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 week, we're going to be looking at the astrology of July 20th through the 26th of 2025. Per usual, there's a lot to talk about. But I want to share something that I've been thinking about a bunch this Mercury Retrograde. As you know, Mercury Retrograde is a time for reflection. It's when we're meant to think back on our assumptions, on our plans, to review things. And the reason why disruptions and miscommunications and all this kind of messiness that's usually super annoying occurs is because that very disruption forces you to rethink how you're listening or what you're saying or how you navigate upsets and change and all that kind of good stuff, or maybe not always good, but you know what I'm saying, right?

So Mercury Retrograde is annoying, and it's on. And here we are. And also, I've been thinking about a bunch of stuff. In these really pressing and, in many ways, deeply harrowing times, I've been thinking a lot about progress. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about the moral arc of the Universe bending long and towards justice. And this idea of the Universe bending towards justice is one that either you believe or you don't believe. I think most of us want to believe that, whether or not we do. But the thing about it that is so important that that concept is understanding that when struggling towards justice and equality and freedom, that struggle can't just be for your individual self. It can't just be for this moment, to be free from oppression in this moment, because it's a generational project, my friends.

It is a project that we can look through an astrological lens as being associated with the outer-planet transits. It's generational planets. That's what we call them. This means that your efforts and mine, as much as they are meant to be immediate when we are fighting tyranny and fascism and ableism and racism and transphobia and all the things—our efforts must be immediate and present. But also, it's important to understand that we engage in those actions not just for immediate results, although of course we all want immediate results, but because building progress, building movement, building community, building an internal system in which you are not practicing carceral thinking—you are conscious of the ways in which white supremacy and ableism function inside of you, and you are working privately, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically to dismantle it at the same time that you shift your behaviors—as we make these profound internal shifts, it's important to hold space for the fact that it does take time.

And within the time that we take to move the needle—in your personal life, but right now I'm really talking about in collective and systemic issues—it's important that we fill that space that exists within time with intention and with care. And that is really fucking hard to do when, every time your pocket robot buzzes at you, it tells you another terrible thing that's happening abroad and at home. And so I want to acknowledge that this is hard. And if you are somebody who is highly attached to and identified with getting immediate proof and immediate validation and having immediate objective progress, then this is even harder because those things are not likely to happen all the time, or even a lot of the time.

I know that so many of you are struggling within your friendships, within your personal relationships. I know this because I get questions for the podcast, which—I invite you to send as many as you like to be considered to get a reading with me on the pod. But of course, I get so many, I cannot choose all the questions or respond to every one, but—as an aside. The way it works when we are living under crushing conditions, whether you think of yourself as a political person or not, is it has this corrosive impact on our resiliency. It makes some people more needy and other people more shut down. And if you're pretty fancy, it might make you needy and shut down.

We are humans, and we have a limited capacity to process stress. And we seem to have an unlimited capacity to make things really complicated and to direct and redirect and direct again and redirect again. So, if you find yourself really overwhelmed with collective issues or personal issues or both, I want to invite you to take a moment to acknowledge it and to acknowledge that you are not alone in it. We are all feeling fucked up one way or another right now. And the conditions that we're living through, the time that we're in—it does feel daunting and impossible a lot of the times. And so I want to take a moment to speak about how to live with it.

There are a lot of things you care about. There are a lot of things that are important to you. And creating space in your life—which is not just time, right? It's like space is experiential. Time is a little more linear than that—so creating space in your life where you can just give yourself permission to feel the chaos and the overwhelm and the uncertainty and all the fucking things without pairing a narrative to it, without explaining it to yourself or someone else, without figuring out what to do about it, but to give yourself space where you simply name and acknowledge and cultivate some level of acceptance for how you feel.

I know it sounds so simple, but I really do believe firmly—firmly, and I've seen this over and over again—that the very practice of acknowledging how you feel without a fix or a narrative or any of that shit—just acknowledging how you feel is transformational. It brings air into the room, and in the room—I mean inside of you. We are not machines. We cannot just go, go, go. The toll of emotionally navigating such an unsafe, threatening, dramatic, and violent world is intense.

Give yourself some space that it feels the way it feels, however it feels, even if how it feels to you is, "I don't know how it feels." Being able to embody space and be curious about what emerges inside of it is a really good practice for adulting. Whether you spend three minutes doing this, you spend 30 minutes, you spend three hours doing it, maybe an afternoon, depending on your tolerance and your lifestyle and all the things, after you spend your limited amount of time, your finite amount of time, hanging out in whatever inhabits the space inside of you, I want to encourage you to identify your priorities.

