Hello, Virgo. Welcome to your Gemini season
ahead reading from Embodied Astrology.
My name is Renee and I'm so happy to be here with you today
wherever you may be in time and place.
This is a reading for all of your Virgo placements.
Your Sun, Moon, rising are all welcome here as well as any
other placements you might have in Virgo.
This is a general reading and general readings are general, so
not everything is going to be for everyone.
Take what works and leave the rest and make the meanings that
are meaningful for you. In this reading.
We are tuning in with the energy of Gemini season.
This is the span of time between May 20th and June 21st and 2026.
OK Virgo. Well, do you know that Gemini is
a really special counterpart and sibling sign for you?
I think you probably might. Gemini is another sign on what's
called the Mutable cross. Virgo is also a mutable sign,
and both Gemini and Virgo are Mercury ruled signs.
That means that your patron planet is none other than the
Psychopomp themselves, the dual natured fleet footed guardian of
the thresholds and crossroads, the one who is betwixt in
between the world's the Psychopomp, the translator of
astrology no less Mercury. And as we move into Gemini
season, Mercury has already entered Gemini.
Just a couple of days or about a week before Gemini season
begins, Mercury enters Gemini, and this is one of its homes.
Its other home is none other than your sign, Virgo.
And because of your special relationship with Gemini, that
means that this energy for you guards or opens up to the
heavens of your chart. This is the energy that is above
you. And if you imagine that you are
a seed or a plant, which should be easy for you, Virgo, 'cause
you're earth signs. So imagine that you're just a
cute little seed or a spicy little seed or whatever kind of
seed you are. You're planted in the earth in
the time and the place and the context and conditions of your
life. You are going to grow towards
the light that's above you. And this is the place that
Gemini holds in your chart. The 10th house in the solar
charts for Virgo is a place that has a lot to do with your life
path and life purpose, the destiny that you grow into and
become. This is a place of great
visibility, your largest visibility in some ways or most
public visibility. Definitely career and vocation
are major themes that are here. But very importantly, and I
would say deeper than career and vocation, we have the sense of
what your life is leading to and kind of the culmination of the
legacies and the lineages that you carry within you and your
divine purpose and what you're making out of your life and who
you are becoming and what you stand for in your life and in
the world. So Mercury has already entered
this space when we move into Gemini season.
And the first contact that Mercury makes is a conjunction
with the outer planet Uranus. Uranus has also very recently
entered Gemini within the last month, if you're listening,
early in Gemini season. Uranus came in at the beginning
of Taurus season in 2026. Now Uranus did have a brief
transit or visit into Gemini last year between July and
November of 2025. And so you might reflect back to
that period and just think about what was happening for you then.
Uranium Energy wants to bring what's new and in its innovation
and invention and seeking of what's new, a lot of what it is
also bringing with it are surprises, disruptions to what
is stable or what is known or what already has happened and
ideally some kinds of experiences of liberation.
And so the movement towards new ideas, this experimental
inventiveness. Uranus is really happy actually
in Gemini, and some schools of astrology consider Uranus to be
a higher octave energetically to Mercury.
And so you might also think about your relationship as a
Mercurial sign to uranium energy.
And this is an energy that is profoundly intelligent, as are
the Mercurial signs, Virgo and Gemini.
Mercurial energy puts information together.
It builds pathways or conduits of electrical impulse.
There is a lot of association with Uranus and Gemini to the
nervous system and to consciousness.
And so to have Uranus here increases all of that
availability to new ideas, innovative impulses,
experimental explorations, and again, this idea of freedom or
liberation and awakening. Uranus has a 84 year orbit
around the Sun. It has just begun its tenure in
Gemini and it will be here now until 2033.
Again, this is a part of your chart that has to do with your
path and your purpose, your visibility in the world, what
you are making out of your life, what you stand for, and
potentially your career or your vocation or really what you are
bringing into the world in the ways that you are working for
something. So immediately, right off the
bat, Mercury and Uranus are like boom boom boom boom boom Zing
Zing Zing Zing Zing ZAP ZAP, ZAP, ZAP, ZAP.
I feel like Virgos are having a lot of new ideas.
In fact, some of you can't even sleep right now.
Some of you are so full of inspiration and innovation and
electricity, and it feels like the heavens are actually talking
to you and probably all of life on Earth in the ways that life
on Earth manifests through the meeting of sky and Earth.
