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For the next five months – The planet of death and rebirth goes into Retrograde in Aquarius – the sign of humanitarianism. While this is a yearly retrograde – this is so significant because of what is happening politically, personally, and even collectively. This time will represent a giant collective diagnostic test. We are the most “spiritually conscious” as a whole mass we have ever been in human recorded history – and so we must take a look and see what we believe in and how we use that belief to truly better ourselves.

The thing that is truly incredible is that by changing ourselves we can change the world. Our positive impacts have a wildfire impact on those around us and so on and so on.

We are looking for the “bugs” in our social operating system. The places where we trade our authenticity for the sake of belonging.

While working on ourselves is so important – our groups, jobs, and partnerships are as important. This Retrograde is also exposing a “group think” that’s gone sour. Ask yourself “Am I supporting this cause, friend, group, industry because I believe in it or become or because I am scared of being canceled by the collective”.

Pluto doesn’t want you to “add new habits” – rather stop feeding the ghosts. Stop feeding the old career ambition that doesn’t fit your 2026 reality. Stop feeding the digital habits that drain your dopamine. This is a period of pruning the future to make it viable.

Here’s a way you can create healthy power dynamics in your circles

The Power of No – Reclaiming your time from “obligatory” social circles.

The Power of Truth – Admitting that a future plan you made two years ago is now obsolete.

The Power of Quiet – In an Aquarius age of constant noise, the retrograde is a “Mute Button” for the soul.

Journal Prompts

-“Which of my “original” ideas are actually just recycled opinions from my social media feed?”

-“If the internet dissapeared tomorrow – which parts of my identity would remain?”.

-“Where am I trying to control a future that hasn’t even been coded yet”.

This transit is absolutely not a funeral – it is a renovation of your internal motherboard. For the next five months, the universe is putting our future selves on trial. We are not looking for what is broken — we are looking for what is too heavy. If it is too heavy to bring into 2027, Pluto is going to help you drop it. Don’t fight gravity, embrace the lightness that follows.

If your mind feels hyperactive, your relationships are shifting gears, or your daily routine feels a bit chaotic right now, you are not alone. Everything you are experiencing externally right now is reflecting a deeper internal transformation.

If your mind feels hyperactive, your relationships are shifting gears, or your daily routine feels a bit chaotic right now, you are not alone. We have officially entered one of the most electric, fast-shifting weeks of the entire year.

Between May 18th and May 24th, the cosmos are forcing a massive collective pivot. We are transitioning out of heavy, grounded Earth energy and stepping directly into a high-voltage Air storm. Here is your comprehensive, day-by-day survival guide to navigating this week’s major transits and cosmic upgrades.

May 18th: The Double Shift (Energy Realignment)

The week kicks off with a double cosmic shift as both the planets of action and affection change signs on the exact same day.

** Mars Enters Taurus: Mars, the planets of drive and ambition, slows down as it steps into steady, stubborn Taurus. The frantic, rushing energy of the past few weeks is coming to an end. This transit asks you to slow your pace and focus on building your long term ideas with patience, persistence, and practical strategy.

** Venus Enters Cancer – Simultaneously, Venus moves into tender, intuitive Cancer. In the realms of love and finance, the collective craving shifts toward emotional security, comfort and safety. This is a beautiful period for nesting, protecting your peace, and nurturing your inner circle.

MAY 19th: MENTAL CROSSROADS & PSYCHOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

This is an extremely incredible day for the planets of communication, bringing a potent mix of intuitive downloads and deep psychological adjustments.

** Mercury Sextile Neptune – Your intuition spikes today as logical thinking softens. This is a beautiful window for creative writing, artistic projects, or paying close attention to your dreams.

**Venus Sextile Mars – A gorgeous, flowing harmony between masculine and feminine energies. Passions align seamlessly with emotional depth, making it an excellent day for resolving conflicts or deepening personal connections.

