how this particular transit hits your chart.

But Mercury square to Saturn is hard because Saturn is hard. So Mercury is your mind, your beliefs, your attitudes. It's how you process information. So I'm talking about how you listen, how you sort through and analyze information, and what you say and how you say it, keeping in mind that some people use their vocal cords. Some people use typing. Some people use pictures. There's lots of ways that we communicate. There's lots of ways in which we listen.

Saturn is consequences. Saturn is reality. Saturn is systematic. So it's your plans. It's your goals. It's things that happen over time. It's also your patterns. So I'm not talking about your patterns ever since you graduated from college. I'm talking about your fucking patterns as you have them from your childhood, regardless of your age. Saturn is your relationship to authority figures and to hierarchies and society in general.

And so, when these two planets, these two energies, form a square to each other, it's like a hard shift in energy. And that hard shift in energy can find you feeling stuck, feeling like you can't, you won't, and you never will. It can find you looking for something wrong, basically. What I recommend that you strive to do instead is to consider what is constructive in a situation, in your plans, in your thinking, in your friendships. What is constructive?

Saturn governs guilt. Don't waste your time with guilt if you can avoid it. Instead, ask yourself, "What can I learn from this? How can I do differently if I don't like what I just did?" That is the difference between guilt and humility. Guilt ends up being kind of like rumination on what you did wrong, whereas humility is more connected to ownership and learning, which lays the foundation for repair, which is really much more constructive, much more helpful.

This is not a great time—nothing in the astrology of this day, let alone this particular transit, is great for making major decisions. So, while I did say from the transit that's happening on Sunday, if you find inspiration to make plans, go for it—and I stand by that—Mercury square Saturn, technically speaking—for some people, it's going to be a time where things really crystalize and you're like, "Oh, I can see all the moving parts, and I can see how they're connected. And I'm going to just mobilize based on that." Most people are not going to experience it that way because Mercury square Saturn can put you in a negative frame of mind.

So, if you are in a scarcity mindset, try to avoid making major decision or agreements if you can. If you can put them off, put them off. Again, this week and next week astrologically are rough. So depends on how long you can put a thing off for.

Now, in regards to your relationships, like I said, Mercury is your friendships, and that really is about platonic relationships. So we're talking about your neighbors, your coworkers, your pals, your friends, the people you know online, the people you know in meatspace—all the things. Mercury is also communication, listening, speaking, yada, yada. Saturn is loneliness and isolation. It's also maturity and monogamy.

This transit can make you feel really lonely, make you feel that you're not understood. It can also reflect back to you the maturity and depth of some of your existing relationships. This may be a time where you have difficult conversations. It's not a great time for it, but it might not be avoidable. If you have to have a challenging conversation, the best advice I can give is don't defend yourself.

You do not need to defend yourself. Just be honest. Own your shit. Own your needs. Own your intentions. Just speak them, and know that that doesn't mean that the other person is going to do the same. All you can do is show up in the best ways possible. That's all you can do. And if somebody else doesn't meet you in the middle, okay. You use that information, and you take your next steps from there.

If an old relationship comes back on or around this date, honestly, ask yourself what has changed because if nothing has actually changed, or if you've changed but they haven't, then I would just hold back. Okay?

Now, as I said, this transit overlaps with Venus square Pluto. This transit is really intense. Pluto is power struggles. It is obsessive and ruminating. It is manipulation, control issues, betrayal and abandonment. It's also passion and depth of love. Now, Venus—Venus is self-worth. It's the relationships that you have with people that you care about. It's your values in general—the value you place on yourself, the value you place on others. It's diplomacy. It's your finances.

These two planets forming a square at any time, but especially in the context of all the fucking shit that's going on around us—it can be very intense. You may find yourself struggling with someone that you're close to, someone that you care about. And it may be because you're just feeling fucking like fire in the belly, tense in your skin, just fucking activated. And it may be because they're being a jerk or you're being a jerk. There are so many people who could be a jerk in a situation. Everyone could be a jerk.

This transit is activating, and it does trigger existing power struggles. So, if there has been a power struggle simmering under the surface in your relationship, yeah, it's likely to come up. If you do what most people do under this transit, you will defend yourself. But in a situation where you are not actually in peril—now, you feel threatened, but you're not actually being threatened, right? So feels really similar on the inside, but they are very different things. And I actually have a video about this over on my Patreon where I really unpack the topic. I think it's a very important one.

