Hello and welcome to Astro Talk. I'm Kate Forster, astrologer,
author, General Roustabout, and let's talk astrology from the
week starting the 22nd of June 2026.
Now, the theme of the week is the life you planned versus the
life you're currently living. The solstice is today, and we're
going to talk about that. The longest night of the year,
the point in the calendar where the light begins its slow return
depending. I'm in the Southern hemisphere,
so I'm going through the winter solstice.
Those in the Northern hemisphere going through the summer
solstice. Now, for thousands of years
people have paid attention to the solstice because they knew
that life moved in cycles, not straight lines or little five
year plans. Nature also understands this.
The seasons understand this, the cycles of the moon understand
it, the tides. A woman's body can understand
this. But somewhere along the way we
became convinced that life was a big fat project and it was a
plan and a destination and something that could be managed
if we worked hard enough and long enough and made really
smart decisions. But one of the things about
getting older is realising how little of life actually unfolds
according to the plan. Think back to January.
What goals did you write down? What assumptions did you have?
What, what were the things that you quietly expected would fall
into your lap, Things that you thought might have happened by
now? Maybe you thought you'd have
more money, or your business would be growing, or you'd meet
the person of your dreams, or you'd have left the job or
written the book or had the baby, All of those things.
And here we are halfway through the year.
And for many people, and I'm not saying just you, but for many
people, there is a gap between the life they imagined and the
life they're living. But the problem is not the gap.
The problem is we keep staring at it and comparing reality to
expectation, and reality is going to lose every time because
reality is competing against a fantasy.
A version of our self that didn't have to deal with illness
or redundancy or interest rates or grief or ageing parents, or
sick children, or uncertainty, or the simple fact that life
occasionally has ideas of its own and it doesn't matter what
you do, you cannot bend it to your will.
I think one of the greatest challenges of adulthood is
learning to release the life you imagined so you can actually
fully participate in the life you have now.
And not because the life you have is perfect, but because
it's the only one you have. So this week's astrology, I'm
going to be asking you to look at reality honestly.
And I'm, I promise not to be too harsh or pessimistic, but honest
because reality is actually where your power lives.
So not the fantasy. So let's get into it.
Monday the 22nd of June, we have the sun entering cancer.
It's cancer season, it's crabs. Get your crabs out.
And the question I have is, let's have a look at the house
you've built inside yourself. Most people think that cancer is
about home, and it is. But it's not just a physical
home. It's a psychological home.
It's the place you return to when life becomes difficult.
It's also the place you return to when things fall apart and
when no one is applauding you. And the question that cancer
says and is going to ask you is pretty simple.
Do you feel at home inside your own life?
I'm not talking about your house, I'm talking about your
life. These things are not the same.
Some people can live in beautiful magazine worthy homes
and still have a ship marriage. Some people have successful
careers and feel strangely disconnected and wanna buy a
coffee van and get on the road. Some people have everything they
thought they wanted and still aren't happy.
So cancer season is asking us to stop focusing on the appearance
of life and pay attention to the actual foundations, the slab.
What is supporting you? What is nourishing you?
What do you need? What restores you?
Who can you call on when things go wrong?
And what is going to make you feel safe?
Because there becomes a point in everyone's life where success
matters less than having a sustainable life that you want
to be a part of. A life you cannot sustain is not
successful. It's just really exhausting.
So please, if you're interested, jump on my Patreon.
There is a worksheet to go with this week so you can kind of
unpack and unpick some of these things.
Then on the same day, we have Moon entering Libra.
Libra will always turn our attention towards relationships,
and relationships become interesting whenever we're
changing. Have you noticed that some
people seem to relate to an A version of you that doesn't
exist? You know, I had a client who
astrology client who realised that her so called best friend
forever and ever and Emma, they didn't really have anything in
common. Once my client stopped drinking,
the connection was the alcohol, not the friendship or the friend
who still sees you as the reckless 25 year old and and who
who had a lot of debt or, you know, had a very active dating
life. Maybe you've changed and they
don't want to say that anymore. People often struggle when we
change because our identity is is part of their understanding
of the world. And so when we evolve, they have
to update that picture of us and perhaps look in the mirror and
see that they might need to update themselves as well.
Maybe I have a drinking problem. Maybe that friend is projecting
onto me because she, you know, never kind of admitted that her
own foibles and dating life and how she spend her money.
So one of the questions worth considering this week is, are
the people around me relating to who I am or who I used to be?
And if they are relating to who you used to be, it might be time
to help them understand the new upgrade of you and have that
chat. I don't actually do that
anymore. I don't actually drink like that
anymore. Tuesday the 23rd of June we have
moon squaring Mercury. And again the story.
Keep telling yourself, the stories that we tell ourselves,
that limit us, that keep us small and bad with money.
I'm unlucky in love, nothing ever works out for me.
I'm always overlooked. I'm never chosen.
I'm too young, I'm too fat, I'm too old, I'm behind, I'm not
ready. Do you recognise yourself in any
of those? Life becomes interesting when we
realise how many of the choices we're making are being made by
the stories we didn't actually consciously choose.
It might be a story that your mother told you, or your father,
or an old boss. Well, you're this, and so you
think that that's true. So that this transit is going to
ask us to become curious about our internal narratives because
there is a point where that stops describing your life and
it starts creating it. And I want you to be really
aware that maybe you're not bad with money, maybe you're not
unlucky in love, maybe you're not too old or too fat or
behind, and maybe you are ready. Wednesday the 24th of June, we
have moon entering Scorpio. And God gotta love me some
Scorpio. Humans are very good at
beginnings, and we love to celebrate them and announce
them. And, you know, we take photos
and we post about them online. Endings are different.