And you may be somebody who has a bazillion priorities, or you may have very few. But being realistic about what you can center in your life on a weekly basis is really helpful. Picking your top three or four priorities that you can really commit to centering in your life behaviorally on a weekly basis is really helpful. And it doesn't mean that all your other priorities take the back burner. It means you think of them more as monthly investments or biweekly investments or whatever it is.

And as you identify your priorities, my hope is that amongst your priorities for your health and welfare, whether that's your physical health, your mental health, your creative pursuits, whether they're artistic or intellectual or about your sports life—I don't know; whatever it is that's engaging to you—whether it's your responsibilities to care for others or finish a school project or something like that, and then hopefully ways to engage with the world in efforts to make it better—hopefully you get some sort of mix like that going on in your weekly life.

And in regards to political and social activism or engagement, I want to just name that you do not need to reinvent the wheel here. You may have the energy and capacity to use something like 5calls.org to contact your legislators. You may have the capacity to be a part of a group or organization, to educate yourself or engage in actions. You may be somebody who likes to protest. You may be an organizer. You may be somebody who donates money or resources, who shows up to care for folks who need it in supportive roles.

There are so many different ways to engage with actively making the world a safer, more just place. And you don't have to find the best way. You don't have to commit to a singular way. But finding something that you can commit to, that you can continue to show up for, that you don't burn yourself out in the summertime so you got nothing left for the autumn, is a good plan.

And the thing about the astrology of these times with Saturn and Neptune sitting on top of each other in Aries is that coming up with a humane and sustainable, spiritually relevant plan is the assignment. And as it's the assignment, part of what's likely to happen in different ways for all of us is that we struggle with anxiety and a failure to launch, or we get perfectionistic and weird about things, or we make a plan, and then when it disintegrates, we get really mean to ourselves. This is the shit of Saturn and Neptune.

Instead of beating yourself up or casting judgments on other people, my invitation to you is to consider that this is the assignment. This is what's happening right now. How you Saturn—in other words, how you show up for collective issues, how you enforce or reinforce rules, regulations, your beliefs around what's right and wrong—how you Saturn is a reflection on you; make no mistake. So, if you're mean to yourself, if you're casting judgments and dropping the hammer on yourself or others, that's yours. That's yours. And listen. That might be what's necessary and appropriate. That might be the best possible thing, and it might not be.

Breathing some Neptune into Saturn is really helpful and really hard. And that breath of Neptune is around humanitarianism, empathy, care. It can be idealistic. It can be anxious. It can be disassociated. That's the downside. But the upside is that the spirituality and generosity of Neptune, when it infuses the space of Saturn—which is so structured and so much about follow-through and conservatism—beautiful things can happen. But it does require you to be present because it's all in Aries. It wants you to be in your body.

And so you see how we are full circle in navigating what you feel without judgment, without checking out or creating excuses or narratives, but instead just hanging out in the reality you find yourself in and being a supportive, loving, paternal force towards yourself in regards to it. Create structures and plans that hold you up but also fill you up. That's the assignment.

All right. Now let's get into this week's forecast. We're looking, as I said, at the week of the 20th of July, and the first exact transits occur on Tuesday, July 22nd. At 6:29 a.m. Pacific Time, the Sun moves into Leo, meaning that it's Leo Season. The Leos of the world will start having multiple-week-long birthday celebrations.

Okay. Later that day, at 10:32 p.m. Pacific Time, we start off Leo Season with a lovely transit between the Sun and Uranus. The Sun will be at 0 degrees and 38 minutes of Leo, forming an exact sextile to Uranus at the same degrees of Gemini. This is a really lovely transit. The Sun is your sense of self. It's you being in alignment. It's presence. It's dynamic. It's vitality. And Uranus is exciting, and it's surprising. But when there's a sextile between a planet and Uranus, the surprises are usually expansive and interesting and generative.

This transit marks a really good time for exploring possibility, for having chance encounters, for engaging with your creativity, whether it's intellectual, spiritual, artistic, whatever it is—engaging with your creativity in new ways, not being too linear in your approach. This transit is all about heartfelt engagement. It brings about spontaneity. It can bring about excitement. It's a good time to, if you're—I don't know—fucking going to work or something and you always take the same route, change up your route. Just do something a little bit different. If you've been trying to figure out how to move around the furniture in your kitchen or put together new outfits with old clothes, this transit is good for all of that. It's good for being present with and engaging with the potential possibility and newness in what exists now, which is pretty cool, right?