But if you are not being traumatized—you're just being triggered—it's important to get present so that you can assess, what is your activation? What are your projections versus what is happening in the situation right now? Who is this other person, and what are they doing, actually? Because sometimes—for some of us, a lot of the times—we act before we properly sit with what we're feeling. And so what happens is somebody looks at you sideways, and you're like, "It reminds me of that time that my mom was always looking at me sideways before she was really mean to me," and so you start reacting to that person as though they're being really mean to you, when all they actually did was look at you sideways.

So practice staying present with your feelings so that you can understand them, so that you can make good choices to take care of yourself and to navigate your relationships. Now, other people might be unsafe or just straight-up jerks, in which case you gotta do what you gotta do. May I recommend boundaries instead of ultimatums, power struggles, and manipulations? Because those things will all boomerang back at you.

So know this: in all of your relationships—in particular, the close relationships—there are lines. Right? There are lines. There are certain things you can and cannot do. Those lines, ideally speaking, are your boundaries. And it's healthy and appropriate for each and every one of us to have boundaries, to have lines. And that's different than ultimatums. Ultimatums are really just threats. They're a way of manipulating a dynamic, a person, a situation to get your needs met instead of an embodiment and responsibility of and towards your own limitations and needs. The difference may seem really subtle to you, or it may seem really hard to navigate, in which case it's really important that you think about it; work on it.

This transit can coincide with serious relationship problems. None of the other transits are helping. If you really trust your partner, if you really like your partner—I'm not talking about love. And when I say partner, I mean it could be your friend. It could be your coworker. It could be your sibling. I don't fucking know. It's the person that you're having this dynamic with. If you really trust that person, then don't forget that you're on the same team. And even though right now it might feel like you are on different teams, remember you're on the same team. And also, if you don't really trust the person, then remember you alone are responsible for your boundaries. You can't control your situation. You can't control that person. How are you holding and embodying your boundaries?

Listen. Whenever we go through squares to Pluto, it's just like the deepest part of your survival mechanisms gets activated, and it's fucking hard. I'm not trying to suggest that if you do experience this activation, that it will be easy. But I am suggesting that abandoning yourself or acting out—neither of those things are well starred. And so I'm offering you another idea of how to engage with this energy.

In terms of world events, unfortunately, a Venus square to Pluto in the context of what is happening now can coincide with violence. It can coincide with dominance or cruelty towards women on a societal level, so we're talking about legislation as much as anything else. And of course, when I speak about women, I am talking about everyone who's not a cis man, because in a patriarchal society, the fate of Queer people, Nonbinary people, Trans people, and women are all wound up together, whether the TERFs like it or not.

Now, one last thing I'm going to say about this transit, and it's an important one—maybe get off social media. If you're the kind of person who uses social media to connect with friends or to stalk people, especially to stalk exes or frenemies, then maybe get off social media for the day. I'm not saying if you use social media to consume news or learn how to garden—I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about if you basically use social media as a way to obsess on your relationships, on your body, on your self-worth, on your projections or perceptions about the worth of others, then maybe, yeah, get off of it for a couple days because Venus square to Pluto can find you fixating, ruminating, obsessing, and harming yourself, and then, as a result of all of that activation inside of you, pulling some bullshit in your relationships with other people or, again, self-harming, all of which it would be best if you avoided.

Now, that brings us to the third exact transit happening on this day. That Mercury square to Neptune kicks up anxiety. Mercury is your mind, and Neptune scrambles things. And so, under this transit, you may feel fucking exhausted. You may feel burned out. You may feel utterly confused. Things may seem really complicated that are actually kind of simple. Things may seem way too simple that are actually very nuanced.

In other words, it is fucking disorienting. That's the nature of Mercury square Neptune. Now, this disorientation can lead to anxious and catastrophic thinking. It can lead to misunderstandings and miscommunication. It can lead to disassociative behaviors, disassociative thinking, which exists on a spectrum and may not be that big a deal or may be very harmful to you. Again, the only way for you to know how this is showing up inside of you and in your life is by remaining present, which Neptune makes very hard to do.

