Hello. Hello, and welcome back to Astro
Talk. I'm Kate Forster, your host,
author, astrologer, professional explainer of why things have
gone to the shit and general roustabout.
Now listen, grab yourself a coffee, a tea, a wine.
I don't mind. No judgement here, because the
universe has cooked up an absolute tiramisu of chaos for
the end of June and the start of July, and I want you to be
prepared. Here's what we're working with.
We have Mercury retrograde kicking off on the exact same
day as a Capricorn full Moon because subtlety is dead and the
planets know it. That it is literally hammering
us. And then practically just before
you've caught your breath, Jupiter slut drops into Leo for
the first time in 12 years. And then just to make sure that
nobody's going to get bored, we have Mars in Gemini conjunct
Uranus in Gemini on the 4th of July, which frankly, well, I
don't like it. I do want to say that everyone
was promised the year of the horse, and quite frankly, we've
had a year of the wonky Donkey and I'm sticking by that.
So before the universe is going to let you start this glittering
new 12 year chapter, it wants you to sit down and reread the
last one out loud to the class with the footnotes.
Now, everyone loathes this part because we are obsessed with
beginnings. We love the first day of school.
We love the new notebook and the, you know, crisp pencils,
all sharpened and ready to go. We love declaring on a new year,
new me, new me. Yes, what we're very reluctant
to do is reflection. We don't want to look at where
we fucked it up. And yes, that's human.
But in seeing what you would do differently is where the
learning opportunity is. You know, reflection is more
than just the vision board. The vision board is where the
glitter glue lives. And this weak sky is here to
remind us that growth isn't just about sprinting forward and
contacting your books. Sometimes growth is sitting
still long enough to understand where you've been, what you
learned, and where you're going next with this new set of
skills. Now, quick disclaimer before we
start because I know some of you are already composing the email,
you know, and no, I am not fear mongering about Mercury
retrograde. I'm simply reporting the news of
the sky. And the news this week is that
the Cosmos has scheduled an intervention and none of you
have RSV paid. You can be mad at me or you can
be mad at Mercury. Mercury isn't going to read your
email. I will, though, so choose
wisely. All right, let's get into it day
by day. Day by glorious, slightly
unhinged day. All right.
Saturday the 29th of moon, Mercury retrograde begins in
Cancer. Where do you have cancer in your
chart? Yeah.
Where do you have cancer in your chart?
That's a very important point. It is astrology's most slandered
transit. And if Mercury retrograde had a
publicist, that publicist would have quit, changed their name
and joined a nunnery because the Internet treats this transit
like a four alarm supernatural disaster and everyone's lost
their luggage and goes to their texts and and spilt, I don't
know, Diet Coke on their on their laptop.
But here's the truth that nobody wants on a meme.
Mercury retrograde is just a review period, a cosmic IF edit.
It asks us to slow down long enough to actually notice what
we have been bypassing, or steamrolling in the case of some
of you. Because most of the time, the
problem isn't that life isn't speaking to us, it's that
everyone's wearing noise cancelling headphones, literally
and figuratively. Now this, this particularly
Mercury retrograde, happens in cancer, which means the review
is emotional, not logistical. This isn't Oh my God, did I lock
my front door? No, This is why am I still
thinking about my high school boyfriend at 2:00 AM for no
reasons. Old feelings may resurface.
Old lovers might resurface. Wounds in your family that you
thought had been band aid and kiss the Boo Boo better might
open up again. Past memories might knock
politely and then let themselves in anyway.
You might catch yourself thinking about old friends, old
homes, old versions of you. The temptation, obviously, is to
assume this means you should go backwards.
Oh, I'll just give him a call. I'll just reopen that chapter.
I'll just bring up that thing, that time where we went to that
thing and you fucking did that thing.
Yeah, OK. That is not the assignment here,
people. Usually it means that something
in the memory hasn't been fully processed yet and Mercury is
sending it back like an undercooked chicken at a
restaurant. Except it says you didn't
actually process this. And I want to be very specific
here because cancer retrogrades love to be misunderstood.
This is not your cosmic permission slip to text your old
boyfriend just to see how they're doing.
We we know how they're doing. They're doing the same thing
they were doing back in, you know, 2019, which is why you
broke up with him. Also, this is not your cue to
drive past your childhood home and have a moment in the car and
thinking about, you know, your dog Rusty or whatever.
This retrograde wants something that is much quieter.
It it wants you to sit with the feeling long enough and ask what
it's made of instead of actually acting on it.
Why are you, what are you missing about that home?
What are you missing about that person?
What did you think you should have done?
What would you do differently? What am I being asked to process
here? That's it.