If you can pair this energy with curiosity, like real, present curiosity—so curiosity is not just intellectual; it's also emotional. It requires an emotional openness. If you can do that, then you're bringing in the best of Mercury Retrograde to this Sun sextile to Uranus in Gemini, and there's so much more potential, which, again, is really exciting. So be open to playing with the energy that you're experiencing, with the situations that you find yourself in, with possibility, strategy, with your hopes, with your goals—with all of it.

Now, this transit overlaps with another really lovely transit. On Wednesday, July 23rd, at 1:23 a.m. Pacific Time, Venus will be at 21 degrees of Gemini and 1 minute, and Mars will be at the exact same degrees of Virgo. And Venus square to Mars is a really lovely transit. Venus is your values, and Mars is your motivation. Venus is flirting, and Mars is fornicating. Venus is connecting, and Mars is chemistry. Venus is what you deeply care about, and Mars motivates you to make it happen, to act on it.

So this is a great transit because when there's a square between these two planets, we have motivation. We have a little impetus to make shit happen. So that means that this transit is good for flirting, for dating, for being playful and having sexy, romantic, flirty moments with people. Venus square Mars is good for artistic and creative endeavors. So, when we pair this with the Sun sextile to Uranus, you can see how there's even more energy here for play and curiosity and creativity.

This transit helps you to have the motivation to actually—I don't know—write the fucking poem, part your hair in a new way, start latch-hooking that rug. Do we latch-hook rugs anymore? I feel like we should. And then, on another level, if you want to start acting on your values more than you're already doing, if you want to better understand what your values are, if you want to navigate relationships that are getting ego-sticky—because Mars, ego-sticky—more diplomatically or more authentically, Venus square Mars is for you, my friend.

This transit has so many ways that it can help you to live and engage in more authentic and present ways. Mars helps you to mobilize, to be in your body, and Venus is alignment and values. This is a great transit. It's a great transit. But a lot of times, it's not too strongly felt because we can kind of fall back on, like, it allows you to have nice social interactions without a whole lot of effort, and so people will often focus on that application of the transit. And honestly, maybe that's super important for you and a good idea. But this transit is really useful for navigating your ego and alignment, your relationships, in a way that is sustainable.

If you're somebody who tends to be a little bit more shy and held back, this Venus square to Mars in tandem with the Sun sextile to Uranus will help you to assert yourself, to strive to show up more authentically. If you're trying to figure out what you believe or do that good Mercury Retrograde reviewing of your plans and ideas, Venus square Mars can help you. It can help you to sort through your ego's impulses and your values-based impulses and figure out what is functioning inside of you and in your thinking and make adjustments.

Transits that are squares are always a turning point, or they hold the potential to be a turning point. And the thing about that turning point is it's a little chaotic. It's a little stressful. But we need stress for an idea to come to fruition, for us to move through something that is challenging. And so don't let stickiness or stressiness stop you from being present and being curious and exploring the creative approach to what you could just as easily phone in.

Now, that, my friends, brings us to a very busy day in the stars. On Thursday, July 24th, the Sun in Leo, now at 1 degree and 50 minutes, at 4:23 a.m. forms an exact trine to Saturn at the same degrees of Aries. And then, later that morning, at 10:31 a.m.— this is all Pacific Time—the Sun will be at 2 degrees and 4 minutes of Leo, forming an exact trine to Neptune at the same degrees of Aries. Look at Saturn in Aries—so close together. Now, the Sun forming a trine to both of these planets is important. I will break it down for you in a moment, but first, I gotta tell you something else.

At 12:11 p.m. Pacific Time, we've got a New Moon in Leo, with the Moon at 2 degrees and 8 minutes and the Sun in the same exact fucking place. And then, later that night, at 11:33 p.m., the Sun at 2 degrees and 35 minutes of Leo is opposite to Pluto, same degrees of Aquarius. We've got a big day here. It all kind of culminates around this New Moon.

This is a New Moon in Leo, and New Moons are when we can strive to achieve alignment or/and experience how we're not in alignment. With something like a New Moon in Leo, you have the opportunity to experience where your heart is at, where your passions are at. What I think is really important for us to just start with is that New Moons are an opportunity to be really intentional. What will often happen during a New Moon is life, right? Life happens, and then you're like, "Oh, I have to respond to this email, and I have to do that thing and pick up this person," or whatever it is.