Everybody's talking to you. This is the feeling that I'm
getting. It's like anywhere you go,
there's a message for you. Does that resonate for you,
Virgo? Let me know in the comments.
What does it feel like to have Uranus like right up over your
head? So then Gemini season starts and
now the Sun is here, and wherever the Sun is, it
animates, it inspires, it brings energy and vitality, and we have
a whole season now that is full of this path, this purpose, this
ascension energy. Who are you becoming?
What are you here to do? I don't know, but it feels kind
of exciting right now. On top of all that, Uranus is
considered to be an outer planet.
The outer planets, or some astrologers will call them the
modern planets, are typic, or they are.
They're bodies that orbit the sun in a long orbit.
The outer planets take a long time to move around the Sun, and
Uranus is actually the closest inn at 84 years.
After Uranus, we have Neptune. Neptune takes about a century
and a half to make its way around the Sun.
And then we have Pluto, which is about a 2 1/2 century orbit.
And there are also all kinds of other bodies orbiting the sun,
of course, like Chiron and Eris and the asteroid Bell and the
Kuiper belt and the dwarf planets.
And they're all here too. So just nodding to them.
But in terms of a kind of more traditional, quote UN quote
traditional or popular framework of astrology, the outer planets
are considered to be Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
In 2026, something very exceptional is happening.
This is a super rare alignment of the outer planets.
It started in 2025 and it will continue actually until Uranus
leaves Gemini at least by sign and until 2030 by orb of
influence. By 10° orb of influence we have
Uranus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius.
Both Gemini and Aquarius are air signs and both Uranus and Pluto
are sextile with Neptune in in Aries.
Aries is a fire sign. Earlier this year Neptune
entered Aries and right on the heel of his entry came Saturn.
Pluto has been in Aquarius since 2024.
Uranus just arrived in Gemini and now all of them are talking
in the 2026 year head readings that I did.
I broke this down in a really big way for all the signs and if
you're interested in how this year's astrology is playing out
for your sign or signs, if you identify with multiple signs,
you might want to check those readings out.
They are long, they go in depth and they kind of breakdown how
2026 is a very special and exceptional year.
Astrologically. We are in the midst of massive
changes collectively, societally, environmentally and
definitely personally. I'm calling this a keystone year
or a pivot year. This is a bridge year between
the past and the future, and so much is changing and I'm sure
that you can feel it in whatever ways you are tapped in and tuned
in with collective energy. We're living through very
chaotic and also very creative times.
These are times that are full of peril and full of possibility.
There is so much heartbreak and there is so much hope, and all
of it is here at the same time. I'm going to just promote the
idea that we are here for a massive global revolution.
And I think that we have come right on time for a revolution
of the human spirit and creativity and possibility.
And that within the cycles of these planets, in these
particular signs, which will be the next 7 to about 17 years, we
are going to see so much change on planet Earth.
And I am just holding the vision that a lot of it is actually
going to be really good. Virgos, I think some of you
might be change makers. You might be instrumental in
some of the world building that is happening right now.
Your sign is a sign that is known for ingenuity,
inventiveness, creativity and brilliance.
I talk about Virgo a lot as the creative intelligence of the
Earth itself. As immutable Earth energy, your
sign is infused with the intelligence of earthly
manifestation that is constantly adapting and evolving.
You know how to take one thing and turn it into another thing.
We might think about the magician energy also sometimes
associated with Mercury. This is the ability to work
skillfully with all of the elements and creatively with
your impulses. Gemini holding the heaven of
your chart tells me that this is a period of time that is really
asking you to grow into your gifts.
And the ways that all of the outer planets are talking to
each other right now and the configuration between them that
I just named, which we can also call a minor trine, brings a lot
of energy into the ways that you are working, the ways that you
are transforming, how you are picking up and claiming and
redefining your sense of personal power and capacity and
purpose. I'm going to say that I feel a
huge spiritual prerogative coming in for you.
I think that a lot of you are going to be increasingly guided
by a sense of spirit and by a sense of intuition, especially
as we get into the second-half of this year and in the 1st two
weeks of Gemini season. There are zip zaps, bings,
bongs, Ding Dong, like all of these impulses coming in.
And I think that a lot of you are really feeling like
something is happening because immediately Mercury and the Sun
are making aspects to all of the outer planets.
They're also making aspects to the lunar nodes.