Psychologically, this transit
has a habit of exposing where we have built our entire sense of
safety on foundations that are, generously speaking, a little
bit wobbly or wonky. They're the wonky donkey
foundations. A lot of people build their
identity around being productive and needed and successful, being
liked by everyone you know. But cancer asks the
uncomfortable questions directly.
And that is, wait, who am I if I'm not earning my love?
Cancer doesn't believe in small talk when it comes to your soul.
So who are you when no one needs anything from you?
When you're not fucking jazz handing and performing for
everything? Who are you underneath all these
roles that you have been cast in unwillingly, mostly by other
people and occasionally by yourself out of habit?
These are not fun questions, but they are some of the most
important ones you'll ask all year, so please don't bypass
them just because they are uncomfortable.
Discomfort is where the growth is.
And then to maximise the drama, we've got a Capricorn full moon
on the same day. Now Capricorns don't really care
about their feelings, it just wants receipts.
They love a receipt. This is the one, one of the most
achievement oriented full moons of the year.
And Capricorn wants results. It wants evidence and proof that
you're doing the work. It actually would like your
KPI's on your goal setting. So full moons illuminate reality
no matter what. There is no soft filtered
lighting here. And sometimes that reality is
fuck yeah, look how far you've come.
And sometimes it's oh, annoying. This isn't working, you're not
working, it's not working. And then sometimes there's a
plot twist, right? And it's the realisation that
you've spent six months or six years climbing a mountain that
was never actually the right mountain of yours to climb.
And I want to say this, there's nothing wrong with realising
that a goal doesn't fit anymore. Like one of the most mature,
grown up main character things a person can do is stop pursuing
something that doesn't align with who they're becoming.
You're allowed to outgrow those goals.
No one is taking away your trophy for changing your mind.
So this full moon is asking, what have you built over the
past six months? What's working?
What's not working, no matter how many times you've quietly
hoped things would fix themselves.
Have they? And then I mean, the real ugly
question here is what are you still carrying that you no
longer need to carry, but you're still carrying it around like
what's in your emotional backpack?
You need to take it out. You need to put it down.
Because here's the thing, not everything you've committed to
it comes with a lifetime contract.
Some something, some roles are for a season, some identities
are for a season, some responsibilities are only for a
period of time and some dreams. As painful as it is to admit,
we're also just for that season, and the season has changed.
The moon then slides into Capricorn, which is the
universe's way of saying we've had our feelings.
Now let's be practical about it. If you're feeling overwhelmed
this full moon, make a list. If you feel uncertain, focus on
one single step, not the entire staircase.
If you're feeling lost, here's your reminder.
Nobody finds their direction by standing still, staring
dramatically into the middle distance, and waiting for a sign
to descend from the heavens. It's not going to happen.
Michael. Landon's not coming in to save
you on this one, my friend. Direction is found through
movement, even slightly clumsy movements.
Now, Monday the 30th of June, we have Jupiter entering Leo.
And just like that, after the big soulful excavation of the
full Moon, we have a mood turn. Jupiter is swaggering into Leo,
and the sky suddenly starts talking about joy again, about
creativity and love and fun and all the wild, scandalous ideas
that life is supposed to contain.
Pleasure. Now here's the interesting bit.
So many people have become elite level experts in responsibility.
They know how to work, they know how to meet their goals.
They know how to care for everyone around them.
Right? Jupiter and Leo is about to
spend the next 12 months asking this question.
What if joy is productive? What if creativity actually
matters? And isn't it nice to have that
in our minds? You don't have to earn joy.
You don't have to earn it like it's a reward after you've, you
know, unlocking it after enough suffering.
It wants you to create and play and and perform, even if you're
just having a dance in the kitchen.
Like dance badly, tell silly jokes, fall back in love with
being alive. If you are feeling a joyfulness
coming back and going, I really want to join that drum circle.
I'm going to start Morris dancing.
Please do it because this is a beautiful timing with the
Mercury retrograde running, running underneath it.
We're not going to rush headlong into something shiny and brand
new without thinking. But we might be invited to
revisit old passions, old things that you used to do.
Maybe you want to join a choir because you loved choir at
school. You may find yourself pulled
back towards something that you loved years ago, a craft or a
creative practise, something that got buried under that
mountain of obligations that we've just seen with the
Capricorn Moon. And, and you don't need a 12
step plan, you just need to remember what you loved doing
and see if you can revisit it again.
On Tuesday the 1st of July we have Moon entering Aquarius and
we have Moon training Mars in Gemini.
It's a good time for a good time.
No, it's a good time to think about your future, not in a
vague like when I have time, but what small changes can you make
right now that's going to lead you towards the thing that you
want to do? Just little adjustments.