And so we get caught up in the busyness of life and stop tracking how each action, each breath, each thing we choose to do and each thing we choose not to do—each time that we talk to ourselves in a certain tone of voice or give someone else side-eye—whatever the fuck it is—all of that is the embodiment of intention. Now, is it unconscious? Is it conscious? Is it coming out of your wisest parts or your loudest parts? That remains to be seen. But it is the planting of seeds.

And so you don't need to be superstitious about this. You don't need to get weird and hypervigilant about this. But what you do want to do is be curious about where and how you lose embodiment and you lose alignment, where and how you stop being intentional over the course of your day, where and how you are really intentional and how it affects things, how you feel. The thing about being aligned or intentional is that it doesn't guarantee you that your life goes smoothly. It only guarantees you that you've not abandoned yourself, that you are aligned with yourself, and you're intentional about how you are showing up.

But if there are things in your life that are a reflection of self-abandonment or a reflection of compromise or a reflection of shit being shitty in some way or another, then you're going to feel bad because there's going to be that contrast that you have to navigate. So, again, I don't want to encourage you to be superstitious or idealistic as we explore what a New Moon can be for you because New Moons are potent. They're a time for setting intention and planting seeds. And those are the seeds and intentions that bloom, for better or worse, when the Full Moon occurs. So this is your time. This is your moment.

Now, let's talk about the New Moon in Leo. Leo is so much about being extra. It's a fire sign. It's a fixed sign. So it's big and can sometimes be a little bit stubborn. But at its heart, a New Moon in Leo is about being courageous and present in the heart, tapping into passion and authenticity. Leo is the zodiac sign that is governed by the planet the Sun. So the Sun in Leo—very vibrant.

This transit of a New Moon in Leo is an opportunity to get really present with what's authentic to you, with your core sense of self. But unsurprisingly during this wild time that we are living through, this New Moon in Leo comes with some drama. The tightest aspect to the Sun and Moon, which are right on top of each other, is a Pluto opposition. So the Sun and Moon are at 2 degrees of Leo and 8 minutes. Pluto is at 2 degrees of Aquarius and 36 minutes.

So, when Pluto is opposite the Sun and Moon, compulsive and intense feelings and coping mechanisms emerge. Now, whenever we're dealing with an opposition, as we are here, what tends to happen is we experience some sort of struggle with something or someone else. So it can be me against you. It can be us against them. But what we know for sure is that a Pluto opposition to the Sun coincides with triggers to your self-worth, your self-esteem, your identity. And this may be in regards to your sense of safety, like does it feel safe to be true to who you are? Does it feel safe to be seen to show up somewhere, to advocate for yourself or others?

And because of the Pluto opposition to the Moon, all of your activation and your coping mechanisms, your survival mechanisms, come online and they are felt. This is a Moon transit, so they are deeply felt. And in regards to that, you may find yourself obsessing and fixating. You may be fixating on resentments or on terrors. You may be focusing on control issues or power or feeling powerless. When Pluto sits opposite to the Sun and Moon, self-management and the desire to control other people or your environment for safety, like core safety issues, gets activated.

And so, this New Moon, we may experience collective conditions that threaten our sense of safety. And that might be around what you understand to be possible in the world. That might be around your personal individual safety. That might be around something that is not impacting you directly in this moment but is impacting you directly in this moment, if you know what I'm saying. This may show up in your personal life. There may be a fight that you have with somebody who lives in your building or your bestie or someone in your family. It depends on how it hits your birth chart specifically how it's going to show up for you.

But I can tell you this. How you show up for and with whatever it is that gets activated is a reflection on you. It is a place where you have agency. And when we feel scared, freaked out, overwhelmed, activated, triggered—you see where I'm going with all this—is when we tend to feel the most entitled to act out of our most base survival mechanisms instead of to do the work to be intentional. But that's actually what the assignment is, to do the work to be intentional about what you give your energy and attention to, about what motivations you prioritize and center inside of yourself, what actions you pursue and the energy with which you pursue them because, of course, it's not just what you do or what you don't do; it's how you do or don't do the thing. You could be like, "I'm not talking to you," and you can make it a punishment and a manipulation, or you can make it a boundary. That has everything to do with the execution of the action.

So your motivations, while you can lie about them to yourself or others, are the truth. They're your truth. So what are your motivations? This is a really powerful and hard question to ask yourself and to authentically answer, but that is the opportunity of this New Moon in Leo with its opposition to Pluto.