These are the eclipse points. We are halfway between eclipse
seasons right now, and eclipses are happening currently in your
fellow mutable signs, Virgo and Pisces.
Those aren't your fellow signs, those are you.
Eclipses are happening right now in your sign and your opposite
sign in Gemini's fellow mutable signs.
And so Gemini season is really stimulating a big evolutionary
impulse for you. And then on top of all that, we
have a full moon on May 31st, and this is a full moon in
Sagittarius. And so the entire mutable cross
is lit up in the last couple of weeks of May.
Now this full Moon is also aspecting all of the outer
planets. So as the Moon comes into
Gemini, it will oppose Uranus as well as the Sun and Mercury.
It will trine Neptune and Saturn, and it will sextile
Pluto and Aquarius. It will also square the lunar
nodes. The South Node is in Virgo, the
North Node is in Pisces. So lots of activation here.
Sagittarius is the opposite sign of Gemini.
So Sagittarius lives in the earth of your chart or the root
and foundation of your being. This energy for you is about
anchoring. It's about coming into your
belonging. It's about feeling the ways that
you are connected beyond your life and beyond your body with
your origins, your ancestry and a sense of deep belonging.
This is also a place in your chart that has a lot of specific
associations to home and family, which are small words with
massive meanings. So make the meanings that are
meaningful for you. This full moon, I feel, really
is asking you to come in. And because there's so much
outward energy in your chart, there's so much of this kind of
ascension, upward, outward, lots of thoughts, lots of ideas and
evolutionary momentum in your chart right now.
I feel that the full moon for some of you is a time that you
actually really need to pull your energy in.
Now, this is a very activating full moon, so it may or may not
feel intuitive or easy to do that.
But if it resonates for you, Virgo around the full moon
again, the last day of May take a bath, go to bed early, create
sacred space inside of your home or wherever you might be able to
create a sacred space where you feel like you can really rest
and just kind of be in your own energy.
This is a powerful full moon for magic practice.
So you're if you're a person who works with ritual or divination,
this is definitely a powerful time for that.
And I would say especially this is a powerful time for
connecting with your well loving, liberated ancestors,
guardians and guides, as well as the spirits of the land who may
want to help you in whatever it is that you are doing right now.
They may have messages for you, affirmations for you.
They may also have tips on how to do the things that you're
doing and how to move forward with whatever it is that you're
moving forward with, as well as leave behind whatever it is that
you are ready to leave behind. Now, as we get into the month of
June, your ruling planet Mercury is moving into the sign Cancer.
Cancer holds a special place in the Virgo charts.
This is the 11th house, and this is a place of opportunity and
income. This is a wonderfully supportive
place in the chart where we encounter helpful allies and
good spirits. This is a place where we are
connecting with our hopes and dreams and wishes for the
future, as well as our friends and networks and interwoven webs
of connection that can kind of magically and rapidly appear or
be connected with when we have clear intentionality and we're
sending out some kind of larger message.
Mercury will be retrograde in this part of your chart coming
up soon. Excuse me.
So Mercury is retrograde from. Give me a minute, Virgo.
I apologize. I've been talking a lot, doing
these readings, and I have to clear my throat, which may be a
message for you with this Mercury retrograde, because
Mercury has some associations to the voice and to language, and
Mercury will be retrograde. And it may be that some of you
need to clear your throat. Cancer actually has associations
with some of the fluids of the body, including the pleura of
the lungs. And when there's a kind of fluid
buildup in the lungs, like I just had to clear my throat.
And this is just divination that's coming through.
This is channeling right now. So if this is meaningful for
you, take it. Take what resonates.
The feeling that I'm getting is that this is a Mercury
retrograde that might need you to clear out some emotional
stuff so that your voice and your message can travel more
clearly. Take what resonates.
OK, so Mercury is going into Cancer.
It will be going into retrograde June 29th and it will be
retrograde until July 23rd. Before and after a Mercury
retrograde or any planetary retrograde, there's what's
called the shadow phase and this is when the planet is moving
direct over the same area of sky.
The retrograde will take it. So the pre retrograde shadow for
Mercury is beginning on June 12th and it will extend from
July 23rd until August 6th. So from mid June until early
August, you are working with this retrograde influence.
RE prefixes are essential when we're working with retrograde
influences and they are the way to make these planetary transits
really beneficial rather than chaotic and disruptive.