**Mercury Square the Lunar Nodes – A critical mental turning point arrives. You are being pushed to speak up. Challenge the old narratives, and step away from comfortable communication habits that no longer serve your growth.

**Mercury Trine Pluto Retrograde – A critical mental turning point arrives. You are being pushed to speak up, challenge old narratives, and step away from comfortable communication habits that no longer serve your growth.

MAY 20th: WELCOME TO GEMINI SEASON

The collective atmosphere shifts instantly today as the sun enters Gemini. For the next month, our vital energy is filtered through this mutable air sign. Curiosity levels skyrocket, the pace of daily life accelerates, and the collective focus turns heavily toward networking, learning, and rapid-fire communication. Prepare for a surge of mental electricity — and the urge to multitask.

MAY 22nd – ELECTRIC COSMIC LIGHTNING (THE MAIN EVENT)

This is the most volatile and brilliant day of the week. Hold your plans loosely today, as the universe is delivering a major software update.

**The Sun Conjuct Uranus in Gemini – This is the headline transit of the season. When the Sun Illuminates Uranus, it acts as a cosmic catalyst. Expect sudden epiphanies, shocking news, viral moments, or abrupt disruptions that completely re-route your current timeline. It is a time for radical innovation.

**Venus Square Neptune – While your mind is racing, your heart might feel a big foggy. This alignment brings a risk of rose-colored glasses in love and money. Avoid making major, binding financial or romantic commitments today, as things are likely not what they seem to the surface.

**Mercury Sextile Saturn – Serving as the ultimate grounding anchor, Saturn steps in to stabilize the chaotic energy. This transit brings logical, sharp, and structured thinking, helping you organize and build up on the wild, genius ideas popping up throughout the week.

MAY 24th – SPIRITUAL INTEGRATION

**Sun Sextile Neptune – After a week of intense mental and emotional upgrades, the energetic dust finally settles. This soothing alignment brings a wave of collective healing, SPIRITUAL flow, and artistic inspiration, allowing you to peacefully integrate the massive shifts that just occurred.

This week is not about forcing control; it is about mastering the are of the pivot. The cosmos are heavily favoring adaptability over rigid planning. Pay attention to the sudden downloads and unexpected disruptions that occur around May 22nd – they are pointing directly toward your next evolution.

How are you experiencing these shifts in your own life? Let me know in the comments below.

Starting June 25th, the shadow period of Mercury Retrograde begins. This time around he is giving the illusion of going backwards in the sign of the crab. This emotionally Cardinal Water sign is the complete description match of a Crab. They have a hard shell and pointy claws but only to protect their very soft under belly. Cancers may come off as tough or even maybe mean – but that is only to protect the fact that they are the most emotional sign in the zodiac. Once Mercury goes into a full Retrograde starting June 29th – the typical Mercury Retrograde things will happen. Back up your files, be ready for communication disconnections. That is mostly just noise – but still be prepared.

This transit is asking us to go deeper. This is an emotional audit. Cancer is asking us to take a double take. When conversations become a trigger – maybe take a step back and ask yourself why.

If you are a Virgo or Gemini rising – Mercury rules your chart. This transit may hit you a little bit harder than even a Virgo / Gemini sun or moon. Be weary of signing any large contracts and making any life altering decisions. During these retrogrades the energy is chaotic.

Virgo / Gemini Risings – You will feel this in your first house. Your house of self. If you feel either a lot of power around who you are or you feel like you become dismantled – this is why.

Virgo/ Gemini Suns – This will affect your outer persona, your personality you let others see.

Virgo / Gemini Moons – This will affect your emotions.

With each of these transits – they will also affect the specific houses and other planets that are associated.

Wherever you have Cancer in your chart – these areas will also be lit up.

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The God of war – the Ruler of Aries is going into the sign of the sisters. Every year this transit happens, and every year I find myself being able to problem solve just a little bit better. With an Aires Sun and a Mars in Pisces I am constantly doing a dance of wanting to be really blunt but feeling bad and making all of my conflicts so emotional.