Saturn can find us focused on what other people think and how other people perceive us. Pluto can find us so in our flight, fight, or fawn mechanisms that we are not even fucking here; we've abandoned the moment because we're in our survival mechanisms. And Neptune—Neptune is just like—out of the body, off the planet.

So the combination of all three of these transits—it is going to make it hard to stay present, but actually very important. The chaos of what is happening societally, globally, is the fucking point. The chaos is the point because it demoralizes you. It confuses you. And it makes you feel like nothing good is possible, that you can't possibly. And I want to say the thing about Mercury square Neptune is you might need a fucking nap. You might need to simplify things. It's a transit, and the transit passes.

This is an important time to use the KISS method, the "keep it simple, sweetheart" method. Please, I beg of you, do that. This is an important time to, if you feel confused, if somebody says or does something where you're just like, "What?" it is way too easy to accuse someone when what's actually called for is to simply ask a question, to be authentically curious. So Neptune kicks up paranoia. Pluto doesn't help. Neither does Saturn.

What you want to do is know that your paranoia, if you're experiencing it, is yours. And you don't want to bring that to your interactions. So, instead, just be curious. Just be curious. "What are your motivations? What are your thoughts? What did you mean?" The truth of the matter is we all use words differently. We may all speak English, but we're using it differently. So often, you would use a word with someone that really means something to you, like—I don't know—"dying" or "anxiety," and what you mean when you say those things might be radically different than their association with those words.

So, instead of assuming and instead of defending yourself, try to be curious. Try to be open. Expect that you don't completely understand where the other person is coming from. Hold space for that. This transit, much more dramatically than the Mercury/Jupiter transit that I told you about earlier, makes you susceptible to lies, propaganda, AI bullshit, conspiracy theories, misinformation, and disinformation. Your due diligence is required. Again, follow up. Ask questions. Read the whole post and not just the fucking headline—that kind of a thing.

This is a terrible time—may I take a moment and really just breathe into the word "terrible"? A terrible time for doing consciousness-raising drugs. This is a terrible time for doing any kind of spiritual or energy work to manipulate other people or circumstances. This is a terrible time for learning a new magic skill. Now, I'm not talking about magic tricks that you get from the store. I'm talking about working with energy and magic—terrible time. Don't fuck with it.

The energy and activation is so intense that the work now, on this day, around this day, is figuring out how to be present, how to navigate with intention and care. You can manipulate and work with energies another time. Explore different realms of consciousness another time, not this time, okay? Also, do whatever the fuck you want, but this is my advice.

This week's astrology, because of all of this, has me very worried about what's coming in the world and how we will engage with it. In response to that worry that I have had for as long as I've seen this astrology coming, what I am practicing doing is getting really grounded, getting really centered. I am practicing being present and noticing what comes up and staying with it longer than I'm comfortable. And I'm sharing this with you because maybe that'll be a practice that works for you. When you feel helpless and hopeless, it's important they know now that action is the antidote to anxiety. Now, I'm not saying action defensively or reactively to that anxiety, but identifying what it is that you're frightened of is instructive because there are things that you can do to engage constructively with whatever it is you're scared of.

So, if you're scared of your relationship falling apart, you can set the intention that you're going to be more conscientious, mindful, and present with what you actually feel about that person and how you're actually treating that person and what kind of behavior you're actually consenting to from that person. You can't control what happens in the relationship, but you can identify, "Okay. I'm scared about this relationship. How can I bring more presence to this moment so that my self-awareness can bolster my ability to engage in the healthiest, most honest, most whole ways?" because that's the only way you can live your life. I mean, honestly, you can live your life any fucking way you want, but that's the way that you end up living a successful life, whether or not you get what you want or things go the way you plan.

Now, as I said earlier, this transit can make you feel tired, quite tired. And that can be kind of like a disassociative, escapist impulse, or it could just be that you're actually fucking tired. And so this is where we remember that rest can be an act of rebellion and joy. And it can be an act of disassociation. It depends on where you're at and who you are. Again, your awareness, your care—that's what's called for, not your guilt, not your desire to blame or defend, just awareness. And if you need a nap, take a goddamn nap.