Mercury retrogrades have a bad reputation because people don't
really understand astrology and they make assumptions about
things based on other people's assumptions about things.
So there are massive assumptions out there that Mercury
retrograde is some kind of time to be scared of and everything's
going to go wrong and you definitely shouldn't sign any
contracts or something like that.
My take on it is that these are periods of time that need us to
do the dance that Mercury does, which is to move backwards.
One of my favorite myths about Mercury or Hermes as a mythic
figure. And shortly after they were
born, unlike conceived into godly form, they played a trick
on their brother Apollo, the God of divination and the sun.
And Apollo had these cattle. And what Mercury did is he
turned all their feet around. And so it looked like they were
walking forward, but it looked in the earth like they were
walking backwards. And this was a this was like a
joke that Mercury was playing on their brother.
And Apollo got upset and then went and told their dad, Zeus.
But Zeus thought it was hilarious.
And then Mercury or Hermes became a favorite child.
So this energy is a jokester. It's a trickster.
It's mischievous. And in mythic correspondence,
Mercury is the only deity, the only being that moves fluidly
between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead.
In our consciousness and psychology, Mercury could be
related to the part of our psychology that makes meaning
out of sensation, and in that way it translates between the
consciousness and the unconsciousness.
So the underworld and the overworld working with a Mercury
retrograde is allowing yourself to walk backwards for a while.
It is permission to do things in a circuitous, non linear kind of
way. It's encouragement to have a
laugh, sometimes at your own expense, and appreciate the
sense of humor of the divine trickster.
Because when things are going wrong, it might actually be a
blessing in disguise often times.
What goes wrong in Mercury retrogrades has to do with
people's ego and urgency. Anytime you force something,
just in general, I think, but definitely during a Mercury
retrograde, if you're trying to force something to work the way
that you want it to, let's say communications go awry and you
get really frustrated, and then you're like just trying so hard
to get this message out, but you're not taking a beat to
check your actual message. That's when the message is going
to get really messed up. So if things are not going as
planned, or if things feel delayed or slowed or something's
up to some kind of trickster type of vibe, pay attention.
Get curious. Ask yourself what else here
might want to be revealed. There might be information that
you didn't have and that you actually need.
There might be a pause that you need to take to rest and remain
and remember and reflect. Again, the RE prefix is super
important. So the feeling of needing to
return to something is often a big feeling in Mercury
retrograde and the shadow period.
So in this particular cycle, from June 12th until the 29th is
sometimes a a period of time where things are happening that
then in the retrograde we need to return to.
So there might be a plan that we're trying to make, but then
some element of the plan isn't aligned and in the retrograde we
have to go back and restructure something.
There might be a conversation that we have and then something
about the conversation opens up some other terrain or area and
we might need to return to that topic and do some repair work or
reinvestigate what we were talking about.
Some of my favorite RE prefix words are revitalize and
regenerate and rehydrate, especially for Virgos and
especially because Mercury is retrograde in Cancer, a sign of
vital energy and fluid life force.
And again, this is a part of your chart that is all about
opportunities, hopes, wishes, dreams for the future, helpful
allies, friends, collaborators, colleagues, organizations that
you might be a part of, larger groups that you can be connected
with. So this Mercury retrograde is a
powerful time for you to tune in and check in with plans that
you're trying to make, for you to take some time to potentially
retreat, get some rest and reflect on the dreams that you
have for what it is that you're trying to do and potentially
with who you're trying to do things.
Again, friends, colleagues, collaborators are important
figures in this part of your chart.
Now, Mercury is not here alone, at least for the first part of
its retro shade. Both the benefits are also here.
Jupiter and Venus are the two planetary gift givers.
Jupiter brings opportunity, luck, expansion, good fortune.
It expands things, and so it is a symbol of deep, vast
abundance. Venus is the planet of sweetness
and beauty, and when we TuneIn with Venus we also TuneIn with
opportunity and abundance. And having Jupiter and Venus Co
present with Mercury as it begins its pre retrograde shadow
to me feels like a big omen of good fortune.
Especially when we can work with the significations of Jupiter
and Venus in this part of the chart.
These would include ideas like really engaging with a deep
ethical alignment, so knowing that you are acting with
integrity and really acting and interacting with love.