Now, Pluto is really different from Mars, right? They have some important overlaps, but Mars is like the classic ego. It's what we in Western psychology talk about with the ego. You know, it's the ego. Pluto is not. And we're here talking about Pluto. Pluto is the planet associated with your drive to survive. And in that way, it can function like the ego because if everybody is running out of the building because there's something on fire, then you, in your fear and in your drive to survive, may push other people aside in a way that speaks to, "My survival is the most important survival in the room," which is so egotistical, right? But the motivation isn't actually about the ego; it's about how, when our survival mechanisms come online, it is kind of like a blaring sound and a flashing light. It's so consuming that it's hard to remember to consider possibilities, to consider how we embody the space of the moment, how we show up.

When Pluto is doing what it's doing opposite the Moon and Sun, you may find either yourself or someone else acting in ways that read as really egotistical and really selfish. And that might be the case. But it's important to consider what's motivating it. A lot of people's worst behaviors come from not actually that terrible motivations. It's just, when we don't sit with the complexity of our feelings and our activation, when we don't own our part and we just react to our triggers and activation, that's when we act a mess.

And this, again, applies on a really personal level to you and the people in your life, but also on a collective level to groups of people who are willing to ignore atrocities to one group of people because they're so scared it might come to them and they don't have the skills or the willingness to cope with it. And so they just fucking are like, "Oh well. Life's hard for you," and keep on going.

Cruelty, I don't need to tell you, is fucking cruel. Right? Cruelty—not great, right? We can all accept that. But the truth is everybody is cruel sometimes and in some ways. When we are confronted by Pluto in the way that this New Moon is confronting, you have the opportunity to engage authentically and honestly, emotionally and intentionally, with the ways in which your own survival mechanisms entitle you to cruelty and to change your thinking, to change your feeling, to change your position, to adapt, to evolve and to grow.

That's the opportunity of this New Moon, and it's a fucking challenging one. It's a difficult one. And most people are not going to necessarily do that kind of deep and difficult work. But you can. And the truth is you don't need everybody to do the work. All you need to do is focus on your own fucking self so that you do the work because when we're dealing with a Pluto opposition to the Sun and Moon, if you try to fix or change other people for their own good, yeah, that's not going to work out well. It's just not well starred. Focus on yourself. Focus on yourself.

That might mean you need better boundaries. That might mean you need to adapt. That might mean you need to hold strong. The only way for you to answer these questions is by exploring—exploring your own motivations, your own convictions, and your behavior because intent and impact are not the same thing. They're not the same thing. And if you can be honest with yourself, then you're making the best use of this New Moon because while the New Moon in Leo is not per se about honesty during this Mercury Retrograde moment, what it is about is authenticity, alignment, passion, presence.

So don't micromanage yourself. Don't micromanage other people. This is not a time to manipulate yourself or others, your circumstances, or your plans as a way to protect yourself from feeling and coping with things that are hard. But for sure, some people are going to do that, and you might be dealing with those people. You might be those people. And when you see somebody acting in ways that reflect their survival mechanisms, that reflect them being shattered on the inside in some way, you can have empathy and boundaries at the same time. You can have awareness and choose to not engage at the same time.

I want to invite you into nuance this New Moon because Pluto has a fucked-up way of making us feel like we have to focus on the most complicated thing in order for it to be authentic. And the truth of the matter is the authentic wholeness of a truth of who you are or where you're at or a situation is often kind of simple. And if you can hang out in that simplicity, even if it's hard, then you'll have an easier time locating yourself, locating what's authentic, and identifying what to do with that information.

Now, don't forget that we don't only have the Sun opposition to Pluto that is exact on this day and, of course, the Moon opposition to Pluto as well; we also have that Sun trine to Saturn and Neptune. These two transits, the Sun trine to these two planets, empowers you to make the most use of that conjunction that I've been talking about so much. Specifically, Sun trine to Saturn empowers you to be realistic, to be pragmatic, to be practical, to engage over the course of time with your goals and ambitions and preferences, to show up in material ways for your commitments to people and projects, but also your commitments to yourself.

The Sun trine to Saturn empowers you to be respectful, intentional, and grounded, to identify things and approaches that are sustainable. So it's a really useful transit. While the Sun trine to Neptune puts you in direct contact with empathy and care, it empowers you to center not only your own plans and your own time and the responsibilities you have to yourself, but your willingness and ability to show up with and for other people, with and for the planet, for humanitarian concerns.