Now, the last very, very, very important thing that is happening on this day, on Monday, the 9th of June, is at 2:02 p.m. Pacific Time, Jupiter moves into Cancer. So that means, in 2013, Jupiter was in Cancer. In 2001, Jupiter was in Cancer. If you are old enough to look back 12 years and remember what was going on in your life as an adult or even as a young person, then you can start to have an understanding of how the transit of Jupiter in Cancer might impact you.

The internet has a really bad habit of promising magic and gumballs and fairies to people every time Jupiter moves into a new sign. I am not about that, as you will learn in depth if you take my free class. I mean, was it a class? It was an impromptu, spontaneous live event that I did over on my Patreon for all my members, which includes folks who pay and folks who are there for free. And then I published it for all my members.

Again, you can join for free over on my Patreon and take my hour-long class on Jupiter, where we talked about Jupiter in transit, Jupiter in Cancer, and the comment section is rich. It is rich, my friends. So, if you want to learn more about Jupiter in Cancer and how to think about Jupiter transits in general, just go over and join my Patreon for free and take my spontaneous, impromptu class on the topic. And do make sure to read the comments because, unlike most comment sections, the comment section on my Patreon is almost exclusively fucking amazing and a really great place for conversation and unpacking. And so, yeah, join us over there, and you will get a much larger download than I'm going to give you here.

But I will say this. Jupiter in Cancer on a personal level can really help you to expand and explore your relationship to risk and to protection, to home and family. But my favorite part of Jupiter in Cancer is emotional growth. Truly, it is, for the capacity to gestate in a really big way what you're feeling and your patterns around your emotions and your emotional nature.

On a more collective level, Jupiter in Cancer is a little more sinister, to be honest. Cancer on a collective level is associated with nationalism and xenophobia, patriotism and borders. And thus, Jupiter in Cancer can coincide with "us versus them" legislation and shifts within society, the closing of borders. I mean, it doesn't have to happen that way, but it tends to happen that way where nations close their borders to immigration, and this of course coincides with this kind of tribalistic "us versus them" thinking that is inherently not humanistic. It's not humane at all.

And so Jupiter in Cancer can be a really difficult time where we lose civil liberties under the guise of having our walls built stronger and taller and this kind of "America first" style of thinking in any nation. And so, in the context of broader world events, this is something for us all to watch out for. And we can already see that playing out on the world stage in the days leading up to Jupiter's move into Cancer.

So, again, join me over on Patreon for a much more in-depth download, and I will continue to answer questions there. And if there are enough questions and enough in-depth questions, I'll do another one of those. And the way I work on my Patreon with my lives is I basically give a five-minute heads-up. I do it spontaneously. And then, if you're a member of my Patreon, again, paid or for free, you'll get a notification via email. And you can join me there. And if you miss it, it's always posted to my feed forevermore. So you have access to both the education but also to being a part of the conversation.

Okay. Now, all of that said, think. What is it that we need the least right now? Oh, it's a Full Moon with all of our emotions coming to the surface and matters that may have been repressed or unexpressed coming just to bear so that we have to deal with them. On Wednesday, June 11th, we have a Full Moon in Sagittarius. 12:44 a.m. Pacific Time, the Sun will be at exactly 20 degrees and 39 minutes of Gemini, and the Moon will be at the exact same degrees of Sagittarius. That's what a Full Moon is. A Full Moon is when the Moon and Sun are at the same exact degrees of opposing signs. And at that moment, we cast the chart to understand the complexity of what that Full Moon is bringing up within society and inside of you.

A Full Moon in Sagittarius is a time when we are meant to release the stories, the beliefs, and the attitudes that we've outgrown, that aren't true. You are meant to really inquire, to be curious, to be open to what the truth is, not what the truth was. The thing about Sagittarius and its ruling planet, Jupiter—which is active right now—is that it begs the question, when we talk about the truth, do we talk about the truth of each individual tree or of the whole forest? Which truth do you center?

At times and in contexts, there is a right and wrong answer to that question. What is the truth? And in other contexts and times, it is actually a little more complex than that; it's more nuanced. There are layers, and those things must be considered. Now, Full Moons bring up big emotions. They are the closure of a cycle. And the Moon is full every month, and that means that every month, you are on call to engage with the emotions that get activated so that you can clear the deck.