You can expect Mercury retrograde to slap you if you're
communicating with people in ways that are aggressive or
hasty or uncaring. During this retrograde, those
kinds of energies will not be supported and they will require
some type of repair. So as we enter into this cycle,
really pay attention to your energy, to the ways that you are
taking care of yourself and taking care of your
relationships. Pay attention to the ways that
you move through the world and what kind of attitudes and
behaviors you are bringing into the spaces and the places that
you occupy. Both Jupiter and Venus reward us
when we bring our best to the situation, and bringing our best
truly to the situation requires that we bring our best to
ourselves. And this Mercury retrograde
really wants to help you, Virgos, bring the best to
yourself. And I think this kind of
backward, inward reflection time is a great time for you to be
thinking about the kinds of friends that you really value
and love and want in your life, the kinds of opportunities that
you are trying to manifest and call in any types of
organizations or networks that you want to be part of.
Again, this feeling of belonging is really important.
And then to fill yourself with affirmation that all of that is
possible for you. And to feel the way that you
resonate in belonging with all that you long for and trust that
what you're longing for is longing for you.
And the more you can exude and extend that energy out into the
world, the more you are going to be met with it.
Now, on June 9th, which is just three days before Mercury starts
its retro shade, Venus and Jupiter are conjunct and Mercury
is making a square to Saturn in the 8th house.
This feels like a powerful time for courage and bravery.
My Virgo friends, Saturn in your 8th house, Co present with
Neptune, Vista Palace, Chiron and Eris is really doing a thing
right now. And the thing that I feel that
it's doing for Virgos is teaching you a lot about the
essential nature of courage. Now courage is about being full
of heart and really believing in your biggest opportunities and
taking responsibility and having the integrity to get them for
yourself. The 8th house is a somewhat
tricky place in the Chartwheel because it's a place that's hard
for us to see. It has a lot to do with deep
psychology, with trust issues, with vulnerability.
It is associated with the energies and the resources that
we share with others. And keywords for this place are
sex, death, money and power and taboos.
So Mercury is squaring Saturn as Venus and Jupiter are together.
And this brings the feeling for me that there is some kind of
revelation that is important right now.
The 8th place is also often a place of secrets and privacy.
And it can have something to do with the parts of ourselves that
are not the easiest to own and claim.
Right? This is shadow terrain now.
Mercury is in your 11th house. It's in the place of the future.
Venus and Jupiter are together. My feeling is that this
influence wants to help you claim some part of yourself or
aspect of your experience that is maybe feeling kind of
crunchy, kind of scary. There may be power issues.
There may be taboos that you're trying to deal with.
There may be emotional entanglements.
There may be some kind of conflict.
There may be a sense of barrier in intimacy or vulnerability or
trust that when you are honest about it and when you address it
with your whole heart and your loving kindness and your
integrity and ethical practices, it's going to result in good
things for you. Now it might not be easy, but I
think it will be very beneficial.
And this is what then sets off your Mercury retro shade cycle.
And as Mercury begins its shadow, Uranus in Gemini squares
the lunar nodes. And as I've mentioned, the South
Node is in Virgo right now and the North Node is in Pisces.
These are the eclipse points. We've had eclipses for the last
couple of years, since September of 2024 in Virgo and Pisces
season. We had eclipses earlier this
year in February and March. This particular moment of Uranus
squaring the Nodes may bring up content or some kind of thematic
repetition that have to do with the eclipse cycle in general,
and it really feels like something is getting activated
right now that is promoting some kind of evolutionary momentum in
your chart. Now, having the South Node in
your sign and the North Node in your opposite sign really wants
you to evolve in the direction of new kinds of relationships.
This is a powerful indicator, again, of courage and
transparency and taking a risk. Some of you need to let go of
old ideas about who you are so that you can embrace new ideas
about who you get to be, especially in relationship with
others. Because Uranus is up at the top
of your chart squaring the nodes, and Mercury is beginning
its retro shade in your 11th house.
I'm going to say that this period of time is also calling
into question some kind of future plans or ideas.
And there may now be need, there may now need to be some type of
process where the RE prefix is really important.
So reflection, remembering, remaining, repairing,
renegotiating, revising, rethinking, rehydrating,
regenerating, revitalizing, reclaiming.
Let me know in the comments what your favorite RE prefixes are,
please. We have a new moon on June 14th.