This transit really asks us to see things for more than just our own perspective. We could really benefit from listening to the other parties involved and get their POV. Mars wants us TO GO. He doesn’t want us to be stagnant. He wants us to use the collective energy and create change. Whether that be for personal or business or even the collective. Gemini is the definition of duality. The twins make us good at several things, ask us to think in different ways – The ruling planet is Mercury itself. The actual planet of communication, learning.

Take this transit – along with the Mercury Retrograde to really watch if your communications and frustrations turn inward. Remember you are not alone in your journey. If you feel yourself starting to isolate – reach out to a trusted friend and therapist.

This Full Moon comes at a Mercury Retrograde Week. Which is not a coincidence. Capricorn is all about doing your checks and balances – specifically with business. And Full Moons are here to show us what needs to end and change. Think about the manifestations that you really want — which ones are showing up and which ones are not showing there face yet. Which one of your long-term goals is something that actually does not align with you, your family, and your household.

This Astrology is going to be family focused and how can we be sucessfull in a job but most importantly for our children and our partners. This is all happening during Cancer season. Cancer is our home base, our family, our children specifically. If jobs feel like they are no longer aligning – they are more than likely taking away from your time with your kids and it is time to look at that and see how you can fix the balance.

During this Full Moon – Talk to your spirit guides, pull from your tarot deck, talk to your partner and check in. If everything feels like it is working and in alignment – AMAZING. The work you have been putting in is working and that is such an amazing feeling. You can still do the Full Moon things and cut cords and cut off energy.

Don’t forget to clean your space. Move the stagnant energy. Open a window and release all energy that does not belong to you and call back your power.

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The Moon (governs our emotions) is going conjunct (within the same degree in the same sign) with Pluto in Aquarius (the quirky sign of humanitarianism). While only lasting a few days – it will bring up a sharp, deep pain of old baggage, and toxic habits so we can finally throw them away. It highlights a power dynamic issue, either giving away too much power or having too much power in a relationship. Mixing this with the ever lingering Full Moon energy – our daddy issues or male figure issues may come into play. We can use this to forgive and move on. To fully be able to see what has been holding us back from loving deeper and having more of a bandwidth for loving the men in our lives. But beware – this will absolutely trigger some deep wounds.

Can you feel that? It’s almost like the trauma and the things that broke us in childhood are coming back to creep there heads back in. It’s almost like… the things that we just stored away for a really long time – even if we have tried to work through them as adults, are back for a short little time. This Cancer season – at least for me – has been one of the biggest and most uncomfortable breakthroughs I have ever had. I have felt every single uncomfortable and unfair feeling I felt growing up that I had suppressed so deep in my body that I thought it would never find its way out. And it absolutely has. Cancer is that family, the home, the nostalgia, the good/bad/ugly of the growing pains of growing up in this human form.

This New Moon is quite literally a release point. New Moons are traditionally used for manifesting, as the clean slate when everything is washed over and we can technically start new. And baby this Luna movement is asking us to feel through those emotions, but do not let them take over your life. Fully feel, but then also fully release them.

What is crazy is that this is only the middle of the month. We still have so many Astrological events to move through the rest of July, but the 10th – the 15th – I want you to zoom in on the release. Whatever that looks like or feels safe for you. The big feelings that you know are caused from your childhood, remember and tell yourself that hose events are not happening now. You are safe. You are always taken care of. And start to let them go

Here is one of my ultimate favorite release rituals

Water is associated with Cancer and is the ideal way to release.

Tools – Sea salt, dried herbs (rose and lavender) and a white candle.

Set your intention: As you fill your tub with warm water, add the salt and hers, stirring the water clockwise with your hands. Envision the water physically pulling away heavy or stagnant emotions.

Speak your intentions aloud, or write them down on a scrap of biodegradable paper and let it dissolve in the water.