Maybe like if you if you're working on your fitness, maybe
parking a little bit further away and walking further, maybe
taking the stairs. You know, if you want to do more
creative things, it's but don't just lie in bed all Saturday.
Actually, book something in these small steps here.
Lean into it. Lean into it.
Now on the 2nd of July, we have Moon in Aquarius sextile Saturn
in Aries. Discipline day.
Whatever you're working on, get practical, get responsible, get
ethical. Resist the sort of Gemini
adjacent urge to cut corners, because no one's watching.
Saturn is watching. Saturn's always watching.
We have a waning gibbous moon, still an Aquarius, so that's
still going to reward people who choose to show up.
Look, it's not a glamorous transit on the 2nd of July.
Nobody's writing a love song about Saturn in Aries.
But this is the energy that gets the unsexy stuff done, the
invoices, the admin. I'm really sorry that I was rude
to you when I drank that many spicy margaritas the other
night. You know, is a boring day.
But Fuchu, you will send flowers so it's lovely.
On Thursday the 3rd of July, we have Moon and Aquarius opposite
Venus in Leo. Someone's going to give you the
shits today. Someone is going to get on your
nerves on the 3rd of July. So please, if someone has
someone who shits you at work and wants to book a meeting that
day, don't do it. You're going to want to punch a
bitch. You're going to have this urge
to lash out, no matter how satisfying it might feel at the
moment. You have to pay for it later.
So be mindful on the third. Don't spend time with dickheads.
Specifically this Venus in in Leo situation.
Whatever it means, this person is irritating you because they
want attention or credit or centre stage in a moment and you
don't have to clap for them. I'm giving you permission em.
Try not to say them on that day. Pettiness is tempting.
Pettiness is also unfortunately beneath you, mostly within
reason. Saturday, the 4th of July.
Well well well. This is a massive transit.
Mars in Gemini conjunct Uranus in Gemini.
Mars sextile Neptune in Aries, Moon enters Pisces.
I don't want a scaremonger. I don't, I promise I don't.
But I'm not feeling confident about this day.
I'm hoping that everyone is going to keep their cool because
there is some big electricity, energy in the air.
It is rebellious and I want people to brace for impact.
This is a day that hasn't been great in history.
This is, don't forget, astrology is just data.
These are the things that happened last time this transit
was around Gemini and Uranus together is basically the
astrological equivalent of someone, you know, yanking the
tablecloth off the table and, and somehow nothing breaks.
But everything's changed. There's sudden realisations and
and this urge to change something.
It's primarily around No More Kings.
So I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm not going to
predict anything because I'm not psychic.
But we also have the moon entering Pisces.
So we're going to have some mixed messages.
Some. It's going to take a while to
get to the truth. Yeah.
You know, if you're a prepper, I'd say stay underground,
otherwise, don't go into crowds. I am seeing a lot of astrologers
saying don't go into crowds on the 4th of July, particularly if
you're in America. But you know, again, I'm not a
psychic. And then Sunday the 5th of July,
we have Mars in Gemini training Pluto in Aquarius.
It's important to empower yourself by taking control of
something that feels chaotic. Sometimes cleaning up your
little postage stamp sized part of the world is all we can do.
You might be feeling very passionate.
You might be looking at something and going, it's
massive. I need to sort this out.
Well, you know, Pluto and Aquarius has been quietly kind
of rearranging the furniture of our lives for a while now.
And this Mars trine Pluto is, is giving you permission to stop
being polite about the mess and actually start cleaning it up.
There's a difference between burning something down and
calmly taking out the trash or the rubbish.
Now, the big lesson of the week underneath all of this,
underneath this full Moon and Jupiter and Mars, and all of
this is about foundations. Mercury retrograde is asking
whether your emotional foundations are actually that
solid or just very convincingly decorated.
On my Patreon is a worksheet around Mercury and retrograde,
particularly for your house and where Cancer is in your chart,
where Mercury is. What is it trying to tell you?
There is always a message. Now, the question this week
isn't whether you're doing enough.
I can tell you right now that you are already doing enough.
The question is whether you have built a life that supports the
person you are becoming, and you're not still living like the
person you were five years ago who's no longer running the
show. So as June wraps up and hands
the button to July, please give yourself full permission to
review, reflect and release. Not because you've got it
figured out. Nobody does just because I want
it a bit cleaner for you at the second half of this year now.
Small homework assignment. Write down one thing in your
past you're ready to let go of, One thing that in your past you
would be you would like to revisit.
Mercury retrograde gets the first one.
Jupiter and Leo gets the second. Let them find it out for a
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worksheet. All right, have a beautiful
week. Go 'cause some appropriately
chaotic good and I'll see you next week.