This is a new moon in Gemini. At this point, Venus has moved
into Leo, the sign that comes before yours, and around the new
Moon, Venus is now making aspects to all the outer
planets. So everything is pinging and
zinging and zapping again, and this New Moon is happening up in
the heaven of your chart. This feels like a powerful time,
Virgo, for you to practice deeply, deeply loving yourself
and opening up to faith in the idea that there is a larger plan
unfolding. None of us in our tiny teeny
human forms that are just here for a blip have really any idea
about really anything. And so much is happening that we
are a part of. And when we TuneIn with the
possibility that we can be part of something larger and that
something larger really wants to work with us, that opens our
lives to new possibilities. The other option is to think
that we're in control, and that inevitably will lead to the
feelings of failure, loss, frustration, and deep suffering.
So my suggestion for this new moon, similar to the suggestion
I had for the full Moon, is to create a place of quiet for
yourself and really tap in and TuneIn with your inner guidance
and your intuition and to open the gates of guidance and
intuition. Now through the portal of love.
Leo rules the heart and Venus rules love.
And when Venus is in Leo, the love nature is sweetened and
expanded. This is an amazing time for you
to engage with very simple practices of sensing beauty and
being appreciative and grateful for beauty.
Being outside, noticing the intricate shapes of a petal,
right? How a bloom might be blossoming,
How clouds are traveling over the sky.
Looking at your own hands and appreciating the lines and the
shapes and the textures. Being awestruck by the fact of
your incarnation and existence. Breathing and feeling grateful
for the abundance of breath. These types of very simple
presence practices that ground you in gratitude and fill your
body with appreciation and noticing of beauty are the
quickest surest gateway to open you up to the messages from the
Divine or however you want to think about this great being
that we are a part of and always supported by.
And my feeling is that the Divine is really wanting to
speak to you right now. The last thing I'm going to say
about the astrology of Gemini season is that on June 19th, the
Centaur planet Chiron moves into Taurus for the first time in
about 50 years. Chiron has been in Aries since
2018. As I've already mentioned, Aries
holds a part of your chart that can be somewhat difficult to
work with. The 8th house again is a place
of deep psychology, shared resources, sex, death, money,
power and taboos, and Chiron brings healing journeys wherever
it is. Oftentimes these journeys are
precipitated by some kind of crisis, and so Chiron is also
known as the wounded healer. When we're working with Chiron,
we are working with the healing that is required to address any
and all of our pain and dis ease.
And when we encounter pain and illness as teachers, Chiron's
presence supports us to become teachers and healers in the
world. Now Chiron is moving into
Taurus, which is a place in your chart that actually has a lot to
do with teaching. This is a place in your chart
that also has you seeking teachings and connecting with
teachers or wisdom paths and traditions.
And so some of you Virgos might start to feel a little bit of an
inclination perhaps that you want to undertake some new
adventure of learning and study or apprenticeship in some kind
of healing modality. Taurus is an earth sign, and
healing of the body and healing of the voice and healing of the
land are really important, especially with Chiron in
Taurus. Some of you may also be teachers
yourselves, and I happen to know a number of Virgos who are
amazing, brilliant, skilled teachers of the body and healing
and earth and earth justice. And a lot of you are really
coming into a very important moment of your lives when you
are going to be called upon to be in leadership and teaching
and healing in your community. OK, well, Chiron will just be
here for a little bit. It will station retrograde in
early August. It will go back into areas in
mid-september, but it will be back next April.
And then it will stay in Taurus for about 7 years.
So definitely notice any themes or influences that feel like
they're starting as we move out of June and into July.
Virgo, I am not done with you. I want to pull a card to close
out your reading and get one final message from the universe.
But before I do, I hope you'll stay with me for a couple of
minutes because I want to tell you what is coming up and
happening at Embodied Astrology, and I'll use this opportunity to
continue talking to you a little bit about your chart.
So I'm going to start off talking about the 8th house,
this place of deep psychology and sex, death, money, power and
taboo where Aries is because this year at Embodied Astrology,
we have a new monthly series that happens the fourth Tuesday
of every month facilitated by Aziz Bisance and guests.
Multiple guests will be joining Aziz over the course of this
year. And together they're
investigating land based spiritual practices that
directly counter some of the most harmful, devastating themes
of our times. So themes of genocide and
colonization and destruction and division are themes, of course,
that people have been working to resist and counter for a very
long time. And this series really looks at
that, the ways that we can, in our own localities, in our
social locations, in our bodies, and in our spiritual practices,
rise to the occasion of spiritual warriorship.