Maybe a friendship has faded or something that you wanted
doesn't. It's evolved or a dream has
evolved, or a job is finishing or a relationship is finishing.
Scorpio is asking us. The Scorpio Moon is asking us to
recognise what has ended, and not because endings are sad,
it's because when you end something, there's space for
something new. Stop trying to build a future
while dragging a past that doesn't belong there.
Let go of the old identity, the old friend, the person who who
doesn't understand you. Because the Moon in Scorpio is
going to ask you. Are you still carrying this
around because it's valuable to you or because you're just
familiar with it? If it's rusted on, get it off
and create some space for something new in your life.
So that has ended new timeline now.
The moon is also training sun then.
And one of the questions I would like more people to ask is what
if this isn't a failure? What if I didn't fuck up?
And what if this is just some information?
What if the thing didn't work, that didn't work, wasn't
supposed to work? What if the job ending is
redirecting you? What if the rejection from that
person is making space of someone new and better?
Not every closed door is a is a tragedy.
Sometimes it's just reality redirecting your attention and
there's something better coming. And if you recognise that Moon
in Scorpio on the same day of what has ended, you will make
space for something new. Now, Thursday the 25th of June,
we have Venus trine satin. All right, now there's a theme
here. Can you see how it's all working
together? What has earned the right to
stay? If you have done an assessment
of of what has just ended and then the moon is trying to sun
the day before and you go, OK, that wasn't failure, that was
information, what are you keeping?
Because the older I get, the more interested I am in what
lasts, not what's impressive. What lasts.
The friendships that endure entirely different directions in
life, or the skills that have compounded over the years, or
the values that have survived changing political ideologies
and circumstances. And Venus and Saturn together
are going, hey, what's in the right to to stay in your life?
Because not everything deserves A lifelong card carrying
membership. Part of the maturity is
recognising what you want to take with you and what you
don't. And these could be commitments,
these could be expectations, these could be ambitions.
You go, I don't actually want any of that anymore and that's
OK. We also have the Sun squaring
Neptune now. This is a seductive transit, and
I don't mean in a sexy way, because it is the fantasy of
going back and trying to make things better.
Before the illness, before you lost your job, before the
divorce, before life became complicated.
But, but life only moves in one way, and that's forward.
And that version of you doesn't exist anymore, and the
circumstances don't exist. You know that that season
doesn't exist. Neptune can make us nostalgic
for things that were never quite as perfect as we thought they
were. So the question is on how to go
back. Don't go back there.
The question is how to move forward.
Friday the 26th of June we have Moon entering Saj, the lovely
Sagittarius, and something fascinating happens.
I've realised when people experience difficulty 2, people
can go through almost exactly the same identical circumstance
and emerge with two entirely different lives.
It's like, you know when, when you and your sister talk about
your upbringing and your sister said, oh, none of that happened
because it didn't happen to her. So then one person becomes
bitter, one person becomes wiser and so on.
Meaning matters and the stories we create around our experience
matters. And this transit is asking you
to have a look at the stories you're telling yourself and
what's your perspective on them and how much are they driving
you forward. We also have the moonshining
Neptune, which is please look beyond the immediate problem.
Please look at the larger story. 1 chapter is not the entire
book. So you lost your job.
It's not it's not the be all and end all.
There's other jobs, there's other things.
Neptune is asking us to zoom out.
One shitty chapter is not an entire life. 1 disappointment is
not the final verdict. It could just be the best thing
that's ever happened to you. Saturday the 27th of June, we
have moon training Saturn. This, this is kind of around
being in the middle of something.
If you're in the middle of something right now, the middle
of grief, the middle of a career transition, the middle of
building something or healing or a degree or something, we're not
very good at middles because middles require patience.
And if you're in the middle of that, I, I, no, no pun intended.
I want you to realise that the soggy middle can feel like
failure, but it's not. The ending isn't visible yet.
You can get there, but the middle is where most of the life
happens. So learning to tolerate that bit
and not quit and not throw the towel in is one of the most
important skills as an adult, well, even as a kid.
But finish. Keep your eye on the prize.
The finish line is coming. Yes, it's uncomfortable.
Yes, it's soggy, Yes, it's claggy.
But it will firm up and it will rise.
And everything's going to be hunky Dory.
Sunday, the 28th of June, we have Mars sextile Jupiter and
Mars is entering Gemini. We love this.
This energy is feeling different.
It's feeling lighter. It's feeling a little bit
curious, a little bit open. It's a little bit interested in
possibilities more than hearing about your problems.
Mars entering Gemini is here to remind us that the future
doesn't arrive fully formed. It's a flat pack.
And, and you are going to have to get the Allen K, the
spiritual Allen K and put that future together.
What do you want it to look like?
Because life doesn't offer certainty, as I'm always saying,
it offers a flat pack. How are you going to build it?
What does your future look like? What are the things you want to
do over the next 30 days that is going to give you some form and
some stability and some foundation for that future that
you're building above everything else?
The solstice lesson here is that the light doesn't return all at
once, and change is often invisible.
Yet something fundamental has shifted, and that direction is
where where many people find themselves now.
Maybe in the dark, maybe in the light.
They're not transformed, they're not finished.
They're just in that soggy middle.
So please, please, please be kind to yourself, be kind to
others. Take no shit, do no harm.
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Thanks for listening.