Full Moons help you to grow. They help you to not get stuck. And a Full Moon in Sagittarius, and in particular this Full Moon in Sagittarius that encompasses all of the astrology I have already named to you in this episode, is going to be activating. This Full Moon is going to bring up triggers and wounds, and it will do so in a way that requires you to be really intentional. Now, as I said, Sagittarius is governed by Jupiter, and Jupiter is all about growth and expansion. But growth and expansion without intention, without clarity about what your truth is, can be messy, can pull you down the wrong path.

So do your best this Full Moon to be really intentional about how you engage with your emotions, with the stories that you tell yourself and that you tell others. Even be intentional about the stories you believe. A Full Moon in Sagittarius—especially, again, in the context of the rest of the astrology that's happening in the wholeness of the chart of the Full Moon—is overwhelming. It's dizzying, to be honest. And so, if you're feeling overwhelmed, be honest about that. There are ways of engaging with those feelings that are constructive, that are supportive. Do that. Strive to do that if you can.

There are inevitably stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, about the people around us, about the world, that aren't true. Maybe they were once true. Maybe they were once true from your perspective at the time, but they're not true now. And again, this is your call to explore those stories and to be willing to change your mind if you have new information, if you understand things from a new perspective.

Whether you are understanding the context of your safety, of your own emotional processing, of home—who you care about, what you care about—or of larger ideas about how you fit into the Universe and into the world, the community that you live in, whatever it is—whatever level it's happening on, it's really important to remember that it is a sign of strength and integrity to change your damn mind when you have evidence to support changing your mind. Full Moons are a call to release attachments, and not just any old attachments—attachments that keep us stuck, that keep us in unhealthy or unhappy positions.

I know a lot of people like doing Full Moon rituals. This is, again, a bit of a chaotic time for ritual-doing. And so, if you are going to do that kind of work, I want to encourage you to keep it really simple and do ritual work to support you in accessing and staying present with the truth, with clarity, with intentionality.

This is a very confronting time. All of the transits I told you about are going to be amplified emotionally for you, in you, as well as within all the people around you. And during a Full Moon on a regular-degular day, people act out. And this is because it's hard to experience your own emotions if you don't already have tools for doing so. And every time a Full Moon occurs or some other important Moon transit, we are confronted with the limitations of our coping mechanisms.

Rein in your impulse to act out against yourself or others this Full Moon. The thing about Sagittarius and Jupiter is all the key words are about optimism and luck and good fortune and opportunity and all this kind of stuff. And there's a level on which all of that is absolutely true. But what's also true is that this energy of Sagittarius and Jupiter—what it does is it puts you in contact with what's possible. That's inspiring, and that is really connected to luck and optimism. However, because there are challenging aspects all over the damn place, it also puts you in contact with the pain that you experience when possibility is so far from reality.

This is where I come back to affirming for you—and for me and for all of us—that progress is progress. A little bit of progress or a whole lot of progress—both of those things are just progress. And what we need is progress. We don't want entropy. We don't want to be stuck. This Full Moon is a time to move through complex emotions, to move through your beliefs, even if it confronts you with difficult stuff.

Your emotions, your feelings, your emotional progress does not need to be perfect. Understand that these lunations—Full Moon, New Moon, Full Moon, New Moon—are activations that encourage you to stay present, to evolve. And so be as gentle as you can with yourself and with others as you stay emotionally present and open and honest this Full Moon. I know it sounds small, but it's actually quite a lot.

Now, I'm going to run through the transits of this week. We are feeling all week long the Mars/Uranus square and the Jupiter square to Saturn and Neptune, and that Saturn/Neptune conjunction is very much activated in the collective and in you. So all of that is active this week even though it's not exact. On the 8th, Mercury meets up with Jupiter in Gemini. On the 9th, Jupiter moves into Cancer, and Mercury forms a square to Saturn, Venus forms a square to Pluto, and Mercury forms a square to Neptune. On the 11th, we have a Full Moon in Sagittarius.

And that's it, my friends. That's this week's horoscope. Join me over on my Patreon to further the discussion and get more into Jupiter in Cancer with me.

This week, just like every damn week, I hope you take really good care of yourself and others. And I'll talk to you in just a couple of days. Bye.