So if you're interested in working with the cycles of
Saturn and Neptune in Aries, check out that series,
Initiation into Spiritual Warriorship with Saturn and
Neptune. Starting in August, we're also
going to have another monthly series beginning the first week
of August and then continuing the first week of every month,
facilitated by Alicia Mauji. This series is called the Solar
Playground, and it is going to be playing with a Jupiter in
Leo. Now, Jupiter will be in Leo from
the end of June in 2026 till the end of July in 2027.
And I'm going to be talking to a lot about Jupiter next month and
for the consecutive months. So do make sure that you're
subscribed and that you follow embodied astrology wherever
you're tuning in. It definitely helps me and helps
the algorithm know that you appreciate this work.
It will also make sure that you get notified when future
readings come up. The Solar Playground is going to
be an opportunity for you to explore your biggest gifts.
Jupiter and Leo really wants to help us express what we truly
have to give, the best that we have to give, and the stuff that
gets in the way. And Alicia is going to lead us
through creative, self exploratory astrological
practices to learn more about all of that.
Over the course of every season, Embodied Astrology has
astrologically timed programming and we also have ongoing weekly
classes. If you enjoy my work, you can
always tune in with me on a Monday.
My Moon day classes from 8:00 to 9:30 AM Pacific are on Zoom, and
you can also get the recordings if you can't attend live.
Every single week we practice together, tuning in with the
astrology of the week ahead through our minds, our bodies,
our energies, and the ways that we relate with ourselves and the
world. These practices for me are total
life lines. They really give me a lot of
energy and a lot of alignment for the coming week.
And I'm so grateful for the space.
And it's really special to be able to practice with a group,
and I would love to practice with you if that sounds like
something you're interested in. You can always just drop in for
one class, but you can also become a member.
And if you become a member, you'll get access to our weekly
classes, the full video archive, and Thursday Chart Reading Study
Groups facilitated by Alicia Mauji.
In the Chart Reading study groups, you learn about
astrology through conversation and through first person lived
experience. And they are awesome places to
really get a lay of the land and how astrology can manifest
differently for all of us. If you're interested in really
learning to read charts, you might also be interested in the
new practitioner program that's starting.
Your Chart Is A Body is an Embodied Astrology Chart Reading
Foundations course that begins in Virgo season on the weekend
of August 29th. And if you're interested in
studying more deeply with me, that is really the place to do
it. You'll learn how to read Natal
charts, relationship charts, event charts, electional charts,
and timing. And you'll do it all through
experiential embodied praxis. Coming up just for Gemini season
on June 13th, there's a live conversation with myself and the
astrologers Alice Barkley, Cat and Blair Bogan, facilitated by
Alicia. We're going to be talking about
queering astrology and all the ways that astrology can support
us in living queer, fabulous lives as artists, creatives,
activists, and bringing astrology into our social
engagement and relationships. And then one week later on the
solstice on June 21st, I'll be joined for another live
conversation with Aaron Fogle. Aaron is an awesome astrologer
and energy worker, and we're going to be looking specifically
at Chiron. So if this theme of the wounded
healer resonates for you, definitely check out that
conversation. And again, you can always get
the recording if you can't attend live.
The last thing that I want to tell you about is a very special
event that I am plotting right now as I'm recording for you on
May 15th and that is a week long astrology pop up experience.
It's going to be in person, in multiple locations and online,
and this is going to be really fun and I don't totally know
what it's going to be yet, but I'm really excited for it.
We're going to be working with personal and collective
astrological prompts and practices.
We'll be researching astrological history and
forecasting astrological futures, while we also engage
with workshops and skill shares for community resilience and
creative survival and world building.
We are creating something to support ourselves through the
next 30 years of Saturn's cycle and whatever is coming in these
next three decades. OK, Virgo, let's TuneIn with the
luminous void. And we are asking for one final
message from the universe, one confirmation for Virgo for their
Gemini season. There's so much happening for
Virgo right now, Spirit. What does Virgo need to know?
How will they be most supported through Gemini season through
all of this activation In the heaven of their chart, the
Eclipse points, the Full Moon, the New Moon, and Mercury's
retro shade. OK, Virgo 2 cards came out so
I'll hold them up and if you can't see the video I will
describe them. So what came out are the 8 of
swords and the 10 of discs, and the 10 of discs presented itself
in reverse. The Luminous Void Deck is a
beautiful watercolor deck created by Laura Zispan.