This transit is really good for increasing empathy and even hope. And I cannot stress enough how much we need hope that is grounded in reality at this fucking time. And the Sun trine to these two planets, Saturn and Neptune, is really good for that. Now, again, Pluto opposite the Sun and Moon is going to be louder because our survival mechanisms are always the loudest voices in our internal rooms. But the resource of Sun trine Neptune should not be overlooked, because your ability to align yourself, to tap into the ways in which faith and hope and empathy and connection fill you up and help you to fill up the world with more of what you want to see and experience—that is so powerful.

Don't forget who you are. Don't forget what's important to you. These trines indicate that there is support available to all of us during this quite challenging New Moon. We still have the benefit of the Mars square to Venus and the Sun and Moon sextile to Uranus active in this chart. But accessing all of these supportive aspects this New Moon will require your willingness and ability to acknowledge your survival mechanisms, to notice them in action, and to at the same time tap into resources, whether they're resources that exist inside of yourself, resources outside of yourself, to connect to people and ideas and possibilities and organizations—whatever it is that makes sense for you in your situation, to tap into them and to allow them to feed you while you also feed them.

I hope this doesn't sound like too much of an aside, but I love gardening. I like watering plants. I actually genuinely enjoy walking around the town of my plants—my indoor plants, my outdoor plants—and watering them. And when I feed them, it feeds me. I get to see where they're at. The other day, there was a fucking teeny, tiny, little frog sitting on the leaf of a plant on my balcony. What? What is that? A little, teeny, tiny frog was just living it up on a leaf. And it was only because I hung out exploring life, feeding life, that I had this life-feeding moment for myself.

When you tend to your garden metaphorically or literally, you always have the opportunity to receive support and life and hope and ease through that practice. It doesn't always happen. There's not always a tiny frog on a plant. But every once in a while, there is. Every once in a while, you catch yourself just leaning into the moment and being present with what you're doing and deriving joy and meaning from it while you also feed something outside of yourself, this relationship that can occur between you and your actions, you and other life forms that are generative. And that generative energy supports you in ways that are obvious and not, in ways that are linear and not.

This New Moon in Leo is an important turning point, and it's worth me noting that we are here hanging out in late July, and in September, we step into Eclipse Season. We are in this moment, hanging out here, and at this really intense and tumultuous New Moon in Leo. And you get to emotionally show up. You get to show up on all the other levels, but again, Moon transits are emotional at core. So you get to emotionally show up. And whatever it is that you learn about yourself, about the people and things that you interact with, is important, and you get to integrate it. And there will be another New Moon in August, and then there will be an Eclipse in September.

And so what we're doing right now is we're building presence. We're building wisdom. We're evolving. And as we do so, there's this larger order to it. That's the cool thing about astrology. It gives us a sense of order in a chaotic fucking Universe. There's this order to it. And so, as challenging as this New Moon may or may not be for you or for us as a collective, it's part of a larger tapestry. And it is absolutely worth doing the work, even if what the work is for you is just acting out and being a mess and then realizing it later and taking accountability and being kind and gentle with yourself as you figure out why you acted out and were a mess.

Wherever you're at, meet yourself there. Meet this moment as it is. And as you do that, you start to lay stronger and healthier and more loving foundations inside of yourself upon which you can build yourself up and also reach out and engage with others with kindness, with love, with boundaries realistically and sustainably. That's the fucking move.

That, my friends, is the astrology of this week. I want to remind you that over on my Patreon, available for all my members free and paid, I have a bunch of content, including an hour-long kind of informal class that I did a couple weeks ago about how to engage with conflict, disagreement, and contrast. And that is available for you if you find that useful. Why am I mentioning it now? Oh, no reason, just a New Moon in Leo opposite Pluto. And there's lots of other resources that I share there teaching astrology, energy work, and exploring some topics that are fun and light and others that are deep and kind of challenging. So please do join me over on my Patreon at patreon.com/jessicalanyadoo if any of that sounds appealing to you.

Now, I'm going to run through these transits one more time. Mercury is Retrograde all week. On the 22nd, there's an exact sextile between the Sun and Uranus. On the 23rd, there's an exact square between Venus and Mars. On the 24th, the Sun forms an exact trine to Saturn and to Neptune. We have a New Moon in Leo and an opposition between the Sun and Moon and Pluto. It's a lot, but hopefully I've given you some tools that you can use to make the most of this astrological moment and you meet this moment with some amount of tenderness.

I want to thank you so much for joining me for this week's forecast. Take really good care of yourself and others, and I will talk to you in just a couple of days.