And the Eight of Swords has eight swords that also kind of
look like people, heads with arms and long bodies rooted or
planted in the earth. And the 10 of discs, I'll hold
it upright so you can see that are 10 discs or 10 pentacles.
And a pentacle is a pentagram. This is a 5 pointed star.
And the pentagram is a sacred alchemical symbol uniting all 5
elements, so earth, air, fire, water, and spirit.
Inside of these 10 pentacles, our discs are two figures with
their arms wrapped around each other and it looks like a cat
standing on both of their heads. And this came out in the
reverse, OK. So these two cards, what they're
kind of bringing for me really has a resonance pretty strongly
with the South Node in your sign right now.
The South Node again is one of the eclipse points, and it is a
place of deep release. It's a big letting go type of
energy. And this also resonates for me
with the Mercury retrograde coming into your 11th house, a
place of hopes, dreams and wishes for the future.
Now, the aid of Swords is a card that often talks about feeling
trapped or hopeless or kind of like mentally at odds with
yourself and conflicted. But there's also a message
within the aid of Swords that you can really direct your own
experience by what you pay attention to, because what you
pay attention to is what's growing now.
The 10 of discs is a card of great abundance and fulfillment
and manifestation of your biggest dreams.
And it did come out in the reverse.
And so what's coming up for me right now is that some of you in
Gemini season, especially with the kind of wild
unpredictability of Uranus squaring the Nodes and all of
these new influences coming in, aspecting what's going on in
your 8th house in Aries, might be bringing some feelings of
anxiety and maybe even a sense of loss or uncertainty or chaos
in what you have been trying to build or what you have been
creating. Now, remember when I was talking
about Mercury retrograde and I said the surest way to have a
bad experience with a Mercury retrograde is to try to force
something? I think that there may be
experiences in your life right now that are not going as
planned or not going as you hoped them hoped that they
would, because there's something better.
There's something that's actually more aligned for you.
I remember a old friend of mine used to say all the time that if
the universe says no, it's because there's not yet or I
have something better that it has in store.
And so when the universe says no, when a door is closed to us,
and even if there's a lot of desire and hope and labor, you
know, to walk through that door that we've been going through,
sometimes it's, it's really an opportunity to check in with our
own egos and to tune in with where we may be attached to
something that is not really wanting to attach to us.
And I think that a lot of what I'm feeling with these cards and
tuning in with your chart, especially with the influences
that I named, is that manifestation and abundance
really requires reciprocity. It requires the equal meeting
and a give and take and like a mutual agreement and consent,
enthusiastic consent to build with.
And this is manifestation that you might be doing with others,
with the universe, with the earth, or with various parts of
yourself. But everybody needs to be on
board. And if not everybody is on
board, then it's either not the right thing or it's not the
right time and it might be not quite the right way.
So there might need to be some type of adjustments or new
agreements. So what I want to leave you with
Virgo is that this does feel like a season that is
challenging in many ways. Gemini is your sibling sign.
You are both Mercury ruled. It is a very exciting,
opportunistic time. I actually think a lot is
opening up for you right now, but the square aspect, so how
Gemini is configured to to Virgo can be frustrating.
It can be challenging, it can be anxiety producing.
And with Mercury stationing retrograde and the influences
that are coming in from the 8th house, there may need to be some
underworld excavation that has to happen before the future
plans can actually open up into the abundance that they want to
bring you. I also just want to give a deep
bow and a nod to the absolute devastation and heartbreak and
terror of our times. We are living through massively
challenging times. There's so much to grieve,
there's so much hardship, there's so much fucking fuckery
that some people are up to. It's outrageous.
And I think a lot of people are feeling really challenged and
defeated in many ways. And if that is how you might be
feeling for whatever reason, this is an opportunity to take
some retreat. Connect in with your guides,
connect in with your guardians, connect with the Earth, connect
with your deeper intuition and listen for the opportunities
that are calling for you. OK Virgo, this was a long
reading. I'm at 52 minutes.
So I hope that any or all of this feels supportive for you
this season. If it does, please support me
and support my work. You can do that the best by
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And I hope to see you at an embodied astrology event or you
can always get your 2026 year ahead reading.
All right, I'm going to leave it there.
I appreciate you, Virgo. Bye for now.